scholarly journals Social representations of risk in Cameroon: Influence of sociopolitical and cultural context

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 642-661
Author(s):  
Jean Claude Etoundi ◽  
Nicole Kay ◽  
Sandrine Gaymard
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Sociopolitical Instability ◽  
Q Sort

The threat of sociopolitical instability is a perennial subject of political debate in Cameroon, even though the country’s stability has never really been challenged since independence. Given this omnipresent discussion on the need to preserve social cohesion, the aim of the present study was to analyze social representations of risk. Two studies were carried out among two samples (N1 = 31 and N2 = 156) of Cameroonians with higher education diplomas. Data collected by means of free association and characterization questionnaires were subjected to hierarchical, similarity and Q-sort analyses. These revealed that governance failures are regarded as factors that might undermine social cohesion. Comparative analysis of the risk representations of the country’s different ethnic groups revealed several differences. Previous research had emphasized the importance of proximity to the object in the construction of a social representation, and this was also evident in the present study, as social representations of risk for both the whole sample and the different ethnic groups were structured around specific threats or ills that undermine Cameroonian society.

scholarly journals As Representações Sociais da Dança: um Mergulho no Universo dos Estudantes de Bacharelado em Educação Física

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-235
Author(s):  
Felipe da Silva Triani ◽  
Glhevysson dos Santos Barros
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rhythmic Movements ◽  
Technical Procedure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

ResumoA dança é a arte de movimentar expressivamente o corpo seguindo movimentos ritmados, em geral ao som de música. Dessa forma, o significado da dança vai além da expressão artística, podendo ser vista como um meio para adquirir conhecimentos ou como opção de lazer. No campo de atuação do bacharelado, as investigações acadêmicas ainda são tímidas, urgindo de produções científicas que possam alimentar o campo científico sobre o tema. Dessa forma, o objetivo do estudo foi identificar e analisar as representações sociais que um grupo de bacharelandos do curso em Educação Física compartilha sobre a dança. A metodologia da pesquisa envolve uma abordagem qualitativa, tendo o estudo de campo como procedimento técnico. A amostra foi constituída por 200 indivíduos, sendo 85 homens e 115 mulheres com médias de idade entre 17 a 45 anos. A coleta de dados ocorreu através de questionário com associação livre de palavras, cujo termo indutor foi ”dança”. A análise foi feita por meio dos conteúdos das respostas. O resultado principal do estudo apontou que a maioria dos estudantes emprega sentido de dança como uma atividade técnica e a associam com saúde mental e bem-estar. Palavras-chave: Representação Social. Educação Física. Dança. AbstractDance is the art of expressively moving the body following rhythmic movements, usually to the sound of music. Thus, the meaning of dance goes beyond artistic expression, and can be seen as a means to acquire knowledge or as a leisure option. In the field of performance of the bachelor's degree, academic investigations are still timid, urging scientific productions that can feed the scientific field on the theme. Thus, the objective of the study was to identify and analyze the social representations that a group of Physical Education course bachelors shares about dance. The research methodology is a qualitative approach, with the field study as a technical procedure. The sample consisted of 200 individuals, 85 men and 115 women with a mean age between 17 and 45 years. Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire with free association of words, whose inducing term was, "dance". The analysis was done through the responses content. The main result of the study pointed out that most students use dance as a technical activity and associate it with mental health and well-being. Keywords: Social Representation. PE. Dance.

scholarly journals Social Representations of e-Mental Health Among the Actors of the Health Care System: Free-Association Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Morgiève ◽  
Pierre Mesdjian ◽  
Olivier Las Vergnas ◽  
Patrick Bury ◽  
Vincent Demassiet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
System P ◽  
The Social

BACKGROUND Electronic mental (e-mental) health offers an opportunity to overcome many challenges such as cost, accessibility, and the stigma associated with mental health, and most people with lived experiences of mental problems are in favor of using applications and websites to manage their mental health problems. However, the use of these new technologies remains weak in the area of mental health and psychiatry. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to characterize the social representations associated with e-mental health by all actors to implement new technologies in the best possible way in the health system. METHODS A free-association task method was used. The data were subjected to a lexicometric analysis to qualify and quantify words by analyzing their statistical distribution, using the ALCESTE method with the IRaMuTeQ software. RESULTS In order of frequency, the terms most frequently used to describe e-mental health in the whole corpus are: “care” (n=21), “internet” (n=21), “computing” (n=15), “health” (n=14), “information” (n=13), “patient” (n=12), and “tool” (n=12). The corpus of text is divided into 2 themes, with technological and computing terms on one side and medical and public health terms on the other. The largest family is focused on “care,” “advances,” “research,” “life,” “quality,” and “well-being,” which was significantly associated with users. The nursing group used very medical terms such as “treatment,” “diagnosis,” “psychiatry”,” and “patient” to define e-mental health. CONCLUSIONS This study shows that there is a gap between the representations of users on e-mental health as a tool for improving their quality of life and those of health professionals (except nurses) that are more focused on the technological potential of these digital care tools. Developers, designers, clinicians, and users must be aware of the social representation of e-mental health conditions uses and intention of use. This understanding of everyone’s stakes will make it possible to redirect the development of tools to adapt them as much as possible to the needs and expectations of the actors of the mental health system.

