SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Author: MARTÍN BERISTAIN CARLOS.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: This thesis contains a number of research studies undertaken in recent years from my work with the Mayan communities affected by violence and political genocide in Guatemala. The first chapter summarizes the review of the literature on mourning and the impact of traumatic experiences of violence, as well as the role of ritual and collective memory. Chapter 2 provides an overview of key data from the historical, political and cultural life of Guatemala. The chapter contains research on the impact of violence and ways of coping in the Mayan communities was conducted with 16 focus groups (300 persons) in communities affected by violence, particularly Mayan refugees in the camps in Mexico, IDPs in the Ixcan jungle of Guatemala (Communities of Population in Resistance), and returnee population from the Mexican refuge during the years 1991-1993. The fourth chapter describes the experience of the Project for Reconstruction of Historical Memory of Guatemala, sponsored by the Catholic Church between the years 1995-1998, in which I worked as coordinator of the investigation and the final report, including the background and research methodology as well as a summary of the most relevant data for the investigation. Chapter 5 contains a survey conducted on the basis of data collected by Project REMHI (interviews with 5180 victims), exploring the relationship between indicators of psychological impact and mourning, the demands of collective memory and ways of coping. In Chapter 6 includes analysis conducted later to evaluate the relationship between mourning and the rest of the variables considered: 1-Losses family and community. 2, - reactions and psychological consequences singles. 3 - The discovery of the remains and conducting rituals. 4 - The activation of coping. 5 - The demands of commemoration and collective memory. Chapter 7 sets out the findings of these various studies and some implications of the results. Finally, Chapter 8 contains some applications and practical recommendations for the accompanying processes of mourning in situations of massive political violence as experienced by the people of Guatemala.

Author: MORALES GONZALEZ JOSE.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: This thesis wondered when I read that social psychology ago and exercises to the tales, written straying into the literature, literary reading, which is proposed and put to narrate. The first part is an exhibition of narrative theories to use in social psychology. This perspective narrative wished to take as an object of study stories, under the assumption that thanks to them the reality is intelligible 4 is the vehicle of our interactions. What is tearing apart the revision of this theory is that narrative through its conceptual -- is controlled narration to define it as a tool. The second sides and a series of trials in which attempts to account for ways to be seeking to define literary narration by herself. The third part looks for a literary tradition within psychology. It read some works of discipline and read like literary essays, valorandola for its quality of writing rather than their conceptual content, and this writing literary, poetic license of the perpetrators, which is to describe the pressure of its object - that study is impinentamente aesthetic. It explains how the authors were read literary between them. KEYWORDS Social Psychology, narrative theory, literary.

Author: AL MOMANI AL MOMANI AHMAD.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: Spain is among the European countries that were later incorporated into the phenomenon of immigration. In fact, it ranks among the countries with a presence on immigrant lower. However, over the last decade, our country has achieved the highest increase in foreigners from Europe due to the massive influx of immigrants, including Moroccans are the group less valued by the Spaniards and whose integration is considered more difficult. While recent years have proliferated in social science studies on the situation of immigrants, the information we have is still fragmentary and incomplete. Specifically, there are numerous public opinion surveys on Spanish immigrants, but no studies examining directly what they think immigrants about their situation in Spain. In this context, this thesis seeks to analyze the social integration of Moroccan immigrants, as they perceive their relationship with the Spanish company, and their hierarchy of values. To do so, has been administered a questionnaire in Arabic to 240 Moroccan immigrants to analyze the reasons for immigrating to Spain, social support, social and administrative problems, the identity comparative social and cultural integration. In addition, we used a sample of 182 people with Spanish nationality who lived in Madrid to compare your profile personal values individualistic and collectivist with Moroccan immigrants. The questionnaire used to analyze the hierarchy of values has been the scale of Schwartz (SVS, Schwartz, 1987; translated by Ros and Grad, 1991). The results show that the profile of values Moroccan immigrants were defined mainly by collectivist values as a kind of conformity, benevolence and tradition. By contrast, the values of individualistic type is less important for them. Moreover, there are significant differences between the profile securities Moroccan immigrants and Spaniards. These differences suggest that the Spaniards give more importance type individualistic values, while Moroccan immigrants score higher in the type of collectivist values. However, it has been found that people who carry more time in Spain with a profile more like the values of the Spanish and are better integrated socially. However, there is a significant relationship between social identity, the profile of values and the social integration of Moroccan immigrants. Therefore, those immigrants who identify themselves as Westerners or Western Arabs also shows a profile more individualistic values and greater social inclusion. In conclusion, the change in the profile of securities of Moroccan immigrants and their social integration are more a result of social identity that time who have resided in Spain.

