Consciência da finitude e valores humanos: um estudo com idosos em instituições de longa permanência

• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Wanderlanya Cristina Silva de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8552
• topic: Envelhecimento; Aging; Finitude; Valores humanos; Sentido de vida; Finitude; Human values; Sense of life; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

Religious beliefs and practices constitute as much as coping sources of stressful situations, such as ways to find directions on life in human aging phase. In this perspective this study aimed to identify the impact finitude awareness in evaluative structure in the elderly, and the following objectives: To investigate the relationship between the ontological sense of time (past, present and future) and the religious attitude; Examine the relationship between meaning in life and religious attitudes. Finally, he sought to know the magnitude of the influence of human values, religious attitudes and the perception of time in search of meaning and presence of seniors in long-stay institutions. The research was to approach the quantitative method characterized as a field correlational study in which 50 elderly participated in the survey with an average age of 76.58 years (SD = 9.49; range 60 to 105 years), most It was female (72%). All answered a set of six questionnaires: demographic partner; questionnaire of basic values; questionnaire sense of life; questionnaire of basic values (finitude version); scale religious attitude; scale ontological perception of time. Regarding the general objective, the results suggest an impact on the evaluative structure in elderly when the setting of the finiteness is inserted. Already in relation to the first specific goal, it was found that the perception of sense in this was significantly associated with knowledge, behavior, feelings and religious corporeality. With regard to the past, only the corporeality was associated with this variable and, finally, with respect to the future, both religious knowledge and religious behavior correlated with this factor. On the second specific goal, the results suggest that the presence of sense correlates with the knowledge, behavior and religious sentiment. Already the search for meaning is associated directly with the religious knowledge and religious corporeality. Finally, with respect to the ultimate goal, it was found that the variables: perception of the present and the Sub existence together explained 37% of variance to explain the presence of meaning while religious knowledge and suprapersonal Sub contribute together 34 % of the variance to explain the search for meaning. The results were discussed in light of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis of Viktor Frankl.