Claudia Estrada Goic

University of Magallanes | UMAG · Escuela de Psicología

This study investigates the relationship between ecological identity and various social and pro-environmental variables among the inhabitants of Southern Patagonia, comparing groups with internal (Chilote) and external (Croatian) migratory ancestry. A total of 212 individuals participated, selected based on their self-categorization as Magellanic,...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue conocer la progresión de la gestión emocional y su relación con los niveles de depresión y la actividad física en alumnos universitarios. En cuanto a los materiales y métodos utilizados en el estudio transversal con un diseño aleatorio, se consideró una muestra de noventa y siete estudiantes de medicina de la Un...

Este artículo revisa las propuestas conceptuales actuales que abordan la relación entre las personas y los espacios geográficos. Las propuestas desde la psicología ambiental tales como la identidad de lugar y el de apego al lugar resultan insuficientes para dar cuenta del fenómeno de identificación con territorios con los que no se interactúa direc...

The objective of this study is to analyse the role of a perceived value that may result from identification with the Antarctic region the identity that results from association with the Chilean claim to that territory, and adherence to various ecological beliefs that may bear on a perception of responsibility in the care and protection of Antarctic...

Physical activity can prevent many organic and mental pathologies. For people living in extreme southern high-latitude environments, weather conditions can affect these activities, altering their psychological well-being and favoring the prevalence of seasonal sensitivity (SS). This study aims to determine the relationships between the practice of...

The research is interested in both ecological and identity (social) variables involved in increasing environmental commitment to Antarctic care. Two studies with inhabitants of two cities in the extreme south, and another with a national sample from three different geographical areas (north, center and south) participated by answering a self-admini...

Resumen La investigación se interesa tanto en variables ecológicas como identitarias (sociales) que participan en el aumento del compromiso ambiental en el cuidado antártico. Dos estudios con habitantes del sur austral de dos ciudades, y otro con una muestra nacional de tres zonas geográficas diferentes (norte, centro y sur) participaron contestand...

Confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted lifestyles worldwide. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of confinement on anxiety symptoms and sleep quality in people living in extreme southern latitudes. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were administered to 617 people...

This study is intended to determine the frequency of seasonal sensitivity in a sample of a Chilean high latitude (extreme southerly) population, and its correlation with labor activities involved in several types of shift work, with variables of general adaptation. A total of 465 participants took part in answering questionnaires to measure seasona...

Being part of an ingroup in order to form a new class, and perceived conflict within the original affiliation. The working hypothesis is that there is a positive correlation between these variables. Two hundred and twenty-four volunteer participants responded to five questionnaires that measured the main variables of this study and supplied feedbac...

Objective: This study determines the relationship between the fatigue of adolescent swimmers in high-level competitions during two continuous periods of maximum performance and the degree that swimmers conform to norms during these periods. Methods: We evaluated the conformist trait and three areas of fatigue in two consecutive competitive periods,...

Background: There is no evidence for the association of depressive symptoms with the sense of well-being of undergraduate medical students residing in high southern latitudes (HSL). Aim: To assess the frequency of depressive symptoms and its relationship with seasonal sensitivity and quality of life in medical students residing in HSL. Material a...

Objetivo: determinar la existencia de una asociación entre el índice de masa corporal y la regulación cardiovascular en estudiantes de medicina. Materiales y métodos: estudio transversal con un diseño aleatorio. La muestra se compuso por 54 estudiantes de medicina (21,2 ± 1,6 años) evaluados y clasificados según el índice de masa corporal: normopes...

El secesionismo es un fenómeno poco estudiado por la psicología social y, desde otras disciplinas, el foco ha estado en sus consecuencias para la paz mundial. La secesión en psicología puede definirse como el proceso en el que un grupo con una identidad social determinada se separa de otro grupo supraordenado al que pertenece (e.g., grupo regional...

The study deals with the relationship among the knowledge about a territory that someone belongs to, from a sociopolitical perspective, the identity associated with the environmental aspects (Ecological regional identity), and socio-identity believe such as the regionalism and the essentialism. A total of 300 volunteers, who live in Austral Patagon...

The primary objective of the present research was to characterize the subjective well being of the southern Patagonia population. A group of 400 people constituted the no random auto selective sample part in this study. The non-experimental cross design used a self- apply questionary to measure the psychological, subjective well-being. The results...

This study is about the fear of flight, the danger expectations and the coping strategies that people say to use when flying on an airplane. A total of 287 participants, people from a graphically isolated zone that usually use planes, were measured according to the already mentioned variables. The sampling was not accidental probabilistic and the d...

