Abstract

The present research study analyzes the Parental Styles and their Influence on Violent Behavior in Schools, which aims to analyze the relationship between parental styles and how they influence the violent behavior of children in the school environment, this research need arises due to the frequency of the problem that is evident in the educational institutions of the Ecuadorian context, which determines in bad symptoms reflected in inappropriate behavior in the classroom by the students, Considering that the main trigger for the triggering of this type of behavior is usually the primary support group where they come from, we proceeded with the respective collection of information, which was measured by 2 validated scales such as the Parental Socialization Scale (ESPA 29) whose authors are Musitu and Garcia (2001) this test will allow to see the degree of socialization that exists within the home, and the Violent Behavior in School Scale by Little, Henrich, Jones and Hawley (2003) to be able to perceive the child's behavior in the classroom, instruments that of course made it possible to show the reality of the context in which the phenomenon was identified. Following a qualitative methodology, the sample consisted of 1393 students from 17 educational institutions of milagro and its cantons of influence, aged between 9 and 11 years old. The data from the data collection suggest that when there is a good parental socialization, the child is calm and the levels of aggressiveness are both manifest and relational. However, it was determined that the presence of conflicts at home is a strong candidate for the manifestation of aggressive behavior in students, and therefore leads to a series of problems in children.