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CES Psicología
versão On-line ISSN 2011-3080
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TORRES LOPEZ, Teresa Margarita; MUNGUIA CORTES, Jazmín Aranzazú; ARANDA BELTRAN, Carolina e SALAZAR ESTRADA, José Guadalupe. Mental health and mental illness social representations of adult population from Guadalajara, Mexico. CES Psicol [online]. 2015, vol.8, n.1, pp.63-76. ISSN 2011-3080.
The objective of this study was to explore mental health (MH) and mental illness (MI) social representations (SR) in adult people of Guadalajara, Mexico population. Free listing and paired questionnaires were used to identify the content and the arrangement of these social representations. SR analysis showed that MI was identifying like a state of positive emotions and satisfactory feelings of quietness and stability, which carry out wellbeing and quality of life. On the contrary, mental illness was associated to madness caused by organic and mental damages; it is generally undergone biomedical and psychological treatment, with a low healing possibility
Palavras-chave : Adult population; Mental Illness; Mental; Disorders; Mental Health; Social Representations.