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Abstract With the increasing number of obese individuals in Brazil, the importance of studies aimed at researching the social and psychological impact of obesity is also increased. This study aimed to trace and analyze the processes of subjective construction of the obesity experience. This is a longitudinal case study with a 29-year-old obese woman submitted to bariatric surgery. The characteristics and power of explicit and implicit messages that operate in specific cultural contexts were investigated, analyzing the construction of meanings of self in the development of the dialogical self. Qualitative data analysis shows important aspects of the dynamics of fatphobia, its power to channel the subjective trajectory of the obese subject and the importance of alterity in the development of self. The study contributes to the advancement of knowledge about the relations between obesity, self, and prejudice, seeking to provide inputs for the performance of psychologists, educators, and health professionals.
Resumo Com o número crescente de obesos no Brasil aumenta também a importância de estudos dedicados à investigação do impacto social e psicológico da obesidade. Esse estudo objetivou identificar e analisar os processos de construção subjetiva da experiência de obesidade. Trata-se de um estudo de caso longitudinal com uma mulher obesa de 29 anos submetida à cirurgia bariátrica. Foram investigadas as características e poder das mensagens explícitas e implícitas que operam em contextos culturais específicos, analisando a construção de significados de si no desenvolvimento do self dialógico. A análise qualitativa dos dados revela aspectos importantes da dinâmica da gordofobia, seu poder de canalização da trajetória subjetiva do obeso e a importância da alteridade no desenvolvimento do self. O estudo contribui com o avanço do conhecimento sobre as relações entre obesidade, self e preconceito, buscando oferecer subsídios para a atuação de psicólogos, educadores e profissionais de saúde.
Resumen Con el creciente número de obesos en Brasil, también hay un incremento de la importancia de estudiar el impacto social y psicológico de la obesidad. Este estudio propone identificar y evaluar los procesos de construcción subjetiva de la experiencia de obesidad. Se trata de un estudio de caso longitudinal en el cual participó una mujer obesa de 29 años sometida a la cirugía bariátrica. Se investigaron las características y el poder de los mensajes explícitos e implícitos que operan en contextos culturales específicos, analizando la construcción de significados de sí mismo en el desarrollo del self dialógico. El análisis cualitativo de los datos reveló aspectos importantes de la dinámica de la fobia a la gordura, su poder de concentración en la trayectoria subjetiva del obeso y la importancia de la alteridad en el desarrollo del self. El estudio contribuye a ampliar el conocimiento sobre las relaciones entre obesidad, self y prejuicio, buscando ofrecer aportes para el trabajo de psicólogos, de educadores y de profesionales de salud.
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Humans , Female , Adult , Self-Assessment , Body Image , Cultural Characteristics , Bariatric Surgery , ObesityABSTRACT
Este artículo derivada de investigación, realizada en una institución de resocialización para adolescentes que han infringido la ley penal Colombiana. Material es procesado mediante un enfoque hermenéutico a partir de los aportes teóricos de las psicoterapias relacionales. Se encontró que los modos de ser-hacer-sentir que éstos jóvenes tienen en relación al mundo, a sí mismos y a los otros, están sostenidos por una tejido relacional que giraen torno a la devaluación, la desigualdad y la dependencia, aspectos relacionados con inseguridades vinculares que dejan a éstos adolescentes con precarios recursos para enfrentar las demandas de su nuevo momento evolutivo.
This article is derived from research, carried out in a rehabilitation facility for adolescents who have infringed the Colombian criminal law. Material is processed through a hermeneuticapproach from the theoretical contributions of the relational psychotherapy. It was foundthat the modes of being-doing-feel that these young have in relation to the world, to themselves, and to others, are sustained by a relational fabric that revolves around the devaluation, inequality, and dependence, these issues related to insecurities leaving these adolescents with precarious resources to meet the needs of their new evolutionary time.
