Abstract

BOAS, Luana Michele da Silva Vilas; CAMARGO, Brigido Vizeu  and  ROSA, Annamaria Silvana de. The social thinking of college students about beauty and aesthetics surgery. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.69, n.2, pp. 187-206. ISSN 1809-5267.

The study aimed to identify the social representations of men and women with different academic backgrounds, regarding beauty and aesthetic surgery. This study is a descriptive and comparative research, with cross-sectional design, based on the participation of 120 university students; Multi-method research plan designed by A.S. de Rosa through a semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire, divided into five parts; involving descriptive and relational statistical analysis, and textual analysis of associative networks. The results highlight significant differences in the social representations of the groups in relation to social objects, beauty and aesthetic surgery, in terms of contents, assessments and socio-psychological dimensions. The proximity of individuals and groups to the body partially confirms the evidence of influential variables in terms of gender and academic training of the participants in the representations of the objects surveyed.

Keywords : Beauty; Aesthetic surgery; Social representations.

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