José A. Sánchez-Medina

Universidad Pablo de Olavide | UPO · Department of Social Antrhopology Psychology and Publich Health

The dual theory establishes that the decision-making process relies on two different systems, the affective system and the executive function (EF), developed during adolescence. This study analyzes the relationship between the decision-making and EF processes in a group of early adolescents (mean age = 12.51 years, SD = 0.61), where more affective...

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the type of habitation of older adults—with relatives or alone—on their health and well-being. The participants were 352 people over 65 years of age who collaborated with the research on a voluntary basis. The data indicated that those who live with family members have better social integration, wel...

Background: The objective of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention program for the promotion of well-being and health in family caregivers. Methods: The participants were 111 family women caregivers aged between 33 and 75 years old. This was a double-blinded randomized controlled trial. The mindfulness i...

Background: Housing plays an important role in the aging process and health. The house and its nearby environment host most of the daily activities of older adults. Residential satisfaction (RS) has been relegated to physical issues such as accessibility. However, RS is also constituted by older adults' perceptions about housing. This study analyz...

In a study on informal or unpaid care, it is difficult to identify the consequences and effects of care provision on the caregiver's daily life. Thus, it is important to analyze the perceptions of the individual caregiver. This study describes the perceptions of health, well-being, support networks, and quality of life of 13 women aged between 45 a...

The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is widely used to study decision-making differences between several clinical and healthy populations. Unlike the healthy participants, clinical participants have difficulty choosing between advantageous options, which yield longterm benefits, and disadvantageous options, which give high immediate rewards but lead tonega...

Executive function (EF) has been studied from different perspectives, with the medical or neuropsychological approach has been the most deployed in the field of science, based on the effects that certain damage to the frontal lobes cause to human actions such as planning, impulse control or goal-directed action. Currently, there are studies of EF f...

Children’s private speech has been widely studied among children, but it is clear that adults use private speech as well. In this study, illiterate adults’ private speech during a “school-like” task was explored as a function of literacy level and task difficulty in a sample of 126 adults enrolled in a public literacy program. A main effect for lit...

Este libro es uno de los resultados del proyecto Acción preparatoria del espacio iberoamericano de postgrados en promoción de salud escolar, desarrollado en el marco de la Red Iberoamericana de Promoción de Salud Escolar (RIPSE). El proyecto ha sido financiado por el Programa de Cooperación Interuniversitaria e Investigación Científica (PCI), de la...

The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and...

Para Vygotsky los procesos psicológicos superiores que nos distinguen como especie emergen de nuestra capacidad para comunicarnos con otros desde los inicios de la infancia. Este estudio tiene como objetivo principal observar la relación entre el dominio verbal y el desarrollo de la función reguladora del lenguaje en escolares. Para ello se ha apli...

Young children (5 to 6 years old) from an individualistic (the Netherlands) culture and a collectivistic (South of Spain: Andalusia) culture were videotaped during leisure time on their school playground. Based on the perspective of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL), cultural differences were expected with respect to observed conflict behaviors....

In this article we offer both a conceptual and a methodological proposal for the study of cultural identity by cultural-historical psychology. First we will develop a conceptual framework in which we define acts of identification as a suitable unit of analysis for cultural identity. Acts of identification integrate dynamically social and individual...

El objetivo de este trabajo es describir e ilustrar el empleo de distintos tipos de argumentos en un escenario comunicativo como es el del grupo de discusión en el marco de la educación de adultos. Mostraremos la pertinencia del estudio de los modos de deliberación en relación con los modos de argumentación en el debate y pasaremos a continuación a...

Western study of private speech has been mostly directed at looking for empirical data to test L. S. Vygotsky's hypotheses (Vygotsky, 1934/1987). The great majority of empirical studies have been focused on three main aspects of private speech: (a) its origin and evolution; (b) its cognitive function and relations with task performance; and (c) the...

In this chapter we try to offer both a conceptual and a methodological proposal for the study of cultural identity from historical-cultural psychology. First, we develop a conceptual framework in which we define acts of identification as a suitable unit of analysis for cultural identity. Acts of identification dynamically integrate social and indiv...

El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo es presentar una interpretación de la relación entre Lenguaje y Pensamiento desde la perspectiva de la heterogeneidad del pensamiento verbal desarrollada fundamentalmente por Tulviste. En primer lugar, hemos intentado, a partir de las ideas de Scribner, y Bruner a este respecto, estrechar los lazos entre los...

The aim of the present article is to study of role that cultural differences play in peer interactions. We analysed children's behaviour during play, focusing on the conflicts that took place among pre-schoolers during leisure time, comparing the results obtained between children from Andalusia and Holland. We found a tendency for Andalusian childr...

Resumen El estudio de la argumentación en el debate nos remite al análisis de problemas básicos que se han tratado tradicionalmente en el marco de la Psicología del Pensmaiento. En toda argumentación se ve implicado el proceso de razonamiento, en cuanto que el sujeto tiene que determinar cuáles deben ser los elementos y el modo en que éstos se orga...

El presente estudio analizó las interacciones entre iguales de preescolares de un colegio ordinario y de un centro de acogida durante el tiempo de recreo. Los resultados más significativos aparecieron en la orientación social de la conducta, encontrándose marcadas diferencias tanto en la dimensión social del juego como en las conductas de no juego...

The relative scarcity of studies of cultural variations in peer interaction served as impetus for the present study. In this investigation, differences in peer interaction (child age: about 5 years) in Andalusia and Holland were examined both in an urban and a rural settings. Observational data were analysed with special interest on the collectivis...

El presente artículo se basa en el estudio realizado en centros preescolares de Holanda y Andalucía. En el mismo se observó la conducta de juego de preescolares que asistían a centros urbanos y rurales de ambos países. Los datos mostraron una clara diferencia en la orientación social de la conducta de juego de los preescolares. El juego de los niño...

Bibliografía: p. 227-232 Estudiar los efectos que está ejerciendo la educación de personas adultas en Andalucía, en la orientación de las actitudes, modos de pensamiento, de la mujer. En especial las relacionadas con diversos ámbitos de actuación social tales como la consideración que tiene ésta de sí misma como persona y mujer, su autoestima; el m...

The influence of formal education on the acquisition and use of categorization and memory in adults was studied. The work had a double cross-sectional and microgenetic perspective. Subjects came from three educational levels and were studied during four days on two memory tasks and a directed categorization task administered between tasks. Results...