Eventos Estressores e Conduta Social na Adolescência

This study aimed to verify the existence of the relationship between the occurrence of stressful life events and thesocial behavior of adolescents. Using the Social Behavior Scale and the Adolescent Stressful Life Events Inventory,this study sought to identify, in a sample of 144 adolescents, the predominant behavior (antisocial, prosocial,oppositional-defiant), the most frequent types of stressful events and their perceived intensity. The relation betweenstressful events and social conduct was verified by means of the t-Test and the Pearson Correlation Test, and theanalyses showed that some experiences have a significant relation with the adolescents’ social conduct. The resultsshowed an average significantly higher for the antisocial behavior among boys. Among the investigated events,“psychological abuse” was the most frequent and “sexual abuse” was the one causing the biggest impact. Theoccurrence of “psychological abuse” may be a risk factor for the development of “antisocial behavior”.