Parents' aggressive communication style and its psychological effects on engineering students from Perú

The communication style that predominates in the family has a significant influence on the well-being of the students. Is the reason why the present research aims to analyze the relationship between the aggressive communication style of parents, lack of motivation, emotional imbalance, depression and satisfaction with the life of students of the engineering career of a private university in Lima-Peru. The sample was of 135 career of engineering students (94 men (69.1 %) and 41 women (30.1 %) between 16 to 26 years of age (M
^age
= 18.41, SD =2.71) of Lima – Peru. The results showed that the aggressive communication style of parents is positively, moderately and significantly related to demotivation, emotional imbalance, cognitive commitment, and depression. Finally, the aggressive communication style of parents was negatively, strongly and significantly related to life satisfaction.