TEST PREPARATION

Author: GONZÁLEZ TUGAS MATIAS.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE MEDICINA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD MEDICINA, DPTO. PSIQUIATRÍA.

Summary: Fits and validates an instrument for the detection of delirium for medical specialists and non-specialists. Assesses the vital prognosis associated with the population of delirium in elderly patients hospitalized.

Author: RUIZ BARQÍN ROBERTO.
Year: 2003.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID [www.uam.es].
Place of defense: PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA DE LA UAM.

Summary: In this research work were assessed a total of 349 judokas federated within national territory, belonging to different competitive levels, of both sexes, aged between 12 and 30 years and including the various weight categories exist in official competition . turn, evaluated 41 coaches judo at the national level. Questionnaire for measuring States Ánimo in Sport POMS (CAR protocol San Cugat; Balagué, Perez, Mari, Font, Figueroa and Barangé). turn were considered physical and psychological tests of the Royal Spanish Federation Judo and DA Corresponding to the athletes Programs Detection Technology Talent Sport and Sport. The research includes eleven goals, stressing: Profiling of the characteristics psychological, social and sports coaches; predictive analysis of the results shown in competition based on the various tests administered to athletes: Analysis and baremación delas psychometric tests used in research ; study of the relationship between psychological athletes belonging to programs Detection Technology Talent Sport and Sport of the Royal Spanish Federation of Judo and DA, and so on. The results show how the pruevas managed both athletes and coaches are suitable for the description of the psychological characteristics, sports and social consideradas.A turn, shows how the tests administered are psicométricamente suitable for their implementation at investigativo.Desde a standpoint of predicín is calibrated accurately for the predictive value of each battery of tests applied to athletes, indicating clear differencias largely a function of the sports category (age) and sexo.Por other hand, there are clear differences in personality psychological and compared with other samples from the general population and other signs of athletes considered.

Author: MORA RODRIGUEZ RAQUEL.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA.

Summary: In the present investigation is conducted an analysis of the major psychological problems that present people with problems infertilidad.En First is the problem of infertility and its influence on the different aspects which conforman.Estas are medical, social and mainly psiocológicas, couples with difficulties in having children. In the analysis of the psychological impact, a central objective in the review of the problem reflects the pincipales investigations related infertility factors role género.El concept parentalidad, stress, anxiety, depression, sexuality, relationships social adjustment between the couple or the influence of diagnosis and treatment on problems psicologícos.Así same discusses studies that assess the impact of families formed through tra. Subsequently, once reflected the phenomenon in all its dimensions, it will review those investigations which have generated or used psychological assessment tools related or specially designed to assess the psychological consequences of infertility. In light of the foregoing, and with the goal of establishing a correct assessment of the psychological problems associated with infertility, provides an assessment tool that has been called IPPI (Inventory of psychological problems in infertility), which targets people they are in diagnosis or treatment for infertility, and that has been specially designed for this purpose, proceeding to reflect the entire process of establishing the mechanism and its psychometric characteristics. Moreover, it carries out the analysis of the impact of infertility with the sample analyzed previously in terms of different socio-demographic variables, with particular emphasis on the influence on the couple. Lastly, and so added, and after being used initially for the purpose of validation convergent with the IPPI, it validates an evaluation of infertility called FAS (fertility adjustment scale) created by glover, hunter, richards, katz abel in 1999, Spanish shows.

Author: CARRETERO DIOS HUGO.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The overall objective of this research was the construction of an assessment tool, which has been called Mood Assessment Scale, EAHU. The thesis consists of the following sections: a) integration of the study area's sense of humor in the theoretical model parameters professor, Vincent Pelechano b) The appreciation of humor as the object of measurement, justification of the instrument to create c) Delimitation conceptual appreciation of humor, syntactic and semantic definition d) Construction of items and theoretical analysis of relevance us e) Statistical analysis of the items, f) Proposal of scale and analysis of its internal structure, g) Study of reliability of the instrument, h) Obtaining evidence of external validity. The results are used to conclude that the scale is built to be used by relevant research objectives. This scale is used to fill some of the shortcomings of the most important tools used to evaluate the appreciation of humor, assuming an equally important contribution to the Spanish context, the absence of instruments with similar characteristics.

Author: Mato Vazquez Maria Dorinda.
Year: 2005.
University: A CORUÑA [www.udc.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación.

Summary: This research aims to design and validate two questionnaires to measure anxiety and attitudes towards mathematics in students Compulsory Secondary Education and analyze the attitudes and anxiety of the students and how performance can be seen influenced by them. The study sample consists of 1220 students, of both sexes, belonging to public institutions, and private concerted Compulsory Secondary Education of A Coruna and information is collected through working sessions conducted in regular school hours. The results of these tests are analyzed through the SPSS statistical analysis package (version 11.0) through the technique of exploratory factor analysis and the method of principal components with varimax rotation. It calculates the reliability of the questionnaires through the Cronbach alpha value and analyzes the behavior of each item with regard to reliability, as well as qualitative analysis. Through the ANOVA analyzed associations between variables and influences center, course, sex, profession and studies of parents and mothers. It completes the analysis of evidence as proof contrast Scheffé and Nonparametric of Kruskal-Wallis test. Finally, to understand the general and specific variables anxiety and attitude on the academic performance using the Pearson correlation and multiple regression procedure. The result shows that students show, in general, some dissatisfaction toward the study of mathematics and although valued positively the usefulness of the course, the perception they have of their profesore math is not satisfactory. In addition students are experiencing anxiety at times like evaluations, compression problems, mathematical operations, etc.. The results also show differences as introducing students in response to variable center, course, sex, studies and careers of their father and mother, both in terms of attitudes as regards anxiety, and reveals that attitudes and anxiety affect the performance of learning mathematics.

Author: CANEDA D'AMBROSI CARMEN.
Year: 2005.
University: SALAMANCA [www.usal.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA.

Summary: The healthy spouse is the most important source of support in the psychological adaptation of the patient with cancer. However, it was not known yet whether those behaviors support marriage, appearing with the disease, help the sick. In addition, to evaluate the time or the stage of disease would clarify whether a marital support focused on the psychosocial needs of the patient is more beneficial in the first years after diagnosis than in later years. The sample consisted of 99 patients with cancer, married or living together as a couple. Participants agreed to a secure web page where completed questionnaires and scale Support Marital Specific Cancer (AMEC), created this for this study. The results indicated that the AMEC was associated with a greater ability to adapt psychological (all p? .05). The AMEC was related to low levels of anxiety, depression and low levels of high levels of mental health, when it took into account variables such as age, gender and years since diagnosis (10-17% of the total variance explained, all p? .05). Likewise, AMEC explained 5% of the total variance in levels of anxiety (p = .09) at the same time were evaluated social support network (friends, doctors and other cancer patients) and the quality of the relationship marital. Lastly, AMEC was more important to reduce the levels of depression patients (p? .05) When provided from one to three years after diagnosis than in later years. In conclusion, these results suggest that support marriage-related demands psychosocial benefits cancer patient's psychological adaptation.