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No. 3 (2021)

Social representation of (dis)obedience in italian soldiers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/rip2021oa12861
Submitted
novembre 3, 2021
Published
2021-11-09

Abstract

The present work studied the content and the structure of Social Representation (SR) of (dis)obedience. The aim of this study was understanding the relationship with the authority in a group of students of the Military Armed Forces.
In order to achieve this aim, an online self-report questionnaire was used. The analyzes were conducted on a sample of 389 people, coming from the military academy. The results show how the concepts of (dis)obedience are considered diametrically opposed: obedience has a positive connotation, connected to terms such as “respect”, “loyalty”, “trust” and, on the other hand, disobedience has a mostly negative meaning, connected to terms such as “disrespectful”, “negative” and “wrong”. These results support the hypothesis that the specific context has a strong influence in determining Social Representations.

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