Contributions of social representation theory to Ibero-American psychology: a documentary analysis in Scielo

• Autores: Barbosa, Ana Clotilde Coutinho, Lins, Samuel Lincoln Bezerra, Leal, Tatiana Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: portugués
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/31429
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/31429
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: representação social; Iberoamérica; SciELO; IRaMuTeQ; representaciones sociales; SciELO,; IRAMuTeQ; teoría de representaciones sociales; Ibero-America; social representation theory; social representations

The Theory of Social Representations, proposed by Serge Moscovici in 1961, is a milestone in understanding social thought. This study analyzed 285 abstracts from Ibero-American psychology journals available in the SciELO database, processed with the IRAMuTeQ software. Five thematic classes were identified within two main axes: the first addresses methodological aspects, Class 1 (analysis techniques and software) and Class 2 (sample characteristics); the second concerns the development of studies on Social Representations, Class 3 (family-related themes), Class 4 (health themes), and Class 5 (contents of Moscovici’s Theory). It was found that IRAMuTeQ structured classes consistent with the abstracts and highlighted the predominance of Moscovici’s theoretical