Vários fatores são considerados igualmente relevantes para a construção do Capital Social e da vivência de felicidade em grupos e comunidades. Aspectos objetivos como renda, escolaridade, condições de moradia, saneamento básico, acesso a lazer, disponibilidade de serviços essenciais e participação na vida social costumam indicar altos índices de engajamento cívico, confiança, relações positivas, satisfação com a vida e outros associados à felicidade e ao capital social. No brasil, muitos desses indicadores apresentam níveis muito abaixo dos de outros países em iguais condições de desenvolvimento. É comum relacionar-se tais resultados com questões específicas do cenário nacional, como é o caso da desigualdade socioeconômica. Nesse sentido, pouco se compreende sobre a influência de fatores subjetivos sobre os indicadores de felicidade e de capital social no Brasil. Esse estudo se propôs a avançar nessa compreensão. A partir da investigação de duas vizinhanças com considerável nível de igualdade socioeconômica, e caracterizadas por infraestrutura e saneamento acima da média brasileira, pretendeu-se entender como aspectos subjetivos e inconscientes estão associados à felicidade e ao capital social. Utilizando como referência os elementos arquetípicos e simbólicos dos estudos sobre o Imaginário Cultural, buscou-se averiguar o impacto da paisagem na percepção que os moradores têm de suas comunidades. Indo além, procurou-se identificar como o imaginário sobre a paisagem interfere na forma como os habitantes pensam, sentem e agem em relação aos seus bairros e em relação as interações que estabelecem com suas vizinhanças. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que, no contexto brasileiro, complexos culturais arraigados ao nível do inconsciente influenciam a forma de se conduzir as relações sociais. O complexo da cordialidade aparece como impeditivo para a confiança interpessoal e para o aprofundamento das redes sociais e das relações positivas, comprometendo assim o envolvimento dos indivíduos com a vida coletiva. Na ausência de ações individuais voltadas para a promoção do bem comum, perde-se elementos fundamentais para a construção do capital social e para a vivência de felicidade / Many factors are equally important to the construction of both social capital and happiness in groups and communities. For instance, objective factors such as income, education, sanitation, living conditions, leisure, availability of essential services and social life engagement usually indicate high levels of civic engagement, trust, positive relations and satisfaction with life. In Brazil, the levels of many of these indicators are well below those of other countries in similar development stage. Such disparities are commonly justified by characteristics of the Brazilian society, such as social and economic inequality, with little being known about how subjective factors affect these indicators. This study thus intends to contribute to the understanding of how subjective factors influence the experience of happiness and the construction of social capital in Brazil, by investigating two neighborhoods characterized by low levels of social and economic inequality and with living conditions above the Brazilian average. Archetypical and symbolic elements borrowed from studies about Cultural Imaginary are employed in assessing how the landscape affects the way dwellers perceive their respective communities. This study also seeks to identify how the imaginary about the landscape interferes on the way dwellers think, feel and act, both in relation to their neighborhoods and to the way they interact with their neighbors. The obtained results suggest that cultural complexes deeply rooted in the Brazilian unconscious influence the way social relations are conducted. The cordiality complex emerges as hindrance to the development of interpersonal trust and to the deepening of social networks and positive relations, hence negatively affecting the engagement of individuals in collective life. In the absence of individual actions aimed at promoting common well-being, essential elements to the construction of happiness and social capital are lost

Os professores, para além de seus cursos de formação, são produzidos cotidianamente pela forma como vivem a experiência de ser professor, o que se realiza no interior do próprio funcionamento da instituição escolar. Esse funcionamento está baseado em uma série de racionalidades que delimitam o fazer docente, estabelecendo assim as referências para uma forma de pensar e de fazer-se como professor. E é nessa atualidade escolar que se verifica a ampla circulação de termos como segurança, gestão de riscos, necessidade de proteção, dano, vulnerabilidade, judicialização, entre outros, o que aponta para a existência de intensos investimentos na linha das políticas de controle e vigilância. Esse trabalho se dedicou à realização de um exercício analítico sobre o funcionamento do que foi aqui considerado como uma economia jurídica que atravessa a escola e que é refinada na sua dinâmica cotidiana. Tal economia foi abordada na sua articulação com o imperativo da busca por bem-estar e felicidade, uma das principais estratégias