Patient adherence to medical treatment recommendations can affect disease prognosis, and may be beneficially or deleteriously influenced by psychological factors.AimWe examined the relationships between both adaptive and maladaptive psychological factors and treatment adherence among a sample of primary care patients.MethodsOne hundred and one rural, primary care patients completed the Life Orientation Test-Revised, Trait Hope Scale, Future Orientation Scale, NEO-FFI Personality Inventory (measuring positive and negative affect), and Medical Outcomes Study General Adherence Scale.FindingsIn independent models, positive affect, optimism, hope, and future orientation were beneficially associated with treatment adherence, whereas pessimism and negative affect were negatively related to adherence. In multivariate models, only negative affect, optimism and hope remained significant and, in a comparative model, trait hope was most robustly associated with treatment adherence.ImplicationsTherapeutically, addressing negative emotions and expectancies, while simultaneously bolstering motivational and goal-directed attributes, may improve adherence to treatment regimens.

An integrative model involving optimism/pessimism and future orientation as predictors of suicide risk (viz., depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior) was tested in a sample of adult, primary care patients. Beyond the additive influence of the two predictors of suicide risk, optimism/pessimism and future orientation were also hypothesized to interact together to exacerbate suicide risk. Results indicated that optimism/pessimism was a robust predictor of suicide risk in adults. Future orientation was found to add significant incremental validity to the prediction of depressive symptoms, but not of suicidal behavior. Noteworthy, the optimism/pessimism × future orientation interaction was found to significantly augment the prediction of both depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior. Implications for therapeutic enhancement of future-oriented constructs in the treatment of suicidal individuals are discussed.

L’œuvre poétique d’António Feijó (1859-1917) s’inscrit dans un moment historique marqué de différents courants littéraires: Réalisme, Naturalisme, Parnasse, Décadentisme et Symbolisme. La nouvelle ère du progrès en Europe provoque un renouvellement littéraire. Avide des nouvelles émotions qui arrivaient de Paris dominée par le Réalisme, Feijó remet en question le Romantisme. Depuis sa première publication poétique, Transfigurações (1882), datant de ses années de jeunesse, jusqu’à Novas Bailatas (1926), sa poésie présente une vaste perspective thématique lyrique. Les poèmes réunis dans Transfigurações résument les différentes phases de l’évolution de l’esprit de Feijó, sous l’influence du pessimisme de Schopenhauer et de Leopardi aux doctrines d’Auguste Comte et d’Herbert Spencer. Le pessimisme et la mort s’imposent presque tout au long de sa poésie. Ces doctrines chez Feijó dévoilent une métaphysique et un goût pour la spiritualité. Le poète hésite à trouver sa voie, mais il est influencé par la crise de transition du XIXème au XXème siècle, dominée par l’esthétique décadente qui précède l’esthétique symboliste. Avec son départ vers le Brésil puis vers la Suède, le spleen s’empare plus après la mort de son épouse. Feijó justifie alors sa qualité de poète de l’Amour et de la Mort, thèmes constants dans son œuvre où domine la figure de la Femme. Ce travail examine l’ensemble du corpus de l’œuvre poétique d’António Feijó, contemporain d’Eça de Queirós et mal connue en Europe et au Portugal. Elle apparait comme le résultat d’une époque que le poète synthétise et qui ouvre un chemin original dans une phase de transition tardive du post-romantisme portugais. / The poetic work of António Feijó (1859-1917) is part of a historical moment of different literary currents: Realism, Naturalism, Parnassianism, Decadentism and Symbolism. The new era of progress in Europe originates a literary renewal. Avid of the new emotions that arrived from Paris dominated by Realism, Feijó questions Romanticism. Since its first publication, Transfigurações (1882), written in his youth years until Novas Bailatas (1926), his poetry presents a broad perspective thematic. The poems gathered in Transfigurações summarize the different stages of the intellectual evolution of Feijó, under the influence of the pessimism of Schopenhauer and Leopardi to the doctrines of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. Pessimism and death are presents almost in all his poetry. These doctrines in the work of Feijó unveil his metaphysics and his taste for spirituality. Feijó seems reluctant to find its way, but he is influenced by the crisis of transition from the 19th to the 20th century, dominated by the Decadent aesthetics that precedes the Symbolist aesthetic. With his departure to Brazil and then to Sweden, the spleen takes possession more clearly of Feijó, after the death of his wife. Feijó then justifies his quality of the poet dealing with love and death, constant themes in his work, dominated by the figure of the Woman. This work explores the whole corpus of the poetic work of António Feijó, a contemporary of Eça de Queirós and a poet poorly known in Europe as well as in Portugal. He appears as the result of an era that he synthesizes, but which opens an original road in a late transition of the Portuguese post-romanticism.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A protagonista do presente trabalho, a Utopia, a arte do pensar-contra, foi apresentada e definida, nas sendas da Filosofia da Esperança de Ernst Bloch, como uma consciência antecipadora que não se conforma com o está-aí das coisas, com a realidade fática; e como um logos, linguagem-ação que cria furos no tempo saltando para-adiante, para o topos-outro. Negativa e Esperançosa, ela representa a verdade-de-fora: não é o irreal, pois existe. E a existência do topos de fora, o topos-outro, se justifica pelo fato de que a vida e o mundo não são sistemas fechados, porque seus horizontes estão em aberto: atravessados por possibilidades, ainda-não-são. Contra o que é estático, o que é fatal e fático, se posiciona o sonho utópico, abrindo espaços no fluxo do mesmo. Ao fazê-lo, cria duas frentes reciprocamente reais: o aqui-e-agora de quem sonha e o aqui-e-agora do sonho, o u-topos. Assim, tanto seu caráter de projeção ao porvir quanto, na sua base, o descontentamento com o atual, revelam seu comprometimento com o presente. Negando e afirmando a história, transformou-se em conteúdo e, sobretudo, forma, de Morus a Fourrier, de Marx a Orwell. E é por comprometer-se com o futuro, o presente e o passado, que, nos tempos sombrios do início do século XX, ela subverte a si mesma e faz vir ao mundo sua versão pessimista: a Distopia. Articulando e fazendo dialogarem as obras distópicas de Orwell, Aldous Huxley e Jerome K. Jerome com os pensamentos de Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Hannah Arendt, Karl Kraus e Walter Benjamin, tentamos encaminhar a pergunta originária da nossa pesquisa: é possível uma utopia pessimista? Será este pessimismo, ainda, uma Utopia?

