School-attending adolescents' social representations about well-being
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https://doi.org/10.12957/reuerj.2025.86203Keywords:
Adolescent Health, Schools, Adolescent, Wellbeing, Social RepresentationAbstract
Objective: to analyze school-attending adolescents' Social Representation structure about well-being. Method: a qualitative study with the structural approach set forth in the Theory of Social Representations was conducted from June to November 2023 in a public school, with 108 adolescents aged between 12 and 18 incomplete years old. The following tasks were performed: free word association techniques, Mise en Cause test and prototypical analysis - EVOC® software. The research protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Results: the “health” cogneme represented the manifestation of the school-attending adolescents' social thought identity towards well-being, along with other elements from the central core, namely: “happiness”, “family” and “well-being”. The contents that structured the school-attending adolescents' social representations about well-being reiterate the polysemy and multidimensionality of the concept, encompassing physical, emotional, mental and social health. Final considerations: the social representations showed a broad and contextualized view of the concept, with potential to expand citizen awareness in favor of health.
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