El Funcionamiento Familiar y la Función Ejecutiva

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between family functioning and the Executive function. Population in this project are students of Fifth Year Basic of the morning session of the Education Unit "April 17", from Quero’s city, they were subjected to an exhaustive selection to meet the standards of research. The Family Functioning focuses purely on how the system works intervening factors such as harmony, cohesion, communication, expression of affection and adaptability capacity in the changes that arise in the system. Family Functioning Questionnaire (FF-SIL) provides an overall result, allowing to obtain different levels of operation families. Moreover, the executive branch is a set of cognitive skills, allowing them ahead and setting goals, designing plans and programs, the start of activities and mental operations, mainly. The BANFE (Neuropsychological Battery of Executive Functions and Frontal Lobes) used to evaluate executive functions. For data analysis SPSS statistical software was used through the Spearman’s rho test finding that there is no relationship between the two variables. However, it was identified that there is a directly proportional relationship between the Familiar Function and the sub-tests of Classification of Letters and tower of Hanoi the same that evaluates mental flexibility and sequential planning