Abstract

POLLI, Gislei Mocelin  and  CAMARGO, Brigido Vizeu. SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT AGES. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp. 392-406. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N2P392.

Some decades ago, the way of thinking about the environment has undergone changes. The view that the soul function of the environment was to meet human needs has been replaced by the idea that humans are part of it and they should take care of it. This study sought to identify attitudes and social representations of the environment of people of different ages. The NEP scale (New Environmental Paradigm) was used to measure attitudes to the environment. We investigated the social representations of the respondents about the environment, by conducting a contrast analysis using the Alceste. One hundred and fifty people participated in this research, divided into 3 age groups. In both analyzes there were no significant differences between respondents of different ages and all respondents seem to agree with the new way of thinking about the environment, recognizing its fragility and the need to care for it

Keywords : Social representations; Environment; Social psychology.

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