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Narrativas adolescentes sobre as suas experiências de comportamentos autolesivos
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Ainda que os comportamentos autolesivos sejam um tema cada vez mais investigado, poucas são as investigações que procuram abordar o tema de forma qualitativa atendendo às narrativas dos adolescentes. Desta forma, a presente investigação tem como objetivo principal analisar as narrativas dos adolescentes relativas à vez mais marcante em que realizaram os comportamentos, compreender quais são as narrativas dominantes relativas a essa, e perceber se existe uma severidade do método de comportamento com que estas mais se relacionem. Para isto, utilizou-se o questionário Inventário dos Comportamentos Autolesivos (ICAL) e um breve questionário sociodemográfico. Assim, este estudo comtempla uma amostra de 311 adolescentes oriundos de meio comunitário e clínico, tendo todos praticado comportamentos autolesivos pelo menos uma vez na vida. Os resultados demonstram que, ainda que o método mais utilizado pelos adolescentes deste estudo seja o Bater, o método predominante na vez mais marcante são os Cortes. As narrativas dominantes dos adolescentes deste estudo são as narrativas de Conflitos, principalmente Conflitos Familiares, que neste estudo se relaciona com comportamentos autolesivos de severidade leve/moderada. É possível também observar que as narrativas de Conflitos de Familiares e de Conflitos de Pares (Bullying) demonstram uma correlação significativa parcial com os comportamentos autolesivos de elevada severidade, enquanto que as narrativas referentes a Conflitos Amorosos demonstram uma proeminência mais elevada nos comportamentos psicoativos do que nos comportamentos de severidade mais elevada. Neste estudo não foram encontradas relações significativas entre as narrativas de Autorregulação Emocional. Baixa Autoestima e Desvalorização Pessoal com os comportamentos de elevada severidade.
Although self-injurious behaviors are an increasingly researched topic, there are few investigations that attempt to address the topic in a qualitative way by taking into account the adolescents' narratives. Thus, the main purpose of this research is to analyze the narratives of adolescents regarding the most significant time when they performed the behaviors, understand which are the dominant narratives regarding this time, and understand if there is a severity of the behavior method with which they are most related. For this, we used the Inventory of Deliberate Self-harm Behaviours questionnaire and a brief sociodemographic questionnaire. Thus, this study included a sample of 311 adolescents from community and clinical settings, all of whom had engaged in self-injurious behavior at least once in their lives. The results show that, although the method most used by the adolescents in this study is hitting, the predominant method is cutting. The dominant narratives of the adolescents in this study are narratives of Conflict, mainly Family Conflict, which in this study relates to mild/moderate severity self-injurious behaviors. It can also be seen that narratives of Family Conflict and Peer Conflict (Bullying) show a partial significant correlation with high severity self-injurious behaviors, while narratives pertaining to Love Conflict show a higher prominence in psychoactive behaviors than in higher severity behaviors. In this study, no significant relationships were found between the narratives of Emotional Self-regulation. Low Self-Esteem and Self-Devaluation narratives with the high severity behaviors.
Although self-injurious behaviors are an increasingly researched topic, there are few investigations that attempt to address the topic in a qualitative way by taking into account the adolescents' narratives. Thus, the main purpose of this research is to analyze the narratives of adolescents regarding the most significant time when they performed the behaviors, understand which are the dominant narratives regarding this time, and understand if there is a severity of the behavior method with which they are most related. For this, we used the Inventory of Deliberate Self-harm Behaviours questionnaire and a brief sociodemographic questionnaire. Thus, this study included a sample of 311 adolescents from community and clinical settings, all of whom had engaged in self-injurious behavior at least once in their lives. The results show that, although the method most used by the adolescents in this study is hitting, the predominant method is cutting. The dominant narratives of the adolescents in this study are narratives of Conflict, mainly Family Conflict, which in this study relates to mild/moderate severity self-injurious behaviors. It can also be seen that narratives of Family Conflict and Peer Conflict (Bullying) show a partial significant correlation with high severity self-injurious behaviors, while narratives pertaining to Love Conflict show a higher prominence in psychoactive behaviors than in higher severity behaviors. In this study, no significant relationships were found between the narratives of Emotional Self-regulation. Low Self-Esteem and Self-Devaluation narratives with the high severity behaviors.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada no ISPA – Instituto Universitário para a obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Clínica.
Keywords
Comportamentos autolesivos Narrativas Adolescência Self harm behaviour Narratives Adolescence