Category estimation of nurses' social perception

Authors

  • Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa Universidade de São Paulo; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto; Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692000000100005

Keywords:

psychophysics, social perception

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to scale nurses' social perception through the psychophysics method of category estimation. Therefore, undergraduate students from the areas of psychology, nursing, dentistry and medicine were invited to participate in the study. Results showed: 1) in our environment the characteristic tidy has a central role, and with the characteristic responsible form nurse's stereotype and 2) the high correlations among the category estimations of the sub-groups reflect a great concordance in the levels of attributions given by different samples of university students regarding the characteristics of the nurse professional, indicating that the estimations are stabilized among the samples.

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Published

2000-01-01

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2000)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

Sousa, F. A. E. F. (2000). Category estimation of nurses’ social perception. Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 8(1), 31-34. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692000000100005