This study's purpose was to investigate the importance of mentoring functions and behaviors for lifelong career development as perceived by protégés. The population included individuals in middle to late adulthood (age 40 years and older) who reported they had been a protégé in at least one mentoring association perceived as beneficial to their lifelong career development; and were either employed or had been employed as a middle manager, senior manager, C-level executive, business owner, or member of a profession. The sample was obtained using a chain-sample method; 67 Ambassadors completed an online survey and each invited 10 contacts to complete the survey. The final number of respondents was 503; of these, 456 reported being a protégé. Data were collected using the Perceptions of Workplace Mentoring Behaviors (PWMB) scale, a modification of Noe's (1988) Mentoring Functions Scale. The online survey included the PWMB scale items plus questions designed to engage the respondent's autobiographical memory and questions regarding respondent and mentoring association characteristics. The PWMB scale included seven new items, posited by the expert panel, enhancing the teaching aspect of mentoring. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted comparing four tenable models for the PWMB scale. The 8-factor model, which was essentially the protégé's view of Kram's (1985) mentoring functions model and included the seven newly developed items, exhibited the best fit of the four possible models. Results indicated that protégés perceived three factors from the Psychosocial category (Role Model, Acceptance-and-Confirmation, and Relationship Fundamentals) as most important to their lifelong career development. Effective Development Opportunities was perceived as the most important factor from the Career category. Professional Issue Counseling from the Psychosocial category was perceived as the least important factor. Significant differences were found for five of six independent variables (protégé gender, mentor gender, dyad, protégé's mentor group, and birth decade) at the item level and for four of six independent variables (protégé gender, dyad, protégé's mentor group, and decade of birth) at the factor level. Implications included designing mentoring programs that provide opportunities for mentors and protégés to develop relationships rather than directly assigning protégés to mentors.

The Study Anxiety Inventory (SAI), consisting of the factors of worry and emotionality, was developed to measure college students' self-reported levels of anxiety while studying for an exam. Data from 2002 undergraduate students from four colleges (Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Business, and Education) at a southeastern state university were used to evaluate the validity of the scores from the 16-item Study Anxiety Inventory. Results of confirmatory factor analyses for the two factor model, conducted separately for each college, indicated marginally acceptable fit for the data (median fit measures across the four colleges: CFI =.915, SRMR=.049, RMSEA=.098), a pattern that was repeated for both males and females. Multigroup CFA was used to evaluate the factorial invariance of the SAI across gender within each college. Factor loadings (i.e., pattern coefficients) for the SAI items were not found to be significantly different between males and females (p > .05). Error variances for four items were found to be significantly different between males and females, indicating that there may be some difference in scale reliability by gender. Factor covariances were invariant for all four colleges (p > .05) and factor variances were invariant for all but the worry component for the College of Arts and Sciences where females had significantly greater variability on the worry factor. As was hypothesized, the SAI scores were positively correlated with scores on measures of test anxiety (median r=.74), trait anxiety (median r=.46), active procrastination (median r=.23), and passive procrastination (median r=.29), but negatively correlated with trait curiosity (median r=-.19). Contrary to what was hypothesized, no relationship was demonstrated between study anxiety and study skills and habits (median r=-.03). The nomological network was extended in this study by examining relationships between scores obtained from students on the SAI and measures of active and passive procrastination. This is the first study that systematically examines the factorial invariance of the SAI by gender, which is important because previous research using the SAI has shown men's scores to be consistently lower than women's scores. The results obtained in the current study provide support for gender invariance in a nonclinical population in the situation specific level of anxiety while studying. There is sufficient evidence of validity and reliability (median Cronbach alphas for males and females for the total score were .978 and .980, for worry were .968 and .973, and for emotionality were .947 and .951, respectively) that a researcher should feel confident that the SAI is a psychometrically sound research tool that holds up fairly well across a number of different types of students and that making mean comparisons on the SAI by gender is acceptable.

