Factores de riesgo en los adolescentes que presentan ausencia paterna

Abstract

Single parent families are those which there is the absence of one of the parental figures, thus its dynamic is different from the one that occurs in others family typologies. The aim of this research work is to determine the risk factors that presented the teenagers who suffer the absence of their father in their familiar system. The study had a mixed approach ( qualitative and quantitative) it was not experimental, the questionnaire Q-PAD (questionnaire for the evaluation of teenager´s problems) with SantaMaría Spanish adaptation was applied to fifty sample young students of Canton Girón to the respective statistical descriptive analysis and the analysis of study.

The obtained results keep a close relationship between the variables; risk factors and the paternal absence, showing that there is the lack of the father, teenagers presented: substance abuse, anxiety, uncertainty about their future, the psychosocial risks are representatives, but the self - esteem of the students is good. The preventive plans must be guided in health actions, and the manifestation of anxiety of the students since the identified profile gives a high value to these two analyzed variables.