A temática da criação dos filhos vem sendo muito pesquisada e diversos trabalhos têm dedicado atenção especial aos estilos e práticas parentais. Desde a década de 1930, psicólogos pesquisadores e clínicos têm se preocupado com questões como: Qual a melhor forma de educar os filhos e quais são as conseqüências que podem ser provocadas no desenvolvimento das crianças educadas por diferentes modelos de pais. Considerando a relevância da relação entre pais e filhos no processo de desenvolvimento, este estudo objetivou-se validar, por meio da análise fatorial confirmatória, a versão adaptada para crianças brasileiras do Parent Perception Inventory - PPI, para mensurar o comportamento dos pais com relação às práticas educativas na percepção dos filhos. Foram realizadas ainda procedimentos para validação convergente, utilizando-se o Questionário de Práticas Parentais-QPP (PASQUALI et al.,2012) e análise da confiabilidade por meio do alfa de Cronbach. Participaram do estudo 600 crianças de 7 a 12 anos, de ambos os sexos, de escolas públicas e privadas da cidade de Ribeirão Preto-SP que responderam duas versões do PPI, uma para o pai e outra para a mãe, cada uma com 18 itens que avaliam nove classes de comportamento positivo e nove classes de comportamento negativo. Por meio do método de Máxima Verossimilhança pôde-se confirmar o modelo de duas dimensões, fatores positivos e negativos, referentes às práticas adotadas, distribuídos respectivamente nos itens impares e pares da escala para as duas versões. Tais componentes apresentaram Alfa de Cronbach entre 0.67 e 0.81 e se correlacionaram positivamente com os domínios da escala QPP - Questionário de Percepção dos Pais, com valores entre 0,463 e 0,638. Conclui-se que o instrumento é valido e pode ser usado em estudos para identificar o comportamento parental do ponto de vista da criança / The theme of raising a child has received attention of many researchers and several papers have devoted particular attention to parental styles and practices. Since the 1930s, psychology researchers, and clinicians have been concerned with issues such as: What is the best way to educate children and what are the consequences that can be caused in their development when educated by different models of parents. Considering the relevance of the relationship between parents and children in the development process, this study aimed to validate, through the confirmatory factorial analysis, a version adapted for Brazilian children of the Parent Perception Inventory-PPI to measure the parent`s behavior in relation to educational practices in the perception of children. We also performed procedures for convergente validation using the Questionário de Percepção do Pais - QPP (PASQUALI et el., 2012) and reliability analysis by Cronbach`s alfa. The study included 600 children aged from 7 to 12 incomplete years, both boys and girls, from public and private schools in the city of Ribeirão Preto-SP, who answered two versions of the PPI, one for the father and one for the mother, each with 18 items which evaluate nine classes of positive behavior and nine classes of negative behavior. By means of the Maximum Likelihood method, the two-dimensional model, positive and negative, could beconfirmed, referring to the adopted practices, distributed respectively in the odd and even items of the scale for the two versions. These components presented Cronbach\'s alpha between 0.67 and 0.81 and correlated positively with the domains of the scale QPP- Parent Perception Questionare, used to test the convergent validity with values between 0,463 and 0,638. We conclude that the instrument is valid and can be used in studies to identify parental behavior from the child\'s point of view

