The purpose of the present study was to demonstrate behavioral differences between high Machiavellians (MACHS) as described by Christie (1970a) and those exhibiting the aberrant self-promotion pattern proposed by Gustafson and Ritzer (1995). The aberrant self-promoter (ASP) was defined as having a high degree of narcissism, combined with a low need to appear conventionally "nice" along with pronounced antisocial behavior. The Machiavellian was described as one who is capable of manipulating others to obtain some advantage. The situation that was proposed differentiate the two groups is a legislature game which involves bargaining and forming alliances. ASPs and Machiavellians were identified by the same procedures used by Gustafson and Ritzer (1995). In Condition 1, the issues being voted upon were value laden in the sense that they were designed to elicit an affective response. In Condition 2, the issues were value and affect neutral. The experimental subjects were undergraduates enrolled in psychology courses. It was predicted that because Machiavellians are better at separating affect from rational thought than are either ASPs or non-Mach non-ASPs, Machiavellians would perform better than either of the other groups in the value laden issues condition. It was also predicted that participants would rate aberrant self-promoters less favorably than other players on trust, respect, and likability due to the ASPs ineffectiveness in bargaining and forming alliances. Two repeated measures ANOVAs were performed to test the hypotheses. Results supported only the last prediction regarding likability. Reasons for these findings and implications were discussed / Master of Science

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Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-07-08T17:30:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Flávia Nedeff Langaro.pdf: 401133 bytes, checksum: 5cd89676d688561c47c41afcc64bc524 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-08T17:30:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flávia Nedeff Langaro.pdf: 401133 bytes, checksum: 5cd89676d688561c47c41afcc64bc524 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Nenhuma / Ao longo dos anos, as características narcísicas vêm aumentando, sugerindo que os jovens de hoje são mais narcisistas que os jovens adultos das gerações anteriores. Fato esse que se deve às mudanças na sociedade contemporânea e à interferência da cultura na personalidade. O narcisismo é um constructo psicanalítico e é responsável por proteger o “eu” e regular a autoestima do sujeito. Entre as várias medidas de narcisismo desenvolvidas, o Inventário de Personalidade Narcísica (NPI) tem sido o instrumento mais utilizado em estudos empíricos, avaliando o narcisismo normal, ou seja, não-defensivo e bem resolvido. Desse modo, o presente estudo buscou identificar as características narcísicas de personalidade em 350 jovens adultos universitários, quanto ao sexo, idade e tipo de curso desses jovens, bem como realizar uma análise inicial das propriedades psicométricas do instrumento NPI. Esse estudo assumiu um delineamento quantitativo, do tipo transversal. A análise dos dados foi realizada através de estatística descritiva e inferencial, seguidas do teste t de Student e Anova para identificar diferenças de médias entre grupos, bem como Análise Fatorial Exploratória e Confirmatória do NPI. Como resultado do estudo, a análise das características psicométricas iniciais do instrumento apontou uma solução fatorial de seis fatores, o que atesta a multidimensionalidade do instrumento e a necessidade de se precisar aspectos hierárquicos das dimensões. Ainda, uma análise mais discriminada aponta que, em relação ao sexo dos participantes, os homens apresentaram índices mais elevados no NPI, quando comparados às mulheres. Já, com relação à idade, não houve diferenças significativas nos escores referentes ao narcisismo. Por último, com relação às áreas de conhecimento, os estudantes universitários dos cursos de Ciências Exatas apresentaram escores de narcisismo mais elevados do que estudantes das aéreas de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde. / Over the years, narcissist characteristics have increased, suggesting that young people today are more narcissistic than the young adults of previous generations. The fact is due to changes in contemporary society and to the interference of culture on personality. Narcissism is a psychoanalytic construct and is responsible for protecting the "I" and adjusts the subject's self-esteem. Among the various measures of narcissism developed, the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) has been the instrument most used in empirical studies, evaluating normal narcissism, ie, non-defensive and well resolved. Thus, this study sought to identify the narcissistic personality characteristics in 350 young adult college students, by gender, age and type of college of these young people, as well as perform an initial analysis of the psychometric properties of the NPI. This study took a quantitative design, transversal. