Nivel de diferenciación en las familias monoparentales

Abstract

This research aims to determine the differentiation level of single parents. The approach is mixed; was used Differentiation Questionnaire from Skowron and Friedlander (1998) translated into Spanish by Vargas and Ibáñez (2012), was applied to twelve mothers with a child under 4 years of age who attend to the Children's Center of Good Living "The Sparrows", Azogues city, establishing four groups according to the level of differentiation: low, medium low, medium high and high. In addition, a semi-structured interview was administered to the mother to describe their relational features, according to their level of differentiation. The results indicate that in the groups of low levels, and medium low levels there are tendencies to fusion, triangulation, projection, cuts, and emotional distance, intergenerational and multigenerational transmission, a repetition of patterns of behavior is observed and in the high and upper middle levels these trends decrease.