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.

scholarly journals La vejez y el deporte como objeto de representaciones sociales (The old age and the sport like object of social representations)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 118-121
Author(s):  
Luis Javier Ruiz Cazorla ◽  
José Luis Chinchilla Minguet ◽  
Manuel Ruiz Cazorla
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
El Sistema

En el presente trabajo analizamos la función social de la Educación Física y el deporte respecto a las personas mayores. Se trata de una relación mediatizada por las representaciones sociales que los agentes implicados poseen sobre la vejez, el cuerpo, la salud y el deporte, no exentas de estereotipos y prejuicios que condicionan sus prácticas sociales. Constituye un problema social y a la vez un reto para las instituciones erradicar las prácticas sociales de exclusión a que dan lugar. Para ello resultan imprescindibles dos pasos. En primer lugar denunciar los contenidos de las representaciones sociales sobre la vejez y las actividades físico-deportivas que favorecen la exclusión social, especialmente desde el Sistema Educativo y los medios de comunicación. En segundo lugar promover los medios materiales y condiciones estructurales necesarias para el cambio social.Palabra clave: Vejez, deporte, educación física, representación social, función social.Abstract: In the present work we analyzed the social function of the Physical Education and the sport with respect to the elderly people. One is a relation hyped by the social representations that the implied agents own on the old age, the body, the health and the sport, nonfree of stereotypes and prejudices that condition their social practices. It constitutes a social problem and simultaneously a challenge for institutions to eradicate the social practices of exclusion to that they give rise. For it two steps are essential. In the first place to denounce the contents of the social representations on the sport old age and activities physical that favor the social exclusion, especially from the Educative System and mass media. Secondly to promote the average materials and necessary structural conditions for the social change.Key words: Old age, sport, physical education, social representation, social function.

Games in Health Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Margot Kaszap
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Health And Well Being

Studies indicate that teachers are not effectively encouraging appropriate health and well-being strategies among their students (Turcotte, Gaudreau, & Otis, 2007). Because educational games offer many advantages in promoting health, motivation, and active participation in learning, (Sauvé, Power, IsaBelle, Samson, & St-Pierre, 2002), it is important to determine which types of games health education teachers can use best. Building on health education needs and social representation theory, this chapter presents a study of pre-service (student) teachers to identify social representations that pre-service teachers have about games, including whether they perceived games as supporting learning at home and in school, and which types and aspects of games they preferred. The answers to these questions helped the research team to create games to meet the needs of future teachers in enhancing their students’ health education.

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 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.

scholarly journals Bodies in motion: spaces, emotions and representations that (de)construct realities

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Alonso Caravaca-Morera ◽  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
San Jose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Population

Abstract OBJECTIVE To analyze the social representations of the body among Brazilian and Costa Rican transsexual people through their life stories. METHOD Qualitative and descriptive multicenter research. The study population consisted of 70 participants. Two organizations cooperated to collect the information, one in Florianópolis, SC-Brazil and one in San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Content Analysis was used to analyze the data. RESULTS Based on the results, a single social representation of corporeality was unveiled: “Modeled bodies: about the elasticity of corporeality”. This representation described two clear elementary context units (discourse matrices). The first associates the body with an inconclusive, transitory, volatile, pliable, moldable and fluid object, while the second relates the body with a separate institution, but regulated and controlled by others. CONCLUSION In conclusion, the transsexual body is a volatile, transient, transformable institution, crossed by the marks of a historicizing and historicizable time, which comes within the scope not only of what can be named by means of linguistic signs, but also of what belongs to the unnamable in terms of sociocultural perceptions and feelings.

