Violência urbana e suas implicações na qualidade de vida de pessoas idosas

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Inayara Oliveira de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7804
• topic: Violência urbana; Urban Violence; Violencia urbana; Idosos; Representações sociais; Qualidade de vida; Elderlies; Social representations; Life quality; Ancianos; Representaciones sociales; Calidad de vida; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This study sought after investigating implications of urban violence over elderly people’s life quality in the city of João Pessoa-PB. In order to achieve such an objective, it was necessary for four empirical studies to be developed: the first concerns an explanatory and descriptive field research, with a qualitative and quantitative analysis approach, aiming at getting acquainted with social representations of elderly people in relation to urban violence. 30 elderlies took part in it, with ages ranging from 60 to 83 years old (m = 69,8; dp = 6,1), most of whom (70%) of the female gender who responded to an interview profoundly. Data were processed by the software ALCESTE. Outcomes indicated the appearance of four distinct classes denominated as Healthcare Systems, Political and Economic aspects; Elderly’s Statute, and Private versus Public Healthcare; Banking, transportation services, and public healthcare; and Conceptions about urban violence. In general, urban violence has been anchored to three main dimensions; criminality, institutional services (health, collective and financial transportation) and in political and economic aspects. The 2nd study targeted at building and validating a scale of perception of urban violence against the elderly as of results obtained from the 1st study. The scale was built as of 34 items, with response options of the Likert type. As for the validation process, 213 elderlies participated, with an age range between 60 and 89 years old (m = 69,4; dp = 6,37), most of whom, of the female gender (71,8%). Outcomes originated from the Explanatory Factorial Analysis indicated the exclusion of two items which caused the final version to possess 32 items. The psychometric parameters appeared as satisfactory and pointed to a two-dimensional structure: Urban violence manifestations and their consequences (α = 0,91), and Urban violence and institutional services (α = 0,65). The 3rd study held a Confirmatory Factorial Analysis (AFC) of the Urban Violence Perception Scale against the Elderly validated in the 2nd study as its main objective. 594 elderlies participated, whose ages were between 60 and 87 years old (m = 70,0; dp = 7,0), most of whom were of the female gender (70,7%). Results revealed that the one-dimensional model showed higher adjustment indexes: Urban violence manifestations. The 4th study aimed principally at analyzing implications of urban violence over the elderlies’ life quality who took part in the referred research. 165 elderlies participated, whose ages ranged from 60 and 91 years old (m = 70,4; dp = 7,1), most of whom of the female gender (75,2%). Results showed that there was no correlation between urban violence perception against the elderly people and life quality, which signals that, despite experiencing and perceiving urban violence in their day-by-day relationships, no relation was found between this variable and the life quality of the elderlies studied. Conclusion: Most likely, variables such as life satisfaction, schooling, family and social support of the elderlies who took part in the present research had quite a positive influence over their life quality, and may help in the understanding of the results achieved.