Autoestima e sintomatologia psicopatológica em adolescentes pré-universitários utilizadores de redes sociais

Abstract

Social networks provide a virtual space where teenagers can share their lives, establish connections and seek social validation, bringing with it significant challenges for them, in terms of self-esteem and psychopathological symptomatology. With a view to deepening this theme, this monograph was prepared with the objective of analyzing the levels of self-esteem and psychopathological symptoms in pre-university adolescents social media users. To this end, a quantitative exploratory approach and sampling were adopted. convenience where, for data collection, the Sociodemographic Questionnaire, the Self-Esteem Scale of Rosenberg and the Psychopathological Symptom Inventory (BSI). With a sample of 85 (62.4 female; 37.6 male) pre-university adolescents from ESJM. As for the results, for the most part, the sample presented an average level of self-esteem (63.5%), and in psychopathological symptoms, 90.5% of the sample presented emotional disorder in the depression dimension, 29.4% in the interpersonal sensitivity dimension, 28.3% in the obsession-compulsion and 15.5% in the anxiety dimension, and finally, the level of self-esteem established correlations negative with the BSI dimensions (obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression and anxiety). At the end, It is proposed as a recommendation, the development of lectures on the appropriate use of social networks and circles of conversations on the topic of depression.(TRADUÇÂO NOSSA)