The goal of this study was to explore factors that lead to engagement in the community affected by HIV and AIDS (CAHA). An additional goal of this study was to better understand the relationships between psychological sense of community (PSOC) and social identification (SI), and their connections to two classes of motivations: community concern motivations (CCM) and esteem enhancement motivations (EEM). These constructs predicted two types of engagement in CAHA: AIDS activism and intentions for future participation in community related activity. Analyses were conducted on existing data (Omoto, 2005). The results indicate that PSOC and SI should be considered as independent constructs that uniquely explain community engagement. CCM were found to mediate these relationships, potentially explaining their links.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-05-20T14:00:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 marciahelenafaverodesouzatostes.pdf: 1066519 bytes, checksum: 07f8ee85ef6f588253dbd1d696fe04b2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-02T11:22:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 marciahelenafaverodesouzatostes.pdf: 1066519 bytes, checksum: 07f8ee85ef6f588253dbd1d696fe04b2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-02T11:22:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marciahelenafaverodesouzatostes.pdf: 1066519 bytes, checksum: 07f8ee85ef6f588253dbd1d696fe04b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-02 / O autismo infantil é um transtorno do desenvolvimento, definido pelo déficit na interação social, alterações da comunicação e padrões limitados de comportamentos. Alterações imunológicas, no metabolismo de fosfolípides de membrana e no estresse oxidativo estão subjacentes. Este trabalho avaliou os níveis dos marcadores de ativação imunológica, de fosfolípides de membrana e de óxido nítrico em 24 crianças autistas, pareadas por idade e sexo com crianças saudáveis, e investigou a variação desses níveis em crianças autistas com diferentes perfis de desenvolvimento. Após a avaliação psiquiátrica, as amostras de sangue foram coletadas e submetidas à análise de IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IFN-γ, TNF-α por citometria de fluxo, à análise de fosfolipase A2 por ensaio fluorimétrico, à análise de fosfolípides por cromatografia gasosa e à determinação do óxido nítrico pelo método de Griess. A escala de desenvolvimento do perfil psicoeducacional revisado (PEP-R) foi aplicada. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente (ANOVA e teste post hoc de Bonferroni) com auxílio do SPSS versão 13. Os níveis plasmáticos de IFN-γ e óxido nítrico foram significativamente elevados entre as crianças autistas em comparação com o grupo controle. A atividade de fosfolipase A2 e os níveis plasmáticos de ácido araquidônico estavam elevados, enquanto os de ácidos eicosapentaenóico e docosahexaenóico estavam reduzidos entre as crianças autistas. Os escores obtidos no PEP-R diferiram significativamente nos dois grupos, mas não houve correlação com os resultados das dosagens laboratoriais. A análise conjunta de dados sugere uma associação do estresse oxidativo com desregulação imune e alteração do metabolismo lipídico no autismo infantil. / Autism in children is a developmental disorder defined by deficits in social interaction, impaired communication and limitations in the standard behavior. There are also immunological changes, in metabolism of membrane phospholipids and in oxidative stress. This study evaluated the levels of the immune activators markers from membrane phospholipids and nitric oxide in 24 autistic children, matched for age and sex with healthy children. This study also investigated the variation of these levels in children with autism with different development profiles. After psychiatric evaluation, blood samples were collected and subjected to analysis of IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IFN-γ, TNF-α by flow cytometry, to analysis of phospholipase A2 by fluorimetric analysis, to analysis of phospholipids by gas chromatograph and to determination of nitric oxide by the Griess method. The scale of the development of psychoeducational profile revised (PEP-R) was applied. Data were statistically analyzed (ANOVA and post hoc Bonferroni test) using SPSS version13. Plasma levels of IFN-γ and nitric oxide were significantly higher among children with autism compared with the control group. The activity of phospholipase A2 and plasma levels of arachidonic acid were elevated, whereas eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid were reduced among children with autism. The scores obtained in the PEP-R differed significantly between the two groups, but no correlation with the results of laboratory measurements was found. The joint analysis of data suggests an association of oxidative stress with immune dysregulation and alteration of lipid metabolism in infantile autism.