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-10-26T12:14:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Reichelt Chemello_.pdf: 4802071 bytes, checksum: 39b3bf16c4e97b7229684d2fa973e3a9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-26T12:14:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Reichelt Chemello_.pdf: 4802071 bytes, checksum: 39b3bf16c4e97b7229684d2fa973e3a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-07 / Nenhuma / Esta dissertação de mestrado trata sobre a ansiedade materna e relação mãe-bebê, sendo composta de dois artigos, um teórico e outro empírico. No artigo teórico, intitulado “Ansiedade Materna e Maternidade: Uma Revisão Sistemática da Literatura” foi realizada uma revisão sistemática da literatura especializada, a fim de identificar e analisar a produção científica sobre ansiedade materna e maternidade, publicada no período de janeiro de 2009 a dezembro de 2014. Os achados demonstram a ausência de um instrumento específico para avaliar a ansiedade materna, e referem a importância de identificar a ansiedade no período pré-natal, como medida preventiva e protetiva para a saúde mental das mães, desenvolvimento do bebê e qualidade da relação dessa díade. No artigo empírico, intitulado “Ansiedade materna e relação mãe bebê: um estudo qualitativo”, foi realizada uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa com delineamento de Estudo de Casos Múltiplos. O objetivo foi investigar o fenômeno da ansiedade materna e sua manifestação em mães de bebês com idades entre seis e 12 meses, buscando identificar sua repercussão na relação mãe-bebê. Desse estudo participaram quatro díades mãe-bebê, em que as mães apresentaram ansiedade leve ou moderada. Em todos os casos analisados observou-se que a ocorrência de ansiedade materna no período da gravidez e nos primeiros cuidados com o recém-nascido, repercutiu de alguma forma na relação mãe-bebê. Os casos apresentados corroboram os achados da revisão de literatura que evidenciam que a ansiedade pode estar relacionada com complicações na gravidez e no pós-parto, com dificuldades nos primeiros cuidados com o recém-nascido, fatores estressantes durante a gravidez e no puerpério, como perdas e luto. Considerando a importância de detectar sinais ou sintomas de ansiedade já no período gestacional, salienta-se a necessidade de novos estudos com ênfase na identificação precoce desse fenômeno, além da importância de desenvolver e avaliar programas de intervenção para o controle e o manejo da ansiedade das mães, visando à prevenção e promoção da saúde mental materno-infantil. / This dissertation deals with maternal anxiety and mother-child relationship, and is composed by two articles, one theoretical and one empirical. In the theoretical article, entitled "Maternal Anxiety and Motherhood: A Systematic Literature Review", a systematic review of the literature was conducted in order to identify and analyze the scientific literature about maternal anxiety and motherhood, published from January 2009 to December 2014. The findings demonstrate the absence of a specific instrument for assessing maternal anxiety and state the importance of identifying anxiety in the prenatal period as a preventive and protective measure for the mental health of mothers, for the baby development and to improve the quality of the relationship of this dyad. In the empirical article, entitled "Maternal anxiety and mother-child relationship: a qualitative study," a qualitative research approach with delineation of Multiple Cases Studies was carried out. The objective was to investigate the phenomenon of maternal anxiety and its manifestation in mothers of babies aged between six and 12 months, trying to identify its impact on the mother-child relationship. In this study participated four mother-child dyads, whose mothers had mild or moderate anxiety. In all these cases it was found that the occurrence of maternal anxiety in the period of pregnancy and early care newborn, reflected somehow in the mother-child relationship. The presented cases corroborate the literature review that shows that anxiety may be related to complications in pregnancy and postpartum, with difficulties in the early care of the newborn, stressors during pregnancy and postpartum, as losses and mourning. Considering the importance that either signs or symptoms of anxiety have during pregnancy, it highlighted the need for further studies with emphasis on the early identification of this phenomenon and the importance of developing and evaluating intervention programs for the control and management of anxiety in the mothers, aiming at prevention and promotion of maternal and child mental health.

Objectives The development of aggression from childhood to adulthood is well-researched, and extant work has identified a large number of developmental risk factors within the individual, family, and social domains. Among them, poor parenting, including harsh practices like corporal punishment, have repeatedly been found to predict adolescent behavioural problems, that may then negatively affect adult behaviours such as violence and offending. An area of research that is becoming increasingly important is one that seeks to identify the reasons why some people do not become aggressive, even when they have been exposed to well established risk factors. What is it that has protected them from becoming aggressive later in life? The current study examined whether self-control and having a positive teacher-child relationship acted as protective factors between corporal punishment and adolescent aggression. Methods An autoregressive cross-lagged panel model was used to examine self-control and teacher-child relationships as both direct and interactive protective factors between corporal punishment and adolescent aggression. Teacher and self-reported data was used from three waves (waves 4-6) of the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youths (Z-proso), a prospective longitudinal study of adolescents in Switzerland. Results The results show that both self-control and having a positive teacher-child relationship were direct protective factors against concurrent aggression. However, the interactive protective effect of these factors differed depending on the stage of adolescence and level of exposure to risk. Furthermore, differences were found when considering males and females separately.

