Abstract

The main use of our study is to highlight the concept of resource management through process of deep understanding the social representations in our society in different situation. The study traced the main differences in the concept and social representation of the phenomenon of betrayal in two age samples. Methodology: Projective methods are the main: semi-structured interviews, modification of the Sentence Completion Test. To obtain information on the actual attitude to the phenomenon we conduct the survey. The texts processed content analysis method. Selected differences in social perceptions in the studied groups of different ages reflect the boundaries of the concept. The analysis of structural components shows the dynamics of social representations. Emotional and rational styles of behaviour in a social situation, typical for a middle-age group, have been singled out. Behavioural styles differ in average values of “possibility of betray”. Applications of this study: the results of the research are applicable both in training courses on the psychology of communication and in educational programs on forming a metacognitive assessment of the social situation. The show features of the actual attitude toward to social representations and possibility to analyse the main aspects of resources management.

Highlights

  • Trust and betrayal are the dynamic characteristic of relationships in modern society; it ensures and accompanies the process of integration and guarantees stability or variability, constantly or flexibility

  • This research suggests that perceptions of the situation form an opportunity to understand and act actively in a situation of social interaction

  • The variability of behavior strategies is related to social representations of the situation since strategies largely determine the norms and procedures adopted in the group

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Introduction

Trust and betrayal are the dynamic characteristic of relationships in modern society; it ensures and accompanies the process of integration and guarantees stability or variability, constantly or flexibility. Such characteristics make it possible to consider treachery as a stable social-psychological phenomenon, which implies similarity of social conceptions of the phenomenon in different groups, communities, cultures. The main aspects of the betrayal situation are similar for the authors of all times and different continents Such stable notions of Betrayal provide an opportunity to study in detail its socio-psychological features in order to understand the links between human representations and behaviour in a social situation

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