Description
Book SynopsisThis work is based on various research carried out from different contexts containing discussions from the national, family structure, staff, sexual, work, parenting styles, risk factors such as crime, among others, to demonstrate advances in psychological research of individuals who are part of a society, group, or community. This knowledge is intended to contribute to the development of new forms of intervention and social research that guarantee the timely attention to social phenomena through a legal, theoretical, and scientific framework that has been aroused throughout history in Latin America. This work emphasizes the importance of Latin American scientific psychology in the study, acquiring of knowledge about, and understanding of the progress of human behavior regarding reality, about the different situations that happen to it in fields such as politics, education and in improving the quality of life of people.
Table of ContentsPreface; Posttraumatic Growth in Latin America: What Is It, What Is Known and What Is Its Usefulness?; Optimism, Subjective Well-Being, Hope, and Organizational Social Identity and the Dependent Variable of Job Efficiency; Risk Preferences in Sequential Gambling Decisions: A Study with Betting Games with and Without Requirement of Previous Effort; Concurrent Validity of the Internalized Homonegativity Scale in Its Versions Composed of 14 and 16 Items; Psychology Of Delinquency: Construction and Validity of a Scale to Measure the Willingness to Commit Crime in Young Offenders and Those at Criminal Risk; Index.
