Abstract
Family is the mainstay for humans. The level of adaption and
cohesion that every family establishes in their household can indicate the type of
functionality that predominates in it. Evaluating family functionality has become a
fundamental factor in psychology; therefore, this investigation titled “Family Functionality
of parents with adolescences brought up on the Circumflex Model by Olson” was conducted with
the objective comprehend the level of family cohesion and adaptability. The study of short
quantitative description used as an instrument the Scale of Evaluation and Family Cohesion
FACES III by D. (Olson, Portner, & Lavee, 1985), which was applied to 150 parents of
children brought from an educational institute of the city of Cuenca- Ecuador. The results
determined that 58% of the families are chaotic in nature and 35 % are families that are
separated, which determines in general aspects that 57 % of the total parents evaluated have
a medium range of family functionality.
| Original language | Spanish |
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| Journal | Revista Cubana de Educación Superior |
| State | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Adaptabilidad; Cohesión; Familia