https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/19966 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:37:30 GMT 2026-04-17T02:37:30Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44388 Quem eu sou? Identidade em contextos de língua não-nativa Carolina, Karen Valsiner, Jaan This study investigated how individuals residing in non-native language contexts negotiate their identity, understood here as a semiotic effect of narrative processes aimed at organizing world experiences and achieving recognizability within a shared symbolic field. Grounded in semiotic-cultural psychology, this study analyzes the trajectories of four participants undergoing migratory processes who utilize a non-native language in their daily lives. This is a qualitative study based on a microgenetic analysis of narratives produced during individual comprehensive interviews. The results demonstrate that the migratory experience implies a reorganization of the conditions under which identity is constituted, shaping what is termed a process of proculturation. It was observed that the perceived symbolic insufficiency of the non-native language to express affective nuances generates tensions that reinforce identification with the native language and cultural context of origin, particularly with "being Brazilian." In this sense, the valorization of Brazilianness occurs in a situated manner, functioning as a strategy for the continuity of the self within the migratory context, while not necessarily maintaining the same function in the original context, thereby reinforcing the relational and dynamic nature of identity. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44388 2026-03-09T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44387 Em uma galáxia nem tão distante: a relação entre os interesses profissionais e a personalidade em nerds e geeks Reis, Andreza Nathielly Batista Barros, Leonardo de Oliveira Although a wide range of studies encompass professional interests and their relationship to personality, little has been done on more specific subcultures and their influence on career guidance. For this reason, the present research sought to study the professional interests and personality of Brazilian nerds and geeks, based on Holland's typology and the Big Five. To this end, the present work was divided into three studies. The first study consisted of a scoping review, which investigated what career guidance has studied about the nerd/geek group. Searches were conducted in national and international databases in 2024. Articles from the 2000s to the date of the search, in English or Portuguese, and addressing some aspect of the career of the nerd/geek group were included. 14 articles were eligible, which indicated that research conducted with this audience focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) careers, stereotypes, and sexism. Benefits were found in being a nerd/geek and pursuing STEM careers, as well as career difficulties for this group. The second study focused on adapting the Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale. Initially, the scale was translated by two independent translators, and the synthesis of the translations was done by the study's authors. A pilot study was then conducted with nine self-declared nerds/geeks, who evaluated the semantic comprehension, response system, and instructions of the scale. Items identified as redundant were reformulated. After the pilot study, the Escala de Atributos da Personalidade Nerd (EAPN), the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen, and a sociodemographic questionnaire were used in an online survey answered by 889 self-declared nerds/geeks, with an average age of 24.89 years, the majority being white (61.3%) and male (58%). The data were subjected to exploratory factor analysis, Pearson correlation, and a t-test. Based on these analyses, it was possible to verify the factorization of the scale into two factors. Furthermore, the EAPN was correlated with self-reported nerdiness and psychopathy. Analysis of mean differences pointed to the need for further studies with the gamer subgroup. Finally, the third study sought to understand the relationship between professional interests, personality, and being a member of nerd/geek culture. The instruments used were the EAPN, the 18-REST-2, and Reduced Markers for Personality Assessment, and the sample was the same as in the second study. Pearson's correlation, MANOVA, t-test, and chi-square tests were performed. The predominant interests of the group were found to be investigative, social, and conventional types. The predominant personality traits were agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness. Significant and positive correlations were found between nerdiness, the investigative type, conventional type, extroversion, and neuroticism. The findings also indicate significant negative correlations between nerdiness, entrepreneurial type, social skills, agreeableness, and career satisfaction. Mean differences were found based on gender, and women and non-binary individuals reported a higher perception of prejudice within this group. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44387 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44285 Quem eu sou? Identidade em contextos de língua não-nativa Carolina, Karen Valsiner, Jaan This study investigated how individuals residing in non-native language contexts negotiate their identity, understood here as a semiotic effect of narrative processes aimed at organizing world experiences and achieving recognizability within a shared symbolic field. Grounded in semiotic-cultural psychology, this study analyzes the trajectories of four participants undergoing migratory processes who utilize a non-native language in their daily lives. This is a qualitative study based on a microgenetic analysis of narratives produced during individual comprehensive interviews. The results demonstrate that the migratory experience implies a reorganization of the conditions under which identity is constituted, shaping what is termed a process of proculturation. It was observed that the perceived symbolic insufficiency of the non-native language to express affective nuances generates tensions that reinforce identification with the native language and cultural context of origin, particularly with "being Brazilian." In this sense, the valorization of Brazilianness occurs in a situated manner, functioning as a strategy for the continuity of the self within the migratory context, while not necessarily maintaining the same function in the original context, thereby reinforcing the relational and dynamic nature of identity. Universidade Federal da Bahia Dissertação Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44285 2026-03-09T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44045 Bem viver em Kirimurê: processos identitários de desterritorialização e de retomada entre pessoas indígenas em Salvador/BA Modesto, João Gabriel; Janduraí Patiño, Rafael Andrés In this master’s thesis we present as objective of the analysis the understanding of the relationship between the Good Living in Kirimurê and the policy of monoculture, from the discourse built by indigenous people in Salvador/BA. Initially, we aimed to understand how this relationship affects the "mental health" of indigenous people in the city. However, after literature review, we realized that it is not possible to make an universal application from the concept of "mental health" to indigenous ways of seeing and being in the world. To fill the gaps historically and intentionally produced by knowledge, we resort to interdisciplinarity and present contributions to the transdisciplinary studies involving indigenous populations. Supported by the theoretical methodological approach of Constructionist Social Psychology, as well as in the perspectives of decolonization of scientific methodologies proposed by Maori Linda Tuhiwai Smith, we adopted workshops such as ethical-political tools and as theoretical-methodological strategies. Based on indissociability between teaching, research and extension, we have the extensionist action "'Bem Viver in Kirimurê': mental health of indigenous people in the urban context of Salvador/BA" approved in the Call for Support to Extension in Graduate Studies 2022, by PROEXT of UFBA, as a method. For the structuring of the field, we performed the "Call to Bem Viver in Kirimurê" in order to identify the interested participants and adopt the snowball technique as an invitation strategy. We included as interlocutors of this dissertation: self-declared indigenous peoples, recognized or not by traditional communities, over 18 years of age, residents in Salvador/BA. From the ethnic groups represented by the 12 participants, are 08 indigenous peoples: Pankará, Pataxó, Payayá, Tingui -Botó, Tumbalalá, Tupinambá, Tremembé and Tuxá. The participants were classified regarding their different conditions: indigenous (villages) who migrated to the city (AC); born in rural territory not delimited as indigenous, who migrated to the city (TRC); and born in city (NC). The ethical aspects of this research were based on the guidelines of the Resolutions nº 304/2000, nº 466/2012, nº 510/2016, nº 304/2000 and the Circular Office nº 02/2021, regarding the special thematic studies with indigenous populations and the hybrid character of the activities developed, occurred both in person in the Joventino Silva City Park, in Salvador, as in virtual environment on the platform Google Meet. Distributed in 08 meetings, being virtual (06) and face-to-face (02), we conducted 03 named thematic workshops as 1) "Identities, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Practices at the City"; 2) "Indigenous Suffering in the Village and in the City" and 3) "Cultivating Good Living, Unravel the Imaginaries and Reforest the Cities with Indigenous Seeds". The analysis procedure of the contexts to hold the workshops involves pre-production, followed by sequential and integral transcription, until systematization and dissemination of the information produced. Seeking to subsidize the methodological interpretative rigor, the thematic categorical analysis guided the redefinition of the research analysis’ objectives, containing 03 themes and 08 categories. The first theme characterizes the "identity processes of indigenous people", based on 03 categories coded as "Family" (FAMI); "Territory" (TRTR); and "Spirituality" (ESPT). "Processes of deterritorialization of indigenous people" is the second theme of analysis, subdivided in “Migration” (MGRÇ); “Racism” (RCSM); e “City” (CIDD), oriented to the indigenous presence in the city. Finally, the third theme called "Processes of Indigenous Resurgence" simultaneously describes the categories "Resumption of the Intersubjective Territory" (RTMS) and "Resumption of the Geographic Territory" (RTMS).Within this thesis, we highlight the cultural and uprooting memories among indigenous people, residents in Salvador/BA, pointing to the resumption of identities and traditional territories as an strategy of indigenous resistance in confronting the policies of monoculture, through the preservation and continuity of Good Living as a way of promotion to integral health. Universidade Federal da bahia Dissertação Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44045 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z