Angelo Brandelli Costa

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul | PUCRS · Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia

The aim of this study is to investigate HIV-related healthcare needs and access barriers for Brazilian transgender and gender diverse people. Data were collected from gender identity clinics and the questionnaire was also made available on the Internet. Out of the 543 participants—62.1% (n = 337) transgender women, 28.7 (n = 156) transgender men an...

Transgender people face unique challenges, such as structural, interpersonal, and individual vulnerabilities to chronic diseases. Stigma and prejudice may hamper their access to health care and prevent their inclusion in the labor market, as well as cause exposition to violence. Labor market exclusion contributes to engagement in survival sex work,...

Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) has been a central explanatory concept and predictor of sociopolitical and intergroup attitudes over the last decades. Research indicates RWA is formed by the subdimensions of authoritarianism, traditionalism, and conservatism. The objective of this study was to assess the cross-cultural validity of this three-fact...

Research involving transgender and gender diverse people (TGD) increased in the last years, mostly concerning healthcare associated to this population. Few studies dedicated their analysis to the impact of parental support on transgender people, even though this is an important aspect in creating a safe environment on which these individuals can bu...

This study was intended to analyze the intersection of experience of sexual stigma low-socioeconomic status, and suicide attempt amongst young Brazilians (11-24 years old). In each of the data collection periods (2004-2006: n=7185; 2010-2012: n=2734), participants completed a questionnaire-based instrument. Network analysis provided support for a M...

Ethnographic research in a trauma hospital made it possible to systematically accompany one of the families who have survived armed conflicts. We observed, in the work process of the Intensive Care Unit, how a body between life and death is revealed through the interactions between health professionals and family members. It is perceived that the "...

Devido à preocupação sobre como a pandemia impactaria na violência contra as mulheres e considerando a complexidade que envolve essa problemática, o objetivo desse estudo é entender a experiência das agentes policiais no trabalho na Delegacia Especializada no Atendimento à Mulher (DEAM) durante a pandemia de COVID-19. Trata-se de um estudo qualitat...

Problemas como ansiedade, depressão, preocupação com os estudos e dificuldade nos relacionamentos são comumente encontrados em universitários e podem levar a evasões. O estudo investigou a relação entre motivação, vivência acadêmica e saúde mental em um curso de graduação em Psicologia. 178 indivíduos com idades entre 18 e 48 anos (M = 23,36; DP =...

This work sought to understand the how high school students in a public school in Porto Alegre (RS) understand the concept of democracy. The premise of this objective is that understanding democracy is necessary to engage effectively in civic society and that this could also show how education can affect public life in this context. This is a quali...

Background: We systematically reviewed the literature and performed a meta-analysis on the effects of speech therapy and phonosurgery, for transgender women, in relation to the fundamental frequency gain of the voice, regarding the type of vocal sample collected, and we compared the effectiveness of the treatments. In addition, the study design, y...

Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) is a central predictor of distinct phenomena such as prejudice, voting behavior, corruption, conspiratory beliefs and dietary habits. Given its theoretical and practical relevance, researchers have incorporated RWA measures in large-scale surveys but their length is an impediment. Although short RWA scales exist, n...

The applicability of objectification theory on undergraduate female students from Rio Grande do Sul was analyzed, examining if the constructs of self-objectification, self-surveillance, appearance anxiety and body shame worked to predict disordered eating and depressive symptomatology. Participants were female undergraduate students from Rio Grande...

Resumo Analisou-se a aplicabilidade da teoria da objetificação em universitárias do Rio Grande do Sul, examinando as variáveis objetificação do self, automonitoramento corporal, ansiedade de aparência e vergonha corporal como possíveis preditoras de sintomatologia associada à transtornos alimentares e depressivos. Trata-se de dois estudos quantitat...

RESUMO: Este trabalho buscou compreender a forma que jovens do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública em Porto Alegre (RS) compreendem o conceito da democracia, partindo da premissa de que esta noção é necessária para o engajamento cívico efetivo e serve de indicativo dos efeitos da educação para a vida pública que tem ocorrido em nosso contexto. Trata...

Objetive. Attributional theory has been widely studied to understand the overall perceptions regarding people suffering from negative events such as an HIV infection. The aim of the present study is to test the overall attribution model and its influence on the willingness to help, considering emotional reactions related to an HIV-infected individu...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00399.].

