TY - JOUR AU - Yaritza Garcés Delgado AU - Lidia Esther Santana Vega AU - Luis Antonio Feliciano García T1 - Proyectos de vida en adolescentes en riesgo de exclusión social TI - Life designs in adolescents at risk of social exclusion LA - spa PY - 2020 SP - 149 EP - 165 T2 - Revista de investigación educativa, RIE SN - 0212-4068 VL - 38 IS - 1 PB - Departamento de Métodos de Investigación y Diagnostico en Educación PP - Barcelona AB - The configuration of the life design is a challenge for every human being. The factors that determine the construction of the life design are diverse: lack of maturity, lack of identity, con-flictive personality, problematic social and family environment, school failure, etc. This study attempts to analyse the process of shaping life designs in adolescents at risk of social exclusion. A multi-case study was conducted with six adolescents presenting exclusion trajectories that were within the protection system. In the study, qualitative (semi-structured and diary field inter-views) and quantitative (questionnaire) data retrieval tools and techniques were used, opting for a mixed methodology. The results show that these children have difficulties in projecting a future outside the contexts of social exclusion in which they have developed. Life designs are built from the maladjustment to the system and on a deficient social-emotional basis, making young people unable to generate assertive thoughts and behaviors to achieve the goals set. It is necessary to: a) work with adolescents at risk of exclusion to make them acquire social-emotional strategies, and b) prevent conflicting intra and interpersonal behaviour through care/support actions. DO - 10.6018/rie.332231 UR - https://portalciencia.ull.es/documentos/5edacf6b2999524e40a8b527 DP - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación ER -