title: [Old age for adolescents: a social representations approach].
abstract: Qualitative research, based on the Theory of Social Representations, which aimed to apprehend the social representations of teenagers in a public school and a private on ageing, and to compare them between these two groups. Participants were 60 adolescents, 30 from the private school and 30 from the public school, who responded to semi-structured interviews in the period May-June 2012. The collected data were subjected to content analysis techniques, from which emerged three categories, namely: representations of ageing, the treatment of the elderly, and the recognition of oneself as a subject in the aging process. The adolescents' social representations have showed negative and positive aspects in relation to old age, marked by the influence of socio-cultural aspects.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cuidados Clínicos em Enfermagem e Saúde, Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rafaelly Fernandes
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cuidados Clínicos em Enfermagem e Saúde, Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Célia
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Freitas
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia de Assunção
authors.initials: Mde A
authors.lastname: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001938:Brazil; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012574:Schools; D012938:Social Perception; D066269:Social Theory; D055815:Young Adult