Adolescence is a stressful time for many children. Changes in their environment or changes in social situations are some typical stressors that an adolescent child might encounter. Interactions with parents can also be a stressor for a child. Previous research has shown that a risk factor for a parent using harsh parenting techniques is perceived control. Parents who have low perceived control are at a higher risk to engage in physical parenting techniques or child abuse. This study included 198 middle school students and their female parent or guardian pairs (296 total participants), with the adolescent participants ranging in age from 10-year-old to 14-years-old. The adult participants were evaluated for their level of perceived control and the adolescent participants were evaluated for their level of perceived stress. The results showed that parents who perceived themselves as have a low amount of control over their child's behavior (low ACF), regardless of the level of control the parents perceived the child to have over their own behavior (CCF), were linked with their child have a high level of perceived stress, F (1, 182) = 5.14, p = .025. This effect was found only for the 14-year-old participants, t (30) = 2.774, p = .009. Implications of thesis results and areas of further research are suggested. It is possible that as a child gets older and enters puberty, the parent of the child feels as if they are losing control over their child and, as a result, resort to more forceful parenting techniques to regain control.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-95). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (MA (Counselling Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Text messaging, e-mail, instant messaging, and social networking sites are changing the way people interact with each other. The popularity of these communication technologies among emerging adults in particular has grown exponentially, with little accompanying research to understand their influences on psychosocial development. This study explores the relationship between communication technology usage (text messaging, e-mail, instant messaging, and social networking) and adolescent adjustment among 268 high school students. It was hypothesized that use of communication technology would be related to psychological adjustment, including identity development, relationship attachment and peer conflict. Participants were recruited from three public high schools in central Florida (69% female, 81.9% White). Time spent using communication technology was significantly correlated with psychological symptom severity (i.e. anxiety and depression), identity distress, peer aggression, and existential anxiety. It was also significantly but negatively correlated with relationship avoidance. Degree of usage of communication technology for interpersonal communication was significantly correlated with peer aggression, relationship anxiety, and existential anxiety. Those with a preoccupied style (high in relationship anxiety, low in relationship avoidance) spent significantly more time using communication technology than those in the dismissive (high in avoidance, low in anxiety), fearful (high in both), and secure (low in both) styles. Further analyses and their implications for adolescent development will be discussed.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / nÃo hà / Este texto à o processo de minha pesquisa de Mestrado e tem como objetivo apreender, a partir da relaÃÃo entre educadores sociais, adolescentes-meninas em um abrigo de Fortaleza, as possÃveis mudanÃas que estes personagens percebem em si quando de seu encontro no ambi-ente abrigo. A partir deste objetivo, pude perceber: as diferentes prÃticas discursivas que instituem este âespaÃo de proteÃÃoâ conforme dita o ECA; quem sÃo as meninas ditas em âsituaÃÃo de vulnerabilidadeâ e quem sÃo estes educadores sociais que com elas convivem nesta instituiÃÃo. A partir do diÃlogo com autores e autoras como Paulo Freire, Giorgio Agamben, JoÃo Figueiredo, Michel Foucault, LoÃc Wacquant, Leonardo Boff dentre outr@s descontentes com o atual estado de coisas que rege nosso existir social e nos transforma em vida nua, matÃvel, busquei âescovar a contrapeloâ no intuito de perceber de que forma a medida dita de proteÃÃo à ao mesmo tempo proteÃÃo e puniÃÃo, ou indagar a quem realmente ela protege se Ãs meninas-adolescentes ou ao estado de coisas atual. Utilizei-me de uma metodologia de cunho etnogrÃfico tendo sido utilizadas as seguintes tÃcnicas de coleta de dados: entrevista aberta, observaÃÃo participante, pesquisa documental e para anÃlise de dados coletados, utilizei-me da AnÃlise de Discurso francesa, destacando autores como Michel Foucault e Dominique Maingueneau. Dessa forma, partindo de algumas palavras-geradoras como adolescÃncia/adolescente, abrigo, vulnerabilidade, educador social, fui descompondo a partitura que pÃe o abrigo como movimento de abrigar, acolher, de modo a perceber o movimento paralelo de obrigar que compÃe prÃticas macro e micro-sociais instituidoras do abrigo. / This text designs the process of my Master Course research and aims at reaching, from the relationship between social educators and adolescent girls at a shelter in Fortaleza, the possible changes which those characters perceive about themselves while in touch at the social shelter. From this viewpoint, I could figure out the characteristics of: the girls sent to shelter institutions; the different discourse practices that institute this âprotection placeâ according to the ECA; the girls considered in âvulnerability situationâ and the social educators whom the girls share the shelter with. From the dialogue between authors such as Paulo Freire, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, LoÃc Wacquant, JoÃo Figueiredo, Leonardo Boff among other discontent thinkers, I tried to understand at what proportion the official protection reveals to be at the same time protection and punition and also question whether this protection is upon the girls or the state itself. I made use of an ethnographical methodology through the following techniques: open interview, participant observation, documental research, and data analysis from the perspective of the French Discourse Analysis (A.D.), pointing out authors like Michel Foucault and Dominique Maingueneau. This way, from some generate-words like adolescence/adolescent, shelter, vulnerability and social educator, I tried to decompose the structure of the social shelters as a place to give shelter and protection in order to understand the parallel movement of obligation and punition that institute different political practices.

