Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2017-11-07T22:23:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Romulo_G_Santos_2017.pdf: 1198545 bytes, checksum: acc45174579465b43cda8d2c3252506b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-07T22:23:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Romulo_G_Santos_2017.pdf: 1198545 bytes, checksum: acc45174579465b43cda8d2c3252506b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-24 / In this reflection on the despair in human existence, a way of living that does not annul what man is, spirit, synthesis, was asked and proposed, but he established it in the direction of the transcendent - God. The risk of inauthenticity, however, was made explicit, provoking in the individual the feeling of despair, which becomes more serious the more he withdraws from his self and consecutively from his Author. But it was also spoken of a man inattentive and, however noticeable and clear the signs of transcendence are, it seems that he does not see them, or because of the values exchanged between the temporal and the eternal, he ends up deceiving himself and distancing himself from his Me, becoming a desperate. / Nessa reflexão sobre o desespero na existência humana, perguntou-se e foi proposta uma forma de se viver que não anula o que o homem é, espírito, síntese, mas, firma-o em direção ao transcendente - Deus. Ficou explícito, entretanto o risco da inautenticidade, provocando no indivíduo o sentimento do desespero, que se torna mais grave quanto mais se afasta do seu eu e consecutivamente de seu Autor. Mas também se falou de um homem desatento e, por mais perceptível e claro que sejam os sinais da transcendência, parece que não os vê, ou devido aos valores trocados entre o temporal e o eterno, acaba enganando-se e distanciando-se de seu eu, tornando-se um desesperado.

Investigamos acerca do sofrimento humano e suas vicissitudes na clínica psicológica, a partir do pensamento de Kierkegaard, especificamente a partir do conceito de desespero. Objetivase analisar os caminhos que o psicólogo tem para compreender os fenômenos mentais, e relacioná-los com a filosofia kierkegaardiana, pautado numa metodologia qualitativa de pesquisa. Sendo o sofrimento humano um fenômeno subjetivo, ele adquire uma semântica diferente para cada indivíduo. Kierkegaard explora o sofrimento a partir da universalidade do fenômeno do desespero. No livro A doença mortal, o autor faz uma análise estrutural sobre as diversas manifestações que o desespero pode ter para cada pessoa, de acordo com os níveis de consciência que cada um possui. Nesse percurso, a proposta desta investigação articulou esses saberes à clínica psicológica naquilo que se revela no sofrimento. Para tanto, constatamos que o terapeuta precisa estar fundamentado numa epistemologia que acolha a questão do mistério e do inominável da condição humana, tal como foi examinada a partir do pensamento de Kierkegaard. Este autor analisou o desespero num horizonte filosófico e teológico. Na perspectiva clínica, vemos que o desespero encontra-se num horizonte de compreensão que paciente e terapeuta têm no instante da sessão psicoterápica / We investigated the human suffering and its vicissitudes at the psychological clinic in Kierkegaards thought, specifically on the concept of despair. The goal is to analyze the paths that the psychologist possess to understand the mental phenomena and to relate them with the kierkegaardian philosophy, based on a qualitative research methodology. Since human suffering is a subjective phenomenon it acquires different semantics for each individual. Kierkegaard explores the suffering from the universality of the phenomenon of despair. In the book The sickness unto death, the author performs an structural analysis about the diversity of despair demonstrations that can be perceived in different persons in accordance with levels of consciousness that each possesses. Therefore, this research aims to articulate these knowledges to psychological clinic regarding what is revealed in the suffering. To this end, we note that the therapist needs to be based on an epistemology that embrace the mystery and unnameable of human condition as has been examined on Kierkegaards thought. This author has analyzed the despair in a philosophical and theological horizon. From the clinical perspective, we observe that the despair is found on a horizon of understanding established between patient and therapist during the psychological session

