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Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
Print version ISSN 1794-4724On-line version ISSN 2145-4515
Abstract
ROSSATO, Lucas; SANTEIRO, Tales Vilela; BARBIERI, Valéria and SCORSOLINI-COMIN, Fabio. Family Representations in Psychology Freshmen: A Longitudinal Study. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.2, 5. Epub June 28, 2023. ISSN 1794-4724. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.9234.
This longitudinal study aimed to know the representations of family by students of a psychology class at two moments of their educational training: the beginning of the course, during the transition to university, and the end of the first academic semester. Sixteen psychology students from a public university aged between 17 and 21 participated, were individually interviewed during those two moments and submitted to a group intervention that included the discussion of films that portrayed the theme of family. In the first interviews, the family emerged as an affective-relational space that transcends consanguineous ties in an expanded conception. In the final interviews, the difficulty emerged in defining a single representation that encompasses all the possibilities of being a family. The reflection exercise promoted by the activities allowed the students to move from a more crystallized representation of what a family is to a more flexible reading of what this institution and its configurations can be. In a sociocultural context permeated by discourses defending a single family representation, activities such as the one presented in this study can provide conditions to train critical psychologists committed to the different possibilities of being a family today.
Keywords : Family; family characteristics; psychology; higher education.