Family disfunctionality and levels of depression in adolescents of a rural educational unit in Ambato, Ecuador

Abstract:

The world's population, given the current conditions of society, has the biggest problems in terms of their psychological, emotional and physiological order factors, one more recurrence presents is depression, the same as is generated by different causes, but in this study the correlation between depression and family dysfunction in adolescents in a Rural Education Unit of the Ambato city, Ecuador. The research is descriptive, transversal and not experimental, empirical, the same as 60 students ranging in age from 15 to 18 and of both genders was performed. The results show a correlation r 0.694 and Pearson chi-square test is highly significant with a p-value of 0.0000.

Año de publicación:

2017

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