scholarly journals Αναπαραστάσεις της ψυχικής ασθένειας στον αγροτικό χώρο

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Σταυρούλα Παρασκευοπούλου
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
General Population ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social

This research study is a part of research field of social psychology. This research aims in theinvestigation of social representations of the general population for mental illness.Accordance with the theoretical framework, any social representation is created anddetermined through two complementary processes: objectification and anchoring. Theobjectification is a descriptive process that gives material substance to the ideas. Theanchoring is an interpretive process, in which social subjects incorporate an unknown objectin a familiar network of meanings for understanding and explanation. Regarding thestructure of social representations, some elements form the central core and determine,organize and stabilize the social representation. The core contains a small number ofelements around which peripheral elements are organized and fully dependent on the core.Their role is very important because it lies between the core and the specific situation inwhich is formed and operates the social representation and may contain many individualdifferences always compatible with the central core. The core ensures stability andconsistency of social representation, while the peripheral system tolerates heterogeneity.Regarding the research design followed a combined methodological approach involvingsemistructured research interview, survey questionnaire and method of free associations.Research conducted in the general population of rural areas of Messinia. The first phase ofresearch involves conducting interviews and the second phase of the survey questionnaires.Also presented in detail in the questionnaire and manufacturing process. For purelypractical reasons, the method of free association incorporated in a questionnaire.Regarding the findings of investigation, the social representation of mental illness objectifiedin a form of a continuum, one edge of which are the milder forms of mental illness in earlystages and usually take the form of depression. At the other end of this continuum areserious cases of mental illness, who have no contact with reality, such as schizophrenia,which coincides with the concept of madness. To these more serious cases, people withmental illness behave completely irrationally and can be dangerous without case, becausetheir mind doesn’t function properly. If cases of mental illness are in the early stages are notmade on time and left untreated, can damage a brain to deteriorate so much that evenreach the stage of schizophrenia. Also anchoring the mental illness as an illness of the mind,symptoms of which are the various dysfunctional behaviors, depending on the stage and theparticularities of each case. Mental illness also anchoring as a difficult and mentallyexhausting illness for the patient and his family, because it creates extremely difficult situation. Mental illness is very difficult to treat, even at an early stage. The most seriouscases as schizophrenia are not considered curable. In most cases of schizophrenia psychiatrichospitalization is required, either because the mental patient is extremely dangerous tohimself or others, either because the situation is so serious that it cannot be treated in thecommunity.

scholarly journals Comparative study on the social representations of cancer and breast cancer

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Pocinho ◽  
Fatima Matos ◽  
Ana Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Breast Cancer Treatment ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Central Nucleus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Symbolic Universe ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

Abstract Background The symbolic universe of cancer is associated with death, but its treatment has undergone innumerable innovations, which may lead to a new meaning for social representations. The theory of social representations seeks the new, which changes in the knowledge of common sense (Guareschi & Jovchelovitch, 1994). Thus, the objective of this work is to identify the social representations of cancer and breast cancer, identifying their changes and their meanings based on the central nucleus and the peripheral system. Methods Qualitative and descriptive study, based on the structural approach of the theory of social representations. The sample was non-probabilistic and due to accessibility. The collection instrument was a Word Evocation Test with two inducing words, ‘cancer’ and ‘breast cancer’. The subjects were asked to mention three words that came to their mind immediately and spontaneously. The SPSS and IRAMUTEQ software were used. Results 753 subjects participated and 2316 words were evoked for each inducing word. In the central core of cancer the words pain, illness, death, suffering. Central core of breast cancer: treatment, pain, feeling, woman, strength. Conclusions The social representation of cancer is still strongly death, while in breast cancer it is the treatment. Suffering and pain are part of the central core of the two words and continue to characterize the disease, but in breast cancer the word strength appears. It is concluded that the social representation of breast cancer is being reframed.

scholarly journals Representações sociais da enfermagem elaboradas por profissionais de saúde não enfermeiros

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Érick Igor dos Santos ◽  
Yasmin Rayanne Alves ◽  
Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes ◽  
Aline Cerqueira Santos Santana da Silva ◽  
Diego Bonfante Mota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Nursing Health ◽  
Nursing Professional

Aims:  To  analyze  the  social  representations  of  nursing  by  non-nursing health professionals. Method: This is a descriptive, exploratory research, with a qualitative  approach,  using    Social  Representation  Theory  as  a  structural  approach.  A total of 53 non-nursing health professionals participated in this research. The technique used to collect the data was based on free and hierarchical opinions, using the inductor terminology “nursing”. D ata analysis was treated through the software E VOC  2005. Results:  The  following  are  among  the  core  terms  used  to  socially  represent  nursing: care,  team,  responsibility  and  work.  Discussion:  It  was to  form  a  balance  between the functional,  normative,  and  perceived  image  of  the  representation,  which  includes cognitive  and  evaluative  elements.  There  is  a  positive  view  towards  the  study  object. Conclusion:  This  representation has  been  carefully  presented  as  professionals  relate to concrete  and  tangible  formats  to  express  the  nursing  professional,  and  then  they  are able to reconstruct the object nursing.

