Social representations and social identity of the ex- prisoners in Greece: A social clinical psychological approach

“Social representations and social identity of the ex- prisoners in Greece: A social clinical psychological approach”

Anastasia- Valentine Rigas—Emmanouela Papa

University of Crete- Greece

In our presentation we analyze the social representations of the Greek citizens concerning the social identity of ex-prisoners and their quality of life.  We have used a) an open ended questionnaire, analyzed by the statistical package SPSS and b) the IMIS questionnaire based on the Ego-Ecology approach of Zavalloni & Louis Querin. Our results confirm our hypothesis that the prison environment, the stigma and the marginalization complicate the quality of life of the ex- prisoners. The social group, the citizens of our study, maintain a neutral attitude for these individuals while the ex-convicts constantly face social reactivity.