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics, followed by the Student t test and ANOVA to identify mean differences between groups, as well as Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the NPI. As a result of the study, analysis of 14 the initial psychometric characteristics of the instrument showed a factor solution of six factors, which underscores the multidimensionality of the instrument and the need to specify aspects of hierarchical dimensions. Still, a more discriminating analysis shows that in relation to sex of participants, men had higher rates in NPI compared to women. As to the age, there weren´t significant differences in scores related to narcissism. Finally, regarding the areas of knowledge, university students of Exact Sciences courses showed higher narcissism scores than students of Human and Health Sciences.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberto Kirschbaum.pdf: 937728 bytes, checksum: 89aa9c74ca98c54a3a3e700fa65730da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this research we want to examine the challenges and therapeutic possibilities in the analysis of melancholic narcissistic neuroses. For that, we ll first go over some conceptions of melancholy along History, arriving at the psychoanalytical conception, chiefly with Freud and Karl Abraham. These psychoanalysts locate melancholia among the narcissistic affections, so we ll follow examining post-freudian and contemporary authors and their approach to narcissism, amongst them Klein, Riviere and Rosenfeld. We ll try to focus, on the one hand, the factors that hamper the treatment of these affections, in special the patients difficulty with the work of mourning, and the negative therapeutic reaction; on the other hand, the elements that constitute or contribute to their therapy. The objective of this research is an enrichment of the comprehension of the metapsychology of melancholy, needed, among other reasons, due to a theoretical and clinical empoverishment that happened with the replacement of the term melancholy by the term depression, mainly in the second half of the 20th century. We propose that this enrichment in the comprehension of the melancholic clinical picture could be helpful in the treatment of narcissistic affections, that include many of the cases being recently diagnosed as depression. Our starting point will be the report of a case of melancholy, where the transferencial relationship raised questions to the analyst, such as: what are the specific defences and resistances in these cases, and how do these impact in the transference-countertransference? If the melancholic suffers from inertia, how to avoid that the analysis of melancholy suffers the same problem? What are the limits to the treatment of melancholy? What are its ways of treatment? How to help the melancholic to develop or recover the capacity to do the work of mourning, and the capacity to love? / Nesta pesquisa propomo-nos a examinar os desafios e possibilidades na análise das neuroses narcísicas melancólicas. Para isto, serão primeiramente resgatadas algumas concepções de melancolia ao longo da história, chegando-se à concepção psicanalítica, principalmente com Freud e Karl Abraham. Estes psicanalistas situam a melancolia entre as afecções narcísicas, portanto seguiremos fazendo articulações com autores pós-freudianos e contemporâneos que abordam o narcisismo, dentre eles Klein, Riviere e Rosenfeld. Procuraremos dar enfoque, por um lado, aos fatores que dificultam a clínica dessas afecções, em especial a dificuldade dos pacientes em realizar o trabalho de luto e a reação terapêutica negativa; por outro lado, aos elementos que compõem ou favorecem sua terapêutica. O objetivo desta pesquisa é um enriquecimento da compreensão da metapsicologia do melancólico, necessária, entre outras razões, em contrapartida ao empobrecimento teórico e clínico ocorridos com a substituição do termo melancolia pelo termo depressão, principalmente a partir de meados do séc. XX. Postulamos que esse enriquecimento na compreensão do quadro melancólico poderá ser de ajuda no exercício da clínica das afecções narcísicas, que incluem muitos dos casos recentemente diagnosticados como de depressão. Partiremos do relato de um caso clínico de quadro melancólico, cuja relação transferencial suscitou questionamentos ao terapeuta, tais como: quais são as defesas e as resistências específicas nestes quadros, e como impactam na transferência-contratransferência? Se o melancólico padece de inércia, como evitar que a análise da melancolia também padeça do mesmo mal? Quais os limites da clínica da melancolia? Quais são as vias terapêuticas? Como ajudar o melancólico a desenvolver ou recuperar a capacidade de realizar o trabalho de luto e a capacidade de amar?

