Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-81). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999. / "May 1999." Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2005. / Vita. Bibliography: 40-46.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Typescript. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 71 pages. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Typescript. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 32 pages. Includes Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Oct. 30, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-62).

The main aim of this PhD research was to explore the cultural differences in moral judgment, moral behaviour, moral identity, and cultural values between Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom. Furthermore, I was interested in the psychological factors affecting morality in those two cultures. The first study aimed to achieve the following objectives: to understand people’s moral judgment in Saudi Arabia and the UK, to investigate whether and how personality traits and cultural values affect moral judgment in five moral foundations (harm avoidance, justice, ingroup, authority, purity), and to investigate whether personality traits and cultural values are related differently or similarly across Saudi and UK cultures. The findings of the study revealed that Saudi and British participants differed with regard to their foundation-specific moral judgments. Saudi participants were more likely to endorse moral foundations in the domains of intergroup relations, authority, and purity. However, there were no cross-cultural differences in the domains of harm avoidance and justice. Moreover, the results showed that the effect of personality traits and cultural values on morality varied. Harm and fairness foundations were predicted by personality traits while ingroup, authority, purity foundations were predicted by values. The second study investigated whether foundation-related moral behaviour was affected by moral judgment and people’s moral identity in a cross-cultural context comparing adults from the UK and Saudi Arabia. Findings of this study resulted in no cross-cultural differences between the two samples concerning moral judgment in the care and justice foundations. Furthermore, no cultural differences were found between the two samples concerning moral behaviour in the five foundations. In addition, moral identity mediated the relationship between moral judgment and allocations in the dictator game. The third study investigated the relationship between (dis-) honest behaviour, moral judgment and moral identity in two different cultures, namely Saudi Arabia and the UK. It has been found that there are no statistically significant differences in honest behaviour between Saudi Arabia and the UK. Furthermore, deception was not predicted or correlated significantly with any of the five foundation-specific moral judgments across both cultural samples. However, culture moderated the relationship between deception and moral judgment in harm and authority moral foundations. Additionally, moral sensitivity did not mediate the relationship between moral judgments and dishonesty. The forth study explored the link between moral foundation violations (harm, justice, ingroup, authority, and purity) and anger, disgust, sadness, apathy, guilt, contempt, shame, resentment, and embarrassment emotions. Findings showed that the violations of harm, and justice foundations triggered anger and Violations of purity foundation triggered disgust. The results show no cultural differences in the assignments of the violations made by both samples. Saudi and UK participants’ classifications were in agreement with the original classifications of the 40 violations by Graham et al. (2009). However, we found cross-cultural differences in the relationship between emotions and moral foundation violations.

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2016-01-27T13:09:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2432545 bytes, checksum: b6d8b998b89cb7f5eda90b919294bcd8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-27T13:09:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2432545 bytes, checksum: b6d8b998b89cb7f5eda90b919294bcd8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-29 / Facial expressions function as an extremely adaptive non-verbal form of communication. However, there is a debate regarding the universality of emotions. This study aimed to create and carry out a cross-cultural comparison of a Brazilian facial expressions database. Fifteen actors in the city of João Pessoa were instructed to pose expressions of happiness, fear, disgust, sadness, anger, surprise and the neutral face. The sample of the validation study was composed of 242 undergraduate students from João Pessoa/Brazil, Ribeirão Preto/Brazil and Barcelona/Spain. The results show a high recognition rate of expressions in different regions, getting above 80% frequency (happiness, anger, surprise and neutral faces), approximately 70% (disgust), however, below of 45% for fear. Some emotions were differently attributed between locations, but overall there was agreement in the evaluation of judges. The high recognition rates are evidence in favor of the universality hypothesis, but more research is needed. / As expressões faciais funcionam como uma forma de comunicação não verbal extremamente adaptativa. Entretanto, ainda existe um debate em relação a universalidade das emoções. O presente estudo teve como objetivo a composição e a comparação transcultural de um banco de expressões faciais brasileiro. Quinze atores da cidade de João Pessoa representaram as faces de alegria, medo, nojo, tristeza, raiva, surpresa e neutra. O estudo de validação dos estímulos contou com a participação de 242 estudantes universitários de João Pessoa/PB, Ribeirão Preto/SP e Barcelona/Espanha. Os resultados indicaram um alto índice de reconhecimento das expressões nas diferentes regiões, obtendo frequências acima de 80% (faces de alegria, raiva, neutra e surpresa), de aproximadamente 70% (nojo), entretanto, para medo, abaixo de 45%. Algumas emoções foram atribuídas de forma diferenciada entre as localidades, mas no geral houve concordância na avaliação entre juízes. Os altos índices de reconhecimento dão suporte à hipótese da universalidade, contudo mais investigações são necessárias.

