In this research infant depression is studied in relation with life quality (instead of family atmosphere), in students with low school achievement in a sample of 372 of both genders, using the de Depression Questionnaire for children by Lang e Ysher; and the Test of Life Quality from Olson and Barnes, finding higher levels of depression in the students with more affectivity, low self-esteem and difficulty ill social interaction.

It presents a report on a research with a sample of 123 adolescent mothers from different hospitalary institutions of Lima. It assesses the relation degrees between life style, familiar communication and the adolescent mother condition variables.

The relation between the Resources of facing and the strategies of facing to stress in 546 educational ones of state educative centers of Lima Metropolitan of the three levels of education studies: Initial, Primary and Secondary. The used design is descriptive the comparative one and corelational and the applied instruments are: The Inventory of Resources of facing of Harnmer and Marting, and the Questionnaire of Ways of facing to the stress elaborated by Carver and adapted by Casuso in 1996. The results demonstrate to us that a greater predominance of the evaluated cognitivos resources in all the educational ones exists. As far as the facing strategies, the educational ones of Primary Initial and prefer to use like the planning, positive reinterpretacion and growth and to go to the religion; whereas those of Secondary prefer to use the strategies of active facing, planning, positive rei...

OBJECTIVES: To need interaction between the Perception the Labor Social Climate and the Perception of the personal efficiency in the professionals of the health. DESIGN: He is descriptive, comparative and corelational, of charater analytic in which it treated to determine the prevalence and distribution of professional wearing down in the professionals of the health. MATERIAL AND MÉTODOS: It is conformed by 93 professionals of the health of publics hospitable centers between social doctors, nurses, obstetrics, psychologists, workers and technologies doctors. For evaluation of the variables the Climate Scale elaborated by Rudolf Moos and Bernice Moos, and the Inventory of .Burnout. Were used Labor Social elaborated by Cristina Maslach and Susan Jackson.

En esta investigación se estudia la depresión infantil en relación con la calidad de vida (en vez de atmósfera familiar) de alumnos de bajo rendimiento escolar en una muestra de 372 escolares de ambos sexos, utilizando el Cuestionario de Depresión para niños de Lang e Ysher; y la Prueba de Calidad de vida de Ohon y Bames, observando en aquellos alumnos un mayor nivel de depresión, mayor afectividad, baja autoestima y dificultad en su interacción social.

Se presenta un informe sobre una investigación con una muestra de 123 madres adolescentes de diversas instituciones hospitalarias estatales de Lima para evaluar el grado de relación entre las variables calidad de vida. Comunicación familiar y la condición de madre adolescente.

Se estudia la relación entre los Recursos de afrontamiento y las estrategias de afrontamiento al estrés en 546 docentes de centros educativos estatales de Lima Metropolitana de los tres niveles de enseñanza: Inicial, Primaria y Secundaria. El diseño utilizado es el descriptivo comparativo y correlacional y los instrumentos aplicados son: El Inventario de Recursos de Afrontamiento de Hammer y Marting, y el Cuestionario de Modos de afrontamiento al estrés elaborado por Carver y adaptado por Casuso en 1996. Los resultados nos demuestran que existe un mayor predominio de los recursos cognitivos en todos los docentes evaluados. En cuanto a las estrategias de afrontamiento, los docentes de Inicial y Primaria prefieren utilizar como la planificación, reinterpretación positiva y crecimiento y acudir a la religión; mientras que los de Secundaria prefieren utilizar las estrategias de afron...

OBJETIVOS: Precisar la interacción entre la Percepción del Clima Social Laboral y la Percepción de la eficiencia personal en los profesionales de la salud. DISEÑO: Es descriptivo, comparativo y correlacional, de carácter analítico en la cual se trató de determinar la prevalencia y distribución de desgaste profesional en los profesionales de la salud. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Está conformada por 93 profesionales de la salud de centros hospitalarios públicos entre médicos, enfermeras, obstetrices, psicólogos, trabajadores sociales y tecnólogos médicos. Para la evaluación de las variables se utilizaron La Escala de Clima Social Laboral elaborado por Rudolf Moos y Bernice Moos, y el Inventario de Burnout elaborado por Cristina Maslach y Susan Jackson.