O modelo do Estresse de Minoria (EM) propõe uma explicação de como estressores relacionados ao preconceito levam pessoas lésbicas, gays e bissexuais (LGB) a terem piores desfechos negativos de saúde mental do que pessoas heterossexuais. Os componentes básicos do EM são o preconceito internalizado, preconceito antecipado e preconceito experienciado....

This chapter presents a discussion regarding the area of perceptual analysis in Computer Graphics (CG) characters. This discussion is focused on presenting one challenge area in Digital Entertainment. Many issues in the area of perception analysis have been researched in last years, in particular with respect to the theory of Uncanny Valley (UV) pr...

The rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among transgender youths are high. However, in Brazil, there are no studies about these outcomes in this population. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in Brazilian transgender youths (binary and non-binary), in association with predictor...

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the gynecological care provided to Brazilian women who have sex with women (WSW). Methods: Respondent-driven sampling was used to recruit Brazilian WSW. The survey questions, concerning gynecological care, were designed in Portuguese by medical professionals, medical students, and LGBTQ+ community members, incl...

This study aims to understand how high school students interact with the idea of citizenship, as well as how they understand this concept. We present a part of a larger survey with students from a public school in Porto Alegre, who answered a questionnaire containing questions about politics, rights and citizenship. From a thematic analysis, we pre...

Background: Although LGBT+ people show high rates of utilization of mental health services, psychotherapeutic care seems to fail to meet their specific needs. This is mainly due to professionals’ lack of knowledge about the unique aspects of life development and mental health processes of LGBT+ people, as well as the inadvertent presence of prejudi...

Animations have become increasingly realistic with the evolution of Computer Graphics (CG). In particular, human models and behaviors have been represented through animated virtual humans. Gender is a characteristic related to human identification, so virtual humans assigned to a specific gender have, in general, stereotyped representations through...

O objetivo deste artigo é mapear a produção acadêmica sobre intervenções realizadas no âmbito escolar brasileiro nos campos de sexualidade e gênero. Foi realizada uma revisão de escopo (Scoping Review) nas bases de dados Scielo, Lilacs, Pepsic e Google Acadêmico. Verificamos que após o ano de 2012 a produção do campo se intensifica; a maioria das i...

This cross-sectional and descriptive study aimed to evaluate the sexual function, urinary function, and quality of life of 26 Brazilian trans women who have undergone gender-affirming surgery (GAS) using the gold standard technique (penile inversion vaginoplasty) in the Gender Identity Transdisciplinary Program at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Aleg...

O objetivo deste artigo é mapear a produção acadêmica sobre intervenções realizadas no âmbito escolar brasileiro nos campos de sexualidade e gênero. Foi realizada uma revisão de escopo (Scoping Review) nas bases de dados Scielo, Lilacs, Pepsic e Google Acadêmico. Verificamos que após o ano de 2012 a produção do campo se intensifica; a maioria das i...

Muitos pesquisadores têm como objetivo publicar artigos nas revistas mais importantes da sua área. As exigências para tanto mudaram significativamente nos últimos vinte anos no cenário internacional, e o objetivo deste capítulo é descrever quais os principais aspectos a serem considerados atualmente em uma avaliação da qualidade metodológica de pes...

O Autoritarismo de Direita (RWA) e a Orientação à Dominância Social (SDO) são atitudes sociais que têm se mostrado importantes na explicação de fenômenos intergrupais. O Modelo Motivacional de Processamento dual de Ideologia e Preconceito (DPM) tem se mostrado viável para explicar como traços de personalidade e essas atitudes sociais predizem o pre...

In The Lancet Psychiatry, Andreas Bauer and colleagues 1 examined associations between interpersonal and non-interpersonal childhood trauma and childhood psychiatric disorders in a Brazilian birth cohort. The authors identified that up to age 6 years, 440 (12·3%) of 3577 children had experienced a traumatic event. By age 11 years, the number of chi...

Background HIV disproportionately affects people who inject drugs, transgender people, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and incarcerated people. Recognized as key populations (KP), these groups face increased impact of HIV infection and reduced access to health assistance. In 1990, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention organized tech...

Embora haja uma crença equivocada de que se trata de um método trivial, já que toda pesquisa, empírica ou não, envolve uma revisão de literatura, a revisão sistemática é um método específico que contém uma série de passos que devem ser seguidos. Sobretudo, com a reocupação crescente no campo científico em relação à queda na qualidade deste tipo de...