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Humans , Adolescent , False Representation , Diagnostic Errors , Juvenile DelinquencyABSTRACT
This study aimed at verifying relations between God representations (GR), self representations (SR), and learning educational experience (LEE) among graduate students in Rio de Janeiro. We studied GR as beliefs stressing God's power over humans (GR1); spiritual power (GR2); providence of a better human life (GR3); mutual dependence between God and humans (GR4); and disbelief of its existence (GR5). We treated SR as composed by individual-self, interpersonal-self and collective-self. The LEE was studied as events produced mainly because of an action of the student's own learning, or as events caused mainly by teaching action over students, like institution/professor/curricula. We used closed/open questions to research among Economy (n=82) and Psychology (n=107) students. Both GR and SR interfered mutually but emancipatory SR's are less linked to GR, except for GR5. Self assertion, assertive interpersonal relation and negative interpersonal relation correlated negatively with LEE
En este estudio procuramos verificar relaciones entre representaciones de Dios (RD), auto-representaciones (AR), y experiencia educacional (LEE) entre estudiantes universitarios en Rio de Janeiro. Estudiamos representaciones de Dios enfatizando el poder de Dios sobre los humanos (RD1); poderes espirituales (RD2); el proveer una mejor vida humana (RD3); dependencia mutua entre Dios y los humanos (RD4); y la no creencia en su existencia (RD5). Tratamos las AR como compuestas por el yo-individual, el yo-interpersonal y el yo-colectivo. La LEE fue estudiada como eventos producidos sobre todo, por una acción de aprendizaje del/a propio/a estudiante o como eventos causados por acción de la enseñanza sobre el estudiante, como institución/profesor/curriculum. Usamos cuestiones cerradas/abiertas para investigar estudiantes de Economía (n=82) y Psicología (n=107). Tanto RD como AR interfirieron mutuamente, pero las AR emancipatorias tendieron a estar menos ligadas a RD, con excepción de RD5. La auto-afirmación, auto-afirmación interpersonal y la relación interpersonal negativa tendieron a correlacionar relacionar negativamente con LEE.
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This study aimed at verifying relations between God representations (GR), self representations (SR), and learning educational experience (LEE) among graduate students in Rio de Janeiro. We studied GR as beliefs stressing God's power over humans (GR1); spiritual power (GR2); providence of a better human life (GR3); mutual dependence between God and humans (GR4); and disbelief of its existence (GR5). We treated SR as composed by individual-self, interpersonal-self and collective-self. The LEE was studied as events produced mainly because of an action of the student's own learning, or as events caused mainly by teaching action over the student, like institution/professor/curricula. We used closed/open questions to research among Economy (n=82) and Psychology (n=107) students. GR1 and GR2 interfered on SR of the interpersonal-self and collective-self; meanwhile the others GR interfered on SR of the individual-self, interpersonal-self and collective-self. Self assertion, assertive interpersonal relation and negative interpersonal relation correlated negatively with LEE.
En este estudio procuramos verificar relaciones entre representaciones de Dios (RD), auto-representaciones (AR), y experiencia educacional (LEE) entre estudiantes universitarios en Rio de Janeiro. Estudiamos representaciones de Dios enfatizando el poder de Dios sobre los humanos (RD1); poderes espirituales (RD2); proveer una mejor vida humana (RD3); dependencia mutua entre Dios y humanos (RD4); y no creencia en su existencia (RD5). Tratamos AR como siendo compuesta por yo-individual, yo-interpersonal y yo-colectivo. La LEE fue estudiada como eventos producidos sobretodo por una acción de aprendizaje del estudiante el/ella misma o como eventos causados por la acción de la enseñanza sobre el estudiante, como institución/ profesor/curriculum. Usamos cuestiones cerradas/abiertas para investigar estudiantes de economía (n = 82) e psicología (n=107). RD1 y RD2 interfirió sobre las AR de yo-interpersonal y yo-colectivo; mientras las otras RD interfirieron sobre las AR del yo-individual, yo-interpersonal y yo-colectivo. Auto-afirmación, auto-afirmación interpersonal y relación interpersonal negativa correlacionaron con LEE.
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Psychology, Social , Religion , UniversitiesABSTRACT
Discutimos os modos "violentos" de representação, utilizados por jovens de classe média e alta. A análise, realizada a partir do filme Cama de gato e de episódios de violência noticiados na mídia (1997-2007), junto a alguns conceitos da Psicanálise e de Walter Benjamin, leva a interrogar: quais os vetores da brutalidade protagonizada por jovens que não padecem de privações extremas? Que condições sociais participam destes episódios? Ao tensionar acontecimentos e conceitos, vimos que estes atos, além de funcionarem como um modo do jovem devolver o mal-estar que sente frente ao vazio da experiência familiar e social, são, também, uma forma de legitimação de si no social.
