Correlatos cognitivos e psicossociais de crianças com e sem sintomas depressivos / Cognitive and phychosocial correlates of children with and without depressive symptons

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Depressive symptoms are associated to severe damages on the cognitive, emotional, study, family and social development. The present study aims at the investigation of the cognitive and psychosocial variables in children with and without depressive symptoms. The sample was composed by 157 third and fourth grade students of elementary school, from a public school in the city of Campinas. Fifty-five children from this larger sample have been selected considering their scores on the Children´s Depression Inventory. Twenty-seven of them displayed depressive symptoms (G1) and the other 27 did not present symptoms (G2). The children of both groups were comparable in gender, age (8-11 years-old) and school grade (third and fourth grades). Subsequently to the selection of the participants with and without symptoms, the groups were compared in relation to their learning strategies, their beliefs of self-efficacy, self-concept and emotional self-regulation. Results demonstrate that children with depressive symptoms display negative self-esteem and low self-efficacy. Both G1 and G2 adopted cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies, however, G1 have displayed, in some situations, less usage of metacognitive strategies and seemed to face more difficulties to maintain concentration and be self-motivated. Even though both groups generally employ the same strategies to deal with different emotions, it was remarkable to notice that the fact that the students from G1 experience the feelings of sadness and anger more frequently than G2 did not guarantee their success in perceiving feelings, once G1 faced more difficulties in the perception of sadness, fear and happiness. It is recommended that future research on the perception and awareness of emotions as well as on the use of affective regulation strategies by children with depressive symptoms be carried out. The importance of promoting the metacognitive development and the selfregulated learning since the earlier grades in school is also highlighted. It is suggested that future research of this nature be made with the purpose of enriching the information obtained in the present work

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estrategias de aprendizagem self-regulation emotional child depression depressão em crianças learning strategies auto-regulação emocional self-concept auto-eficacia autoconceito crenças sense of self-efficacy

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