Measuring happiness and subjective well-being

This chapter begins by defining the constructs of happiness and subjective well-being in terms of taxonomy and conceptual frameworks. Issues of measurement are addressed separately for qualitative and quantitative methodology. Two special areas of measurement difficulty are then discussed: the validity of data derived from low-functioning populations and cross-cultural measurement equivalence. Finally specific scales are considered in terms of their consistency with the foregoing analysis.

Advancements in research synthesis methods: From a methodologically inclusive perspective

The dominant literature on research synthesis methods has positivist and neo-positivist origins. In recent years, the landscape of research synthesis methods has changed rapidly to become inclusive. This article highlights methodologically inclusive advancements in research synthesis methods. Attention is drawn to insights from interpretive, critical, and participatory traditions for enhancing trustworthiness, utility, and/or emancipatory potential for research syntheses. Also noted is a paucity of the literature that builds connections between methodologically diverse segments of the literature on research synthesis methods. Salient features of a methodologically inclusive research synthesis (MIRS) framework are described. The MIRS framework has been conceptualized by distilling and synthesizing ideas, theories, and strategies from the extensive literatures on research synthesis methods and primary research methods. Rather than prescribe how a research synthesis should be conducted or evaluated, this article attempts to open spaces, raise questions, explore possibilities, and contest taken-for-granted practices.

Opening ILT blackbox: Exploring recognition-based leadership perceptions with conjoint analysis

Although research on Implicit Leadership Theories (ILT) has put great effort on determining what attributes define a leader prototype, little attention has been given to understanding the relative importance of each of these attributes in the categorization process by followers. Knowing that recognition-based leadership perceptions are the result of the match between followers’ ILTs and the perceived attributes in their actual leaders, understanding how specific prototypical leader attributes impact this impression formation process is particularly relevant. In this study, we draw upon socio-cognitive theories to explore how followers cognitively process the information about a leader’s attributes. By using Conjoint Analysis (CA), a technique that allows us to measure an individual’s trade-offs when making choices about multi-attributed options, we conducted a series of 4 studies with a total of 879 participants. Our results demonstrate that attributes’ importance for individuals’ leadership perceptions formation is rather heterogeneous, and that some attributes can enhance or spoil the importance of other prototypical attributes. Finally, by manipulating the leadership domain, we show that the weighting pattern of attributes is context dependent, as suggested by the connectionist approach to leadership categorization. Our findings also demonstrate that Conjoint Analysis can be a valuable tool for ILT research.

Medo e violência na cidade: imagens, discursos e sociabilidade nas praças de João Pessoa - PB

The present work analyses and discusses the sociability in the culture of contemporary cities focusing on the theme of fear and violence in the daily life of squares in the city of João Pessoa-PB. We analyse the relations between places in town and make correlations of history and setting of neighborhoods with the process of urban growth, including recent interventions of public authorities in their public spaces. We observed in this dynamics social attitudes and actions that range from a desired peaceful coexistence to social exclusion. Thus, we discuss, based upon the imaginary vision, that the squares exist as a locus of equality, citizenship and political, and, also, as a space for everyone, despite the existence of symbolic forces working towards segregation and privatization, ruled in fear and violence. We aimed to investigate the different symbolic logics from the issue of fear and violence that allows the exclusion and the inclusion of groups and individuals in the quotidian use of public spaces of contemporary cities. We believe that the social action is demarcated by violence ant its corollary, the social fear, and operates based on the logic of a relational game always confrontational but experienced in different forms according to the social segment or group under study. We used a qualitative and quantitative methodology relating data and statistical analysis with categories created for the understanding of subjective factors. Our analyses combined ethnographic elements, periodics research and images of the city and its spaces, with the contribution of a survey that allowed comparisions of five squares of neighborhood based on the daily life under investigation. Our proposal was to deepen the investigations related to the public space of contemporary cities, expanding the look on João Pessoa and its cultural dynamics with an analysis of discourses, images, the collective imaginary and the social appropriation of the spaces based on fear and violence. The research accomplished in different areas and the analysis of images and speeches published in newspapers reports, books, advertising etc. allowed the approach of differentiated patterns of sociability in the same urban process. The neighborhoods in study are indeed spatially and economically distanced and the process of creation and construction of squares occurred in very different ways in the respective location. We defend the thesis that neighborhood community squares provide reinvigorated spaces and public spheres in the urban process and in the dynamics of sociability in the cities. These squares are also social spaces par excellence for the perception of the logic of individualism and segregation so marked by fear and violence in contemporary cities

