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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2018. Vol. 11, no. 1, 61–74
doi:10.17759/exppsy.2018110104
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

Health representations of children and adolescents

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I.B. Bovina, N.V. Dvoryanchikov, L. Dany, M. Aim, A.V. Milekhin, S. Gayamova, A.V. Yakushenko

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Abstract

The key question in this article is how children and adolescents understand health. This period attracts a particular interest because the social practice towards health and illness as well as attitudes towards risk and risk behaviour are formed at that time. The productivity of the theory of social representations applied to the field of health and illness is discussed. The exploratory study in groups of children and adolescents on the representations of health and illness is presented here. A total of 633 subjects (333 children (aged 8 years old) and 300 adolescents (aged 13 years old) participated in a study. The study is based on the structural approach of the theory of social representations. The opposition «health»—«illness» is important in case of representations of health in children; its importance is decreasing with age. The key elements of the representation of health in adolescents are the actions to maintain health. The representation in case of children is less shared than in case of adolescents.

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Keywords: health, illness, children and adolescents, theory of social representations, structural approach, polymorthism of health and illness

Journal rubric: Clinical Psychology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2018110104

For citation: Bovina I.B., Dvoryanchikov N.V., Dany L., Aim M., Milekhin A.V., Gayamova S., Yakushenko A.V. Health representations of children and adolescents. Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2018. Vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 61–74. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2018110104. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Inna B. Bovina, Doctor of Psychology, Research Director, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9497-6199, e-mail: innabovina@yandex.ru

Nikolay V. Dvoryanchikov, PhD in Psychology, Docent, Dean, Faculty of Legal and Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-5469, e-mail: dvorian@gmail.com

Lionel Dany, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Social Psychology and Labor Psychology, University of Aix–Marseille, Laboratory of Social Psychology, Aix-en-Provence, France, e-mail: lionel.dany@univ-amu.fr

Marie-Anastasie Aim, PhD Student, University of Aix-Marseille, Laboratory of Social Psychology, Aix-en-Provence, France, e-mail: marie-anastasie.aim@univ-amu.fr

Andrey V. Milekhin, PhD in Psychology, Assistant Professor at the Department of Pedagogical Psychology named after professor V.A. Guruzhapov Faculty of Psychology of Education, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3030-2053, e-mail: milehinav@mgppu.ru

Svetlana Gayamova, PhD in Psychology, associate Professor, Department of Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: sgayamova@yandex.ru

Anna V. Yakushenko, postgraduate student, Department of Clinical and Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: yakushenko-anna@yandex.ru

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