Correlatos psicológicos de las intenciones y comportamientos migratorios de jóvenes peruanos de clase media y alta

Abstract

This study analyses relationship among several psychological variables as personality traits, personal values and emotional climate with emigrational intentions and migratory behavior of high and middle-class students and young professionals from Peru. In that sense, three groups of participants were compared: those who do not want to emigrate (n=33), those who want to emigrate (n=33) and those who already had emigrated (n=33). Related to personality, trait of Consciousness is inversely associated to intention of emigrate and emigrational behavior. On the other hand, values directly associated to emigrational intentions were those that belong to Self-Enhancement and Openness to Change objectives meanwhile values inversely associated to these intentions were the Conservative ones. Emotional Climate perceptions showed a complex tendency that influences emigrational intentions. However, based on our data, it is difficult to identify specific influences from specific types of emotional climates in emigrational processes. Finally, considering the social and economic characteristics of the sample, it is suggested that reasons that influence migration processes are more individualistic -associated to personality traits and values- than collectivistic -associated to emotional climate.