Alienação parental e ajustamento escolar: um estudo correlacional

Abstract

This study has as its main objective to verify the correlation between the parental alienation factors and school adjustment. To this purpose, it was collected a sample of 229 students at 14,53 years old (range 12 to 19 years old; SD=1,66), being 57,6% female, 29% from high school and 52,8% from public schools in João Pessoa-Paraíba. The participants answered the Alienating Maternal Practices Perception Scale (AMPPS), the Adjustment School Scale (ASC) as well as a questionnaire with social- demographic information such as age, gender and schooling. The data were analyzed in the SPSS software (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), version 20. The results presented a significant and positive correlation between school adjustment and the perception of alienating maternal practices, specifically with the academic difficulties factors (r = 0,35; p<0,01) and disciplinary difficulties (r = 0,17; p<0,01). The opposite could be seen as regards both the general aspects about the school negative factors (r = -0,33; p<0,01) and the relation with teachers and students (r = 0,24; p<0,01). To conclude, it is necessary an extensive investigation concerning the drawbacks derived from divorce to the children, such as parental alienation, and then develop intervention proposals which consider the peculiar aspects of the families, more specifically the parents, in the infants’ and adolescents’ educational process.