Psicogente

. 391-406.

Authors: YESIDETH MARÍA DE LA HOZ ECHEVERRÍA* CAMILO MADARIAGA OROZCO** MARCOS CERVANTES*

This research paper establishes the relation between the social capital and social insertion of the displaced population. 73 displaced people, distributed as follows: 61 women and 12 men living in Barranquilla and surrounding municipalities. The information was processed in the SPSS Version 18. In order to establish the correlation between social capital and insertion, the Pearson correlation coefficient was applied. The social capital showed that the displaced people or refugees (61,6 %) and other distrusting people (64,3 %) have confidence in their relatives and people nearby in the way that they have supportive ties with the community to cooperate in the achievement of common targets actively (52,1 %). As a result, the social networks showed that the displaced people come to their relatives, friends and neighbors mainly to obtain help (82 %). The Pearson correlation coefficient showed a significant interrelation between social capital and social insertion (r=0,299; p <0,05). In other words, a greatest social capital is the possibility of social insertion of the displaced population.

280-295.

Authors: VERÓNICA REYES PÉREZ* LUCY MARÍA REIDL MARTÍNEZ

Fear is an alarm sign, and its main function is to inform about a probable danger, in order to prepare the organism to cope with it in the best possible way. The purpose of this study showed in this research paper was to know the fears felt by 13 to 15 year old adolescents, if there were differences in the intensity felt between boys and girls, and the coping strategies used by them. Five types of fear were recovered from a factor analysis, that explained 34,92 % of variance, with a total reliability of ə = .870. Results indicate that girls feel more fear than boys, and the most frequently coping strategy used by both groups is to look for support, in comparison with avoidance/distraction and directed to solve the problem.

324-344.

Authors: DANIEL SERRANI AZCURRA

The aim of the study from which this research paper derives is to translate into Spanish and to validate the Self-Assessment Scale of Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Schizophrenia (SASCCS). A reverse translation was made from the original scale based on 5 factors (memory, attention, executive functions, language and practice) with 21 items and its psychometric properties were analyzed on 157 schizophrenic outpatients using factorial analysis that offered two scales with 5 and 6 factors, this last factor being the one which better adjusts. The factors were named semantic memory, working memory, difficulties in everyday life, metacognition, executive skills and distractibility. Convergent validity was assessed with several instruments that confirmed its reliability (Cronbach alpha coefficient= .89, intra-class correlation coefficient= .87). SCCS is a useful instrument to assess subjective cognitive complaints in schizophrenic patients, allowing them to express those cognitive matters that interfere with their quality of life.

356-367.

Authors: MARTHA MUÑOZ ARGEL* ALICIA URIBE URZOLA**

This research paper aims to identify life style based on specific practices and beliefs and to analyze the socio-economical stratum at a university level. The research design is transversal and descriptive and the tool used was the Practices and Beliefs About Life Style Questionnaire. The socioeconomical stratum was established through database entry and an enrollment category assigned by the university. For the sample 180 students were chosen through a random and systematic sampling method. The results show the prevalence of a healthy life style with discrepancies between practices and beliefs. In relation to the socio-economic stratum, differences were not showed.

379-390.

Authors: YULY SUÁREZ COLORADO* GUILLERMO CEBALLOS OSPINO** KELLY OBISPO SALAZAR

This paper aims to explore the research of the seedbed group, examining the imaginary concept students have in relation with the undergraduate training program at the university. Initially, the semantic universe on research seedbeds group is recognized through the technique of free association; after, these ones were evaluated through a structured interview in order to know the reasons why they can be assigned for seedbeds groups. Finally, based on students’ consideration; emotional skills, social and scientific competences were investigated, which every researcher must open in their field of exercise. In this research paper, 72 students from seedbeds group of Colombian public university participated. The results are presented under a descriptive - exploratory model and they include the approach of the complementarities.

424-438.

Authors: MARÍA F. CANTERO GARCÍA

The target of this reflection paper is to create a basis which allows us to confront death as a right and not as a judgment for the students. It is important to include the death education in the educational current system as transverse topic, in order to offer a response to the current speech of the basic competencies. From this, we are invited to prepare our pupils to solve their own problems in relation to different situations, such as how to be able to live and how to be able to adapt to the needs that the society suggests to us. In order to form, to prepare, to face, to investigate, to advise and to demythologize the fear of the death, for this and future generations, we tackle this taboo topic which today is the death education

451-470.

Authors: IBETH VILLANUEVA SARMIENTO

This paper reflects the results of the theoretical Project funded by Colciencias: “Psycho-legal points of view on incest in Caribbean region” is linked to the objective of this project, which is to identify risk factors related to the incest perpetrator and his family. With regards to the sex abuser’s profile, family and the child victim specifically, there were psychological consequences to the victim due to the sexual abuse. In most cases of children who have suffered sexual abuse during their childhood, the abuser is a family member or someone close to the family. Incest victims feel a disruption in their development in all areas of their lives: physical, emotional, cognitive and interpersonal.

. 84-102.

