Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-05T17:08:56Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertaçao pedro augusto.pdf: 933583 bytes, checksum: e02c52cf60c29aee909b6f40eb3a23b0 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:08:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertaçao pedro augusto.pdf: 933583 bytes, checksum: e02c52cf60c29aee909b6f40eb3a23b0 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Capes / A dissertação tem o objetivo de analisar as inovações Constitucionais do Novo Constitucionalismo Pluralista Latino-Americano, que é resultado da fusão da concepção de “Novo Constitucionalismo Latino-Americano”, proposto Roberto Viciano e Rubens Dalmau, centrada na participação popular e nos mecanismos democráticos contidos nas recentes Constituições da América-Latina, com a percepção de “Constitucionalismo Pluralista”, de Raquel Fajardo - mais interessada no protagonismo indígena e na formação do Estado plurinacional. O presente trabalho também busca caracterizar as diferentes concepções teóricas sobre o fenômeno, comparando-o com o Neoconstitucionalismo de matriz europeia e destacando suas diferenças, através do recorte plurinacional e intercultural que permeia as novas Constituições Latino- Americanas. Nesse sentido, demonstramos que esse movimento surgiu como uma forte reação popular às políticas neoliberais adotadas, principalmente, nos anos noventa, e como tal reação reverberou em textos constitucionais comprometidos com a participação popular e a cosmovisão indígena, tendo em vista que este grupo foi o grande protagonista nessas reações sociais. Sob esta perspectiva, analisamos, primeiramente, as Cartas Constitucionais da Venezuela e da Colômbia que apresentaram significativos avanços normativos, embora não sejam efetivamente consideradas parte do Novo Constitucionalismo Pluralista Latino-americano – tendo em vista que não incorporaram as cosmovisões indígenas em seus textos Constitucionais -, além de, no primeiro caso, as recentes reformas constitucionais tenderam a enfraquecer o poder popular e fortalecer o poder presidencial e, no segundo caso, a formação monocultural das instituições estatais, ainda que a Corte Constitucional propicie alguns avanços no campo dos Direitos sociais e na questão indígena. Em seguida, estudamos as Constituições do Equador e da Bolívia que, efetivamente, rompem com o modelo do constitucionalismo tradicional e propõem novas e criativas possibilidades de pensar o Constitucionalismo de acordo com os postulados da descolonização e plurinacionalidade, positivando nessas Constituições o Sumak Kawsay (Bem-viver), que orienta uma nova concepção de desenvolvimento alternativa ao capitalismo, a Pachamama (Mãe-terra), que rompe com o antropocentrismo moderno e torna a natureza sujeito de Direitos, e a intensificação da participação popular, por meio de instituições que buscam controlar o estado e a economia, além de possibilitar a participação indígena no seio do Estado.

The purpose of the present dissertation was to evaluate the internal validity of symptoms of four common anxiety disorders included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition (text revision) (DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000), namely, separation anxiety disorder (SAD), social phobia (SOP), specific phobia (SP), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), in a sample of 625 youth (ages 6 to 17 years) referred to an anxiety disorders clinic and 479 parents. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were conducted on the dichotomous items of the SAD, SOP, SP, and GAD sections of the youth and parent versions of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV (ADIS-IV: C/P; Silverman & Albano, 1996) to test and compare a number of factor models including a factor model based on the DSM. Contrary to predictions, findings from CFAs showed that a correlated model with five factors of SAD, SOP, SP, GAD worry, and GAD somatic distress, provided the best fit of the youth data as well as the parent data. Multiple group CFAs supported the metric invariance of the correlated five factor model across boys and girls. Thus, the present study’s finding supports the internal validity of DSM-IV SAD, SOP, and SP, but raises doubt regarding the internal validity of GAD.

Orientador: Iumna Maria Simon / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-18T16:46:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VillarragaEslava_Fernando_M.pdf: 9105202 bytes, checksum: 841324dd8b1a042a486535ce1a6369a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1993 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Teoria Literaria / Mestre em Letras

The purpose of both Study 1 and Study 2 was to experimentally examine the ways in which non-Latinx, White, European American individuals just world beliefs and color-blind racism may predict scapegoating behaviors directed at Black, African American and Brown, Latino men in the workplace. Participants were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk Prime. The main hypothesis for Study 1 was that just world beliefs would positively predict shame and guilt, shame and guilt would positively predict discipline, and that color-blind racism would mediate the relationship between shame and guilt and discipline. The overall scapegoating model was not supported, but individual pathways were significant. The main hypothesis for Study 2 was that just world-beliefs would positively predict threat of loss, threat of loss would positively predict discipline, and that color-blind racial ideology would mediate the positive relationship between threat of loss and discipline. The overall scapegoating model was not supported but the significance of individual pathways is discussed below. For Study 1 I found partial support for racial differences in discipline, but this was not found in Study 2. However, I did find that participants who were threatened with job loss in Study 2 assigned harsher discipline. In both Study 1 and Study two it was found that color-blind racism predicts harsher discipline. Future research and implications are discussed.

This study examined the efficacy of a brief culturally and instructionally modified cognitive behavioral therapy program for five anxious Latino/a youths ages 8-11 years in an elementary school setting. Each student exhibited anxiety in a classroom setting as reported by their teachers and parents or guardians. A noncurrent multiple baseline design was implemented using A-B replications to assess the effects of baseline and treatment on daily self-report student distress ratings as well as daily teacher rated distress, academic engagement, and work completion. All participants completed the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale-2 pre- and post-treatment as well as a Children’s Intervention Rating Profile post-treatment. The participants received a total of five sessions twice a week to teach skills. With the modified program, it was found that four of the five students benefited from the intervention on academic performance or engagement and three of the five also benefited on emotional regulation ratings. Additionally, all five students perceived the intervention as acceptable. Suggestions for future research include further assessment of student acculturation and acculturative stress, including more phone call check-ins and/or visits with parents, further assessment of the degree of teacher support of learned skills, and teacher acceptability of the intervention.

There is an abundance of literature examining parent-child relationships, and subsequently, parenting interventions that address these. The purpose of this study was to examine if positive and negative parental behaviors predicted externalizing behaviors in children. The following questions were addressed: (a) What are the types of positive interactions that Latinos parents engage in with their children? (b) Does a ratio of intervals of positive to intervals of negative parent behaviors predict externalizing behaviors in children among Latinos? (c) Do proportions of intervals of positive and/or negative behaviors predict a greater percentage of variance in child outcomes than does a ratio of intervals of behaviors in Latino families? Participants included 49 two-parent families with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 11. All participants were living in Puerto Rico at the time of the study and primarily spoke Spanish. Video recordings of parents interacting with their children in a variety of structured and unstructured tasks were reviewed, and 10 s intervals were coded as either negative (-), negative (+), positive or neutral. Results revealed (a) Latino parents engage in a variety of behaviors with their children, (b) a ratio of intervals of behaviors did not statistically significantly predict externalizing behaviors in Latino children, and (c) proportion of intervals of behaviors also did not statistically significantly predict externalizing behaviors in Latino children. In order to continue to inform culturally appropriate parenting interventions, it is imperative that more observational research be conducted with various cultures. It is important to look at the types of behaviors that parents from various cultures engage in with their children to inform adaptations of parenting interventions. The current study examined exclusively parents, however, future studied might also address extended family member, and teacher behaviors and interactions as well.

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The Light of the World Church in East Boston is a minority church that has historically served the Latino immigrant community. Its tight connection to the mother church in Mexico and the continual growth from immigration established its religious identity as a minority church with the social function of ethnic preservation. As a minority church, it also sacralized sociocultural elements from the mother church’s context that were not part of the church’s official theology but helped its growth by providing a cultural safe haven for its immigrant members. As the church developed and grew, the ethnic religious identity was challenged by the US-born Latino members who were assimilated to American culture and by the church’s own people of God theology, which called for a multicultural congregation. The ethnic nature of the church, on the one hand, and the universal nature the church’s own theology called for, on the other, as opposing views of what the church should be, created an identity crisis. The crisis threatened congregational unity by leading towards the creation of two distinct churches, the ethnic immigrant church and the assimilated American church. This thesis project begins to close the gap between the culturally conflicted Light of the World Church in East Boston and the multicultural people of God envisioned in its theology, by reimagining identity through the adoption of a Christ-like consciousness, the creation of a multicultural congregational ethos and modified gender power structured within.

This study examines current trends of university counseling center utilization among Latino students at a large, private, western university. We examined counseling center data for Latino (n=1,231) and European American (EA) (n=18,125) students who presented for counseling services from 1996-2013. Latino students were divided into three subgroups, U.S. born Latino students (USB), international Latino students (IB), and Latino students who were born internationally but who are now U.S. citizens (IBUS). These three subgroups were compared with the EA student group on multiple variables; therapy utilization, length of treatment, Outcome Questionnaire (OQ) score at intake, OQ change, therapy usage by gender, and intake responses to the Family Concerns Survey and Presenting Problems Checklist. IB students presented for treatment with significantly higher levels of distress than any other group. EA students were more likely to attend therapy than any Latino subgroup. EA students also did not endorse any familial concerns or presenting problems at higher rates than any Latino subgroup. Further research is needed to understand why Latino subgroups are experiencing more distress and attend less treatment than EA counterparts and to look more in depth at resources for IB students, who appear to be the most at-risk Latino subgroup.

Voting analysts in the United States have attempted to predict political orientation based on race, gender, occupation, educational achievement, and economic background. Yet, the substantial amount of research available on these factors has been directed toward the understanding of the white-majority vote. Now, as a result of the overwhelming growth of ethnic minority populations scholars are beginning to look at the potential decisive role of ethnic minority voters. Part of this newly formed voting bloc consists of Hispanics which are now one of the fastest and largest racial minority groups in the United States. This thesis aims to understand the Hispanic electorate by addressing their social mobility. Furthermore, this research will shed light into the socio-economic factors affecting the political affiliation of Hispanic voters.