Author: PEREIRA DA SILVA JOILSON.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The concern of this study was to analyze the mental health and psychosocial resources of young students from a low social class neighborhood in the city of Joao Pessoa, with a history of academic failure. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part is a theoretical approach to various central aspects of mental health (psychological well-being and sense of depression) among young people. In other words, the investigation deals with the attempt to analyze the psychological well-being in young people, through some theoretical models that attempt to understand the origins of mental health (depression). Specifically, highlighting the ecological model (vitamin) developed by Peter Warr (1987). In addition, he examines the social ecology of these youngsters in the school (micro Brazilian school system) based on the model of the ecology of human development Bronfenbrenner (1979/2002), where in this context, poverty linked to failure in school the Brazilian Micro school is analyzed as a risk factor for the psychological well-being of young students in basic education. Mainly, young people who live in constant stress, in this context, we discussed the perceived stress and stressful life events in the lives of these students, as well as the association of these variables estresoras with psychosocial resources, such as self-esteem, support perceived social, participation and integration into the community, coping strategies and the influence of these variables in the psychosocial development in youth (mental health). Moreover, according to the equations carried out in this study, we can observe an association between socio-demographic data (gender, age, economic status, educational level) and mental health which specifies two levels of resources. At the first level are related to social and environmental factors, specified through resource psychosocial stressors, the product of socio-economic status of these youngsters. The second level contains the psychosocial resources (self-esteem, social support and community coping strategies) through which these factors are associated with mental health (psychological well-being and sense of depression) of the young students of the sample as suggested the extensive literature on the subject. In this same vein, the results indicate that students in this sample who receive less social support associated with a negative self-esteem tend to perceive stressors before most of stressful life events. These students will not participate nor s integrated into the activities of his neighborhood, in addition, young people who are often, the situations before problems (with friends, family, school, health and life), using the strategy for coping evasive, thus introducing greater psychological deterioration. Therefore, the results seem that different coping strategies used by young people can become a mediator in the relationship between coping strategies and mental health, as well as the enormous opportunities in the field of intervention .

Author: LISSAVETZKY DÍEZ M. CARMEN.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACT. CC POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FCTAD. CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLGÍA.

Summary: The aim of the thesis was to study the migration process from the perspective of producing mourning the loss and the benefit I emotional, informational and instrumentation that can be beneficial for this phenomenon mourning the associative conducted by the immigrants themselves. It was a choice of the people of e.del this Romanian and Bulgarian people to be more demographic weight in cm Methodology, survey, focus groups, interviews and stories of life partnerships.

Author: CABADA DEL RIO MARINA.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: In the era of "globalization" and the hegemonic power of the mass media as conformadores culture, we found that, compared with societies fragmentadadas and facing demobilization world of political discourse, institutions (media) and companies (through existing forms of corporate communication "outreach"), in an environment of progressive liberalization, have a historic opportunity today. The new laws nuclei mobilizers of new human values, economic, social and cultural rights, thanks to the communication. This great social responsibility must be supported by an analysis epistémico comprehensive and updated, which account the implications psicosociológicas of new processes and actions of mass media.

Author: GONZÁLEZ CARRASCO MÓNICA.
Year: 2004.
University: GIRONA [www.udg.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN Y PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE GIRONA.

