Construção de vinhetas de interações sociais agressivas e sua utilização na avaliação da atenção e da varredura ocular em adolescentes

Abstract

New possibilities for verifying behavioral responses, using visual scenes of social interaction and eye scanning to assess the processing of social information, can favor the understanding of skillful and unskilled patterns and the development of clinical activities in the context of health promotion in adolescents. Based on this, the present study aimed to build an instrument with vignettes of aggressive social interactions with passive, aggressive and assertive outcomes among adolescents and to investigate the eye scan pattern and the attentional focus of healthy adolescents in front of these scenes. In order to prepare the instrument, in a first study, focus groups were carried out to prepare the vignettes. Adolescents were asked to build vignettes that represent daily life and present passive, aggressive and assertive outcomes to the scenes of initial aggression. The vignettes were evaluated by judges and the evaluation of content and ecological validity by a sample of 54 adolescents. Once the instrument construction process was completed, a pilot study was carried out with 17 adolescents to assess eye scanning and attention focus with the instrument's 12 vignettes. In this second study, eye scanning was applied through correction using heat maps, in addition to evaluating the attention and behavioral self-identification of adolescents in front of the scenes. In general, the results present as vignettes that make up the instrument as valid visual stimuli for use, main parameters similar to other instruments of visual scenes. For eye tracking, the results pointed to a pattern in the direction of the gaze of adolescents in disagreement with what drew attention in the reflective process. Furthermore, there was a tendency for adolescents to identify with assertive behavior. Research of this nature with adolescents can help to understand the development of behavioral styles and the preparation of new technologies. Thus, the potential use of interaction scenes in other investigations and the possibility of adaptation for clinical use in therapeutic processes are discussed.