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The purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence and quality of on-line friendships, to find which individual characteristics differentiate people who look for and form on-line friendship(s) from those who don't, and to discover factors which are of importance for the development of on-line friendship(s). 574 Internet users completed an on-line questionnaire. The results showed that: (1) almost 50% of respondents had on-line friendship(s); (2) off-line friendships were better developed than on-line friendships. However, there was only a minor difference between the quality of the best off-line and best on-line friendships; (3) the Internet was a safe place for building personal relationships, especially for shy individuals; (4) people who felt lonely were more likely to turn to the Internet to find friends; (5) Internet usage and attitudes to the Internet were significant factors that differentiated those who looked for and formed friendship(s) on-line from those who didn't. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

The purpose of this study was to uncover the feelings and reactions of students and their parents in regard to the nonpromotion experience. Families with children who had been retained at least once in grades one through eight were purposefully selected as units of study from one of four area school systems. A total of 52 family members from 22 family units participated in 46 separate, qualitative interviews. The information collected from the interviews was inductively analyzed. Building upon Schlossberg's theory for human adaptation to transitions, seven factors or coping resources emerged from the data that affected the adaptation of a parent or a student to a grade level retention. These factors fell into one of three categories--the characteristics of the individual, the characteristics surrounding the transition (the retention), and the characteristics of the individual's environment. The analysis revealed the following seven coping resources: self-definition of an individual, previous experience with retention, retention philosophy of the individual, feelings of empowerment connected to the retention decision, retention rationale or reason for the retention, sense of belonging to the school community, and support systems available to the individual. From the findings, the investigator reached the following conclusions: (1) regardless of their initial feelings toward a retention decision, most students, as well as other family members, eventually assimilated a nonpromotion experience; (2) the seven identified coping resources influenced the success of an individual's adaptation to a retention experience; (3) school personnel did little to initially prepare a child for a nonpromotion and generally offered little support to aid adaptation to the retention; (4) the relationships an educator developed with family members were essential in establishing a sense of trust and of cooperation between the home and the school; (5) school systems rarely provided parents of children in grades one through eight with the strategies necessary to academically aid a child within the home environment; (6) adherence to rigid, grade level curriculum placed undue stress on many students and their families, inadvertently reinforcing the acceptance of the practice of retention by parents and by students.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:43:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CamillaDSL_DISSERT.pdf: 2070923 bytes, checksum: 3bc8a344eb0d2752af26a1492fe79e04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-27 / A inicia??o sexual ? um marco significativo na vida do indiv?duo, ocorrendo geralmente na adolesc?ncia. Importantes transforma??es biopsicossociais ocorrem nesta fase, denotando vulnerabilidades ? vida do adolescente, dentre elas, as decorrentes da inicia??o sexual, sendo o risco de infec??o pelo HIV/aids a mais grave. A infec??o pelo HIV/aids constitui atualmente um importante problema de Sa?de P?blica, estando os jovens no centro da epidemia mundial. No Brasil, dados do ?ltimo boletim epidemiol?gico, lan?ado em 2013, apontam para a tend?ncia de aumento de sua preval?ncia na popula??o jovem. Desta forma, o presente estudo teve por objetivo investigar a associa??o entre inicia??o sexual e o perfil sociodemogr?fico, o indicador de conhecimento das formas de transmiss?o do HIV/aids e fatores biopsicossociais autoestima e habilidades sociais, em adolescentes de 16 a 19 anos, de ambos os sexos, estudantes do n?vel m?dio t?cnico integrado, do Instituto Federal de Educa??o, Ci?ncias e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Natal. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, cuja amostra foi constitu?da aleatoriamente por 200 alunos que responderam de forma an?nima a quatro instrumentos: perfil sociodemogr?fico, question?rio da Pesquisa de Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Pr?ticas na Popula??o Brasileira (PCAP), Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg e o Invent?rio de Habilidades Sociais para Adolescentes de Del-Prette (IHSA). A an?lise estat?stica dos dados foi realizada atrav?s do teste qui-quadrado de Pearson e do exato de Fisher (&#945; <5%). A m?dia de idade para a primeira rela??o sexual foi de 15,96 anos, com o in?cio mais cedo para o sexo masculino. Verificou-se associa??es estatisticamente significativas entre inicia??o sexual e as seguintes vari?veis: idade, sexo, situa??o conjugal, religi?o, renda familiar, autoestima e o repert?rio de habilidades sociais. Observou-se ainda que apenas 11% dos adolescentes possu?am conhecimento correto acerca das formas de transmiss?o do HIV/aids. Conclui-se que os esfor?os para a preven??o das DST/aids precisam ser direcionados a campanhas e programas mais eficazes, que considerem n?o somente o car?ter informativo, mas tamb?m os fatores psicossociais j? que estes mostraram-se associados ao in?cio da vida sexual

The purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence and quality of on-line friendships, to find which individual characteristics differentiate people who look for and form on-line friendship(s) from those who don't, and to discover factors which are of importance for the development of on-line friendship(s). 574 Internet users completed an on-line questionnaire. The results showed that: (1) almost 50% of respondents had on-line friendship(s); (2) off-line friendships were better developed than on-line friendships. However, there was only a minor difference between the quality of the best off-line and best on-line friendships; (3) the Internet was a safe place for building personal relationships, especially for shy individuals; (4) people who felt lonely were more likely to turn to the Internet to find friends; (5) Internet usage and attitudes to the Internet were significant factors that differentiated those who looked for and formed friendship(s) on-line from those who didn't. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)