Therapeutic Assessment (TA) is a hybrid of assessment and therapy techniques in which assessors actively collaborate with clients during an individualized assessment. TA is centered around client assessment questions and provides a safe environment where clients can create shifts in their ‘story’ of self. More specifically, TA with children and their parents has demonstrated more confident parenting and parents’ better understanding of their child’s difficulties, while children have shown decreased problem behaviors and improved social/emotional functioning. The theoretical framework behind TA emphasizes the importance of the interpersonal interactions between the assessor and client, such as the development of a strong assessor client relationship and collaboration. These interpersonal processes are conceptualized as catalysts for greater depth of parent investment in the assessment and deeper levels of feedback results. The need for greater parent involvement and partnership in child mental health services is increasingly recognized in the client/parent satisfaction literature. Parent feedback to child mental health services is most often acquired through satisfaction questionnaires. However, the satisfaction literature has well known limitations, specifically a lack of unifying theory and methodological issues in scale development. Parent satisfaction research indicates that interpersonal experiences are more related to satisfaction than outcomes or client characteristics, and that more psychometrically sound measures are needed. Currently, satisfaction surveys do not provide a detailed understanding of parents’ experiences to inform practice and research. The current study outlines the development of the Parent Experience of Assessment Scale (PEAS). The PEAS is anchored in the theoretical orientation of TA and provides a more quantifiable measure of hypothesized underlying TA constructs. Moreover, the development of the PEAS uses advanced statistical techniques, such as Confirmatory Factor Analysis and invariance testing, to provide a higher level of psychometric rigor. The resulting scale consists of 24 items divided among 5 subscales with demonstrated relationships to general satisfaction. Structural equation modeling provides insight via direct and indirect effects among the PEAS subscales and their relationship to general satisfaction. Through the development of the PEAS, this study provides empirical evidence and support for TA theory and a more nuanced understanding of parent experiences related to satisfaction. / text

The relationship between interpartner abuse (IPA) and criminal offending has received little scholarly attention, despite its important theoretical and practical implications. Two key questions about this relationship require attention. First, to what extent do IPA, violent offending, and property offending represent empirically distinct behavioural domains? Second, to what extent do these offence types share common predictors? The current study addressed these issues, and several additional issues, in a birth cohort of 950 New Zealand adults. Cohort members were questioned at ages 21, 25, and 30 years about the extent which they had engaged in IPA and criminal offending during the previous year. Information was also obtained from birth to late adolescence on a number of potential predictors of IPA and criminal offending, including socio-economic disadvantage, family dysfunction, childhood abuse, conduct disordered behaviours, deviant peer affiliations, substance abuse, academic ability, the obtainment of a high-school qualification, identification with an ethnic or racial minority, and gender. Confirmatory Factor Analysis results indicated that IPA, violent offending, and property offending represent three empirically distinct, albeit related, behavioural domains. Consistent with this finding were those obtained using Structural Equation Modelling techniques, which indicated that these offence types share many common childhood, adolescent, and demographic predictors. In addition, many predictors, but not all, were found to exert similar effects across these offence types. Analyses also indicated that shared predictors accounted for considerable proportions of the relationships between IPA, violent offending, and property offending. Finally, the vast majority of predictors were found to exert similar effects for males and females on each offence type. The current findings are discussed in relation to previous research and theory, and with respect to their implications for prevention-focused interventions for IPA and criminal offending.

Background: There are innumerable diabetes studies that have investigated associations between risk factors, protective factors, and health outcomes; however, these individual predictors are part of a complex network of interacting forces. Moreover, there is little awareness about resilience or its importance in chronic disease in adulthood, especially diabetes. Thus, this is the first study to: (1) extensively investigate the relationships among a host of predictors and multiple adaptive outcomes; and (2) conceptualise a resilience model among people with diabetes. Methods: This cross-sectional study was divided into two research studies. Study One was to translate two diabetes-specific instruments (Problem Areas In Diabetes, PAID; Diabetes Coping Measure, DCM) into a Chinese version and to examine their psychometric properties for use in Study Two in a convenience sample of 205 outpatients with type 2 diabetes. In Study Two, an integrated theoretical model is developed and evaluated using the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 345 people with type 2 diabetes from the endocrine outpatient departments of three hospitals in Taiwan. Results: Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed a one-factor structure of the PAID-C which was similar to the original version of the PAID. Strong content validity of the PAID-C was demonstrated. The PAID-C was associated with HbA1c and diabetes self-care behaviours, confirming satisfactory criterion validity. There was a moderate relationship between the PAID-C and the Perceived Stress Scale, supporting satisfactory convergent validity. The PAID-C also demonstrated satisfactory stability and high internal consistency. A four-factor structure and strong content validity of the DCM-C was confirmed. Criterion validity demonstrated that the DCM-C was significantly associated with HbA1c and diabetes self-care behaviours. There was a statistical correlation between the DCM-C and the Revised Ways of Coping Checklist, suggesting satisfactory convergent validity. Test-retest reliability demonstrated satisfactory stability of the DCM-C. The total scale of the DCM-C showed adequate internal consistency. Age, duration of diabetes, diabetes symptoms, diabetes distress, physical activity, coping strategies, and social support were the most consistent factors associated with adaptive outcomes in adults with diabetes. Resilience was positively associated with coping strategies, social support, health-related quality of life, and diabetes self-care behaviours. Results of the structural equation modelling revealed protective factors had a significant direct effect on adaptive outcomes; however, the construct of risk factors was not significantly related to adaptive outcomes. Moreover, resilience can moderate the relationships among protective factors and adaptive outcomes, but there were no interaction effects of risk factors and resilience on adaptive outcomes. Conclusion: This study contributes to an understanding of how risk factors and protective factors work together to influence adaptive outcomes in blood sugar control, health-related quality of life, and diabetes self-care behaviours. Additionally, resilience is a positive personality characteristic and may be importantly involved in the adjustment process among people living with type 2 diabetes.