Linguagem, cognição e mundo: o livro do desassossego e a construção discursiva da realidade

This study analyzes the processes of meaning construction in the Livro do Desassossego, by semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares - Fernando Pessoa. We use theoretical grounds from an interface between Cognitive Linguistics and Textual Linguistics to observe how certain linguistic mechanisms build a reality that tells us of a time, a being and his conceptions of language and writing. We focus on description and explanation of procedures of categorization and referentiation accomplished, for example, through metaphor and metonymy. For the construction of the intended theoretical interface, we use analytical categories proposed and developed by the Socio-cognitive Approach of Language, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Mental Space Theory. Armed with this theoretical background, we observed the dynamics of language in relation to its social, cultural and historical features, as well as the cognitive aspects that underlie it. We seek, therefore, encourage discussions about the functioning of language considering primarily the creative processes that allow us to organize and shape our experiences. We also try to provide an approximation of Linguistics, Literature and Philosophy, with a view to relations between language structure, cognitive activity and socio-cultural organization. From the results obtained, we found that a literary text attests, with a particular property, the mutual relations between language, cognition and culture, as indicates cognitive approach to language studies

O processo de construção referencial nas crônicas de temas políticos escritas por Carlos Heitor Cony

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

A perspectiva sóciocognitiva no tratamento temático da informação em bibliotecas universitárias: aspectos inerentes a percepção profissional

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A indexação em catálogo on-line em bibliotecas universitárias na percepção de usuários integrantes de grupos de pesquisa: uma contribuição ao desenvolvimento de política de indexação na rede de biblioteca da UNESP

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A relação do idoso com o aprendizado musical

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O papel do diretor na administração escolar: ontem e hoje

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Modos de realizar estágio curricular supervisionado em geografia: vozes de professores supervisores e professores parceiros na Região Sudeste (Brasil)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Currículo e saberes culturais das comunidades dos discentes ribeirinhos do curso de pedagogia das águas de Abaetetuba-Pará

Esta pesquisa tem como foco de estudo, o Currículo e a Formação de Professores ribeirinhos da Amazônia Paraense, analisou a articulação entre o Currículo do Curso de Pedagogia das Águas e os Saberes Culturais das comunidades dos discentes ribeirinhos do Município de Abaetetuba no Estado do Pará. Partiu-se da identificação de aspectos significativos do universo cultural ribeirinho das ilhas de Abaetetuba e da análise da maneira como os saberes culturais desses sujeitos foram tratados no Projeto Político Pedagógico e no Currículo do Curso de Pedagogia das Águas. Destaca-se que esse curso é vinculado ao Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária e atendeu, exclusivamente, ribeirinhos assentados. A importância de se pesquisar tal temática, se justifica pela necessidade de se refletir acerca do currículo para a formação de professores do/no/e para o campo, do fortalecimento do protagonismo dos sujeitos e do reconhecimento da multiculturalidade amazônica e de suas especificidades geográficas, econômicas, sociais e ambientais, que pouco ou raramente são consideradas no espaço educativo. Para exploração do objeto de estudo optou-se por uma metodologia de abordagem qualitativa, buscando o apoio na exploração de bibliografias e documentos, na aplicação de instrumentos de pesquisa (como questionário e entrevista), e na sistematização, organização e análise dos dados e informações coletadas. Os resultados da pesquisa apontaram: os saberes culturais das comunidades ribeirinhas se fizeram presentes no currículo, de forma efetiva, no núcleo eletivo do curso; por meio das práticas dos professores, eles possuem aproximação/afinação, reconhecimento e/ou sensibilidade para com a vida dos povos ribeirinhos; assim como por meio das atividades extracurriculares em que evidenciaram e discutiram sobre a vida das populações do campo, e em especial, das comunidades ribeirinhas.

Política de indexação para construção de catálogos coletivos em bibliotecas universitárias

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Corrida de orientação: uma proposta metodológica para o ensino da Geografia e da Cartografia

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

A referência anafórica por encapsulamento: gramática e discurso

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE