Estilos educativos parentales e influencia en el desarrollo de habilidades sociales en niños de nivel elemental de la ciudad de Guayaquil

Abstract

Parenting styles have been a context for different investigations in the field of educational sciences. The parallelism that has existed between the parenting styles of the parents with different components of the child's personal development conceive that the importance of the subject is unquestionable. The present study addressed the influence of parenting styles on the development of social skills in children of 2nd and 3rd grade of basic education of the Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez school in the city of Guayaquil; A non-experimental cross-sectional design was carried out, since the study was carried out at a single moment in time in a specific population. The study evaluated the relationship between the variables parenting styles and social skills. The data obtained was carried out through the application of the Educational Styles Questionnaire and the Goldstein social skills questionnaire. The SPSS statistical program was used for the analysis and interpretation of results. Among the most relevant results are: 55% of the parents surveyed use the democratic educational style and 45.0% the educational style is quite democratic. With regard to the parents of 2nd grade children, the predominant educational style is democratic with 64% and quite democratic with 36%. For the parents of 3rd grade children, the predominant educational style is quite democratic with 54% and democratic with 46%. These data show that parents in their parenting educational practices opt for democratic styles. Keywords: PARENTING STYLES / SOCIAL SKILLS / INFLUENCE