This article discusses the "violent" means of representation of the social aspect employed by middle and upper-class young people. The analysis is based on the movie Cat's cradle and on some violent episodes broadcasted by the media (1997-2007). Such material, along with concepts from psychoanalysis and others by Walter Benjamin, lead to the following questions: what are the vectors of the brutality perpetrated by young people who do not suffer with extreme social privation? What conditions contribute towards the rise of such episodes? As episodes and concepts are integrated and fully discussed, comes the realization that such acts have a double function: they are means through which young people return the ill-being caused by the void in their experiences with family and society, and they also work as means to legitimate their self-representation in social contexts.
Discutimos aquí los modos "violentos" de representación utilizados por jóvenes de las clases media y alta. El análisis, efectuado a partir de la película Cama de gato, de noticias de diarios y revistas (1997-2007) y de algunos conceptos de la Psicoanálisis y de Walter Benjamin, nos lleva a interrogarnos: ¿cuáles son los vectores de la brutalidad protagonizada por jóvenes que no padecen de privaciones sociales? ¿Qué condiciones contribuyen para el surgimiento de estos episodios? Al tensar acontecimientos y conceptos, constatamos que tales actos funcionan como la forma que los jóvenes tienen de devolver su malestar al confrontarse con el vacío de la experiencia familiar y social, así como una forma de representarse en lo social.
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Humans , Male , Female , Young Adult , Life Change Events , Psychoanalysis/trends , Violence/ethnology , Violence/psychologyABSTRACT
O artigo apresenta os estudos de uma investigação atual entre 75 adolescentes de 12 a 15 anos, estudantes de colégios particulares da cidade de Campinas, que tem como principal objetivo constatar a possível correspondência entre os julgamentos morais e as representações que os sujeitos têm de si mesmos. A partir de um questionário, os estudos destacam as representações desses sujeitos e respondem a um questionamento de que teriam um caráter ético ou não e se corresponderiam a seus julgamentos morais. Os resultados apontam para uma correspondência entre aqueles cujas representações de si são caracterizadas por conteúdos éticos e julgamentos mais evoluídos quanto à sensibilidade aos sentimentos dos personagens envolvidos nas situações descritas. Tais estudos validam a intenção deste artigo de discutir as correspondências entre ética (como o sujeito se vê) e moral (como julga as situações morais).
The article presents studies of a current investigation among 75 adolescents from 12 to 15 years old, students of private schools of Campinas city, that have as main objective to notice a possible correspondence among the moral judgments and the representation that individuals have about themselves. From a questionnaire, the studies bring out the representations of these individuals and answer a questioning if they would have an ethical character or not and if these individuals would correspond to their moral judgments. The results point out to a correspondence among those whose self representations are characterized by more evolved ethical contents and judgments related to sensitivity and to the characters feelings involved in the situations described. Such studies validate the intention of this article to discuss the correspondences between ethics (how the individual sees himself/herself) and moral (how he/she judges the situations moral).
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Ethical AnalysisABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: Dance therapy can be applied as one of various psychiatric rehabilitation programs in clinical situations. This study was aimed to investigate applicability of dance therapy to schizophrenic outpatients, in regard to improving social adjustment and quality of life for these patients. METHODS: Twenty one psychiatric outpatients enlist who met DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia were studied. We conducted dance therapy session once a week, totally 8 sessions. The assessments were done before and after dance therapy. Patients reported Self & Others Representation Inventory-Adjective Checklist (SORI), Self-esteem Scale, and Relationship Change Scale (RCS) and Doctors assessed Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS), and Quality of Life Scale (QoLS) in interview. RESULTS: After 8 sessions of dance therapy, patients showed significant improvements in sociability in SORI, satisfaction, intimacy, sensitiveness, openness, comprehensiveness in RCS, and significant decrease of symptoms in BPRS, SANS. QoLS also was improved significantly. There was no significant change in Self-esteem Scale. CONCLUSION: These results suggested that dance therapy could be applied to schizophrenic outpatients in clinical situations, and it helped to improve self-representation, interpersonal relationship, and quality of life.