Traços de personalidade em genitores masculinos com filho portador de autismo / Personality traits in fathers of boys with autism

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

In 1943, Leo Kanner proposed the psychogenic theory in which he enunciated the possibility of the non-affective parental relationship as causal factor’s of the son Autism. In so being, due to the shortage of studies involving fatherhood and Autism, this research aims to evaluate the personality traits in fathers of boys with Autism. There have been studied 90 fathers (30 with of boys with low-functioning Autistic Disorder (AD), 30 of boys with the Down Syndrome and 30 of asymptomatic boys). The inclusion criteria of the fathers were: Brazilian, aged from 25 to 60 years, Elementary School, resided in Sao Paulo State in a stable relationship with the mother and their son aged from seven to eleven years. The instruments used were: Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Pelotas Socioeconomic Questionnaire, Portuguese version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) and the Personality Factorial Inventory (IFP). The data obtained were submitted to analyses descriptive and comparative by statistics test (Fisher, Kruskal-Wallis and Chi square) and correlate by means of the Spearman coefficient. In the researched population it was found that the average of the total score obtained of TAS and of the 15 factors of IFP in each group of genitors did not show significant statistics difference. The predominance (N=90) was of non-alexithymic fathers. The correlation between the factors of TAS and IFP and the percentage of the classification of the IFP were also discussed. It was concluded that the group of fathers of boys with Autistic Disorder did not present specific characteristics which could be associated to the development of Autism as described by Kanner.

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affectionate sindrome de autistic disorder alexitimia afeto (psicologia) alexithymia down transtorno autistico down syndrome

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