This article presents an instrument to evaluate productive or creative writing at school. The author asumes Vigotsky’s theory about the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) in order to develope metathinking with tasks of productive and creative writings.

This article presents an instrument to evaluate productive or creative writing at school. The author asumes Vigotsky’s theory about the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) in order to develope metathinking with tasks of productive and creative writings.

El objetivo de la investigación fue determinar el grado de correlación entre el desarrollo pragmático del lenguaje oral y la producción de textos escritos, de tipo descriptivo y narrativo, en estudiantes que cursan quinto y sexto grado de primaria de centros escolares nacionales de Lima cercado. El estudio fue de tipo Descriptivo con Diseño Transversal – Correlacional. La muestra estuvo constituida por 513 estudiantes de 5º y 6º de primaria la cual fue seleccionada mediante un muestreo polietápico intencionado. Se administró la sección Pragmática de la Batería del Lenguaje Objetiva y Criterial – Screening (BLOC-S), adaptada a Lima, y el Test de Producción de Texto Escrito (TEPTE), de procedencia peruana y tipificada en una muestra de escolares de Lima cercado clasificados por grados. Se concluye la existencia de una correlación estadística significativa entre desarroll...

The present paper had the purpose of exploring test anxiety reactions in students of the CEPRE-UNMSM 2012 - I Cycle. The instrument used to gather the data was the Test Anxie- ty Inventory (Bauermeister, Collazo & Spielberger, 1982) that evaluates emotionality and preoccupation factors. The population was constituted by 800 students using an intentional non-probability sampling. The results indicate that 27% of the students present a high level of test anxiety, whereas 33.38% of the students have a low level test anxiety and 39.63%, a moderate level. In addition to that, regarding the gender, female students had a higher level of anxiety (17,13%) over male students (9,88%). Moreover, there was higher anxiety level in candidates of the following careers: Medicine, Law and Management.

The present paper had the purpose of exploring test anxiety reactions in students of the CEPRE-UNMSM 2012 - I Cycle. The instrument used to gather the data was the Test Anxie- ty Inventory (Bauermeister, Collazo & Spielberger, 1982) that evaluates emotionality and preoccupation factors. The population was constituted by 800 students using an intentional non-probability sampling. The results indicate that 27% of the students present a high level of test anxiety, whereas 33.38% of the students have a low level test anxiety and 39.63%, a moderate level. In addition to that, regarding the gender, female students had a higher level of anxiety (17,13%) over male students (9,88%). Moreover, there was higher anxiety level in candidates of the following careers: Medicine, Law and Management.

This research examines the relationships between peer aggression (bullying) and psychological well-being in students from different professional areas of San Marcos University: Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Basic Sciences, Engineering and Economic Enterprise. To do this, Scale Peer Violence relates to Espelage (attitude toward violence, prosocial behavior, aggressive behavior and cyberbullying) with Scale of Ryff Psychological Well-Being (positive relationships, autonomy, mastery of environment, personal growth and purpose in life). The study is descriptive-correlational, using an non-probability sampling of the population considered. Instruments mentioned were psychometrically analyzed to fit our reality. As a result it was found that supportive behaviors are linked to the acceptance of itself, use skills and clarity of personal goals; on the contrary, the favorable atti...

La presente investigación examina las relaciones entre la agresión entre pares (bullying) y el bienestar psicológico, en estudiantes de las diferentes áreas profesionales de la Universidadde San Marcos: Ciencias de la Salud, Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales, Ciencias Básicas, Ingenierías y Económica Empresarial. Para ello, se relaciona la Escala de Violencia entre Pares de Espelage (actitud hacia la violencia, conductas prosociales, conducta agresiva y ciberacoso) con la Escala de Bienestar Psicológico de Ryff (relaciones positivas, autonomía, dominio de entorno, crecimiento personal y propósito en la vida). El estudio es de tipo descriptivo-correlacional, utilizando un muestreo no probabilístico de la población considerada.Los instrumentos en mención fueron analizados psicométricamente para adaptarlos a nuestra realidad. Como resultados se encontró que las conductas solidar...

The main objective of this research was to establish if it existed or no relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self-concept on high school students from Metropolitan Lima. For this effect, at the beginning, it is tested to 601 high school students, female, and male, with ages between 15 and 18 years old, they were studying at the 5th grade of High School, and they had came from eight state educational institutions from Metropolitan Lima to whom were tested with Emotional Intelligence Inventory proposed by Bar On and Selfconcept Assessment test, proposed by Musitu, García & Gutiérrez. The exclusion criterion for two tests determined a final sample of 203 High School students. The results showed a positive correlation between Emotional Intelligence and Self-concept, a relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Social and Emotional clusters of Self-concept was found too...

The main objective of this research was to establish if it existed or no relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self-concept on high school students from Metropolitan Lima. For this effect, at the beginning, it is tested to 601 high school students, female, and male, with ages between 15 and 18 years old, they were studying at the 5th grade of High School, and they had came from eight state educational institutions from Metropolitan Lima to whom were tested with Emotional Intelligence Inventory proposed by Bar On and Selfconcept Assessment test, proposed by Musitu, García & Gutiérrez. The exclusion criterion for two tests determined a final sample of 203 High School students. The results showed a positive correlation between Emotional Intelligence and Self-concept, a relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Social and Emotional clusters of Self-concept was found too...

This communication reports the adaptation and relationship between the scale of organizational climate and sensitivity to criticism on 338 students of undergraduate, of which 140 are male and 198 female of the faculty of psychology of public university of Lima. Organizational climate scale was finally restructured into four factors: a) factor 1: negative attitude towards the organization (19 items), b) factor 2: quality of work (8 items), c) factor 3: institutional image (4 items), and d) factor 4: competition authority (6 items); while the scale of sensitivity to criticism maintained its very structure. The results arrogated the lack of relationship between organizational climate and sensitivity to criticism, in the same way sex and age does not make a difference with these.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder, whose prevalence has increased in recent years, showing in some cases deficits in the cognitive area, with processing speed (PS) being one of the affected variables. Therefore, the present study aims to: 1) compare the scores obtained in relation to the PS variable between students aged 6 to 11 with ASD and their peers with neurotypical development in Metropolitan Lima; and 2) establish the PS profile of the included students with ASD. For this, 30 children aged 6 to 11 attending to regular basic education institutions (RBE) in Metropolitan Lima were sampled, 15 with neurotypical development and 15 included with ASD. For the first objective, a case-control design (CCD) was used, while the second objective was a selective non-probabilistic cross-sectional design. Results showed a lower performance by the group wit...