Estereótipos e intenção de adotar uma criança: uma explicação pautada nos valores humanos

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Jérssia Laís Fonseca dos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Estereótipos; Intenção de adotar; Valores humanos; Stereotypes; Intention to adopt; Humans values; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9082

This dissertation aims to analyze if the human values explain the stereotypes of the adopted child and the intention to adopt. Two studies were carried out to achieve this objective. In study 1 aimed to elaborate the Stereotypes of Adopted Child Scale, gathering evidence of validity and precision. Participated 208 people from the general population of João Pessoa (PB), being 52.9% female, with an average age of 24.6 years (SD = 7.27). These answered the Stereotypes of the Adopted Child Scale (SACS) and sociodemographic questions. SPSS was used to perform the analyzes. A main components analysis (varimax rotation) identified a structure with three components that together explained 54.3% of the total variance, presenting satisfactory internal consistency indices: undesirable behaviors (α = .87), desirable behaviors (α = .83) and negative psychological attributes (α = .71). In study 2 tried to prove the structure of the SPSS, besides knowing the relation between human values, stereotypes and intention to adopt. In this study, 245 people from the general population of the city of João Pessoa (PB) participated, with a majority of males (59.2%), with an average age of 25.5 years (SD = 7.10). They answered the SPSS, the Basic Values Questionnaire and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Using a confirmatory factorial analysis, the three-dimensional structure of the SPSS was used to perform the analyzes [χ² (129) = 317,829; p < .001; Χ² / gl = 2.46, CFI = .90, TLI = .88 and RMSEA = .07 (IC 90% = .067 - .088)]. When performing the Person correlation analyzes, it was observed that the stereotypes of the adopted child correlated significantly and positively with the normative sub-functions (r = .66, p < .01) and existence (r = .17; p < .01); and negatively with the promotion subfunction (r = -.13, p < .05). The intention to adopt was positively correlated with the interactive subfunction (r = .16, p < .05) and negatively with the promotion subfunction (r = -.13, p < .05). When performing linear regressions (Stepwise Method), it was found that the achievement sub-function explained the undesirable behaviors (β = .13, t = 2.07 p < .001), the normative subfunction explained the desirable behaviors (β = .66; t = 13.86 p < .001) and negative psychological attributes (β = .48; t = 8.71 p < .001). Regarding the intention to adopt, it was possible to observe that the interactive subfunctions (β = .22, p < .05) and promotion (β = -.20, p < .05) were presented as the best predictors. It is concluded that human values constitute an important variable in explaining the stereotypes as well as in the intention to adopt. Providing empirical data for the development of interventions that seek to dismantle the negative stereotypes and biases surrounding adoption, especially the adopted child, thereby encouraging people to adopt.