As emoções

: regulação emocional em adolescentes em acolhimento institucional

Abstract

Emotional regulation presents as a crucial competence for great development. This capacity suffers special influence of relations in adolescence, especially with caregivers, which in the case of young people in residential care, were not responsive to their needs. In this investigation, with 44 teenagers in residential care, residents in the district of Braga, we followed the descriptive and correlational plan, which objectives was characterize the emotional states, strategeis and difficulties in emotional regulating in this population, as well as realize if exist some correlation betweene them and the expected duration and the reason of residential care. For this we applied Escala de Avaliação das Emoções (Ramos, Pedrosa & Canavarro, 2005), Questionário de Regulação Emocional (Vaz & Martins, 2008) and Escala de Dificuldades na Regulação Emocional (Pinto & Albuquerque, 2007). Results shows that “guilty” presents higher (M=17,30; DP=12,50), contrary to “hapiness” whitch is lower (M=20,79; DP=8,51). Cognitive reavaliation is the most used strategy (M=27,07; SD=7,55) and in the scale of difficulties, all the subscales as total shows higher values (M=110,3; SD=28,64). We also find that less estimated time of residential care is correlated with higher presence of "happiness" (rs=,316, p<0.05) and higher lack of clarity emotional (rs=-144, p<.05) and that the reason of residential care is correlated with "guilt" (rs=-,301, p<0.10). Lastly, the results shows higher presence of "guilt" correlates with less use of cognitive reavaliation (rs=-,337, p<0.05) and increased use of emotional suppression is correlated with less "sadness" (rs=-.322, p<0.05).

Date of Award	3 Feb 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Armanda Gonçalves (Supervisor)