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CAYCEDO, Claudia; GARCIA, Dennys del Rocío; BALLESTEROS, Blanca Patricia  e  NOVOA, Mónica María. The relation beteen control strategies at home and school and the game practices in children and youth. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2005, vol.4, n.1, pp.85-96. ISSN 1657-9267.

This article presents the analysis of relations between juvenile game practices and control strategies in family and school, as part of a larger study on game practices in the youth of Bogotá. Interviews of 155 participants between 10 to 17 years of age and their parents were analysed. Participants were classified in two groups according to their level of game involvement, based on how long they have been playing as they actually do, frequency in terms of how many days they play in a week, and intensity in terms of how many hours they play daily. A descriptive and correlation analysis were used through contingencies tables and Chi- square. Results show significant differences between high and low involvement groups respect to the kind of restrictions imposed by parents on game playing, family relation quality, existence or not of school rules forbidding gambling, and the fact of having been sanctioned at school. Other nonsignificant differences result useful in functional terms and as indicators of tendencies, as were the case of the type of rules at home, parental consistency, restrictions- following by the youth , reasons gave by parents for their children non restrictions-compliance, and the report of the family conflict-solving strategies. There were differences in the control exerted by school on certain activities and in its use of observations and sanctions. This study permits the identification of interesting relations to future research and to gambling prevention programs.

Palavras-chave : Parental control; Game practices; School control; Adolescence.

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