Summary: The psychological well-being, understood as the psychological aspect which is part of the broader concept of quality of life, is a burgeoning field of study. Despite a last brief in comparison with other psychosocial constructs ever researchers of the most diverse disciplines are added to the list of scholars that make the psychological well-being one of its objects of inquiry. However, the study of psychological well-being in adolescence is probably one of the areas in which the need for further progress becomes more obvious. His study subjects adolescents also has a dual interest. On the one hand, the changes and transitions that boys and girls experience during adolescence often behave this is a stressful time for many of them sexes, with important implications for their psychological well-being. To deepen their knowledge during this period of life is, moreover, an interest beyond the strictly scientific and enables the design of, for example, prevention programs more tailored to the problems that adolescents and may be experiencing. The exploration of the elements of psychological wellbeing is one of the strategies to move closer to his study. In this dissertation have selected some genetic elements of the scientific literature shows that have a closer connection with the psychological well-being and are pleased with their lives globally and with specific areas of life, self-esteem, social support received, the perception of control and values. Although there is a large consensus to consider that the exploration of these elements are basic necessities in the face delving into the structure of psychological well-being, have generally been considered as separate, but not lacking attempts to theoretical integration. The most important constraints presented by the study of psychological well-being and that of its elements are now basically an epistemological referring to the difficulty of finding common visions (both definitions and theories explanatory) shared by a majority of researchers social. These limitations justified interest in directing attention to other explanations for the psychological well-being qualitatively different from those available, which will not take refuge in either reductionism causal explanations nor rigid. The theories of complexity represent an alternative productive in this respect since those characteristics by which the complexity stems (smearing boundaries, points of catastrophe, fractal dimensions, chaotic and nonlinear processes), are ultimately the same properties characterizing psychosocial phenomena. And that includes psychological welfare. The data at our disposal, obtained through a cross-sectional study, make an approach to prevent psychological wellbeing from all properties dela complexity mentioned except for the characteristics of the non-linearity. The overall aim of the thesis was to build a model of psychological well-being based on the data obtained to allow: 1-demonstrate relationships between variables that so far have not been overly explored. 2-Contemplating these relationships beyond its unidirectional. 3, - To understand the psychological well-being in adolescence from a more integrated and holistic and thus offer a more comprehensive approach to this phenomenon. This thesis has to be understood as a first step, mainly methodological, for the future development of concept 8 ualizaci 2ae ones on the psychological well-being in adolescence that are based on the principles that we bring the sciences of complexity. While results are not without limitations, opened new perspectives for analyzing the psychological well-being in adolescence.

Author: PULIDO CARRILLO GREGORIO.
Year: 2004.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA UNE..

Summary: The landmarks are to feature prominently in cities with paths and old with little planning, own the majority of European cities, therefore, it is interesting to study the perception and evaluation of the landmarks in medium-sized towns, with an old and strong historical, with a labyrinth structure in the central areas, with sasos historical filled with social meaning and some suburbs clearly differentiated in terms of its structure is concerned, that may help understand how people perceive these elements, the study from a psychological perspective the role of architecture within the urban image. The central objective of this research is to "Finding that the degree of knowledge of the pillars is explained by variables functional social and psychological." In order to achieve this goal and get the results to be replicated has been necessary to resort to two people having the characteristics mentioned above. Talavera de la Reina and Toledo. To address the objective has been designed three studies in each city. First, a survey is carried out in each of the cities mentioned that aim to establish the prototype map of the city, as well as its emblematic places that measure sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, education level, social class and area of residence modulate the image of the city. The second arose with the aim of classifying the elements of the prototype maps of the respective cities in terms of the categories of Lynch. In the second stage examines the peculiarities offering these categories in the respective images of the two cities. The third paper addresses the overall objective of this research, mentioned above, using landmarks as incentives resulting from the images of the cities studied. The results of the work have ratified the proposed objectives and assumptions.

Author: ACOSTA URIBE BEATRIZ.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA.