This study focuses on the existing relation between perceptions of discrimination for performing non-traditional activities and the subjective psychological wellbeing levels. 81 volunteer women who exercise works, defined by themselves and by external judges as traditionally played by men, participated (aged between 18 to 52 years, with an average...

The essay tries to present some general ideas that allow the approach of the risk assessment in the investigations in Psychology and other similar disciplines that realize research through, in or with human participants. Legislation currently indicates that such research should be subject to ethical consideration by Scientific Ethics Committees (CE...

La presente investigación trata del efecto que la percepción de una relación de conflicto entre dos grupos (endogrupo y exogrupo), tiene sobre la adherencia a creencias esencialistas. La hipótesis es, entonces, que la percepción de un mayor nivel de conflicto entre el endogrupo y un exogrupo, tendrá como consecuencia el aumento en las creencias ese...

This study explored the effect of essentialist beliefs on the consensus process within a group. Essentialism is the belief in the existence of an essence that underlies a social category (Medin, 1989). Chilean (N = 164) and Belgian (N = 45) university students, selected through accidental sampling, participated in experiments on the search for cons...

The purpose of this research was to learn the way in which prejudice is shown towards individuals of native origin (Mapuche) in the Magellan region in Chile. The subtle and blatant prejudice scale by Pettigrew and Meertens (1995) was adapted as well as the experiment by Snyder, Kleck, Strenta and Mentzer (1979), and both were used to observe differ...

The present study deals with the causal relation among two processes associated to essentialism (believing in the existence of a common essence for the members of a group): social identification and similarity. By means of a cross-correlational study, 200 participants (non-random sampling) were measured on both variables and on essentialism (ingrou...

Aim. The present study covers the perception of the physical therapist unique knowledge and competence among the allied health care professionals. Subjects and methods. A total of 102 professionals participated related to the work of a therapist answering the questionnaire that covered all areas of specific skills and scope necessary at time of gra...

Quality of Life (QL) is a concept used by different disciplines. However, there is a variety of definitions of QL, which might lead to theoretical and applied problems. The present work argues that a way to attend to this problem is by assessing a model of quality of life that arises from the simultaneous application of instruments traditionally as...

This study had the objective of determining the differences between offenders with high and low criminal profile and their engagement with different implicit theories (biological and social determinism, entity theory, essentialism and causal attribution to criminal behavior). The measurement of the variable was performed using an inventory. The sam...

Essentialism is the tendency to believe that social groups exist because their members share a common essence that determines them to be part of this group. The aim of this research was interested in determining the effect of three identity variables (ingroup’s valence, status, and stability of categorical membership) in essentialist perception abo...

Se presentan los resultados de dos estudios realizados en población adolescente con el objetivo de determinar la relación entre personalidad y habilidades sociales. En el primero de ellos (n = 345) participaron estudiantes universitarios de primer año mientras que el segundo (n = 150) se evaluó una muestra de adolescentes consultantes. Ambos utiliz...

Essentialism is the tendency to believe that social groups exist because their members share a common essence that determine them to be part of this group. The aim of this research is interesting on the effect of three identity variables (ingroup’svalence, status, and stability of categorical membership) in essentialist perception about an ingroup...

The results of two studies carried out in a teenage population are presented with the sole intention of determining the co-relationship between personality, and social skills. In the first of them (n=345) freshman university students participated, while in the second (n=150) a group of teenage consultants were assessed. Both of which utilized a cor...

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to present the psychometric characteristics of a short form of the Polymorphous Prejudice Scale (PPS; Massey, 2009), which was adapted and validated in a heterosexual Chilean population. PPS is a multidimensional measure of sexual prejudice. Methods: A nonprobabilistic (convenience) sample consisted of 422...

This research study covers the relation between perception of conflict (in two groups: intragroup and extragroup) and adherence to essentialist beliefs. The hypothesis made states that perception of a higher conflict level between intragroup and extragroup is associated with an increase in essentialist beliefs. This means that this increase occurs...

La presente investigación estudia cómo se vinculan la percepción de un conflicto entre dos grupos (endogrupo y exogrupo) y la adherencia a creencias esencialistas. La hipótesis de trabajo es que la percepción de un mayor nivel de conflicto entre el endogrupo y un exogrupo se asocia a un aumento en las creencias esencialistas, es decir, se vería inc...

Aim: To explore the concept of quality in education during the undergraduate years of physical therapy student's training. Subjects and methods: A total of 90 senior students and graduated physical therapists answered the questions from a survey instrument containing the whole quality variables in education, proposed during the curriculum program o...

