The complexity of the phenomenon of pregnancy among adolescents requires an approach that involves aspects of guaranteeing rights, health, human development, and family relationships. This study aims to identify the perception of pregnant adolescents regarding the family support they receive from their families, in a public health service in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista (SP-Brazil). Forty pregnant adolescents in prenatal care, aged from 14 to 17 years old, were interviewed, through the exploration of quantitative information, with the Family Support Perception Inventory and Adolescent Social Skills Inventory. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed. A total of 39 participants had a mean-low or low result for the mean total perception of family support, and one participant had a medium-high outcome. The younger adolescents, with lower educational level and who lived with their infants' father, were the ones that had the lowest indices in the evaluation with the IPSF. The lowest rates for the IHSA assessment were found among 16-and 17-year-old participants, especially among those living with their babies' parents. The interpersonal relationships, from the family context, should be addressed in the processes of prenatal care and pregnant adolescents' follow-up by health care professionals and the social assistance sector.

Although there is no standardization of the notion of competence and for the instruments used in its evaluation, generic competences are associated with employability, and understood as a composition of cognitive and practical abilities, behavioral and social skills, gathering individual characteristics and qualities required for activities of different professions. Education promotes the development of specific competences for the exercise of certain occupations, in addition to opportunities for increasing generic competences, which are also required in the labor market. This study targets to evaluate self-perception of the valuation of generic competences acquired in undergraduate students from nocturnal courses of Brazilian private university, according to area of knowledge and condition of being or not inserted in the labor market. 1,001 of these students were evaluated in the third year of their graduation, using the Generic Competences Scale. The highest value in the global sample was attributed to Responsibility at work, followed by Ethical commitment and, thirdly, by Capacity to learn. At the other end, of lesser value, were Capacity for organization and planning, Ability to manage information and Problem solving. These results were compared with data from other studies, in Latin America and Europe.

Introdução: coincidente com distanciamento da família e interação com novos grupos sociais, a etapa da universidade traz oportunidades para incremento da autonomia frente às tarefas da vida adulta. A literatura aponta dificuldades psicológicas ocorrentes nos primeiros anos universitários, que podem se refletir negativamente no desempenho acadêmico. Objetivo: verificar condições psicológicas de universitários primeiranistas com respeito a funcionamento adaptativo, problemas internalizantes, problemas externalizantes e expectativas acadêmicas. Método: participaram da pesquisa 50 alunos de primeiro ano de um curso de bacharelado interdisciplinar, de uma universidade pública. Foram utilizados o Adult Self-Report e a Escala de Envolvimento Acadêmico. A aplicação dos instrumentos ocorreu coletivamente, em salas de aula, nos meses de maio e setembro de 2018. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente e tratados de forma descritiva e inferencial, pela variável sexo. Resultados: médias dos escores de problemas internalizantes foram indicadas em faixas limítrofe/clínicas, em homens e mulheres participantes. Encontrada forte correlação entre envolvimento em atividades obrigatórias e funcionamento adaptativo; e correlação negativa entre problemas externalizantes e envolvimento em atividades obrigatórias. Discussão: problemas internalizantes nos homens investigados (em nível semelhante aos das estudantes) não são comumente reportados na literatura concernente, carecendo de mais investigações.