El Estilo Parental y los Indicadores de Vulnerabilidad al Estrés en Adolescentes de la Unidad Educativa Benjamín Araujo

Abstract

This project research was conducted in order to determine the relationship between parenting style and indicators of vulnerability to stress in adolescents of “ Benjamin Araujo” High School located in Patate City. To make posible this research the variables were considered from a systemic theoretical approach, the same that will open doors to future researches. The issue will be raised as a problem that must be studied nowadays, however the frist thing that we have to understood is that the family is the main engine that drives the cognitive behaviorial, social and emotional development of teenagers. The parenting style is all standard strategy that parents use to educate and raise their children. For a long time the educational style was typified in authoritarian, democratic, permissive style and negligent style.All these styles include interesting characteristics of parenting that parents have for their children. Indicators of vulnerability to stress are part of the recognized fact of the existence of social, family and personal factors that produces in a person the presence of certain problems of physical or mental health. In these terms are included all those characteristics that make an individual more likely to develop symptoms associated with stress. It is important to mention that systemic family therapy helps greatly to generate coping strategies to prevent and reduce stress. Similarly assist parents in teaching parenting guidelines will help for the education of their children. The research will be conducted under the exploratory level because there will be sufficient bibliographical-documentary and field research at the same time this will allow the association of the variables mentioned above. To make it possible 76 students of Benjamin Araujo High School, located in Patate were considered in order to be evaluated through psychological instruments such as the Scale for the Assessment of Educational Style of parents of adolescents and Vulnerability to Stress questionnaire and including psychometric batteries that have reliability, reliability and validity.