Gender, adversity, and socioemotional problems related to school distress

• Autor(a) principal: MARTURANO, Edna Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Outros Autores: TOLLER, Gisele Paschoal, ELIAS, Luciana Carla dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6766
• topic: adversidade ambiental; atendimento psicológico; crianças; estudantes; gênero; problemas socioemocionais; environmental adversity; psychological assistance; child; students; gender; sociemotional problems

The studies about children with school distress has pointed out boys and behavior problems high frequency, which can be associated to a weak prognostic, if they had been made up in an adverse environment. This study purpose was the investigation of gender adversity occurrence and gender association to behavior problems. Forty-six boys and 29 girls aged from 7 to 12 have participated in this investigation. All of them had been referred to a psychology training clinic as they had presented school distress or bad performance. Behavioral problems wereinvestigated by Achenbach’s Inventário de Comportamentos da Infância e Adolescência, and a life event scale was used to assess life adversities. According to the statistical analysis, girls present more internalizing problems, , higher adversity exposure, and more frequent gender-related correlation patterns between environmental and behavioral problems. Results can contribute to design support practices for these children, whose needs go beyond the school environment.