Socialização materna e comportamentos agressivos: percepção de mães de crianças com síndrome de down e em desenvolvimento típico

• Autor(a) principal: Chaves, Célia Maria Cruz Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/12146
• topic: Socialização materna; Percepção da agressão; Crianças; Síndrome de Down; Desenvolvimento típico; Maternal socialization; Perception of aggressiveness; Children with Down syndrome and with Typical Development; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Chaves, C. M. C. M. Maternal socialization and aggressive behaviors: perception of mothers of children with Down Syndrome and in Typical Development. Doctoral thesis, Postgraduate studies in Social Psychology. Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, PB. The main goal of this research is to ascertain the extent to which socialization practices and styles adopted by mothers of children with Down Syndrome (DS) and in Typical Development (TD) relate to the perception of their children‘s aggressive behaviors. As to the practices, this study adopts Camino Cleonice‘s (1979) conception and, regarding socialization styles, the typology of Musitu and García (2001). With respect to aggressive behaviors, Buss and Perry‘s (1992) view is assumed. To reach the proposed goal, two empirical studies have been developed: the first one for the adaptation and verification of the factorial structure of the research instruments used in the thesis, and the second one for the ascertainment of the relation between the surveyed measurements. 200 mothers, with average age of 34,4 (SD = 7,1), participated in the first survey. The second one included the collaboration of 164 mothers of children with DS (f = 82) and TD (f = 82), with an average age of 36,6 (SD = 7,4). The samples were characterized as non-probabilistic, with the participation of people who, being invited, accepted to participate. In both surveys, besides questions on bio-sociodemographic aspects, the mothers answered to three instruments: the adapted for mothers version of Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992); the adapted for mothers version of the Parental Socialization Scale – ESPA 29 (Musitu & García, 2001) and the Socialization Techniques Instrument – STI (Camino Cleonice, 1979). The applications of the questionnaires occurred individually in the days and places indicated by the participants and lasted 50 minutes in average. The obtained results from the first study showed, for BPAQ, adjustment indices very similar the ones observed in previous surveys, and the same happens with results referring to STI validation. As to the results from ESPA29, the observed factorial organization was different from what Musitu and García indicated (2001). However, given the confirmation of the structure proposed by the authors in the instruments in different cultural contexts, the posterior analyses adopted the organization indicated by Musitu and García (2001) and their coworkers. In the second study, it was observed that mothers of children in TD obtained higher average scores than mothers of children with DS, both for acceptance/implication and severity/imposition, the differences being statistically significant. Regarding control dimensions, mothers of children in TD obtained a higher average score in the internal control factor than mothers of children with DS. Specifically with respect to style, mothers of children in TD used more frequently the authoritative one (Green, Caplan & Backer, 2014; Minetto, 2010; NaderGorsbois & Lefévre, 2012), followed by the authoritarian, indulgent and negligent ones, whereas mothers of children with DS used more prominently the negligent one, followed by indulgent, authoritative and authoritarian, differing from indications of previous studies (Green, Caplan & Backer, 2014; Minetto, 2010; Nader-Gorsbois & Lefévre, 2012). Considering the relation between the surveyed variables, for both groups of mothers, the more coercive material control was positively related to the aggressive behavior of the children and that support strategy-based control was negatively related. The observed relation between coercion and aggressiveness observed here is already pointed in psychological literature for children in TD; however, for those with some developmental delay, few studies on that relation were found and, among them, there is no consensus on how the variable relate (Green, Caplan & Backer, 2014). From the results found in the present study, besides other actions, studies of intervention may be developed with the finality of promoting reflection from the mothers that behavior control of the children is beneficial, provided that it be centered on support strategies.