Desarrollo de competencias emocionales, educativas y parentales, en padres y madres de niños/as de octavo año de Educación General Básica de una Unidad Educativa de la ciudad de Loja período 2017

Abstract

This investigation proposed to assess the children’s families of Basic General Education about contents and strategies that develop emotional, educative and parental competences in order to face the familiar life; it is a quasi-experimental design based on the pretest and post test model and control group which is with a cuabtitative approach. The sample was constituted by 13 fathers /mothers, where six of the experimental group and seven of control group. The information was collected in the 2 groups before and after the program was applied, which instruments were: sociodemographic, and parental skills. The program was conclused, we got positive results in the majority of the dimentions and they were significant in the problems solution comparing the experimental group to the control group. Finally, it is concluded that there are positive changes in the participants of the experimental group in the identifications of their abilities and borders in raising children and sugnificant changes in the problems solution dimention comparing to the control group who tent to persist or get worse in the parental competence levels.