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Abstract

The suitable familiar functioning favors the growth and development of his members in every stage of the life, in the adolescence, stage of high adaptative requirements, the above mentioned strength becomes necessary since it, it will determine the strategies with those who face the challenges and difficulties. With the aim to analyze the relation between the familiar functioning and coping strategies of adolescences of high school, participate voluntarily 500 students assigned to a public University of Guadalajara, Straw hat, Mexico. Each of them answered the Familiar Inventory of Autoreport (SFI) and the Scale of Coping of Adolescences (ACS). The familiar predominant structure was the nuclear model (76 %) and families with healthy, but not ideal performance, being the functional elements: health, competition, conflict and expressiveness, whereas the predominant strategies of confrontation were: to look for relaxing amusements, to worry, to struggle and to be successful. Was observed that the familiar functioning associated with the productive confrontation (r_xy =.138, p=.002) and negatively with the unproductive confrontation (r_xy=-.315, p=.000). The importance of the family is repeated in the strategies of confrontation of the adolescences.