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Función simbólica mediante cuentos en adolescentes de un centro de rehabilitación juvenil(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018-02-28)To analyze how the symbolic function is expressed in adolescents held in a rehabilitation center in Lima, from the elaboration of oral tradition stories. The participants were eight adolescents, to whom a semi-structured interview was applied. An oral tradition storytelling workshop was set up so that participants could create their own stories. Thus, the stories, interviews and guides to observe the behavior of the workshop represent sources of information that were triangulated to analyze the symbolic function in these adolescents.
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Autoestima y motivación en el uso de Facebook en adultos de 18 a 37 años de Lima Metropolitana(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018-03-09)Understand the relationship between self-esteem and Facebook usage motivation in adults from 18 to 37 years of Lima city. The sample consists of 200 participants, 66 men and 134 women aged between 18 to 37 (media = 27.9; DE = 4.044). They replied an online questionnaire about personal aspects of their life, completed the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (1965), and the Fu-Yuan Hong and Su-Lin Chiu Facebook usage motivation Scale (2014), all of them sent online through Typeform. The main finding of the study is that, depending on the participant’s age, the relationship between the level of self-esteem and other variable can change.
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Percepción de salud, emociones y afrontamiento en alumnos universitarios de primer ciclo de Psicología Tesis(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018-03-07)The main objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between the perception of health, coping styles and emotions in a sample of 107 undergraduates in the career of psychology at a private university in Lima. The sample consisted of 81 women and 22 men, aged between 15 and 23 years. The instruments used were the General Subjective Health Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Coping Questionnaire (COPE-52) and the Positive and Negative Experience Scale (SPANE), as well as the Life Habits questionnaire and the Sociodemographic Record. In a correlational descriptive type design, data analysis were carried out on the mentioned variables. The results showed that the perception of health has a significant relationship with positive emotions and inversely with negative emotions, but has no significant relationship with any of the coping styles. In addition, coping focused on the problem has a significant relationship with coping centered on emotion, with other coping styles, with positive emotions and, inversely, with negative emotions. In turn, it has been observed that coping focused on emotion has a significant relationship with other coping styles, and positive emotions showed a significant relationship with negative emotions.
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Jerarquía de valores entre estudiantes de secundaria de colegio religioso y colegio laico de Lima(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018-01-23)La presente investigación tiene como objetivo comparar los tipos de jerarquía de valores entre estudiantes de secundaria de un colegio religioso y de un colegio laico de Lima. La muestra estuvo conformada por 250 alumnos de ambos sexos: mujeres (39.6%) y varones (60.4%) de secundaria, de los cuales el 52% pertenecía al colegio religioso y el 48% restante pertenecía al colegio laico. Las edades correspondientes se encuentran en el rango de 14 a 17 años, con una edad promedio de 15.47 años (DE = 0.63). El instrumento utilizado para la realización de la investigación fue el Cuestionario de Valores de Schwartz (2001). Se realizaron los análisis de validez de constructo y confiabilidad interna de la prueba. Para analizar la comparación entre ambas jerarquías se utilizó el estadístico de correlación de Spearman. Los resultados determinaron que no existen diferencias significativas en los tipos de valores entre los estudiantes pertenecientes a los colegios religioso y laico.
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Relación entre satisfacción de autonomía y competencia con Burnout en colaboradores de Lima(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-12-01)The objetive supports in establishing a relation between autonomy support and perceived competence with 'burnout', researched within 174 employees from diverse firms throughout the city of Lima. The hypothesis defines the proposition that more autonomy support and perceived competence produce a minor level of 'burnout'. The data consists in proper psychometric properties obtained in terms of reliability and validity, and relevant and negative correlations between autonomy support with depersonalization and emotional exhaustion, and between perceived competence with depersonalization. Plus, it was identified significant and positive correlation between autonomy support with perceived competence and self-actualization.
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Relación entre la flexibilidad cognitiva, la personalidad proactiva y la satisfacción laboral en colaboradores de empresas por proyectos de Lima Metropolitana(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-11-15)This research seeks to explore the relationships between the variables of job satisfaction, proactive personality and the cognitive flexibility of the workers of a company for projects in Metropolitan Lima, with the aim of seeing if there is one if one of them is mediated by the other in pro to find out if a profile model can be raised within an organization. A sample of 250 collaborators working in Lima was used. The results indicate that there are significant correlations between some aspects of the proposed variables; however, none is so strong or solid as to guarantee that they predict one another. It is important to continue the research around it, as it is clear that such personal characteristics as flexibility are not decisive for the management in this type of organizations and population so critical and priority for the economy of the country.
