Positive psychologists have published hundreds of empirical studies correlating positive personality traits with improved outcomes in mental health, physical health, academic and career success, resilience, relationships, and personal happiness. But there remains a dearth of research on the emergence and development of positive personality traits. This grounded theory, qualitative research sought to discover whether positive personality traits can be developed in adult mentoring relationships. Sixteen participants responded in structured interviews about the benefits of their mentoring experiences, and in addition to performing coding analysis as described by Strauss and Corbin (1990), the researcher also compared the answers to Peterson and Seligman's taxonomy of positive traits (2004). Unprompted participant responses overwhelmingly asserted increase of positive traits, as well as five other benefit categories. Improved traits appeared across a wide range of mentee characteristics, and situations, including negative ones, as long as mentors communicated unconditional positive regard and possessed desirable competencies. Social considerations of this research include the possibility that, in combination with therapies to address negative aspects of a client situation, therapists using intentional positive trait development could support recovery, resilience, hope, wisdom, thriving, and all of the benefits positive psychology has correlated to the presence of positive personality traits. Future studies building on this research may include a longitudinal study to understand what situations and character types are most conducive for positive trait development, as well as questions regarding which traits appear in which mentoring situations.

Submitted by TIAGO VIEIRA CAVALCANTE null (tiagogeografia@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-11-07T19:14:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Tiago Vieira Cavalcante - Versão Final.pdf: 6758864 bytes, checksum: f59d1495eff46530a1053b2fcf49fcbf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-11-08T16:46:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 cavalcante_tv_dr_rcla.pdf: 6758864 bytes, checksum: f59d1495eff46530a1053b2fcf49fcbf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-08T16:46:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cavalcante_tv_dr_rcla.pdf: 6758864 bytes, checksum: f59d1495eff46530a1053b2fcf49fcbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-01 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Rachel de Queiroz foi uma escritora profundamente ligada à sua terra e à sua gente. Ligação passível de ser percebida nas vivências por onde passou e também nas obras que escreveu. Diante dessa geografia que pulsa em Rachel, propomos a tese de que uma geografia primordial lhe é imanente, permeando sua vida e sua obra. A fim de desvelarmos essa geografia, apresentamos pessoas, paisagens e lugares de grande importância para a escritora; analisamos escritos que nos permitem relacionar os aspectos geográficos e telúricos que circundam a sua trajetória; e dedicamo-nos aos sete romances que Rachel escreveu, deslindando mundos que ela imaginativamente (re)criou. Geografia literária que (re)apresenta, com cores próprias e originais, a terra e a gente do Brasil, do Nordeste, do Sertão e do Ceará e revela que os destinos e as buscas dos personagens de Rachel traduzem em muito os seus próprios caminhos. Maneira de entendermos a condição humana, substancialmente geográfica, que permeia a nossa experiência. / Rachel de Queiroz was a writer deeply attached to her land and her people. It builds a connection that can be seized in the experiences she had in the places she knew and also in the literary works she wrote. In face of this geography that breathes in Rachel, we propose the thesis that a primary geography is immanent to her, applying to her life and her work. To reveal this geography, we presented people, landscapes and places of great importance to the writer; analyzed writings that allow us to relate the geographic and telluric aspects which permeate her journey; and have dedicated to the seven novels that Rachel wrote, unraveling worlds she (re)created in an imaginative way. Literary geography that (re)presents, in its own and original colors, the land and the people of Brazil, Northeast, Sertão and Ceará and reveals that destinations and searches of Rachel's characters translate her own paths. A way to understand the human condition, substantially geographic, that permeate our experience. / FAPESP: 2013/06106-5

