Sentimentos, emoções e projetos vitais da juventude: um estudo exploratório na perspectiva da teoria dos modelos organizadores do pensamento

Values and Feelings in Young Brazilians’ Purposes

“…These findings are relevant because, although a large segment of the participants mobilized complexes of values and feelings, not all did so by establishing relationships resulting in consolidated purposes, which confirms the data collected by Damon (2009), Klein (2011), Pátaro (2011, and Yeager and Bundick (2009). One could observe that a significant segment of the participants could have attached more consistent meaning to values and feelings, thus making their purposes in life stronger.…”

“…We were able to establish that the complex of values and feelings strengthened its central organization in the dynamics of the youths' thought. Arantes (2013) and Pátaro (2011) consider that feelings play a significant role in the elaboration of purpose and emphasize that feelings of well-being and self-fulfillment are determinants for purpose, as are also other feelings related to the self. Our results confirm the role that feelings played in the elaboration of purpose by the participants.…”

“…These categories of models derive from principles previously defined by the investigators as a means to analyze data as a function of their study objectives. These categories have already been used in certain studies (Arantes, 2003;Pátaro, 2011;Pinheiro, 2009) that applied the Thought Organizing Models Theory (Moreno Marimón et al, 1988/2000 as a framework to achieve a more accurate analysis of the regularities present in the participants' reasoning inasmuch as they allow for a broader visualization of the patterns of thought. Table 2 describes the clustering of the models in three groups: (a) group A, characterized by little integration of values and feelings, contradictory responses, weak projection, and little to no mobilization of feelings (model 1); (b) group B, characterized by more evident purpose, the mobilization of one or two values, little integration among values, coherence among most of the responses, and regulation by feelings (models 2, 3, and 4); and (c) group C, characterized by the mobilization of two or more values, the integration and regulation of values and feelings, elaborated purpose, and high levels of coherence (models 5, 6, and 7).…”

“…Within the field of morality, affectivity-mediated regulation is manifested in the influence of feelings on the mobilization of values in the face of a moral situation. Thus, affectivity and cognition in moral judgments and actions are included within a continuum (Arantes, 2003(Arantes, , 2013Haidt, 2003;Moreno Marimón & Sastre, 2010;Pátaro, 2011;Pátaro & Arantes, 2014;Sherman & Haidt, 2011).…”

“…Assuming the relevance of that concept but from the perspective of functional analysis, other studies have focused on the role of feelings in the youths' elaborations according to the Thought Organizing Models Theory (Pátaro, 2011;Pátaro & Arantes, 2014), opening a line of research that might allow for a deepening of the understanding of the influence of affectivity on the elaboration of purposes.…”