28th International Congress of Psychology August 8 ... - U-netSURF

importance and the degree of goal progress. It was found that individuals considered their personal
goals more important than their mothers’ and fathers’ goals. However, their satisfaction with life
was related more to the importance given to parental goals and their achievement than the
importance given to personal goals. The discrepancy between mothers’ goals and their
achievement was especially important.
3118.34 Perspective of professional future: A qualitative study with university students of
psychology, Adriana Oliveira, Monica Rodrigues, Universidade Paulista (UNIP), Brazil
This research had as objective to investigate the perspective of students of psychology about their
entrance in psychology work field and the role of the psychologist in our society. Ten students
from each grade of the course were interviewed, totaling 50 participants. Qualitative content
analysis procedures were applied and results revealed that psychologist is seen by students as a
professional who should work for benefit of society in different social classes. Therefore,
government should give more subsidy for professional action. The work field is seen as difficult
and competitive. The authors discuss the general situation of the profession in Brazil.
3118.35 Virtual love: A Brazilian qualitative study about a new way of relationship, Adriana
Oliveira, Paula Liotti, Cristiana Berthoud, University of Taubat Brazil, Brazil
The purpose of this research was to analyze the virtual romantic relationship experienced through
Internet, trying to understand the reasons, expectations, opinions, feelings and the quality of this
kind of relationship. In-depth interviews were conducted with five adults and five adolescents. The
qualitative content analysis showed that curiosity, for adolescents, and loneliness, for adults, are
the main reasons to look for a partner through Internet. The principal component found in virtual
love is the idealization and in many cases after the real date the fantasy is not confirmed, what
makes difficult the continuity of the romance.
3118.36 The investigative research on value-orientation of the sex morals of contemporary
college students in China, Xingchun Xu 1 , Dianzhi Liu 1 , Ze Yang 1 , Xiufeng Mo 2 , 1 Southwest
China Normal University, Chongqing; 2 Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
The sex morality of the contemporary college students reflects the trend of value-orientation of
Chinese people. With high reliability and validity questionnaire formed by authors, more than
2000 students were investigated, who were come from 9 different universities in eastward, middle
and westward of China. It was found: the inter-sexual behavior of contemporary college students
were consist of virtue, sensation, unconstraint, duty and faithfulness; college students approved
commendably the morality of the morality of edge sexual behavior; they were negative to
homosexuality. they were ambivalent to the behavior all by oneself.
3118.37 Use of popular comics to help female adolescents to develop multi-sex-role views, Miki
Chuang, Hung-Yu Lin, National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan, China
This study is to challenge female adolescents’ gender stereotypes and help them to develop
multi-sex-role views by using comics through a support group. Recently, comics have become
popular among adolescents. However, comic books are seldom adopted as education usages.
Therefore, programs to discuss the multiple sex roles described in the comics is designed. Results
show that the target group have loosed their gender stereotypes significantly compared to a
758