Abstract

SANT'ANNA, Joana Lezan  and  MENDES, Deise Maria Fernandes Leal. Socialization goals and educational practices of mothers of children with cancer: a comparative study with mothers of children without diagnose of disease. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2017, vol.29, n.1, pp. 111-132. ISSN 0103-5665.

Parental socialization goals for their children and the practices adopted to achieve these goals constitute an important theme in recent research in Social Psychology. This study aims to further study on the impacts of complicated life situations on these goals and practices. It compares mothers whose children are undergoing cancer treatment with mothers of healthy children. The study accessed 20 mothers of children from three to five years that were undergoing cancer treatment at the National Cancer Institute and 20 mothers of children in the same age interval without disease diagnosis, all residents in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Instruments were applied to collect socio-demographic information and data about socialization goals and semi-structured interviews were conducted to investigate educational practices. It was found that the socialization goals of mothers of children undergoing cancer treatment are different from those of the other mothers in the sense of valuing more individualistic (welfare, personal development) than sociocentric treats (good behavior, exercise of social roles). As for the educational practices, it identified a tendency of mothers of children undergoing cancer treatment to adopt more coercive practices when facing the need of medical interventions and more inductive practices in other situations.

Keywords : pediatric cancer; socialization goals; educative actions.

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