Funcionalidad familiar y rendimiento académico en la adolescencia temprana, Unidad Educativa Antártica. Pascuales. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Academic performance is a problem that concerns not only students, parents and teachers, but also the authorities of all the countries of the world. (1) Adolescence is the stage of life where there are more problems, which are manifested mainly within the family and in the school environment (6). The decline in academic performance that usually occurs during this stage has increased interest in the factors that influence it. Materials and Methods: An observational, descriptive, crosssectional, analytical and relational level study was conducted. It was carried out with the students in early adolescence stage of the Antarctic Educational Unit of Pascuales. For the collection of information, the family functionality test (FF-SIL) will be applied, the sociodemographic variables will be collected through the preparation of a survey and the grades from the educational unit's files. Results: Moderately functional families predominated, followed by dysfunctional families. The Mann-Whitney U statistical test was applied to the data obtained, which gave a P value of 0.010, which is below the significance value of 0.05. Conclusions: If there is a statistically significant relationship between family functioning and academic performance.