Influencia familiar en la elección de pareja de adultos jóvenes en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca periodo 2022-2023

Abstract

This article exposes how family influence young adults partner election, from a systemic approach in which family systems and its subsystems act on every member, guiding it during its development through the different stages of life cycle, until reaching the detachment of offspring from their home due to formation of a new system, bringing with it a crisis and influencing the transition from one stage to another. Continuing with this, factors like family functionality, sociocultural factors, transgenerational factors, family factors and the idealization of the couple were included as analysis factors. This study is based on the results obtained through the application of two instruments, test How is your family? (complete) and a survey built based on theoretical criteria applied to a sample of one hundred young adults belonging to the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca with ages between 18 and 29 years. The most important results are the level of influence that different factors have; In addition, the influence of family when choosing a partner was corroborated; the impact is higher in families with several risk factors present in their dynamics.