abstract: This study investigated the internal factor structure of the English language development Assessment (ELDA) using confirmatory factor analysis. ELDA is an English language proficiency test developed by a consortium of multiple states and is used to identify and reclassify English language learners in kindergarten to grade 12. Scores on item parcels based on the standards tested from the four domains of reading, writing, listening, and speaking were used for the analyses. Five different factor models were tested: a single factor model, a correlated two-factor model, a correlated four-factor model, a second-order factor model and a bifactor model. The results indicate that the four-factor model, second-order model, and bifactor model fit the data well. The four-factor model hypothesized constructs for reading, writing, listening and speaking. The second-order model hypothesized a second-order English language proficiency factor as well as the four lower-order factors of reading, writing, listening and speaking. The bifactor model hypothesized a general English language proficiency factor as well as the four domain specific factors of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The Chi-square difference tests indicated that the bifactor model best explains the factor structure of the ELDA. The results from this study are consistent with the findings in the literature about the multifactorial nature of language but differ from the conclusion about the factor structures reported in previous studies. The overall proficiency levels on the ELDA gives more weight to the reading and writing sections of the test than the speaking and listening sections. This study has implications on the rules used for determining proficiency levels and recommends the use of conjunctive scoring where all constructs are weighted equally contrary to current practice. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011

Introdução: É consenso entre os psicanalistas e psicoterapeutas psicanalíticos que a transferência é um elemento central em qualquer forma de psicoterapia. O conceito de transferência, ao longo do tempo, vem se desenvolvendo e mudando. Atualmente ele se refere aos pensamentos, sentimentos, motivações e comportamentos que emergem na relação terapêutica e refletem a personalidade e o funcionamento interpessoal do paciente. A maneira com que o indivíduo se relacionou na infância com pessoas significativas cria modelos de relacionamento que são internalizados e ficam povoando seu mundo interno, servindo de modelo para as relações futuras com o mundo externo. Processos inconscientes do paciente transferem para os outros (incluindo psicoterapeutas) sentimentos e atitudes originalmente associados às figuras importantes do início da sua vida. O estudo da associação entre o modo com que a criança percebeu e vivenciou a relação com seus pais na infância e a maneira com que ela se relaciona atualmente com outras pessoas poderia esclarecer o impacto das relações precoces no desenvolvimento da personalidade e suas implicações no comportamento do sujeito. Objetivos: Este estudo tem como objetivo geral investigar a associação entre o vínculo parental percebido pelo paciente e a transferência realizada com o terapeuta em uma amostra de pacientes em psicoterapia psicanalítica do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Brasil. Os objetivos específicos são avaliar a freqüência dos diferentes tipos de vínculo parental e realizar análise fatorial confirmatória do Parental Bonding Instrument para verificar se esta escala mede dois ou três fatores, já que há uma ampla discussão na literatura sobre diferentes fatores estruturais do PBI. Método: Foram incluídos neste estudo todos pacientes adultos (maiores de dezoito anos), em tratamento psicoterápico no Programa de Psicoterapia Psicanalítica do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) durante o ano de 2005 e primeiro semestre de 2006. A avaliação diagnóstica foi realizada pelos terapeutas através de entrevista clínica por ocasião de ingresso no programa. As entrevistas clínicas foram supervisionadas por médicos psiquiatras, psicoterapeutas com experiência de 15 anos em psicoterapia psicanalítica. Para medir o fator em estudo, o vínculo parental, foi aplicado o Parental Bonding Instrument- PBI e para medir o desfecho, transferência, foi aplicado o Relationship Patterns Questionnaire – RPQ. As variáveis para controle de interesse deste estudo foram variáveis sociodemográficas e variaveis clínicas: tempo e frequência de tratamento psicoterápico, tratamento psicoterápico prévio, sintomas não psicóticos, mecanismos de defesa (medidos pelo DSQ-40), gênero da dupla terapêutica e diagnóstico clínico (DSM-IV). O tamanho da amostra foi calculado, para assegurar um poder estatístico de 80% (n= 63) para detectar correlações fracas a moderadas (r>0,3). A análise dos dados foi feita no programa estatístico SPSS14 e as correlações foram analisadas pelo teste de Pearson. As variáveis que apresentaram um valor de p ≤ 0.2 em relação ao desfecho foram controladas em um modelo de regressão linear. A análise fatorial confirmatória do PBI foi feita com uma amostra de 257 mulheres adultas realizada pelo programa Amos 5.0.1 software. Destas, 139 eram pacientes recrutadas de diferentes Ambulatórios do Serviço de Psiquiatria do HCPA e 118 controles, selecionados entre funcionários do HCPA e estudantes de medicina ou de psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). O método de máxima verossimilhança foi utilizado para comparar cinco diferentes estruturas fatoriais do PBI em termos de ajuste do modelo, seguindo modelo de estudo realizado por Sato et al (1999). Resultados: Em relação aos objetivos específicos verificou-se que o tipo de vínculo parental mais freqüente, segundo Parker, tanto para pai como para mãe foi o tipo 3, (vínculo com controle, sem afeto) e os resultados da análise fatorial do PBI sugeriram que o modelo estrutural de três fatores é preferível em relação ao de dois fatores. Já que, os valores do x2 para o modelo de dois fatores proposto por Parker foram