Representaciones sociales de vejez y autoconcepto en el adulto mayor

The present investigative article has as objective to know how the social representations of old age that have young and average means of the city of Cali, and the self-concept of the elderly are related. For this, a mixed and descriptive type research process was carried out, in which two instruments were elaborated and used, the first a questionnaire of social representations of old age, applied to 50 people among young people and middle adults, and the second was the self-concept questionnaire applied to 10 non-institutionalized older adults. As results, a great divergence was found between the information thrown by the two samples, in front of the social representations a strong tendency was found to be these of a negative character, in the different aspects in which it was investigated (the demographic, social, health and the psychological) and on the other hand, in relation to self-concept, very positive results were found linked to the way elderly adults see and conceive themselves in different areas of their lives.

• Autores: Muriel Posso, Carol Daniela
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de San Buenaventura
• Repositorio: Repositorio USB
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/7560
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10819/7560
• Palabra clave: Representaciones sociales; Vejez; Autoconcepto; Adulto mayor; Social representations; Old age; Self-concept; Eldery; Identidad (psicología); Autoconcepto; Vejez - Aspectos sociales
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia