%0 Journal Article %T La evaluaci¨®n de la percepci¨®n de la comunicaci¨®n emocional de los padres en ni£¿os desde la neuropsicolog¨ªa %A Guaita %A Valeria Laura %J Interdisciplinaria %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the quality of interpersonal relationships, including the interpretation of others' intentions and emotions, plays a fundamental roll in the child's development. therefore, it is important to understand how the process of acquisition of the emotional competences takes place. this is, the capacity of accomplishing a desired outcome in emotion-eliciting encounters, that are shown in the ability to handle ones owns emotions, which results in improved self-esteem and in adaptative resilience when dealing with stressful circumstances. given the importance of family relationships in the development of emotions, this is, in the ability to recognize, control and express them, the aim of this work is to present the psychometric studies of the questionnaire (cpcep) built to assess the perception that 5 years old children have about the emotional communication of their parents, analyzing separately the results for mothers and fathers. a group of children at risk for poverty was compared with a group of children without risk for poverty, making a neuropsychological analysis of the results. the data was collected from a sample of 220 5-years old children: 110 living in poor conditions from the one scholl (la cava, buenos aires), and 110 middle class children, attending to schools from buenos aires city, which acted as control group. the questionnaire takes into account the emotions of joy, interest, concern, patience and anger that the child perceives in his / her parents. the child is also asked to answer how is it that he / she realizes that his / her mother and father feels that particular emotion. in the analysis of the results, it was considered through which of the communicational channels the children perceived the emotions; this is, verbal, facial, behavioral or vocal. it was taken into account if the child could not explain how he perceived the emotional state of his / her parent. analysis of the data from the two forms of the questionnaire included response statistics, %K family relationships %K emotional communication %K assessment %K resilience %K risk for poverty %K neuropsychology. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1668-70272010000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en