<p>This thesis tested and extended the peer socialization hypothesis, a psychosocial model that identifies the interpersonal and contextual conditions in which pubertal development is linked to delinquent behavior such as alcohol use. Although there is support for the hypothesis in early empirical work, particularly for female adolescents, more recent work has shown mixed results. Furthermore, there are gaps within the peer socialization hypothesis: a) the theory does not discuss if the mediation process pertains to male adolescents, b) it does not address the role of pubertal tempo, and c) it implies, but does not explicitly model, a role for tempo with regards to including other-sex friendships into the friend group. Using the Internet Surveys About You (iSAY) study (<em>n</em>=1020), the peer socialization hypothesis and proposed extensions were tested separately by sex. Female adolescents initiated inclusion of other-sex friends into the friend group earlier than male adolescents. However, there were no observed sex differences in the tempo of other-sex friendships. Female adolescents’ pubertal development was not related to their other-sex friendship development nor was pubertal development and other-sex friendship development related to their alcohol use. Male adolescents’ pubertal timing was associated with the timing of other-sex friendship uptake in that later maturing adolescents displayed earlier initiation of other-sex friendships. Male adolescents’ other-sex friendship development was not related to their alcohol use. Implications of this work are that other-sex friendships may no longer be a context of increased risk for alcohol use for early maturing adolescents and interventions targeting this social context may not be as effective. </p>

The thesis titled "The body of the other. The erotics as learning content in Art education." have character of an exploration probe. It focuses on erotism in environment of educational institutions. This work deals with the body and its erotic contents in art education. It seeks to clarify the concept of erotica. This work seeks various overhangs of erotica into philosophy, advertising, school, personal and public life. This thesis is linked to the teaching of erotic theme and with the issues of integration of eroticism in lessons of art education. The aim is to determine how are the children / students on this topic sensitive. All the text is supplemented by authentic testimonies of students, teachers and parents related to the topic of erotica in school.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSANGELA MARIA RIBEIRO.pdf: 213488 bytes, checksum: 4013ee15abf7905942b67dc083d8dba4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-02 / This study aims at a reflexion about a symptomatic repetition in the contemporary feminine clinic, that is the absence of a love relationship. Confronting the psychoanalytic theory and the clinical experience, we can perceive that the feminine talk meets certain privileged social positions in the contemporaneity, up to the point of denying the place of the absence. The feminine talk becomes alienated into an imaginary world, woven by the social. Other, and comes to enjoy the lures provided by it. However, the emancipation of that feminine talk in the economic and legal areas cause the women to illusively see themselves complete, placing the other sex in an object position. As a consequence, we notice that one of most frequent complaints coming out in the psychoanalytic clinic, nowadays permeating the feminine talk, is that they are successful women regarding their social life, while on the other hand, there is a complete lack of any love relationship. / Este trabalho visa a refletir uma repetição sintomática na clínica feminina na contemporaneidade que é a ausência de uma relação amorosa. A partir de um cotejamento entre a teoria psicanalítica e a experiência clínica, percebemos que o discurso feminino encontra na contemporaneidade posições sociais privilegiadas e passa, assim, a negar o lugar da falta. O discurso feminino aliena-se em um imaginário tecido pelo Outro social e passa a gozar dos engodos que por ele são oferecidos. Todavia, a emancipação do discurso feminino nos campos econômico e jurídico faz com que as mulheres posicionassem ilusoriamente como absolutas, colocando o Outro sexo em uma posição de objeto. Em decorrência disso, percebemos que uma das queixas que hoje chega à clinica psicanalítica permeando o discurso feminino é que de um lado tratam-se de mulheres bem sucedidas na vida social e de outro, há a ausência de uma relação amorosa.

This study investigates what role menstruation have for women in the village of Nakwa, Tanzania; how inadequate MHM affects the perception of women; and how menstruation is affecting the gender equality within a marriage in Nakwa. Most women in Nakwa village struggle to maintain high standards of cleanliness regarding their own Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). This is due to many contributing factors relating to ingrained cultural beliefs that menstruation is something shameful and dirty. Most males within the household manage the finances, and menstrual hygiene products are not considered a priority, which further detaches the women from the possession of power over their own MHM. The theoretical framework used in this study is built upon two pillars, the woman as the inferior sex, and menstruation as something dirty and polluting, contributing to menstrual shame. These pillars are constructed upon two academic works; The Second Sex (1953) by Simone De Beauvoir, and Purity and Danger (1984) by Mary Douglas. Substantive previous research is accounted for to support the two pillars. Two weeks of field studies in Nakwa village during February and March 2017 included 23 individual semi-structured interviews and one group interview, with regularly menstruating married women. The results show a linkage between inadequate MHM, devaluation and inferiority of women and gender inequality.