Primera infancia: estudio relacional de estilos de crianza y desarrollo de competencias emocionales

Abstract

INTRODUCTION. Parenting styles develop social, cognitive and affective potential through bonding, formative, reflexive and protective competencies. The emotional competences are focused on early childhood and they are part of emotional education, vital for social development. OBJECTIVE. To relate the styles of upbringing and the development of emotional competences in Ecuadorian 5-year-old children. METHOD. It presents exploratory and descriptive characteristics, scope of quantitative measurement with field function. It was found that 83% of parents use the democratic parenting style. After applying the e2p questionnaire, it is obtained that more than 50% of the parents are in the optimal zone of the formative and reflexive competences. However, negative results were obtained regarding the linkage scope. Finally, children have 80% of the emotional competences studied. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. Parenthood is the core of emotional literacy, where the infant performs emotional competencies. The cognitive, neurobiological and social implications of parenting styles are analyzed and the importance of positive parenting for appropriate integral development is stressed.