Resumen

CHAVEZ DE LA FUENTE, Diana Del Socorro; JIMENEZ HERRERA, Julio  y  LOPEZ VELAZQUEZ, Silvia. Structural dysfunctions in the marital, parental and fraternal subsystems of nuclear families: case of families whose wife-mother studies in a higher education institution. Rev. de psicol. y cienc. del comport. de la Unidad Académica de Cienc. Juríd. y Sociales [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.1, pp.75-85. ISSN 2007-1833.

This investigation about nuclear families and housewife’s wishing to develop professionally was conducted in a medium-sized city in southern Veracruz Mexico. This study on comprehensive-interpretive (qualitative) modality presents the families nuclear systems. These families are seriously affected in their parental, fraternal and marital subsystems when the mother incorporates into an institution of higher education. Furthermore, this study offers the methodological process used as well as the results that were found. The effort started with the review of literature, followed by the choice of the theoretical frameworks available in order to approach the phenomenon to know it and intervene it in the future.

Palabras llave : family system; subsystem; professional development; dysfunction.