A nivel teórico, se ha descrito a la identidad regional como el resultado de tres componentes o factores: lo histórico, lo cultural y lo ambiental (Lison, 1997). La presente investigación se interesó en conocer el rol del ambiente natural en la identidad regional en un grupo de 120 habitantes de la Patagonia Austral conocidos como “Magallánicos”, e...

Recibido: 25 de Febrero del 2013 | Aceptado: 22 de Abril del 2013 ANGÉLICA BASTÍAS PAREDES1; CECILIA NUÑEZ VIDAL2; SERGIO AVENDAÑO ALARCÓN3; CLAUDIA ESTRADA GOIC4 (UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES, Punta Arenas, Chile) RESUMEN La relación hombre mujer ha variado a medida que las expectativas de género se han ido diversificando en el mundo moderno. Esta in...

La relación hombre mujer ha variado a medida que las expectativas de género se han ido diversificando en el mundo moderno. Esta investigación evaluó el efecto de la competencia sobre la percepción masculina del atractivo femenino. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 80 varones, quienes participaron en un estudio con una fase experimental. Se les pidió...

The purpose of this research was to identify the traits of the brand personality of psychology degrees located in public universities in geographically extreme areas and that form the Network of Schools of Psychology, State University Consortium (CUE). We used the scale of Aaker Brand Personality (1997), which was applied to 244 students to 244 stu...

The male-female relationship has altered as the expectations of gender have developed and diversified in the modern world. This study assesses the effect of competence upon male perception of female attractiveness. The sample was composed of 80 male participants who took part in an experimental stage study. They were asked to evaluate the attractiv...

This study examines the phenomenon of stereotyping belonging to different regions other than Magellanes, called "the evil people of the north". A sample of 81 inhabitants of the city of Punta Arenas participated voluntarily in this study being selected by non-probabilistic sampling by quotas. They responded to two instruments to assess stereotypes,...

The purpose of this research was to describe the meaning of "earthquake" and "tsunami" in two groups with different exposures to the Chilean natural disaster on February 27th, 2010. A non-probabilistic sample of two-hundred-forty subjects from Constitución (n=104) and Punta Arenas (n=136) was selected. The first group was directly exposed to the ea...

The relationship between social skills and academic performance has stimulated a significant amount of research based on the importance that these skills have shown to have in the workplace (Edel, 2003). However, the results have been inconsistent and although most studies report an association between these variables, some of them have failed to o...

The assessment of intelligence in the elderly population has increased its importance in terms of increased life expectancy. The present study focuses its interest on the relevance of available norms for Raven Progressive Matrices Test in the evaluation of elderly population. Standards were used Colchester (1942, en Raven, Court y Raven, 2008), the...

The purpose of this research was to identify the traits of the brand personality of psychology degrees located in public universities in geographically extreme areas and that form the Network of Schools of Psychology, State University Consortium (CUE). We used the scale of Aaker Brand Personality (1997), which was applied to 244 students to 244 stu...

Study about the pertinence in the utilization of available norms of measuring children who are part of the socially vulnerable population in the city of Punta Arenas. The evaluation of intellectual abilities is an important feature of the labor of specialists who conduct interventions in vulnerable underage population, even though there is little i...

Study about the pertinence in the utilization of available norms of measuring children who are part of the socially vulnerable population in the city of Punta Arenas. The evaluation of intellectual abilities is an important feature of the labor of specialists who conduct interventions in vulnerable underage population, even though there is little i...

This research examines the impact of essentialism (Medin, 1989) on the perception of similarity and the differential use of information in order to form an impression about social categories and person targets. Ninety people (age M = 21.6; 68.7% women) of an accidental sample from the region of Magallanes, Chile, were tested on essentialism, and th...

This research examines the impact of essentialism (Medin, 1989) on the perception of similarity and the differential use of information in order to form an impression about social categories and person targets. Ninety people (age M = 21.6; 68.7% women) of an accidental sample from the region of Magallanes, Chile, were tested on essentialism, and th...

Durante el ano 2011 se resolvieron los concursos FONDECYT regular 2012 y de Iniciacion a la investigacion 2011. En el concurso de Iniciacion a la Investigacion, se presentaron 525 proyectos, de los cuales fueron aprobaron 262. De estos, 7 corresponden a Psicologia (de un total de 12 proyectos postulados), por un valor de 322.630 millones de pesos,...

La presente investigación tuvo como propósito conocer los principales adjetivos que configuran el autoestereotipo y el metaestereotipo de los chilotes residentes en Magallanes, así como también busca conocer el nivel de identificación que manifiestan éstos con su endogrupo. "Chilotes" es un término utilizado para designar al grupo de inmigrantes de...

