DIFFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Author: GOMEZ CARROZA TERESA.
Year: 2003.
University: EXTREMADURA [www.unex.es].
Place of defense: EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: F. FORMACIÓN PROFESORADO.

Summary: This paper provides a characterization of autoestereotipos (image of the old man on itself) and hetereoestereotipos (image on the elderly members of their age group) from subjects of the elderly in the Commonwealth of Extremadura. Obtaining structures factorials of autoestereotipos and hetereotipos takes place from 30 adajetivos more appointed to the description by the elder members of his age group. It was the establishment of the relationship between the variables sociodemigráficas of activity and Satisfaction Index of life with the structures obtained factorials. They also discussed relations between the two structures factorials of autoestereotipo and hetereoestereotip.

Author: BUSCÀ SAFONT-TRIA BERNAT.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.

Author: GARCIA RODRIGUEZ MARIA DE ABONA.
Year: 2005.
University: LA LAGUNA [www.ull.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA. UNIVERSIDAD DELA LAGUNA.

Summary: Working in which explores the stress on teachers, analyzing the significance that gender and type of education are in work-related stress and the impacts on the health of this group. The sample consists of 387 teachers, of whom 273 were women and 114 men. The 45.7% Primary school teachers, 39.5% of secondary and 14.7%. University. The higher (94%) were employed in various public institutions of the Community Canaria and the remainder is in private or concluded. Their ages ranged between 21 and 64 years, with an average of 38.3 and the standard deviation of 8.9. The evaluation of various stressors, physical and mental health and the variables involved in the process estrés-enfermedad was performed using validated twelve tests in the general population. The socio-demographic variables, the presence of disease, the consumption of drugs and healthy habits and harmful to health were evaluated using a semi-structured interview. First, we performed a descriptive analysis of stress for teachers, evaluating satisfaction with its role working as a teacher, the events and changes associated with this vital area, as well as the daily stress generated by the world of work. After that, we explored whether there were differences depending on the type of education and gender, in addition to the various measures of stress in health and disease as well as the variables in social, personal and lifestyle that can be relevant in the process estrés-enfermedad. Finally, we explored the association between stress and health of the sexes teachers. To that end, we conducted further analysis correlacionales between measures of stress and personal variables, sociodemographic and health, both in the total sample in each group teaching, multiple regressions with the purpose of knowing what variables are personal and social the most relevant in the process estrés-enfermedad. The results showed that there was considerable variability in work-related stress experienced by the faculty, with some patterns differential funcióna and type of education and gender, asl as interactions between gender and type of education in the satisfaction with the role as a teacher . Regarding the most important variables in the process estrés-enfermedad, has been found which are the variables related to stress at work and do not work as well as éle coping stress, the most significant in predicting the health of teachers, there are significant differences gender in the association between stress and health of the sexes teachers.

Author: CAMACHO MARTEL LAURA.
Year: 2005.
University: MÁLAGA [www.uma.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The starting point for the thesis has been the analysis of variables that can be determinative of miedo-evitación, starting from a base that the experience of pain is determined by social and psychological factors that explain in large measure individual differences are found in this pathology. Among the variables considered, the argument takes as a reference the primary builder of susceptibility to anxiety, covered as the fear of anxiety-related sensations based on the belief that these feelings are prejudicial consequences. GOALS AND ASSUMPTIONS The hypotheses to assume that patients suffering from chronic pain with high sensitivity to anxiety respond with a higher level of fear and avoidance to the very painful feelings. We assume, therefore, that anxiety is a risk factor for the increase in avoidance behavior, emotional discomfort and a lower perception of self-control in patients with chronic pain, as well as interact with atencionales desadaptativas trends in the processing of genetic stimuli pain. METHOD To test the hypothesis generic, the thesis develops two experiments. In the first two objectives are met. On one side, analyzing the relationship of sensitivity with anxiety hypervigilance toward sensations somato-sensoriales otherwise, if the contrast sensitivity anxiety is a construct can explain the variable hypervigilance, the sample of this first study composing 139 female students of the first class of psychology with a mean age of 20 years. In the second study explores the role of sensitivity to individual differences in anxiety regarding hypervigilance, the fear of pain and catastrophism, posing a theoretical model that establishes a network of causal relationships between these variables on responses the assessment tools for the same out of a total of 134 female students of the first class of psychology with a mean age of 20 years. RESULTS methodology using a multivariate analysis, in the first study, and structural equations, in the second, the results obtained indicate that higher levels of anxiety sensitivity to relate significantly more hypervigilance toward sensations somato-sensoriales. In addition, data obtained started the sensitivity with anxiety associated with a greater sensitivity to pain and with a higher percentage of thoughts catastrofistas. The empirical model results suggest that individual differences in susceptibility to anxiety may be considered as determinants of the development of a worse adaptation of the person to the pain of his relationship with the fear of painful feelings and thoughts catastrofistas. CONCLUSION The work underscores the importance of sensitivity with anxiety as explanatory variable delas individual differences in the experience of pain that could also play a key role in the process by which a syndrome of chronic pain reaches done.