Desarrollo de la Escala de Síntomas Internalizados en la Primera Infancia (ESIPI)

Abstract

This study aims to design a scale that allows to know about emotional problems in children from two to five years. For doing so, a discourse analysis of educational agents and community mothers from the department of Atlántico was taken as point of departure. This is a qualitative study, which includes a discourse analysis design. The sample was constituted by 35 individuals between 18 and 56 years old who belonged to medium-low socioeconomic level. Participants were divided into two focal groups. They answered a survey, participated in a workshop, and collaborated with three in-depth interviews about their experience in child development centers and community homes. The Early Childhood Internalizing Symptom Scale (ESIPI) emerged as result. It includes three subscales: anxiety, depressive symptoms and somatic symptoms.

Keywords

• educational agents
• emotional problems
• early childhood
• community mothers