Autoeficácia e outras questões psicossociais : como se sentem os adolescentes portugueses

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Anabela Caetano
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Simões, Celeste, Lebre, Paula, Matos, Margarida Gaspar de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/38079
• topic: Adolescence; Gender; Self-efficacy; School engagement; School achievement

The goal of this study was to analyze the level of self-efficacy, school engagement related variables and life satisfaction of Portuguese adolescents. A total of 5695 adolescents attending the 8th, 9th and 12th years of schooling enrolled in the HBSC 2018 study. with a mean age of 15.5 years old (SD = 1.8), 53.9% female. Participants completed a self-efficacy subscale and answered a range of issues related to school engagement and life satisfaction. Boys presented higher values in terms of self-efficacy and life satisfaction, however, higher values of parental pressure to have good grades and lower school satisfaction were observed. Both boys and girls are perceived as having little success in school and no differences are observed over the school years. Students in 12th grade are those who report more pressure with homework, more pressure with assessment and more subject amount of information to learn, although it is the 8th graders who feel more difficulty in school subjects and more pressure from parents. Life and school satisfaction also decline over the school years. The results obtained highlight the relationships between self-efficacy, school engagement and achievement and life satisfaction, pointing out key intervention areas for quality education. Portuguese adolescents present, in general, good levels of life satisfaction. However, the perceived school achievement and school satisfaction had reduced values. This study emphasizes the importance of socioemotional learning programs that can promote self-efficacy, emotional regulation strategies for dealing with anxiety in the face of the difficulties experienced in school.