Cette recherche met en perspective le cadre des paraphrénies de Kraepelin, exploré dans sa nosographie, avec une approche clinique actuelle de troubles délirants. Les textes descriptifs et la clinique font apparaître des délires évolutifs, avec adaptation à la réalité, sans démence, comme résolution d’une «défaillance interne». Kraepelin utilise le mot paraphrénie en 1912 pour ménager un espace nosologique entre démence précoce et paranoïa. Il définira quatre paraphrénies : systématique, fantastique, expansive et confabulante qui recouvrent la nosographie de l’école française des délires chroniques. La première est superposable au délire de Magnan, la deuxième au délire de Cotard, les dernières bordant la paranoïa. Ce cadre a été réduit par l’intégration du champ paranoïde à la schizophrénie par Bleuler et par l’école française privilégiant la forme fantastique. Le mot paraphrénie disparaîtra avec les classifications de type DSM. L’adaptation à la réalité et l’absence habituelle de soin psychique laissent évoluer les troubles dont le caractère d’agissement efface parfois le fond délirant. Avec des termes tels que manipulateur et pervers narcissique, les troubles peuvent être repris dans une nosologie psychosociale quand le délire se déploie sur la scène sociale jusqu’à son dévoilement. Une clinique multifocale s’inscrit dans la temporalité du dévoilement tandis que l’approche psychanalytique souligne des effets transférentiels déstabilisants par abolition des qualités hétérogènes des espaces, psychiques et physiques. C’est donc une pensée dans une langue sans métonymie ni métaphore qui contamine pathologiquement la vie ordinaire. / This research leads to a perspective approach the frame of the Kraepelin’s paraphrenia explored in its nosography with a current clinical approach of paraphasic disorders. The descriptive texts and clinical practice reveal evolutionary delirium, with a good practical efficiency, without insanity, as a resolution of an "internal failure ". Kraepelin uses the word paraphrenia in 1912 to arrange a nosological space between dementia praecox and paranoia. He defines four paraphrenias: systematic, fantastic, expansive and confabulans, corresponding with French school nosography of the chronic délirium. The first one is similar to Magnan’s disease, the second to Cotard’s desease, the last two tending to paranoia. This frame was reduced by Bleuler when he introduced the paranoïd in schizophrenia, as well as by the French school, underlining the fantastic aspect. With DSM's classifications the word paraphrenia will be out of use. The adaptation to reality and constant lack of psychic care allow disorders to evolve into forms of behavior that would tend to hide the delirious background. With terms such as narcissistic pervert and manipulator, the disorders can be resumed in a psychosocial nosology when the paraphasic disorders spreads to the social scene until they come to light. A multifocal practice stands in the temporality of this revelation whereas the psychoanalytical approach magnifies destabilizing effects in transference by abolition of the heterogeneous qualities of spaces, psychic and physical. It is thus a thought in a language deprived of metonymy and metaphor which contaminates pathologically the daily life.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:39:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_ma_me_arafcl.pdf: 765596 bytes, checksum: b7f44563f3be1ac4a613ed30f6a2a52e (MD5) / O debate entre a modernidade e a pós-modernidade tem levado grandes questões para uma compreensão do que representou a primeira e a partir da qual se pode delinear a segunda. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é analisar de que forma um romance pós-moderno, As horas, do autor norte-americano Michael Cunningham (1952- ) se apropriou da obra moderna Mrs. Dalloway de Virginia Woolf. O presente trabalho propõe-se a discutir essa apropriação, evidenciando as relações paródicas entre os dois textos; a investigar a configuração do tempo na narrativa, verificando as possíveis relações entre história e ficção e a analisar a construção das personagens femininas, ex-cêntricas do romance, examinando como o discurso das figuras femininas é construído na referida obra de Cunningham. / The discussion between modernism and post-modernism has brought about several questions that we must answer in order to have an overview of both movements, once we are able to understand what the first has represented, we can better situate the second. Taking this into consideration, our aim is to analyze in which ways the contemporary The hours, written by the north-American author Michael Cunningham, appropriates the earlier Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf. Thus, the aim of this study is to discuss these questions, verifying the parodic between the two texts. Furthermore, our intention is to investigate another important discussion: the time, verifying the possibel relations between history and fiction. Lastly, our attention focuses on the construction of the ex-centric characters, examining how the discourse of these characters is built in Cunningham's novel.