OLINDA, Sahmaroni Rodrigues. Aobrigo ou de como abrigar e obrigar brincam de amarelinha nas relações entre educadore(a)s sociais e meninas em um abrigo de Fortaleza. 2011. 191f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2011. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-24T12:12:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_DIS_SROLINDA.pdf: 1056420 bytes, checksum: b855c85070611cb23ed0e852ecc9af5e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-24T12:27:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_DIS_SROLINDA.pdf: 1056420 bytes, checksum: b855c85070611cb23ed0e852ecc9af5e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-24T12:27:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_DIS_SROLINDA.pdf: 1056420 bytes, checksum: b855c85070611cb23ed0e852ecc9af5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / This text designs the process of my Master Course research and aims at reaching, from the relationship between social educators and adolescent girls at a shelter in Fortaleza, the possible changes which those characters perceive about themselves while in touch at the social shelter. From this viewpoint, I could figure out the characteristics of: the girls sent to shelter institutions; the different discourse practices that institute this “protection place” according to the ECA; the girls considered in “vulnerability situation” and the social educators whom the girls share the shelter with. From the dialogue between authors such as Paulo Freire, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Loïc Wacquant, João Figueiredo, Leonardo Boff among other discontent thinkers, I tried to understand at what proportion the official protection reveals to be at the same time protection and punition and also question whether this protection is upon the girls or the state itself. I made use of an ethnographical methodology through the following techniques: open interview, participant observation, documental research, and data analysis from the perspective of the French Discourse Analysis (A.D.), pointing out authors like Michel Foucault and Dominique Maingueneau. This way, from some generate-words like adolescence/adolescent, shelter, vulnerability and social educator, I tried to decompose the structure of the social shelters as a place to give shelter and protection in order to understand the parallel movement of obligation and punition that institute different political practices / Este texto é o processo de minha pesquisa de Mestrado e tem como objetivo apreender, a partir da relação entre educadores sociais, adolescentes-meninas em um abrigo de Fortaleza, as possíveis mudanças que estes personagens percebem em si quando de seu encontro no ambi-ente abrigo. A partir deste objetivo, pude perceber: as diferentes práticas discursivas que instituem este “espaço de proteção” conforme dita o ECA; quem são as meninas ditas em “situação de vulnerabilidade” e quem são estes educadores sociais que com elas convivem nesta instituição. A partir do diálogo com autores e autoras como Paulo Freire, Giorgio Agamben, João Figueiredo, Michel Foucault, Loïc Wacquant, Leonardo Boff dentre outr@s descontentes com o atual estado de coisas que rege nosso existir social e nos transforma em vida nua, matável, busquei “escovar a contrapelo” no intuito de perceber de que forma a medida dita de proteção é ao mesmo tempo proteção e punição, ou indagar a quem realmente ela protege se às meninas-adolescentes ou ao estado de coisas atual. Utilizei-me de uma metodologia de cunho etnográfico tendo sido utilizadas as seguintes técnicas de coleta de dados: entrevista aberta, observação participante, pesquisa documental e para análise de dados coletados, utilizei-me da Análise de Discurso francesa, destacando autores como Michel Foucault e Dominique Maingueneau. Dessa forma, partindo de algumas palavras-geradoras como adolescência/adolescente, abrigo, vulnerabilidade, educador social, fui descompondo a partitura que põe o abrigo como movimento de abrigar, acolher, de modo a perceber o movimento paralelo de obrigar que compõe práticas macro e micro-sociais instituidoras do abrigo