Abstract
Abstract This study aimed to verify whether family support has an impact on the development of character strengths in adolescents. For this purpose, we analyzed data from 304 elementary and high school students, with ages ranging from 13 and 20, of both sexes. The results indicated that the character strengths with greater predictive power over the three factors of the Perception of Family Support Inventory (Inventário de Percepção do Suporte Familiar -IPSF) were gratitude, vitality and creativity. In addition, it was observed that some strengths were more present in the regression analyses, in two of the three factors of the IPSF, namely: love, wisdom, love of learning, creativity and modesty. It is believed that if the family is capable to offer an environment that provides room for the development of character strengths in adolescents, these positive characteristics may be experienced more frequently and in other situations.
Highlights
Resumo Esse estudo objetivou verificar se o suporte familiar tem impacto no desenvolvimento de forças de caráter de adolescentes
Support and Character Strengths is able to provide its members with basic conditions for individual development and may be understood as a support system
The Escala de Forças de Caráter - EFC (Noronha & Barbosa, 2016) was developed for the Brazilian context based on the Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Strengths from Peterson and Seligman (2004), which describes 24 strength characters organized in six virtues
Summary
Resumo Esse estudo objetivou verificar se o suporte familiar tem impacto no desenvolvimento de forças de caráter de adolescentes. The provision and receipt of support from family members are fundamental sources for the promotion of benefits in physical and psychological processes (Baptista, Rigotto, Cardoso, & Rueda, 2012; Souza & Baptista, 2008). In this regard, Baptista et al (2012) found that perceptions of affection, adaptation and autonomy from the family context were correlated to the increase in the number of people perceived as supportive. The more affection the individual receives early in life, the greater will be his willingness to face and overcome stressful events, since affection is developed from infancy and can protect children from internal and external stressors (Weinman, Buzi, Smith & Mumford, 2003), substance abuse (Santander et al, 2008), and depression (Park & Peterson, 2008)
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