Resolução de conflitos familiares: o papel dos domínios sociais e da legitimidade da autoridade parental

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Lívia Braga de Sá
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• 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/123456789/26206
• topic: Psicologia social - Adolescentes - Conflitos; Adolescentes - Conflitos familiares - Resolução; Autoridade parental - Legitimidade; Domínios sociais; Social psychology - Adolescents - Conflicts; Adolescents - Family conflicts - Resolution; Parental authority - Legitimacy; Social domains; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Understanding the ways in which adolescents resolve conflicts with their parents is central to comprehending how the healthy adjustment of adolescents occurs. So far, research has started from a generalist approach with the objective of finding the predominance of one resolution strategy over others. The objective of this doctoral dissertation was to test the hypothesis that the conflict resolution strategies used by adolescents in their relationships with their parents may vary, within the individual, depending on the type of perception that the adolescent has about social events (theory of socio-cognitive domains). In addition, the hypothesis that the legitimacy of adolescent parental authority mediates the relationship between social domains and conflict resolution strategies was tested. The dissertation was structured into three articles. The first article, of a theoretical nature, aimed to examine the problem of conflict resolution in light of the theory of social domains and to provide a basis for conducting research aimed at testing the hypothesis that social domains influence the conflict resolution strategy that teenager adopts. In addition, conflict resolution strategies were theoretically articulated with two other psychosocial aspects: the legitimacy of parental authority and family decision-making. The second article, of an empirical and psychometric nature, aimed to adapt and validate the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory (CRSI) for the Brazilian context, the most used instrument in the international scenario to assess the strategies adopted by adolescents to resolve conflicts between them and their parents. In Study 1, we analyzed content validity through expert analysis (N = 4 expert raters) and conducted a pilot study with adolescents (N = 15). In Study 2, we examined the psychometric properties of CRSI in a sample of adolescents (N = 276), gathering evidence of factor validity and reliability, in addition to analyzing the quality of the items using Item Response Theory. In Study 3, we evaluated the adequacy of the CRSI factor structure (N = 224). The results showed that the CRSI is a reliable and adequate instrument to assess the conflict resolution strategies that adolescents use in disagreements with their parents. The third and final article, of an empirical nature, sought to respond to the main objectives of the dissertation. In this sense, two experimental studies were carried out: the first study (N = 316) aimed to test the hypothesis that the conflict resolution strategies that adolescents adopt in interactions with their parents vary depending on the social domain to which the conflict belongs. The second study (N = 356) was carried out with the aim of testing the hypothesis that the legitimacy of parental authority works as a mediator in the relationship between social domains and conflict resolution strategies. In general, the results confirmed the proposed hypotheses, indicating that the conflict resolution adopted by adolescents varies according to social domains and is mediated by the legitimacy of parental authority. Taken together, the results of this research have important implications for understanding the process of developing adolescent autonomy, suggesting that family conflict resolution should be thought of considering the specificity of the domain involved in the conflict situation and in terms of legitimacy. of parental authority, since, depending on them, positive or negative strategies for conflict resolution are adopted.