de governo dos indivíduos na contemporaneidade. Na instituição escolar essa economia jurídica produz sujeitos e um modo de se relacionar com a vida; produz, portanto, importantes efeitos, que se tentou desnaturalizar abordando-os do ponto de vista das estratégias de poder. As principais referências utilizadas foram os desenvolvimentos analíticos de Michel Foucault (1926-1984) acerca das relações de poder e das tecnologias de produção dos sujeitos, tendo o seu conceito de governamentalidade como ponto de condensação. Tentou-se uma escrita que, ao entrar no jogo da verdade que envolve a educação escolar, contribua de forma particular para obstaculizar alguns efeitos de poder que os discursos verdadeiros sobre educação, escola, professor, etc., têm produzido. Tal iniciativa, para além de uma simples ação negativa, pode também ser compreendida como uma forma de enfrentar uma situação de sufocamento, de excesso de certezas que impedem a ação do pensamento, coisa comum na atual educação escolar, e assim assume a forma de uma ação positiva de produção de vãos, brechas e buracos. Uma importante consideração a respeito do que foi analisado refere-se à ideia de que, nas escolas, ao invés de produzirmos formas de vida fortalecidas pelos confrontos no plano ético, temos produzido formas de vida enfraquecidas pela submissão à necessidade normativa e aos conchavos indispensáveis à autoproteção. Tal movimento está na base de um estreitamento do agir político que o tem restringido à garantia da formalidade e à conveniência individual. Sem pretensões à produção de esclarecimentos, tal trabalho procura atuar no plano da provocação do pensamento, onde o que está em questão é a coragem. / Teachers, beyond their formation courses, are produced day-to-day by the way they experience being teachers, a process that takes place within the very operation of educational institutions. This operation is based on a series of rationalities which delineate teaching, thus establishing references for a way of thinking and making oneself as a teacher. In present-day educational reality the wide usage of terms such as security, risk management, need for protection, damage, vulnerability, judicialization, among others, points towards the existence of intensive investment along the lines of control and vigilance policies. The present work has carried out an analysis on the mechanisms of what has been considered here as a juridical economy which pervades schools and is refined at its daily dynamics.This economy has been approached in its connections with the urgence for a search for welfare and happiness, one of the main governmental strategies of contemporary individuals. Within educational institutions this juridical economy produces subjects and a mode of relating to life. Therefore it produces important effects which we have tried to denature by approaching them from the viewpoint of the strategies of power. The main references used were the works of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) on relations of power and technologies for the production of subjects, having as a point of condensation his concept of governmentality. By entering the game of truth involving school education we have attempted to contribute in a particular manner towards hindering some of the effects of power that true discourses produce on education, school, teachers etc. Besides a mere negative action, such an initiative might also be understood as a way to confront a suffocating situation where the excess of certainties hampers the action of thought. This situation occurs often in current school education as it assumes the form of a positive action that produces gaps, breaches and holes. One important consideration on what has been analyzed: in schools, instead of life forms strengthened by confrontations at the ethical sphere, what has been under production is life forms weakened by the submission to normative need and to the plots indispensable to selfprotection. This movement forms the basis of a process that narrows political action down to ensuring formality and individual convenience. Although without any claim to clarification, we have focused on inciting reflective thought, where what is at stake is courage.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:09:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edilezia Freire Simoes.pdf: 1428588 bytes, checksum: e7868d398f5e5751bac9f317913e70ea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-13 / In the book Contra Academicos by Augustine of Hippo (354-430), the discussion about truth is guided by a fundamental question: Can a man achieve wisdom and happiness while he seeks truth or only after he finds it? The interlocutors in this dialogue confront each other around this question. This dissertation aims at understanding the criterion for truth presented in "Contra Academicos‖ and contextualizing/analyzing the philosophical sources that influenced Augustine s intellectual evolution, which required a thorough analysis of his work. The theme for discussion in "Contra Academicos‖ is a relevant problem until today, thus deserving serious debates about the questions it brings. Seeking truth is not a banal