“Apoyo familiar y rendimiento académico de estudiantes embarazadas de la facultad de ciencias administrativas, de la Universidad Técnica de Ambato.”

Abstract

Due to the increase of pregnant university students, as well as the repercussions on the academic performance, the following research is developed with the objective of determining the family support and its incidence in the academic performance in pregnant students of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato. For the development of the project, a methodology of qualitative and quantitative approach of bibliographic-documentary, field and correlational type was used that included 25 pregnant and maternity students of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences, to whom a survey was applied. family support and subsequently a review of the semester grades was made, the data were processed through the statistical software SPSS. The study reported that 68.0% of pregnant / maternity students receive average family support, which is provided mainly by their parents (60.0%), which is perceived as more than enough for health expenses (52.0%). %) and as sufficient for education (76.0%), clothing (72.0%), transportation and food (68.0%). With which it is concluded that the family support has a positive effect on the academic performance of the pregnant students / mothers of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences, since 40.0% reached very good and good averages