Práticas educativas parentais e comportamentos de proteção e risco à saúde em adolescentes

Parental educational practices and protective behaviors and health risk in adolescents

Abstract

In adolescence, the parental infl uence over socially competent behaviors (SCB), behavioral problems (BP) and behavior
related to health has divergent literature. In that context, the overall objective of this research was to relate parental
practices to the behaviors of protection and risk to health in adolescence, as well as the SCB nd BP, evaluating the degree
of prediction of the parental practices over the adolescent's behaviors. This research included 485 teenagers divided
into three age groups. They all answered the Maternal and Paternal Parental Style Inventory, Young Self Relate-YSR and
the questionnaire of lifestyle Health Behavior Socially Competen (HBSC). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics,
correlation analysis, statistics inferring and multivariate analysis. The main results were: 1- maternal and paternal practices
did not vary according to the adolescents' gender, but were different according to the age groups; 2- SCB related to the Maternal Positive Practices among the youngest, and to the Paternal and Maternal Positive Practices among the oldest; 3-
correlations on parental styles and the behaviors of protection and risk to health were signifi cant for the three age groups,
but declined with increasing age; 4- parental practices are predictor of SCB and BP at the three groups. The research data
indicate that the parental infl uence occurs in different ways according to the age, being more direct in the initial phase and
vanishing gradually as age increases, although still signifi cant, especially concerning the negative parental practices and
risk behaviors.