Orientador: Luiz Roberto Monzan / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T19:32:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Germer_GuilhermeMarconi_M.pdf: 1635494 bytes, checksum: 6abc36184c5edf1a2a22448d88eb02ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Nossa dissertação tem por objetivo analisar e interpretar o esclarecimento de Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) dos conceitos do belo (schön) e do bom (gut) (moral, virtude). Segundo o filósofo, ambos não são verdadeiramente ensináveis, isto é, não se deve esperar que as estéticas desde Aristóteles tornem os seus pupilos artistas geniais, tampouco como se pode ansiar que os discursos morais tragam o caráter genuinamente ético. Pelo contrário, o pensador propõe à filosofia a tarefa puramente teórica e contemplativa, a saber, a de não prescrever regras ao espírito, mas descrever abstratamente o que de fato ocorre no belo e no bom, por meio de uma interpretação e explicitação cuja matéria e limite é "este mundo efetivo da cognoscibilidade, no qual estamos e que está em nós". Ambos os esclarecimentos são apresentados em seu essencial pelo filósofo, respectivamente, no Livro III e no Livro IV de Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (O Mundo como Vontade e como Representação) - ambos os quais compõem, portanto, a bibliografia básica de nossa investigação. Resumidamente, Schopenhauer defende que o belo consiste, pelo lado objetivo, nas Idéias eternas (ewigen Ideen) de Platão, os arquétipos dos fenômenos relativos e fugazes do princípio de razão suficiente e a "objetidade mais adequada possível da coisa em si" (die möglichst adäquate Objetität des... Dinges an sich), e pelo subjetivo, no puro sujeito do conhecimento destituído de Vontade (reines, willenloses Subjekt der Erkenntnis). Quanto ao bom, o filósofo identifica-o ao conceito da compaixão (Mitleid), cujo grau negativo é a justiça (Gerechtigkeit), no qual ela apenas obstrui a injustiça (Unrecht), e o positivo a caridade (Menschenliebe), no qual ela "não apenas me impede de causar dano a outrem, mas também me impele a ajudá-lo". Por fim, nós também comentamos os seguintes temas capitais do pensamento schopenhaueriano: o idealismo, a polêmica com Kant, o princípio de razão suficiente, a Vontade como coisa em si, senhora do intelecto, impulso cego e auto-discórdia, o pessimismo e a autonegação e afirmação da Vontade de viver / Abstract: Our work aims to analyze and interpret the clarification of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) of the concepts of the beautiful (schön) and the good (gut) (moral virtue). According to the philosopher, both are not really teachable, that is, one should not expect that Aristotle's aesthetics will make his pupils into brilliant artists, nor can one aspire that moral speeches have a genuinely ethical character. Rather, the thinker assigns to philosophy a purely theoretical and contemplative task, that is, not to prescribe rules to the spirit, but to abstractly describe what actually occurs in the beautiful and good, through an interpretation and explicitness the subject matter and limit of which is "this actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us." Both explanations are given in their essentials by the philosopher, respectively, in Book III and Book IV of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) - both of which make up the basic bibliography of our research. In short, Schopenhauer argues that, on the objective side, beauty consists of Plato's eternal Ideas (Ideen ewigen), archetypes of the fleeting phenomena of the principle of sufficient reason and " the best possible objectity of the thing in itself" (die möglichst adequate Objetität des ... Ding an sich), and on the subjective side, the pure subject of knowledge without will (reines, willenloses Subjekt der Erkenntnis). As for the good, the philosopher identifies it with the concept of compassion (Mitleid), the negative side of which is justice (Gerechtigkeit), negative in that it only blocks injustice (Unrecht), with charity (Menschenliebe) being the positive side, in that it "not only prevents me from causing harm to others but also compels me to help them". Finally, we also comment on the following main themes of Schopenhauer's thought: idealism, the controversy with Kant, the principle of sufficient reason, the will as thing in itself and master of the intellect, blind impulse and self-discord, pessimism and selfnegation and affirmation of the will to live / Mestrado / Metafisica do Belo e dos Costumes / Mestre em Filosofia