Psicologia Social, Representações Sociais e AIDS

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Cristiano Domingues da Silva ◽  
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Magalhães Júnior ◽  
Jaqueline Feltrin Inada
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Immune Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hiv Aids

Apesar das inúmeras campanhas de prevenção, a Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida (AIDS) ainda se constitui um grave problema de saúde pública. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo investigar as representações sociais do HIV/AIDS e, assim, contribuir para o tratamento psicológico desses pacientes. Foi realizada uma revisão da literatura, com levantamento bibliográfico, abordando as discussões de autores da psicologia social, entre outros, a respeito do HIV/AIDS. A AIDS é uma enfermidade que marca intensamente quem a vivencia, uma vez que afeta não apenas o corporal do sujeito, mas as demais esferas da sua vida, envolvendo, muitas vezes, sentimentos negativos, tais como: a tristeza, o desejo de morte, a angústia, entre outros, que refletem no seu bem-estar mental, físico, afetivo e social. A infecção pelo HIV estabelece uma cadeia de cuidados a serem desempenhados pelas pessoas portadoras, como consultas frequentes, realização de exames laboratoriais especiais, o uso de medicamentos e mudanças na vida social que, muitas vezes, causam dificuldades que propiciam e implicam cuidados especializados em saúde mental. Atualmente, não existe uma cura para essa doença, apenas tratamento paliativo como: uso de medicamentos, tratamento com psicólogo, tratamento com psiquiatra, entre outros.Palavras-chave: HIV/AIDS. Psicologia Social. Representação Social.AbstractDespite the several prevention campaigns, AIDS remains a serious public health problem. This study aims to investigate the social representations of HIV/AIDS and thereby contribute to the psychological treatment of these patients. A bibliographic review was performed showing the themes discussed about the social psychology according to the view of many authors, concerning the HIV/AIDS. The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is an illness that marks intensely those who experience it, since it affects not only the body of the individual, but the other spheres of his or her life, involving often negative feelings such as sadness, death desire , anguish, among others, reflecting on his or her mental, physical, emotional and social well-being. HIV infection establishes a chain of care to be taken by people with this illness, such as frequent consultations, conducting special laboratory tests, medication use and changes in social life that often cause difficulties that require mental health care specialist. Currently, there is no cure for this disease, only palliative treatment such as use of drugs, treatment with a psychologist, psychiatrist treatment, among others.Keywords: HIV/AIDS. Social Psychology. Social Representation.

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 Social representations about sustainable development: the perspectives of residents of small islands’ cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Fuentes Sánchez ◽  
Ana Moura Arroz ◽  
Rosalina Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Similarity Analysis ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Options

Abstract Sustainable development (SD) is one of the goals of contemporary society, underlining the need of its collective redefinition and social and personal appropriation. For this, it is relevant to analyze how individuals understand the process of building sustainability. The social representation of the SD of an intentional sample of 64 stakeholders from five Azorean cities was explored through prototypical and similarity analysis of a free association of words. The data were analyzed using the programs Evocation 2003 and IRAMUTEQ and interpreted according to the structural approach of social representations. The resulting representation identifies the three classic pillars of the SD, as well as its main challenges and strategic options. The economic pillar held a central place, interconnecting both with the environmental and the social pillars, although the latter showed less emphasis. It is important to keep monitoring the evolution of this SD representation, that appears to be more sophisticated than other notions found in similar studies.

The Social Representations of Aggravating Factors Living Conditions and Their Connection to Their Psychological Profile

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S482-S482
Author(s):  
E. Kotrotsiou ◽  
M. Gouva ◽  
E. Briseniou ◽  
E. Dragioti ◽  
N. Skenteris
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multifactor Analysis ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
Age Range

ObjectiveTo investigated the Greek social representations towards harmful factors of health.DesignCross-sectional questionnaire survey.MethodTwo hundred and eighty healthy individuals participated to the present study from different region in Greece. The age range was 19–65 years old. The questionnaire included:– question for the recording of social representations based on free association methods;– The Greek version of the Revised Experiences in Close Relationships (ECRI);– The Symptom Checklist 90-revised (SCL-90);– question for the social-demographic parameters.ResultsOne factor and multifactor analysis was used for statistical analysis. Results showed significant differences in social representation of diet in terms of age and marital status. Place of region and chronic disease were found to affect the development social representations, such as exercise and disease, respectively. Exercise, night out and health were found like positive social representations, smoking and disease were characterized as negatives, whereas diet, alcohol and lifestyle were found controversial enough. Moreover, the results highlight the significant relationship between social representations towards harmful factors of health, psychopathology and attachment style (P < .05).ConclusionThe results of the current study highlighted the importance of studying on social representations and provided more support to the representations theory context. But more crucially, our study highlighted functional domains of them related to psychopathology.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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