Atitudes frente ao terrorismo em Moçambique e Brasil: correlatos de personalidade, crenças e valores

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Paqueleque, António Osvaldo
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• 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: Psicologia social; Crenças conspiratórias; Valores humanos; Personalidade; Social psychology; Conspiratorial beliefs; Human values; Personality; Creencias conspirativas; Personalidad; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/31411

The phenomenon of terrorism in Mozambique and Brazil makes people experience different feelings: fear, uncertainty, insecurity. Considering this framework and conceiving that dark personality traits, conspiratorial beliefs and human values are fundamental constructs to explain individual’s attitudes (behavior) and ways of acting, this thesis sought to know the attitudes towards terrorism in Mozambique and Brazil, aiming to analyze the correlates of personality, conspiratorial beliefs and human values in predicting attitudes towards terrorism. Three studies were carried out in this direction: Study 1 aimed to carry out a semantic analysis of terrorism and involved 363 students from four universities in Mozambique (Cabo Delgado) and one in Brazil (João Pessoa), whose ages ranged from 18 to 59 years (age = 24.7; SD = 6.18). They answered five open questions about terrorism and demographic questions (e.g. age, gender). The results showed knowledge about terrorism, its role and the consequences this phenomenon has had on people's social lives. Study 2 aimed to find out about the relationship between dark personality traits, conspiratorial beliefs and human values in explaining attitudes towards terrorism in Mozambique. 405 people from different regions of the country took part, aged between 18 and 69 (M age = 29.1; SD = 10.45), the majority of whom were male (54.1%). They answered the Attitudes to Terrorism Questionnaire, the Conspiratorial Beliefs Questionnaire, the Basic Values Questionnaire (BQQ), the Questionnaire on dark personality traits and demographic questions. The results indicated that the study participants expressed positive attitudes towards terrorism in Mozambique, explained by conspiratorial beliefs (positive attitudes), the Interactive evaluative subfunction and the dark personality trait Machivealism (negative attitudes). According to the literature, conspiratorial beliefs influence the actions of individuals because they are events that are secretly manipulated behind the scenes by existing powerful forces and lead to a disbelief in scientific knowledge to the point of violence (Swami, & Furnham, 2012).Finally, Study 3 sought to replicate the previous study in Brazil, using the same measurement instruments to find out how attitudes towards terrorism are explained by dark personality traits, conspiratorial beliefs and human values. 365 students from various courses at a public university in Paraíba took part, ranging in age from 18 to 63 (M age = 25.0; SD = 7.5), the majority of whom were female (61.4%). The results indicated the manifestation of negative attitudes towards terrorism in Brazil, explained by conspiratorial beliefs and the Normative, Suprapersonal and Existence evaluative sub-functions. Thus, the results of the three studies showed the relevance of considering psychosocial variables to understand the phenomenon of terrorism in the two cultures researched (Mozambique and Brazil).