Teste de Apercepção Familiar: sistema de categorização das respostas e fidedignidade entre avaliadores

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Fensterseifer, Liza
• Orientador(a): Werlang, Blanca Susana Guevara
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: PSICOLOGIA; RELAÇÕES FAMILIARES; FAMÍLIA - PSICOLOGIA; TESTES PSICOLÓGICOS; TESTE DE APERCEPÇÃO FAMILIAR
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4913

The projective Family Apperception Test (FAT) intends to assess the family structure and functioning process from the point of view of the person who answers to it. FAT includes 21 pictures with family scenes, and the examinee shall tell a story on each of them. Considering the importance of adjusting the psychological instruments to the reality where they are used, the objective of this study was supporting FAT use and adaptation to the Brazilian reality. For such purpose, this Doctoral Dissertation was organized in three sections. The first one theoretically discusses the capacity of solving conflicts as a health indicator of families, highlighting that their disfunctionality is not assessed by the existence of problems, but instead by their incapacity to search for strategies to face them. The second section describes the building and development process of a categorization system to analyze the answers to the FAT. Studies published on this subject were reviewed, and a systematic content examination of the proposed categories of analysis on FAT original version was performed in order to assess its adequacy. After that, a new configuration was proposed to the answer categorization system, from which verbalizations of 30 children and youngsters were independently scrutinized by two researchers. This action has allowed the assessment of the logical consistency of the answers, leading to a definitive shape of the system. The final section shows a study on the reliability among evaluators, which was based upon a quantitative research involving 160 children and youngsters from two Brazilian cities: Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. The instruments used were a sociodemographic datasheet; the Raven Progressive Matrices Test, to screen the subjects’ cognitive capacity; and the FAT. Data were collected after contacting public and private schools, sending a letter and having informed consents signed by the students’ parents or responsible persons to take part of the research. The stories told for the FAT were tape-recorded, transcribed in written, and submitted to three different judges (J1, J2 e J3), who made independent evaluations. To check the agreement rate, Kappa statistics was used. The results obtained were highly satisfactory, as the agreement was substantial in several categories, and almost perfect in most the analyzed items. That means the three judges have agreed almost completely in their evaluations. The findings of this Dissertation contribute to the adaptation of FAT to the Brazilian reality, as a solid categorization system of the answers has allowed reaching satisfactory reliability rates among evaluators, taking an important step towards the qualification of its psychometric properties. FAT may allow wider understanding of family relationships and processes under several perspectives, representing an instrument capable of evaluating and decoding data for both research and clinical evaluation.