La Family communication parent-child and the impact in the Ecuadorian educational context

Abstract

The role that parents play in the development of their children is paramount; they are the first educators who directly influence the acquisition of attitudes and skills that define their personality. An essential part of instruction is the support and direction that communication provides to the emotions and behaviors of the child that, both the father and the mother promote daily. This becomes of greater contribution when it promotes the expression of ideas and emotions in an open and effective way that stimulates confidence and security, at the time of expressing themselves. The objective of this article is to identify what is the level of communication that exists between parents and children, according to the gender relationship and, to determine the communicational difference according to the regional context to which the family belongs. The applied methodology carried out a field study, of a descriptive quantitative nature; the sample to be studied includes 1938 fathers and 2929 mothers, and the applied measurement instrument was by Valdés, et al. (2009) which establishes a scale of reflection of family participation; Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of (0.92) was established as the basis for factor analysis, which used the variamax rotation method. The results show that the level of communication of the children according to the gender of their parents, is high as far as the mother is concerned; according to the region it is observed that on the coast the level of communication with the father is higher. It is concluded that the communication that exists between the children with their mothers is better than the one with their fathers. At the regional level, there is a considerable variation since the father of the coast is the one who communicates best.