Summary: The overall objective of this work was to adapt the original German version of the inventory of Self-government (SSI-K3), for use with subjects whose first language was Spanish used by the Mexican and Spanish speakers. Because of the characteristics of the process of adapting itemized the following specific objectives: 1. Translation of SSI-K3 from the original German to Spanish spoken in Spain. 2. Translation of SSI-K3 from the original German to Spanish spoken in Mexico evaluation of the translated version. 3. Analysis of the psychometric properties of SSI-K3 in a sample Spanish 4. Analysis delas psychometric properties of SSI-K3 in a sample Mexican. 5. Comparison between the source version and tarducidas, analyzing similarities of internal consistency and structure factor among the three samples. 6. Obtaining the degree of equivalence between the original version and the two adapted versions, as well as between these adapted versions. The striking features d elas adaptations of tests and questionnaires have to do with designs translated and studies to determine the extent achieved equivalence between the source and the version adapted versions. The design of translation used both for the Spanish language version of Spain to the Spanish of Mexico, was the reverse translation. The translation from the source language to the two languages simultaneously object was conducted by two independent teams of translators, one in each country. The studies carried vabo to analyze sporpiedades metric of vesiones adapted and their degree of equivalence of the original version, was made under a design group monolingà ¼ e. Both versions in Spanish of SSI-K3 were administered at monolingà ¼ goal is talking the language (both Mexican and Spanish) and source version of individuals whose mother tongue is German. In order to have greater equality among withthe samples, in all cases, the SSI-K3 was administered to students. The process of adaptation performed took into account the guidelines and recommendations of the International Test Commission, particularly those related to the construction and adaptation performed took into account the guidelines and recommendations of the International Commission Tests, especially those related to the construction and adaptation of tests , the administration and documentation / interpretation of results. Having adopted the guidelines of the ITC contributes to obtain a customized version with sufficient guarantee for further cross comparisons in studies on self-regulation.

Author: CUEVAS YUST CARLOS.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA.

Summary: The primary hypothesis was that provides treatment to test social skills explain the social functioning of schizophrenic patients, regardless of the psychotic symptoms that arise. We studied a sample of 42 schizophrenic patients outpatient clinically stable, receiving treatment psychopharmacological. It used a correlational design applying a causal model of structural equations, which assessed the relationship between social skills, psychopathology, social support, attention, concentration, memory and social functioning. Results: social functioning is determined by different processes, represented by indicators of social skills (social competence and social anxiety) and negative psychotic symptoms. The hypothesis was confirmed that establishes a causal link between social skills and social functioning, but the negative psychotic symptoms also explains part of the social functioning of these patients. These results validate the behavioral model to explain the deterioration of social functioning of schizophrenic patients compared with the explanations biologicistas.

Author: ALARCÓN POSTIGO RAFAEL.
Year: 2004.
University: MÁLAGA [www.uma.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: This research paper focuses on the scope of the donation and transplant of organs and tissues and consists of two studies. In the first study, the aim has been to check if different levels of knowledge, attitudes and intentions regarding the donation and transplant of organs from a sample of adolescents in secondary and high school, depending on the stage of education and sex from them. Following administration of a questionnaire, show that high school students and women who show greater willingness to donate organs themselves and a family died and a higher percentage who spoke on the subject at home. Also, a greater number of high school students know the opinion of their family and receives a higher level of information. Based on these results, the second study has been aimed at checking the effectiveness of a training program in organ donation and transplantation in a sample of High School Students. Following a design pretest-postest with control group, the program has been organized into four sessions in which, according to previous studies, it has responded to the elements of the communication process and components cognitive, emotional and conativo of attitude and the decision-making process. Among the resources used video presentation highlighting the Show to donate, the participation of the Regional Coordinator of Transplants, the presence of a university student waiting for kidney transplants, while it has been promoted discussion on the topic. The post has proven a significant increase in the level of knowledge and self-perception in the latter (declining to turn the misguided beliefs), a greater willingness to donate organs themselves and a family died and an increase dialogue on family the issue in the experimental group, indicating the effectiveness of the intervention and its value if it were included in the training curriculum for the students.