Submitted by Maria Aparecida (cidazen@gmail.com) on 2017-08-10T13:22:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Costa.pdf: 11428748 bytes, checksum: 909f4a62b5e693f3f553eb4e6bfb0cae (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T13:22:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Costa.pdf: 11428748 bytes, checksum: 909f4a62b5e693f3f553eb4e6bfb0cae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-06 / FAPEMA / The mother-child relationship is essential to provide good health conditions in childhood, there is no first year of life, but throughout early childhood to this stage in a critical stage of development, Anemia. Anemia is a global public health problem with important consequences resulting from isolated or multiple causes that act concomitantly and influence a child's health. The objective of this study was verified in relation to the mother-child and the occurrence of anemia in children aged 12-36 months in São Luís. This is study "BRISA cohort, carried out in the cities of São Luís-MA and Ribeirão Preto. The data were collected at the time of birth and did not follow the second year of life (12 to 36 months). 5,166 birth cohort births. For an investigation of anemia, blood collection data were used for 2,213 children. The prevalence of anemia in children aged 12-36 months was 24.0%, and the proposed model showed good adjustment and had no suggestions Plausible modifications (RMSEA = 0.019, CFI = 0.965, TLI = 0.961). The mother-child relationship had no effect on the occurrence of anemia in the child (CF = 0.031, p = 0.377). The study confirms the high prevalence of anemia, underscoring a magnitude of the problem among children living in a capital city in the Brazilian Northeast, but there is no relationship between mother and child. / A relação mãe-filho é essencial para proporcionar boas condições de saúde na infância, não somente no primeiro ano de vida, mas durante toda a primeira infância pois esta consiste em uma fase crítica do desenvolvimento, tornando a criança vulnerável a inúmeras doenças, dentre elas, a anemia. A anemia é um problema global de saúde pública com consequências importantes, resultante de causas isoladas ou múltiplas que atuam concomitantemente e influenciam a saúde da criança. O objetivo desse estudo foi verificar associação entre relação mãe-filho e ocorrência de anemia em crianças de 12 a 36 meses em São Luís. Trata-se de um estudo “Fatores etiológicos do nascimento pré-termo e consequências dos fatores perinatais na saúde da criança: coortes de nascimentos em duas cidades brasileiras” - Coorte BRISA, realizada nas cidades de São Luís-MA e Ribeirão Preto - SP. Nesta investigação foram incluídos apenas os dados de São Luís. Os dados utilizados foram coletados por ocasião do nascimento e no seguimento do segundo ano de vida (12 a 36 meses). A amostra final foi de 5.166 nascimentos da coorte de nascimento. Para a investigação de anemia utilizou-se dados de coleta de sangue de 2.213 crianças. Para analisar os efeitos da relação mãe-filho sobre a ocorrência de anemia em crianças de 12 a 36 meses, foi utilizado modelagem por equações estruturais. A prevalência de anemia em crianças de 12 a 36 meses foi de 24,0%. O modelo proposto mostrou bom ajuste e não houve sugestões plausíveis de modificação (RMSEA=0,019; CFI=0,965; TLI=0,961). A relação mãe-filho não mostrou efeito na ocorrência de anemia na criança (CF= 0,031; p=0,377). O estudo confirma a alta prevalência da anemia, ressaltando a magnitude do problema entre as crianças que vivem em uma capital do Nordeste brasileiro, porém parece não haver associação entre relação mãe-filho e ocorrência de anemia nessa faixa etária.

