Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations
Abstract: Adolescence has been described as a developmental phase marked by challenges, tensions, and uncertainties that can generate stress and lower adolescents' future expectations. This study aims to describe adolescent perceptions of stress and future expectations.It is a mixed-methods st...
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| author | Cybelle Bezerra Sousa Florêncio Maély Ferreira Holanda Ramos Simone Souza da Costa Silva |
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| description | Abstract: Adolescence has been described as a developmental phase marked by challenges, tensions, and uncertainties that can generate stress and lower adolescents' future expectations. This study aims to describe adolescent perceptions of stress and future expectations.It is a mixed-methods study of 17 high school students, selected from a sample of 295 adolescents, aged 14 to 18 years, who are pupils in a private school system in the metropolitan region of Belém do Pará. The Stress Scale for Adolescents was used, in addition to focus groups. The results indicated higher stress levels in female adolescents. The participants who had no stress hadgood family relationships and well-defined future expectations. However, the adolescents who had stress associated their family context with stressors and had no expectations for the future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5134ad43c49346cc9a10812e89a7b8422022-12-21T19:05:24ZengUniversidade de São PauloPaidéia (Ribeirão Preto)1982-43272766606810.1590/1982-43272766201708S0103-863X2017000100060Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future ExpectationsCybelle Bezerra Sousa FlorêncioMaély Ferreira Holanda RamosSimone Souza da Costa SilvaAbstract: Adolescence has been described as a developmental phase marked by challenges, tensions, and uncertainties that can generate stress and lower adolescents' future expectations. This study aims to describe adolescent perceptions of stress and future expectations.It is a mixed-methods study of 17 high school students, selected from a sample of 295 adolescents, aged 14 to 18 years, who are pupils in a private school system in the metropolitan region of Belém do Pará. The Stress Scale for Adolescents was used, in addition to focus groups. The results indicated higher stress levels in female adolescents. The participants who had no stress hadgood family relationships and well-defined future expectations. However, the adolescents who had stress associated their family context with stressors and had no expectations for the future.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-863X2017000100060&lng=en&tlng=enadolescentesestrésexpectativasfamilia |
| spellingShingle | Cybelle Bezerra Sousa Florêncio Maély Ferreira Holanda Ramos Simone Souza da Costa Silva Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto) adolescentes estrés expectativas familia |
| title | Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations |
| title_full | Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations |
| title_fullStr | Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations |
| title_short | Adolescent Perceptions of Stress and Future Expectations |
| title_sort | adolescent perceptions of stress and future expectations |
| topic | adolescentes estrés expectativas familia |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-863X2017000100060&lng=en&tlng=en |
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