A PORTRAY OF THE BRAZILIAN POLITICIAN

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Aroldo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Lobel, Sharon A., Jablonski, Bernardo, Monnerat, Marina, Corga, Danielle, Diamico, Kátia, Pereira, Marcos, Ferraz, Andréa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17029

The study of political stereotypes has been neglectedby social psychologists. The present research tests the hypothesisthat Brazilians have a negative attitude toward politicians.Secondary objectives of this study were: (a) to test the possibilityof utilizing the telephone as a means of data collection inBrazil; (b) to explore the correspondence between the answersgiven by university students and those offered by several strata ofthe general population. 533 Ss of both sexes took part in the study;they were all residents of the state of Rio de Janeiro. 273 of themwere reached by telephone and chosen by a systematic randomsampling procedure; the remaining were university students. Theresults confirmed the existence of a strong negative image of theBrazilian politician. They are perceived as ambitious (for personalpurposes), insincere, oportunistic, ill intentioned, irresponsible, incompetent, etc. None and All were the most frequent responsesto the questions: (a) which politician is closest to your ideal of apolitician? and (b) which politician is further apart from your idealof a politician? The use of telephone interview proved to be adequateand university students and the rest of the population sampledgave similar responses.