Estilos de crianza en familias nucleares con hijos únicos

Abstract

The classical theory of Diana Baumrind raises three styles of family education, from it is to meet the educational styles of nuclear families with one child, and relate these parenting styles and family structure: hierarchy boundaries and alliances. The study was quantitative and qualitative dependent variables were the styles of family education, family structure independent variables. The sample selection was made from the database of the project "Family Education Style in the City of Cuenca". Participants of this study were 82 families with two parents with a school only son of the second year of primary education in the city of Cuenca. The structure of the questionnaire "socio-affective study habits and behavioral tendencies in families with preschoolers" allowed reducing dimensions through factor analysis which distinguished the three educational styles. A semi-structured interview with the voluntary participation of 30 families was used to identify the family structure. Analysis of the results showed that the 82 nuclear families with only children do not have a defined style of parenting. In nuclear families, you can identify relationships interparental inconsistency in terms of the hierarchy, in some cases it is the father who is the hierarchy and in others this is shared between father and mother, with a strong alliance between mother and son.