Authors: UBALDO RODRÍGUEZ DE ÁVILA* CARMELINA PABA BARBOSA

The purpose of this research is to identify the content and the meaning of social representation of the increasing environmental crisis and to determine the ranges of knowledge, attitude and perception of plans, programs, projects and education in environmental education, in students of high school and higher education of Santa Marta city, Colombia. The methodological is based on the proposed epistemology of the complementarily, uniting the descriptive analysis with the theory of facets. 292 fellows participated. It was found that the representations in environmental crisis are related to illnesses and con

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Authors: ERNESTO L. RAVELO C

This research paper has two purposes: a) To describe the demographic features, family history, social affective factors and academic performance in fourth-semester students enrolled in day and night courses in the department of Psychology at the university, in order to define the Psychology students’ profiles and b) To understand students’ relationships between demographic and social affective aspects compared with their academic performance. This research aims to establish the relationship between academic performance and students’ affective factors. There is no evidence of prior studies of these affective factors. A questionnaire about associated factors is designed and given to 122 fourth-semester students. The answers, factors, and indices are designed using statistical Winsteps and Rasch models in order to establish the relationship between factors and academic performance. AMOS, which allows the analysis of the relationship between factors and academic performance, is used as a tool to understand the impact of such relationships. The questionnaire given to the psychology students in this study supplied useful information using indices and factors to create psychology students’ profiles. The explanation of these factors about student performance is useful when the information is analyzed and takes into account sex and socio-economical levels, and not the whole group in general.

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Authors: JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ TOVAR* JESÚS ACEVEDO ALEMÁN

The aim of this research paper was to determine general predictive models of the quality of life and gender of children in the urban area of the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, México. The intentional sample consisted of 665 infants between the ages of 10 and 11 years old. We applied a self-questionnaire of life quality for children using images. The results indicate that the quality of life in men is a consequence of three predictors, family life, performance and divorce. The male model consists only of two predictors, performance and family life.

65-83.

Authors: MILLER FABIÁN RUIZ SUÁREZ* MÓNICA GARCÍA RUBIANO*

This research paper presents a study whose purpose is the linguistic adaptation and validation of the Colquitt Justice Organizational Questionnaire, which was created in The United States of America. The adaptation of the Colombian version of this questionaire went through two procedures, based on the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology (CASM), with the discretion of experts and cognitive interviews. This linguistic and cultural adaptation was made from a Chilean questionnaire version. The results, given by experts, were evaluated using Aiken’s coefficient V and at the same time, this information was confirmed using cognitive interviews given to 16 people. Finally, it was given to 127 workers whom belonged to five different national companies of different economic fields. The results show that in this sample, the definition of Organizational Justice, replicates a four-factor dimensionality in relation with the original proposal. Additionally, this version is reliable using 0,87 Cronbach Alfa.

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Authors: LEANDRO MARTÍN CASARI COBO* SUSANA BEATRIZ ALBANESI NASETTA** MARIANA PÍA MARISTANY**

This research paper aims to study the theoretical and technical influences on therapists backgrounds (PST) based on his/her own personal style, and also keeping in mind the common and particular features imposed in their tasks, beyond the scope of their work and the specific requirements they completed for their work. For this research, an PST-Q (Fernandez-Alvarez & Garcia, 1998) questionnaire is applied to a sample of 106 psychotherapists from Argentina. Significant differences in their personal style (PST) (between psychoanalytic therapists and psychologists with different theoretical orientation) are found. The results are analyzed and future aspects of research are created.

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Authors: MARÍA JOSÉ SÁNCHEZ VÁZQUEZ*

This research paper focuses on a process based on one side of a research process with humans and their ethical issues, and on the other side Psychology students’ (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) point of views, regarding the psychologist’s responsibility in performing a particular scientific research. A semi-structured and verbal interview using an exploratory design as a technique was conducted and some vignettes about dilemmas as well. Three main aspects were discussed: knowledge, information, expectations and meta-reflection. The interviews are conducted with key informants who agree on the need for the ethical education and concomitant responsibility for the professional performance of psychologists. The final purpose is to supply relevant information which allows designing curricular strategies for critical learning skills of the psychologist in the scientific research field. These ethical principles and rules encourage an attitude of care and prudential responsibility.

184-196

Authors: JUAN MANUEL SÁNCHEZ RAMOS

This research aims to illustrate, from a qualitative perspective, the effects of an educational program with regards to the family unit. Using data from the Day Centers of Attention to Minors in Risk of Social Exclusion, we will know the degree of relevancy of a pedagogic alternative that allows us to approach the familiar imbalances in order to avoid the separation of the minor of his natural context of development. Constituted as systemic resource, we will measure the convenience of the program that we investigate on the basis of the testimonies issued by 132 minors, 42 families, 13 technical personnel of the social services of primary care, and 16 teachers. The results show improvements in the familiar dynamics and they conclude, in the interest of the social agents for these programs, the adjustment of the parental functions, and the stimulation of mechanisms of participation and dialog.

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Authors: GERMÁN CABRERA GUTIÉRREZ*, JUAN CAMILO GONZÁLEZ** ADRIANA RUIZ GUTIÉRREZ***, ÁNGELA TORRES MUÑOZ***, NATALIA MATIZ ÁNGEL***, MARÍA ALEJANDRA GARZÓN

The purpose of the research is to identify the family structure where juvenile offenders of the community center, in the Armenia city - Quindío, belong to, in the span of time between 2008 and 2010. The sample is based on 18 young children. The evaluation tool used to collect data is the family APGAR. The population has a large single parent family type at 50% of the global cases, 44% of them are due to separation processes, where there is a degree of family dysfunction. The results demonstrate that a deficiency in the education of ethical values and moral judgments develops an inadequate perception of the socially-accepted behavior from the social criteria in regards to the established standards and laws in Colombia.