[Comparison between the psychophysical scale methods for magnitude estimation and category estimation of nurses' social perception].
This experiment aimed to rank nurses' social perception through the magnitude and category estimation methods. Study participants were high school and university students, active and retired professionals in the areas of medicine, psychology, nursing and dentistry. The results showed: (1) the characteristics neat, responsible, clean, careful and efficacious occupied the first positions in terms of nurses' social perception; whereas the characteristics useless, dishonorable, irresponsible and hateful occupied the last positions in the scales obtained by the two direct psychophysical methods, and (2) the non-metric social perception continuum has prosthetic characteristics.
Sousa
Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros
FA
Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo.
Hortense
Priscilla
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Evangelista
Renata Alessandra
RA
D009726:Nurses / Q000145:classification; D011601:Psychophysics; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires