Abstract
Abstract Adolescents undergo major biopsychosocial changes and having a life purpose can be a protection for positive development. This study analyzed the life purpose of 18 adolescents (15-20 years old, with an average family income of R$ 1,625.00), holders of scholarship from a social program in a Science & Technology Center. They answered the Scale of Life Purpose for Adolescents Questionnaire and participated in a focus group about the impact of this program in their life project. The responses were reviewed using the Software Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires, and were organized in two corpora – Life Project and Social Program. Ten-year projects are based on the Material, Study/Work, and Positive Aspiration dimensions. Adolescents show a life purpose connected to their community that can be caused by the fact of being a participant in a social program, enabling better access to education and a closer contact with the community.
Highlights
Adolescentes passam por importantes mudanças biopsicossociais, e ter um projeto de vida pode ser um fator protetivo ao desenvolvimento positivo
The adolescents who participated in this study presented life projects built in connection with the community and related their future projects to their current contribution to the social program, showing the importance of programs that aim to work with aspects of positive youth development
Judging the period of readjustment of the curricular bases of High School for the insertion of the discussion about Life Projects (LP), the present article presents the relevance of the evaluation of the life projects in the educational context
Summary
Adolescentes passam por importantes mudanças biopsicossociais, e ter um projeto de vida pode ser um fator protetivo ao desenvolvimento positivo. It still tends to be seen as a stage in the development of biological maturation factors, causing crises, disorder, irritability and delinquency (Moreira, Rosário, & Santos, 2011; Silva, Barbosa, Barbosa, Cruz, & Marques, 2016) Within this perspective, the political perception of serving this population is that these are factors considered as social problems to be avoided and worthy public attention, from the perspective of institutionalization, especially for young people belonging to vulnerable socioeconomic classes (Silva et al, 2016; Rossi, Marcolino, Speranza, & Cid, 2019). It is necessary to seek strategies for the dissemination and popularization of this scientific knowledge to the population of all social segments, reducing the huge gap between scientific production and public understanding existing today
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