Mercedes Novo

Mercedes Novo
  • PhD
  • University of Santiago de Compostela

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science focused on creating intelligent systems capable of mimicking human intelligence. Key milestones include Turing's 1950 paper introducing the Turing Test, the 1956 Dartmouth Conference establishing AI as a field, and the development of the General Problem Solver (GPS) in 1959. The 1960s saw...
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This research aims to expand knowledge of this phenomenon by examining the prevalence of sexual harassment victimization behaviours and their implication on psychological well-being in the adolescent population, with the ultimate goal of providing scientific input to create, develop and implement action plans aimed at promoting pro-social behaviour...
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Antecedentes/Objetivo: La Justicia Terapéutica (TJ) se centra en el rol que desempeña la ley como agente terapéutico, entendiendo la ley no solo como las normas y procedimientos legales, sino también como la actuación de todos los agentes involucrados en los mismos, tomando por primera vez en consideración su impacto en el espectro emocional y el b...
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Forgiveness is associated with one’s health and well-being as well as one’s religious beliefs. However, an instrument for measuring forgiveness has not been validated among Moroccans. The Enright Forgiveness Inventory–30 (EFI-30) is one of the most used instruments to measure interpersonal forgiveness and has been validated and adapted across vario...
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Este estudio reporta el proceso de validación psicométrica mediante análisis confirmatorio y análisis descriptivo del Enright Forgiveness Inventory-30 (EFI-30), una medida del grado de perdón interpersonal, versión corta, en español. El EFI-30 se tradujo de la versión original en inglés y se administró a una muestra de 623 mujeres y hombres español...
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Research on forgiveness has received growing academic interest. The Enright Forgiveness Inventory (EFI) is one of the most widely used interpersonal forgiveness measures in the world. However, its validation study had not been conducted in Latin America. This study aimed to investigate the structural validity of the EFI 30-item version (EFI-30) in...
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In the field of education, the study of conflict, understood as connatural to people's daily lives, has aroused the interest of researchers, especially during childhood and adolescence, as a factor related to school bullying and antisocial and/or criminal behaviour. Within this framework, this study sets out to analyse the styles of conflict resolu...
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Background/aim: Spanish legislation establishes the right of women victims of intimate partner violence to receive comprehensive and accessible information about the judicial process. According to the literature, that information can impact on victims’ emotional well-being. Nervertheless, there is a scarcity of research evaluating how the right inf...
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Numerous quantitative studies have examined bullying, its prevalence, consequences and harms, as well as the roles involved. However, there is scarce scientific literature that tries to know and understand this phenomenon from a qualitative approach (Ybarra et al., 2017). One of the best known techniques is the focus group (also known as focus grou...
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Research on forgiveness is limited in Ecuador. This study validated the Enright Forgiveness Inventory–30 (EFI‐30) among 960 participants in Ecuador, resulting in robust reliability and validity values. Our findings provide avenues for future research and practices.
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Antecedentes/objetivo: Legalmente se ha proporcionado a los juzgados, como herramienta para evitar la revictimización en casos de violencia de género, la adopción de medidas de protección y asistenciales a víctimas. Sin embargo, los estudios acerca de su eficacia son inconcluyentes, encontrándose efectos no significativos o de tamaño pequeño. Ahora...
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From a psychological point of view, interest in the study of forgiveness is relatively recent. In this line, previous studies indicate that forgiveness could favour conflict management and resolution processes, resulting in a favourable impact on people's physical and psychological well-being. However, empirical studies are needed to examine the re...
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La literatura establece que el conflicto inter-parental, más que la separación, puede causar daños severos a progenitores e hijos e hijas con efectos que pueden perdurar en la etapa adulta. Se diseñaron programas educativos y de apoyo en la separación para ayudar a las parejas a afrontar la ruptura de pareja. Este artículo examina el programa educa...
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Research in psychology has highlighted the effects that school bullying can produce on students' physical and mental health, as well as behavioural problems. In this regard, some studies find links between school bullying victimization and lower academic performance, higher absenteeism, or academic dropout. Furthermore, literature points out that t...
