Dinámica familiar y desempeño académico de los estudiantes de una Unidad Educativa de Huaquillas

Abstract

The purpose of the research project was to find out if family dynamics influenced the academic performance of junior year high school students from a secondary school in Huaquillas, place where the analysis of a specific group of parents and children was proposed, which was made in order to know their family dynamics, considering the family as the basic unit of society with customs and traditions. In this context, the qualitative-quantitative mixed methodology was used to measure both variables, which included specific techniques and instruments that were applied with the purpose of verifying the hypothesis raised by the study of a population, which consisted of 61 people, whom were given the test (FF-SIL) and subsequently interviewed to obtain results. In addition, the descriptive-correlational research was implemented to know the study group behavior and measure the relationship between the variables. Evidently, the results obtained showed that there was a low relationship between academic performance and family dynamics, considering the latter as the set of interactions of the family nucleus, in which it establishes norms, rules, functions, limits to guarantee family functionality which is manage internally through coexistence and conflict resolution. Meanwhile, academic performance evaluates the learning process throughout grades obtained in the educational system, which includes factors perceived by different actors in the learning areas.