Representaciones sociales de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos de los adolescentes escolarizados de 15 a 19 años de Villavicencio - Meta

Abstract

The study describes the social representations (SR) that schooling teenagers have between 15 and 19 years old, on their sexual, reproductive rights and the same rights violation, in Villavicencio city, by which knowledge, emotions and system of symbols that participants have about these rights were explored; the figurative core and the structural component were defined according to the results and findings of the applied techniques, the social representations found in the research in light of the literature were characterized. Research of qualitative approach, hermeneutic type, with design of multiple case study whose interest was the investigation of sexual and reproductive rights of a population of participating teenagers of Cofrem and Alberto Lleras Camargo schools, which met the participation criteria, the technique of associations network with inducing word and semi-structured interview; revising its content, identification of units of analysis, triangulation of information, which it allowed the discussion of the findings. The results show that the figurative core is the coherent part, which it ensures continuity and stability of the findings on sexual and reproductive rights; consisting of categories: the affective one which is the predominant; the cognitive one, and the emerging ones, education and values, due to they are the most often in the responses of the participating teenagers. The structural component appears with symbolic category with the subcategory: “sexual violence”, followed by the cognitive one with the subcategory: “rights”; which it shows the particularities on the subject made by the participating teenagers. The social representations are organized around the affective category which is formed in the emotions or feelings, based on the sexual relationship as the foundation of the meaning of sexuality.The emergent education category, is presented as self-taught with aspects such as training programs not according to their needs, little empowerment of the State to give applicability to true strategies that encourage the exercise of sexual and reproductive, in the emerging category: “values”, women differ with men, shown from the social construction. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that for some of the participating women the rights are something acquired in relation to their behavior, while in the totality of men participating, it corresponds to something inherent to their status as a human being, an aspect that must be taken into account in the approach of sexual and reproductive rights and therefore in health education exercises and planning strategies of public policies, as they relate to the justification that women and men have of forms of sexual violence and against the couple.