Parental Educational Styles and Adolescent Pregnancy

Abstract

Objective: to compare parental educational styles of families with pregnant and non-pregnant teenage daughters. Methods: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and comparative study. It included pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents, between 15 and 19 years old, from the ti Bekal Health Care Center of the Health Services in Mexico City. It was made an identification card, as well as a scale to evaluate the parental educational of adolescents. Using inferential statistics with the t test of Student from independent samples, 0.05 significance level and the statistical program spss v. 18. Results: the study included 16 pregnant teenagers and 28 non-pregnant; whose age averaged 17.88 ±1. 45 years and 16.68 ±1.12 years old, respectively, in the dimensions of the scale, pregnant women showed best results in affection and communication, humor and psychological control, in this last dimension it was showed statistically significant differences in pregnant teenagers (p=0.010); on the other hand, the non-pregnant women obtained best averages in control behavior with significant differences (p=0.036) in autonomy and revelation. Conclusions: there was no predominance of better results between the two study groups in the different dimensions of the scale, however, in the control behavioral dimension, which defines the permissive style of parents; pregnant adolescents scored much lower with difference statistically significant in favor of a relaxed or permissive education.