Quando, aos 34 anos de idade, Paulo Rónai é forçado a se exilar da Hungria por ser judeu, ele já é um profissional em plena atividade. Doutor em filologia e línguas neolatinas, ele leciona francês e italiano em Budapeste; paralelamente, desempenha intensa atividade tradutória e já desponta na crítica literária. Depois de aprender português sozinho, em 1939 publica uma antologia de poetas brasileiros. Ao chegar ao Brasil, em 1941, salvo dos nazistas graças a um convite do governo de Getúlio Vargas, imediatamente é capaz de dar continuidade à sua atividade profissional. É professor de latim e francês em várias instituições, inclusive no Colégio Pedro II do Rio de Janeiro, onde assume a cátedra de francês. Intensifica sua atividade crítica em jornais de grande circulação e ao longo dos 50 anos que iria viver no país que adota como pátria poucos anos depois de aqui aportar, participa de muitos projetos culturais, como por exemplo, a organização da edição e supervisão da tradução dos 17 volumes de A Comédia Humana de Balzac, a edição póstuma de duas obras de João Guimarães Rosa, para citar alguns. Além de seus livros, entre artigos e resenhas, Rónai publica mais de 1.100 vezes. Visando delinear seu perfil intelectual, pesquisou-se sua produção literária, tanto na Hungria como no Brasil: primeiro em seu acervo particular, e depois nas mais diversas fontes e recursos. A análise do mapeamento resultante estimulou novas pesquisas no sentido de determinar as bases teóricas que fundamentaram a intelectualidade de Paulo Rónai, e o impacto desse arcabouço teórico na caracterização de sua atividade. Concluiu-se que todas as suas facetas de profissional erudito filólogo, humanista, tradutor, lexicógrafo e até mesmo a atividade pedagógica formam um todo coeso e contribuem entre si para enriquecer a função de crítico literário. / When, at the age of 34, Paulo Rónai was forced into exile from Hungary due to his Jewish origin, he was already a fully-active professional. With a PhD in Philology and Romantic languages, Rónai taught French and Italian in Budapest. In addition, he was a very active translator and began to become known in the field of literary criticism. After teaching himself Portuguese, Rónai published an anthology of Brazilian poetry in 1939. Upon his arrival in Brazil, in 1941, after being saved from the Nazis through an invitation from the Getúlio Vargas government, he was able to resume his career immediately. He taught Latin and French in several institutions, including Colégio Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro, where he assumed the French chair. He intensified his activity in the field of literary criticism, publishing in leading newspapers. Throughout the half century that he would live in his adopted country, he partook in many cultural projects, such as the translation supervision and publication of the 17-volume La Comédie Humaine by Balzac and the editing of two posthumous books by Guimarães Rosa, just to name a few. In addition to his books, including articles and reviews, Rónai published more than 1,100 times. In an attempt to delineate his intellectual profile, his literary production has been researched both in Hungary and in Brazil, initially in his private library, and later in several sources. The analysis of the resulting mapping stimulated further research toward the theoretical foundation of Paulo Rónais intellectual character, as well as the impact of that theoretical foundation on his contributions. It was concluded that all of his erudite capabilities, whether philological, humanistic, lexicographic, pedagogical, or related to translation, came together as a cohesive whole and contributed to enriching his performance as a literary critic.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur ordet feminist är laddat och hur ordet används. Redan nu föreslår några att ordet bör bytas ut, i korpusarna från Språkbanken använde några skribenter humanist eller jämställdist istället för ordet feminist. För att se hur ordet har ändrats över tid har jag använt mig av tre olika korpusar från Språkbankens textkorpus Korp. De tre korpusarna som har varit materialet är: Bloggmix 2004, Bloggmix 2009 samt Bloggmix 2014. Jag gjorde en innehållsanalys där jag konstruerade ett analysinstrument som användes på samtliga material. Sammanfattningen är att ordet feminist är väldigt laddat, både i positiv samt i negativ bemärkelse. Resultatet blev att ordet feminist förekommer i fler negativa meningar 2014 än 2009. Ordet manshat är ofta förknippat med feminist och det har blivit tydligare att det är svårare att kalla sig feminist 2014 än 2009. Det är inte lika acceptabelt för män som för kvinnor att kalla sig feminister trots att ideologin står för jämställdhet vilket kan ha gett upphov till att en del förknippar feminism med manshat. Många står för jämställdhet men de vill ändå inte kalla sig för feminister. Ordet feminist används redan nu i diskriminerande syfte och i elaka ordalag. Det negativa bör tas bort från ordet men jag anser att det inte går att byta ut ordet till exempelvis humanist eller jämställdist eftersom de inte har med ideologin feminism att göra. Majoriteten av skribenterna från materialet använder dock fortfarande ordet feminist i positiv anda så än är inte ordet tillräckligt negativt laddat för att bytas ut. Och att byta ut ett ord som feminist, som står för allt som män och kvinnor har stridit för i snart 200 år är omöjligt då det vore att förstöra allt de har kämpat för ett jämställt samhälle.

