SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MODERN RUSSIANS ABOUT THE LONELY PERSON
Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2012, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
In the article results of studying of social representations of Russians about the lonely person are considered. The loneliness in the modern world has ceased to be for a long time a problem of the separate person, for the specific reasons not managed to adapt for a society, to build emotional mutual relations satisfying it with associates. It has turned to a serious social problem. Efficiency of the psychological help to lonely people, constructions and realizations of programs on preventive maintenance of chronic loneliness is in many respects connected with the account of the developed social representations about loneliness and the lonely person. Difficulties in studying of a phenomenon of loneliness are somewhat connected with necessity to receive the information which mentions deep intimate layers of the person. On the one hand, work mechanisms of psychological protection. The respondent starts to have a feeling of alarm because of necessity to give answers about itself, with another – the tendency to social desirability is shown. For minimization of these displays in research the method of the projective composition was used. During the content-analysis of the text information received by a method of projective compositions, 13 semantic components have been allocated, each of which opens certain lines of an image of the lonely person. Psychological interpretation of the received data has allowed to describe some prototypes of the lonely person developing in representations of contemporaries. The urgency of the use of a category "prototype" is connected with specific features of a social reality: complexity, dynamism, variability, a polysemy of the signs used for a categorization. According to model of frequency of signs, the prototype reflects most often meeting signs, accordingly, the prototype is acquired through fixing of the repeating elements inherent in an object, or a situation. The analysis of representations of respondents about the lonely person allows to allocate some developing prototypes: "careerist", «a lonely wolf», "homebody", " the unsocial person".
Authors and Affiliations
Safonova, M
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP31999
- DOI -
- Views 378
- Downloads 0
EMBRACING THE VALUES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY, PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE, SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES
Scientific problem lies within the interdisciplinary domain of cognitive development of a person in education; is focused on the search for psychological foundations of educational technologies aimed at embracing values...
beyoND soCial skills: grouP DyNaMiCs at soCial skills traiNiNg for HigH fuNCtioNiNg aDolesCeNts witH autisM sPeCtruM DisorDers
The usefulness of group social skills training in Autism Spectrum Disorder therapy has been well established. However, little is known about the group dynamics of this kind of intervention. The current multiple case stu...
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIpS bETwEEN OpTIMISM AND DEpRESSION IN EMERGING ADULTS
The existing literature showed that higher depression is linked to less optimism and to poor quality of romantic relationship, but studies considering the role of both optimism and romantic relationship on depression a...
ADOLESCENT ADJUSTMENT AND CULTURAL SELF-EFFICACY
Several studies have investigated the conditions for adolescents’ adjustment in multicultural contexts. Selfesteem is commonly considered as an index of well-being and of the psychological adjustment of adolescents. Lit...
RELATIONSHIPS IN THE WORKPLACE AND OCCUPATIONAL ATTRACTIVENESS AMONG STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND RANGERS-SPORTSMEN
Perceived occupational attractiveness could be due to many factors and relationships in the workplace are among them. The questionnaire “Attractiveness of the profession” created by Ivanov (1999) was used to study how...