Habilidades para la vida: alternativa para la formación integral en estudiantes universitarios

Life skills are adaptive and positive behavior skills that allow people to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life, the lack of these is related to the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, risk of suicide and other risk behaviors. The objective was to describe life skills by gender and socioeconomic status in students from two university centers of the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, to justify the inclusion of life skills training. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional and descriptive research was assumed, whose participants were 275 students from two university centers, 30.5% were men and 69.5% women, to whom a life skills test was applied. Lower levels of empathy skills, peaceful conflict resolution, critical thinking, creative thinking and stress management were found, differences by sex, self-knowledge is lower for women and high for men, in empathy it was higher in women compared to men, in stress management the results were lower in women than in men