The process of conflict resolution among pre-adolescents : the look of the teacher / O processo de resolução de conflitos entre pre-adolescentes : o olhar do professor

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2009

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The daily school life is permeated by a lot of interpersonal conflicts among children and adolescents. These situations are often judged as negative by educators, like something to be avoided. Sometimes educators don t make an effort to understand that their forms of intervention are generating submissive behaviors from their students. Such behaviors are derived from na environment where the teacher usually uses authoritari/an ways to solve the problems faced in the daily school life, putting their students in situations of humiliation, exposure or pure obedience to the authority, without letting them think about the solutions that take into account their needs, I.e., in assertive styles of conflict resolution. From such reason, this research tried to investigate what forms of conflict resolution are commonly used by adolescents, even from hypothetical dilemmas, and face them to the ways that teachers identified as being the ones that adolescents used in conflict situations. The sample consisted in a total of thirty-nine participants, preadolescents from eleven to thirteen years old, students in the sixth year of a public school in Campinas, countryside of São Paulo, and five teachers of these adolescents. The instrument used was a semi-structured interview with teachers and an instrument created by Robert Deluty and adapted by Maria Isabel Leme that evaluates simultaneously and comparatively three types of trends of interpersonal conflicts resolution - aggressive, assertive and submissive - in the responses of pre-adolescents to hypothetical interpersonal conflicts whose contents are of provocations, losses, frustrations etc. The results allow us to prove our hypothesis that the way adolescents in hypothetical situations solve their conflicts does not coincide with those pointed out by the teachers. These adolescents are more prone to submissive styles of conflict resolution that assertive or aggressive ways.

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assertion (psychology) agressividade (psicologia) morality moralidade adolescents conflito interpessoal interpersonal conflict aggressiveness (psychology) adolescentes assertividade (psicologia)

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