Abstract EN:

Our study was based on the assumption that economic socialization mobilizes the entirety of psychological functioning and results from an interaction between cognitive, emotional and psychosocial determinants. This change in the state of economic affairs is selected because it will involve objective constraints on subject's realizations. Previous psychological research has made clear that the individuals' experience, and the social influence that shape it, have a bearing on the appraisal processes. In other words, it influences the way to appraise, conceptualize and cope with a new social object. We want to show that no sound theory or explanation of facts in the field of economic socialization can be set up without an account of socially shared representations, social context of realizations and individual characteristics of subjects. In this life span socio-developmental perspective (from adolescence to later adulthood), age, gender and subculture differences are found in the nature of economic experiences that are stressful, in individual's cognitive, emotional, and motivational reactions to this event and in strategies of coping responses to face the change of currency. If our study shows at the very least that it seems clear that developmental level shapes coping, then the results across highly selective groups (contrasted by different subcultures) gives rise to another difference between subject's gender and social anchoring. Key, wolds: economic socialization, social representations, stressor, cognition, conation, coping strategies. Topic reference: representations -economic socialization- transaction process.