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Published in Tony Cassidy, Stress, Cognition and Health, 2023
The importance of the social representation approach is that it allows us to conceptualise how people come to have common perceptions within a shared social context. For example, how people working within one organisation come to a sense of the shared values etc. which is often described as the organisational culture. In a similar way, people in a community come to a shared representation of the community. For example, the sense of community itself. From both environmental psychology and community psychology the sense of community is recognised as a central aspect of social support and coping with stress (Orford, 1992; Halpern, 1995; Cassidy, 1997). Social identity is a social construction of the groups that are import and which we belong to in our external world.
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Published in S. Alexander Haslam, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society, 2020
Social representations work continues within critical health psychology and, if you want to know more Flick’s (2000) paper on the topic is an excellent place to start. More generally, his more recent chapter on the approach is very useful (Flick and Foster, 2017).
From illness behaviour to health beliefs and knowledge
Published in Michael Bury, Health and Illness in a Changing Society, 2013
Perhaps one of the most influential pieces of work on health beliefs to emerge in the early 1970s was that conducted in France by Claudine Herzlich (1973). Though she was keen to link her research to the theme of medical dominance, and thus Freidson's Weberian view of the medical profession's control over work practices and knowledge, this was not her main concern. Herzlich was keen to draw on anthropological insights and a Durkheimian sociology which suggested that the social representations of illness and health could be studied in their own right, particularly as they were drawn upon by individuals in specific social contexts. A Durkheimian perspective on such matters underlined the way in which 'collective representations' contributed to the maintenance of. social order: that is, 'the mechanism by which the representation becomes established and its function in orientating behaviour' (Herzlich 1973: 12). Hence, if illness was an institutionalised role then individuals' 'conceptions of the situation' must relate to it in systematic ways (Herzlich 1973: 10).
‘Family stigma’ among family members of people with mental illness in Indonesia: A grounded theory approach
Published in International Journal of Mental Health, 2023
Muhammad Arsyad Subu, Del Fatma Wati, Nabeel Al-Yateem, Netrida Netrida, Vetty Priscilla, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Shameran Slewa-Younan, Adnil Edwin Nurdin
Interviews with the 25 participants were the primary data source. All interviews were digitally audio-recorded with participants’ permission. The interviews were semi-structured and aimed to collect information on participants’ opinions and perceptions regarding stigma related to mental illness. In this study, interviewers are the first author (MAS) and the second author (DFW). Both are well trained in conducting qualitative research interviewers. At the beginning of each interview, we introduced ourselves, and explained the purpose of this study and the confidential nature of the data collected. This provided participants opportunity to ask questions and helped to establish rapport before the interview began. A key concern was the appropriate location and timing of interviews for participants; we aimed to take up as little of their time as possible, but were prepared to offer emotional support to participants when necessary (Holloway & Wheeler, 1996). During the interviews, we used an interview guide that contained a set of a brief, general questions providing an outline (Chenitz & Swanson, 1986). We asked questions in the order they were presented in the interview guide. Interview topics were related to perception, experiences of families of mentally ill persons and how they interacted with others in relation to their members’ mental health condition. Other topics were related to families’ response to stigmatization on a daily basis and strategies they deployed to adapt to stigma. In addition, a topic was about social representations and responses to mental illness in their culture and belief.
Social Representations About the Functions of Deliberate Self-Harm: Construction and Validation of a Questionnaire for Portuguese Adolescents
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2020
Eva Duarte, Maria Gouveia-Pereira, Hugo Santos Gomes, Daniel Sampaio
The five functions that were eliminated during this process were three interpersonal functions (Communication Attempt, Self-Care, and Sensation Seeking) and two intrapersonal functions (Anti-Suicide and Marking Distress). In summary, three intrapersonal functions were added to the questionnaire, whereas three interpersonal functions and only two intrapersonal functions were removed. These data might imply that Portuguese adolescents have more social representations regarding intrapersonal functions and that they do not have clear representations of the interpersonal functions of deliberate self-harm. However, because social representations are dynamic and can be transformed over time, their continuous study can contribute to the understanding of the evolution of this phenomenon and its functions.
How Do Families Represent the Functions of Deliberate Self-Harm? A Comparison between the Social Representations from Adolescents and Their Parents
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2020
Eva Duarte, Maria Gouveia-Pereira, Hugo S. Gomes, Daniel Sampaio
Social representations are a modality of knowledge that produce and determine behaviors because they define the nature of the stimuli that surround us and the answers we give them (Moscovici, 1961). These representations can be understood as dynamic sets that aim at the production of social behaviors and interactions, and not only as the mere reproduction of these behaviors and interactions as reactions to external stimuli (Sampaio et al., 2012). Hence, social representations are simultaneously a product and a process (e.g., Jodelet, 1984; Valsiner, 2003) that allow us to interpret aspects of reality to further react to them (Wachelke & Camargo, 2007). Therefore, the representations about the functions of deliberate self-harm from adolescents with and without a history of these behaviors and from parents may have important implications for clinical interventions and prevention programs, particularly in terms of social support.