This study explorer the problem of the sexual abuse in 391 scholars of sex both, proceeding of centers state educative of primary level, of socioeconomic stratum short and of wich ages to fluctuate between the 7 or 14 ages. Initialy be constructed a questionary of 32 items and chip sociodemographic for to determínate the characterístics of the sample. Be to find different significative in function to sex the boys to considerate ages of rísk or abuse sex between 3 or 5 ages, and the girls the ages of 8 or 11 ages. Existence greaters fears and preocupaty in the girls of to be victims and elk cualquier sex persecute preference communicative or the mother before who or the father. In general the childs to present or high assessment and to estímate toward your body.

Se ha explorado el problema del abuso sexual en 391 escolares de ambos sexos, provenientes de centros educativos estatales de nivel primario, de estrato socioeconómico bajo y cuyas edades fluctúan entre los 07 a 14 años. Inicialmente se construyo un cuestionario de 32 ítems y una ficha sociodemográfica para determinar las características de la muestra. Se encuentran diferencias significativas en función al sexo, los niños consideran edades de riesgo al abuso sexual entre 03 a 05 años, y las niñas las edades de 08 a 11 años. Existen mayores temores y preocupaciones en las niñas de ser víctimas y ante cualquier acoso sexual prefieren comunicárselo a la madre antes que al padre. En general los menores presentan una alta valoración y estima hacia su cuerpo.

The present study aims to analyze the methodology of teaching the subject of Epistemology in a doctoral program in Education, using an educational method based on action research. It constitutes an exploratory research, of mixed approach, fundamentally qualitative with phenomenological and hermeneutic orientation, it is of an applicative level, quasi-experimental type, to the extent that a program based on the action-research methodology is applied, and on the other hand it is quantitative to the extent that a test that evaluates critical thinking at the beginning and at the end of the development of the subject was applied. It was tried to demonstrate that such methodological procedure favors the change of disposition towards critical thinking of doctoral students, since it develops more confidence in reason, demonstrating a mental amplitude and curiosity a...

The present study aims to analyze the methodology of teaching the subject of Epistemology in a doctoral program in Education, using an educational method based on action research. It constitutes an exploratory research, of mixed approach, fundamentally qualitative with phenomenological and hermeneutic orientation, it is of an applicative level, quasi-experimental type, to the extent that a program based on the action-research methodology is applied, and on the other hand it is quantitative to the extent that a test that evaluates critical thinking at the beginning and at the end of the development of the subject was applied. It was tried to demonstrate that such methodological procedure favors the change of disposition towards critical thinking of doctoral students, since it develops more confidence in reason, demonstrating a mental amplitude and curiosity a...

It is analized the psychometric properties of Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices. The participants were 501 Freshmen students of 5 professional careers of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (U.N.M.S.M.), a public university located at Lima, Perú. The reliability analysis shows that the test is reliable. Also, the construct validity analysis meets the requirements of test making. The norms were elaborated considering the professional careers of the U.N.M.SM. students. It was find statistical differences on general intelligence scores, showing higher scores students of career “B” than students of “A “, “C “, “D” and “E” careers; also, students from career “C” showed higher scores than students from “A” and “E” career paths; finally, students from professional career“D” have had higher scores than students of “A“ and “E” careers. I...

It was made a psychometric study of Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices Test, which is a non verbal instrument that evaluates abilities related to make comparisons, thinking for analogy and spatial perceptions organization. It was designed mainly as a measure of factor "g" of Spearman or general intelligence, composed by two abilities, named educational and reproductive. The participants were 2496 students obtained at random considering all school districts (USE) of the city of Lima, Peru. They were primary level students, from 1º to 6º grade and 6 to 11 years old. The psychometric analysis shows that the item-test relation is up to norms (>0.20), so reliability was attained. Also the factor analysis of the items comes up whith one factor explainig the 76% of variance, so construct validity was obtained. Also the calification norms was obtained. The analysis of results points out th...

