The methodological framework is universally known as the methodical support and action of the research, because it allows characterizing the set of steps, techniques and procedures used to approach the research problem from a scientific perspective, in other words, the methodological framework is the instance required for the scientific development of the research.
In virtue of the above, all social research must have in its methodological framework the nature of the research, type and design of the research, population and sample, techniques and instruments for data collection, validation of the instruments, techniques for data processing that correspond to the methodological framework of the referred research.
The nature of the research allows knowing and focusing on the currents of thought that were used to carry out the study, promoting its understanding and feasibility. From the above perspective, the study was developed under the quantitative modality anchored in the positivist paradigm.
The positivist paradigm represents certain characteristics that need to be specified: its interest is to explain, control and predict; the nature of reality is described as given, singular, tangible, fragmentable and convergent; the subject/object relationship is manifested as independent, neutral and value-free; its fundamental objective is generalization through deductive, quantitative methodologies, centered on similarities.
Consequently, the positivist paradigm is based on the study of reality and its understanding from the logical and mathematical plane by means of observations and treatment of information sources.