Submitted by Maria Aparecida (cidazen@gmail.com) on 2017-09-19T19:11:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Oliveira Dias.pdf: 39950781 bytes, checksum: f142c060796cb141f6fde41ca1c3dd5d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-19T19:11:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Oliveira Dias.pdf: 39950781 bytes, checksum: f142c060796cb141f6fde41ca1c3dd5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-29 / Pregnancy and motherhood has been increasingly under investigation by the scientific community, with the risk of developing psychopathology, thus becoming a major public health problem for the mother-child dyad. This study had two objectives: to analyze the effects of psychosocial factors in the mother-child relationship; and analyze the psychometric properties of the Population Screening Scale for Depression (CES-D) to measure symptoms of depression in pregnant women both held in the city of Sao Luís-MA. In the first article, we used the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ) to assess the mother-child relationship in 1140 mother-child pairs. In the proposed model, socioeconomic status determined demographic, maternal psychosocial and social support, which determined the outcome of mother-child relationship, analyzed as latent variable. The models were adjusted for structural equation modeling using mplus 7.0. The final model had good fit (RMSEA = 0.047, CFI = 0.984; TLI = 0.981). The models of the first and second article were estimated by the method of least squares (WLSMV) adjusted for mean and variance. In the second article, the Exploratory Factor Analysis suggested models with up to four dimensions, with good adjustment only for models with 3 and 4 dimensions. In addition to these models were tested on Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the reference models and new model without items 4 and 8, which had low factor loadings (<0.40). if found to have symptoms of depression during pregnancy and postpartum presented more often, mother-child relationship impaired. These effects were direct and positive. The greatest effect was the symptoms of depression during pregnancy. They associated themselves also to impaired mother-child relationship, less social support, unfavorable socioeconomic status and marital status informal, indirect pathway. Symptoms of anxiety and maternal age showed no effect on the mother-child relationship. It was found that models with four dimensions were suitable to assess symptoms of depression in pregnant women in the city of São Luís. It is confirmed using the CES-D to measure symptoms of depression in pregnant women, considering its practical use, as a scale with good fit index. It was also observed that greater attention to the womwn health of during the prenatal and postpartum may be a strategy for identifying psychopathological symptoms, in order to prevent possible damage in the mother-child relationship. / A gestação e a maternidade têm sido, cada vez mais, alvo de investigação por parte da comunidade científica, pelo risco de desenvolvimento de psicopatologia, constituindo-se em um importante problema de saúde pública para a díade mãe-filho. O presente estudo teve dois objetivos: analisar efeitos de aspectos psicossociais na relação mãe-filho; e analisar as propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Rastreamento Populacional para Depressão (CES-D) para medir sintomas de depressão em gestantes; ambos realizados na cidade de São Luís-MA. No primeiro artigo, utilizou-se o Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ) para avaliar a relação mãe-filho em 1140 pares mãe-filho. No modelo proposto, situação socioeconômica determinou fatores demográficos, psicossociais maternos e de apoio social, que determinaram o desfecho relação mãe-filho, analisada como variável latente. Os modelos foram ajustados por modelagem de equações estruturais, utilizando o MPLUS 7.0. O modelo final teve bom ajuste (RMSEA=0.047; CFI=0.984; TLI =0.981). Os modelos do primeiro e do segundo artigo foram estimados pelo método dos mínimos quadrados (WLSMV) ajustados pela média e variância. No segundo artigo, a Análise Fatorial Exploratória sugeriu modelos com até quatro dimensões, com bom ajuste apenas para os modelos com 3 e 4 dimensões. Além desses modelos, foram testados na Análise Fatorial Confirmatória os modelos de referência e um novo modelo, sem os itens 4 e 8, que apresentaram cargas fatoriais baixas (<0,40). Constataram-se que os sintomas de depressão na gestação e pós-parto apresentaram, mais frequentemente, relação mãe-filho prejudicada. Esses efeitos foram direto e positivo. O maior efeito foi dos sintomas de depressão na gestação. Associaram-se também à relação mãe-filho prejudicada, menor apoio social, situação socioeconômica desfavorável e situação conjugal informal, via indireta. Sintomas de ansiedade e idade materna não apresentaram efeito na relação mãe-filho. Verificou-se que os modelos com quatro dimensões se mostraram adequados para avaliar sintomas de depressão em gestantes na cidade de São Luís. Confirma-se a utilização da CES-D para medir sintomas de depressão em gestantes, considerando sua utilidade prática, por ser uma escala com bom índice de ajuste. Observou-se também que uma maior atenção à saúde de mulheres durante o pré-natal e nos pós-parto pode ser uma estratégia para a identificação de sintomas psicopatológicos, com o intuito de prevenir possíveis prejuízos na relação mãe-filho.

There have been numerous investigations seeking to quantify the experience of parents raising adolescents of autism, but remarkably few have looked at the total experience qualitatively, as reported by parents. The present study was conducted along with a larger study for adolescents with autism participating in the PEERS® social skills group intervention, which includes simultaneous parent sessions. This study analyzed comments made in the parent group, identifying the issues parents reported spontaneously through a qualitative analysis of 12 unstructured hour-long sessions including parents (n = 16) and graduate student clinicians. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the meaning and experiences of these parents to gain increased understanding about the needs of both parents and adolescents with autism. Themes resulting from the hermeneutic analysis of these videos focused on the adolescents and their "spark," a term coined by the parents denoting the unique strengths of their children, the values they share with the family, the impact of autism on the family, lack of self-awareness, being included and finding "one good friend." There was also a strong theme of the parents seeking support from one another. Finally, the parents spoke often of planning for/hoping for the future and what it may bring for their adolescent with autism. These themes can help describe the challenges/successes of parenting an adolescent with autism. This study provides some direction for further research to inform supports for parents whose children are approaching or are in the midst of adolescence with autism. Some other findings in our study were that parents are very concerned about acceptance of family values by their adolescent. Future studies can explore further what parents' needs are and how clinicians can help them.

