Monné, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2015-07-27)
This thesis examines national identity in order to understand the psychological mechanisms underlying social and cultural nature of its construction. The study presented here aims to describe in greater ...
Llosada Gistau, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
Are children and adolescents happy while under the Child Protection System in Catalonia? There are few national and international studies on subjective well-being among children, and even less, on ...
Amadó Codony, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-05-09)
The study of socio-cognitive skills, and their relationship with executive functions, has generated a large number of studies. In order to assess these skills in children with Down syndrome, we administered ...
Cebrián Fernández, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2013-03-12)
Cannabis is the illicit drug most widely used in the world (UN, 2011). After twenty years of increased consumption, there has recently been a decline or stabilization in use among young people and ...
Pradas i Casas, Ricard (Date of defense: 2012-07-26)
Teacher thinking and teaching action of a PE teacher in organising joint activities is studied. The theoretical and methodological bases are founded on principles of the ecological paradigm, the perspective ...
Rodríguez Hernández, Neus (Date of defense: 2013-01-09)
This PhD dissertation examines how educational practice mediates learning the language of instruction with immigrant students in a linguistic support classroom in Catalonia. From a socioconstructivist ...
Martín Perpiñá, Mercedes (Date of defense: 2019-05-28)
The excessive use of ICT and Social Networks, and Media Multitasking among adolescents is a complex phenomenon due to the multiplicity of factors involved in its genesis. The main objective is the study ...
Serrano Ortiz, Jèssica (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
Considerable attention has focused on the theory of mind (TM) in the past 25 years and it has become a very productive area of research in developmental psychology. Several studies addressed this issue ...
Gifre Monreal, Mariona (Date of defense: 2014-01-14)
People with acquired brain damage and their families are described as silent epidemic because, although they have extended their survival, no psychosocial long-term means have been increased to improve ...
Riembau i Serra, Cati (Date of defense: 2017-11-20)
The main objective of this piece of research was to look in greater depth at the relationship between the phonological processing abilities and the orthographic processing abilities in Catalan, Spanish ...