significativamente maiores do que os dos quatro modelos de três fatores utilizados na comparação e o modelo Parker obteve também o menor valor de GFI (goodness-of-fit index) tanto para pai como para mãe (GFI= 0.740, GFI=0.771). Como resultado principal encontrou-se associação estatisticamente significativa somente entre o vínculo paterno e alguns padrões de transferência: amor, submissão e imposição. Quanto mais o paciente percebe seu pai como afetivo maior é o comportamento amoroso com o terapeuta (p=0,048; b=,252); também observouse correlação inversa estatisticamente significativa entre a escala de imposição e o afeto paterno, ou seja, quanto mais o paciente percebe seu pai como afetivo menor é sua percepção de comportamento impositivo do terapeuta com ele (p=0,049; b=- ,251) e quanto mais o paciente percebe seu pai como alguém que o encoraja a ter comportamento de liberdade menor é sua percepção de que o terapeuta reage de maneira submissa à ele (p=0,010; b=-,351). Conclusões: A análise fatorial do PBI, embora realizada em uma amostra apenas de pacientes mulheres, forneceu resultados semelhantes aos descritos na literatura, colaborando para melhor entendimento sobre a estrutura do instrumento em nosso meio. Foram realizadas pesquisas no Pubmed e no PsychInfo e não encontrou-se nenhum estudo quantitativo de associação entre o vínculo parental e a transferência. Os resultados encontrados reforçam a importância da qualidade do vínculo com o pai na infância na construção de padrões de relacionamentos, especialmente na relação terapêutica. A importância da identificação do terapeuta com a função paterna poderia auxiliar na compreensão da transferência-contratransferência e em um entendimento mais acurado do paciente. / Introduction: It is of consensus among psychoanalysts and psychotherapists that transference is a central element in any kind of psychotherapy. The concept of counter transference has been developing as well as changing over time. Transference is currently understood as something that refers to thoughts, feelings, motivations and behaviours that emerge during the course of the therapeutically relationship. Trasferential feelings reflect both the personality and the interpersonal behaviour of the patient towards. The way individuals related to important figures during their childhood creates models of relationship that are internalized and become part of the internal world of those individuals; patterns which will serve as models in future relationships established with the outside world. Unconscious processes Feelings and attitudes that were originally associated to important figures of the patients early years are transferred to other people – including psychotherapists- through unconscious processes. The study of the correlation between the way a child has perceived and lived his/her relationship with his/her parents during childhood and the way this person now relates to others may clarify the impact of relationships established at an early age on the development of one’s personality and its implications on ones behaviour. Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the parental bonding perceived by the patients and the transference related to the therapist in a patients sample who were assessed by the Programme on Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy from Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Brazil. Specifics aims are evaluating the frequency of different types of parental bonding and performing a confirmatory factor analysis of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) in our environment through a confirmatory factor analysis. We wish to verify whether this scale measures two or three factors given that there is wide discussion on the different structural factors of the PBI. Methods: Adult patients (above eighteen years of age) undergoing psychotherapy at the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Programme at Hospital das Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) during 2005 and the first half of 2006 were included in this research. The diagnostic evaluation was made by therapists through clinical interviews once the patients joined the programme at the HCPA. The interviews were supervised by psychiatries, psychotherapists with at least 15 years of experience. The instrument used to measure parental bond was the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), and Relationship Patterns Questionnaire (RPQ) was used to measure transference. The other controlled variables were sociodemographic variables and clinical variables as follows: length and frequency of the treatment, previous psychotherapeutic treatment, non-psychotic symptoms, defense mechanisms (DSQ-40), gender of the therapeutic dyad, and diagnosis (DSM-IV). The size of the sample was chosen in order to guarantee statistical power of 80% (n = 63) and the ability to detect weak and moderate correlations (r>0,3). The analysis of the data was performed using the SPSS14 software and the correlations were analyzed using the Pearson’s test. The variables that presented a p value ≤ 0.2 regarding the outcome (transference) were controlled in a linear regression model. The confirmatory factorial analysis of the PBI was made on a sample of 257 adult women. Among them, 139 were patients who were recruited from different ambulatories from the Psychiatric Service of HCPA and 118 were controls who were selected among employees of the HCPA, medical students and students of psychology. The method of maximum likelihood was used to compare five different factorial structures of the PBI, according to Sato’s study (1999). Results: The most frequent parenting style, according to Parker et al. (1979), either for father or mother, was type 3 (control without affection) and the results of the factor analysis of the PBI suggest that the structural model of three factors is preferable if compared to the structural model of two factors only. This is so for a number of reasons. First, because the values found for x2 for the two factors model proposed by Parker were significantly higher