Parental control in school performance in high school students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is related to the incidence of parental control on the school performance of the middle school students of the Eugenio Espejo Educational Unit #29 of the Tosagua Canton, where there are situations of negative behavior in the students due to the lack of emotional relationships of their parents who in many cases overprotect their children, adopting unusual values and practices, that lead them to have a low performance reflected in their learning results. The objective of the research is to investigate how Parental control affects the school performance of the students of the Eugenio Espejo Educational Unit #29 of the Tosagua Canton in the period 2021-2022. A qualitative analysis was used as a methodology, based on a field and bibliographic study, in addition to the inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic, and statistical method, the data collection tools were based on parent surveys, interviews with teachers and student observation sheet, with a sample of 107 students, 100 parents and 3 teachers. It was obtained as a result that the parental control of the parents towards the children is fundamental for their education and the formation of values.