O racismo estrutural é uma política de opressão sistemática responsável por determinar diversas desigualdades. O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar como o racismo estrutural, em suas intersecções com o classismo, leva ao encarceramento em massa pela atuação do sistema de justiça criminal. Para tanto, apresentamos o conceito de racismo e de...

Este estudo analisa a trajetória temática e histórica do PPGP da PUCRS. Compuseram o banco os títulos de teses e dissertações defendidas de 1972 até 2020. Foi realizada uma Classificação Hierárquica Descendente por meio do IRAMUTEQ e análises descritivas com o SPSS. Analisaram-se 1012 segmentos de texto em que reteve 82,21% do total (832 unidades),...

Transgender youth are especially susceptible and vulnerable to mental health concerns. Minority Stress Theory may explain these mental health concerns and avoidance to seek healthcare provision in this population. Understanding transgender youth adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms may help create strategies that promote quality of life and r...

Animations have become increasingly realistic with the evolution of Computer Graphics (CG). In particular, human models and behaviors were represented through animated virtual humans, sometimes with a high level of realism. In particular, gender is a characteristic that is related to human identification, so that virtual humans assigned to a specif...

ABSTRACT From the analysis of videos, we sought to understand the specifi- cities of the gender affirmation of trans people born and/or residing in Brazil who create and produce content on YouTube with the objective of sharing snapshots of their lives, mainly related to their gender identity(ies). This is qualitative research in which twenty- ni...

The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N = 10, 535 participants from 24 countries...

The main goal of this article is to describe the formation and development of a Latin-American network for research in psychotherapy and mental health in sexual and gender diversity. Research has shown that psychological well-being and mental health problems of sexual minority individuals are strongly influenced by the particular social and cultura...

Este trabalho buscou compreender a forma que jovens do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública em Porto Alegre (RS) compreendem o conceito da democracia, partindo da premissa de que esta noção é necessária para o engajamento cívico efetivo e serve de indicativo dos efeitos da educação para a vida pública que tem ocorrido em nosso contexto. Trata-se de u...

Resumo O presente estudo buscou adaptar a Escala de Orientação à Dominância Social (SDO7) para o contexto brasileiro, propor uma versão reduzida do instrumento, avaliar sua estrutura fatorial e evidências de validade entre grupos. Para tanto, realizou-se coleta de dados on-line em que participaram 1.056 indivíduos de quatro diferentes amostras. Aná...

Este artigo examina decisões judiciais criminais do Poder Judiciário do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil), mediante a consideração de manifestações homofóbicas clássicas (fortemente repressivas da diversidade sexual) e modernizadas (caracterizadas por assimilacionismo das diferenças sexuais a padrões familistas tradicionais). Empregando o método...

Cada vez mais pessoas têm se autocategorizado como parte da direita política no Brasil. Todavia, o aumento no número de membros da direita não foi acompanhado de um aumento de conhecimento acerca do que prediz a autocategorização na direita. Portanto, o objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar os efeitos preditores de duas variáveis historicament...

The themes of sexuality and gender must be addressed at all stages of schooling. However, there is a certain invisibility during childhood, as well as a lack of interventions focused on educators. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a formative intervention about sexuality and gender in teachers of Early Childhood Education, in relati...

Resumo: A teoria do estresse de minorias se propõe a explicar os prejuízos de saúde de grupos minoritários de sexo e de gênero que são expostas a estruturas sociais estigmatizan-tes a partir de três processos: estigma imposto, homonegatividade internalizada e ocultação da identidade sexual. A literatura brasileira mostra que essas minorias têm mais...

O presente artigo se propõe a discutir teoricamente de que forma os discursos relativos ao conceito de gênero e de sexualidade atravessam e são reproduzidos no que tange à pauta da educação no Brasil. Este trabalho parte da posição que a escola possui uma função política fundamental – a formação de cidadãos – embora também enfrente um momento de te...

This cross-sectional study investigated whether depression, self-esteem, and resilience (mental health indicators) are associated with some psychological features of sexuality (sexual fear, sexual anxiety, sexual dissatisfaction, and sexual body image worries) in a sample of 462 transgender men and women from Brazil. Pearson’s correlations were per...

There is an increasing number of people who categorize themselves as part of the political right in Brazil. However, the knowledge about what predicts self-categorization on the right is still incipient. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the predictive effects of two variables historically related to the political right: Ri...