The Adolescent Discouragement Indicator (ADI) was developed to assess the Adlerian construct of discouragement. The 75-item ADI contains five subscales corresponding to the five life tasks specified in Individual Psychology and is specifically designed to pinpoint the area and degree of adolescent discouragement. Item selection was based on ratings by five prominent Adlerians and item correlation with subscale scores. Age and sex norms for the ADI were established on 225 females and 299 males 12 to 18 years of age. Findings indicate that female adolescents are less discouraged than male adolescents on all scales except the love scale and both sexes reported the least amount of discouragment on the love scale. The only significant difference among the age groups is between the 13-year-olds and the 15, 16, and 17-year-olds on the love scale. An internal consistency coefficient of .95, a 2-week test-retest coefficient of .89, and a 4-week test-retest coefficient of .92 indicates that the ADI is a reliable instrument. Negative and significant (p < .001) correlations between the ADI and Social Interest Index (Greever, Tseng, & Friedland, 1973) and between the ADI and the Social Interest Scale (Crandall, 1975) contribute to construct validity and support Adler's belief that discouragement and social interest are inversely related. Results of behavioral and academic comparisons on a sample of adolescent males (N=57) seem to indicate a link between behavior, academic performance, and levels of discouragement. Results of factor analysis and interscale correlations are presented. Implications for further research include continued validation using behavioral criteria associated with discouragement, refinement of the subscales and establishment of score ranges to indicate when an adolescent is considered discouraged.

This Diploma project deals with motivation of unemployed people who are forced to search for a new job. The key problems are described here, together with their solution that should contribute to increased motivation to find a job. The ultimate effect of these proposals is total saving of state finance funds.

The Discouragement Scale for Adults (DSA) was developed to assess for the Adlerian construct of discouragement in adults age 18 years and over. Data were collected from three samples: norm (n=586), presumed discouraged (n=47), and parents of children with craniofacial anomaly (n=105). Five subscales corresponding to life tasks identified in Adlerian literature as work, love, society, self-significance, and spirituality underlie the 60 item DSA. Item selection was based on ratings by five notable Adlerians and item correlations with scale scores. Gender, age, and ethnicity norms were established for the norm, presumed discouraged, and craniofacial samples. Across three samples, no significant ethnic differences were found. Normative findings indicated females are less discouraged than males on the Total DSA, the society and spirituality subscales. Age findings indicated the 18-34 year old sample is more discouraged than other ages on the Total DSA, the work, society, and spirituality subscales. Presumed discouraged findings indicated females are less discouraged than males on the society subscale. Craniofacial findings indicated females are less discouraged on the society subscale, but more discouraged on the self-significance subscale than males. Age findings indicated the 18-34 year old sample is more discouraged than other ages on the self subscale. Research on CPA parents' relationship status, CPA child's birth order, parental role of adult to CFA child, length of time the parent has cared for CFA child, the CFA child's age, CFA parent's education level, and CFA child's craniofacial anomaly diagnosis was conducted. Findings indicated birthmothers are less discouraged than birthfathers on the society subscale, but more discouraged on the self-significance subscale. Internal consistency ratings of the DSA were .9392, .9496, and .9365 for three samples. Correlations to measures of social interest were negative and significant, reflecting an inverse relationship between discouragement and social interest. Factor analysis and interscale correlations are presented. Future research could include continued instrument validation and establishment of score ranges to indicate adult discouragement.

