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parenthood, the number of children, work demands, educational standards, etc.), while the
disorders. In the concrete case of children and adolescents, impulsiveness is related to their
scarce perception of risk and their tendency to become involved in maladjusted behaviour
patterns (drinking alcohol, smoking, not respecting traffic regulations, addiction to Internet,
Considering the importance and the impact that behaviour patterns of risk and low
school performance can have on both a social level and on the development of these young
people, this thesis aims to explain to what extent the aforesaid functionality and dynamics of the
family intervene in an adolescent’s impulsiveness, and to give evidence of the type of relation
established between impulsiveness and risky behaviour patterns involving the new
technologies, the consumption of drugs and road safety, as well as the influence of other
This study looks at the relation between functionality (measured by the family Apgar
test), the aforementioned family dynamics (measured by a scale of our own invention), and
impulsiveness (measured by the Barratt BIS-11 test). To this end, a survey including these
scales was carried out on 4,673 adolescents from Castile & León between 13 and 18 years of
age who were attending school in the academic years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. In the final
sample, only the completed surveys were analysed, with a total of 3,343 questionnaires. This
enabled us to estimate our results with a proportion of 50%, a confidence interval of 95.5%, and