How do Socially Responsible Consumers Consider Consumption? An Approach with the Free Associations Method

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gonzalez ◽  
Michael Korchia ◽  
Laetitia Menuet ◽  
Caroline Urbain
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Consumption Choices ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Socially Responsible Consumption ◽  
Scale Data

Socially responsible consumption, that is the incorporation by individuals of social and environmental concerns in their consumption choices, is growing. Is this new tendency a consequence of a new way of considering consumption? The aim of this research is to verify the existence of different profiles of socially conscious consumers and to study their social representation of consumption. In order to meet these objectives, a study was conducted with 392 respondents. The free association technique was used to induce social representations while involvement in socially responsible consumption was measured with the François-Lecompte (2005) scale. Data analysis shows the existence of four groups of socially responsible consumers with different social representations of consumption.

scholarly journals “Experiences marked by prejudice(s)?”: nurses’ representations on ‘transvestite’ people

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Mascarenhas Oliveira ◽  
Jeane Freitas de Oliveira ◽  
Cleuma Sueli Santos Suto ◽  
Carle Porcino ◽  
Sara Peixoto de Almeida Brandão ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Nucleus ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Nursing Courses ◽  
Graduate Nursing

ABSTRACT Objectives: to learn and analyze the structure of nurses’ social representations about transvestite people. Methods: a qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations, with 110 nurses enrolled in Graduate Nursing courses, who answered the Free-Association Test, with the stimulus ‘transvestite’. Data were processed by the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant I’ Analysedes Évocations. Results: in the central nucleus, the term “prejudice” was the most evoked, followed by “homosexual”, “identity” and “female-make-up”. Social representation is anchored in the social organization in which transvestite people are still seen and/or associated with homosexuals who make up and assume an identity, without being seen and/or understood as they really are. Final Considerations: although prejudice is noteworthy as a central element, terms present in the peripheral system reveal that the group recognizes transvestites as a person with rights, which can translate into health care practices.

scholarly journals Perbedaan Representasi Sosial Tentang Siswa Junior antara Siswa Kelas XII SMAN A Dan SMAN B

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-168
Author(s):  
Asri Christine Lubis ◽  
Ferdinand Prawiro
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Twelfth Graders ◽  
Negative Behaviors ◽  
New Students ◽  
Junior Students

Seniority is a social phenomenon that is naturally found in the school environment.  At SMAN A, seniority has been abused by senior students. Meanwhile, at SMAN B, seniority has been applied positively. This difference indicates that there were unique meanings given to the junior students by the seniors in the two schools. This study aims to understand these differences by using social representations theory with the structural approach. The study was conducted in two stages. Free association method was used in the first stage to discover the attributes of social representation of junior students. Researchers asked 206 participants at SMAN A and 198 participants at SMAN B to write down the things that came to mind when they read the word "junior students". The second stage aims to identify the attributes of the central core and peripherals. A total of 92 participants from SMAN A and 92 participants from SMAN B were asked to fill out a questionnaire. The data were analyzed with the centrality test and chi-square test. The results show 18 attributes of social representation of junior students. At SMAN A, attributes of central core are [1] charming appearance and [2] the orientation of students and attribute of peripherals are [1] negative behaviors, [2] the targets of mistreatment, [3] unique appearance, [4] peeve, [5] new students, and [6] paltry. At SMAN B, attributes of central core are [1] charming appearance, [2] the orientation of students, [3] good relationships, and [4] positive behaviors and attributes of peripherals are [1] cool, [2] need to be nurtured, [3] new students, and [4] different generations. This results show differences in social representation of junior students in twelfth-graders at SMAN A and SMAN B. This study suggests that SMAN A make innovation in school regarding to student activities by looking up to SMAN B.

scholarly journals The effects of psychopathology and shame on social representations of health and lifestyle behaviours via free association: a graph analysis approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Briseniou ◽  
Nikolaos Skenteris ◽  
Chryssi Hatzoglou ◽  
George Tsitsas ◽  
Epaminondas Diamantopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Word ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Additional Tool ◽  
External Shame ◽  
The Social

Abstract Background There is a knowledge gap in whether psychopathology aspects can shape and mark the social representations about health and lifestyle. In this work, we investigated the association of psychopathology and shame with the centrality of the words describing eight common social representations of health and lifestyle. Methods A convenience sample of 288 adults participated with an average age of 44.7, and 62.6% were women. The participants were asked to express three consecutive words associated with eight different health and lifestyle experiences by utilizing the free association method. The participants also were completed the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R), the Experiences of Shame Scale (ESS), and the Other as Shamer Scale (OAS). Canonical correlation analysis was applied to investigate the relationship between the set of the eight-word centralities and the psycho-demographic variables consisting of the subject's age and gender, the SCL 90 subscales, the OAS, and the ESS. Based on these findings, a structural equation explorative model was formed to test the unidimensionality of the five centralities construct. Results Τhe psychological characteristics of interpersonal sensitivity, depression, external shame, and hostility were found to affect the word selection process on the social representations concerning nightlife, health, diet, lifestyle, and alcohol consumption. Participants with increased levels of depression tend to choose more centrally positioned words when the stimulus word was diet and more decentralized responses when the stimulus word was health. At the same time, higher external shame corresponded to more decentralized words for the categories of health and lifestyle. Conclusions Our results indicate that there is a potential interaction between the psychological state and how a social representation of health and lifestyle is constructed through selected words. Graph theory emerged as an additional tool to use to study these relations.

