Coesão e hierarquia parental na percepção de ribeirinhos beneficiários do Programa Bolsa Família

• Main Authors: Viviam Rafaela Barbosa Pinheiro Freire, Simone Souza da Costa Silva, Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Florida 2012-01-01
• Series: Interamerican Journal of Psychology
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28425871002

This article investigated how people who participate in Bolsa Família Program perceive parental cohesion and hierarchy in a riverside Amazonian context. This is a case study, which was attended by three members of a family group. Sociodemographic Inventory and Family System Test (FAST) were used. The results showed that: mother has a key role in the family, since she is directly involved in the adjustment of cohesion and hierarchy with her children; father represented himself distant from children; and daughter represented herself intimately linked to the mother figure, who had similar perceptions of parental cohesion and hierarchy. It can be concluded that, in this group, the maternal cohesion seems to be favorable to the fulfillment of conditionalities and to the development of the beneficiary child.