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Resiliencia y satisfacción con la vida en adultos mayores que asisten a CAM’s en Lima Metropolitana(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-11-24)Describe the relationship between resilience and satisfaction with life in older adults who attend centers of the elderly people in Lima Metropolitan. The study was carried out in 151 older adults, men (N = 46) and women (N = 105), with ages ranging from 60 to 91 years old (M = 74.86) who attend 4 Centers for the elderly people. The instruments used to respond to the main objective were the scale of Resilience (CD-RISC) of Serrano, Garrido, Notary, Bartolomé, Solera and Martínez (2012); and the "Satisfaction with life"; scale of Martínez (2004). Among the results it was found a significant positive relationship between the factors of Resilience and the level of Satisfaction with life. This means that, the resilience promotes the perception of satisfaction with the life of the elderly people.
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Bienestar Psicológico y Budismo: Experiencias y significados en practicantes de Budismo en el Perú(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-12-14)This research aims to explore the experiences and meanings of psychological wellbeing in practitioners of the young division of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism in Perú. Participants, ten in total, 5 women and 5 men aged 20 to 32 years, were practitioners of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism residents in Lima City. Following a qualitative design, the conversational systems proposed by Gonzalez Rey (2006) was used as a tool to gather information. The research corroborates the six factors proposed by Ryff and Keyes (1995) to achieve wellness by all research participants’ experiences and meanings. Therefore, Buddhism is a mean or way by which participants have gone on to achieve psychological well-being or human revolution, a concept that came up in conversations with participants and is perceived as improving the quality of life and personal development of Buddhists. Finally, the importance of the community element for Buddhist practitioners was identified, being considered an essential factor to achieve psychological well-being.
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Red de soporte social y apoyo comunitario en miembros de organizaciones de desplazados por violencia política(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018-01-19)The present study’s aim was to determine the relationship between the social support network and the community support on members of organizations who have been displaced due to political violence. For that end, 80 people (61.3 % women) with an average age of 45.79 years old (D.E = 11.41) where selected to participate in the research. Most of them from Ayacucho who are now residents from Cañete. There where given the Questionnaire of Social Support Network, as well as the Community Perceived Support questionnaire. The first results revealed that the functions of the variable Social Support Network showed positive and statistically significant relationships with emotional support. Furthermore, they also demonstrate negative relationships and statistically significant to the size of the network. Moreover, integration and community participation component show a positive relationship, statistically significant to the cognitive guide, socialization and satisfaction, as well as a negative relationship and statistically significant to heterogeneity. Implications of the results obtained will be discussed along the present research.
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Regulación emocional y bienestar psicológico en voluntarios de establecimientos hospitalarios de Lima(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-10-06)The purpose of this descriptive correlational research was to analyze the relationship between Emotional Regulation and Psychological Wellbeing in volunteers from Lima hospitals, belonging to three different programs that provide these services. A total of 100 volunteers (77% female) between 18 and 63 years old (M = 29, SD = 10.48) were evaluated. They were applied the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire adapted for Peru ERQ-P (Gargurevich & Matos, 2010), and the Ryff Psychological Well-Being Scale (Díaz et al., 2006), respectively. The results found reflected negative and significant relationships between the Emotional Suppression dimension of the variable Emotional Regulation and the Personal Relations dimensions (r = -.55, p <.01), Autonomy / Personal Growth (r = -.55, p <.01), Domain of the Environment (r = -42, p <.01) and Purpose in Life (r = -23, p <.01) of the Psychological Welfare variable. While for the Cognitive Reevaluation dimension of the variable Emotional Regulation only a positive and significant relationship was found with Purpose in Life (r = .17, p <.01). It is concluded that in the sample of volunteers the suppression of emotions is associated with a lower perception of psychological well-being. The implications of the results are discussed.