scholarly journals A pesquisa de representação social na área de ensino-aprendizagem: elementos do estado da arte

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (193) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Final Segment ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
State Of Art

A pesquisa de pósdoutorado, Teoria de representação social: o quadro teórico da Psicologia Social e aplicações atuais à pesquisa na educação (Rangel, 1997), teve como um dos seus objetivos a análise de dissertações e teses contemporâneas (anos 90) que aplicaram a teoria, trazendo contribuições particularmente à área de ensino-aprendizagem. Este estudo, então, possibilitou - nos limites das pesquisas alcançadas - identificar elementos do estado da arte, sem perder de vista a crítica à Teoria de Representação Social (TRS), com particular consideração a Spink (1996). Ainda, tratando-se da TRS, procurou-se observar, pela sua importância na estrutura das representações, componentes do núcleo central da sua aplicação nas pesquisas. No segmento conclusivo, apresentam-se sugestões ao avanço e refinamento da construção teórica. Palavras-Chave: representação social; pesquisa; ensinoaprendizagem; estado da arte. Abstract The research of pos-doctorate, Theory of the Social Representation: the theoretical table of the Social Psychology and its applications of the present time to the research in Education (Rangel, 1997), had as one of the aims the analysis of dissertations and the contemporary theses (90) that applied the theory, bringing contributions, especially in teaching-apprenticeship. In this study could be identified (in the limits of the research) the elements of the state of art – with critical to the social representations theory (SRT), considering Spink (1996). About the Social Representation Theory, some components of the core of its application in research were observed by the importance in the structure of the representations. In the final segment, suggestions are presented to the advancement and refinement of the theorical construction. Keywords: social representations; research; teaching-learning; state of art.

scholarly journals Health education and social representation: an experience with the control of tegumentary leishmaniasis in an endemic area in Minas Gerais, Brazil

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 2301-2310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dener Carlos dos Reis ◽  
Andréa Gazzinelli ◽  
Carolina Angélica de Brito Silva ◽  
Maria Flávia Gazzinelli
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Endemic Area ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Tegumentary Leishmaniasis ◽  
Two Phases

This study was developed in an endemic area of tegumentary leishmaniasis in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the objective of analyzing a health education process based on the social representations theory. The educational model was developed in two phases with 34 local residents. In the first phase, social representations of leishmaniasis were identified and analyzed. The second phase was based on the interaction between social representations and scientific knowledge. The results showed that social representations were structured in a central core by the terms "wound" and "mosquito" and in the peripheral system by the terms "mountains", "standing water", and "injection" related respectively to place, transmission, and treatment of the disease. We concluded that tegumentary leishmaniasis is viewed as a wound caused by a mosquito, portrayed by metaphors. The results of the second phase showed that social representations are systems that favor adherence to scientific knowledge, at times more rigidly in the central core, other times more flexibly when linked to the peripheral systems.

scholarly journals Self-directed learning among primary health care doctors: an analysis in light of the theory of social representations

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Valadares Labanca Reis ◽  
Jucimere Fagundes Durães Rocha ◽  
Leonardo Cançado Monteiro Savassi ◽  
Cristina Andrade Sampaio ◽  
Antônio Prates Caldeira
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Core ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Self Learning

Abstract: Introduction: In a scenario of a great information availability, the production of scientific knowledge in medicine has been increasingly accelerated. The way the medical professional perceives and directs their acquisition of knowledge still lacks national studies, particularly in times of easily accessible internet. Objective: To analyze the social representations of physicians working in Primary Health Care (PHC) teams about self-directed learning. Method: This is a qualitative-quantitative study based on Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory, with a structural approach to Abric’s Central Core Theory, conducted in three municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on the subject, which were recorded and transcribed. The freely evoked words that emerged from the inducing term “medical self-learning” were analyzed with the aid of EVOC® software through the four-quadrant chart and CHIC® software analyzed the similarity. Content analysis was performed for the participants’ speeches. Results: Fifty interviews were carried out and the freely evoked words that possibly constitute the core of the representations were “knowledge”, “dedication”, “study”, “reading”, “need”, contrasting “research” and “book”. Conclusion: The results showed that the learners’ characteristics, practice as a learning locus as opposed to theory, associated with the time barrier, define the core content of the social representation of the participating physicians. In this assessed context, PHC reinforces its importance as a scenario for medical self-learning.

scholarly journals Illness and mental health: two sides of the same coin?