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A groundbreaking narrative, which would come to be known as the theory of “deaths of despair”, emerged in 2015 from a study by Case and Deaton analyzing mortality rates in the United States between 1999 and 2013. They found an increasing trend in all-cause mortality rates due to drug poisonings, alcohol-related liver disease, and suicides, which they called “deaths of despair”, among non-Hispanic (NH) white Americans aged 45 to 54—this age group was called the midlife. Case and Deaton’s findings and their narrative about the hypothetical causes of their findings garnered significant attention. The authors of this narrative hypothesized that the observed increases in mortality rates were due to white individuals in midlife increasingly suffering from “despair” and proposed a causal link between increasing “despair” rates and increased mortality rates only among white Americans in midlife. Case and Deaton did not provide a clear definition of “despair”; they presumed that white Americans in midlife were hopeless about their prospects for the future compared to what their parents had attained. This provocative narrative persisted and gained momentum because it functioned as an explanation of recent events like the 2016 U.S. presidential election, rise in white nationalism, and far right extremism. These white-related events were thought to be expressions of an agonizing, poor, under-educated generation of white Americans increasingly suffering from hypothetical feelings of "despair”, which have led them to self-destructive behaviors and premature death. However, no study has investigated the central claim of this theory: whether there is evidence of an association between increased “despair” rates and increased mortality rates only among white individuals in midlife, particularly for those with low education. Moreover, there is little evidence of their hypothesis of an increasing epidemic of “despair” affecting only white Americans in midlife, particularly those with low education. The theory of “deaths of despair” can be understood through Geoffrey Rose’s framework of causes of incidence and causes of cases, which highlights the difference between between-population and inter-individual causes of disease. Rose’s argues that causes of incidence explain the changes in outcome rates between populations, and may be uniform and imperceptible within populations. On the other hand, the causes of cases explain why some individuals within a population are susceptible or at high risk of the outcome. Like Rose’s causes of incidence, the authors of the theory of “deaths of despair” argue that “despair” increased between the midlife white American population in 1999 and in 2014, which led to increased mortality rates. Conversely, this theory does not claim that some individuals are at higher risk of death due to “despair”, which would be analogous to causes of cases. Therefore, the contrast of interest to test the central claim of Case and Deaton’s theory of “deaths of despair” is a between-population contrast (causes of incidence). As such, this dissertation aims to test the claims of the theory of “deaths of despair” proposed by Case and Deaton at the right level (causes of incidence). I began by conducting a scoping review of the current literature providing empirical support to the different elements of this theory: 1) socioeconomic causes as causes of “despair”, “diseases of despair”, “deaths of despair”, and all-cause mortality, and 2) “despair” as the cause of “diseases of despair”, “deaths of despair”, and all-cause mortality. I found 43 studies that I organized and displayed in two graphs according to Rose’s causes of cases (individual-level causes of “deaths of despair”) and causes of incidence (between-population level causes of “deaths of despair” rates). In each graph, I showed the number of studies that provided evidence for the individual- or population-level elements of the theory of “deaths of despair”. Of these 43 studies, I found that only 13 studies explicitly stated that they tested this theory. Three studies provided different definitions of “despair”, which did not align with the previous vague definition provided by Case and Deaton about white individuals’ hopeless about their prospects for the future. Most studies provided individual-level evidence for “despair” increasing the likelihood of death and despair-related outcomes, which is analogous to a type III error—a mismatch between the research question and the level at which the studies’ design and analyses were conducted to answer that question. Further, no study addressed at the right level—between populations—the central claim of the theory of “deaths of despair”. This led me to review the literature around concepts similar to “despair” and propose a suitable indicator to test the claims of the theory of “deaths of despair”. I leveraged data from the National Health Interview Survey and the Centers for Disease Control mortality data to test whether increases in the prevalence of “despair” were associated with increases in all-cause mortality rates only among white individuals in midlife and whether this effect was bigger among low educated white individuals. To obtain a valid estimate of this association, I adapted econometric methods to develop a valid estimator of the association between increasing “despair” prevalence and increased all-cause mortality rates. After adjusting for potential confounders at the between-population level, I found that the trends in the prevalence of “despair” were negligible across all race and ethnic groups and that an increasing trend could not be identified. Further, I found no evidence that increasing prevalences of “despair” were associated with increased all-cause mortality rates among NH white individuals in midlife, or that this association was more pronounced for those with low education. Lastly, I conducted a similar analysis looking at the association between increased prevalences of “despair” and increased rates of “deaths of despair”. I replicated Case and Deaton’s observed increased rates of “deaths of despair” among white individuals in midlife. However, I found no evidence that increased prevalences of “despair” were associated with increased “deaths of despair” rates among white individuals in midlife or that this association was higher for those with low education. Together, these findings suggest that the claims about the causes of increased mortality rates among white Americans in midlife are at best, questionable, and at worst, false. My aim with this work is to challenge and provide a critical examination of the theory of "deaths of despair", which has fueled the narrative of a suffering white generation and justified recent problematic events as white individuals lashing out for being forgotten to despair and die. While Case and Deaton’s observed rise in mortality rates among whites is a reproducible fact, their narrative ignores other evidence of white racial resentment as the cause of rise in mortality among white individuals. With this work, I intend to help stopping the perpetuation of narratives that favor structural whiteness by promoting an unsubstantiated narrative of psychosocial harm experienced by white Americans. Ultimately, I hope this work helps shift the focus in public health away from Case and Deaton's findings, which may overshadow and detract from the stark reality that mortality rates for Black individuals significantly exceed those for white individuals.

