Irini KadianakiUniversity of Cyprus · Department of Psychology
Irini Kadianaki
PhD
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Α significant part of the psychological research on mental health and illness is interested in how the body can impact one's mental health. This impact is primarily explored using a biomedical framework, in studies that examine the body's role in the emergence of a mental illness, the ways it can signify the presence of an illness (i.e. physical sy...
Dilemmas around differences among people may encapsulate ideological assumptions deep-rooted in modernity, according to work on ideological dilemmas. In this article, we suggest that ideological struggles such as the one between racism and antiracism may further ingrain ideological dilemmas around difference and put certain identities at stake. In...
Although intersectionality is gaining ground in social psychological research, most approaches fail to capture the historically and interactionally contingent nature of intersecting identities and the implications of their mobilization. This study, aiming at addressing this lacuna, focuses on the intersection of identities as lay actors' resource,...
Despite social psychology's emphasis on “diversity,” social psychological research on lay representations of diversity is pending. Capitalising on a string of critical diversity studies in other disciplines and based on social representations theory, this article presents a qualitative study on how lay Greek people interviewed about the meaning of...
The problematic of diversity today circulates a discourse on human differences and similarities which is also taken up by actors with controversial political agendas, notably right‐wing populist and neoconservative movements. Focusing on contestation over the meaning of “diversity” by lay actors in social media, we suggest here that different const...
Albeit a vastly researched topic, depression remains a highly controversial subject in the literature. In this chapter, we focus on one source of controversy, namely, the role of the individual in the aetiology and treatment of the condition. Specifically, we examine how patient accountability in treatment is viewed by some in terms of patient empo...
This article focuses on the ways in which LGBT+ flag raising in a university at the Republic of Cyprus was debated in a social media environment. It aims to examine the ways in which discourses around sexuality intersect with discourses around the nation in a postcolonial, ethnically divided, European context. One hundred four comments posted on th...
The article reports a comparative study of the representation of migration in media from three countries (Greece, Italy, and Turkey), over 2001-2018 period. Analysis showed the salience of two main frames-the view of migration as a matter of security and human beings as well. Themes framing the media discourses on migration are grounded on a semant...
The ways in which depression is represented by the media can affect how the public makes sense of the condition, as well as how it reacts to people diagnosed with depression. At the same time, media representations can affect policies on the subject matter. Hence, studying the ways in which depression is portrayed by the media is an important resea...
Immigration has been at the centre of social and political debate in Europe for a long time, but its role has become more and more important in the last decade. Immigration has become one of the defining policy issues of contemporary politics in Europe, for example in the case of the British vote on the Brexit referendum or the Dutch national elect...
In this article we bring a critical social-psychological approach to the study of sexual citizenship. This approach seeks to understand how citizenship is constructed through ideological resources and negotiated in local contexts. We do so by studying newspaper representations of the Civil Union (CU) law in the Cypriot context. This law represented...
In this article we bring a critical social-psychological approach to the study of sexual citizenship. This approach seeks to understand how citizenship is constructed through ideological resources and negotiated in local contexts. We do so by studying newspaper representations of the Civil Union (CU) law in the Cypriot context. This law represented...
First lines: In recent years, elections in EU countries have been generally regarded as momentsof truth for European institutions. The 2018 electoral results in Italy and Sloveniadisproved the idea that pro-EU stances were back in the foreground, as EmmanuelMacron’s and Mark Rutte’s 2017 victories in France and the Netherlands respectivelyhad previ...
The chapter reports the main findings of an analysis of cultural milieus of a sample of 11 European countries (Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom). The analysis is based on a questionnaire (View of Context—VOC) applied to a sample built through a two-step procedure of post-hoc random...
This chapter reports the analysis of the distribution and characteristics of the segments of people associated with the symbolic universes. Analyses comprise seven countries are in Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom. The aim of these analysis is to understand if and to what extent socio-demographic and psycho-socia...
The relationship between lay theories of gender and attitudes to abortion policy has received minimal empirical attention. An ongoing theoretical debate in the psychological essentialism literature queries whether biological attributions causally influence social attitudes or primarily function to justify existing attitudinal commitments. The curre...
Cognitive Dissonance Theory seeks to understand inconsistency by situating it within individual cognition. By doing so, it overlooks the role of the social context in the experience and management of inconsistency and dissonance and fails to capture the processes through which it is negotiated when it appears. On the other side, the cognitive polyp...
Continuous and increasing worldwide migration has sparked an intense social debate in multiple forums. Media play a key role in constructing, monitoring, and framing this debate. This study focuses on a qualitative analysis of the media debate around migration in Cyprus via (a) studying how migrants are represented in the Greek Cypriot Press and (b...
This paper presents a thematic analysis of a media criticism against the European Union (EU) during the so-called 2015 refugee crisis in one member-state, the Republic of Cyprus. Three inter-related negative representations of Europe were identified in the Greek-Cypriot newspapers studied at the time: inhuman Europe, fragmented Europe and Europe as...
Media offer people ways of understanding mental health and illness, shaping their attitudes and behaviour towards it. Yet, literature on media representations of depression is limited and fails to illuminate sufficiently the content of representations. In times of financial crisis, the prevalence of depression is increased and the particular meanin...
In this introduction to the special issue on psychology and human mobility, we begin by outlining the particularities of the European sociopolitical context to which the studies included in this special issue refer. We discuss internal European mobility, overseas migration to the European Union, the refugee ‘crisis’, and its sociopolitical implicat...
Receiving a psychiatric diagnosis in childhood or adolescence can have numerous social, emotional and practical repercussions. Among the most important of these are the implications for a young person's self-concept and social identity. To ensure diagnoses are communicated and managed in a way that optimally benefits mental health trajectories, und...
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The paper outlines a cultural–psychological interpretation of the current European
societies’ socio-institutional crisis. To this end, preliminarily, the cultural psychological
view of social behaviour is outlined, focusing on the idea that socio-political choices
depend on how people make sense of their world. Second, the paper provides an
interpr...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been largely absent from
dominant social debates in Cyprus. In a socially conservative country, with
prevailing heteronormative and patriarchic norms, discussion around issues of
sexuality in general and sexual orientation in particular, has been taboo. This
has resulted in a lack of visibility and...
This paper reports the framework, method and main findings of an analysis of cultural milieus in 4 European countries (Estonia, Greece, Italy, and UK). The analysis is based on a questionnaire applied to a sample built through a two-step procedure of post-hoc random selection from a broader dataset based on an online survey. Responses to the questi...
Position of the symbolic universes on the MCA main factorial dimensions.
Factor 1 vs. Factor 2.
(PDF)
Multiple correspondence analysis.
Description of the 3 main factorial dimensions.
(DOCX)
Questionnaire Views of Context (VOC).
(PDF)
Position of the symbolic universes on the MCA main factorial dimensions.
Factor 1 vs. Factor 3.
(PDF)
Migration has gradually become a regular topic covered in the national and local Greek-Cypriot media. National media had to accommodate significant changes related to Cyprus’ gradual transformation in the 1990s from a country of emigration to a host country. Notably, from 2012 to the drafting of this report, a period of financial turbulence for the...
The View of Context (VOC) is a survey instrument designed to detect the content of generalized affect-laden meanings embedded within large-scale cultural milieus. Generalized affect-laden meanings work as basic embodied system of assumptions channelling the way of feeling, thinking, making decision.
The paper outlines the theoretical and methodolog...
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of ‘Europeanness’ as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from two rounds of online public deliberation (2009/2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship l...
In this article we advance a qualitative approach to study the interconnection between representations of history and representations of citizenship. We argue that representations of the national past are important resources on which different constructions of citizenship are based. Our empirical context is the heated debate that emerged as a resul...
In this chapter we advance a social psychological approach to citizenship. We pay particular attention to the dynamics of constructing citizenship and to the relationship between state policies and lay practices of claims-making. The chapter is structured in four parts. In the first section, we outline a definition of citizenship that is in line wi...
Following a Social Representations approach, the article examines the representations of citizenship held by
both migrants and Greek citizens in Greece after the announcement of a heavily debated citizenship legislation. Essentialism, a way of representing social categories as holding an underlying essence that determines their characteristics, was...
In this chapter our aim is to show how the concept of catalysis, as taken from chemistry, can be used to understand the conditions that bring about change and support the emergence of new psychological phenomena following psychological ruptures, such as that of immigrating. Specifically, we use the concepts of semiotic catalysts and regulators, con...
This article uses sociocultural theories of self-reflection to theorize how social representations are transformed. While there are several ways in which social representations change, we focus on one way that entails interactions with alterity, that is, other people, groups and representations. We use sociocultural psychology to explore how social...
While the issue of power within the research relationship has been evoking constructive
discussions for over two decades in qualitative research, existing approaches fail to
understand power both as macro-socially determined and interpersonally negotiated in
the micro-space of research communication. In this article, I use ideas from Social
Represe...
The present article examines the strategies that immigrants living in Greece use to cope with stigma that arises in their interaction with both Greek society and their communities of origin. Drawing on interviews and focus groups conducted with immigrants from a variety of countries, a dialogical analysis illuminates the ways in which immigrants ac...
This article examines processes of identity change involved in the transition of immigration
through the case of Celia, a Colombian immigrant living in Greece. It begins by examining the
processes of identity change that emerge as Celia encounters a new social environment and also
comes into contact with a changing home community environment. Follo...
This chapter analyzes the semantic consequences of crossing national borders. When crossing borders,
identities change, and alterity is encountered. We ask: what are the semantic structures, or meanings,
that enable alterity to be either embraced or resisted? We start by distinguishing between movements
in geographic space and semantic movements of...
The phenomenon which dialogism addresses is human interaction. It enables us to conceptualise human interaction as intersubjective, symbolic, cultural, transformative and conflictual, in short, as complex. The complexity of human interaction is evident in all domains of human life, for example, in therapy, education, health intervention, communicat...
This commentary builds on the contributions of Ali and Sonn (2010), Hale and Abreu (2010) and on the growing literature in the field to extend the discussion on the development of identity for immigrant and ethnic populations. I draw attention to the aspects of both social contexts—country of origin and country of residence—and the ways they shape...
Migration is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. It is influenced by a number of interrelated factors: social, economical, political,
personal-psychological, which interact within a specific context in time. In psychology several attempts have been made to
understand the migrant, which can be grouped into three main research approaches: (1) stress an...
This review examines how we can use the theoretical and methodological tools of Gillespie's book to become better social scientists. We examine ways of approaching intergroup relations by applying the ideas of the book to the context of immigrants moving to Greece. Issues of the mediation of culture in communication and understanding between people...
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The main objectives of the Stay on Track project is to develop and pilot an interactive, theoretically-informed and evidence-based web platform and app to help patients with chronic conditions adhere to their prescribed medication.
http://www.stay-on-track.3ahealth.com/
How does the recent movement of refugees and migrants into Europe interrogate notions of citizenship and belonging? What are the implications for membership and ‘integration regimes’ amongst locals, settled migrants and newcomers? Drawing on the case of Greece as the main entry point for newcomers (migrants and refugees) into Europe, the project examines the negotiations of categories and ways in which both settled migrants and newcomers are constructed in official politics and by people ‘on the ground’, and discusses the implications of these constructions for the notion of citizenship, access to rights and integration prospects for the social groups involved. This is because policies and laws provide the institutional framework for membership and integration but they are also matters of everyday social relations. The analysis of lay and institutional discourses will draw on Critical Discursive Social Psychology as it focuses on regularities in discourse while describing also the form and consequences of collective and social patterning of background normative conceptions.