than the values found in the four models of three factors which were used in order to establish a comparison. Three factor models have also obtained the lower GFI value (goodness- of –fit index) for both fathers and mothers (GFI = 0.740, GFI=0.771). As main aim meaningful association has been found only amongst paternal bonding and some other patterns of transference such as love, submission and imposition. The more the patient perceives his/her father as affectionate, the more affectionate is his/her behavior towards the therapist (p=0.048; b=.252). A significant inverse correlation between the imposition scale and paternal affection has also been noticed. That means that the more affectionate one thought his/her father was , the less likely he/she was to perceive the impositive behaviour of the therapist towards him/her (p = 0.049; b =-.251). The more one thinks of his/her father as someone who encourages him/her to behave freely, the less likely is the patient to perceive that his/her therapist reacts in a submissive manner toward him/her (p= 0,010; b= - .351). Conclusions: Even though the factorial analysis of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) was only performed in women patients it has provided similar results to those found in the literature, leading, therefore, to a better understanding of the tool. Searches on PubMed and PsychoInfo were not able to find any quantitative study that related transference to parental bond. In the present study, we tried to find an association between the patient’s parenting style and the transference developed during the therapeutic relationship. The results found make us reflect on the importance of the quality of the bond one experiences with one’s father at childhood and its impact on the construction of relationship patterns, specially the relationships established on the therapeutic setting. Therefore, the ability of the therapist to identify with the paternal role may be help him/her when it comes to understanding transference and counter transference. It may also lead to a more accurate understanding of the patient.

Crescimento pós-traumático (CPT) refere-se à mudança positiva em algum aspecto da experiência humana como resultado do enfrentamento de situações adversas (traumáticas ou crises de vida em geral). O objetivo geral do presente trabalho foi investigar em uma amostra brasileira as propriedades psicométricas da Versão Brasileira do Inventário de Crescimento Pós-Traumático (Brazilian Version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory – PTGI-B), instrumento que se propõe a mensurar CPT. Para isso, dois estudos distintos foram realizados. O Estudo I buscou investigar a estrutural fatorial do PTGI-B. Participaram dele 321 pessoas que passaram por situações adversas variadas. A estrutura fatorial do PTGI-B foi investigada através do método de análise fatorial confirmatória. Testou-se cinco diferentes modelos de estrutura fatorial. A estrutura convencional de cinco fatores apresentou melhores índices de ajuste quando comparada às demais. Além disso, o modelo de cinco fatores de primeira ordem organizados em torno de um fator geral de segunda ordem também mostrou índices de ajuste adequados. O Estudo II buscou avaliar se as evidências de validade externa da Versão Brasileira do Inventário de Crescimento Pós-Traumático (PTGI-B) são mais consistentes quando se compara os resultados de um subgrupo pontuou alto na Escala de Centralidade de Eventos (ECE) versus os resultados do subgrupo que pontuou baixo na ECE - que avalia em que medida o evento de referência contribuiu na formação da identidade dos indivíduos. Participaram do estudo 317 pessoas que passaram por situações adversas variadas. Investigou-se a relação entre crescimento pós-traumático, suporte social, sentido de vida, satisfação com a vida, religiosidade e desajuste psicológico. As correlações entre CPT e as demais variáveis de interesse mostraram-se maiores e mais coerentes no subgrupo que pontuou alto na ECE do que no subgrupo que pontuou baixo. Os resultados obtidos fortalecem a concepção de que apenas eventos que levam a uma reavaliação das crenças centrais dos indivíduos devem ser incluídos nos estudos de CPT. / Posttraumatic growth (PTG) refers to the positive change in some aspect of the human experience as a result of facing adverse situations (traumatic or general life crisis). The main goal of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-B). To address this purpose, two distinct studies were performed. Study I was aimed to investigate the factor structure of the PTGI-B. It involved 321 people who had been through a wide range of adverse situations. The factorial structure of the PTGI was investigated using the method of confirmatory factorial analysis. Five different models of factorial structure were tested. The conventional five factor structure presented better adjustment indices when compared to the others. However, the factorial structure of five first order factors organized around a second order global PTG factor was also adequate. Study II intended to assess whether evidence of the external validity of the Brazilian Version of the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI-B) is more consistent when considering the events in which individuals scored high versus individuals who scored low on the Centrality of Events Scale (ECE). The ECE assesses to what extent the reference event contributed to the formation of individuals' identity. A total of 317 people who had been through a variety of adverse events participated in the study. It was investigated the relationship between posttraumatic growth, social support, meaning in life, life satisfaction, religiosity and psychological distress. The correlations between PTGI-B scores and the other variables of interest became larger and more theoretically coherent in the subgroup that scored high in ECE than in the subgroup that scored low. The results obtained strengthen the conception that only events that lead to a reassessment of individuals’ central beliefs should be included in the PTG studies.

