The psychosocial transition of the admission to the women's university of the bachelor's degree in Psychology

Abstract

Social representations constitute a valuable access route for understanding how young women face the psychosocial transition when they graduate from university and their personological integration. The presentation is derived from the macro-investigation, called: Social representations of study, work, self-perception and future anticipations in some students of the Faculty of Psychology of the National University of San Luis (Argentina). In-depth interviews are analyzed in a sub-sample of ten women entering the Bachelor of Psychology, aged 18 years. Its essential objective materializes in the understanding of the state of the most relevant social representations linked to study, work, anticipations of the future and perception of themselves considering the social and subjective dimension. The research has a descriptive-interpretative scope with a qualitative route. The collected material converges with the relevant concepts of the field of Guidance Psychology, axes that are articulated with the analysis from a gender perspective. The socio-cultural, economic and social context assumes a central hierarchy in the construction of social representations, as well as in the configuration of identity and life project; aspects recreated from its singularity in this study.