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Relación entre solución de problemas, estilo atribucional y afecto en universitarios de Huancayo(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018-01-19)The main objective of this study is research the relationship of social problem-solving style (rational, impulsivity-carelessness and avoidance), the attributional style (optimistic and pessimistic) and affect (positive and negative) on a sample of 164 medicine undergraduate college students of a public university on Huancayo-Perú. The three instruments were used in peru, the Social Problem-Solving Inventory Revised Short Form (SPSI – R SF, Merino, 2012), the Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ CIDE-PERÚ, Vicuña, 2000) and the positive-negative affect scale (SPANAS, Gargurevich & Matos, 2010). The SPSI – R SF have to be modified in less factors than original test (from 4 to 5) because some items didn’t have good factorial loads. The scale of Positive Problem Orientation got merge with the Rational Problem-Solving Style scale and some items were reassigned to other scales. The study found that there is significant positive correlation of impulsivity and avoidance problem solving style and negative affect. It was also found, sorting cases by attributional style shows differences in negative affect, negative problem orientation and impulsivity-carelessness style. Likewise, Positive and rational problem-solving style got a negative significant relationship with negative affect and a positive relationship with positive affect. Additionally, it was found that attributional style moderated the relationship between impulsivity problem solving style and negative affect.
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Relación entre los Lazos Parentales de la infancia y la Satisfacción de las Necesidades Psicológicas Básicas en un grupo de estudiantes de Psicología de una universidad privada de Lima Metropolitana(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-08)The relationship between parental bonds of childhood and satisfaction of basic psychological needs was studied in a sample of 153 psychology students at a university in Lima. To reach the aim of this study were administrated the Basic Psychological Needs in General Questionnaire (Deci & Ryan, 2000 in Chen et al., 2015) and the Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker, Tupling & Brown, 1979 Gómez , Vallejo, Villada , & Zambrano , 2009) were administered. Both showed optimal psychometric properties (construct validity and reliability). Results also showed significant positive correlations between the Maternal Care and satisfaction of three basic and significant positive correlations between the Parental Care and satisfying the need for competition psychological needs. Also were showed significant negative correlations between Maternal Overprotection and satisfying the autonomy and relationship needs and significant negative correlations between the Parental Overprotection and the three basic psychological needs. These results suggest that the hypothesis is partially accepted.
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Diferencia entre la satisfacción laboral y el compromiso organizacional en trabajadores limeños de empresas privadas dependiendo el tipo de contrato(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-12-07)The present research compares job satisfaction and organizational commitment depending on the contractual modality of the sample; which is composed of ninety-six (96) workers living in the city of Lima. The male sex represents forty-eight (48) percent of the sample, while the female represents fifty-two (52) percent. Fifty (50) percent has a fixed term work contract and the other (50) percent has an indefinite work contract. The questionnaires used in this reseach are: The job satisfaction questionnaire S21 / 26 by Meliá (1990) and the organizational commitment scale by Meyer and Allen (1997). The result of this reseach find no differences in the scale of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in empleyees with fixed term contract and indefinite work contract, motivating companies to continue with a more flexible type of contract. Key words: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, work contract.
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Efecto de un programa de mindfulness en la reducción de la ansiedad precompetitiva en deportistas de artes marciales(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-12-07)The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of an intervention program with mindfulness component for the reduction of precompetitive anxiety, which was adapted from programs that have demonstrated its effectiveness. The intervention consisted of 12 sessions of 1 hour duration. Participated in the study 33 martial sportsmen (M = 18.97 years, SD = 1.64, 69.7% men). Pre-competitive anxiety was evaluated with the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory -2 (CSAI-2R, Cox, Martens and Rusell, 2003), before and after the intervention period. According to the degree of participation in the intervention, the sample was divided into 2 groups: Control Group (CG, n = 16) and Experimental Group (SG, n = 17). The results showed significant differences and with large effect sizes in the posttest measurement of the EG, revealing a decrease in the levels of somatic, cognitive anxiety and an increase in the levels of self-confidence. While, in the CG, no significant differences were obtained and the effect sizes were irrelevant.
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Estudio psicométrico de la Escala de actitudes hacia el amor en universitarios de Lima(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-06-06)The aim of this article was to analyze the construct validity and reliability of the Love Attitude Scale (LAS, Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986). The sample consisted of 381 undergraduate students (61.7 % of them women) between the ages of 17 and 25 years old. We applied the LAS and the I- PANAS - SF (adapted by Gargurevich, 2010) that evaluates positive and negative affect. The exploratory factor analysis resulted in six factors (Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania and Ágape), that explained 47.87 % of the total variance. The correlations between the score of Eros and Pragma styles and positive affect were positive and significant; while Manía and Ludus styles had positive and significant relationships with negative affect. Reliability by the method of internal consistency of the six factors found were from .62 to .85; while the stability coefficients for test- retest method were .44 to .77. These results allow us to conclude that the LAS and their scores are valid and reliable to measure attitudes toward love in the college population of Lima.