Introdução: É consenso entre os psicanalistas e psicoterapeutas psicanalíticos que a transferência é um elemento central em qualquer forma de psicoterapia. O conceito de transferência, ao longo do tempo, vem se desenvolvendo e mudando. Atualmente ele se refere aos pensamentos, sentimentos, motivações e comportamentos que emergem na relação terapêutica e refletem a personalidade e o funcionamento interpessoal do paciente. A maneira com que o indivíduo se relacionou na infância com pessoas significativas cria modelos de relacionamento que são internalizados e ficam povoando seu mundo interno, servindo de modelo para as relações futuras com o mundo externo. Processos inconscientes do paciente transferem para os outros (incluindo psicoterapeutas) sentimentos e atitudes originalmente associados às figuras importantes do início da sua vida. O estudo da associação entre o modo com que a criança percebeu e vivenciou a relação com seus pais na infância e a maneira com que ela se relaciona atualmente com outras pessoas poderia esclarecer o impacto das relações precoces no desenvolvimento da personalidade e suas implicações no comportamento do sujeito. Objetivos: Este estudo tem como objetivo geral investigar a associação entre o vínculo parental percebido pelo paciente e a transferência realizada com o terapeuta em uma amostra de pacientes em psicoterapia psicanalítica do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Brasil. Os objetivos específicos são avaliar a freqüência dos diferentes tipos de vínculo parental e realizar análise fatorial confirmatória do Parental Bonding Instrument para verificar se esta escala mede dois ou três fatores, já que há uma ampla discussão na literatura sobre diferentes fatores estruturais do PBI. Método: Foram incluídos neste estudo todos pacientes adultos (maiores de dezoito anos), em tratamento psicoterápico no Programa de Psicoterapia Psicanalítica do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) durante o ano de 2005 e primeiro semestre de 2006. A avaliação diagnóstica foi realizada pelos terapeutas através de entrevista clínica por ocasião de ingresso no programa. As entrevistas clínicas foram supervisionadas por médicos psiquiatras, psicoterapeutas com experiência de 15 anos em psicoterapia psicanalítica. Para medir o fator em estudo, o vínculo parental, foi aplicado o Parental Bonding Instrument- PBI e para medir o desfecho, transferência, foi aplicado o Relationship Patterns Questionnaire – RPQ. As variáveis para controle de interesse deste estudo foram variáveis sociodemográficas e variaveis clínicas: tempo e frequência de tratamento psicoterápico, tratamento psicoterápico prévio, sintomas não psicóticos, mecanismos de defesa (medidos pelo DSQ-40), gênero da dupla terapêutica e diagnóstico clínico (DSM-IV). O tamanho da amostra foi calculado, para assegurar um poder estatístico de 80% (n= 63) para detectar correlações fracas a moderadas (r>0,3). A análise dos dados foi feita no programa estatístico SPSS14 e as correlações foram analisadas pelo teste de Pearson. As variáveis que apresentaram um valor de p ≤ 0.2 em relação ao desfecho foram controladas em um modelo de regressão linear. A análise fatorial confirmatória do PBI foi feita com uma amostra de 257 mulheres adultas realizada pelo programa Amos 5.0.1 software. Destas, 139 eram pacientes recrutadas de diferentes Ambulatórios do Serviço de Psiquiatria do HCPA e 118 controles, selecionados entre funcionários do HCPA e estudantes de medicina ou de psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). O método de máxima verossimilhança foi utilizado para comparar cinco diferentes estruturas fatoriais do PBI em termos de ajuste do modelo, seguindo modelo de estudo realizado por Sato et al (1999). Resultados: Em relação aos objetivos específicos verificou-se que o tipo de vínculo parental mais freqüente, segundo Parker, tanto para pai como para mãe foi o tipo 3, (vínculo com controle, sem afeto) e os resultados da análise fatorial do PBI sugeriram que o modelo estrutural de três fatores é preferível em relação ao de dois fatores. Já que, os valores do x2 para o modelo de dois fatores proposto por Parker foram significativamente maiores do que os dos quatro modelos de três fatores utilizados na comparação e o modelo Parker obteve também o menor valor de GFI (goodness-of-fit index) tanto para pai como para mãe (GFI= 0.740, GFI=0.771). Como resultado principal encontrou-se associação estatisticamente significativa somente entre o vínculo paterno e alguns padrões de transferência: amor, submissão e imposição. Quanto mais o paciente percebe seu pai como afetivo maior é o comportamento amoroso com o terapeuta (p=0,048; b=,252); também observouse correlação inversa estatisticamente significativa entre a escala de imposição e o afeto paterno, ou seja, quanto mais o paciente percebe seu pai como afetivo menor é sua percepção de comportamento impositivo do terapeuta com ele (p=0,049; b=- ,251) e quanto mais o paciente percebe seu pai como alguém que o encoraja a ter comportamento de liberdade menor é sua percepção de que o terapeuta reage de maneira submissa à ele (p=0,010; b=-,351). Conclusões: A análise fatorial do PBI, embora realizada em uma amostra apenas de pacientes mulheres, forneceu resultados semelhantes aos descritos na literatura, colaborando para melhor entendimento sobre a estrutura do instrumento em nosso meio. Foram realizadas pesquisas no Pubmed e no PsychInfo e não encontrou-se nenhum estudo quantitativo de associação entre o vínculo parental e a transferência. Os resultados encontrados reforçam a importância da qualidade do vínculo com o pai na infância na construção de padrões de relacionamentos, especialmente na relação terapêutica. A importância da identificação do terapeuta com a função paterna poderia auxiliar na compreensão da transferência-contratransferência e em um entendimento mais acurado do paciente. / Introduction: It is of consensus among psychoanalysts and psychotherapists that transference is a central element in any kind of psychotherapy. The concept of counter transference has been developing as well as changing over time. Transference is currently understood as something that