Conditions of Life and conflict resolution styles among teenagers / Condições de vida e estilos de resolução de conflito entre adolescentes

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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People adopt different ways to face an interpersonal conflict . Researchers show three main styles of conflict resolution: aggressive, submissive and assertive. The aggressive style includes coercion strategies for facing the conflict while the submissive style is characterized by not facing the situation. Only the assertive style involves a clear defensive behavior not using coercive strategies. The overall objective of this research was to contribute to the advancement of knowledge on the subject by means of social cognition studies on the resolution of interpersonal conflicts among adolescents. The specific objectives were: to compare between the styles of resolving conflict from parents of children with and without alcohol problems, and studying the differences between genders, age, marital status of parents and express their feelings with regard to strategies for the settlement of conflict indicated by children Studying the conditions that can contribute to the development of more adequate styles of conflict resolution for children and teenagers motivated this current investigation. 84 students from a public school, aged between 12 and 16 years old and low social economic level, divided in 2 groups: 42 children of alcoholic parents and 42 did not belong to this group. The tools used were: a questionnaire on personal conditions (sex, age, etc.), the CAGE Familiar Questionaire (FRANK et al, 1992) and the open derived from Childrens Action Tendency scale (DELUTY, 1981).The teenagers presented mainly submissive answers, followed by aggressive answers. Most of the participants didnt speak out against or in favor of the feelings provoked by the situations described by the questionnaire, followed by those that expressed negative or little definite feelings. No important differences among gender, age and children of alcoholic and non-alcoholic parents were found. However, the girls presented more submissive answers when compared to the boys. Another result found by means of the analysis of multiple correspondences showed that aggressive answers are more related to children of alcoholic parents and assertive answers to non-alcoholic parents. The evaluation which aimed at a comparison between the expression of feelings and the justification of the answers when facing conflict situations showed various significative associations trough Teste Exato de Fisher. Related to the expression of feelings, many conflicts showed positively significant associations among the aggressive answers and the absence of demonstration of affection aroused by the situation. The same way, the aggressive answers in various conflictive situations also were significantly associated to the absence of justification from the participants for their actions. Results showed that the style of conflict resolution of the teenagers was not necessarily connected to the problem of the parent with the alcohol. However, the omission of their own feelings and the absence of the justification for their own actions were frequently associated to the aggressive responses of the participants.

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assertividade emotions adolescence alcoolismo conflict conflito adolescência estilos de enfrentamento emoções alcoholism assertivement copyng styles

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