Maider Larrañaga- University of the Basque Country
Maider Larrañaga
- University of the Basque Country
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Mendekotasunari eta epe luzeko zainketei lotutako eztabaida eta eraldaketak gailentzen ari dira egungo gizartean. Ondorioz, jendeak hainbat kezka, zailtasun eta kontraesan kudeatu behar izaten ditu egunerokoan. Ikerketa honen helburua da gizartean zahartzaroko mendekotasunari buruzko esanahiak aztertzea, irudikapen sozialen teorian oinarrituta. Hog...
The care crisis manifests the tensions and profound changes which are taking place in contemporary long-term care systems, leading to new care views and modalities in society. Through 26 interviews conducted with caregivers, family members and elderly people with care needs, this study aims to make visible the transformation in the conceptions of c...
Dependency and care assistance during old age has become an increasing focus of debate and change in society. Consequently , people must cope with diverse and even contradictory values and ideas about the issue. This study aimed to understand the social representations of dependency based on the dialogical approach of the Social Representations the...
La problemática del éxito escolar preocupa tanto a nivel político como social. No obstante, a menudo se entiende desde una lógica hegemónica reduccionista en la que priman las calificaciones. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo ahondar en la representación social que jóvenes sinaloenses de bachillerato tienen sobre el éxito escolar. Desde una ap...
In this study we investigate the social representations of risky sexual practices. Specifically, we analyse the circumstances in which young Spanish people consider a sexual practice as risky, and how such ‘representations’ of risk have implications for decisions about using condoms. We use the Grid Elaboration Method to gather the naturalistic tho...
The present paper explores the advantages of using framing theory, social representations theory and differences in ideology to analyze polarized issues in the press. Framing uncovers the structure/format of news articles and social representations explores their meanings. These two theoretical positions are connected through the concept of ideolog...
Gazteek sexu-harremanei begira arrisku-praktikekiko duten irudikapena jorratzea helburu duen ikerketa da honakoa, irudikapen sozialen teoriaren ikuspegi dialogikoan oinarrituz. Euskal Herrian bizi diren 101 gaztek parte hartu dute ikerketan. Emaitzen arabera, arriskuaren esanahia hiru gunetan kokatzen da. Hain zuzen, gorputzari, testuinguruari eta...
The gang rape known as the “La Manada” case has had an unprecedented social impact in Spain. This research investigates how this case has been dealt with through Twitter by a collective symbolic coping process (Social Representation Theory). Discourse on Twitter was analyzed at two key points in time: the announcement of the judgment and the aggres...
Studies exploring gender differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of people living with
HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are scarce and contradictory. This study evaluated gender differences in HRQOL
of 744 PLWHA with median (IQR) age 44 (37–48) years and HIV infection diagnosed 12 (5–20) years
earlier. Results showed important differences between gen...
Studies exploring gender differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are scarce and contradictory. This study evaluated gender differences in HRQOL of 744 PLWHA with median (IQR) age 44 (37–48) years and HIV infection diagnosed 12 (5–20) years earlier. Results showed important differences between gen...
El narcotráfico es una problemática instaurada en México, y gracias a la figura del narcotraficante ha cobrado gran relevancia social. Los objetivos del estudio fueron presentar un esbozo histórico del narcotraficante en épocas diferentes; conocer tanto la representación social que los jóvenes sinaloenses tienen del personaje, así como su valoració...
El narcotráfico ha acompañado el desarrollo histórico de Sinaloa,
y es una problemática que prácticamente se implantó y desarrolló en
su territorio. De esta manera, los crímenes u homicidios que se cometían
tanto antes como en la actualidad son atribuidos, la mayoría
de las veces, a acciones del narcotráfico (Reyes, Larrañaga y Valencia,
2015). Es...
Introducción: la inseguridad es un tema de preocupación social en Ecuador, así como en muchos países latinoamericanos. La referencia a sucesos relacionados con la inseguridad es habitual en los medios de comunicación y refleja la situación de incertidumbre con la que vive la población cotidianamente. Objetivo: se plantea el análisis de la represent...
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– The purpose of this paper is to discuss the gender practices of a female urban bus driver who retired after 40 years (1967-2007) in an urban bus company in northern Spain. The main objective of this study was to explore and understand the move from irreflexive to reflexive practices from a gender perspective, and to uncover new key aspect...
Drug trafficking and violence are social problems that, for a long time, have altered everyday life in the province of Sinaloa (Mexico). Additionally, according to public opinion, these two closely related phenomena help explain the social insecurity experienced in Sinaloa. In this study, the relationship between drug trafficking and violence was a...
The framing of the message as promoter of gains or restorer of losses and its relationship with Self-orientations is analyzed in relation to the acceptance or rejection of the Law on Gender Equality, passed by the Spanish Parliament in 2007. Two independent studies were designed with psychology students (93 women and 47 men).The first study manipul...
The use of more abstract language to describe expected behaviors as opposed to unexpected behaviors has traditionally been considered a way of stereotype maintenance. This tendency is known as linguistic expectancy bias. Two experiments examined the influence of approach and avoidance motivational orientations on the production of this linguistic e...
Emakumeen eta Gizonen Berdintasunerako Legea Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoan 2005ean eta Espainiako estatuan 2007an onartu zen. Ikerlan honetan, lege horren aurkezpena aztertzen da egunkarietako iritzi-sailean. Helburu nagusia da legearen agerpena eta tratamendua ezagutzea, horretan egunkarien ideologiak eta hedapen-eremuak duten eragina aztertuz. Emai...
Based on the theory of the central core (Abric, 1976, 1987), the aim of the study was to analyze the social representation of male and female unemployment held by young people with vocational training studies. In the study 231 students from 3 purposively chosen technology training centers in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Department in France completed a...
Defined the Linguistic Intergoup Bias as the tendency to describe positive ingroup and negative outgroup behaviors in more abstract linguistic categories than negative ingroup and positive outgroup behavior (Fiedler et al, 2003) and basing on the idea of Moscovici that "something" is beyond the text, (1994; 163), three studies analysing the use of...
The two studies presented here analyze the role of the core and peripheral elements of social representations as a function of both a) the induction of implication of the self with the object vs. not implication and b) the framing of the message ( to eliminate discrimination vs. implementing equality) in the case of the Law of Gender Equality in Sp...
In this study the relationship between self-efficacy and selt-concordance of personal goals and well-being was investigated. The goal was to examine the structure of self-concordance (Sheldon, 1999), as well as to check the predictive value or selr-erricacy and selr-concordance on well-being. University students (N=329) rated the self-concordance a...
While some research copes with the problem of unemployment from a purely economic perspective, underlying thus the number of unemployed, other research focus more on the consequences of the unemployment for the individual. Coping this phenomenon through the theory of social representations results of particular interest in countries with a long ind...
The study of the use of language as a system of social integration vs. differentiation in contexts of intergroup conflict has been underdeveloped in social psychology. Usually the use of language has been considered as a system of expression of "ethnic identity ". This perspective has, at least, three problems: 1) language has been taken as a direc...
In this study the relationship between self-efficacy and self-concordance of personal goals and well-being was investigated. The goal was to examine the structure of self-concordance (Sheldon, 1999), as well as to check the predictive value of self-efficacy and self-concordance on well-being. University students (N=329) rated the self-concordance a...
