PRÁCTICAS PARENTALES, SINTOMATOLOGÍA ANSIOSA Y RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO EN ESTUDIANTES ADOLESCENTES, SAN PEDRO – SUCRE

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine whether there is a relationship between parental practices, anxious symptoms and the high school students’ academic performance of the educational institution San Juan Bosco, in San Pedro, Sucre. There are few investigations published that consider the aforementioned variables, this indicates that this is an innovative study at a departmental level, which justifies it. In relation to the methodology, the research is descriptive, transactional, non-experimental and correlational. To carry it out, a stratified sample of 166 students was taken, 9 students of the sixth grade, 25 of the seventh grade, 32 of the eighth grade, 37 of the ninth grade, 35 of the tenth grade and 28 of the eleventh grade, aged between twelve and eighteen. As instruments, the parental practices scale and the state/trait anxiety questionnaire (STAI) were used. From the results obtained, it was found that the low academic performance is influenced by the negligent of their caregivers in the upbringing, in the same way, it could be established that there is a relationship between the anxiety and authoritarian and democratic parental style.