Intellectual skills in adolescent population: before and after confinement by COVID-19
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Confinement as preventive strategy during pandemia by COVID-19 helped contain the propagation of the virus, however, the health measure had an impact on various areas of adolescent. The present work was aimed at comparing the intellectual ability of a pre-pandemics sample with a post-pandemics sample of adolescents. The study was comparative and field. The pre-pandemics sample formed by 610 students, 43.8% were the first high school, 33.4% the second and 22.7% the third; the average ages was 12.80 years (De = .947), 54.9% of the sample was identified as a man and 45.1% women. The post-pandemics sample formed made up of 533 students, of which 44.1% studied the first high school, 29.1% the second and 26.8% the third. The average ages was 12.52 years (De = .823), 55% of the sample was identified as a man and 45% women. Data collection was performed using Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices. The dice with the SPSS 25 program were analyzed. A significant interaction was found between the time of evaluation and school grade. It is concluded that confinement had a different impact according to age.
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