It is analized the psychometric properties of Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices. The participants were 501 Freshmen students of 5 professional careers of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (U.N.M.S.M.), a public university located at Lima, Perú. The reliability analysis shows that the test is reliable. Also, the construct validity analysis meets the requirements of test making. The norms were elaborated considering the professional careers of the U.N.M.SM. students. It was find statistical differences on general intelligence scores, showing higher scores students of career “B” than students of “A “, “C “, “D” and “E” careers; also, students from career “C” showed higher scores than students from “A” and “E” career paths; finally, students from professional career“D” have had higher scores than students of “A“ and “E” careers. I...

Se realizó el estudio psicométrico del Test de Matrices Progresivas de Raven a colores, que es un instrumento no verbal que evalúa la habilidad para hacer comparaciones, razonar por analogía y organizar percepciones espaciales dentro de un todo relacionado sistemáticamente, se diseñó principalmente como una medida de factor "g" de Spearman o inteligencia general, que está constituida por dos componentes identificados como habilidad educativa y habilidad reproductiva. Participaron en el estudio 2496 alumnos de las siete USEs de Lima Metropolitana que se encontraban cursando del 1ro al 6to grado de primaria, con edades entre los 6 y 11 años, seleccionados en base a un muestreo probabilístico bietápico. Los resultados del análisis psicométrico del test demuestran que el instrumento permite obtener puntajes confiables, a través del método de consistencia interna. Asimismo, el ...

It is analized the relationship between need for cognition and Kolb's learning styles theory, considering Freshmen students at a public university (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM). Participants were 489 students, chosen randomly from 19 Academic Schools or "Facultades". The results showed that students have high levels of need for cognition and that male students have the highest score. It was found that the learning style Divergent is the most frequent, while the style assimilator was the least frequent. The styles Convergent and Divergent are the most common among male and female students, respectively. Also, it was found that the measures of learning styles and need for cognition showed significative relationship. Active experimentation showed no signification relationship with need for cognition.

Se analizan las relaciones entre la necesidad cognitiva y los estilos de aprendizaje planteados por Kolb, teniendo en cuenta estudiantes del primer semestre de las diversas especialidades de la U.N.M.S.M. Los participantes corresponden a una muestra aleatoria de 489 alumnos, pertenecientes de manera representativa a las 19 Facultades de las 5 áreas de especialización. En relación a los resultados del estudio de la Necesidad Cognitiva se observó que los estudiantes presentan niveles altos de necesidad cognitiva, alcanzando puntajes más elevados los estudiantes varones.En relación a los Estilos de Aprendizaje, el estilo más frecuente en los alumnos es el Divergente y el menos frecuente es el Asimilador: En los varones predomina el estilo de aprendizaje Convergente y en las mujeres el estilo Divergente. Asimismo, se encontró que existen correlaciones significativas entre las medicio...

Objective: To acknowledge the possible presence of the "Burnout" syndrome caused by existential work stress in university professors group of a state university who belong to different career area.To find possible significant differences in the "Burnout" syndrome caused by existential work stress in different career area and according to the variable: sex, marital status, sport practice, health and teaching condition. Design: It is descriptive, comparative, correlational and analytic preformed on university proffesors distributed in 5 carrer area, in which an effort was mad to find the presence and implication of the "Burnout" syndrome.

Objective: To acknowledge the possible presence of the "Burnout" syndrome caused by existential work stress in university professors group of a state university who belong to different career area.To find possible significant differences in the "Burnout" syndrome caused by existential work stress in different career area and according to the variable: sex, marital status, sport practice, health and teaching condition. Design: It is descriptive, comparative, correlational and analytic preformed on university proffesors distributed in 5 carrer area, in which an effort was mad to find the presence and implication of the "Burnout" syndrome.