refers to thoughts, feelings, motivations and behaviours that emerge during the course of the therapeutically relationship. Trasferential feelings reflect both the personality and the interpersonal behaviour of the patient towards. The way individuals related to important figures during their childhood creates models of relationship that are internalized and become part of the internal world of those individuals; patterns which will serve as models in future relationships established with the outside world. Unconscious processes Feelings and attitudes that were originally associated to important figures of the patients early years are transferred to other people – including psychotherapists- through unconscious processes. The study of the correlation between the way a child has perceived and lived his/her relationship with his/her parents during childhood and the way this person now relates to others may clarify the impact of relationships established at an early age on the development of one’s personality and its implications on ones behaviour. Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the parental bonding perceived by the patients and the transference related to the therapist in a patients sample who were assessed by the Programme on Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy from Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Brazil. Specifics aims are evaluating the frequency of different types of parental bonding and performing a confirmatory factor analysis of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) in our environment through a confirmatory factor analysis. We wish to verify whether this scale measures two or three factors given that there is wide discussion on the different structural factors of the PBI. Methods: Adult patients (above eighteen years of age) undergoing psychotherapy at the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Programme at Hospital das Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) during 2005 and the first half of 2006 were included in this research. The diagnostic evaluation was made by therapists through clinical interviews once the patients joined the programme at the HCPA. The interviews were supervised by psychiatries, psychotherapists with at least 15 years of experience. The instrument used to measure parental bond was the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), and Relationship Patterns Questionnaire (RPQ) was used to measure transference. The other controlled variables were sociodemographic variables and clinical variables as follows: length and frequency of the treatment, previous psychotherapeutic treatment, non-psychotic symptoms, defense mechanisms (DSQ-40), gender of the therapeutic dyad, and diagnosis (DSM-IV). The size of the sample was chosen in order to guarantee statistical power of 80% (n = 63) and the ability to detect weak and moderate correlations (r>0,3). The analysis of the data was performed using the SPSS14 software and the correlations were analyzed using the Pearson’s test. The variables that presented a p value ≤ 0.2 regarding the outcome (transference) were controlled in a linear regression model. The confirmatory factorial analysis of the PBI was made on a sample of 257 adult women. Among them, 139 were patients who were recruited from different ambulatories from the Psychiatric Service of HCPA and 118 were controls who were selected among employees of the HCPA, medical students and students of psychology. The method of maximum likelihood was used to compare five different factorial structures of the PBI, according to Sato’s study (1999). Results: The most frequent parenting style, according to Parker et al. (1979), either for father or mother, was type 3 (control without affection) and the results of the factor analysis of the PBI suggest that the structural model of three factors is preferable if compared to the structural model of two factors only. This is so for a number of reasons. First, because the values found for x2 for the two factors model proposed by Parker were significantly higher than the values found in the four models of three factors which were used in order to establish a comparison. Three factor models have also obtained the lower GFI value (goodness- of –fit index) for both fathers and mothers (GFI = 0.740, GFI=0.771). As main aim meaningful association has been found only amongst paternal bonding and some other patterns of transference such as love, submission and imposition. The more the patient perceives his/her father as affectionate, the more affectionate is his/her behavior towards the therapist (p=0.048; b=.252). A significant inverse correlation between the imposition scale and paternal affection has also been noticed. That means that the more affectionate one thought his/her father was , the less likely he/she was to perceive the impositive behaviour of the therapist towards him/her (p = 0.049; b =-.251). The more one thinks of his/her father as someone who encourages him/her to behave freely, the less likely is the patient to perceive that his/her therapist reacts in a submissive manner toward him/her (p= 0,010; b= - .351). Conclusions: Even though the factorial analysis of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) was only performed in women patients it has provided similar results to those found in the literature, leading, therefore, to a better understanding of the tool. Searches on PubMed and PsychoInfo were not able to find any quantitative study that related transference to parental bond. In the present study, we tried to find an association between the patient’s parenting style and the transference developed during the therapeutic relationship. The results found make us reflect on the importance of the quality of the bond one experiences with one’s father at childhood and its impact on the construction of relationship patterns, specially the relationships established on the therapeutic setting. Therefore, the ability of the therapist to identify with the paternal role may be help him/her when it comes to understanding transference and counter transference. It may also lead to a more accurate understanding of the patient.

