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Entre o horror, a missão e a epopeia. Modalidades de atribuição de significado à participação na Guerra Colonial Portuguesa pelos seus ex-combatentes
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Este estudo teve como objectivo explorar os
significados atribuídos por uma amostra de 314
ex-combatentes da guerra colonial portuguesa (média
idade 57,3 anos, d.p. 3,69) à experiência de
participação na guerra. Utilizou-se a metodologia da
Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) para
realizar uma análise qualitativa às respostas dadas
pelos sujeitos à questão, Que significado tem na sua
vida ter estado na guerra. Os nossos resultados foram
ao encontro das conclusões de Aldwin, Levenson, e
Spiro III (1994) e de Fontana e Rosenhek (1998)
sugerindo que os ex-combatentes da guerra colonial
construíram significados múltiplos para as suas
experiências de guerra. A guerra enquanto experiência
ou a guerra enquanto espólio revestiram-se tanto de
significados negativos (i.e., decepções/perdas) como
de significados positivos (i.e. satisfação/benefícios).
This study had the objective of exploring the meanings the veterans have atributed to war. A total of 314 (87.7%) subjects of a sample of 350 Portuguese colonial war veterans (M=57.3, SD=3.69; 68.3% with 4 year education) answer to the question: What does it mean in your life to have participated in a war. The qualitative analysis of the answers, acording to the grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) brought two concepts to light; revelation and war spoils, showing that the traumatic significance of the war experience is not one, and war can also mean the fulfillment of a duty or the aquisition of benefits at emotional, intelectual and ethic maturity. Our results are consonant with Aldwin, Levenson, and Spiro III (1994) and with Fontana and Rosenhek (1998) because those authors had found that the war experience can result for veterans both in positive and negative outcomes.
This study had the objective of exploring the meanings the veterans have atributed to war. A total of 314 (87.7%) subjects of a sample of 350 Portuguese colonial war veterans (M=57.3, SD=3.69; 68.3% with 4 year education) answer to the question: What does it mean in your life to have participated in a war. The qualitative analysis of the answers, acording to the grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) brought two concepts to light; revelation and war spoils, showing that the traumatic significance of the war experience is not one, and war can also mean the fulfillment of a duty or the aquisition of benefits at emotional, intelectual and ethic maturity. Our results are consonant with Aldwin, Levenson, and Spiro III (1994) and with Fontana and Rosenhek (1998) because those authors had found that the war experience can result for veterans both in positive and negative outcomes.
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Keywords
Crescimento pós-traumático Guerra Estudo qualitativo Trauma Posttraumatic growth Meaning attribution Qualitative investigation Traumatic stress
Citation
Análise Psicológica, 26(4), 601-613.
Publisher
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada