2019-02-112019-02-112016-01-29COSTA, Amanda Cristina Ribeiro da. Relações de amizade de adolescentes em situação de acolhimento institucional: fatores de risco e de proteção. 2015. 122 f. Orientadora: Lília Iêda Chaves Cavalcante. Dissertação (Mestrado em Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento) - Núcleo de Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2015. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/10590. Acesso em:.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/10590Studies show that in addition to the family, the peer group constitutes an important development context for the adolescents, and friendship among its members an influential factor of risk and protection during this period of life. In this sense, this work aimed to investigate the risk and protective factors associated with the friendly relations and the perception of the quality of this type of relationship by adolecents in the context of institutional care. In the first study, quantitative and descriptive and exploratory, we sought to determine the risk and protective factors to which adolescents welcomed institutionally are exposed in the Região Metropolitana de Belém (RMB), besides identifying the presence or absence of friends in events of life that can be characterized as a situation or experimentation of risk or protection. The participants were 40 adolescents welcomed institutionally in five institutions of RMB, which this sample was selected by convenience. We used the Questionário Juventude Brasileira (QJB) for data collection. The results showed differences by sex, boys was associated with a statistically significant to the variables thus: 'have been expelled from school' (X² = 4.09; p = 0:04), institucional care (X² = 5.87; p = 0.01) and 'worked on the street' (X² = 8.67; p = 0.003). The female sex among adolescents surveyed was significantly associated with the variable to have suffered aggression by punching or beating (X² = 4.73; p = 0.02). Among the risk factors involving adolescent friendships with peers, was evidenced that male sex statistically significant association with the variables: 'you have friends who use drugs' (X² = 4.5; p = 0.03),' friends who use legal drugs' (X² = 3.74; p = 0.05) and 'friends who use illicit drugs' (X² = 6.34 and p = 0.01). In situations which represented protective factors and involved friends it was not found statistically significant association, although it is important to emphasize that adolescents revealed high expectations of having friends who give you support (72.5%). In the second study, with qualitative approach, we sought to know aspects relating to the quality of friendship from the perception of adolescents welcomed institutionally. It used semistructured interviews whose script was developed especially for this work. Attended by 20 adolescents chosen for convenience. To understand the perceptions of the participants about the friendship quality, the content of interview transcripts was organized in pre-established categories, 'help and guidance' and 'companionship' the most frequent with 18 mentions each, followed by 'conflict resolution '(05 mentions),' validation and caring '(02)' intimate exchange '(02) and 'conflict betrayal' (03). It was dentified that the friendship of adolescents received were highlighted in positive and protective characteristics in developmental terms. It appears that the adolescents in this study were exposed to various risk and protective factors in developmental contexts such as family, the institucional care and the peer group. In the latter, in particular, there was the paradoxical character can have friendship, representing both a risk factor as protection and development, for although this relationship expose your adolescence to risky behavior such as drug use, too It is shown as an important basis for social support of adolescents. This type of study may contribute with specific actions for the population studied and studies on human development and interpersonal relationships contexts marked by long stay in institutions.Acesso AbertoAmizadeAdolescenteFatores de riscoFatores de proteçãoAcolhimento institucionalDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIAECOLOGIA DO DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANOECOETOLOGIA