tailieunhanh - SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE-MALE BEAUTY AND AESTHETIC SURGERY: A CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Another salient emotion in moving experiences is the feeling of inspi- ration. The word “inspired” means, in its etymological sense, to be filled with breath, spirit, and life. Thus, the emotion of learning at its most powerful is the feeling of increased vitality as we realize our growing capacity to perceive and act. This particular quality of experience is addressed indirectly, at best, in mainstream psychological traditions. For example, the motivation construct of goals. | ISSN 1413-389X Temas em Psicologia - 2011 Vol. 19 no 1 75 - 98 Social representations of female-male beauty and aesthetic surgery a cross-cultural analysis Annamaria Silvana de Rosa Sapienza University Rome Italy Andrei Holman Alexandru I. Cuza University Iasi Romania Abstract The aim of our research program is to investigate the socio-psychological interrelations between female male beauty and aesthetic surgery in various social groups differentiated not only as a function of gender and education variables female and male young people with university training in Arts Informatics and Sport in three European countries Italy Spain and Romania but also on the basis of psychological dimensions like self-rated attractiveness level of self involvement in the topic of aesthetic-plastic surgery self-identification with salient cultural referents like Beauty Body Culture Nature Soul . The Social Representation framework offers a wide range of heuristic and methodological tools especially called for by both the intimate and social nature of the topics under scrutiny. The study is part of a wider research design following an integrated multi-steps path from exploration to experimentation 1 a study concerning content structure polarity imagined and emotional dimensions of the Social Representations of female and male beauty and of aesthetic surgery 2 a study focused on internet discussion forums on the topic of plastic aesthetic surgery and aimed at investigating the construction of social discourse and negotiation among members of virtual communities 3 a study employing the body map tool an innovative tool with a graphical referent concerning the aesthetic surgery ranking of the various parts of the human body 4 an experimental study focused on the generative activity of mental images and emotions in the . of beauty and aesthetic surgery. The results here presented come from the multi-method research plan obtained in the first step through a the Associative Network using .