出版社:Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要:The present study aimed to review the scientific production on the impact of different familyconfigurations on child and adolescent development. Abstracts from national and internationalperiodicals, indexed in different databases, through combinations of keywords, were selected. Thereview identified 415 articles printed between 1955 and 2005, 401 of which were international and 14were national. There was a greater number of publications from the 1990´s. In the internationalliterature, there was a predominance of quantitative, empirical studies. Most of them focused onsingle-parent families, and on adolescents as opposed to children. The results also revealed a greaterfrequency of studies which did not find significant changes and consequences of the different familyconfigurations for child and adolescent development. However, in studies which did identifysignificant changes and consequences, focus on the negative was more frequent than the positive,which raises the question of stigmatization of family configurations that are different from the nuclearfamily. Even though the analysis was based on abstracts alone, it is believed that it allowed for thecharacterization of the state of art in the area.