or shallow issue, but a necessary and fundamental one. The discussions presented in this book bring the philosophical path followed by Augustin into discussion. Path that started in a meeting with his own self in order to find the truth that dwells inside men. In this search, Augustin walks a path that could not be explained logically, but that concerns his soteriological project, which pushes him through Manichaeism, Neoplatonism and skepticism until he finally reaches Christianity. While passing through skepticism, he has contact with academic skepticism, fruit of confrontation between two Hellenistic schools Academy and Stoa about the criterion of truth. In this confrontation, the Stoic show an unquestionable criterion of truth, while the Academic emphasize impossibility of men to reach truth. As a result, in Contra Academicos Augustin attempts to refute the Academic arguments that had discouraged him from finding truth. He does it in order to reveal the theoretical frailty of those arguments and show that truth can be achieved by men. This truth is Christ, identified by God s wisdom and power. Therefore, Augustine s quest for truth consists in an effort to meet God and thus achieve happiness / Na obra Contra Academicos, de Agostinho de Hipona (354-430), a discussão sobre a verdade norteia-se por uma questão fundamental: Pode um homem alcançar sabedoria e felicidade enquanto ele procura a verdade ou somente quando ele a encontra? Em torno dessa questão, confrontam-se os interlocutores, nesse diálogo. Compreender o critério de verdade apresentado na obra Contra Academicos e contextualizar/analisar algumas fontes filosóficas que exerceram influência na evolução intelectual de Agostinho constituiu o objetivo desta dissertação, o que exigiu uma análise minuciosa da obra. O tema da discussão no Contra Academicos é um problema relevante até os dias de hoje, merecendo esse tema um debate sério acerca de suas questões. Buscar a verdade não é uma tarefa banal ou supérflua, mas necessária e fundamental. As discussões apresentadas nessa obra colocam em pauta a via filosófica na qual Agostinho se direciona, a partir de um encontro consigo mesmo, em busca da verdade que habita no interior do homem. Nessa busca, Agostinho realiza um percurso que não poderia ser explicado logicamente, mas que diz respeito ao seu projeto soteriológico, o qual o impulsiona a passar pelo maniqueísmo, pelo ceticismo, pelo neoplatonismo, até chegar, enfim, ao Cristianismo. Ao passar pelo ceticismo, ele entra em contato, principalmente, com o ceticismo acadêmico, fruto do embate acerca do critério de verdade entre duas escolas helenísticas, a saber: Academia e Estoá. Nesse embate, os Estoicos apresentam um critério indubitável de verdade, e os Acadêmicos, por sua vez, enfatizam a impossibilidade de o homem chegar à verdade. Resulta, então, que, em sua obra Contra Academicos, Agostinho procura refutar os argumentos acadêmicos, que o mantiveram na desesperança de encontrar a verdade. E ele faz isso com o intuito de revelar as debilidades teóricas daqueles argumentos e de mostrar que a verdade pode ser alcançada pelo homem. Essa verdade é Cristo, identificado com a Sabedoria e o Poder de Deus. A busca de Agostinho pela verdade consiste, pois, num esforço de conhecer a Deus e, assim, ser possível chegar à felicidade

Vários fatores são considerados igualmente relevantes para a construção do Capital Social e da vivência de felicidade em grupos e comunidades. Aspectos objetivos como renda, escolaridade, condições de moradia, saneamento básico, acesso a lazer, disponibilidade de serviços essenciais e participação na vida social costumam indicar altos índices de engajamento cívico, confiança, relações positivas, satisfação com a vida e outros associados à felicidade e ao capital social. No brasil, muitos desses indicadores apresentam níveis muito abaixo dos de outros países em iguais condições de desenvolvimento. É comum relacionar-se tais resultados com questões específicas do cenário nacional, como é o caso da desigualdade socioeconômica. Nesse sentido, pouco se compreende sobre a influência de fatores subjetivos sobre os indicadores de felicidade e de capital social no Brasil. Esse estudo se propôs a avançar nessa compreensão. A partir da investigação de duas vizinhanças com considerável nível de igualdade socioeconômica, e caracterizadas por infraestrutura e saneamento acima da média brasileira, pretendeu-se entender como aspectos subjetivos e inconscientes estão associados à felicidade e ao capital social. Utilizando como referência os elementos arquetípicos e simbólicos dos estudos sobre o Imaginário Cultural, buscou-se averiguar o impacto da paisagem na percepção que os moradores têm de suas comunidades. Indo além, procurou-se identificar como o imaginário sobre a paisagem interfere na forma como os habitantes pensam, sentem e agem em relação aos seus bairros e em relação as interações que estabelecem com suas vizinhanças. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que, no contexto brasileiro, complexos culturais arraigados ao nível do inconsciente influenciam a forma de se conduzir as relações sociais. O complexo da cordialidade aparece como impeditivo para a confiança interpessoal e para o aprofundamento das redes sociais e das relações positivas, comprometendo assim o envolvimento dos indivíduos com a vida coletiva. Na ausência de ações individuais voltadas para a promoção do bem comum, perde-se elementos fundamentais para a construção do capital social e para a vivência de felicidade / Many factors are equally important to the construction of both social capital and happiness in groups and communities. For instance, objective factors such as income, education, sanitation, living conditions, leisure, availability of essential services and social life engagement usually indicate high levels of civic engagement, trust, positive relations and satisfaction with life. In Brazil, the levels of many of these indicators are well below those of other countries in similar development stage. Such disparities are commonly justified by characteristics of the Brazilian society, such as social and economic inequality, with little being known about how subjective factors affect these indicators. This study thus intends to contribute to the understanding of how subjective factors influence the experience of happiness and the construction of social capital in Brazil, by investigating two neighborhoods characterized by low levels of social and economic inequality and with living conditions above the Brazilian average. Archetypical and symbolic elements borrowed from studies about Cultural Imaginary are employed in assessing how the landscape affects the way dwellers perceive their respective communities. This study also seeks to identify how the imaginary about the landscape interferes on the way dwellers think, feel and act, both in relation to their neighborhoods and to the way they interact with their neighbors. The obtained results suggest that cultural complexes deeply rooted in the Brazilian unconscious influence the way social relations are conducted. The cordiality complex emerges as hindrance to the development of interpersonal trust and to the deepening of social networks and positive relations, hence negatively affecting the engagement of individuals in collective life. In the absence of individual actions aimed at promoting common well-being, essential elements to the construction of happiness and social capital are lost

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T13:10:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ingrid Veronica Pinto Barreiros.pdf: 2079978 bytes, checksum: dd52f4b2eb700782e05c2f05d57f21ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Happiness is desired and it s a goal and despite being subjective, it can be measured. Some researchers defined it as the way someone evaluates his life in a general manner besides his economic, health and social status. Nowadays there is a search for the best way to measure it. The first attempt had occurred at Far East, in Bhutan, during the 70 s. Today, UN (United Nations) has an index, the HPI (happy Planet Index) that can rank the countries according to the level of happiness and can be associated with GDP (gross domestic product) and HDI (human development index). In a small fashion, this concept is also utilized inside private organizations and there are apps for tablets and cells phones for this purpose. In this research, the authors evaluate the happiness perception level within two different groups of professionals, the first working at the administrative section and the second involving nurses. The two groups were composed by thirty subjects and work at a general educational hospital. For this purpose, they used the Oxford Happiness Report index with 29 items and the SF 36 report. By statistic analyses the authors correlated the different aspects of happiness within the two groups. Using social demographic questionnaire, the two groups were compared according to the happiness level and then with the SF 36 results. There were no significant differences between the two groups. The average happiness level were 4.70 for the administrative group and 4.52 for the nurse group. The Scale varies between 1, bad level of happiness until 6, excellent level of happiness / A Felicidade é almejada e perseguida por todos e, apesar de ser subjetiva, pode ser medida. É considerada, por alguns estudos, como sendo a maneira que uma pessoa avalia a sua vida de uma forma geral, independente de sua situação econômica, física e social. Atualmente se tem buscado vários meios para sua aferição. A iniciativa inicial foi no Oriente, mais especificamente no Butão, em 1970. Hoje a ONU possuí um índice, o HPI (Happy Planet Index) que serve para avaliar os países neste critério e é usado juntamente com o PIB e o IDH. De maneira menos ampliada este conceito está presente dentro de organizações privadas através de outros tipos de instrumentos de medição, já existindo inclusive aplicativos para tablets e celulares com esse fim. Neste estudo nos propusemos a avaliar a percepção de felicidade em dois grupos de profissionais, um do setor administrativo, com N igual a 30 e outro do setor de enfermagem, com N também igual a 30 de um Hospital Geral de Ensino, com o questionário de Felicidade de Oxford composto por 29 itens e também a Qualidade de Vida com o Questionário SF 36. Através de estatística foram feitos estudos quantitativos transversais e observacionais que correlacionaram os fatores que influenciam a felicidade. Com a aplicação de um questionário sócio demográfico, os dois grupos, administrativo e enfermagem, foram comparados em relação ao grau de felicidade, sendo correlacionada a felicidade com os domínios do SF 36. Os resultados estatísticos não demonstraram significante diferença entre os dois grupos. A média do grau de felicidade obtida foi de 4,52 e 4,70; para enfermagem e administrativo respectivamente, de uma escala que vai de 1 a 6, onde 1 é ruim e 6 é ótimo

