A amizade e o adolescente portador de doença crônica

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Bruno Eduardo Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6672
• topic: Friendship; Adolescents; Chronic illness; Interpersonal relationship; Relacionamento interpessoal; Psicologia; Comunicação interpessoal na adolescência; Medicina e psicologia; Doenças crônicas; Adolescentes; Amizade; 159.9

This research aimed at describing and analyzing some features of the friendships of adolescents with diabetes mellitus and cancer. The features investigated were: a) relationship history, b) companionship and reciprocity, c) communication, self-disclosure and intimacy, d) social support, e) conflict, and f) expectations and concept of friend. Twelve participants were interviewed and divided into two groups: three participants with diabetes and their three best friends, and three participants who had cancer and their three best friends. The results point to a specific relationship, similar to friendships of people who have not a chronic disease in some features, but different in others. The communication between the dyads is affected, leading to a decrease in the self-disclosure, and talking about subjects linked to the disease is avoided by the participants too. The social support given to the adolescent, on the other hand, clearly increases, and it changes the reciprocity, base of friendship relations. Such facts call attention to the fact that friendships are much more than social support (broadly investigated in Brazil and around the world), and dimensions as intimacy and companionship, among others, are also present, and play an important role in adolescents life.