2022
DOI: 10.1007/s43076-021-00089-9
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COVID-19 and Elderly Females—a Study of Social Representations in Brazil

Abstract: This study investigates psychosocial aspects related to preventive behavior and social representations (SR) of COVID-19 for elderly females. The method used to understand these features was an online questionnaire for 326 women over 60 years old. In general, participants are afraid of COVID-19, believe that may kill them, and perceive that they do not venture themselves much. They consider themselves to be moderately informed about COVID-19. Right-winged participants believed more in the hydroxychloroquine eff… Show more

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“…Finally, by means of similitude analysis, these adjectives coinciding with those of the ORS were analyzed. Via this procedure, the proximity between the elements of the analyzed content is revealed via co-occurrence indices, making it easier to see how attractive the adjectives are to appear close to each other in the same environment or how much they repel each other [42,43].…”
Section: Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, by means of similitude analysis, these adjectives coinciding with those of the ORS were analyzed. Via this procedure, the proximity between the elements of the analyzed content is revealed via co-occurrence indices, making it easier to see how attractive the adjectives are to appear close to each other in the same environment or how much they repel each other [42,43].…”
Section: Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As autoridades internacionais seguiam as determinações da OMS, mas o chefe do Executivo Brasileiro, na contramão, defendia uma posição negacionista, apontando uma É fundamental acrescentar que a polarização política pode ser prejudicial, como foi constatado na pandemia da covid-19, pois informações polarizadas e falsas influenciaram a população a não acreditar nos números de mortes causadas pela doença, veiculados pela imprensa, e a não aderir às medidas de isolamento social recomendadas por autoridades mundiais, inclusive brasileiras (DE ROSA et al, 2021;GIACOMOZZI et al, 2022a;JUSTO et al, 2020).…”
Section: Fundamentação Teórica 21 a Pandemia De Covid-19unclassified
“…No Brasil, a posição negacionista do presidente da República, Jair Bolsonaro (Moretti-Pires & Sturari, 2021), acabou por provocar uma polarização informacional (Justo, Bousfield, Giacomozzi, & Camargo, 2020) entre ele e o então ministro da Saúde, o que gerou uma disputa de narrativas em torno do fenômeno, típica das RS polêmicas (Moscovici, 1988). A partir disso, estudo observou que o pertencimento político das pessoas idosas influenciou as RS sobre a pandemia e, consequentemente, nos seus comportamentos em relação à prevenção (Giacomozzi, Rozendo, Bousfield, Leandro, Fiorotti & Silveira, 2022).…”
Section: Representaciones Sociales De Hombres Mayores Sobre El Covid-...unclassified