The study makes an analysis of Charles Mungoshi's Shona works from a Modernist perspective. In this study, Modernist literature is shown as full of change and adventure that has seen characters failing to catch up with the speed at which their social lives are going. The change is continuos and has resulted in many characters continuously failing to cope, which in turn has resulted in continuous frustrations, here described as despair. The study also shows how the despair is being nurtured in the circumstances of crumbling social institutions which, in the past, had acted as the haven for devastated individuals. The crumbling social institutions are shown to be triggering the despair and the characters are given no room to recuperate. The study makes an analysis of what brings this despair and how in the end, particular individual characters fight to ward off the despair. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

The study makes an analysis of Charles Mungoshi's Shona works from a Modernist perspective. In this study, Modernist literature is shown as full of change and adventure that has seen characters failing to catch up with the speed at which their social lives are going. The change is continuos and has resulted in many characters continuously failing to cope, which in turn has resulted in continuous frustrations, here described as despair. The study also shows how the despair is being nurtured in the circumstances of crumbling social institutions which, in the past, had acted as the haven for devastated individuals. The crumbling social institutions are shown to be triggering the despair and the characters are given no room to recuperate. The study makes an analysis of what brings this despair and how in the end, particular individual characters fight to ward off the despair. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ranis Fonseca de Oliveira.pdf: 388359 bytes, checksum: d264201926d3a0d5146a06aec8747857 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-04 / This thesis proposes to investigate, with mainstay in theoretical research and literature, the despair and anguish, based on the philosophy of Kierkegaard (1.813-1.855). These two issues are discussed by him in La Maladie the La Mort, under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, and in Le concept d'Angoisse under the pseudonym of Vigilius Haufniensis. Both the despair, as the existential anguish are real problems which, sooner or later, the individual, as possessor of mind, hopelessly experience and are therefore aspects of the human condition. Kierkegaard understood the desperation as a deadly disease and identifies it with sin, whose faith is the antidote. Already the anguish is understood as the feeling that accompanies all human decisions / A presente dissertação propõe-se a investigar, com esteio em pesquisa teórica e bibliográfica, o desespero e a angústia, tendo como base a filosofia de Kierkegaard (1.813-1.855). O desespero é analisado por ele em La Maladie a La Mort, sob o pseudônimo de Anti-Climacus, e angústia em Le Concept d Angoisse, sob o pseudônimo de Vigilius Haufniensis. Tanto o desespero, quanto a angústia são problemas existenciais reais, que, cedo ou tarde, o indivíduo, por ser possuidor de espírito, experimentará irremediavelmente; são, portanto, aspectos inerentes à condição humana. Kierkegaard entende o desespero como uma doença mortal e identifica-o com o pecado, cujo antídoto é a fé. Já a angústia é entendida como o sentimento que acompanha todas as decisões humanas