Self-esteem, personality, spirituality and centrality of traumatic events linked to psychosocial problems in children

Childhood is configured as a period of high vulnerability to various psychosocial problems such as (1) Dissatisfaction with body image (2) Bullying and Cyberbullying (3) Child abuse (4) Academic performance (6) Addictions (7) Work in children (Simkin, Azzollini, & Voloschin, 2014). These problems, according to different studies, are inextricably linked to the formation of Self-esteem. At the same time, there are relationships between these, the Centrality of Traumatic Events and the emergence of symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression. A literature review was carried out in different databases such as Scielo, Latindex, Redalyc, PubMed, among others, with the aim of integrating the results of research that associate such problems with self-esteem in childhood, paying particular attention to the centrality of events as a mediator of the emergence of symptoms of post-traumatic stress in adulthood, within the framework of the Model and Theory of the Five Factors of personality and spirituality considered as a sixth factor of personality. The results allow us to conclude that the FFM and the FFT, taking spirituality as a sixth factor constitute a robust theoretical proposal that would facilitate the possibility of understanding the relationships between the aforementioned constructs.