Masculinity is a concept that strongly depends on role expectations which transcends the peculiarities of local culture. This research studies the differences that exist between magellanic's men who belong two generations. Regarding their conceptions of masculinity and the relationship between these variables and subjective psychological well-being...

The aim of this study is the association between economics variables and well-being in public employee from Punta Arenas city. Scales were developed and adapted by Chilean researcher. There were used to measure economic literacy, consumptions practices, attitude towards indebtedness and well-being. One hundred voluntaries participated in across-cor...

Climate change and its effects in the short and long term life human, is a topic that has attracted the most interest in different scientific disciplines. Even within psychology does not exist research on this subject, it is clear that changes in the environment have an impact on the welfare of people. The this study attempts to measure the percept...

Masculinity is a concept that strongly depends on role expectations which transcends the peculiarities of local culture. This research studies the differences that exist between magellanic’s men who belong two generations. Regarding their conceptions of masculinity and the relationship between these variables and subjective psychological well-being...

The aim of this study is the association between economics variables and well-being in public employee from Punta Arenas city. Scales were developed and adapted by Chilean researcher. There were used to measure economic literacy, consumptions practices, attitude towards indebtedness and well-being. One hundred voluntaries participated in across-cor...

Climate change and its effects in the short and long term life human, is a topic that has attracted the most interest in different scientific disciplines. Even within psychology does not exist research on this subject, it is clear that changes in the environment have an impact on the welfare of people. The this study attempts to measure the percept...

The present research examined the impact of essentialism on people's perception of black sheeps. Essentialism is the belief that an underlying essence lies at the root of social categories (Rothbart & Taylor, 1992; Yzerbyt, Corneille, & Estrada, 2001). In two studies, we manipulated essentialism and measured the perception of a deviant ingroup memb...

This research aimed to make a description of the presence of beliefs associated with psychological essentialism in the characteristics' perception of the Magellan's culture. The sample consisted of two hundred habitants of the city of Punta Arenas who were provided voluntarily to particípate in the study. We used a non-experimental descriptive desi...

This research aimed to make a description of the presence of beliefs associated with psychological essentialism in the characteristics' perception of the Magellan's culture. The sample consisted of two hundred habitants of the city of Punta Arenas who were provided voluntarily to participate in the study. We used a non-experimental descriptive desi...

In social psychology, the implicit theories are a recent field of study. Nevertheless, in the last decades, they have been revealed as a promissory area of investigation for the understanding of group's phenomena. The present paper gives attention to the implicit theories that concern the nature of human groups and, in particular psychological esse...

This investigation report deals with a possible relation between tortious recidivism and the implicit theories about stability of the human nature and social environment. Its main hypothesis is that having a static view of the human nature and social environment implies higher recidivism rates. We are based on Dweck postulates (1996) which state th...

In social psychology, the implicit theories are a recent field of study. Nevertheless, in the last decades, they have been revealed as a promissory area of investigation for the understanding of group's phenomena. The present paper gives attention to the implicit theories that concern the nature of human groups and, in particular psychological esse...

This investigation report deals with a possible relation between tortious recidivism and the implicit theories about stability of the human nature and social environment. Its main hypothesis is that having a static view of the human nature and social environment implies higher recidivism rates. We are based on Dweck postulates (1996) which state th...

This research examines the impact of essentialism on people's lay theories regarding group differences. Essentialism is the belief that an underlying essence lies at the heart of every social category (Medin, 1989). Belgians (N= 105) and Chileans (N= 223) completed a questionnaire comprising an adapted version of Martin and Parker's Explanations fo...

The effect of subjective essentialism on lay theories of groups differences: This research examines the impact of essentialism on people¿s lay theories regarding group differences. Essentialism is the belief that an underlying essence lies at the heart of every social category (Medin, 1989). Belgians (N= 105) and Chileans (N= 223) completed a quest...

In line with our subjective essentialist view of stereotypes (Yzerbyt, Rocher, & Schadron, 1997), we propose that two classes of factors that mutually reinforce each other influence the perception of groups. The perception of a strong level of similarity and organization among group members (i.e., group entitativity) suggests the existence of a dee...

Compendio El presente trabajo examina el impacto del esencialismo en la percepción de miembros desviados. El esencialismo consiste en creer en la existencia de una esencia subyacente a cada categoría social (Rothbart & Taylor, 1992; Yzerbyt, Corneille, & Estrada, 2001). Dos experimentos manipulan el esencialismo y miden la percepción de un miembro...