OLIVEIRA, Daniela Cardoso de    CASTRO, Amanda. School, Family and Intergroup Relations: Representations and Social Identity of People with Visual Disabilities. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2022, 22, 2, pp.485-504.   03--2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.68632.

This study aimed to understand the relationship between social representations of visual impairment and social identity for blind and low vision people. 40 people were interviewed, 20 self-declared blind and 20 self-declared with low vision. A semi-structured interview script was used. The transcription of the answers made up a corpus of analysis, submitted to a descending hierarchical classification by the software IRaMuTeQ 0.2. As a result, the representation of visual impairment was anchored in representations of accessibility - especially at school -, dependence - mainly in the family - and limitation; the objectification of the blind person expressed in the cane; and the social identity of blind people relatively cohesive, while of those with low vision quite fragmented, in addition to both denying their belonging groups to be inserted in the group of people without disabilities. It concludes by the emergence of research and interventions that focus on working with family members and teachers as agents of formation of social identity for people with visual impairments.

: social representation; social identity; visually disabled..

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