Dryjanska, Laura
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Existing literature has highlighted the phenomenon of academic migrants leaving Italy for the United States with the hope of finding institutions that offer more opportunities for growth and recognition based on merit, as opposed to corruption, nepotism, and excessive bureaucracy. Likely, these may be the expectations of Italian academ...
Manchaiah, Vinaya Chundu, Srikanth Ratinaud, Pierre Andersson, Gerhard Beukes, Eldre W
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Audiology research
(1) Objective: Social representations theory (SRT) is a body of theory within social psychology concerned with how individuals, groups, and communities collectively make sense of socially relevant or problematic issues, ideas, and practices. SRT has been increasingly sued in the area of health and disability. The current study examined the social r...
Premat, Christophe
L’expression « modèle canadien » est souvent employée dans le discours journalistique car elle reflète une volonté de comparaison des institutions sociales. Pour la presse francophone, l’enjeu est de savoir si cette formule cache un jeu d’énonciations dans lequel le Canada représente un exemple à imiter ou au contraire à éviter. Afin de pouvoir app...
Obst, Patricia Juillerat, Thomas White, Katherine
Published in
Journal of health psychology
Male body hair removal has implications for men's mental health such as anxiety about body image. Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour and relevant additional constructs, this research examined factors associated with young men's upper body and pubic hair removal. Young men residing in Australia completed a pilot survey, online survey (N = 655)...
Giacomozzi, Andréia Isabel Gomes Fiorott, Juliana Bertoldo, Raquel Contarello, Alberta
Published in
Human Affairs
Brazil has recently been experiencing a phenomenon of political polarization: a conflict involving political views and social identities. Considering the extent to which this socially constructed conflict has been partially fueled by the media, we propose to use the Social Representations Theory. The present study explores how discourses in the mai...
Tremmel, Manuela Wahl, Ingrid
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Previous research often examined gender stereotypes in leadership with ratings on predetermined gendered characteristics concerning leaders’ agency and communality (i.e., explicit measures). The aim of the present study was to broaden the understanding of gender stereotypes in leadership by taking more subtle approaches, that focus on ...
Kallai, Delphine März, Virginie de Timary, Philippe De Mol, Jan
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Global qualitative nursing research
Public representations of people who experience mental illness (PEMI) have been well documented within the stigma literature. However, studies about mental health nurses' representations of PEMI are still scarce and characterized by contradictions. Using the theoretical concept of social representation instead of stigma, the current study aims to e...
La Fauci, Giovanni
Qu’est-ce qui rend une ville unique ? À partir de quelques contributions théoriques et empiriques remarquables, l’article tentera de montrer comment l’image urbaine est toujours le résultat d’un « processus collectif continu de re-signification » (Boeri, 2016). C’est un imaginaire qui opère à travers des représentations sociales spatialisées selon ...
García Vergara, Cristhian Adrián Rincón Villamizar, Nydia María
This study sought to understand the social rep-resentations of citizenship in the La Fortaleza community, allowing us to reveal the social meaning that its inhabitants build concerning citizenship, the scenarios of community action, and the coexistence pillars in community rela-tions. The epistemological horizon used was based on Moscovici’s theory...
Figari, Cecilia Fernández Unsain, Ramiro
This paper aims to describe and problematize the different models and approaches that attempt to understand disability throughout current history. People elaborate on these through their interactions as social subjects. In this sense, social representations about these models can maintain their validity, with greater or lesser legitimacy. Based on ...
