Bullying is a phenomenon characterized by the set of acts of physical or verbal violence that occur against one or more victims, such behaviors repetitively and intentionally can trigger depressive symptoms in those involved. Thus, the objective was to apprehend the social representations elaborated by adolescents about bullying and depression. Thirty-one adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years old, from a pub...
This study aimed to apprehend the genesis of the Social Representations (SR) of the new coronavirus, as well as the COVID-19 treatment, considering different social anchors of Brazilians. For that, 595 participants, predominantly female (69.9%) and from the Northeast of Brazil (64.9%) answered an online questionnaire. The data collected allowed analyzes of Descending Hierarchical Classifications, indicating tha...
This article aims to measure the levels of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) and resilience in diabetics, as well as to verify the correlation between resilience and the factors that make up the subjective well-being. The SWB and resilience scales were applied in 104 diabetic patients (mean age= 56.16; SD= 13.01), living in the city of João Pessoa- PB. The results showed that 65.4% of the participants presented high ...
Este estudo teve como objetivo adaptar para o Brasil a Escala de Comportamentos Socialmente Responsáveis do Consumidor – ECSRC (Roberts, 1996), cujo objetivo principal é avaliar em que medida os consumidores tendentes a expressar condutas indicativas de preocupação de ordem social também as levam em consideração no momento de adquirir seus produtos. Participaram 298 estudantes universitários, com idade média de...
In the context of chronic renal disease, one frequent comorbidity is depression, which is related to the adverse factors of the social environment or inherent to the treatment. In this research, we sought to measure depressive symptoms in chronic renal patients and their families, relating it to sociodemographic variables. Patients and their families answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Hospital An...
ABSTRACT: The main goal of this study was to identify and investigate the social representations of elderly people over urban violence. 30 elderlies took part, with ages ranging between 60 and 83 years old, (m = 69,8; dp = 6,1), most of whom (70%) were of the female gender, who responded to an in-depth interview. Data was processed by the ALCESTE software. Outcomes pointed out that urban violence has been ancho...
Guided by the Theory of Social Representations, this study aimed to apprehend the social representations of violence bullying elaborated by 343 high school students from two public schools in Cuiabá, in the state of Mato Grosso. The research instruments were bio-socio-demographic questionnaire and the free words association technique incited by the stimuli: (i) school, (ii) violence-bullying, (iii) myself. The ...
O movimento de populações, de pessoas mais ou menos organizadas, é fenômenos tão antigos como a humanidade, mas a migração de milhões de pessoas, nos dias de hoje, está se convertendo em um processo com níveis de estresse tão intensos que superam a sua capacidade de adaptação. Este estudo objetiva avaliar a saúde mental e analisar as representações sociais sobre os construtos imigração, imigrante, saúde mental ...
A migração internacional cresceu muito nas últimas décadas, tornando-se necessário uma compreensão, desse fenômeno, em diferentes esferas da vida humana. Este estudo objetiva investigar a probabilidade da presença de Transtornos Mentais Comuns (TMC) de imigrantes brasileiros e portugueses residentes na cidade de Genebra/Suíça, associado aos fatores nacionalidade, sexo, tipo e tempo de imigração. Trata-se de um ...
Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar aspectos psicossociais do processo de institucionalização de mulheres idosas na cidade de Santo Antônio de Jesus-Bahia-Brasil. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa de campo, qualitativa, de caráter transversal. Foram entrevistadas 7 mulheres, com idades entre 62 e 93 anos, todas residentes em uma instituição de longa permanência para idosos. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de...