Estilos parentales y su influencia en el desarrollo de habilidades sociales en niños

Abstract

Parental styles have long been a breeding ground for different investigations in the field of educational sciences. The correlation that exists between the parenting style of the parent with different factors of the child's personal development make the importance of the subject indisputable. In this sense, one of the most studied interactions in this area has been the relationship of parenting styles with the development of social skills in school-age children, being this topic the one addressed in this article. Thus, through non-experimental, descriptive, correlational and crosssectional research, the relationship between parenting styles and the development of social skills was evaluated in a population of 195 second and third grade students from an academic institution of the city of Guayaquil, through a non-probability sample chosen for convenience through a conglomerate, for a total of 60 parents and representatives, 30 for each degree of study of the mentioned institution. The instruments were two: The Goldstein Social Skills Scale questionnaire, and the Generalitat Valenciana Educational Styles questionnaire. The results of the investigation showed that in the two evaluated grades the authoritarian parental style predominated, and a development between 57% and 62% of the children's social skills. It was shown that there was a relationship between authoritarian styles and the low development of social skills, and the best development of the latter in children raised under more democratic styles. This allowed us to conclude that, in the sample evaluated, authoritarian parenting styles probably had a negative impact on the development of children's social skills.

Keywords: SOCIAL SKILLS, PARENTING STYLES, RELATIONSHIP, DEVELOPMENT.