Author: GOUVEIA PAZ JOSÉ MANUEL.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: This study visa understand the use of schedules cognitivo-comportamentales in 3 families primates: lemurs (Eulemur fulvus, Eulemur macaque) calitrícidos (saguinus midas, callithriz jacchus9e hilibátidos (Hylobates lar and Hylobates syndactylus). Conceptualization of the schemes was based on the studies of piaget. While cosideramos schemes visual approach and we have given prominence to the manipulatives. note as subjects wore objects, limbs, mouth, the types of schemes and simultaneity of mimes. was carried out in two phases: Base Line (with objects usually presetes); and Environment Powered (also with objects introduced). conclude that the subjects presetan operation gonitivo-comportamental autocentrado based mainly on primary schemes and the use of food items. With the empowerment of the environment notes qualitative changes in the complex. remain paramount Although the primary increased more schemes aimed at foreign (secondary and tertiary) and the use of objects no-alimenticios. preferences for certain types of objects were inconclusive. All Subjects schemes isolation and simultaneous. was felt that everyone can operate at the level of Venue 4. hands are more used to this that the mouth and feet, except hlobátidos where the feet are more ulitilizados the mouth. were the importance of linked hands with the vision and the use of mouth ocn the sistma olfactory. qu is suggested to develop a battery of assessment cognitivo-comportamental, example of what is being done in Psychology and Psychometrics Differential with humans, nature descriptive, taking into account the specific characteristics of each species and including dimensions as eto-ecología and anatomy, in a way that ensures greater validity when comparing species among themselves.

Author: GUIRADO MARTINEZ MARIA CARMEN.
Year: 2005.
University: JAUME I DE CASTELLON [www.uji.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.

Summary: Detecting problems eating behavior along the life cycle, ranging from 4 to 23 years. We chose this topic because the concern, to achieve the desired body has penetrated so irresistible and unstoppable especially in the ranks of the adolescent female population. Our goal is to make certain findings relating to the attitudes and behaviors of food risk to the possible development of eating disorders, in a broad population of schoolchildren and young people throughout the Community of Valencia. The sample consisted of a total of 2,755 subjects, with an age between 4 and 23 years. We use the CIACS (Information Questionnaire, attitudes and behaviors related to the Health), which consists of different versions depending on the age of implementation. Note the following results: Just 4-8 years, are starting to show behavior problems and food sexual differences. The age of 11 years as a key evolutionary moment where these behaviors hatch. About 15-18 years, it appears the greatest number of differences in terms of sexual behavior food. Existence of a complex behavioral pattern for the same goal: to be thin.

Author: DOMÍNGUEZ FUENTES JUAN MANUEL.
Year: 2005.
University: MÁLAGA [www.uma.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: This dissertation addresses the issue of current migratory movements incorporating a gender perspective. To this end, using a psychosocial approach can explain and analyze the characteristics of immigrant women in Malaga. The goals they seek to accomplish with this research are: 1-To analyze the characteristics of female immigration in our country, specifically in the city of Malaga. 2-To determine the importance of social networks in the process of adapting to the new social and cultural environment. 3-Studying the characteristics of integration and social exclusion among immigrant women. The study results show the importance of social networks (source, frequency and satisfaction of social support) in the process of adaptation and integration to the new social context. Similarly, it appears that social support is related to other variables, such as the study of happiness or personal well-being and quality of life.

Author: CALDERÓN GARCÍA-BOTEY NURIA.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The processes of crisis and resolution of ethnic identity are characteristic of adolescents, so that they reach their highest evolutionary stage reverses a positive factor in psychological well-being such as self-esteem and promotes social integration to enable prediction of isolation and loneliness. However, this construct has been little studied in the context Spanish, as the presence of different ethnic groups to blanco-europeo has not begun to be socially meaningful until immigration has settled on a stable in our country. Therefore, in order to know the factors that influence the development of ethnic identity as the impact of this on the psychological well-being and social integration of young people resident in Spain, were contrasted responses to various measures of ethnic identity, self-esteem and loneliness of a sample of N = 512 adolescent Latinos and blanco-europeos, aged between 12 and 18 years. In a manner consistent with the literature, there are differences in ethnicity, gender, but not between ethnic groups, which leads us to believe that in our country ethnic identity has not yet acquired the social relevance it has in others like the United States or Great Britain. By ethnic groups, ethnicity is a good predictor of self-esteem and loneliness social paralos blancos-europeos, but not for Latinos. However, the joint analysis of self-esteem and ethnic identity proves to be a better predictor of loneliness intimate paralos blanco-europeos, while for Latinos is better predictor of social loneliness, which leads us to conclude that recent youth variables affecting the the level of predictability of the model relates to aspects intrapersonal that in the case of adolescents blanco-europeos.

