Psicogente

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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.

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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.

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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.