Caracas — More than 64% of Venezuelans attribute stress to the economic situation they are going through, according to the most recent study by PsicoData Venezuela, promoted by the School of Psychology of the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), which emphasizes the low-income population as the most affected.
With 68%, the economic problem is more stressful for the poor than for the non-poor, with a figure of 61%, shows the study released this Wednesday at a press conference.
In the report that seeks to analyze psychosocial aspects of the Venezuelan population, with special emphasis on the dimensions associated with the psychological construct of psychosocial vulnerability, 90% of those interviewed said they were concerned about the crisis the country is going through, with 40% stating that their emotional status has deteriorated, with women being the most vulnerable, with 45.7%.
Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 attribute the second stressful problem to their personal situations. 18.7% of the women answered that it was health, while 10.5% of the men answered the same. In this second case, the political also represents an important factor, with 10.2%.
“In the specific case of the dimensions that make up a condition of vulnerability, some of those found, such as very low interpersonal trust, negative affect with respect to the country, sources of stress focused on the financial distress, psychological and physical discomfort, bereavement, and difficulties of identification and expression of emotions, constitute factors that contribute to it”, were part of the conclusions of the study.
In that sense, 59% of the population reported wanting to participate in social or political activities, in order to generate changes, accentuating the data in the poor as those who manifested a greater desire to participate, standing at 77%.