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Racial identity can be defined as the personal understanding, both explicitly and implicitly, that one is similar to some people and different from others, according to concepts based around the idea of race. In the US, there has been a lot of research, including on the identity of persons having parents from different races. However, in the UK, there is the view that race is a taboo topic, and this is particularly true in psychology; hence strikingly little such research has been conducted. This situation seems most evident particularly regarding how mixed-race persons develop their racial identity. This thesis begins to redress the imbalance. A literature review on "race (Chapter 1)", is followed by a literature review on "mixed-race (Chapter 2)", with many ideas forwarded in these two chapters then tested in five further qualitative and/or quantitative research chapters. In order, these investigate the salience of race at the explicit level (Chapter 3), then at the implicit level (Chapter 4, regarding black and white persons). Chapters then investigate the mixed-race identity qualitatively first in adults (Chapter 5), and then qualitatively/quantitatively alongside self-esteem measures in adolescents (Chapter 6); before a fifth empirical chapter considers the implicit level again but this time specifically regarding attitudes by and towards mixed-race persons (Chapter 7). Taken together, the five empirical chapters find that the parental races tend to see "race" differently to each other. Regarding specifically mixed-race, we find that mixed-race persons shift in identity first from childhood (a more black identity) to adolescence (white identity), and then back again from adolescence to young adulthood (black identity). We additionally find that mixed-race persons tend to have a less definite sense of identity than their parental races, and that this view of mixed-race is also held by one of the parental groups (the white group). It is hoped that further research will now begin to build on these findings. The final chapter (Chapter 8) offers a start at this, outlining a new theoretical account of the development of a mixed-race identity.

Orientador: Suelly Amaral Mello / Banca: Cyntia Graziella Guizilim Simões Girotto / Banca: João Batista Martins / Banca: Olga Ceciliato Mattioli / Banca: Stela Miller / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teórico/bibliográfica busca identificar a concepção de criança no Enfoque Histórico-Cultural. Para dimensionar o significado dessa concepção, buscou-se inicialmente identificar as políticas e os programas educacionais voltados para a criança no Brasil desde o final do século XIX, com a educação dirigida para as crianças das classes economicamente menos favorecidas. Essa educação esteve apoiada em concepções marcadas pela assistência e o protecionismo. A imposição, o autoritarismo e uma educação da subordinação também marcaram as primeiras iniciativas de instituições dedicadas à criança no Brasil, neste período. Durante o século XX até o presente, políticas educacionais continuaram a preconizar uma concepção assistencialista. Na primeira parte desta tese, buscamos identificar, de um modo geral, essas práticas e políticas educativas orientadas para a criança pequena no Brasil com o objetivo de identificar a concepção de criança que as subsidia. Num segundo momento, buscamos os princípios que revelam a concepção de criança presente no Enfoque Histórico-Cultural uma vez que este compreende o ser humano como um ser histórico e cultural que apreende sua humanidade por meio de sua atividade no mundo, e se apropria das qualidades humanas histórica e socialmente construídas por meio das inter-relações com seu entorno - as pessoas e os objetos da cultura e constitui, por essa via, novas formações psíquicas. Nessa perspectiva, fundamentada por esta nova concepção de criança que vemos emergir do Enfoque Histórico-Cultural, a escola infantil adquire uma dimensão intencional na apropriação de saberes, onde o educador tem sua função marcada pela intencionalidade cujo papel é criar na criança os motivos para a apropriação das qualidades humanas. / Abstract: This theoretical/bibliographic research aims to identify the concept of child in Focus on Historical-Cultural. In order to access the extent of this concept it was primarily searched the identification of the political and educational programs that are concerned with the children in Brazil, from the end of the XIX century with education turned to children of lower economic classes supported by conceptions marked by assistance and protectionism. This imposition, the authoritarism and education of subordination also left a mark on the first initiatives of institutions dedicated to children in Brazil, already in the 18 and 19 centuries. During the 20 century and up to now, educational politics continued to prescribe a concept of assistance in education. In the first part of this thesis we try to identify, in a general way, these practices and educational politics guided to the small child in Brazil, with the aim of identifying the concept of child that supports them. In a second moment, we search the principles that reveal the concept of the child present in the Focus Historical-Cultural once this one understands the human being as a historical and cultural being who apprehends its humanity by means of its activity in the world, and appropriates the human qualities historically and socially built by means of inter relations that surround it-people and objects of the culture - and forms, this way, new psychological formations under this perspective, based on this new conception of child that we see emerge from the Focus Historical-Cultural, the child school acquires and intentional dimension in the appropriation of knowledge where the educator has their function marked by intentionality whose role is to create on the child the reasons for the appropriation of human qualities. / Doutor

