Estructura familiar y competencias parentales de un grupo de padres y madres de familia de la ciudad de Loja.

Abstract

The present investigation allowed to identify the parental competences and family indicators of a group of parents of children between 10 and 13 years old from the city of Loja. The initial evaluation questionnaire of emotional, educational and parental competences was used (Martínez 2010), the same one that obtained a Cronbach's alpha of 0.838 which indicates that it is highly reliable, the research design was quantitative, transversal as well as a descriptive model, correlated with a population of 98 parents and representatives. The results showed that parents are perceived at a middle level in the dimensions of: need for attention, respect, affection and recognition, self-esteem and assertiveness, problem solving, discipline, rules, rules and evolutionary characteristics of the child, except communication Assertive that is at a high level, which means that they are parents with efficient characteristics. In conclusion, the development of parental skills would not be affected by the age of the children, while there is an influence by the type of family and by the level of education of the parents.