El contexto familiar y su incidencia en la formación del estilo de vida de los adolescentes de Bahía de Caráquez

Abstract

The present investigation entitled "The family context and its incidence in the formation of the lifestyle of the adolescents of Bahía de Caráquez" aimed to analyze the family context and its incidence in the formation of adolescents' lifestyle, was applied to 1st and 2nd year students of the Inter-American Educational Unit of Bahía de Caráquez. The research is part of an experimental, transactional / transversal, exploratory design; the descriptive, analytical, synthetic, inductive, deductive and statistical methods were used; applying the research techniques and instruments, which was composed of 33 items. The results identify that the types of families are conditioning factors for the development of a life style in adolescents, typology that can be: nuclear, single parent, extended or grandparents, extended and assembled, predominating the nuclear one, in this case it is due to that the surveyed population presents mostly a family structure composed of: father, mother, children. Likewise, the identified lifestyles are: austere, progressive, formalistic, modern and sophisticated, the progressive being the highest.