“El maltrato físico infantil y su influencia en la conducta dentro del aula de los niños de 6to año de educación básica de la escuela fiscal unidad nacional de la ciudad de Ambato”

Abstract

The present research work is based on the investigation of physical abuse of children and behavior in the classroom of children of 6th year of basic education of the National Fiscal School of the city of Ambato, in order to investigate the influence that It exerts the variable of infantile physical abuse in the conduct of the investigated ones, the sample was of 70 children of the 6th years with age between 9 and 10 years. We used a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and previously validated as well as the Buss and Perry Aggressiveness Questionnaire for each variable respectively. It was obtained that if there is physical abuse of children in 100%, being mild with 96% and severe with 4% and that this factor in turn influences the behaviors in the classroom negatively because most of the students present aggressive behaviors among themselves, For this the most aggressive punishment was anger with 31% and hostility with 26%. It is concluded that the physical abuse to which the children are subjected influences the behaviors that the children present in their classrooms deteriorating their social skills