Mental Representations of Military Veterans

The Pictures (and Words) In Our Heads

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22158156
AutoresScott Parrott (0000-0001-6801-5207, University of Alabama, autor correspondente), David L Albright (0000-0002-5901-9393, University of Alabama), Nicholas Eckhart (University of Alabama), Kirsten Laha‐walsh (0000-0001-9871-7728, University of Alabama), Kirsten Laha-Walsh
Ano2020
Volume6
Fascículo3
Páginas61-71
Data de publicação2020-12-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Veterans Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2470-4768 • E-ISSN: 2470-4768
EditoraVirginia Tech Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21061/jvs.v6i3.207
OpenAlexW3112262010
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas14

There has been much popular and academic discussion concerning the public’s mental “pictures” of US military veterans, a group afforded symbolic capital but also stereotyped by American society. Nevertheless, we have little empirical research concerning how the public thinks about military veterans. The present study helps to fill the void by examining two mental representations of military veterans among 1,047 respondents to a survey of US adults. First, it examines semantic representations of veterans, employing a priming task to see which words Americans most often associate with veterans. Second, it employs a visual imagery approach to better understand the “pictures in our heads” of veterans, asking respondents to imagine veterans and describe their race, gender, age, and from whence those images came, focusing on mass media and personal experience

Mental health · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic capital · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology