NURSES' PROFESSIONAL PRESTIGE: ESTIMATION OF MAGNITUDES AND EXPANDED CATEGORIES

Authors

  • Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa Universidade de São Paulo; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto
  • José Aparecido da Silva Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692001000600004

Keywords:

psychophysics, measurement, research

Abstract

The prestige of professionals such as social workers, biologists, dentists, nurses, engineers, pharmacists, physicists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, physicians, psychologists, chemists and sociologists was scaled by the psychophysical methods of estimation of magnitudes and expanded categories. Results showed that: 1) when we increase the limited amplitude of categories, this method has the same characteristics as those of the estimation of magnitudes. 2) the relationship between the estimations of magnitudes and estimations of expanded categories is a power function with an exponent that is not significantly different from 1.0. These data enabled the following conclusions: 1- The nursing profession is in the seventh or eighth position regarding the prestige of the 13 professions whereas physicians are in the first position in the scale obtained by the used methods; 2- the orders resulting from the methods produce positions of prestige that highly agree for the different professions.

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Published

2001-11-01

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 6 (2001)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

NURSES’ PROFESSIONAL PRESTIGE: ESTIMATION OF MAGNITUDES AND EXPANDED CATEGORIES. (2001). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 9(6), 19-24. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692001000600004