Early behavior problems, such as childhood aggression, emerge in the second year of life and decrease prior to school entry for typically developing children. However, some children show frequent and persistent aggression and may be at risk for subsequent difficulties that lead to poor school and life outcomes. The current study aimed to identify aggression patterns in children from toddlerhood to early adolescence for boys and girls together and separately. This study also explored early influences on aggressive behaviors at age two, such as mothers’ parenting behaviors, cumulative family risk, and early child characteristics. A range of difficulties in early adolescence were investigated, including poor social skills, low academic success, internalizing problems (e.g., depression and anxiety), and delinquent behaviors. Data from a previous study of 3,000 families and children, the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation longitudinal study, which followed families and children from infancy to early adolescence were examined. Four aggression patterns were found, characterized by changes over time in the amount of aggressive behaviors exhibited, applicable to both boys and girls: low-stable, moderate-decreasing, moderate-increasing, and high-stable. Early parenting and development during toddlerhood discriminated these distinctive aggression patterns. Compared with children in the low-stable group, boys in the moderate-decreasing and high-stable groups, and girls in the high-stable group were less likely to have mothers using positive parenting behaviors. Boys in the moderate-decreasing group and girls in the high-stable group were more likely to show delayed language development. Boys in the moderate-decreasing and high-stable groups were more likely to indicate poor emotional regulation. Moreover, compared with children in the low-stable group, those in the moderate-decreasing, moderate-increasing, or high-stable groups tended to show difficulties in early adolescence, such as lack of social skills, lower academic success, more internalizing problems, and delinquent behaviors. Altogether, young children exhibiting high levels of aggression over time were at the highest risk for later social, behavioral, and academic problems when, at age two, they had mothers with less positive parenting behaviors or when they showed poor language development or poor emotional regulation.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-06-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:41:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 furini_la_dr_prud.pdf: 1832779 bytes, checksum: 9ab78bde39e8dd4e6ca1afeed76856e1 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A sociedade brasileira apresenta alto grau de desigualdade social, fazendo com que as condições de vida da população cheguem aos limites da precariedade e da indigência. A reversão dessa desigualdade social tornou-se objetivo de várias iniciativas governamentais e não-governamentais que oscilam entre um enfrentamento e um pseudoenfrentamento da questão, além dos diversos limites existentes quanto à eficiência ou eficácia destas iniciativas. Compreender esses limites e desmascarar os processos excludentes que eles encerram torna-se um desafio no período atual, pressupondo abordagem multidisciplinar e multimetodológica. Nesta tese sobre redes sociais temáticas procuramos demonstrar como essa abordagem geográfica consegue estabelecer essa integração multidisciplinar, correlacionando variáveis qualitativas e quantitativas em meio a elementos subjetivos e físicos dos grupos sociais pesquisados. Quando estabelecemos o objetivo de compreender como o tema da proteção integral à criança e ao adolescente se objetiva em meio a redes técnicas ou sociais no município de Presidente Prudente (SP), pretendemos também mostrar que esse processo é influenciado por intencionalidades presentes no espaço geográfico e assim tornar evidente que as políticas públicas que não consideram estas especificidades e abordagens semelhantes, ou são formas de manter a desigualdade social, ou ainda não atingiram níveis de elaboração, implantação, execução e resultados qualitativos e quantitativos compatíveis com o que a complexidade atual requer... / Brazilian society is characterized by a high degree of inequality, such that a large portion of the population lives in precarious conditions bordering on indigence. Reversing social inequality has been identified as the objective of various governmental and nongovernmental agencies. With initiatives of questionable efficiency and efficacy, the agencies’ implementation tends to oscillate between true and pseudo-confrontation with the issues involved. A challenge at present, one requiring disciplinarily and methodologically diverse approaches, is that of revealing and understanding the processes of exclusion that their initiatives are meant to address. This thesis focuses on child welfare services to show how the geographic approach to studying thematically-specific social networks permits the integration of disciplines and methods, enabling qualitative and quantitative variables to be correlated through the analysis of the subjective and physical elements of the social groups researched. By establishing the objective of understanding how childhood and adolescent protection services function through social and professional networks in the city of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, the thesis shows how these services are influenced by intentionalities present in geographic space. In this way, the thesis intends to turn selfevident the argument that public policies that fail to take into consideration these specificities are services bound to either maintain social inequality or have yet to reach their full level of elaboration, implementation and execution... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Orientador: Eda Maria Góes / Banca: Raul Borges Guimarães / Banca: Maria Suzana de Stefano Menin / Banca: Margarida Maria de Andrade / Banca: Jones Dari Goettert / Resumo: A sociedade brasileira apresenta alto grau de desigualdade social, fazendo com que as condições de vida da população cheguem aos limites da precariedade e da indigência. A reversão dessa desigualdade social tornou-se objetivo de várias iniciativas governamentais e não-governamentais que oscilam entre um enfrentamento e um pseudoenfrentamento da questão, além dos diversos limites existentes quanto à eficiência ou eficácia destas iniciativas. Compreender esses limites e desmascarar os processos excludentes que eles encerram torna-se um desafio no período atual, pressupondo abordagem multidisciplinar e multimetodológica. Nesta tese sobre redes sociais temáticas procuramos demonstrar como essa abordagem geográfica consegue estabelecer essa integração multidisciplinar, correlacionando variáveis qualitativas e quantitativas em meio a elementos subjetivos e físicos dos grupos sociais pesquisados. Quando estabelecemos o objetivo de compreender como o tema da proteção integral à criança e ao adolescente se objetiva em meio a redes técnicas ou sociais no município de Presidente Prudente (SP), pretendemos também mostrar que esse processo é influenciado por intencionalidades presentes no espaço geográfico e assim tornar evidente que as políticas públicas que não consideram estas especificidades e abordagens semelhantes, ou são formas de manter a desigualdade social, ou ainda não atingiram níveis de elaboração, implantação, execução e resultados qualitativos e quantitativos compatíveis com o que a complexidade atual requer... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Brazilian society is characterized by a high degree of inequality, such that a large portion of the population lives in precarious conditions bordering on indigence. Reversing social inequality has been identified as the objective of various governmental and nongovernmental agencies. With initiatives of questionable efficiency and efficacy, the agencies' implementation tends to oscillate between true and pseudo-confrontation with the issues involved. A challenge at present, one requiring disciplinarily and methodologically diverse approaches, is that of revealing and understanding the processes of exclusion that their initiatives are meant to address. This thesis focuses on child welfare services to show how the geographic approach to studying thematically-specific social networks permits the integration of disciplines and methods, enabling qualitative and quantitative variables to be correlated through the analysis of the subjective and physical elements of the social groups researched. By establishing the objective of understanding how childhood and adolescent protection services function through social and professional networks in the city of Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, the thesis shows how these services are influenced by intentionalities present in geographic space. In this way, the thesis intends to turn selfevident the argument that public policies that fail to take into consideration these specificities are services bound to either maintain social inequality or have yet to reach their full level of elaboration, implementation and execution... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor

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