Author: GOICOECHEA FUENTES FELSIE E..
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.

Summary: At work addresses the various concepts related to human identity apara seconding the way we interpret what in contemporary philosophy was meant as a "narrative identity." Under this concept are combined and reconciled dimension unique and untransferable of subjectivity with historic dimensions / practices lag in the life of each human being, positioning ourselves therefore out of the discussion between fenomenismo and substancialismo, following the manner in which to address the problem of identity in the work of Paul Ricoeur. For him, the person is a living reality, linked to its own development center for auto creation, while remaining the same (Ipse) over life, can not be conceived as if she was the same thing (Id. ), since nothing is more evident that change and mutation. For gracious person, it is more appropriate to speak of ipseídad that identity. The human ipseidad play a decisive role conditions and social situations, lifestyles, how gracious education, religion, communication and other factors involved in man's relationship with his own world. To which devotes much of the thesis. From these assumptions and discusses its value factors are intervinieren in the comprehensive analysis of the population demabulante, especially in Puerto Rico. Theories have been used to help to strengthen the criteria for knowledge and understanding of the options and ways of life of these people, both in his personality and in their emotional life forms. As noted convulsions: the value of family environment, the role of education, training in coexistence. And as primary practical conclusion is drawn that the government and relevant agencies should focus on the institutions and policies of rehabilitation, to provide health care to addiction fundamental problems of deambulancia as Puerto Rican social phenomenon.

Author: CARVALHEIRA DOS SANTOS ANA ALEXANDRA.
Year: 2005.
University: SALAMANCA [www.usal.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA.

Summary: The Internet is a communication technology that is being used for a variety of purposes interpersonal and sexual. The overall objective of this paper is to analyze the communication services of the Internet as an area of interpersonal and social interaction: (1) verify the formation of relationships through the Internet to explore some aspects related to the onset and development of such relations; (2 ) to analyze the motivations underlying the expression and exploration sex on the Internet. This research was conducted entirely via the Internet, with a sample of 1266 users chat (50% female). The response rate was 39% (completed questionnaires). The study was conducted in four phases: (a) development of a self-report questionnaire and construction of a website and a database, (b) pilot study to verify the proper functioning of the whole system, (iii) development plan sampling and data collection, and (iv) review and discussion of the data. Our study shows that often happens the formation of relationships through the Internet and quite often those relationships are transferred to the context offline and integrated into the "real life" of the protagonists. The results showed that in the absence of physical interaction, the determinants of interpersonal attraction on the Internet are related to their personal interests and individual variables. The results reveal that the greater ease in the autorevelación over the Internet is due to the absence of social assessment. This research identifies a variety of contexts and motivations to get involved in cybersex or as a wide variability in sexual behavior. Several factors contribute to the potential of the Internet for sexual exploration: the role of anonymity, the chance to meet people with similar sexual interests and the immediacy of sexual satisfaction.

Author: EMA LÓPEZ JOSÉ ENRIQUE.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: This work is faced with questions about what is the political action and how it is carried out in our contemporary context. You are questions lead us to wonder who is the actor in the contemporary political action. The first section describes the viewpoint psychosocial postcontruiccionista where we are. Moreover, as the show has been termed as a crisis in social psychology is crossed by the same questions of modernity that are present in some of the uncertainties on the political action in our time (and affecting our ways of knowing and critic legitimization of our actions). In the second paragraph, upon recognition of the presence of the motivations ético-políticas appearing in front of the crisis in social psychology, presents our own theoretical proposal on political action. In the third paragraph (four chapters) is proposed: 1-A shift in priority by the subject to believe the action to the agency (without this movement involves abandoning the use of the category of subject, but tone down the look of absolute modern man). 2 - The presentation of four figurations on the agency (including the subject) and developing budgets "postconstruccionistas" that have been discussed above. The fourth and final chapter contains elements of the past will give way to an analytical gaze on political action and an attempt to partial response to some of the uncertainties that cross it in our contemporary context. This takes the concepts of hegemony and biopolítica and exemplify from work "Precarias to drift."