Orientador: Maria Helena Baina de Moraes Lopes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T20:58:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernandes_MarcellaLimaVictal_M.pdf: 3941848 bytes, checksum: 51a27ec98438641644e783f34a5ceb86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Objetivou-se traduzir, adaptar para a cultura brasileira e avaliar as medidas psicométricas de confiabilidade de teste-reteste e validade discriminante dos instrumentos "The Interstitial Cystitis Symptom Index and Problem Index" (The O'Leary-Sant) e "Pelvic Pain and Urgency/Frequency (PUF) Patient Symptom Scale" utilizados no diagnóstico de cistite intersticial. Foram realizadas as etapas metodológicas recomendadas pela literatura internacional para a adaptação cultural. As etapas de tradução, síntese das traduções e retro-tradução foram realizadas satisfatoriamente e a avaliação das versões síntese, pelo comitê de especialistas resultou em algumas alterações, assegurando as equivalências entre as versões originais e traduzidas. O "PUF" foi pré-testado entre 40 sujeitos e o "The O'Leary-Sant" em uma amostra de 50 indivíduos devido a necessidade de ajustes em decorrência da baixa escolaridade da população. O processo de tradução e adaptação foi realizado com sucesso e os instrumentos, após as modificações, demonstraram ser de fácil compreensão e rápido preenchimento. A estabilidade foi avaliada usando-se teste-reteste, com intervalo de 3 a 7 dias entre as duas aplicações. Para verificar a validade discriminante foram usados três grupos: um de pacientes com cistite intersticial (CI), e dois grupos controles: um formado por indivíduos com pelo menos um sintoma indicativo de CI (controle 1) e outro por pessoas sem sintomas (controle 2). O teste-reteste foi aplicado a 24 pacientes com CI (grupo de estudo). O coeficiente de correlação intra-classe (CCI) foi de 0,56, IC: 95% (0,21-0,78) para o índice de sintomas do "The O'Leary-Sant", 0,48, IC: 95% (0,10-0,73) para o índice de problemas do "The O'Leary-Sant" e de 0,49, IC: 95% (0,12-0,74) para o PUF. Para a análise da validade discriminante entre os grupos utilizou-se o teste exato de Fisher e odds ratio para identificar as diferenças. O p-valor <0,0001 indicou que, considerando um nível de significância de 5%, a hipótese nula foi rejeitada, isto é, houve indícios de que pelo menos dois grupos eram diferentes em relação à proporção de casos com cistite intersticial. Concluiu-se que os dois instrumentos analisados não atingiram valor adequado para confiabilidade, o que gera a necessidade de futuros estudos de análises de medidas psicométricas em uma amostra maior de pacientes com cistite intersticial / Abstract: The objective was to translate, adapt to the Brazilian culture and to evaluate psychometric measures of test-retest reliability and discriminant validity of the instruments "The Interstitial Cystitis Symptom Index and Problem Index" (The O'Leary-Sant) and "Pelvic Pain and Urgency/Frequency (PUF) Patient Symptom Scale" used in the diagnosis of interstitial cystitis. We made the methodological steps recommended by the international literature for cultural adaptation. The steps of translation, synthesis of translations and back-translation were performed satisfactorily and evaluation the versions of the synthesis by the committee of experts has resulted in some changes, ensuring the equivalence between the original and translated versions. The "PUF" was pre-tested among 40 subjects and "The O'Leary-Sant" in a sample of 50 individuals due to the need for adjustments due to the low education population. The translation and adaptation process was successful and the instruments, after changes, proved easy to understand and fill quickly. However, this is a study prior to the validation process and will be pressing the use of the instrument in new research to be assessed its measurement properties. The stability of test-retest was evaluated using intervals of 3 to 7 days between the two applications. To check the discriminant validity were used three groups: patients with interstitial cystitis (IC), and two control groups: one composed of individuals with at least one symptom of CI (control 1) and another for those without symptoms (control 2). The test-retest was administered to 24 patients with IC (study group). The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) was 0.56, IC: 95% (0.21-0.78) for the index of symptoms of "The O'Leary-Sant", 0.48, IC: 95% (0.10-0.73) for the index of issues of "The O'Leary-Sant" and 0.49, IC: 95% (0.12-0.74) for PUF. For the analysis of discriminant validity between groups used the Fisher exact test and odds ratios to identify the differences. The p-value <0.0001 indicated that, considering a significance level of 5%, the null hypothesis is rejected, ie, there were signs that at least two different groups were compared to the proportion of patients with interstitial cystitis. It was concluded that the two instruments analyzed did not reach the appropriate value for reliability, which creates the need for future studies of analyzes of psychometric measures in a larger sample of patients with interstitial cystitis / Mestrado / Enfermagem e Trabalho / Mestra em Ciências da Saúde

This study was designed to elicit Indo-Canadian women immigrants' experience of childbearing. Health care professionals do not know enough about the childbearing experiences of this cultural group. This may lead to conflicts and discrepancies of viewpoints between clients and professionals which may result in nurses providing care that is not perceived as relevant by the individual. This study was directed by the following questions: What are Indo-Canadian women's beliefs about childbearing? What are their perceptions of their traditional practices, in their ethnic community, surrounding childbearing? What are the western health care resources utilized by the women during childbearing? How are these western health care resources perceived by the women? Phenomenology, a qualitative research methodology, was used in this study. Data were collected through a series of indepth interviews with eight women. The initial audiotaped interviews were guided by the research questions and addressed the women's perceptions of their childbearing experiences. The data were comprised of the accounts given by the women in these interviews. Data collection and analysis occurred simultaneously throughout the study. Analytic material was thus used to focus and clarify the ongoing construction of accounts. The women described very different childbearing experiences. Dissimilarities in the phenomena under investigation were more evident than similarities and were attributed to the concept of acculturation. Two themes emerged from the data: the subjects' relationships with their families and the subjects' relationships with health care professionals. Each theme affected and was affected by the concept of acculturation. Influencing factors within the two themes were respect, authority, lack of knowledge and, in the case of the family, shyness. Perceived discrimination was an influencing factor in the subjects' relationships with post-partum hospital nurses. This study concluded that dissimilarities in the childbearing experiences of Indo-Canadian immigrant women are attributable to the process of acculturation; and that the women's childbearing experiences are located within a broader context of meanings associated with the reproductive cycle. The subjects' relationships with their families and with health care professionals are significant aspects of their childbearing experiences and are influenced by authority, respect, lack of knowledge and shyness. Discrimination is perceived by the women in relation to the post-partum hospital nurses. These conclusions have implications for nursing practice, research and education. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Nursing, School of / Graduate