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Desenvolvimento sociocognitivo de significações leigas em adultos: Causas e prevenção das doenças
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As pessoas leigas em Medicina apresentam explicações
alternativas, ou significações subjectivas, acerca
dos processos de saúde e de doença, que coexistem
e competem com as dos profissionais de saúde. O resultado
desta competição pode concretizar-se através
de um conflito epistemológico, mais ou menos tácito,
entre o profissional e o indivíduo. A perspectiva construtivista-
desenvolvimentista aqui trabalhada sugere
que as significações subjectivas acerca da saúde e da
doença apresentam diferentes níveis de desenvolvimento
quanto à sua abertura, flexibilidade, inclusividade
e autonomia. Neste enquadramento, foi delineado e
concretizado um projecto cujos objectivos principais
foram: 1) identificar as significações subjectivas acerca
da saúde e da doença em pessoas leigas, e verificar
se essas mesmas significações podem ser ordenadas
em diferentes níveis de desenvolvimento sociocognitivo;
e 2) analisar quais as implicações para a Psicologia
da Saúde de uma perspectiva desenvolvimentista.
ABSTRACT: Lay persons in Medicine present alternative explanations, or subjective meanings, on health and illness processes. These explanations coexist and compete with those of endorsed by health professionals. Such competition may consist in an epistemological con- 24 flict, more or less tacit, between the professional and the individual. The constructivist-developmental perspective proposed in this article suggests that subjective meanings about health and illness present different developmental levels concerning their openness, flexibility, inclusiveness and autonomy. Within this framework two main objectives were pursued: 1) to identify subjective meanings endorsed by lay persons, and to examine if those meanings can be ordered into different sociocognitive developmental levels; and 2) to analyze what may be the implications of this developmental perspective in Health Psychology.
ABSTRACT: Lay persons in Medicine present alternative explanations, or subjective meanings, on health and illness processes. These explanations coexist and compete with those of endorsed by health professionals. Such competition may consist in an epistemological con- 24 flict, more or less tacit, between the professional and the individual. The constructivist-developmental perspective proposed in this article suggests that subjective meanings about health and illness present different developmental levels concerning their openness, flexibility, inclusiveness and autonomy. Within this framework two main objectives were pursued: 1) to identify subjective meanings endorsed by lay persons, and to examine if those meanings can be ordered into different sociocognitive developmental levels; and 2) to analyze what may be the implications of this developmental perspective in Health Psychology.
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Psicologia da Saúde Significações subjectivas Desenvolvimento sociocognitivo Health psychology Subjective meanings Sociocognitive development
Citation
Análise Psicológica, XX(1), 5-26.
Publisher
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada