RESILIENCE: A STUDY VVITH BRAZILIANS FROM INSTITUTIONS

Authors

  • Aparecida Magali de Souza Alvarez
  • Maria Cecília Leite de Moraes
  • Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.38579

Keywords:

resilience, resilients, mothering, fathering, equal rights.

Abstract

Resilience can be defined as the capacity to have a normal development under difficult or adverse conditions. Based on this definition, a study was carried out aiming to elaborate
heuristic hypotheses about this theme from the free autobiographical reports of 7 people who had spent many years of their lives in orphanages. l hey were considered resilients because they had deep affective relationships; they worked, studied and had no delinquent behaviors. The analysis of this material showed the importance of mothering worked out as fixed points of positive valency that enabled some safe attachment: brothers; relatives; friends; institution.
Through these points, the subjetcs were able to constitute their identities and individualities. It pointed also to fathering as an educational factor that showed the way, giving the direction. This was accomplished by making the child responsible for some activities in the institution. The^fathering would be responsible for the feeling of potency that seemed to characterize the subjects. Finally the subjects expressed a wish for normalization of their lives that could be interpreted as the right to have equal opportunities. These three aspects would be the basis of their capacity to give sense to their own lives through a direction that guided their projects, linking the present to the past and the future.

Author Biographies

  • Aparecida Magali de Souza Alvarez
    Psicóloga, Mestre em Saúde Pública pela Paculdade de Saúde Pública/USP, doutoranda pela FSP/USP pesquisadora do centro de Estudos do crescimento e Desenvolvimento Humano.
  • Maria Cecília Leite de Moraes
    Terapeuta Ocupacional, Mestre em Saúde Pública pela Faculdade de Saúde Pública/USP, doutoranda pela FSP/USP, pesquisadora do centro de Estudos do crescimento e Desenvolvimento Humano.
  • Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich
    Psicóloga Clinica, Mestre em Psicologia Experimental, Doutora em Psicologia Social pelo instituto de Psicologia da USP, pesquisadora do centro de Estudos do crescimento e Desenvolvimento Humano.

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Published

1998-12-19

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1-2 (1998)

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