Preliminary studies indicate that ideologies and worldviews are key in understanding the motivation behind corruption. Yet, there is no model seeking to explain corrupt intention that incorporates ideology and worldviews as predictors. Our objective was to propose a model integrating ideological factors (social dominance orientation [SDO] and right...

Transgender and gender-diverse students may experience poorer school outcomes due to a threatening school climate. A rapid review using systematic search found 2,111 studies mentioned LGBTQ + students, but only three were peer-reviewed empirical tests of potential interventions to improve school outcomes among transgender and gender-diverse youth:...

Correctly recognizing gender identity in population-based surveys is essential to develop effective public health strategies to improve the living conditions of transgender and gender-diverse populations, as well as to adequately collect data on cisgender individuals. This study aims to present the two-step measure as the best strategy for assessin...

The objective of this article is to discuss gender relations from the perspective of professionals of a Prison Basic Health Staff at a female prison. The speeches of health professionals were analyzed in five matrix support meetings and gender was used as category of analysis. Results were possible to be organized in three subthemes from the main t...

Objective: To map patterns of behavior of parents and/or caregivers as perceived by their adult children, transgender patients seen through the Programa Transdisciplinar de Identidade de Gênero, and to determine if one parenting style was more prevalent. Design: 82 patients were interviewed by the Parenting Style Inventory. Results: The 82 patients...

To ensure that public health services provide comprehensive and inclusive health care to the general population, it is important for countries to estimate how many of their citizens experience gender dysphoria and wish to receive specialized hormone treatment or gender-affirming surgery. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of indiv...

This paper aims to assess the human perception of groups about charisma, comfort and realism in relation to black and white skin colors of characters created with Computer Graphics (CG) in different media, such as movies, games, animations, simulations, among others. We created a form that contained images of groups of CG characters with black and...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the human perception regarding geometric features, personalities and emotions in avatars. To achieve this, we used a dataset that contains pedestrian tracking files captured in spontaneous videos which are visualized as identical virtual human beings. The main objective is to focus on individuals motion, not ha...

Background : Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Asexual (LGBTQA+) youth have a greater chance of experiencing stressful life events when compared to cisgender heterosexual peers, which can lead to mental health problems. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders among LGBTQA+ youths from two large cities in Brazil. Metho...

Objective: Describe general characteristics of transgender parents, highlight aspects of their relationship with their children and explore experiences with discrimination, while comparing to transgender adults who were not parents. Background: Few studies have investigated families headed by transgender individuals. Even less in contexts where th...

Correctly recognizing gender identity in population-based surveys is essential to develop effective public health strategies for ameliorating transgender and gender diverse populations' harsh living conditions, as well as to adequately collect data on cisgender persons. The purpose of this study is to present the two-step measure as the best strate...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.627661.].

In this paper, we investigate the cultural aspects of different populations from video sequences. For that, we proposed a model that considers a series of characteristics of the pedestrians and the crowd, such as distances and speeds and performs the mapping of these characteristics in personalities, emotions, and cultural aspects. The model called...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Asexual (LGBTQA+) youth have a greater odds of experiencing stressful life events like discrimination and violence when compared to their cisgender heterosexual peers, which can lead to mental health problems. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders among LGBTQA+ youths from the 3rd wav...

A escola pode revelar, entre outras coisas, situações e procedimentos pedagógicos e curriculares relacionados à produção de diferenças e distinções sociais que interfiram na formação e na produção social do desempenho escolar. A Educação de Jovens e Adultos é um sistema de ensino da rede pública no Brasil que oportuniza àqueles que não tiveram aces...

Purpose: Gender dysphoria (GD) is an incompatibility between biological sex and personal gender identity; individuals harbor an unalterable conviction that they were born in the wrong body, which causes personal suffering. In this context, surgery is imperative to achieve a successful gender transition and plays a key role in alleviating the associ...

This study aimed to examine psychosocial factors and medical history as well as symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress associated with ruminative thinking in transgender people with gender dysphoria (GD) before undergoing gender affirmation surgery (GAS). This study evaluated 189 participants with GD (111 trans women and 78 trans men) from a s...

Objective: This study aims to compare the acoustic vocal analysis results of a group of transgender women relative to those of cisgender women. Methods: Thirty transgender women between the ages of 19 and 52 years old participated in the study. The control group was composed of 31 cisgender women between the ages of 20 and 48 years old. A standardi...