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No contexto do culto hedonista do corpo e da ascensão do subjetivismo da vontade ao topo da escala de valores dos sujeitos contemporâneos, detectamos a existência de uma modalidade de identificação horizontal com aqueles que têm os mesmos traços de gozo, como por exemplo, entre aqueles que marcam o corpo. Partindo desta perspectiva este estudo articula dois elementos: o corpo marcado e as vicissitudes das identificações em tempos de fragilidade de referências simbólicas consistentes. Realizamos uma análise clínica a partir dos pressupostos da psicanálise dos dados de fala de quatro sujeitos que submetem seus corpos a tatuagens e alterações corporais. Esta pesquisa encontrou três sujeitos para quem seus corpos são palco de paixões que aí se inscrevem como forma de apelar por um lugar e pelo reconhecimento do Outro, e um sujeito que apresenta a peculiaridade de ancorar seu ser em suas modificações corporais e está identificado a uma insígnia de gozo / In the context of hedonistic cult of the body and the rise of subjectivism will the top of the range of values of contemporary subjects, we detected the existence of a horizontal mode of identification with those who have the same traits of enjoyment, for example, among those that mark the body. From this perspective this study combines two elements: the body affected and the vicissitudes of identifications in times of weakness of symbolic consistent. We performed a clinical analysis from the assumptions of psychoanalysis of the speech data of four individuals who submit their bodies to tattoos and body changes. This research found three subjects for whom their bodies are the site of the passions that then fall as a way to appeal for a place and recognition of the Other, and a guy who has the peculiarity of their being anchored in your body changes and is identified with a emblem of joy

O desejo de modificar o corpo vem crescendo consideravelmente entre as mulheres, que recorrem às cirurgias plásticas e outros procedimentos estéticos na busca do corpo ideal enaltecido pela mídia. Algumas destas modificam seus corpos desmedidamente, quando realizam vários procedimentos em uma mesma ocasião, ou quando excedem na quantidade de silicone, denotando com isso, um estilo de vida pautado na desmesura. O contexto atual é marcado por uma organização social perversa, ao se configurar a partir do apagamento dos limites e da exaltação de gozo que mobiliza o surgimento de traços perversos independente da estrutura clínica. Desta forma, este trabalho se propôs a realçar alguns traços perversos em três casos de mulheres midiáticas que modificam compulsivamente seus corpos. Coletamos os depoimentos expostos em vídeos disponíveis na internet, privilegiando aqueles que tratavam dos procedimentos estéticos. Para efeito de análise, elegemos os seguintes traços perversos: desmesura e a transgressão dos limites, fixação em objetos parciais, o corpo como objeto fetiche e a busca pelo olhar do outro como forma de gozo. Estas mulheres através da desmesura, desmentem suas faltas oferecendo seu corpo, em partes, como objeto fetiche para o outro olhar. / The body modification is increasing among women who search for plastic surgery and other aesthetic procedures in order to achieve a body that is praised by the media. Some of them modify their bodies beyond measure pulling their floating ribs out to make their waists slimmer, performing many procedures at the same time or when they exceed the amount of silicon implant in their breasts which detonates an undue behavior guideded by the disproportion. However, the current context is marked by a perverse social organization because it sets itself on the boundaries deletion and on the elation of the jouissance and moves the appearance of perverse traces independently on the clinical structure. Thus, this study aims to highlight some perverse traces in three cases of media women that compulsively change their bodies. Weve collected the depositions displayed on internet videos, focusing on those who dealt with the aesthetic procedures. For analysis, weve selected three perverse traces: disproportion and the boundaries transgression, the partial objects fixation, the body as a fetish and the search for other peoples look as way to achieve jouissance. Those women through the disproportion , deny their lacks by offering their bodies, in parts, as a fetish object to the others look.

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This dissertation examines Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter, Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe, and Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing. It focuses on the development of each of the protagonists’ identities in three realms: the individual, the familial and the societal. Additionally, it is concerned with the specific socio-political contexts in which the novels are set. It employs psychoanalytic and historical materialist frameworks in order to engage with the disparate areas of identity with which it is concerned. The introduction establishes the analytical perspective of the dissertation and explores the network of theoretical frames on which the dissertation relies. Additionally, it contextualises each of the novels, within their historical contexts, as well as in relation to the theory. The first chapter examines Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter. It focuses on the protagonist’s assertion of an identity independent of her father’s role as a political activist, and her eventual acceptance of the universal difficulty in negotiating a life which is both private and political. The second chapter, on Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe, examines the relationship between the protagonist’s traumatic experiences as a child and her inability to assert an identity as an adult. The similarities between the protagonist’s attempts to address her traumas and thereby create herself anew and South Africa’s employment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a means to acknowledge and engage with its traumatic history is of import. The third chapter which deals with Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing traces the life of its protagonist, whose identifications remain childish as a result of having witnessed her parents’ difficult relationship. Her understanding of the world is informed by a rigid, binary understanding, which is ultimately disrupted by her relationship with a black employee. She is incapable of readjusting her frame of reference, however, and ultimately goes mad. I conclude that, while my focus has been on personal, familial and social identifications, the standard terms in which identity is examined, namely, race, class, and gender, are present in each of the three tiers of identity with which I have been concerned.