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Pocinho ◽  
Fatima Ney Matos ◽  
Ana Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Recall Test ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Word Recall ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Sides

Abstract Background Although we are sometimes unaware, mental illnesses are extremely common, and if they are not properly regulated they can affect all types of structures in a person's life Methods The study is qualitative, a word evocation test was used, began to be carried out in February 2019 and ended on May 27, 2019. The word recall test were: ‘If I tell you mental health, what are the first three words that come to mind?’ ‘If I tell you mental illness, what are the first three words that come to mind?’ To analyze and build the graphs for this investigation, the corpus was inserted in the IraMuteQ program. Results When analyzing the words we can see that the social representation of mental illness is very much associated with undesirable mental illnesses or conditions and seen as negative in society. Meanwhile, mental health is full of words that you would normally consider positive. Conclusions The social representations of health and mental illness are very clearly opposed, mental health is seen almost exclusively as something positive by society, not only has feelings like happiness, but also words like success and vitality, while mental illness is very much linked to the whole type of mental illness and conditions like stress, sadness, obsession.

The cultural products analysis in medicine and psychiatry

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S156-S156 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Pavez ◽  
A. Alcántara ◽  
E. Saura ◽  
G. Pérez ◽  
P. Marset
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
General Population ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Products Analysis ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Competing Interest

IntroductionAs the psychopathological constructs have been influenced by scientific and cultural paradigms of its time, culture reflects and determines the way of understanding health and disease. The knowledge generated is integrated to the cultural wealth and it continues its development by interacting with culture, thus the ideas of mental illness and its treatment vary according to culture and beliefs of a given population in a given time.ObjectivesTo propose a framework for analysis through the examination of cultural products. We argue that this strategy can give us some clues about how the general population understands mental illness and the psychiatric work.MethodsA review of the literature available about social representations of science, medicine, illness and psychiatry, through cultural products analysis.ResultsThere are many works that address the presence of these issues in the social imaginary by analyzing cultural products. In the field of psychiatry, the analysis of films, literature and music (the last, in a lesser extent) are the most frequent.ConclusionsThe analysis of cultural products can be a source of additional knowledge that connects us with the social representations of our profession and its scope of practice, favoring a better understanding about what psychiatry and mental illness means for our patients and general population.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Representações sociais da aprendizagem autodirigida entre médicos da atenção primária à saúde

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Valadares Labanca Reis ◽  
Jucimere Fagundes Durães Rocha ◽  
Leonardo Cançado Monteiro Savassi ◽  
Cristina Andrade Sampaio ◽  
Antônio Prates Caldeira
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Four Quadrant ◽  
Self Learning

Abstract: Introduction: In a scenario of a great information availability, the production of scientific knowledge in medicine has been increasingly accelerated. The way the medical professional perceives and directs their acquisition of knowledge still lacks national studies, particularly in times of easily accessible internet. Objective: To analyze the social representations of physicians working in Primary Health Care (PHC) teams about self-directed learning. Method: This is a qualitative-quantitative study based on Moscovici’s Social Representations Theory, with a structural approach to Abric’s Central Core Theory, conducted in three municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on the subject, which were recorded and transcribed. The freely evoked words that emerged from the inducing term “medical self-learning” were analyzed with the aid of EVOC® software through the four-quadrant chart and CHIC® software analyzed the similarity. Content analysis was performed for the participants’ speeches. Results: Fifty interviews were carried out and the freely evoked words that possibly constitute the core of the representations were “knowledge”, “dedication”, “study”, “reading”, “need”, contrasting “research” and “book”. Conclusion: The results showed that the learners’ characteristics, practice as a learning locus as opposed to theory, associated with the time barrier, define the core content of the social representation of the participating physicians. In this assessed context, PHC reinforces its importance as a scenario for medical self-learning.

Commitment to pro- versus counter-attitudinal behavior and the dynamics of social representations

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tafani ◽  
Lionel Souchet
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cognitive Restructuring ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Students Attitudes

This research uses the counter-attitudinal essay paradigm ( Janis & King, 1954 ) to test the effects of social actions on social representations. Thus, students wrote either a pro- or a counter-attitudinal essay on Higher Education. Three forms of counter-attitudinal essays were manipulated countering respectively a) students’ attitudes towards higher education; b) peripheral beliefs or c) central beliefs associated with this representation object. After writing the essay, students expressed their attitudes towards higher education and evaluated different beliefs associated with it. The structural status of these beliefs was also assessed by a “calling into question” test ( Flament, 1994a ). Results show that behavior challenging either an attitude or peripheral beliefs induces a rationalization process, giving rise to minor modifications of the representational field. These modifications are only on the social evaluative dimension of the social representation. On the other hand, when the behavior challenges central beliefs, the same rationalization process induces a cognitive restructuring of the representational field, i.e., a structural change in the representation. These results and their implications for the experimental study of representational dynamics are discussed with regard to the two-dimensional model of social representations ( Moliner, 1994 ) and rationalization theory ( Beauvois & Joule, 1996 ).

Social Representations and Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonetto ◽  
Fabien Girandola ◽  
Grégory Lo Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
First Line ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliographic Search ◽  
English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

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