UNLABELLED This study aimed to further our understanding of the social representations of nurses and the nursing profession by communication professionals, since they are intermediates in the decoding of imaging and written representations about society. METHOD this is a qualitative study, based on the social representation theory of Moscovici. Five communication professionals working on radi...

OBJECTIVE examine the social representations of citizenship by inpatients receiving hospital care. METHOD qualitative approach, using the Theory of Social Representations as a framework, with 31 inpatients in the internal medicine sector of a public university hospital. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, whose data were submitted to the Alceste program, with application of lexical ana...

The aim of this study was to analyze the social representations of vulnerability and empowerment of nurses, in the context of their relationships with the work environment, in which they care for people with HIV/AIDS. A qualitative and descriptive study was carried out with 30 nurses in a public hospital that is a reference for HIV/AIDS care. The theoretical framework of the procedural approach...

Objective The social representations of lifestyles construed by family members and patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction. Method Exploratory qualitative study supported by the theory of social representations, with 70 patients and 70 family members of two Portuguese hospitals, one on the coast and one inland from January to June 2015. Structural analysis was performed using two questi...

The authors propose an interpersonal social-cognitive theory of the self and personality, the relational self, in which knowledge about the self is linked with knowledge about significant others, and each linkage embodies a self-other relationship. Mental representations of significant others are activated and used in interpersonal encounters in the social-cognitive phenomenon of transference (...

Game theory has emerged as the key tool for understanding and designing complex multiagent environments such as the Internet, systems of autonomous agents, and electronic communities or economies. To support these relatively recent uses of game theory — as well as for more ambitious modeling in some of the traditional application areas — there is a growing need for a computational theory that i...