Memoria autobiograficã, emotia si investigarea identitãtii: studiu de caz asupra consumatorilor de droguri chimice în Grecia
Autobiographical memory, emotion and identity research: a case study on chemical drugs consumers in Greece

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this case-study is to indicate the diverse inscription of drug-use in the identity system of two groups of participants, young "ecstasy" users and non-users, with similar demographical features. The theoretical-methodological approach of the identity system that we have employed emphasizes the role of autobiographical memory and emotion, integrated into a perspective that permits us to approach the structuring mechanisms of the participants' identity space, while IMIS questionnaire (Zavalloni & Louis-Guerin, 1984) provided us with the means to achieve this purpose. Data collection through the application of IMIS questionnaire and the identity space analysis in two groups of participants, users and non-users, showed that the representations of their social world were integrated into a network of concepts, related to autobiographical experiences and emotions that marked the most general orientations of their identity system and their sense of the Self.

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