Author: MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ JOSÉ MIGUEL.
Year: 2006.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: Facultad de psicología..

Summary: This research falls in a theoretical model that appeared for years with some conceptual and empirical support. This is the model of social development, which considers it essential not only act eliminating risk factors, but also enhance those factors that make the bulk of the population do not consume toxic substances. These factors are called protective factors to the drug. The objectives of this investigation were several. First, it has sought to explore some risk factors as well as to combine and bring together the findings from previous work on protective factors. It has implemented a questionnaire on protective factors that we have been using in various studies for years. The aim in using the same questionnaire is added to the data obtained in previous studies, others to help us deepen on all protective factors studied so far. It is intended, therefore, to know the properties (reliability and validity) of the extent of the questionnaire, while analyzing distitnos protective factors for consumption across different contexts, people or drugs. Secondly, it has sought to know the behavior of these factors or variables protection when people are at greatest risk of social situations, in order to know the true extent of the protection. It has worked with two populations that seem to bear the heaviest burden of risk, they constituted by teenagers and young adults, since adolescence and the beginning of the youth are the stages of the life cycle with a higher risk for the start in consumption drugs. But above all, report that people in the sample had left the usual academic circuit. That is, students Schools Workshop, on the one hand, and Cycle Training Grades East / Social Guarantee Program, on the other. And lastly, it has sought to explore the importance or protection against drug use, the perception of danger that people have on the consumption of these, the group identity and resilience. The work is divided into two studies, each corresponding to the research to be conducted with each of these two populations. On a more specific with the first study, conducted with students in schools workshop is pursuing the following objectives: 1Â °) to study the psychometric properties of the questionnaire was applied to the study of protective factors; 2Â °) study descriptivamene drug law and illegal in this population, as well as the age when they are consumed for the first time; 3Âş) know whether factors selected protect adolescents at risk to both legal and illegal drugs; 4Â °) to study the relationship with the consumption of variables such as age, gender, type of psychoactive substances, consumption of illegal drugs by friends and availability of money; 5Â °) study in people who carry a high burden of risk for consumption if protective factors selected operating under the mechanism riesgo-protección; 6Â °) know the predictive ability of both the consumption of non-consumption of some of the variables studied. In seguno study with alumnaodo Cycle Training Grades East / social Assurance Program, the specific objectives were: 1Â °) to study the incidence of consumption of licit and illicit drugs in this population, as well as the age at which the first time was consumed; 2Â °) to study the relationship with drug use variables such as age, gender, type of study, alcohol consumption and snuff of the parents, use of illegal drugs by friends and availability of money 3Âş) to study the properties of the questionnaire on the extent of protection provided; 4Â °) study whether factors selected protect participants at risk to both legal and illegal drugs; 5 8 Â °) stud 1126 iar if protective factors studied under the operating mechanism riesgo-protección people who theoretically bear a high burden of risk; 6Â °) consider whether some beliefs may constitute social representations of the drug in this age group, as well as the quality of the measure used for the measurement those organizations; 7Â °) consider whether protective factors have any reference to the social representations and, if so, what form it; 8Â °) studying the perception of risk associated with drug use, and their relationship with social representations and the degree of protection; 9Â °) study awareness of availability or facility for the purchase of drugs for people in the sample; 10Â °) to study the degree to which the participants are identified with people who use drugs and variables that influence this process; 11Â °) study group identity in relation to drug use as a variable that can influence the facilitation experimental drug, and 12Â °) know the predictive ability of both consumption and the consumption of some not the variables studied. The sample consisted of 241 students from schools workshop Granada province, and 217 students who pursue their studies at some Cycle Training Grades East Warranty Program or Social institutes in the city of Granada. Altogether, the sample is composed of 458 people. It has used a quasi-experimental methodology, it materialized in designs unifactoriales between groups for greater pate of the tests carried out, aimed focused on understanding the variations of protective factors depending on different variables. For the analysis of the data used distitnos contrasts mean differences on using for this purpose the statistical 't-Student' and establishing a significance level of 0.05. Likewise, also apply regression techniques to investigate the predictive ability of some of the variables studied on dististintos criteria and, in addition, analysis of variance for non-randomized group. The analysis is performed through SPSS 12.0. We believe that the results replied to almost all the proposed objectives, which has revealed the incidence of consumption of licit and illicit drugs in this population, and noted the relevance of certain risk factors, protection and the relationship between them aspetos as important as the identity group, respresentaciones social and resilience. It has been seen that some protective factors are more relevanes others depending on the population and the type of drug. It has been corroborated the weight of some variables as facilitators at the beginning drug use. We were able to go a step further by identifying the content of the social representations clearly significant among adolescents and young adults in our midst. It has seen some variables predict drug while others predien not consumption. Overall, the results not only support the essential principles for the most relevanes but have also deepened on less studied so far. The results of this research provide information relevant to understanding the phenomenon of drug addiction, the social as well as individual variables that arbitrates its genesis and above all, better known variables protection, and social representations risk for the development of programs prevention is more in line with the characteristics of our immediate surroundings.

