The impact of family configurations on child and adolescent development: the review the scientific production

Authors

  • Débora de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Aline Cardoso Siqueira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Rita de Cássia Sobreira Lopes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v12i1.9172

Keywords:

different family configurations, children, adolescents, state of art

Abstract

The present study aimed to review the scientific production on the impact of different family configurations on child and adolescent development. Abstracts from national and international periodicals, indexed in different databases, through combinations of keywords, were selected. The review identified 415 articles printed between 1955 and 2005, 401 of which were international and 14 were national. There was a greater number of publications from the 1990´s. In the international literature, there was a predominance of quantitative, empirical studies. Most of them focused on single-parent families, and on adolescents as opposed to children. The results also revealed a greater frequency of studies which did not find significant changes and consequences of the different family configurations for child and adolescent development. However, in studies which did identify significant changes and consequences, focus on the negative was more frequent than the positive, which raises the question of stigmatization of family configurations that are different from the nuclear family. Even though the analysis was based on abstracts alone, it is believed that it allowed for the characterization of the state of art in the area.

 

Keywords: different family configurations; children; adolescents; “state of art”.

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de Oliveira, D., Siqueira, A. C., Dell’Aglio, D. D., & Lopes, R. de C. S. (2008). The impact of family configurations on child and adolescent development: the review the scientific production. Interação Em Psicologia, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v12i1.9172

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2008)

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