Maus tratos na infância, funções executivas, eventos estressores e desempenho escolar em adolescentes

• Autor(a) principal: Mothes, Luíza
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/821
• topic: PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA; PSICOPATOLOGIA INFANTIL; DESEMPENHO ESCOLAR; ADOLESCENTES - ASPECTOS PSICOSSOCIAIS; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The presence of childhood maltreatment is related to worse cognitive functioning in adolescents. In addition, stressful events experienced during adolescence are also factors that influence negatively, cognitive functioning and academic performance. In order to investigate the association between maltreatment suffered in childhood, stressful events experienced during adolescence, executive functioning and school performance of teenagers, this dissertation had a correlational and cross-sectional design and consists of two empirical studies, presented in the form of articles. In both studies, participants were teenagers, students from seven public schools in Porto Alegre, aged between 12 and 18 years, identified from data collection performed by one of the projects developed by the Post Doctoral in Psychology Program at PUCRS. This program aims to investigate the effects of exposure to maltreatment on cognition and the expression of psychopathology in adolescence, adulthood and old age.The sample of this study included 83 adolescents who were divided into two groups: presence of childhood maltreatment (case group) and absence of childhood maltreatment (Control Group). Participants were assessed individually at their schools. For data collection, the following instruments were applied: Arithmetic Subtest digits of the WISC-III or WAIS-III, TMT, Hayling Test and verbal fluency (FAS), and Vocabulary subtests of the WISC-III or WAIS-III, Events Inventory Stressors in Adolescence, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Data Sheet Sociodemographic and Economic Classification Criterion Brazil. In the first study, the group was divided into two subgroups: participants who had the presence of only a single type of child maltreatment (sexual abuse, emotional, physical, emotional or physical neglect), and those who had the presence of multiple types of childhood maltreatment. In the second study, the groups were divided between students who have had a grade repetition at school, and those who had not. For the evaluation of academic performance, we used the grades of Portuguese, Mathematics, History and Geography of the previous year's report card. It was found that adolescents who experienced childhood maltreatment had worse performance in executive functions.Students who have repeated the school year had experienced more stressful events during adolescence, had poorer grades and worse executive performance, when compared to those who did not repeat the school year. In addition, the students who have grade repetition had experienced more stressful events in adolescence, had lower grades and had worse executive functioning, when compared to those who did not repeat a school year. Overall, these results point to a relationship between the experiences of childhood maltreatment and stressful events during adolescence and a poor executive functioning and academic performance related to