Social psychology has a long tradition of studying the personality traits associated with subjective well-being (SWB). However, research often depends on a priori but unempirical assumptions about how to (a) measure the constructs, and (b) mitigate confounded associations. These assumptions have caused profligate and often contradictory findings. To remedy, I demonstrate how a computational psychology paradigm-predicated on large online data and iterative analyses-might help isolate more robust personality trait associations. At the outset, I focussed on univariate measurement. In the first set of studies, I evaluated the extent researchers could measure psychological characteristics at scale from online behaviour. Specifically, I used a combination of simulated and real-world data to determine whether predicted constructs like big five personality were accurate for specific individuals. I found that it was usually more effective to simply assume everyone was average for the characteristic, and that imprecision was not remedied by collapsing predicted scores into buckets (e.g. low, medium, high). Overall, I concluded that predictions were unlikely to yield precise individual-level insights, but could still be used to examine normative group-based tendencies. In the second set of studies, I evaluated the construct validity of a novel SWB scale. Specifically, I repurposed the balanced measure of psychological needs (BMPN), which was originally designed to capture the substrates of intrinsic motivation. I found that the BMPN robustly captured (a) dissociable experiences of suffering and flourishing, (b) more transitive SWB than the existing criterion measure, and (c) unique variation in real-world outcomes. Thus, I used it as my primary outcome. Then, I focussed on bivariate associations. The third set of studies extracted pairs of participants with similar patterns of covarying personality traits-and differing target traits-to isolate less-confounded SWB correlations. I found my extraction method-an adapted version of propensity score matching-outperformed even advanced machine learning alternatives. The final set of studies isolated the subset of facets that had the most robust associations with SWB. It combined real-world surveys with a total of eight billion simulated participants to find the traits most prevalent in extreme suffering and flourishing. For validation purposes, I first found that depression and cheerfulness-the trait components of SWB-were highly implicated in both suffering and flourishing. Then, I found that self-discipline was the only other trait implicated in both forms of SWB. However, there were also domain-specific effects: anxiety, vulnerability and cooperation were implicated in just suffering; and, assertiveness, altruism and self-efficacy were implicated in just flourishing. These seven traits were most likely to be the definitive, stable, drivers of SWB because their effects were totally consistent across the full range of intrapersonal contexts.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Have South African women's lives become happier since the transition to democracy? If they are, could this be linked to gender equality? This is the central question of this study. This study explored a group of women’s subjective experiences of gender equality, by which I mean equality on the basis of gender; and happiness, which refers to women’s life satisfaction and their affective state. It further explores whether gender equality and happiness are linked. The study assumed that everything being equal, endeavours to liberate women from patriarchy and towards gender equality enhance women’s happiness. 1994 ushered in a democratic South Africa and numerous legislative and policy changes were introduced that affect women. Considerable gains have been made at the constitutional and political levels for women’s equality and gender justice. This is reflected in the rankings of South Africa on many different indices. Yet, we see numerous challenges facing women including poverty and gender-based violence. This study examined whether the presence of a range of policies as well as affirmative and protective measures for women have impacted on how they experience their lives. In particular, do they feel that they are happy and do they see happiness as linked to gender equality efforts? Given the research question, this study was grounded within a feminist framework. A mixed methods approach utilising both qualitative and quantitative methods was employed.