Orientador: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T03:52:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigues_EliVagnerFrancisco_D.pdf: 821071 bytes, checksum: c5bfe2d7d917ca8672d8c563ef2ce90d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: O tema desse trabalho baseia-se na hipótese de que a filosofia de Schopenhauer pode ser caracterizada como um pensamento niilista. Procura-se explicitar como a crítica de Nietzsche à moral da compaixão de Schopenhauer encontra sua inserção e ganha densidade teórica no contexto de suas análises do niilismo da fraqueza, traço destacado por Nietzsche como característica da decadência cultural européia. Examina-se também o problema do nada na filosofia de Schopenhauer, com o propósito de situá-lo em relação à temática do niilismo, bem como para tentar evidenciar o sentido em que a ética do filósofo de Frankfurt configura uma soteriologia. As bases para tal interpretação repousam nas seguintes características dessa filosofia: o apontamento de uma ausência de finalidade (negação do finalismo, "ateleologia") para a vontade e, conseqüentemente, a ausência de um telos inteligível para o mundo, a postura pessimista baseada na metafísica da vontade, e na soteriologia defendida pelo filósofo na sua doutrina da negação da vontade, que aponta para o estatuto do nada, alvo da vontade na ética da compaixão. Essa caracterização, a nosso ver, está relacionada com a recepção, interpretação e crítica nietzscheana da filosofia de Schopenhauer, sobretudo na caracterização que Nietzsche faz do niilismo da fraqueza. / Abstract: The theme of this work is based upon the hypothesis that the Schopenhauer's philosophy could be characterized as a nihilist thought. We try to explain away how the criticisms made by Nietzsche to the morals of compassion of Schopenhauer finds place, and obtain some theoretical density, in the context of his analysis of the nihilism of weakness, which Nietzsche points as the main characteristic of the European cultural decadency. The problem of the nothingness is as well under examination, with the purpose of put it in relation to the broad thematic of nihilism, and to show the sense in which the ethics of the philosopher from Frankfurt frames a soteriology. The basis for this interpretation lay on the following characteristics: to point out to an absence of finality (a finalism negation, a-teleology) to the will and, consequently, to the absence of an intelligible telos to the world, the pessimist attitude based on the metaphysic of the will, and on the soteriology, defended by the philosopher himself in his doctrine of a negation of the will, which, by its turn, points out to the nothingness status, the will's target in the morals of compassion. This characterization, as we see it, is related to the reception, to the interpretation and to the nietzschean criticism of Schopenhauer's philosophy, chiefly on the characterization that Nietzsche made of the nihilism of the weakness. / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