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Control psicológico y soledad en adolescentes entre 12 y 17 años de Lima(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-09-15)It was studied the relationship between psychological control and loneliness in adolescents from 12 to 17 years from two private schools in Lima. Likewise, the Psychological Control Scale Dependency oriented and Achievement oriented (DAPCS) and the Children and Adolescence Loneliness Scale (LACA) were administered to a sample of 242 participants. It was found that the dimensions of loneliness in relation to the pairs and loneliness in relation to the parents presented highly significant correlations with the variable of psychological control. In the first dimension of loneliness the correlations were positive and, in the second, negative. On the other hand, the dimension of affinity to loneliness was related in a positive and significant way only with the psychological control in relation to the father; While the dimension of aversion to loneliness was only positively and significantly related to psychological control in relation to the mother.
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Resiliencia y Autoconcepto Personal en indultados por terrorismo y traición a la patria residentes en Lima(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-09-25)The aim of this study is to describe the relationship between resilience and personal self-concept in pardoned for the crimes of terrorism and treason, which are part of the population affected by political violence in Peru. The sample consist of 34 pardoned and they completed the Resilience Scale (ER) and Personal Self-Concept Questionnaire (APE). The results show a positive moderated correlation between resilience and the component Self-realization and Integrity of personal self-concept was found (r = .657, p < .001).
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Religiosidad y depresión en adultos mayores institucionalizados de Lima Metropolitana(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-09-14)The main objective of the study was to know the relationship between religiosity and depression in the elderly living in old age homes in Lima Metropolitana. The sample consisted of 150 older adults, 88 women and 62 men; age range of the individual was 65 to 90 years (average of 77.84 years) from Peru. Participantes were assessed with Age universal I-E 12 (Simkim & Etchezahar, 2013) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) (Gómez-Angulo & Campo-Arias, 2011). The results revealed that the Social Religious Orientation has a weak and significant correlation with Depression, while Personal Religious Orientation has no significant correlation with Depression; thus resorting in rejecting the hypothesis raised. Likewise, results of the correlations between the variables according to the socio-demographic record were obtained. Implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.
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Propiedades psicométricas del test de conceptos básicos BOEHM-3 en Lima Metropolitana(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-07-02)The main objective of this thesis was analyze the psychometric properties of Test of basic concepts Boehm-3 in a sample of 350 kids of first and second grade of primary of Fe y Alegria in Lima Metropolitana. This investigation has diversity statistical analysis like validity related to the content, related to the internal structure of the punctuations and related to other variables and analysis of reliability, difficulty and discrimination were done. Likewise, a scale was elaborated for the sample. The results show reliability on the punctuations and sufficient validity, which indicates that the adaptation can be use in the education area for teacher and future investigations. The result indicates an Aiken’s V coefficient between .9 and 1 that evidences validity related with the content. Moreover, a mid-validity related to other variables has a Kendall’s Tau-b coefficient of .467; validity related with the internal structure show only 1 common factor with a 18.65% of explanation variance with the Hull method. Finally, a good reliability can be seen in the investigation with a .84 Alfa Cronbach coefficient.
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Relación entre motivación de logro y empatía en alumnos de psicología en una universidad, Lima-Perú.(Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017-04-21)This study presents the relationship between Achievement Motivation and Empathy in a sample of 171 psychology students at a private university in Lima, 130 women (76%) and 41 men (24%) aged between 18 and 27 years (M = 21.12). To achieve the goal of this correlational study, the Achievement Motivation Scale Modified (Manassero & Vázquez, 1998) and the Index of Interpersonal Reactivity of Davis (1983) were applied. Both instruments showed good psychometric properties (construct validity and reliability). The results showed a positive, weak and statistically significant correlation between the total score of Achievement Motivation and Interpersonal Reactivity Index, as between two subscales of achievement motivation (Influence of the Companions, Requirement to academic success), total Achievement Motivation subscale empathy and perspective taking. These results are in accordance with the hypothesis of this study.