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The literature has shown a direct relationship between the psychological sense of belonging with psychological well-being and academic involvement in physical communities. However, new technologies have favored the formation of communities in cyberspace, with scarce research at the university level addressing their impact. For this reason, an ex po...
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Background/Objective: In the European Union it is estimated that there are about 800,000 separations per year that involves approximately 500,000 children. The literature has found that parental divorce causes problems for children in academic performance, behavior, social competence, psychological adjustment, self-esteem, but the effects on family...
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This project contributes to the to the development of the 2030 Agenda. Specifically, it has an impact on the sustainable development goals that promote gender equality, violence prevention and the sustainable development goals that promote gender equality, the prevention of violence and the exercise of women's and children's rights.
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The prevalence of traditional bullying victimization has been estimated at around 36%, while that of cyberbullying has been estimated at 15%. The victimization of bullying brings with it harm to mental health that must be compensated for, after a forensic evaluation, by the aggressor or legal guardian. Thus, a meta-analytic review was undertaken wi...
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Bullying is a public health problem, with short- and long-term physical, psychological and social consequences for adolescents. In terms of typology, previous studies distinguish between psychological bullying, exclusion, relational bullying and physical bullying, which can occur simultaneously. Numerous studies have also examined their relationshi...
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This research examines the means of conflict resolution (collaborative, passive and aggressive) and the dimensions of forgiveness (forgiveness to oneself, forgiveness to others and forgiveness to situations) in a sample of adolescents, as well as possible differences according to gender and age range; with the ultimate aim of promoting greater know...
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Background/Objective Judicial decisions must rest on formal reasoning. Nevertheless, informal reasoning sources (cognitive and motivational biases) were observed in judicial judgment making. Literature has identified sexual aggression cases as the most favorable for informal reasoning. Thus, a field study was designed with the aim of assessing the...
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Currently, the use of teaching methodologies active in the teaching-learning process has become more important. In this line, case-based learning is seen as a methodology to develop within the MFP (Master Final Project). The objective of the present study is based on the analysis of the students' perception of learning, as well as the degree of sat...
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El estudio de los estilos de gestión y resolución del conflicto en la adolescencia ha centrado el interés de los investigadores, dada la relación que guarda con la conducta antisocial y/o delictiva, con el acoso escolar o con la violencia en el noviazgo adolescente. Así, planteamos el presente estudio, con el objetivo de examinar las diferencias de...
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La violencia sexual constituye un grave problema de salud pública, puesto que las víctimas presentan secuelas en su bienestar físico, psicológico y social, a corto y largo plazo. De acuerdo con la literatura, los rape myths (entendidos como creencias y estereotipos sobre las agresiones sexuales que son ampliamente aceptados) son un posible factor d...
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El acoso escolar o school bullying se ha identificado en las últimas décadas como un problema de gran magni-tud y en crecimiento que amenaza directamente la salud y el bienestar de los Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes (NNA). Esto ha llevado a los organismos nacionales e internacionales a establecer como objetivo prioritario su erradicación, tal y como p...
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Objetivo: La trata de seres humanos con fines de explotación sexual y la prostitución son dos realidades íntimamente correlacionadas que representan una transgresión de los derechos humanos con una relevante perspectiva de género. Método: Se analizaron 109 sentencias judiciales dictaminadas entre 2010 y 2019 por Audiencias Provinciales, que hacen r...
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Resumen El acoso escolar es un problema de salud pública, que genera consecuencias físicas, psicológicas y sociales en los/as adolescentes a corto y largo plazo, especialmente cuando se produce el solapamiento entre los distintos tipos de acoso. Estudios previos evidencian diferencias según el género, aunque los resultados son contradictorios. Así,...
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En los últimos años se ha producido un gran incremento del uso de internet y de las Redes Sociales, especialmente en la adolescencia, que no ha sido acompañado en muchos casos de una adecuada formación y alfabetización digital de los niños, niñas y adolescentes, ni de sus progenitores. La literatura pone de manifiesto los riesgos asociados a la exp...
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INTRODUCCIÓN. El impulso de la mediación y el respaldo normativo a los procedimientos alternativos de resolución de conflictos en la adolescencia ha creado la necesidad de dotar a los profesionales que trabajan en ese ámbito de instrumentos de evaluación, a fin de planificar las estrategias de mediación. Por ello, se diseñó un estudio con el objeti...