Pautada no modelo médico, a Psicologia tem direcionado seus esforços científicos muito mais para o estudo dos aspectos disfuncionais do indivíduo do que para suas potencialidades. Isso gerou um desequilíbrio no campo de estudos dessa ciência que, ao focalizar sua atenção quase que exclusivamente nos problemas humanos, acabou por deixar que temas, como a Felicidade, fossem apropriados pela chamada literatura de auto-ajuda. A partir do referencial teórico da Psicologia Positiva, este estudo busca compreender a felicidade humana a partir de uma abordagem científica, o que julgamos fundamental para a construção de um corpo teórico consistente sobre o tema e capaz de auxiliar no desenvolvimento de programas de saúde mental de caráter preventivo. Sendo assim, investigamos a relação entre felicidade e lócus de controle numa amostra de 106 sujeitos universitários utilizando-nos, para tanto da Correlação de Spearman e do Teste de Kruskal-Wallis. Os resultados indicaram que quanto maior o lócus de controle interno dos sujeitos pesquisados, maior também seus níveis de felicidade. / Developed around the medical model, Psychology has directed its scientific efforts principally toward the study of the dysfunctional aspects of human behavior rather than toward the potential of the individual. This has created a disequilibrium in the field of study of this science which by focusing its attention almost exclusively on human problems has relegated themes such as Happiness to the so-called self-help literature. Based on the theoretical reference of Positive Psychology, this study seeks to understand Human Happiness from a scientific point of view. We judge this approach fundamental to the construction of a body of theory consistent with the theme and capable of helping in the development of preventive mental health programs. Therefore, we research the relationship between happiness and control "locus" in a sample of 106 university students, using the Spearman Correlation and the Kruskal-Wallis test. The results indicate that the greater the internal control locus of the individuals studied, the greater their level of personal happiness.

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First-generation college (FGC) students represent a small portion of the population of students on college campuses across the nation. Racial minority students are also highly underrepresented at four-year institutions. When one combines FGC students who are also racial minorities, they comprise an even smaller subgroup of students attending four-year college campuses. Research conducted to evaluate how FGC students perform their first year in college is prevalent. Additionally, research has been completed on factors that help predict a high school student's admission into and performance in college. However, very little research exists about factors identified in high school that may help strengthen a prospective FGC, racial minority, and high school student's admission into college. This study will utilize the RELATE questionnaire to evaluate individual characteristics or circumstances identified in prospective first-generation college racial minority students that may be potentially mediated for by high school counselors or college administrators to help strengthen college or university admission. Counselors or advisors could have an impact on improving the likelihood of college or university admission for this population by facilitating the process of coming to terms with family stressors and/or strengthening their flexibility or adaptability to new or different environments, learning, and people. Since the RELATE database does not include direct data regarding college admission, positive student educational characteristics such as sociability, calmness, organization, maturity, and happiness will be utilized to represent potential stronger preparation for admission into college. RELATE is a questionnaire designed for individuals in a committed relationship and provides important information regarding the individual, the partner, and the relationship. Research with the RELATE questionnaire data is generally utilized in family and social science domains. This study is unique since it accesses the individual instead of couple data for positive educational characteristics and research. This comparative study between prospective first-generation college White students and prospective first-generation college racial minority students is designed to assist educators in secondary and higher educational levels to better prepare prospective FGC students, particularly prospective FGC racial minority students, for college admission. Also, this study will distinguish between various characteristics that may assist college recruiters identify prospective FGC students who may be a strong fit for their institutions.