Desregulação emocional, ansiedade, depressão e stress na adolescência

: contributos de variáveis sociodemográficas, académicas e extracurriculares

Abstract

The adolescence is a period of great change and difficulty in regulating emotions,
where they begin to emerge some signs and symptoms of disorders such as depression,
anxiety or stress, in this study we intend to realize the emotional dysregulation in
adolescence is related psychopathology. This is a correlation study with a sample of 208
adolescents using a demografic questionnaire, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation
Scale (EDRE) and Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale (EADS).The main results
showed higher average scores in depression, anxiety, stress and emotional dysregulation
among girls. It was also found that parental education is closely related to the emotional
dysregulation. Reproaches and hours of study correlated with emotional dysregulation,
and that, on the one hand, the scores of depression, anxiety, stress and emotional
dysregulation are higher among students of scientific and humanistic courses, and on
the other hand, in professional courses it is superior to emotional dysregulation. Finally,
depression, anxiety and stress is significantly correlation with emotional dysregulation.
In this research it can be conclued that due to numerous different events and
factors female is quite susceptible to depression, anxiety, stress and emotional
dysregulation. Also it concludes that the academic experience of adolescents contributes
to the onset of these problems. Finally, we conclude also that depression, anxiety and
stress are often accompanied by emotional dysregulation

Date of Award	28 Mar 2018
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Paulo César Dias (Supervisor)