The Thousand Shades of the Financial and Economic Crisis: a Study of the Social Representations of the Crisis in Portugal

Poeschl, Gabrielle; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Silva, Bruno Pereira da

doi:10.1017/sjp.2015.73

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“…Others have examined the effect of people's financial position, feelings of vulnerability, and emotions on their willingness to take action against the austerity measures implemented in their country (Chryssochoou, Papastamou & Prodromitis, 2013;Poeschl, Valentim & Silva, 2015).…”

Section: Lay Theories About the Economic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

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Chryssochoou²,

Pavlopoulos³

et al. 2018

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Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

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Pavlopoulos³

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“…Respondents with a lower family income experienced less positive emotions and more negative emotions toward the crisis, as well as stronger feelings of vulnerability and relative deprivation that resulted from comparison with others (Poeschl, Valentim, & Silva, 2015). However, respondents did not differ in their expectations about their future situation, which they foresaw without great changes, and, unlike the Greek respondents, declared a similar unwillingness as the other respondents to participate in protest actions.…”

Section: Lay People's Representations Of the Economic Crisismentioning

confidence: 79%

“…Another study using a free association task compared the discourses of Portuguese students based on their family income (Poeschl, Valentim, & Silva, 2015). The word most frequently associated with the crisis was "poverty".…”

Section: Lay People's Representations Of the Economic Crisismentioning

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Predictors of the Perceived Efficacy of Actions Against Austerity Measures

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In this paper, we analyse the responses of 450 students from Greece, Portugal and Italy, who were asked to assess the efficacy of 32 actions as reactions against the austerity measures implemented to deal with the financial and economic crisis. These actions were organized into six types by a principal component factor analysis, and were ranked as follows from the most effective to the least effective: protectionism, civic participation, political resistance to government measures, individual financial protection, economic resistance to government measures and violence. Results showed that Greek respondents, who were in the most difficult socioeconomic situation, viewed all types of actions, except civic participation and individual financial protection, as more effective than the other respondents did. Regression analyses revealed, however, that crisis-related variables, in particular, the attribution of responsibility for the crisis to internal factors and not to the people, and individual-related variables, such as political orientation and the intensity of depressive feelings, were strong predictors of the assessment of the efficacy of actions, in addition to the socioeconomic situation of the countries.

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“…For example, studies on the social representations of crisis (Galli et al, 2010;Poeschl, Valentim & Silva, 2015), showed that crisis is perceived mostly through negative meanings, like poverty, unemployment, and (lack of) money. But the understanding of crisis is anchored in differences in the people's financial situation.…”

Section: Studying Lay Knowledge Of Economic Crisis: the Social Represmentioning

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Socio-cognitive Elaborations and Reactions to Economic Crisis: Insights from Social Psychology

Παπαστάμου

Valentim

Mari

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This special issue dedicated to the social psychological study of the economic crisis in four European Union countries along the Mediterranean includes six empirical papers discussing different aspects of the phenomenon. Four papers are part of a larger project that started in 2011, aiming to compare the social representations of the economic crisis in France, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. Starting from the study of the social representations of the causes of the crisis and the measures to overcome it, various social psychological parameters that interfere are examined. Thus, the political, ideological, and social positioning, and the axiological universe of the participants are considered as important predictors and mediators in the different papers. Additionally, possible political participatory activities in reaction to the crisis are considered. The presentation of the outcome of this research project is completed by a paper analyzing the way the crisis was depicted in the Italian press and a paper looking at the impact of the financial threat to political participation in France. The research presented here reveals the ways social subjects give meaning to a situation of crisis and thus provides social and political insights into social thinking and behavior with important policy implications for individual nations as well as Europe at large. In this paper, we present the general framework of the studies carried out and we introduce the collection of empirical papers of the special issue.

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The Thousand Shades of the Financial and Economic Crisis: a Study of the Social Representations of the Crisis in Portugal

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

Predictors of the Perceived Efficacy of Actions Against Austerity Measures

Socio-cognitive Elaborations and Reactions to Economic Crisis: Insights from Social Psychology

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