Olha pra mim: encontro de gerações intermediado pela escrita de cartas

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Divina de Fátima dos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15394
• topic: Troca de cartas; Escrita terapêutica; Interação intergeracional; Exchange of letters; Writing therapy; Intergenerational interaction; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This thesis analyzed the benefits of an exchange of letters between very different generations, investigating how the act of writing about events of everyday life may be associated with a better self perception of the participants in the process. We try to understand the meaning of an exchange of letters occurred between children and elderly people, in the city of Caraguatatuba, on the northern coast of São Paulo, and its effects on their subjectivities. The study analyzed the participation of eight pairs, each one consisted of a student from the 4th or 5th year of a Primary School and aged between 9 and 11 years, and an elderly, over 60 years of age, from a Reference Center for the Elderly, in 2011 and 2012. Its specific objectives were: to identify whether the words written and exchanged between children and the elderly promote moments of gratification and joy, as well as opportunities to see themselves in the world; to provide and to analyze moments of social interaction between participants, thereby contributing to the construction of a memory about this experience and stage of their lives; to promote the opportunity for inter-relationship, providing both for the child and for the elderly a sense of social inclusion; to create in the participants alternatives of self-expression, validating their experiences of social sharing. A qualitative research was made with letters and questionnaires used as instruments and considered from the perspective of content analysis focused on meanings, and this strategy was methodologically complemented by participant observation. The experience of an exchange of letters produced positive psychological effects for its participants, both immediate and remote, by contributing to the expansion of the view about the world and themselves. For the elderly, expanding the memory of significant experiences, associated with written records and the possibility of using them in moments of weakness, produced psychological benefits that were observed by the research. The experience of living positive emotions brought comfort to the aging process because it attenuated to the old people the perception of social exclusion and loneliness, by reviving the feeling of usefulness and social inclusion, by providing a real life experience and by meeting the needs of this phase of life. The possibility of self-expression also favored the maturation and psychosocial development of children, as the correspondence produced an interlocutor that listen carefully and seek to understand the demands that are specific to childhood