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La declaración de pandemia mundial, generada por la COVID-19 (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020), ha provocado el confinamiento de la población y la limitación del contacto social, produciendo efectos adversos en la salud mental. Como consecuencia directa, la prevalencia de las intervenciones realizadas a través de internet en el ámbito de la P...
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Los rape myths, definidos como las creencias o estereotipos que niegan, minimizan y justifican la violencia sexual (Megías, Romero-Sánchez, Durán, Moya y Bohner, 2011), están presentes en la sociedad. Estudios recientes advierten que la presencia de estos mitos constituye un factor de riesgo para las víctimas, ya que exculpan al perpetrador y culpa...
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The statement of the global pandemic situation due to COVID in 2020 led to the implementation of measures to confine the population and limit social contact, bringing with it economic and employment insecurity, which makes it a highly stressful event. These produce psychological distress encourage individuals to deploy coping strategies to overcome...
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The promotion of restorative processes in the field of justice has fostered social and scientific interest in the study of forgiveness, mainly from the victim's perspective. Research shows the impact of the process of forgiveness on psychological well-being; however, it is necessary to know more about the effects it can have, particularly for peopl...
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INTRODUCCIÓN. La violencia de género ha sido reconocida como una violación de los derechos humanos y un problema global de salud pública que afecta a las mujeres maltratadas y a los hijos/as, si bien estos han sido frecuentemente invisibilizados como víctimas. La literatura pone de manifiesto las consecuencias de la exposición a la violencia de gén...
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Sexual violence against women is one of the most underre­ported criminal offences, and has one of the lowest con­viction rates. The main standard of proof is the victim’s-complainant’s testimony and the evaluation of credibility. In order to assess the effects of myths about sexual aggres­sion on the credibility of women and their testimony, a fiel...
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In recent years, universities have integrated tutorial plans of action into the learning teaching process, adapted to the European Higher Education Area. The Tutorial Action Plan (TAP), through which the teacher-tutor guides this process throughout the training action, aims to contribute to the improvement of the quality of teaching-learning, by en...
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A field study was designed with the aim of knowing if deficits in cognitive skills a common characteristic of the juvenile offenders and protection youngsters are i.e., children under social services protection (in risk of deviation), and a differential from normalized population. As for these 450 Colombian youngsters (150 juvenile offenders, 150 p...
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Traditionally, the study of bullying has focused on the roles of aggressor and victim. However, in recent years the overlap between them has gained importance. This is because those who exercise both roles are those who suffer the most serious consequences. In this way, this document aims to analyse this problem in a sample of 120 participants (66...
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Literature has found that non-criminogenic needs also are a juvenile delinquency risk factor and, consequently, should be target of intervention. With the aim of knowing if individual, social and psychological adjustment differ between juvenile offenders and foster care adolescents with normal adolescents, a field study was designed. A total of 450...
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Adolescent-to-Parent Violence (APV) or Child-to-Parent Violence (CPV) is a specific form of violence that has remained inconspicuous until recently, but is becoming a mounting social issue and is increasingly the focus of scientific research. Of the variables related to APV, the study assessed the characteristics of the family system and its relati...
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The literature has analyzed conflict on the basis of its cognitive and emotional nature, in the natural context of human relationships and has focused on the study of conflict resolution and management styles, from different fields (e.g. family, organizational, community or educational). In particular, from the educational field, a relationship bet...
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Literature has found that non-criminogenic needs also are a juvenile delinquency risk factor and, consequently, should be target of intervention. With the aim of knowing if individual, social and psychological adjustment differ between juvenile offenders and foster care adolescents with normal adolescents, a field study was designed. A total of 450...
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The search for quality in higher education necessarily means paying attention to the different variables that can facilitate or obstruct the teaching-learning process on university students. In that field, scientist research has identified psychological well-being in university students as a sign of optimal psychological working, skills development...
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Social relationships are built on different scenarios that investigation reference as communities, especially the sense of community that express the belonging, the emotional connexion and the needs satisfaction among members. The importance of the sense of community in different physical context (community, organizational) has been highlighted by...
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Desde el ámbito educativo, el sentido de pertenencia escolar ha suscitado el interés de los investigadores, por su influencia en el rendimiento y el éxito académico, y más recientemente, se ha asociado con la salud mental, el bienestar social y el ajuste psicológico de los adolescentes. Sin embargo, es escaso el conocimiento de la relación entre lo...
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The inconsistency in the results both internally and between of previous meta-analyses on batterer intervention program efficacy, and the publication of new batterer interventions underscored the need for an up-to-date meta-analyticalreview. A total of 25 primary studies were found from literature search, obtaining 62 effect sizes, and a total samp...
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Bullying is the repeated violent behaviour among peers -when an imbalance of power is perceived- and it could be considered a criminal action. The main objective of the present study is to analyse bullying cases in Spain using the content analysis methodology in 40 judicial sentences with a guilty verdict. These sentences were obtained from the CEN...
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En la evaluación del daño psicológico, el psicólogo forense ha de realizar un diagnóstico diferencial de simulación, siendo la escala F del MMPI-2 la medida psicométrica de referencia para tal cometido. Revisiones previas han encontrado un tamaño del efecto para la discriminación entre respuestas simuladas y de controles no clínicos (tarea forense...
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En el curso académico 2017/2018 se implementó el Programa Previa@net (Unidad de Psicología Forense, 2017), como experiencia piloto con el alumnado de 2º de ESO, de centros educativos de Santiago de Compostela. Este programa tiene como finalidad promover relaciones positivas, y específicamente, persigue entre sus objetivos: sensibilizar al alumnado...
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De cara a maximizar el impacto de los esfuerzos en la prevención de la violencia (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016), y siguiendo algunas iniciativas desarrolladas en otros países (Vandebosch, Beirens, D'Haese, Wegge y Pabian, 2012), el programa Previ@net incluye como práctica colaborativa la participación de la Unidad de Participaci...
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Teniendo en cuenta la prevalencia de las agresiones sexuales hacia la mujer y la gravedad de las consecuencias físicas y psicológicas que afectan a la misma, nos planteamos una investigación en la que analizar los factores implicados en la conducta del agresor, para poder incrementar el conocimiento sobre esta problemática y contribuir así al desar...
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La violencia sexual hacia la mujer es un problema de salud pública presente a nivel global (OMS, 2002) y, en apoyo, el Instituto de la Mujer y para la Igualdad de Oportunidades del Gobierno de España (2018) muestra unas alarmantes cifras acerca de los delitos contra la libertad sexual de las mujeres. Esta problemática acarrea unas consecuencias dev...
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Sexual violence against women is a serious problem in our society, being registered in Spain a total of a total of 93,871 judicial files. The purpose of this paper was to explore indicators of primary and secondary victimization in cases of sexual abuse and aggressions against adult women, as well as relevant crime variables, and their relation wit...
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Se diseñó un estudio de archivo para conocer las tasas de multi-publicación de los investigadores españoles de Psicología en revistas de prestigio. Para ello, se calculó el promedio de artículos publicados por autor y año natural en revistas indexadas en la Core Collection de la Web of Science por 551 investigadores, clasificados por área de conoci...
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Mitos y creencias relacionadas con el acoso escolar en una muestra de adolescentes Olweus (1993) definió y contextualizó tres criterios fundamentales para considerar que un comportamiento es constitutivo de acoso escolar: la intencionalidad, la repetición a lo largo del tiempo y una relación de poder asimétrica. Esto supuso que el estudio del acoso...
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El acoso escolar se ha analizado tradicionalmente centrado en la relación diádica entre acosador y víctima. En las últimas décadas se ha ido ampliando el foco de atención hacia el rol de los espectadores, teniendo en cuenta que están presentes en la mayoría de los episodios de acoso escolar. El modo en que los espectadores definen y evalúan las sit...
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Background: Parental separation is a stressful experience that can lead to parents suffering mental health problems (MHPs). Parental separation education programs for coping with post-separation adjustment have proven to be effective in reducing conflict and improving co-parenting. However, the effects of these programs on MHPs have not been asses...
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Traditionally, the study of bullying has focused on the roles of aggressor and victim. However, in recent years the overlap between them has gained importance. This is because those who exercise both roles are those who suffer the most serious consequences. In this way, this document aims to analyze this problem in a sample of 120 participants (66...
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In order to examine the literature on the relationship between child-to-parent violence and parent-to-child violence, a meta-analytic review was designed with 26 effect sizes assessing the relationship between child-to-parent and parent-to-child violence in 19 primary studies. Correlational effect sizes were computed and corrected for sampling erro...
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Parental attribute evaluation in relation to child custody comprises psychological and psychopathology. Additionally, defensiveness must be suspected on this setting. The worldwide reference psychometric measurement instrument for this purpose is the MMPI. With the aim of knowing the responses of parents litigating by child custody, a meta-analytic...
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156-Una revisión meta-analítica de las respuestas en escalas clínicas y reestructuradas del MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF de padres en disputa por la custodia Resumen: La evaluación de las capacidades parentales para el ejercicio de la guarda y custodia de los hijos incluye el ajuste psicológico y la psicopato-logía. En esta evaluación, además, se ha de sospech...
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Resumen: Se planteó una investigación para adaptar y va-lidar la escala Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression (ammsa) en población chilena. En el Estudio 1, 428 participantes respondieron a la adaptación chilena de la escala ammsa. Un análisis factorial confi rmatorio mostró que los índices de ajuste no prestaban apoyo empírico al mode...
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La metodología basada en trabajos de aula y en la elaboración de un proyecto de investigación, favorece el aprendizaje significativo de los contenidos teóricos derivados de las sesiones magistrales en la materia Metodología de la Investigación. La calificación en dichos trabajos correlaciona significativamente con la del examen.
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El presente estudio tiene por objeto conocer el riesgo de desarrollo en los hijos de problemas en los marcadores de salud física relacionados con (in)adaptación en el comportamiento asociado a la exposición a la separación de los progenitores. Se planificó un estudio transversal con un diseño orientado a la predicción del riesgo de problemas en los...
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Resumen El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el nivel de adherencia a mitos-entendidos como creencias y estereotipos-sobre las agresiones sexuales contra mujeres adultas, en una muestra de 120 funcionarios penitenciarios, tanto uniformados como profesionales psicosociales de la institución. Se utilizó un diseño multi-método para obtener una medi...
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A parenting coordinator (PC) is a professional who intervenes in judicial contexts involving high conflict parental litigation in order to safeguard the child’s best interest, as well as dealing with issues concerning coparenting. This new role has been the object of specific directives from international professional associations such as the Assoc...
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El Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior exige abordar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje desde el desarrollo de competencias. Para ello es necesario incluir los distintos factores psicosociales presentes en la comunidad universitaria, y su incidencia en el rendimiento académico. El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar si las expectativas, el...
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Note: An english extended summary is avaliable at the end of the article (1,600 words). Aunque la literatura ha abordado ampliamente el estudio de la prisionización, el análisis de los efectos de las variables criminológicas en la adaptación a prisión y del estatus social en prisión, y de éstas en el ajuste psicológico y las destrezas cognitivas q...
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The literature has firmly established an association between parental separation and school failure. Nevertheless, parental separation does not affect academic aptitudes. Thus, mediators explain such relationship. A field study was designed to identify and quantify damage in the mediating variables between parental separation and school failure (i....
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Evaluación de las competencias comunicativas en la exposición y defensa en la rúbrica del trabajo fin de máster Ramón Arce (1), Francisca Fariña (2), Mercedes Novo (1) Dolores Seijo (1) Resumen La defensa pública del Trabajo Fin de Máster (TFM) es un requisito necesario para la obtención de la titulación, tal y como establece el R.D. 1393/2007, mod...
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Resumen Distintos organismos internacionales han puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de promover la igualdad de oportunidades dentro del ámbito académico. Además, contamos con un marco normativo estatal (Ley Orgánica 3/2007, para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres), autonómico (Ley 7/2004, de 16 de julio, gallega para la igualdad de mujeres y...

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