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    Emotion Regulation in the Management of Fear of Pain: Subjective and Psychophysiological Correlates 

    Jaén Parrilla, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-03-03)

    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 

    Fernández Kirszman, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-07-28)

    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 

    Aguirre Vidal, Naiara (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)

    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 

    Fuentes Sánchez, Nieves (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)

    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 

    Stamou, George (Date of defense: 2021-09-13)

    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 

    Machín Rincón, Laritza Margaret (Date of defense: 2021-06-21)

    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 

    Sánchez Gómez, Martín (Date of defense: 2021-06-18)

    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 

    Etkin, Paula (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)

    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 

    Monfort Escrig, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-06-08)

    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 

    Carmona Halty, Marcos (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)

    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 

    López Montoyo, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)

    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 

    Colombo, Desirée (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)

    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 

    López Fernández, Francisco J. (Date of defense: 2020-10-08)

    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 

    Adrián-Ventura, Jesús (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)

    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 

    Coo Calcagni, Cristián (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)

    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 ...

    A la búsqueda del continuo de los rasgos adaptativos y desadaptativos en la personalidad normal y la personalidad patológica 

    Edo Villamón, Silvia (Date of defense: 2012-02-03)

    INTRODUCCIÓN: Aunque existe un acuerdo generalizado acerca de la necesidad de incorporar la personalidad normal y la personalidad patológica en un mismo ámbito de estudio seguimos atendiendo a un gran pluralismo conceptual ...

    Problemas de salud mental detectados en atención primaria. Estudio epidemiológico en población pediátrica de la Comunidad Valenciana 

    Legaz Sánchez, Eva María (Date of defense: 2013-05-30)

    INTRODUCCIÓN. El número de niños y adolescentes con problemas de salud mental, referidos en los estudios epidemiológicos, puede considerarse una medida aproximada de cuál es la necesidad de servicios sanitarios al respecto. ...

    Sistema Mayordomo: una tecnología positiva para las personas mayores 

    Etchemendy, Ernestina (Date of defense: 2011-12-14)

    Esta tesis tiene como objetivo el diseño, desarrollo y validación de una plataforma tecnológica, denominada Mayordomo, dirigida a personas mayores. Se trata de una plataforma multiusuario, que usa Internet como red de ...

    Modulatory effects of adenosine on the activational component of motivated behaviors regulated by dopamine: behavioral and immunohistochemical studies 

    Pardo Andres, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)

    For many years, it has been suggested that drugs that interfere with dopamine (DA) transmission alter the rewarding impact of primary reinforcers such as food. Research and theory related to the functions of mesolimbic ...

    El uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el abordaje de la fibromialgia 

    Herrero Camarano, Rocío (Date of defense: 2013-07-30)

    INTRODUCCIÓN La fibromialgia (FM) es una enfermedad crónica caracterizada por diversas dolencias músculo-esqueléticas que se acompaña de la amplificación de la percepción del dolor, la fatiga, y otros síntomas sistémicos ...