Abstract
The aim of this study is to project people’s perceptions about the rich and poor. In this descriptive study, a questionnaire developed by the researcher and caricatures were used to collect data. The questionnaire composed of seven items including questions directed to adjectives related to the participants’ perceptions about the rich and poor as well as questions of gender, age, and socio-economic status. The study composed of 973 participants (653 males and 320 females), sampled conveniently among people living in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkey in 2014. 76.74% of the participants characterized the poor by using seven adjectives: honest, moral, happy, legal, sincere-friendly, empathetic-modest, and fair-objective. On the other hand, 77.41% of the participants characterized the rich by using eleven adverse adjectives; arrogant, defrauder, bribe-taker, immoral, unfair-subjective, imposter, penny pincher, liar, aggressive-oppressive, shrewd-evil minded, and insensible. The study reached inferences and offered suggestions based on the results. Key words: Image study, the rich and poor perception.
Highlights
Every person is eager to share his or her life, to survive, to be happy and to be satisfied with life despite problems, contradictions, failures, and drawbacks
Humans as psychosocial beings try to maintain healthy and wellbalanced relations; so, they need to recognize their thoughts and emotions, which are the mirror their inner world. It is difficult for the individuals who are not aware of their own inner world to maintain healthy and wellbalanced relations with other individuals
Caricatures have recently been used in the research in countries such as England, Russia, Slovenia, and Norway (Keogh and Naylor, 1999)
Summary
Every person is eager to share his or her life, to survive, to be happy and to be satisfied with life despite problems, contradictions, failures, and drawbacks. Humans as psychosocial beings try to maintain healthy and wellbalanced relations; so, they need to recognize their thoughts and emotions, which are the mirror their inner world. It is difficult for the individuals who are not aware of their own inner world to maintain healthy and wellbalanced relations with other individuals. Thoughts and emotions, Dökmen (2000) stated “a living being needs its emotions to maintain a normal and ordinary life; human beings need emotions in two points: Firstly, in maintaining their daily life as an incentive source, and secondly, in improving their existence level and have a quality and extraordinary life.”. Behaviors, language, and consciousness are in coherence, and people need to put them in harmony in their existence process. Who we are and how we react to events depends on the relationship between our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors
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