As prioridades valorativas mudam com a idade?: testando as hipóteses de rigidez e plasticidade

• Autor(a) principal: Vione, Katia Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• 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/6892
• topic: Valores humanos; Mudança; Rigidez; Plasticidade; Desenvolvimento; Human values; Change; Plaster; Plasticity; Development; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Adopting Funcionalist theory of human values, de present dissertation aims to contribute with the value change theme, testing wether the value subfunctions change (soft plaster hypothesis) or remain without meaningful changes (plaster hypothesis) after 35 years old, taking into account three mains development stages: adolescence (12 to 18 years), young adult (19 to 35 years) and mature adult (36 to 65 years). It was a cross-sectional survey, counting with the participation of 36,845 people of all federative unities, with mean age of 28 years (sd = 12.62), equally distributed by sex, representing three sample groups: adolescents (n = 9,638), young adults (n = 16,520) and mature adults (n = 10,687). They ansewered the Basic Values Suervey (BVS) and demographic questions (age and sex). Participants were approached in public locations, at work and at school class, the instructions were given on the questionnaire. First, it was checked the two versions of the change hypothesis: (1) wether there is change in values after 35 years old, that is, if the slopes for men and women differ from zero (plaster hypothesis); and (2) wether the changes in values can be identifyied during the three development stages indicated, that is, if the slops of the groups are different (soft hypothesis). From t tests it was calculated, for each subfunction, if the slope correspondent to age differed from zero, this hypothesis was not confirmed for existence and interactive. Regarding the soft hypothesis, it was tested through F test, there were there were significant differences between the slopes of the development groups for five subfunctions, not being corroborated only for interactive subfunction.After, it were proven the patterns of development or change of these subfuncions in regards with the age of the participants, testing different regression models (linear, quadratic and cubic). As a criteria to choose between the regression patterns, it was took into account that a more complex model would be retained if it had an improvement in the adjustmente, that is, if had F > 25 (p < 10-5) compared to a simple model. Linear models were observed for the subfunctions of promotion, suprapersonal and interactive, quadratic models of excitement, existence and normative, the cubic model was rejected because it didn t present improvement in the adjustment compared to simple models. These findings support the conception of plasticity in the values development, indicating that changes occur during the whole life, some assuming a linear pattern, although otters demand a quadratic pattern, showing that values that are important in adolescence (e.g., excitement), may not be in adulthood. These change patterns are discussed using theoretical models of human development, as Erikson s model.