The aim of this thesis is to analyse Zibaldone di pensieri, the private diary of Italian poet, writer and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. The first part of the thesis is dedicated to Leopardi's biography. We focus on his childhood, youth and on the events that had effect on his thinking. The crucial part of the thesis deals with the diary Zibaldone; with its structure, autobiographical features and with various ways in which we can look at this text. In the following part of the work we analyse some of the topics of Zibaldone. Observing the development of Leopardi's thinking, we deal with various phases of author's pessimism and with his perception of nature, reason, human destiny and ancient and modern world.

Pour Nietzsche, les Grecs interprètent le monde en fonction d’une représentation enrichissante, qui permet ainsi à la volonté de se déployer sous le prisme du concept de force, comme détermination absolue tant de l’homme que des dieux. Leur vie s’y manifeste dans ce cas à partir du pessimisme de la force. Par contre, l’optimisme rationaliste qui recherche une interprétation intelligible ou idéaliste du monde aboutit à un fondement théorique, logique et moral de la vie, représentation appauvrissante, qui lui donne plutôt une forme décadente, rabougrie. Ainsi, le rationalisme finit par se transformer en nihilisme, configurant alors le « pessimisme du monde vrai ». Nietzsche va donc lui opposer le pessimisme dionysiaque, signifiant la recherche d’une nouvelle forme plus moderne d’enrichissement du monde et de la vie, à travers leur rencontre, leur implication l’un dans l’autre qui est supposée créer la joie, la légèreté. Le but nietzschéen est en fait de définir les conditions de possibilité qui permettront de passer de la maladie à la santé, qui impliquera en même temps l’illusion, l’apparence et les forces de l’inconscient ; et ce à partir de la critique, et surtout de la généalogie, comme méthode authentique de lutte contre les symptômes de rabougrissement / For Nietzsche, the Greeks interpreted the world in terms of meaningful representation, which allows the will to unfold through the prism of the concept of force as an absolute determination of both the man whom the gods. Their life is manifested in this case from the pessimism of strength. For cons, the rationalist optimism seeking an interpretation intelligible or idealistic world leads to a theoretical basis, logic and moral life, impoverishing representation, which gives it a shape rather decadent stunted. Thus, rationalism eventually turns into nihilism, then configuring the “pessimism of real world”. Nietzsche is therefore to oppose the Dionysian pessimism, meaning the search for a new more modern form of enrichment of the world and life, through their meeting, their involvement in one another that is supposed to create joy, lightness. The Nietzschean goal is actually to define the conditions of possibility that will pass the disease to health, which involve the same time the illusion, appearance and the forces of the unconscious, and that from the critical philosophy, and especially the genealogy as a method of authentic fight against the symptoms of stunting

People living with HIV/AIDS (PLH) struggle with depression. Recent research suggests that depression affects medical regimen adherence, disease progression, and risky sexual behaviors. The present study uses a stress and coping theory viewing HIV-related stigma and physical symptoms as stressors in PLH. Results suggest whereas symptoms and stigma consistently predict negative affect, positive affect, and overall depression, the role of optimism, pessimism, active coping, denial, and behavioral disengagement is not as clear. Pessimism and denial predict negative affect and depression. Optimism and behavioral disengagement predict depression and positive affect. Active coping only predicts positive affect. Focusing on positive and negative affect as distinct components that contribute to overall depression may help researchers develop interventions more effectively.

Positive psychology has become influential in research and practice. However, some have criticized positive psychologists who focus solely on the virtues of being positive. A tyrannical pressure to be positive may potentially exist in positive psychology, as well as mainstream United States culture. The following study explored perceptions of this theory using focus groups of individuals who differed in coping style, social desirability, and depression. Results suggest that individuals are affected by social pressures to be positive, and the expression of both positive and negative emotions is determined by social pressures, rules, context, and consequences. Although emotional expression, especially negativity, is contraindicated in several social contexts, there are also social, psychological, and physical benefits to all types of emotional expression.