A recepção à ficção camiliana se subsume fundamentalmente a dois operadores hermenêuticos consagrados por uma parcela significativa da crítica literária luso-brasileira: a conjunção vida/obra e o enquadramento da produção literária assinada por Camilo no Romantismo português. Por meio do estudo de dois romances camilianos, Amor de Perdição (1862) e Onde Está a Felicidade?(1856), interessa problematizar a análise da produção ficcional camiliana que se baseia nesses operadores hermenêuticos. Nesse sentido, parte-se das indagações: terá Camilo assimiliado e culminado na tradição literária portuguesa a sacralização do amor? Será Camilo essencialmente um escritor ultra-romântico, autor, sobretudo, de novelas passionais? A resposta dada a essas questões se baseou na relação entre esses textos e a vigorosa tradição literária metaficcional, fortemente enraizada nos períodos que antecedem e sucedem a atuação de Camilo como escritor. A presença dos expedientes metaficcionais em Amor de Perdição e Onde Está a Felicidade revela uma representação mimética que se desdobra em representar o mundo, particularmente o burguês, e os mecanismos que envolvem essa representação, evidenciando uma construção literária que não se limita a criar a sugestão do real, tomando também a sua problematização como eixo. O ato de criar torna-se alvo de questionamento, exigindo dos seus participantes, nomeadamente narrador/autor e leitor, novas posturas mentais em que a origem e a destinação do significado não se apresentam tranquilamente assumidas por aquele e este, respectivamente, derivando desse arranjo um texto em processo, que se constrói, que se assume como mise en scène. / The reception to the camilian fiction is basically due to two hermeneutic operators consecrated by a significant part of the literary Luso-Brazilian critics: the conjunction life/work and the literary production frame signed by Camilo in the Portuguese Romanticism. The observation of Amor de Perdição (1862) and Onde Está a Felicidade? (1856), allows the debate on the analysis of the camilian production that is based on these hermeneutic operators. In this way, we raise some questions: has Camilo assimilated and culminated in the Portuguese literary tradition the religion of love? Is Camilo essencially an extreme-romantic writer, especially a romantic novels author? The answer given to these questions was based on the relation between these texts and the vigorous metafictional literary tradition, strongly rooted in the periods that precede and succeed Camilos performance as a writer. The occurrence of the metafictional expedients in Amor de Perdição and Onde Está a Felicidade? discloses a mimetic representation that unfolds into representing the world, particularly the bourgeois, and the mechanisms that involve this representation, evidencing a literary construction that is not limited to create the suggestion of reality, as well as taking its debate as base. The action of creating becomes a target to questioning, demanding from its participants, nominated narrator/author and reader, new mental positions in which the origin and the destination of its meaning are not completely assumed for the author and the reader, respectively, deriving from this arrangement a text in process, that constructs itself is assumed as mise en scène.

