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Este estudo investigou as representações sociais da cocaína entre estudantes, em final de curso, da área de ciências da saúde e jurídica da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Participaram cem estudantes, a maioria do sexo feminino (55%), com média de idade de 27 anos. Foi utilizada entrevista semi-estruturada, aplicada individualmente, gravada mediante a permissão dos respondentes, para preservar o anonimato. Utilizou-se, para categorização dos dados, a análise de conteúdo temática de Bardin. Verificou-se que as representações estão ancoradas na identificação e pertença profissional dos universitários. Os estudantes de direito objetivaram suas representações sociais da cocaína na esfera legal e social. Os universitários de saúde objetivaram suas representações em aspectos relacionados ao tratamento e conseqüências orgânicas. Denota-se a necessidade da formulação de estratégias que sirvam de subsídios na formação de profissionais, nas suas práticas futuras de intervenção, de acordo com a necessidade dos usuários de drogas e seus familiares, bem como na promoção em saúde. This study broached social representations among undergraduate students from Health Science and Law of Universidade Federal da Paraíba. A hundred students from both areas took part in it. They were the majority female (55%), whose age average was about 27. Semi-structured interview was used, applied individually and recorded, with participants' allowance Data categorizing was made through Bardin Thematic Subject Analysis. According to this study, the representations are anchored on identification and professional belongings of these academic students. When researched areas were compared, Law students presented cocaine social representations related to the legal and social ambit, while the students from Health Science area focused the treatment and organic consequences. Guidelines must be developed in order to provide strategies support to these future professionals in their intervention practices ,. It proposes implementation of health policies contemplating prevention of the abusive use of licit and illicit drugs.

Este estudo objetivou verificar as representações sociais da sintomatologia da depressão em adolescentes no contexto do ensino médio de escolas públicas e privadas da cidade de João Pessoa, PB. Participaram da amostra 60 adolescentes (54% do sexo feminino e 46% do masculino) com média de idade de 16 anos, com a sintomatologia depressiva. Utilizaram-se o Children Depression Inventory como instrumento de Screening e entrevistas semi-estruturadas aplicadas de forma individual. As entrevistas foram analisadas por meio da técnica de análise de conteúdo temática. Os resultados apontam as seguintes categorias empíricas: concepção/descrição, causas e tratamento, essas subdivididas em subcategorias que enfatizaram principalmente os aspectos afetivos, cognitivos, psicossociais e comportamentais. Percebe-se que os grupos constroem suas representações não apenas baseados no conhecimento erudito ou nas comunicações informais, mas também no conjunto de problemas práticos que encontram no âmbito sociocultural diretamente inter-relacionados à pertença e à identidade grupal. This study's proposal was to verify the social representations of the depression's symptoms in adolescents in high school context from public and private schools, in João Pessoa city, PB. Sixty adolescents with depression's symptoms from both genders (54% female and 46% male), whose ages were around 16, have participated in this study. It was utilized the Children Depression Inventory as the screening instrument, as well as semi-structured interviews, which were applied individually. The interviews were analyzed according to the thematic content technique. The results pointed out the following empirical categories: conception/description, causes and treatment. These categories were further divided in subcategories that had mainly emphasized the affective, cognitive, psycho-socials and behavioral aspects. It was realized the groups not only construct their representations based on the erudite knowledge or the informal communications, but also based on the set of practical problems that they have faced in the socio-cultural scope, which are directly interrelated to the group identity and acceptance.

This paper has the objective/purpose of studying, and exploring in descriptive form, the contents of stereotypes of college students concerning to the environmental defenders. Three hundred and twenty-five (325) students of both sexes, average of 24 years old took part into this study. It was asked to the participants to express, in free way, all the attributes which came our to their minds for the stimulus expression "Environmental Defenders". Two thousand and fourteen (2,014) words of positive content and one thousand and thirty-four (1,034) of negative content were listed. Such content words were grouped by similarity into one hundred and nineteen (119) positive attributes and eighty-five (85) negative with their respective frequencies. Those attributes were categorized into three groups/nuclei of meanings (NS - NM) which constitute three semantic dimensions (DS - SD), respectively: (1) NM - Society, SD - Politics; (2) NM - Nature, SD - Ecological; (3) NM - Individual, SD - Personal. The obtained results show the attributes related by the college students, which can give support to actions and politics of environmental defenders and increase their effectiveness according to public opinion.