Orientador: Paulo Dalgalarrondo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T04:49:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ghorayeb_DanielaBarbetta_M.pdf: 2286611 bytes, checksum: 9fd70532322dbf036aafdef509ed6728 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esse estudo objetivou a produção de conhecimento empírico acerca das homossexualidades no meio sócio-cultural brasileiro. Consideraram-se as dimensões: saúde mental; qualidade de vida; religiosidade e identidade psicossocial. Foram aplicados métodos qualitativos e quantitativos, com pareamento do grupo de estudo (sujeitos de orientação homossexual) com um grupo contraste (sujeitos de orientação heterossexual), a partir do gênero, idade e escolaridade. Para o material qualitativo utilizaram-se entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Os dados quantitativos obtiveram-se através da aplicação do M.I.N.I. Plus e WHOQOL Bref. Verificou-se maior prevalência de transtornos mentais e busca por serviços de saúde mental no grupo de sujeitos de orientação homossexual comparando-o com o grupo contraste, assim como a associação entre pior saúde mental e pior qualidade de vida no grupo de estudo. A religiosidade deste grupo revela a presença do ¿individualismo religioso¿, fenômeno que participa, assim como o grupo social e as ¿políticas de identidade¿ das construções da identidade psicossocial dos sujeitos homossexuais investigados, destacando-se nesse sentido as diferenças marcantes entre os gêneros neste mesmo grupo. A partir do fenômeno de internalização da homofobia aponta-se para a possibilidade de impacto das experiências de discriminação vividas pelos sujeitos sobre a saúde mental dos mesmos / Abstract: The following study has focused on the production of empirical knowledge regarding homosexualities in the Brazilian social-cultural environment. The following dimensions have been considered: mental health, life quality, religiousness and psychosocial identity. Quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as a comparison between the study group (subjects with homosexual orientation) and the contrast group (subjects with heterosexual orientation), according to gender, age and education have been applied. For the qualitative material, semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The quantitative data has been gathered through the appliance of M.I.N.I Plus and WHOQOL Bref. A higher prevalence of mental disturbances and attendance at mental health services by the group with homosexual orientation have been verified when compared to the contrast group, as well as the association between mental disorder and lower level of quality of life. The religiosity of the study group reveals the presence of ¿religious individualism¿, which takes part in the development of psychosocial identity of these individuals, as well as the integration in social groups. Such development process points to differences between the two genders in the study group. Since the identification of internalized homophobia, a possibility of impact of the experiences of discrimination on the mental health is suggested. / Mestrado / Saude Mental / Mestre em Ciências Médicas

AFRIKAANSAan die begin van die 21e eeu vorm homoseksualiteit wêreldwyd een van die mees aktuele en uitdagende vraagstukke. Gelowiges en kerke worstel met kwessies soos homoseksuele huwelike, homoseksuele ampsdraers en of die praktisering van ’n homoseksuele oriëntasie aanvaarbaar is. Die doel van hierdie navorsing is om die problematiek en aktualiteit rondom homoseksualiteit aan te toon. Die belangrikste historiese asook natuur- en geesteswetenskaplike insigte oor homoseksualiteit word ook belig. Ten diepste handel die debat oor homoseksualiteit oor die vraag: Hoe moet ’n mens die Bybel interpreteer? Die bepaalde hermeneutiese sleutel wat ’n eksegeet gebruik om tekste soos dié in Levitikus te ontsluit, bepaal sy of haar verstaan van hierdie tekste. ’n Eksegetiese en hermeneutiese analise van hierdie tekste dui daarop dat beide Levitikus 18:22 en Levitikus 20:13 nie in die hedendaagse teologiese debatte oor homoseksualiteit eenvoudig direk eweredig aangewend kan word om die seksuele oriëntasie van homoseksualiteit op hierdie Bybelse gronde af te wys nie. ENGLISH Worldwide homosexuality currently forms one of the most challenging and contentious issues. Churches are struggling with questions about homosexual marriage, the ordination of homosexual clergy and office-bearers as well as the acceptability of acting on a homosexual orientation. The aim of this research is to shed light on the different problem areas that surrounds homosexuality and show why it is so topical. The most important insights about homosexuality from history as well as modern science, are also discussed. The homosexuality debate centres around the question: How should one interpret the Bible? This study confirms that the hermeneutical key an exegete uses to unlock texts like those in Leviticus determines his or her understanding of these texts. The exegetical and hermeneutical analysis of these texts makes it clear that neither Leviticus 18:22 nor Leviticus 20:13 can simply be applied directly in the current theological debate. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Biblical and Religious Studies / unrestricted