Die Narzisstische Persönlichkeitsstörung (NPS) wird aufgrund der inkonsistenten Konzeptualisierung stark diskutiert. Ziel der Studie war es, NPS-Patienten zu untersuchen, um mit empirischen Daten die Validität und klinische Relevanz der NPS zu diskutieren. Es wurden zwei epidemiologische Studien durchgeführt. Studie 1 betrachtet die allgemeine psychische Belastung und Komorbidiätsraten, Studie 5 schaut auf die Stabilität und Remissionsrate der Diagnose und der diagnostischen Kriterien. Studie 1 fand eine erhöhte allgemeine psychische Belastung und hohe Komorbiditätsraten für affektive Störungen und Störungen durch Substanzkonsum, Studie 5 fand eine moderate Remissionsrate von 53%. In Studie 2 und 3 wurden selbstbezogene Kognitionen und Emotionen untersucht. Studie 2 erforschte die explizite und implizite Selbstwertschätzung. Es zeigte sich, dass die NPS mit einem niedrigen expliziten aber einem unbeeinträchtigten impliziten Selbstwert einhergeht. Studie 3 betrachtete Schamneigung bei der NPS. NPS-Patienten zeigten eine höhere explizite und implizite Schamneigung. Das indiziert, dass die narzisstische Vulnerabilität (niedriger expliziter Selbstwert, hohe explizite und implizite Schamneigung) bei NPS-Patienten eine Rolle spielt. In Studie 4 wurde die kognitive und emotionale Empathie untersucht. NPS-Patienten zeigten eine niedrigere emotionale Empathie aber eine unbeeinträchtigte kognitive Empathie. Die Ergebnisse passen zur aktuellen Kritik, dass die diagnostischen Kriterien zu eng sind, um die NPS adäquat zu beschreiben. Studien 1–3 geben Hinweise für die narzisstische Vulnerabilität, die nicht in den diagnostischen Kriterien repräsentiert wird, Studie 4 bringt Hinweise für eine ungestörte kognitive Empathie, was konträr zum diagnostischen Kriterium „Empathiemangel“ ist, und Studie 5 stellt die Beschreibung der NPS als stabiles andauerndes Muster in Frage. Implikationen für weitere Forschung und für die klinische Praxis werden diskutiert. / Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is discussed due to its inconsistent conceptualization. The aim of this study was to investigate a sample of NPD patients to collect empirical evidence and discuss the validity and clinical relevance of NPD. Two epidemiological studies are included in this thesis. Study 1 focused on the general mental stress of NPD patients and assesses comorbidities, Study 5 looks at the stability and remission rate of the diagnosis and its criteria. Study 1 found that NPD is associated with general mental stress and high comorbidity rates for affective disorders and substance use disorders, Study 5 found that NPD demonstrates a moderate remission rate of about 53%. In Study 2 and 3, self-related cognitions and emotions were examined. Study 2 investigated explicit and implicit self-esteem. It was determined that NPD is associated with a lower explicit self-esteem and an unaffected implicit self-esteem. Study 3 focused on shame-proneness in NPD. Patients with NPD showed significantly higher explicit and implicit shame-proneness. These results indicate that the narcissistic vulnerability characterized by low explicit self-esteem and high explicit and implicit shame-proneness is necessary in inpatients with a NPD. In Study 4 cognitive and emotional empathy were examined. NPD patients displayed impairment in emotional empathy while cognitive empathy was unaffected. In summary, the findings are in line with the critique that the diagnostic criteria are too narrow to describe the entire manifestation of the disorder. Study 1-3 presented evidence for the narcissistic vulnerability that is not represented by the current diagnostic criteria, Study 4 provided evidence for an unaffected cognitive empathy that is contrary to the seventh diagnostic criteria “lack of empathy”, and Study 5 calls the stable pattern of long duration into question. Implications for further research and clinical practice are discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Samuel Magoji Sanda.pdf: 595147 bytes, checksum: 75986a4aec367f0eace0196860e14066 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-06 / The present dissertation had as objective to study, through an interdisciplinary perspective, the post-modern family, rapporting with two movies My Big Fat Greek Weeding (2002) and About a Boy (2002). The reflection consisted of a brief historical reflection about the function of the family since its ascension in the 19th century until nowadays, time in which it, like the others institutions, is in crisis or disorder. I believe that this crisis that the family is passing through is provoked in part by a narcissistic culture that has been producing young adults that when setting the desire in a central role in their lives are incapables to assume responsibilities preferring virtual relationships to keep at sight more romantic and satisfactory possibilities. Besides, they are incapables to take decisions, because they live in constant