Author: ANGOSTO ALCÓN JOSEFA MARÍA.
Year: 2006.
University: MURCIA [www.um.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The main purpose of this research is to expand knowledge of the subject biased. It identified two research goals with a common reference theoretical model, proposed by Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) as a combination of two kinds of prejudice, clear and subtle. Both analyzed from a research methodology applied to categorical data. The first objective is to study the background allowing categorize a particular subject in one of the three modalities of this type, through a multinomial logistic regression model. Thus was obtained greater similarity between subtle and fans hallándose greater distance between the first and egalitarian. To that end, we selected as potential variable background of the four subscales Autoestima Collective (Luhtanen and Crocker, 1992), the four subscales of Social Dominance (Pratto, Sidanius et al., 1994), the perception of similarity Intergrupal (adapted from Zagefka and Brown, 2002) and exogrupo of reference when making judgments (gypsies, North Africans and South Americans). Indeed, the similarities between subtle and fanatics are determined over a high degree of social dominance, a low level of similarity intergrupal and higher levels of perceived bias towards the exogrupos gypsy and Maghreb. However, the first show a lower level of support for the status quo and the obligation of equal treatment, along with a lesser degree of identity endogrupal. On the other hand, between subtle and peering only similarity was found in the degree of identity endogrupal found differences in the rest of the constructs. Thus, subjects were less subtle apparent similarity to the exogrupo and increased trend towards social dominance, the obligation to equal treatment and maintenance of the status quo on the other hand, they show greater bias towards exogrupos gypsy and the Maghreb, and minor towards the South American group. Referring to the second goal, discusses the preferences of each of the three modalities on the strategies chosen to represent during the inter-meeting, and the strategies adopted for the acculturation of exogrupo. Both are used as a method of analysis models loglineales general. The first part identified as relevant strategies for the representation of the recategorization, categorization crusade, subcategorización and descategorización coming respectively from the models Identity Common Endogrupal (Gaertner, Dovidio et al., 1993), Categorization Cross (Miller and Brewer, 1986), Differentiation Intergrupal Mutual (Hewstone and Brown, 1986) and Personalization (Brewer and Miller, 1984), introduced as an alternative to the denial front encounter with exogrupo. Initially, in order to achieve this goal, establishing a measure allowing categorical valuing the election of the members of each mode of the type of subjects. Thus, it was found that the subjects are represented subtle contact intergrupal from descategorización or subcategorización compared with fanatics who are in favor of not maintaining contact with the exogrupo and, if it did, since it represents the descategorización. For their part, peering choose recategorisation or categorization crusade. Finally, with respect to the strategies adopted by the majority society regarding the acculturation of the members of the minority exogrupos, identifies four possibilities arising from the Model Acculturation Counseling Berry (1974, 1980, 1984) in two areas. Such strategies could integration, assimilation, segregation and exclusion, referring to the dimensions and cultural contact. With regard to these elections is seen as subjects subtle show a preference similar to the egalitarian, introducing a tendency toward assimilation into the cultural dimension, as opposed to the integration relating to inter contact. Subjects fans prefer assimilation or exclusion in the field of culture and segregation or exc 8 lusión and 2ae No relation to contact with the exogrupo.