Aspectos intrapsíquicos de adolescentes do sexo feminino em conflito com a lei a partir do teste de relações objetais

Abstract

Adolescence is a crucial period for the development of the individual life cycle, however, to think about teenagers in custody for committing illegal acts notes the occurrence of the reverse of what is expected for this phase. The growing involvement of adolescents in activities in conflict with the law betrays a fragile condition of childhood and adolescence, not only in our country but also worldwide, evidencing a problem that deserves increasingly receiving attention from scholars. This study aimed to identify aspects of intrapsychic reality, with regard to the internalized object relations of female adolescents who have committed illegal acts and fulfill a Socioeducative Measure through the European instrument called Object Relations Test (ORT). Thus, it was possible to organize two sections a theoretical and an empirical. The Theoretical Section addressing the construct that underlies the main instrument of this study, the ORT, through of Melanie Klein's theory about object relations. The Empirical Section conducted a survey of frequencies and percentages of the variables obtained through the instruments used with the 21 adolescents in conflict with the law of this research. All participants were fulfilling Socioeducative Measures at the time of the meetings. To characterize the sample were used a Personal Information Data Sheet and Sociodemographic organized especially for this study, the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test - General Scale (Angelini, Alves, Custodio, Duarte & Duarte, 1999) and the Youth Self-Report (YSR) (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). To investigate these aspects of the personality of the participants, the projective instrument, originally from London, England, named Object Relations Test (Phillipson, 1965/2010) was used. All material obtained through the administration of the instruments cited, was organized and analyzed from a database in Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS, version 20.0. In interpreting the data, it employed the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis, especially about the object relations theory of Melanie Klein. The results led to the understanding of important aspects that reveal precarious psyches of these teenagers through their perceptions of interpersonal relationships and uncreative productions from your answers to the TRO, highlighting dilemmas and shortcomings in their internalization of object relations. Thus, the ORT also showed a promising tool for the scenario of psychological assessment in the country, so it is strongly recommended to develop the work so it can be adapted and used in Brazil.