oscillation between attraction and repulsion, hope and fear, preferring to appeal to the so-called specialists of human relationships, always ready to offer their services in exchange for fees. As consequence they end up leaving the public space to supposed civics organizations and false politicians. One possible solution that I show to minimize this disorder is a creation of a new political project capable of creating transforming subjects that can, through a new culture, promote the creation of practices that recover the sense of the Illuminist and democratic values / A presente tese teve como objetivo estudar, por meio de uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, a família pós-moderna, dialogando com dois filmes Casamento Grego (2002) e Um Grande Garoto (2002). O estudo consistiu de uma breve reflexão histórica sobre o papel da família desde a sua ascensão no século XIX até a atual época, em que as instituições encontram-se em crise ou desordem. Parte-se da premissa que a crise pela qual a família está passando é provocada, em parte, pela cultura narcísica que tem produzido jovens adultos que, ao colocarem o desejo como papel central em suas vidas, são incapazes de assumir responsabilidades, preferindo relacionamentos virtuais que possibilitam situações mais românticas e satisfatórias. Além disso, eles são incapazes de tomar decisões, pois vivem em constante oscilação entre atração e repulsão, esperança e temor, e preferem recorrer a supostos especialistas de relacionamento humanos. Como conseqüência, acabam por ceder o espaço público aos especialistas de organizações cívicas e a falsos políticos. Uma das soluções que aponto para atenuar a desordem instaurada na contemporaneidade é a criação de um novo projeto político capaz de criar sujeitos transformadores que possam, por meio de uma nova cultura, promover a criação de práticas que retomem o sentido dos valores iluministas e democráticos

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:56:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Samuel Magoji Sanda.pdf: 595147 bytes, checksum: 75986a4aec367f0eace0196860e14066 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-06 / The present dissertation had as objective to study, through an interdisciplinary perspective, the post-modern family, rapporting with two movies My Big Fat Greek Weeding (2002) and About a Boy (2002). The reflection consisted of a brief historical reflection about the function of the family since its ascension in the 19th century until nowadays, time in which it, like the others institutions, is in crisis or disorder. I believe that this crisis that the family is passing through is provoked in part by a narcissistic culture that has been producing young adults that when setting the desire in a central role in their lives are incapables to assume responsibilities preferring virtual relationships to keep at sight more romantic and satisfactory possibilities. Besides, they are incapables to take decisions, because they live in constant oscillation between attraction and repulsion, hope and fear, preferring to appeal to the so-called specialists of human relationships, always ready to offer their services in exchange for fees. As consequence they end up leaving the public space to supposed civics organizations and false politicians. One possible solution that I show to minimize this disorder is a creation of a new political project capable of creating transforming subjects that can, through a new culture, promote the creation of practices that recover the sense of the Illuminist and democratic values / A presente tese teve como objetivo estudar, por meio de uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, a família pós-moderna, dialogando com dois filmes Casamento Grego (2002) e Um Grande Garoto (2002). O estudo consistiu de uma breve reflexão histórica sobre o papel da família desde a sua ascensão no século XIX até a atual época, em que as instituições encontram-se em crise ou desordem. Parte-se da premissa que a crise pela qual a família está passando é provocada, em parte, pela cultura narcísica que tem produzido jovens adultos que, ao colocarem o desejo como papel central em suas vidas, são incapazes de assumir responsabilidades, preferindo relacionamentos virtuais que possibilitam situações mais românticas e satisfatórias. Além disso, eles são incapazes de tomar decisões, pois vivem em constante oscilação entre atração e repulsão, esperança e temor, e preferem recorrer a supostos especialistas de relacionamento humanos. Como conseqüência, acabam por ceder o espaço público aos especialistas de organizações cívicas e a falsos políticos. Uma das soluções que aponto para atenuar a desordem instaurada na contemporaneidade é a criação de um novo projeto político capaz de criar sujeitos transformadores que possam, por meio de uma nova cultura, promover a criação de práticas que retomem o sentido dos valores iluministas e democráticos