Funcionamiento familiar y rendimiento escolar. Estudio comparativo entre adolescentes con bajo y alto rendimiento de una Unidad Educativa de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The purpose of this research work is to compare what elements of family functioning could be related to the school performance of seniors in a basic education unit, in order to suggest follow-up strategies to the DECE Student Counseling Department. In this study is the characterization of the Family Function of the ninth year of the Unified General Baccalaureate of an educational institution of the city of Guayaquil and also the comparative analysis of the family functioning of adolescents with low and high school performance, the instruments used were: the Olson FACE III Assessment applied to all ninth-year adolescents and a Focus group applied to the parents of adolescents. The results show the different differences in the family functioning of students with low and high performance, in the different variables such as: communication, family union, accompaniment, family time, discipline, roles and limits, which are scarce in the students with low school performance also resulting in mostly students with low performance have a low family performance.