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Psychological-Educational Studies
2015. Vol. 7, no. 2, 122–133
https://doi.org/10.17759/psyedu.2015070211
ISSN: 2587-6139 (online)

The Structure and Content of Social Representations of Lawyers, Psychologists and Journalists about Mentally Ill People

 
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the various professional groups of young people. This study involved 60 people aged 20 to 30 years (50% of respondents were girls, 50% were boys), specializing in psychology, law and journalism. We used semi-structured interview, associative method with elements of ranking and emotional attitude, and drawing techniques. We tested the following hypotheses: 1) the social representations of the mentally ill people contain elements with negative valence in all investigated occupational groups of young people; 2) social representations of the mentally ill people are based on such constructs as "otherness"; treatment (hospital, pills, experts); disease (synonyms, names of diseases, symptoms); the attitude of society; 3) social representations of the mentally ill people of lawyers and journalists are simpler and more consistent than those of psychologists. These hypotheses were supported by the empirical results.

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Keywords: social representations, mentally ill people, structure of social representations, professional social representations

Journal rubric: Psychology of Professional Activity

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psyedu.2015070211

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For citation: Yakushenko, A.V. (2015). The Structure and Content of Social Representations of Lawyers, Psychologists and Journalists about Mentally Ill People. Psychological Science and Education psyedu.ru, 7(2), 122–133. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/psyedu.2015070211

© Yakushenko A.V., 2015

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

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