Resumen

HERNANDEZ SERRANO, Miguel Ángel  y  LONDONO, Nora Helena. Psychosocial factors, cognitive and personality associated with adherence to treatment in therapeutic communities. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.1, pp.47-63. ISSN 0123-417X.

Different studies have related adherence to treatment with success or failure in therapy, along with features such as length of stay, prior motivation and facing more effective coping styles. This study indentied psychosocial, cognitive and personality factors associated with adherence to treatment in therapeutic communities in Colombia. Sample: 443 participants (373 men and 70 women), mean age 18 (DE 5.9, range 11-50 years). Instruments: CMRS adhesion, Life Events Scale, YSQ Young Schema Questionnaire, Questionnaire of beliefs about personality disorders CCE-TP , Coping Strategies Scale CS-M, Toxicology Chart. Procedure: For the statistical analysis the group was divided into two: high adhesion and lower adhesion. Results: A high association of adherence and length of stay. The discriminatory function predictor for high adhesion was composed by the following variables: search for professional support strategy, obsessive-compulsive personality, positive re-evaluation, and age as a demographic variable, vulnerability to injury and disease, and negatively, autonomy and troubleshooting. The prognostic rate of the discriminatory function was 67.72%.

Palabras clave : adherence; therapeutic communities; cognitive therapy; coping; personality; schema.

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