Conjugalidade gay e lésbica e rede de apoio social

• Autor(a) principal: Lomando, Eduardo Marodin
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional PUCRS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4937
• topic: PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL; HOMICÍDIO EM VEGAS (FILME) - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; RELAÇÕES FAMILIARES; RELAÇÕES CONJUGAIS; UNIÃO HOMOSSEXUAL; INTERAÇÃO SOCIAL; RELAÇÕES DE GÊNERO

This Master Dissertation researches about the relation between couple relationship satisfaction and social support network from people who have relations with other from the same sex. The study is presented in three articles, where one is a theoretical review, one is a methodology work and the other one is empiric. The first article has the objective of making a social-historical critic about the terms and used concepts in the denomination of same-sex people relations, using the theoretical proposal of Foucault`s knowledge archaeology and Berger and Luckman’s social constructionism. From these perspectives we could discuss and realize that the changes on the terms to the denomination of the same phenomenon work as argumentative tactics that provide an alternative view of this relation understanding. However, the change in the terminology per se indicates the maintenance on the same subjective construction in regards to this phenomenon unless there is an effective change in the concept that defines the relations between same sex people. The second article has the goal of showing the steps of the construction of the PAS-IF instrument, that describes in a quantitative way the perception of social support in seven dimensions: Social Company, Emotional Support, Cognitive Guide, Social Control, Material Support, Access to New Contacts and Sexual-Affective Orientation Acceptance; from three maps: family, friends and work/school relationships. The instrument has showed itself valid in the evaluation of the Social Support Network of adult subjects, independent of their affective-sexual orientation, reaching a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0,887, which demonstrates a high level of reliability. The last article has the objective of investigating the correlation between couple satisfaction and social support perception from gays and lesbians in the family, friends and work/school environment.The sample interviewed was made of 111 people and there was a significant positive correlation between couple satisfaction and both variables social support from family and from friends. This data shows us that the support functions measured and provided by both family and friends promote the development of human human subjective construction as well as it makes space for the development of couple satisfaction. Overall, the results from this dissertation makes us realize in a better way how we use the terms and concepts to define the relationships between same-sex people, the importance of building a complex instrument, helped us to have knowledge of the idea that the family provides an important function on couple relations and made us aware of the work relations to gays and lesbians, a environment to be researched in future studies.