This study aimed to determine what the effect of a sport development and nutrition intervention programme would be on the following components of psychological development of previously disadvantaged, primary school-aged rugby players: self-esteem; cognitive development, attention and concentration and social support. The participants were primary school boys between the ages of 9 and 14 years from disadvantaged communities. They were recruited on the basis of availability from six primary schools in the Potchefstroom area of the North West Province involved in a rugby development programme. The research design was a randomised, single-blinded, controlled intervention study. The children were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group. The experimental group of children received an exercise intervention and a nutritional supplement twice a week for a period of three months. The control group received no sport or nutritional interventions during this period. The research methodology included pre-testing, intra-testing and post-testing. With the pre-testing a comparison could be drawn between the experimental and control group regarding the above-mentioned psychological components. During the intra testing each of the 2 groups was evaluated separately regarding these components to identify any changes that could have taken place within the group from baseline to end. With the post-testing the 2 groups were compared with each other regarding these components to determine whether the nutrition and exercise interventions resulted in any markable changes to especially the experimental group. The results showed an statistically significant improvement in self-concept within the experimental group (p = 0.028) whereas no difference in self-concept within the control group was obtained. The effect of the intervention programme was not as clearly observable in any of the other psychological components. A longer duration of such an intervention programme could possibly contribute to better test results. The socioeconomic circumstances of the participants played an important role in the final outcome of the study in that it influenced the social support the participants received and it also had an effect on the test behaviour of the participants. / Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

This thesis explores the psychological development of liminal characters in four late-twentieth-century British novels. Studies of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert's Parrot, A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, and John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by using D. W. Winnicott’s transitional-objects theory and Jessica Benjamin’s intersubjective theory, show how characters who are little more than infants socially and psychologically attempt to transcend the transitional, liminal status defined by Victor Turner. With the aid of significant objects or equal other subjects, these characters, whose subjective self-constructions at the beginning of the novels have become stalled in an immature position of emotional development or been inhibited by dominating individuals, progress psychologically towards controlling their own subjectivity.

This study aimed to determine what the effect of a sport development and nutrition intervention programme would be on the following components of psychological development of previously disadvantaged, primary school-aged rugby players: self-esteem; cognitive development, attention and concentration and social support. The participants were primary school boys between the ages of 9 and 14 years from disadvantaged communities. They were recruited on the basis of availability from six primary schools in the Potchefstroom area of the North West Province involved in a rugby development programme. The research design was a randomised, single-blinded, controlled intervention study. The children were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group. The experimental group of children received an exercise intervention and a nutritional supplement twice a week for a period of three months. The control group received no sport or nutritional interventions during this period. The research methodology included pre-testing, intra-testing and post-testing. With the pre-testing a comparison could be drawn between the experimental and control group regarding the above-mentioned psychological components. During the intra testing each of the 2 groups was evaluated separately regarding these components to identify any changes that could have taken place within the group from baseline to end. With the post-testing the 2 groups were compared with each other regarding these components to determine whether the nutrition and exercise interventions resulted in any markable changes to especially the experimental group. The results showed an statistically significant improvement in self-concept within the experimental group (p = 0.028) whereas no difference in self-concept within the control group was obtained. The effect of the intervention programme was not as clearly observable in any of the other psychological components. A longer duration of such an intervention programme could possibly contribute to better test results. The socioeconomic circumstances of the participants played an important role in the final outcome of the study in that it influenced the social support the participants received and it also had an effect on the test behaviour of the participants. / Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

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Background: Maternal mental health during pregnancy and its effects on offspring outcomes have received increased attention as a public health concern. This thesis aimed to examine and evaluate current research into the long term effects of maternal antenatal anxiety on offspring’s psychological development and markers of developmental psychopathology. This thesis also aimed to identify protective factors to parental distress during pregnancy. Self-compassion and adult attachment security have been found to be protective psychological factors for ameliorating stress in general adult samples. Therefore the empirical paper aimed to investigate the effect of these factors during the antenatal period. Method: A systematic literature review of prospective studies examining the effects of maternal antenatal anxiety on child psychopathology and neurodevelopment literature identified 16 relevant prospective studies. The empirical study recruited a general population sample of women and their partners during their second trimester of pregnancy. They completed self-report assessments of self-compassion, adult attachment security, mood and antenatal attachment. Neonatal birth outcome data was collected as follow-up data. Results: The systematic literature review results indicate that maternal antenatal anxiety can be measured and does have a negative impact on offspring development. The results also identified a broad risk phenotype, suggesting that interventions should not necessarily only be targeted at women reaching clinical caseness. The review highlighted a lack of specificity regarding possible psychological mechanisms of the relationship between maternal antenatal anxiety and offspring outcomes. The results of the empirical paper indicated that higher levels of self-compassion and attachment security were related to fewer self-reported symptoms of distress in mothers and their partners. Self-compassion was found to mediate the relationship between attachment security and distress in mothers. Neither antenatal attachment nor neonatal birth outcomes were significantly related to attachment security, self-compassion or levels of distress. Conclusions: The results of the systematic review should broaden public health concern. A need for future research is identified in terms of understanding the process of maternal-foetal programming, protective mediating factors and effective interventions. The role of self-compassion as a protective mediating factor is discussed in relation to identification and treatment of distress during the antenatal period.

Title: Issues of successful transition of football players from youth categories to seniors category Objectives: The primary aim of this thesis is to bring new looks at the issuess of football maturation and to describe the important factors of psychological development and the important social factors that usually affect the success of the football career, especially during the period of transition to seniors category. Methods: Our basic method was the retrospective analysis of professional career of current football players. According to the questionnaire research, we found some wanted factors related to the discussed period, which have positive effects on the football career. Results: This thesis shows some significant factors, which have positive effects on successful transition of players from youth categories to seniors category. The results of our research, as well as the findings and advices should be helpful for everyone, who participates in upbringing, training and sports career of adolescent football players. Keywords: psychological development, education, social environment, adolescence, talent, training, performance, success

Orientador: Lígia Márcia Martins / Banca: Sueli Terezinha Ferreira Martins / Banca: Nádia Mara Eidt / Resumo: O debate em torno da motivação para a aprendizagem remonta às críticas da Escola Nova à Escola Tradicional. Para a primeira, a educação deveria ser funcional, o que equivale a dizer que deve ser fundada nas necessidades dos alunos. O processo pedagógico verdadeiro é o que toma como ponto de partida, eixo e referência central, as necessidades espontâneas dos aprendizes. O ensino torna-se não-diretivo, pois a escola exime-se dessa função. A instrução dos alunos é orientada por eles mesmos, de acordo com suas inclinações e interesses pessoais. Os escolares não devem mais aprender, mas "aprender a aprender". A Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica revela o que está escondido detrás dessa aparente democratização do ensino. Os métodos escolanovistas questionavam a própria validade do ato de ensinar. Contribuindo assim, para o rebaixamento da qualidade do ensino. A Pedagogia de orientação marxista retoma a transmissãoassimilação dos conhecimentos clássicos como centro do processo pedagógico. A questão é que isso não implica na renúncia à motivação para a aprendizagem. Ao contrário, ela é considerada um elemento importante do processo pedagógico. Trazemos contribuições da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural nesse sentido, para demonstrar como a motivação se desenvolve ao longo da ontogênese. Partindo da teoria da atividade de A. N. Leontiev, vemos que os motivos para qualquer atividade humana são edificados socialmente. A força motora de seu desenvolvimento encontra-se nas relações sociais do indivíduo, isto é, a chave para a compreensão da motivação (o aparecimento dos motivos) é a natureza social do psiquismo. Isso significa que os motivos para aprender, bem como todo e qualquer motivo, não são dados invariáveis da vida individual, mas dependem em grande medida da qualidade das relações sociais e dos processos educativos vividos ao largo... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The debate around motivation for school learning makes us return to the criticism of New School for Traditional School. The first one thinks that education should be functional, which means that it should be founded on students needs. The true teaching process is the one that takes as starting point, axis and central reference, the spontaneous needs of learners. Teaching becomes non-directive, since the school refuses itself to perform this task. Students' instruction is guided by them, according to their personal interests. Scholars should no longer learn, but "learn to learn". Historical-Critical Pedagogy reveals what is ridden behind this apparent democratization of school. The New School methods questioned the very validity of the act of teaching. Thus contributing to the depreciation of educational quality. The Marxist-oriented Pedagogy retakes the transmission and assimilation of classical knowledge as center of pedagogical process. The point is that it doesn't imply on renouncement of motivation to learn. Rather, it is considered an important element of the pedagogical process. We bring contributions from Historical and Cultural Psychology to demonstrate how motivation develops along ontogeny. Starting from activity theory of A. N. Leontiev, we see that reasons to any human activity are socially edified. Reasons' development driving force lies in person's social relationships, that is, the key to comprehend motivation (the rise of reasons) is the social nature of psyche. This means that reasons to learning, as any reason, are not invariable on a person's life, but depend largely on the quality of social relationships and educational processes experienced offshore development. Wherefore, to be motivated to learn is, first of all, to be in school. Besides this condition, knowledge must be the object that stimulates the activity of the learner... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre