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“Am i really all the things that are outside of me?” - Estudo correlacional sobre persistência pessoal e vinculação
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Sentindo a necessidade de uma compreensão global do que é ser individualmente
reconhecido na sociedade pós-moderna, onde a mudança é valorizada, tentámos perceber
que garantias de persistência pessoal dois grupos diferenciados pela idade e profissão
(um grupo de alunos universitários e um grupo de professores) adoptavam. Utilizámos a
entrevista de persistência pessoal, que Chandler et. al, (2003) desenvolveram a partir de
um estudo que tentava compreender as elevadas taxas de suicídio entre os grupos de
indígenas do Canadá. Adaptámos a entrevista por eles desenvolvida, e aplicámo-la a dois
grupos pertencentes à cultura urbana ocidental. Correlacionámos a estratégia
(Essencialista ou Narrativista) adoptada para a resolução do Paradoxo da Igualdade em
Mudança, com o modelo de Vinculação que estes participantes demonstravam, e
percebemos que a escolha da estratégia e o nível de complexidade associado não são
totalmente determinados pela cultura em que os indivíduos estão inseridos. A capacidade
de exploração, aspecto que um modelo de vinculação seguro favorece, indica-nos que a
mudança é-nos também inerente. Torna-se assim cada vez mais evidente, a necessidade
de reformular as teorias da identidade, onde ainda é muito presente a associação da
mudança individual como um momento de crise e incapacidade de compromisso.
Feeling the need of global understanding of what is to be individually recognized in our post-modern society, where change is valued, we tried to understand what kind of personal persistence guarantees two different groups adopted (one group of college students and a group of teachers). We used the personal persistence interview that Chandler et. al (2003) developed in a study, where the main goal was to understand why suicide taxes were so high among the native groups in Canada. We adapted this interview and applied it on our participants, all pertaining to the Western urban society. The strategy (essencialist or narrativist) used to solve the paradox of sameness within change was correlated with the attachment model that our participants revealed and the results showed us that the culture isn’t the only responsible when we choose what kind of strategy and the level associated to it, to solve our personal persistence problem. The ability of exploration is one of the aspects that a secure base model allows. So it seems natural that we have to see change as an aspect of our identity and not as moment of crisis or as the inability to compromise.
Feeling the need of global understanding of what is to be individually recognized in our post-modern society, where change is valued, we tried to understand what kind of personal persistence guarantees two different groups adopted (one group of college students and a group of teachers). We used the personal persistence interview that Chandler et. al (2003) developed in a study, where the main goal was to understand why suicide taxes were so high among the native groups in Canada. We adapted this interview and applied it on our participants, all pertaining to the Western urban society. The strategy (essencialist or narrativist) used to solve the paradox of sameness within change was correlated with the attachment model that our participants revealed and the results showed us that the culture isn’t the only responsible when we choose what kind of strategy and the level associated to it, to solve our personal persistence problem. The ability of exploration is one of the aspects that a secure base model allows. So it seems natural that we have to see change as an aspect of our identity and not as moment of crisis or as the inability to compromise.
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Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada para obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Clínica.
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Persistência pessoal Mudança Vinculação Personal persistence Change Attachment