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Gallo, S. (2006). Women's loving relationship feelings. Thesis (Master Degree in Clinic
Psychology – PUC-Campinas). Campinas. xi + 62p.
ABSTRACT
Independence and seclusion walk together for many women considered as modern women
(Ferres – Carneiro, 1998). With cultural, social and professional life changes, we live at a time
when new female roles models are not yet completely defined, affecting the possibility of
choosing a partner. Nowadays the woman’s role in society is passing through transformations,
established old patterns are not working anymore and new models are being defined. Such
contingences can have consequences on physical and emotional health, making women more
sensitive to stress symptoms. The feelings reveal themselves as behavioral events, attributed to
the person and determinate for the surrounding, the nomination of these feelings is a product of
learning and has a social origin.(Baum, 1999) Objective is to check through the report of
women, their feelings facing a love relationship and if there is some relation between the feeling
identified with stress level. For this, interviews were performed with 14 women, aged between
28 and 36 years old, without a 1-year established love relationship. The participants were
submitted to Lipp’s Stress Symptoms Inventory for Adults (LSSI) and an interview to identify
their feelings in relation to love relationships in the past, present and future. The results indicate
that happiness was chosen for the majority of participant to express their feelings in relation to
their past and future situations, suggesting that the experiences of love relationship are positives.
The majority of the group presented the feeling of sadness on the actual situation of not having a
stable love relationship, confirming that positive feelings are related to having a love relation
and negative feelings to not being involved in a love relation. It was identified that 8 of the 14
participant presented stress diagnosis, six (42.9%) were in resistance phase, two (14.3%) in
almost exhausting phase and six (42.9%) did not present a stress diagnosis. The predominant
symptoms predominance was psychological varying the percentage of between 20% to 100%,
indicating that predominantly the specimen presented stress with psychological symptoms.
Women without a stable love relationship indicate an external stress source, when identified
absence of stable love relationship as an aversive contingence. Indifference to love experiences
can be interpreted as an internal stress source, no discrimination of the feelings or its denial is
covering behavior and, thus difficult to access and interpret. It was observed that participants
who were on light stress phase live and express their feelings, even their feelings of sadness.
And participants who feel or express indifference present more grave stress symptoms. These
results suggest that more research must be performed in this area to understand better the
contingence influence on affective women lives.
Key-words: Woman, Love Relationship, Feeling, Stress.