Submitted by SIDNEY DE LIMA PINTO null (sidneylima@yahoo.com) on 2017-08-23T13:59:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Sidney Lima - DINTER URCA-FEG-UNESP.pdf: 1585870 bytes, checksum: c978a2c1a2007a1b2395348fe5078d12 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Monique Sasaki (sayumi_sasaki@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-23T16:50:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 pinto_sl_dr_guara.pdf: 1585870 bytes, checksum: c978a2c1a2007a1b2395348fe5078d12 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-23T16:50:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 pinto_sl_dr_guara.pdf: 1585870 bytes, checksum: c978a2c1a2007a1b2395348fe5078d12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta tese tem como objetivo a proposição de um modelo para avaliar a capacidade organizacional de Gestão da Inovação. Em indústrias dependentes de ativos de conhecimento e marcadas por rápidas mudanças, a dinâmica competitiva leva as empresas a questionarem paradigmas, padrões e modelos, de mercado, de negócio e de tecnologia, promovendo a inovação. Em consequência, o processo de inovação tem se apresentado como relevante campo de pesquisa acadêmica e da prática gerencial. Apesar disso, a teoria apresenta gaps de conhecimento, entre eles a compreensão da gestão estratégica do processo de inovação e da relação causal entre capacidades organizacionais e desempenho em inovação. Para dar suporte ao gerenciamento da inovação, se faz necessário identificar fatores internos da organização que contribuam para melhorar o desempenho do processo de inovação. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal a proposição e validação de um modelo de avaliação da Gestão da Inovação. Destaque-se que os estudos encontrados na literatura se concentram em um número restrito de capacidades organizacionais e seus efeitos moderadores sobre o desempenho em inovação e eventualmente deixam de considerar paradigmas que se estabeleceram na última década, tais como, capacidade absortiva, inovação aberta e ambidestria. Adicionalmente, os procedimentos e métodos que orientam a elaboração desses modelos têm sido documentados de forma imprecisa. Este trabalho utiliza uma abordagem qualitativa-quantitativa. Os construtos teóricos do Modelo foram identificados a partir de uma Revisão de Literatura, que permitiu a organização de um conjunto de variáveis utilizadas para a avaliação de aspectos intangíveis do processo de inovação, e subsidiaram a construção de um questionário. A teoria subjacente ao modelo foi validada por meio da aplicação de uma Análise Fatorial Confirmatória envolvendo 267 respondentes. A coleta de dados foi realizada junto a empresas do setor de software localizadas no "Porto Digital", parque tecnológico instalado em Recife, PE. Foram também realizadas entrevistas com 10 gestores. As evidências empíricas apontam para o fato de que o modelo proposto reflete as capacidades organizacionais que impactam no processo de inovação. As principais contribuições práticas consistem na elaboração de um instrumento para que gestores mapeiem as capacidades organizacionais que necessitam ser desenvolvidas de forma a aumentar o desempenho da organização em inovação. / This thesis aims at proposing a model to evaluate the organizational capacity of Innovation Management. In knowledge-dependent industries and distinguished by rapid changes, competitive dynamics leads companies to question paradigms, patterns and models of markets, businesses and technologies, promoting innovation. Therefore, the innovation process has been presented as a relevant field of academic research and management practice. Despite this, the theory presents knowledge gaps, among them the understanding of the strategic management of the innovation process and the causal relation between organizational capabilities and performance in innovation. To support the management of innovation, it is necessary to identify internal factors of the organization that contribute to improve the performance of the innovation process. The present work has as main goal the proposal and validation of an evaluation model of Innovation Management. It should be highlighted that the studies found in the literature focus on a limited number of organizational capacities and their moderating effects on innovation performance and eventually fail to consider paradigms that have been established in the last decade, such as absorptive capacity, open innovation and ambidexterity. In addition, the procedures and methods that guide the elaboration of these models have been inaccurately documented. This work uses a qualitative-quantitative approach. The theoretical constructs of the Model were identified based on a Literature Review, which allowed the organization of a set of variables used to evaluate intangible aspects of the innovation process, and subsidized the construction of a questionnaire. The theory underlying the model was validated through the application of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis involving 267 respondents. Data collection was carried out with companies in the software sector located in "Porto Digital", a technology park located in Recife, PE. Interviews were also conducted with 10 managers. The empirical evidence points to the fact that the proposed model reflects the organizational capabilities that impact the innovation process. The main practical contributions are the development of an instrument for managers to map the organizational capacities that need to be developed in order to increase the organization's performance in innovation. / CAPES: 9183/2012