RESUMO
Hopelessness is central to prominent mental health problems within American Indian (AI) communities. Apaches living on a reservation in Arizona responded to diverse expressions of hope along with Hopelessness, Personal Self-Esteem, and Collective Self-Esteem scales. An Apache Hopefulness Scale expressed five themes of hope and correlated negatively with Hopelessness and positively with both Collective and Personal Self-Esteem. These data confirmed the potential of conducting more extensive analyses of hope within AI tribal life.
Assuntos
Adaptação Psicológica , Indígenas Norte-Americanos/psicologia , Autoimagem , Identificação Social , Adolescente , Arizona/etnologia , Feminino , Humanos , Indígenas Norte-Americanos/estatística & dados numéricos , Masculino , Inventário de Personalidade/estatística & dados numéricos , Psicologia do Adolescente , Psicometria , Ajustamento Social , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
In Heinz Kohut's (1977, 1984) theory of the psychology of the self, good parenting provides a child with optimal frustration and just the right amount of loving empathic concern. In the present study, the authors examined the relations of perceived parental empathy and love inconsistency with measures of narcissism, self-esteem, and depression. In a sample of university undergraduates (N=232; 78 men, 153 women, and 1 nonresponder), perceived parental empathy predicted more adaptive self-functioning, whereas parental love inconsistency was related to psychological maladjustment. These results support the theoretical assumption that perceived parental empathy is associated with healthy self-development.
