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Diana Pons
Experiencia escolar y orientación hacia la autoridad institucional en la adolescencia
Resumen tomado del autor. Resumen en castellano e inglés Los objetivos de la investigación son (a) determinar si se puede encontrar un único factor general subyacente a las actitudes hacia la autoridad institucional en contextos escolares y extraescolares; (b) analizar los factores de la experiencia escolar del sujeto que contribuyen a conformar su orientación ahcia la autoridad institucional; y (c) determinar cuál es la contribución que hacen a la orientación hacia la autoridad institucional las variables sociodemográficas, las actitudes políticas y la autoestima del sujeto. Para ello se empleó una muestra de 535 adolescentes valencianos de ambos sexos, entre 12 y 19 años, escolarizados en…
Testing direct and indirect effects of sports participation on perceived health in Spanish adolescents between 15 and 18 years of age.
This paper examines the direct and indirect effects of sports participation on perceived health. It is based on a representative sample of middle adolescents aged 15-18 (N=1038, M age=16.31, S.D.=0.92; 510 boys and 528 girls) from the Valencian Community (Spain). This study used two different models; Model A is an adaptation of Thorlindsson, Vilhjalmsson and Valgeirsson's (Social Science and Medicine 31 (1990) 551) model which introduces smoking, alcohol use, feelings of anxiety, feelings of depression and psychophysiological symptoms as mediator variables; Model B is an extension of Model A with perceived physical fitness as an added mediator variable. Both models show a good fit to the da…
Is the breadth of individualized ranges of optimal anxiety (IZOF) equal for all athletes? A graphical method for establishing IZOF.
Recall and direct methods to determine the individual zone of optimal functioning (IZOF) cannot account for potential individual differences in the span of optimal anxiety. Accordingly, an attempt was made to test a graphical technique that could establish the span of optimal anxiety ranges for individuals. State anxiety (STAI; Spielberger, Gorusch, & Lushene, 1970; and CSAI-2; Martens, Burton, Vealey, Bump, & Smith, 1990) was assessed before competitions (10 to 20) in six Spanish golfers during a season. Performance in each match was determined using golf scores and self-ratings. Optimal anxiety ranges were established graphically by plotting individual scores of precompetition anx…
Mindfulness, inattention and performance in a driving simulator
The following study will explore the link between mindfulness, driver inattention and a number of driving performance variables that were tested using the SIMUVEG driving simulator. 67 subjects between the ages of 19 and 27 completed the mindful attention awareness scale, attention-related driving errors scale and attention-related cognitive errors scale questionnaires, and were evaluated in two driving performance measures: time to line-crossing and mean speed. The results did not show a correlation between driving performance and mindfulness measures; they did show low but significant correlations with driver inattention measures. A regression analysis suggested that the specific measure …