Prevalencia y consecuencias de la disfuncionalidad familiar en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de séptimo a decimo año de la Unidad Educativa Estados Unidos, Cuenca 2014

Abstract

This is a cross-sectional prevalence study; which objective is determining the prevalence and the consequences of the family dysfunction in students’ academic performance. We worked with a sample of 158 students that we took from a universe of 288 students that belong to the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth basic education of “Estados Unidos de Norteamerica” school.

The technique used in the research was the interview, direct observation, school records observation and documentary collection. Also we used a tool, it was an adapted by the authors application form that contains socioeconomic and family information. The collected information’s analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics through the “SPSS version 15.0 for Windows in Spanish” program.

From the results obtained in the investigation, we determined that family dysfunction has consequences on academic performance as: student failure and lack of interpersonal relationships within the school as well as in the family. Accordingly, family dysfunction produces emotional and psychological instability that will affect the students’ future.

KEYWORDS: DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, COMMUNICATION, APGAR FAMILY, STUDENT, STUDENT CONDUCT, ESTEEM, MIGRATION, SCHOOL FAILURE.