ELABORATION OF THE METHOD TO RESEARCH SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF CONSOLIDATION AND WAYS TO ACHIEVE IT

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
S. I. Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Group Identity ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Splitting Method ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Structure Detection ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Building Component ◽  
Four Levels

The article presents the elaboration of the author`s method for social representations about consolidation and ways for its achieving. Its creation is based on understanding consolidation as a kind of unity which is composed of the existing common ideological basis and a sense of group identity which is fully realized in the group member’s readiness for common actions of like-minded people for the sake to achieve common goals. The consolidation structure includes the cognitive-reflexive component (the idea on consolidation and the ideological core that unites the group members on the level of the ideas), the affective one (group identity and a sense of “us”) and the behavioral component (willingness to act together). The system-building component of consolidation is a cognitive-reflexive component that is social representations about the consolidation and ways to achieve it. The tool is designed for adults older than 21 years, when political socialization is formed. The psychological tool contains 26 questions divided into three scales: «dialogical - categorical», «totalitarianism - the primacy of rights», «monolithic - the balance of interests». The content of the scales reflects different sides of consolidation and possible ways of its achieving. The method was searched for reliability (splitting method, Cronbach's alpha). For internal structure detection and scale separation, the factor analysis and the correlation analyzes were used, as well as the frequency analysis and Mann-Whitney statistical test for difference between two samples (electoral groups). The tool standartization was performed by calculating percentile rankings corresponding to four levels: high, average, below the average, low.

scholarly journals How is the economic crisis socially assessed?

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roland-Lévy ◽  
Ruxanda Kmiec ◽  
Jérémy Lemoine
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Perceived Ability ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
The Impact

Based on the Social Representation Theory, the purpose of this article is to explore how lay-people consider both the economic crisis and risk, and to link these social representations to behavior. The article offers an original approach with the articulation of two studies about the social construction of risk and crises. It also contributes to the development of research methods for studying the connections between representations and practical implications. Based on this, the impact of the social representation of the crisis on the perceived ability to act is approached. The first study focuses on free-association tasks, with two distinct target terms: ‘risk’ and ‘crisis’. The structural approach, with a prototypical analysis, allowed the identification of two different representations: (1) for risk, ‘danger’ is the central element; (2) for crisis, ‘economy’ and ‘money’ constitute the main components of the representation. The second study investigates the links between the two previously detected structures and their relations with the perceived ability to act in a financial crisis context. Some aspects of social knowledge were found to have an impact on perceived ability to act.

scholarly journals Water and Climate Change, Two Key Objectives in Agenda 2030: Assessment of Climate Literacy Levels and Social Representations in Academics from Three Climate Contexts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amor Escoz-Roldán ◽  
José Gutiérrez-Pérez ◽  
Pablo A. Meira-Cartea
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between Climate Change and Water is an obvious and key issue within the Sustainable Development Goals. This study aims to investigate the social representation created around this relationship in three different territorial contexts in order to evaluate the influence of the territory on the perception of the risk of Climate Change and its relationship with water. By means of a questionnaire completed by 1709 university students, the climatic literacy of the individual was evaluated in order to relate it to other dimensions on the relationship between Climate Change and Water (information, training previous on climate change and pro-environmental attitudes) in their different dimensions in three different territorial contexts. The results show that the socio-cultural context influences the social representation of Climate Change, but not from the climatological condition, so that it is reasonable to think that the social representation of this relationship is favoured by a common culture around this relationship.

scholarly journals Poverty, hunger, and abandonment: representations of the nursing team about homeless persons

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayara Novais Pereira Zandomingo ◽  
Jeane Freitas de Oliveira ◽  
Dejeane de Oliveira Silva ◽  
Carle Porcino ◽  
Cleuma Sueli Santos Suto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Team Working ◽  
The People ◽  
Nursing Team ◽  
Maximum Similarity

ABSTRACT Objective: to know the structure of social representations of nursing team with regard to homeless persons. Method a qualitative research based on the structural approach of social representations. A total of 96 professionals from the nursing team working in the Psychosocial Care Network units of a Health District of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, who answered the test of free association of words and a questionnaire with socio-demographic data. The data obtained were processed in softwares that allowed the organization of the frame of four houses and maximum similarity tree. Results: poverty, hunger, abandonment and unemployment are central elements of the image of homeless persons, living in a context permeated by drugs, dirt, neglect and vulnerability. Final considerations The social representation structure of homeless persons is anchored in stereotypes that can interfere both in the provision of care and in the access of the people to health services.

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