This thesis in Church History examines the changing attitudes of Protestants toward Church History. The primary evidence surveyed is statements within major Protestant confessions, as well as the views of selected Reformers. By focusing on how Protestant confessions either quote the church fathers, or affirm the ancient creeds of the Church, the thesis presents a general overview of how Protestants have related to Church History. This thesis takes advantage of many recent studies on the use of church fathers by the reformers, and new critical study of creeds and confessions. A study of selected reformers and Protestant confessions demonstrates that an important part of the Reformation program was the claim to continuity with the early church, as opposed to the perceived innovations of Rome. A brief survey of reformation attitudes towards history also shows that appeals to church history were largely determined by the historical and polemical context of the times. Calvin and Bucer, for instance, make stronger or weaker appeals to church history depending in which polemical context they found themselves. As a result of the hardening of confessional lines, a more critical attitude towards church history developed, especially in Anabaptism and English Puritanism. Whereas the reformers and most Protestant confessions claim continuity with the “ancient church,” the Puritans claimed continuity with the “apostolic” church. This is ironic because the Puritans wanted to reform the English church according to the model of the “best reformed churches,” whose confessions affirm the ancient creeds. Thus, this thesis provides further evidence for the claims of other scholars who have argued that there are two main view of church history within Protestantism: one that stresses continuity with the church in history, and one which stresses interpretation of the Bible free from any historical considerations. As Stephen R. Holmes has suggested, one party sought to “reform” the church while the other party sought to “re-found” the church. If Protestants have developed an anti-historical attitude, it has been partly in response to polemical circumstances. A way out of current Protestant provincialism, particularly in American fundamentalism, may be found in studying the reformers' original, more positive, attitude towards church history. / Dissertation (MA (Church History))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Church History and Church Policy / MA / unrestricted

Magister Artium - MA / This mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented with creative forms of ethnography were doubly marginalised: first as women in an androcentric male canon in British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology, and second as creative writers whose work has been consistently undervalued in sombre scholarly circles. The study proposes that Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911-1995) and Edith Turner (1921-2016) should be regarded as significant in a still unexcavated literary tradition or subgenre with Anglo-American anthropology.

The theory of capillarity is an organic metaphor invoked to explore the role of network communications as a vehicle for education in a healthy society. Capillarity is offered as a theory in two parts: a mechanism for distribution and a method for engagement. Capillarity seeks to build an architecture that reflects radical humanism's emphasis on access and inclusion as a vehicle for classical humanism's emphasis on the individual expansion of potential and consciousness. The technical instrument whereby this program of humanist education may be deployed is mLearning

This article focuses on a sliver of the individuals we now know as the Neo-Latinists, who viewed the vernacular as a vehicle for expression throughout the quattrocento.

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The purpose of this essay is to investigate two leading voices in the religion and secularizationdebate in Sweden during the 21st century, with a special focus on how the term secularisation isused. The investigation will be conducted using hermeneutics, and the method that will be usedis the hermeneutics of suspicion. The primary focus of this investigation is the source materialwritten by David Thurfjell and Christer Sturmark. The investigation has revealed thatThurfjell’s and Sturmark’s description of secularisation and religion in Sweden differs and thiscan be linked to their different backgrounds and starting points. The difference in theirdescriptions shows that the use of the concept of secularisation is not self-evident, it can varydepending on when during history it is used, but also who uses the term. The investigationrevealed the complexity of the concept of secularisation, a result that gives support to previousresearchers results within the field.