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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
[Parents' needs and concerns at different stages of the life cycle]
Bárbara Tarouco da Silva1, Mara Regina Santos da Silva1
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.
Objective:
this study aimed to identify priority needs and concerns expressed by fathers in the performance of their role in three stages of the life cycle: adolescence, productive age, and mature age.
Methodology:
this is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, conducted with fourteen fathers residing in a municipality in the extreme south of Brazil. The data were collected between May and August 2011 by means of the in-depth interview. Through the technique of written discourse analysis and the array built upon Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory, we obtained three categories: fathers' needs/concerns, generated in their relationship with the world of work; needs/concerns that emerged from the relationship of care with the children; and fathers' concerns about the future of the children.
Conclusions:
we identified that the concern with the future of the children was pointed out by fathers of all age groups investigated.
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