Representations about Friend and Enemy at Different Life-span Stages

The aim of our research was to study the representations of real personalities, who belong to a certain society or social stratum etc. The everyday representations of Enemy and Friend are formed within the everyday communication, and include the following components: Representations about the relation system of Friend and Enemy towards the Other; Representations of Enemy and Friend's appearance; Representations of the gender specific characteristics of Enemy and Friend. The study is aimed to define the impact of life-span stage on social-psychological content of representation about Friend and Enemy. The study is aimed to define the impact of life-span stage on social-psychological content of representation about Friend and Enemy. 500 participants at different life-span stages were interviewed with original structured interview. The results revealed several representation types. Representations about Friend and Enemy differ in 1) intensity of positive and negative attitudes towards others; 2) degree of negativity – positivity of other's appearance evaluation; 3) level of feminisation – masculinisation of others.