Perceptions of adolescents about their parents' coparenthality: Conversations in focus group

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2024.1.40360

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Parent-Child Relations, Adolescent, Family Relationships, Parents.

Abstract

Coparenting is the family subsystem responsible for the proper development of children. The relevance of this subsystem has led researchers to investigate it from different perspectives. This study aimed to understand the perception of adolescents with internalizing and/or externalizing symptoms, members of nuclear and separated families, about the characteristics of parental coparenting.  Nineteen adolescents, boys and girls, from three public schools in the state of Rio Grande do Sul participated in the survey. The adolescents responded a socio-demographic questionnaire and participated in a focus group. Descriptive analysis and content analysis were carried out through which three categories were organized: cooperation, conflict and triangulation. The results indicated that adolescents perceive family dynamics and are directly impacted by the characteristics, positive and negative, of the interaction between parents, both in nuclear families and in separated ones. Therefore, it is necessary to develop strategies to work with the different family configurations focusing on coparenting, an accessible subsystem to carry out interventions and protective to the development of children.

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Clarisse Pereira Mosmann, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil.

PhD in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, (PUC-RS), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; specialist in Couple and Family Therapy; Professor of the Postgraduate Program and the Undergraduate Course in Psychology at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil. Coordinator of the Couples and Family Studies Center at Unisinos, NECAF.

Crístofer Batista da Costa, Faculdade do Centro de Estudos da Família e do Indivíduo (FACEFI), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil; specialist in the Dynamics of Marital and Family Relationships and in Clinical Psychology. Professor and Coordinator of the Psychology Course at the Faculty of the Center for Family and Individual Studies (FACEFI), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Juliana Silveira de Oliveira, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil.

Psychology student and scientific initiation scholarship holder. Psychology Course and Postgraduate Program in Psychology at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil.

Mariana Cunha Schneider, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Psychologist from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil; specialist in Social Psychology and Communities from the Instituto Cooperativo Parentes do Ceará at Faculdade FGE, in São Paulo, SP; Master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Social and Institutional Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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2024-07-25

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Pereira Mosmann, C., Batista da Costa, C., Silveira de Oliveira, J., & Cunha Schneider, M. (2024). Perceptions of adolescents about their parents’ coparenthality: Conversations in focus group. Psico, 55(1), e40360. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2024.1.40360

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