Aspectos psicossociais da imigração familiar na grande Porto Alegre Psychosocial aspects of familiar immigration at the Porto Alegre region (Brazil)

Neste artigo apresentam-se alguns aspectos psicossociais presentes no processo migratório de seis famílias hispano-americanas na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre. Estes aspectos, relatados através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os integrantes das famílias, indicam os principais tópicos que nortearam as entrevistas: suas trajetórias migracionais, decisão de imigrar, sua inserção na cultura local, suas relações comunitárias, identidade e expectativas de vida. São analisadas as formas como ocorrem as transições aculturativas no contexto local.<br>On this article some psychosocial aspects included on the migratory process of six Hispanic families at the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre (Brazil) are presented. These aspects, obtained through semi-structured interviews with the members of the families that had indicated the principal topics that guided the interviews: their emigrational paths, their decision to immigrate, their insertion on the local culture, their community relations, identity and life expectations. The ways by which the acculturative transitions on the local context happen are analyzed

Paradigmas em psicologia: compreensões acerca da saúde e dos estudos epidemiológicos Paradigms in psychology: comprehension about health and epidimiology studies

O presente artigo tem como objetivo investigar de que forma a saúde é entendida pelos diferentes paradigmas em psicologia e como são avaliados os estudos epidemiológicos. Para tanto, entrevistou-se sete pesquisadores e profissionais da área da psicologia do Brasil, Espanha e Argentina, que orientam suas práticas pelos seguintes referenciais teóricos e metodológicos: social-crítico, clínico (enfoque psicodinâmico e cognitivo-comportamental), ecológico-contextual e comunitário. A partir dos dados obtidos na investigação empírica observou-se que há uma diversidade de compreensões do conceito de saúde. O conceito de saúde apresentado pelos diferentes paradigmas está relacionados à elementos como a concepção de homem, mundo, realidade, influência do contexto social e possibilidade de mudança. Em relação aos estudos epidemiológicos nota-se que alguns participantes voltam-se a uma descrição superficial e ampla, vinculada à concepção médica do conceito de epidemiologia; outros ressaltam a relevância de se considerar os contextos em que são realizados estes estudos. Apenas no um participante mencionou o papel da epidemiologia especificamente para psicologia. Concluímos que é de fundamental importância que o profissional da saúde tenha consciência do paradigma que orienta sua prática para poder avaliar as conseqüências de sua atuação como profissional e cidadão.<br>This article aims is investigate how health is understood by differents paradigms in psychology and how they evaluated epidemiology studies. Seven investigators and psychology health professional from Brazil, Spain and Argentina were interviews, this professionals guide their practices by differents conceptual theories: Social Critique, Clinical (Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavior), Ecological Contextual and Community. After the evaluation of those interviews it was possible identify that exist a diversity of health compression. The health concepts are related with the human, world, reality, social context and possibility of change compression concepts. In relation to the epidemiology studies we realizes that some participations use a superficial and large description, related to the medical conception about the epidemiology; others emphasizes the relevance of to consider the contexts that the studies are achieves. Only one participant mentioned the role of epidemiology specifically for psychology. We conclude that is of fundamental importance that the professional of health has conscience of the paradigm that directs your practice can to evaluate the consequences of your action like professional and citizen

Subjective Well-Being of Brazilian Children from Different Family Settings

Subjective well-being concerns an evaluation of one’s life, considering cognitive and affective aspects. Contextual factors, such as family, may influence this process. One of the main development contexts of children is family and aspects of these relationships, such as different settings, might contribute to children’s subjective well-being. The aim of this study was to compare the well-being of children from different family settings (intact, single-parent, stepfamilies, multigenerational). Participants were 2,135 boys and girls, from 9 to 13 years old (M = 10.97, SD = 0.99), students of public and private schools from a Brazilian southern State. Children answered a questionnaire with sociodemographic variables and three well-being scales (PWI-SC, BMSLSS, GDSI). Children were divided in four groups according to whom they live with (intact, single-parent, stepfamilies, multigenerational families). To evaluate differences between groups a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were performed, considering well-being scales as dependent variables and family setting as independent variable. Results indicated significant differences in the well-being of children in relation to their family setting and age. Children from intact families showed significant positive differences on the well-being from children of other settings (the lowest means were from the children of stepfamilies). It is argued that transitions and instability that children are being subjected to may affect their well-being

Subjective Well-Being, Life Satisfaction and Interpersonal Relationships Associated to Socio-Demographic and Contextual Variables

This study aims associating children’s satisfaction to their interpersonal relationships within their main contexts of interaction (family, friends and school) and their satisfaction regarding their subjective well-being, considering the variables age, gender, type of school (public or private) and city of living (capital or not). There were 2.280 children from 9 to 13 years old (M = 10,99; SD = 0,996), being 1.341 from the capital city (58,8%), most of them from public schools (61%) and 55,5% of the amount were girls. The results showed there is no difference between the average satisfaction data and the interpersonal relationships by age and that children living in country towns are more satisfied with their interpersonal relationships. Children who study in private schools are more satisfied with their family relationships and school environment, while students from public schools are more satisfied with their friendships; besides girls are more satisfied with both their school relationships and friends. The subjective well-being decreased as they become older and boys showed an average subjective well-being significantly higher than girls. Considering the interactions among subjective well-being and the variables evaluated, the children who presented higher average of subjective well-being are those who live in country towns and study in public schools and the ones who live in the capital and study at in private schools