Description

The consumption of psychoactive substances is a public health problem that especially affects adolescents and young people of productive age. These substances have emotional impact in the system of relationships that the person weaves, including family, school, and work, among others; hence, the desire to investigate whether there is a relationship between family functioning according to Olson’s circumplex model and alcohol consumption in teenagers. The research was quantitative of correlational type. Non-experimental transversal design, empirical analytical approach, with a sample of 60 seventh and eighth grade students aged between 12 and 19 years, to whom the AUDIT questionnaire and the FACES IV scale were applied, giving as results, that the cohesion and communication between parents and children are the most important protection factors against alcohol consumption.