Programa de Doctorat en Psicologia: Recent submissions
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Avances en la investigación sobre el trastorno de personalidad límite. Estudio de subtipos y su respuesta al tratamiento
El diagnóstico de Trastorno Límite de Personalidad (TLP) permite hasta 151 combinaciones según su sintomatología. Dada esta gran variabilidad, se viene investigando en la existencia de subtipos de TLP con el fin de elaborar ...
The Impact of Lockdown in Emotion and Behavior using Time Series: Distress, Depression and Anxious Arousal
The COVID-19 lockdown that struck Spain during March 2020 ended up with a period of 60 days of lockdown, a natural context where to study the effects of isolation or its feeling. It is known that long periods of isolation ...
Bilingualism and dementia: neural mechanisms and implications for cognitive reserve
Multiple studies have found that bilinguals show the first symptoms of dementia later than monolinguals. Therefore, it is hypothesized that bilingualism could protect against dementia, but the neural bases of this protective ...
An Internet-delivered treatment for Flying Phobia using 360º images: a feasibility study
This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the knowledge of Internet-delivered treatments for specific phobias. With this purpose, a systematic review and preliminary meta-analysis of Internet- and mobile-delivered treatments ...
Minors at risk: adverse childhood experiences and youth offending
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), broadly defined as experiences of abuse, neglect and household dysfunction have been associated with negative lifelong consequences, the sequelae of which are clearly manifested during ...
Emotion Regulation in the Management of Fear of Pain: Subjective and Psychophysiological Correlates
Research have shown the relationship between pain and emotion, proposing emotions as determinants and consequences of the subjective pain experience. Thus, pain can be modulated by positive and negative emotions, with ...
Digital interventions for emotion regulation in emotional disorders
This dissertation describes a way of organising the ample existing evidence in the field of digital mental health. For that purpose the DIU framework is presented (D for dissemination, I for improvement and U for understanding). ...
Neural efficiency of a specific cognitive training in working memory in multiple sclerosis patients
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune degenerative disease that produces cognitive impairment secondary to white and gray matter disruption of the central nervous system. The main objectives of this doctoral thesis were: ...
Correlatos Psicológicos y Psicofisiológicos de Inducción Emocional a través de la Música
La música es un tipo de estimulación que tiene una gran influencia en la inducción y regulación de las emociones. Sin embargo, ha sido relativamente poco estudiada hasta el momento dentro del campo de las emociones. Como ...
Virtual Reality Therapy for the Enhancement of Traditional Therapies for post-natal depression
The overall objective of this research project was to explore the combination of a traditional treatment for postnatal depression (PND), such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with the use of virtual reality (VR) ...
Descifrando el laberinto: el rol de los recursos personales en la superación de las barreras para el bienestar psicosocial de las mujeres líderes
Four empirical studies were conducted combining quantitative and qualitative methodology and cross-sectional and quasi-experimental studies to analyze the role of personal resources in overcoming barriers to the exercise ...
Emotional intelligence:a new way to assess it and its importance to understand work outcomes
This doctoral thesis develops an instrument for measuring emotional intelligence that reduces the weaknesses of existing ones and makes it possible to determine the role of EI on some variables of great importance in the ...
The Five-Factor Model of Personality and the Structure of Psychopathology in Adolescence
This work aimed to study the structure of psychopathology in adolescents, its associations with the Five-Factor Model of personality, the convergence between a general factor of psychopathology (p) and a general factor of ...
Apego, neurocognición y cognición social en el espectro de la esquizofrenia
Las personas con trastornos del espectro de la esquizofrenia muestran déficits sustanciales en la neurocognición y la cognición social, así como problemas relacionados con el apego. Se diseñaron cuatros estudios con el ...
Psychological Capital in Schools
El objetivo de la presente tesis fue examinar la aplicabilidad del constructo capital psicológico académico en un contexto escolar, aportando evidencia empírica sobre sus antecedentes y resultados académicos. Se realizaron ...
Eficacia de una intervención psicológica breve basada en mindfulness para el tratamiento de la depresión en atención primaria: aplicación cara a cara, aplicación mediante TICs versus tratamiento habitual
Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud la depresión es una de las principales causas de discapacidad en todo el mundo. En los servicios de Atención Primaria (AP) la prescripción de fármacos es el tratamiento por excelencia ...
Positive emotion regulation: Forecasting the future, savoring the present and reminiscing about the past
In recent years, there has been an increase in the attention to positive emotions and to the mechanisms underlying the regulation of positive experiences. The present dissertation is composed of six studies: Five of them ...
Personality and Video Games: The role of personality in normal and disordered videogaming, motives to play, and aggression
Video games are popular patimes in the developed world. Despite not having negative efects for the vast majority of people, a minority of players can display a disordered use with an addictive symptomatology. Furthermore, ...
Brain differences associated with personality traits: a structural and resting-state fMRI approach
The aim of this thesis is to analyse and describe the neurobiological basis of the systems derived from Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST). To do so, we assessed the reactivity of these systems (the Behavioural Activation ...
Can Mindfulness foster well-being and performance at work? A compendium of intervention studies
The main goal of this dissertation is to expand the research on Mindfulness and MBIs at work and its effects on workers' levels of psychological wellbeing and performance by testing for these effects on several different ...