The present study was aimed at exploring the issues faced by previously incarcerated fathers and their children. A qualitative design utilizing face to face interviews was used to answer the question: according to previously incarcerate fathers, what are the differences between the reciprocal connectedness of fathers and their children prior to, during, and following incarceration? Interviews were conducted with 10 previously incarcerated fathers. Researchers found that all participants had positive relationships with their children at some point prior to incarceration. Furthermore, during incarceration the reciprocal connectedness of these relationships severely decreased due to limited or no contact. Following incarceration, fathers continued to have difficulty rebuilding the connection they once had with their children due to continued limited or nonexistent contact and mistrust by their children. Incarcerated fathers and their children are an underserved population in need of additional resources. The findings of the study add to the literature about the relationship between previously incarcerated fathers and their children, in hopes that further research and services will be developed.

A significant focus is placed on positive outcomes for children in today’s society. However, mental health clinicians attest that poor attachments, during early childhood, are likely to have negative effects on a child’s long-term outcomes. By using the post-positivist paradigm, 10 mental health clinicians were interviewed and each provided their perspectives regarding the negative social skills and emotional regulations of young children, when parents fail to appropriately bond with their children, during their early years. Their ideas were formulated, connected, and structured to develop a theoretical statement. The resulting theory focused on the parent’s ability to develop and strengthen the parent/child relationship, through a range of interventions. Parent’s inability to form positive attachments were influenced by a variety of issues, such as, depression, drug and/or alcohol dependency, poverty, poor relationships with the child’s parent, mental illness, violence, etc. These factors resulted in poor social dynamics with the parent; thereby, hindering their bonding. Children with poor attachments tend to display poor socioemotional affects, such as, poor social, coping, and problem solving skills, tantrums, clingy, withdrawn, or aggressive behaviors, etc. These negative effects, often impacts the child throughout their developmental years.

Recent models of adolescent development and psychopathology emphasize the importance of the social regulation of emotion during adolescence (Allen & Manning, 2007; Allen & Miga, 2010), and emotion regulation as a mediating factor between multiple aspects of adolescent development and adolescent adjustment (Morris, Silk, Steinberg, Myers, & Robinson, 2007). The present dissertation investigated these two phenomena in two separate studies of adolescent development, emotion regulation, and psychological adjustment. In study one, a new measure of adolescent social regulation of emotion – the Managing Distress Interpersonally Scale, or MANDI – showed good internal consistency, test-retest reliability and factor structure across two samples (217 college students in sample one and 63 community adolescents in sample two). The MANDI also showed good convergent and discriminant validity in its relations with independent assessments of adolescent emotion regulation, relationship functioning, psychological functioning, and physiological regulation of emotion. In study two, 64 community adolescents completed self-report, interview, and physiological procedures (salivary cortisol and respiratory sinus arrhythmia), while one of their parents also completed survey measures. Emotion regulation was found to mediate the developmental context and adolescent depressive symptoms, alcohol problems, and peer aggression. Findings are discussed in terms of the utility of intervening at the level of emotion regulation for adolescents displaying difficulty with internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

The purpose of this study was to explore the significant differences on elementary school students¡¦ attitude toward gender and their sex role identity among different background. Four hundred eighty participants from 7 different elementary schools were selected by stratified random sampling for completing ¡§Gender Attitude Scale¡¨ and ¡§Sex Role Identity Scale¡¨. Descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation, and multiple stepwise regression analysis were conducted on the quantitative data. The major findings were as follows: 1. Girls had significantly higher score on femininity than their boy counterparts. 2. Girls had significantly higher means on gender attitude scale than these boys. 3. The 6th grade students had significantly higher means on gender attitude scale than the 5th grade students. 4. Children with different birth order and parental marital conditions had similar mean scores on gender attitude and sex role identity. 5. Children come from families with girl only had significantly higher means on the femininity and gender attitude than these boy family children. 6. Children come from authoritative and permissive father practices families had significantly higher scores on sex role identity than these children come from uninvolved father practice families. 7. Children come from authoritative mother practice had significantly higher scores on gender attitude than these children come from uninvolved mother practice families. 8. Children with good peer relationships had significantly higher scores on gender attitude and sex role identity than other group counterparts. 9. There was significant positive correlation between students¡¦ gender attitude and sex role identity. 10. The three highest significantly predictors for elementary school children¡¦s attitudes toward gender and sex role identity were good peer relationship, gender, and grades. The conclusions of this study were to provide several suggestions for family educators, school educators, education administrators, and academic institute for future research.