The intimate relationships, between them the commitment, presuppose the existence of social identities and representations, shared though social behaviors, norms and values. Our aim was to identify the social representation and its particularizations in face of the sexual identity and the experience with committed relationships. 183 university students, with an average of 22 years, formed the sample. A self-applied questionnaire was used in a collective situation. In the data analysis were used the software Evoc 2000, Similitude 2000, ALCESTE and SPSS. The elements of the representation were organized around the notion of friendship and described in terms of complicity, trust and love. Girls brought more frequently elements related to trust and feelings whereas boys, to sex. People who were committed at the moment represented the commitment as relation of friendship and acceptance whereas those who had been committed in the past enhanced issues of fidelity and commitment.
Social representations; Structural analysis; Commitment; Intimate relationships
