Autoestima, percepción de la afectividad, metas y conductas de riesgo, en escolares adolescentes de ambos sexos / Self esteem, affectivity perception, aims and risk behaviors in school adolescents of both sex

RESUMO

A self applied and anomymous enquiry was answered by 948 teenagers (600 female), participating in an integral helath education plan and coming from a school located in a low income community of Metropolitan Santiago. Twenty nine percent came from a school located in a low income community of Metropolitan Santiago. Twenty nine percent came from single or foster parent families and 18,4 per cent of parents were separeted. nineteen percent of women and 9.8 per cent of men felt that they were not loved by their parents; 30.5 per cent of women classified as bad or regular their relationship with their fathers and 22.1 per cent of men similarly classified their relationship with their mothers. 18 per cent of men and 16,5 per cent of women ignored their parents educational level. 10 to 24 per cent had a negative self image and 50 per cent were unsure about their study goals. 48 per cent of men and 25.5 per cent of women had get drunk; 24.1 and 12.8 per cent had smoked marihuana. Half of the sample manifested attraction to dangerous situations; 22 per cent had participated in quarrels and 34 per cent had attacked other people. 23 per cent of men and 35 per cent of women had considered commiting suicide. It is concluded that the lack of affection, a deteriorated self image, difficult parenteral relationships and orientation toward violence appear as the main problems in this sample of teenagers