Miguel Angel Gandarillas

Miguel Angel Gandarillas
Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of Social Psychology

Doctor of Psychology

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Introduction
Miguel Angel Gandarillas currently works at the Social, Work and Differential Psychology in the UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Miguel conducts research in social and community psychology, educational management, and innovation on multi-method research.

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Publications (37)
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Background There is a large literature on the significant impact of rearing factors in the psychological development of different child’s learning patterns and wellbeing in elementary and secondary schools, but there is a scarcity of studies on to what extent those influences remain stable up to higher education. Objective In this study, parenting...
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Durante mucho tiempo se ha considerado que las causas de los accidentes se debían a la negligencia y al descuido de los trabajadores y no se tenían en cuenta como posibles causas la falta de capacitación o la existencia de un ambiente inadecuado de trabajo y mucho menos los factores personales (inter e intrapersonales) y en particular las actitudes...
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En este estudio se han analizado los diferentes estilos, hábitos, estrategias y dificultades de aprendizaje (diversidad en el aprendizaje, DenA) de los estudiantes universitarios, de cara a diseñar medidas innovadoras para la mejora continua del aprendizaje y de la calidad de vida universitaria. Para ello se ha utilizado metodología cuantitativa (e...
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Purpose This work critiques the situation of the ecological and cultural heritage in many coastal territories and analyses how current land planning methodologies are responding to it. The study builds a new integrated approach founded on ecocultural values and local knowledge as resources for an effective territorial planning and sustainable devel...
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El objetivo principal de la investigación fue conocer científicamente el impacto de la implantación de un modelo innovador de gobernanza local aplicado a la seguridad ciudadana desde enfoques comunitarios. También se evaluó un nuevo sistema de evaluación integral de la seguridad ciudadana. ----------------------------------------------------------...
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El presente estudio tuvo como objetivos: (1) analizar la diversidad en el aprendizaje universitario desde una comprensión integral, inclusiva e igualitaria que cuente con los diferentes niveles, componentes y contextos de los procesos de aprendizaje, y (2) identificar predictores psicosociales claves de la diversidad en el aprendizaje universitaria...
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This study analyzed the individual differences in hemodynamic time patterns and reactivity to cognitive and emotional tasks, and explored the diversity of psycho-physiological profiles that could be used for the personalized prediction of different diseases. An analysis of heart rate (HR)—blood pressure (BP) relationship patterns across time using...
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Purpose This work critiques the situation of the ecological and cultural heritage in many coastal territories and analyses how current land planning methodologies are responding to it. The study builds a new integrated approach founded on ecocultural values and local knowledge as resources for an effective territorial planning and sustainable devel...
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El presente estudio describe una metodología innovadora de planificación y desarrollo territorial ante los desafíos ecológicos, culturales y económicos derivados de la presión urbana, industrial y turística en las franjas costeras. El objetivo principal subraya el potencial de integración dinámica que poseen los territorios costeros, cuencas fluvia...
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El presente estudiodescribe una metodología innovadora de planificación y desarrollo territorial ante los desafíos ecológicos, culturales y económicos derivados de la presión urbana, industrial y turística en las franjas costeras.El objetivo principal subraya el potencial de integración dinámica que poseen los territorios costeros, cuencas fluviale...
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This study investigated child-rearing practices among Hispanics, and their effect on the attitudes on self and relevant social figures. For that purpose, the EMBU and the Semantic differential of SELF, FATHER, and MOTHER, and PEOPLE were administrated to two samples, one of Hispanics and another of Anglo-Americans. The results suggest that, contrar...
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Esta investigación tiene como objetivo identificar los tipos de usuarios habituales de los entornos virtuales, de acuerdo a las dimensiones motivacionales, características conductuales y sus consecuencias. Para tal fin se administró un cuestionario a 332 usuarios de plataformas virtuales. Los datos se procesaron con técnicas de análisis factorial,...
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Current trends in health care delivery and management such as predictive and personalized health care incorporating information and communication technologies, home-based care, health prevention and promotion through patients’ empowerment, care coordination, community health networks and governance represent exciting possibilities to dramatically i...
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Objective This study analyzed variability in cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) and its association with emotional, clinical and functional variables and medication use in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Methods Using transcranial Doppler sonography, CBFV were bilaterally recorded in the anterior (ACA) and middle (MCA) cerebral arteries of 44 FMS pa...
