Desenvolvimento, adolescência, TDAH e redes sociais: estudos sobre os prejuízos do transtorno em adolescentes

Abstract

Psychology over the last twenty years has approached the epistemology of social networks to explain how they have an effect on people's development and health. The general objectives of this work were: to analyze and discuss, based on a systematic and integrative review, the literature on the impact of ADHD on adolescents; to identify, through screening, in a public school, in adolescents with and without ADHD characteristics, typical topographic patterns present in social networks and to present possibilities for theoretical and methodological approximations between the model of social networks and the bioecology of human development. The argumentative process of the thesis was developed in 04 studies: a literature review that investigated the impacts of ADHD on adolescents, an integrative network review of the literature that investigated social/relational and behavioral impairments in adolescents associated with the disorder and two empirical studies- relationships that investigated through the sociocentric network of the school and personal networks of adolescents sociodemographic variables and social networks correlating with characteristics of the disorder in adolescents screened for ADHD. Data collection took place through the application of the Biosociodemographic Inventory, the ETDAH-AD Scale, Trails Test, Raven, Personal Networks Questionnaire and Sociocentric Network Questionnaire of the School. Data were treated with descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS, Statistica program, NVIVO10 software and Egonet, Ucinet 6, Gephi 0.9.2 software. and Pajek. The results found in the review studies indicate that there are a variety of negative impacts that interfere with the development of adolescents. The results of the empirical studies correlated with the results of the reviews and showed significant differences in social network metrics between the two groups of screened adolescents, indicating that the presence of symptoms is positively associated with impairments in social skills. This work presents relevant contributions to the understanding of the impacts of ADHD on the development of adolescents, in addition to theoretically and methodologically proposing the approximation of network epistemology to bioecology.