Os valores pessoais e o social connectedness contribuem para o desenvolvimento identitário. Através de um desenho quantitativo transversal e de uma amostra de 275 adultos emergentes, o presente estudo pretendeu analisar: a relação entre os valores pessoais coletivistas e individualistas, os dois ciclos de desenvolvimento da identidade (formação e avaliação do compromisso) e o social connectedness; se os valores pessoais são preditores dos ciclos de desenvolvimento da identidade; e o papel mediador do social connectedness na relação entre os valores pessoais e os ciclos de desenvolvimento da identidade. Os resultados mostram que o social connectedness tem um papel de mediador da relação entre os valores pessoais e os ciclos de desenvolvimento da identidade, sugerindo que o sentimento de proximidade interpessoal funcione como um mecanismo de confirmação em relação aos valores pessoais e que contribua para o desenvolvimento identitário. Este estudo tem implicações para a literatura relacionada com o desenvolvimento da identidade na adultez emergente.

Les valeurs personnelles et le social connectedness (les liens sociaux) contribuent au développement de l’identité. Grâce à un dessin quantitatif transversal et à un échantillon de 275 adultes émergents, la présente étude visait à analyser: la relation entre les valeurs personnelles collectivistes et individualistes, les deux cycles du développement de l’identité (formation et évaluation de l’engagement) et le social connectedness; si les valeurs personnelles sont des prédicteurs des cycles de développement de l’identité; et le rôle médiateur du social connectedness dans le rapport entre les valeurs personnelles et les cycles de développement de l’identité. Les résultats montrent que le social connectedness jouent un rôle de médiateur dans le rapport entre les valeurs personnelles et les cycles de développement de l’identité, suggérant que le sentiment de proximité interpersonnelle fonctionne comme un mécanisme de confirmation des valeurs personnelles et contribue au développement de l’identité. Cette étude a des répercussions sur la littérature ayant trait au développement de l’identité à l’âge adulte émergent.

Personal values and social connectedness influence the development of identity. Through a quantitative design and a sample of 275 emerging adults, the present study sought to analyze: the relationship between personal collectivist and individualist values, the two cycles of identity development (the formation and evaluation of commitments) and social connectedness; whether personal values may predict the cycles of one’s identity development; and the mediating role of social connectedness in the relationship between personal values and the cycles of identity development. Results showed that social connectedness mediated the relationship between personal values and the cycles of identity development, suggesting that a sense of interpersonal closeness can act as an endorsement mechanism for personal values and that it may contribute to the development of identity. This study has implications for the literature related to the development of identity in emerging adulthood.

Abstract Background In Portugal, as far as we know, there are no recent studies that evaluated the comparative efficacy of therapeutic modalities in addiction problems by reference to a holistic and psychosocial model of effectiveness. Objectives Using a sample of Portuguese patients in outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, this study aimed to examine if a combined treatment modality (group therapy with individual intervention) had greater overall efficacy when compared to other three types of treatment without group therapy. Methods This is a correlational and cross-sectional study using a convenience sample of patients (N = 254) from an outpatient treatment in the Intervention Service on Addictive Behaviors and Substance Dependence. At the time of data collection, the patients were attending four types of treatment, such as receiving intervention based on individual psychological counseling (n = 66); receiving individual psychiatric counseling (n = 68); receiving both individual psychological and psychiatric counseling (n = 102); and receiving not only individual counseling (i.e., psychology or psychiatry), but also attending group therapy (n = 18). Results Using MANOVA and Wilks’s multivariate test criterion, there was a significant effect of treatment modality on the global efficacy, Λ = 0.88, F(9, 603) = 3.75, p < 0.0001. Examination of mean estimates indicated that patients in a combined therapeutic modality revealed more treatment involvement compared to patients in other therapeutic modalities without group therapy. Discussion The results obtained in this study highlight the importance of integrating interventions in a collaborative way. A combined therapeutic modality, adding group therapy, was associated with positive effects, such as more levels of peer support and involvement in treatment, and increasing the individual’s probability to remain abstinent.

Tornar-se mãe na adolescência obriga a profundos realinhamentos na trajetória desenvolvimental individual. Partindo de uma amostra de trinta e oito mães adolescentes do Norte de Portugal, pretendeu-se com este estudo explorar o impacto da qualidade da organização de vinculação das adolescentes, avaliada durante a gravidez, na adaptação às mudanças de papéis decorrentes da maternidade. Seguindo uma perspetiva ecológica, foram igualmente contempladas medidas sociodemográficas e de suporte social. Os resultados revelam que a maioria das adolescentes evidencia um nível inferior de adaptação à nova configuração de papéis, verificando-se uma associação significativa entre o nível de adaptação conseguido e a qualidade da organização de vinculação da adolescente.

Becoming a mother during adolescence implies huge rearrangements in terms of individual developmental pathway. Using a sample of 38 adolescent mothers from the north region of Portugal, this study aims at examining the importance of adolescent mothers' attachment organizations, assessed during pregnancy, in the adjustment to role changes imposed by motherhood. Following an ecological perspective on adolescent motherhood, sociodemographic and social support measures were also considered. Our results show that most adolescent mothers exhibit a lower level of adjustment towards the new configuration of roles. A statistically significant association between adolescent mothers' attachment and quality of adjustment was found.

As autoras começam por rever a investigação empírica acerca da maternidade na adolescência, especificamente as questões de natureza parental, tradicionalmente centradas na comparação das mães adolescentes e adultas. São analisadas algumas das limitações que emergem deste tipo de investigação, salientando-se a necessidade de focalizar a atenção na variabilidade existente no seio do grupo das mães adolescentes e discutindo-se, em seguida, a inexistência de um quadro conceptual que organize os resultados produzidos pela investigação. Neste âmbito, é apresentado o contributo e as implicações no plano conceptual da abordagem desenvolvimental, para a compreensão desta variabilidade intra-grupo. Em seguida, discute-se a necessidade de perspectivar o fenómeno da maternidade adolescente como um processo de interacção social, apresentando-se para tal uma adaptação do modelo de Schellenbach, Whitman e Borkowski (1992). Por último, discute-se o impacto do apoio social nas suas múltiplas facetas ao nível da maternidade adolescente.

The authors review the empirical research on adolescent parenting, traditionally focused on the comparison between adolescent and adult mothers. Some limitations of this kind of research are analysed, pointing out the need to focus on the intra-goup variability of adolescent mothers and the absence of a conceptual framework integrating the empirical results. Within this framework, the contributions and conceptual implications of the developmental perspective to the understanding of the intra-group variability are presented. Afterwards, the need to conceive adolescent motherhood as a social interaction process is discussed, and an adaptation of the Schellenbach, Whitman and Borkowski (1992) model of adolescent parenting is presented. Finally, the role of social support in adolescent motherhood is analysed in its different aspects.