Brazilian Youth: A study on risk and protective factors of adolescents from low-income families from Taubaté City

• Grant number: 06/06789-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2007
• End date: July 31, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Human Development Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Marilza Terezinha Soares de Souza
• Grantee: Marilza Terezinha Soares de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto Básico de Biociências (IBB). Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU). Taubaté , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to gathe a social-demographic data of a sample of 268 adolescents in low-income families from Taubaté city, and, to investigate risk behaviours, risk and protective factors that are present in those adolescents and their families. As a method of investigation it was adopted the a quantitative design, and a questionnaire as instrument. (AU)