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"The Governance of Public Safety and Justice in a Diverse Society" addresses innovative systems of public safety and community justice adapted to our social diversity. The book describes successful experiences to improve cost-efficiency and effectiveness of public services in several cities and countries through the world.
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PrevHealth is a home-based health service based on a comprehensive research on ground-breaking approaches, merging the latest and future trends on healthcare, such as e-Health, home-based healthcare, community-centred health management and organizational governance.
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PrevHealth is an integrated healthcare service that applies and merges the state-of-art on the latest and future trends on healthcare: eHealth, home-based healthcare, community-centred health management and organizational governarnce. A ground-breaking healthcare approach of integrated healthcare services meets the current growing market on e-healt...
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Handbook with the methods to stablish a complete community safety system adapted to a diverse society.
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El libro empieza por una descripción comparada histórica y actual del estado de la seguridad ciudadana y el delito a nivel mundial. Después repasa los principales conceptos, teorías y estudios científicos que procuran explicar esa situación de seguridad y delito. En base a una ordenación de estas teorías en ejes descriptivos, presenta un modelo teó...
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El enfoque de gobernanza local está marcando la dirección del cambio de paradigma en la gestión pública a nivel internacional. Este libro describe de forma práctica una serie de sistemas innovadores y buenas prácticas de gestión eficiente y eficaz de los servicios públicos, enfocándose especialmente en la seguridad y la justicia. La obra refleja un...
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El libro recoge artículos de los ponentes del Congreso Internacional de Seguridad Ciudadana en la Sociedad Diversa, celebrado en Madrid en 2011. Los artículos abordan diferentes innovaciones en la investigación e intervención en seguridad ciudadana de 12 países. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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The present study examines psychosocial correlates of physiological reaction patterns (heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance, and respiratory measures) to four types of operant contingencies (reward, extinction, punishment, and avoidance) recorded during a computer test to a sample of 32 Dutch university freshmen. Child-rearing factors (Warm...
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The highly technological and complex society of our global XXI Century society poses critical challenges to the role of the university education, but also great opportunities. Some of them are related to our highly international classroom within the European Higher Educational Area (EHEA). Other ones are related to the spectacular availability of a...
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Educational psychology has been traditionally little present at university levels. It is usually assumed that a university student already masters the same type of learning skills expected in higher education. Many university student failures could be related to these assumptions. New information technologies and globalizing trends are contributing...
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This overarching research merges environmental and social information using an innovative and participatory methodology, achieving a whole picture of the territory (coast of Cantabria, Spain). Results bring a taxonomy of territories according the uses and environmental and cultural impacts. This offers a more participatory and dynamic coastal plann...
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The book describes a series of intertwined studies on the same rural territory (Lamason, Cantabria, Spain), providing an overarching analysis of the social, cultural, and natural challenges and potentials for local and community development. The studies used participatory research to raise collective creative and innovative solutions based on local...
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La situación actual de una comarca rural y sus necesidades y recursos es aquí estudiada desde un enfoque integral del territorio, incluyendo ámbitos demográficos, económicos, y psicosociales. Se realizaron análisis de datos estadísticos, de entrevistas etnológicas, y de visitas de campo en lugares representativos, integrando la información cuantita...
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A hipertensão arterial tem sido estudada sob vários enfoques. As pesquisas demonstram a conexão entre os determinantes sociais e as manifestaçõesda doença. Este estudo trata dos estressores sociais de hipertensão na Vila Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Relata e discute osresultados do trabalho realizado junto a esta população, no qua...
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The origins of systemic high blood pressure has been studied from a wide array of different approaches. Researches suggests a very close connection between social environment stressors and all the manifestations of the disease itself. The present study deals with relevant social stressors that might be related to the high rates of high blood pressu...
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The present study searches for the socio-cultural correlates o£ psycho-physiological activity. After a comprehensive theoretical and empirical review, an integrative model is described. In it, socio-demographic variables are undestood as affecting psycho- physiological activity mainly through child-rearing practices. Three most important child-rear...
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This paper presents a cross-cultural study on the relationships between socio-cultural variables and child affective development. Using an integrative approach, general models on the topic were analyzed in order to obtain an ovearching theoretical framework for the literature review of empirical studies. In the review an effort was made to integrat...

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