The social representation of pregnancy in adolescence

a study with students in the 8th year of elementary school II

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate perceptions about teenage pregnancy based on the Social Representation of students in the eighth year of Elementary School II in the city of Conceição da Barra – ES. All research was carried out in three municipal schools in the city mentioned. It is based theoretically and methodologically on the Theory of Social Representations (TRS). With a qualitative approach that involves a relationship between the real world and the subject, which cannot be measured in numbers. The procedure defined for data collection was the questionnaire and the results of the responses obtained in the questionnaires were processed in the LibreOffice software and in the free access program EVOC2005. It used the methods of prototypical analysis, known as evocation analysis, being used for RS analysis, with a structural approach and content analysis to build the categories. The result obtained, through EVOC2005, defined three terms that formed the possible NC, which were irresponsibility, contraceptive methods and responsibility. Thus, we will have the basis together with the literature for the interpretation of the possible central nucleus and the content analysis that were composed of categories (school, family, responsibility, health problem, social and financial), demonstrating a connection with the central nucleus of the evocations obtained.