(Universidad Técnica de Ambato,Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales, Carrera de Trabajo Social, 2022-03)
Ayala Lisintuña, Jeaneth Carolina
;
Haro Lara, Aida
The objective of the research was to investigate the incidence of parentification in
single-parent families in the Ashpacruz neighborhood of the city of Latacunga, through
a quantitative approach and at a descriptive level, the research subjects were the oldest
children of single-parent families, the population was estimated In 65 single-parent
families and a non-probabilistic snowball sample of 23 respondents was expanded, the
validated Parentification Questionnaire Young version (PQ-Y) and the family Apgar
were applied. It was concluded that there is 95.65% parentification and of this 56.52%
had high levels, within it they are classified into their two emotional and instrumental
types as well, there is a majority value of 56.5% of families highly functional added to
the information, it was possible to observe the female sex that presents a higher level
of parentification. Finally, the proposal to generate a journal structure that synthesizes
what was investigated was raised.
