Denise Falcke

A comunicação em famílias com filhos adolescentes

Adolescence is regarded as a period in which difficulties in family communication and an increase in confrontations between parents and children take place. We set out to understand how adolescents evaluate the frequency and quality of the communication they establish with their parents and siblings. 295 youngsters were investigated, 141 males and 154 females, ages ranging between 11 and 16 years old. A questionnaire was administered, with simple choice closed questions which aimed to evaluate the communication of the adolescent with differents members of the family. Results point at the mother as the most sought out person for conversation (49,8%), followed by the eldest sibling (17,6%) and then the father (12,2%) and the youngest sibling (2,4%). Data reflect a family structure in which the mother appears as the main responsible for care and mediation of the familiar relationships, whereas the father occupies a more peripheral place. The adolescents report a good level of communication at home and 96% of them evaluate family communication as very important.

Mães e madrastas: mitos sociais e autoconceito

Mothers and stepmothers: Social myths and self-concept This is a research about the social myths related to feminine roles of a mother and stepmother and t...

A construção de um instrumento de avaliação discente de um programa de pós-graduação

This paper presents the process of developing an instrument for students assessment of a Graduate Program. That process encompassed a series of steps involving a sample of 14 faculty members of a Psychology Graduate Program as well as a pilot sample of 52 graduate students. The revised instrument was tested on a group of 62 students (46 masters and 17 doctoral students). Both quantitative and qualitative results indicated that the instrument was reliable with high internal consistency as a whole (alpha= 0,9332) and as sub-scales. In addition, those results also suggested that the instrument was valid (face and content validity). We hope to have contributed with this work to other graduate programs in their student assessment system and also to researchers interested in scale development.