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The aim of this research was to analyze children's perception of school motivation and the family support of students from different school years, as well as verifying the relations between variables. This study was composed of 342 children, with ages ranging from 7 to 13, both male and female, from three municipal schools in the countryside of the state of São Paulo. We investigated the motivational orientations and children's perception of family support. The results indicate that the motivational orientations and the family educational support showed a decline as school years progresses; there was positive, meaningful and low correlation between the intrinsic motivation and the affective, educational and material family support; and negative, meaningful and low correlation between the extrinsic motivation and the affective aspect of the family support. This study concluded the importance of deepening the knowledge of family support in the school motivation, since this is shown as related to the student's intrinsic motivation with the schooling progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to characterize the family support the elderly with impaired functional capacity from the perspective of the caregiver. The study was conducted in four health units in Jequié-BA. Data were collected through semi-structured interview and questionnaire to the families. Through content analysis yielded the following categories: significance of impairment of functional capacity; family relationship before the impairment of functional capacity; family relationship after the impairment of functional capacity; family's perception of the guidelines of the health team; perceptions and feelings to be caregivers for the elderly, assessment of the limits and potential of family support, perceptions of social support network. Among the findings highlight the finding of a lack of expertise and preparation of families to care for the dependent elderly and weakness of a network of social support and health to the family and the elderly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family support, depressogenic inferential style and rumination were longitudinally analysed in a sample of female adolescents wherein depression is more prevalent compared to adolescente male population. The sample comprised a group of 142 irst grade secondary school students, with an average age of 14.2 years. The assessment was undertaken 6, 13 and 24 months after the irst evaluation. Controled the initial depression, results indicated a relationship between depressive symptomatology with family support and depressogenic inferential style. These results support the cognitive theories of depression and indicate the importance of considering these factors in depression preventive programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed at verifying the associations between social support, family support and self-concept in a group of men and women. In the male group there were negative correlations between family support and the factors negligence, aggression and indifference of the instrument of self-concept. In the female group, the total family support was positively correlated with sensuality and accountability, and negatively with uncertainty, and these three measures of the instrument of self-concept. The observed relationships between family support and social support were positive, for both men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]