Tosu, Dilara (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
The dissertation explores individuals' attitudes towards redistribution. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 present two dynamic theoretical models that are used to analyze the interrelation between education ...
Alarcón Galindo, Xavier (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
Over the last decade the number of unaccompanied immigrant youths and asylum seekers has increased worldwide. The arrival of minors from Northwestern Africa and asylum seekers, mainly from Latin America ...
Arredondo Koriat, Arantxa Yagoda (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
Trauma and existential concerns are humanly universal issues, which constitute fundamental psychological aspects and whose possible associations are not completely understood. The main objective of this ...
Ballester Coma, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-05-31)
The objectives were to estimate the frequency of mental disorders among Spanish university students, their association with role impairment and the use of treatment. Also, to identify risk and protective ...
Correa Pinzón, John Enrique (Date of defense: 2022-11-18)
This thesis studies the effects of hard skills and soft skills and risk attitudes on the likelihood of starting a company in the US. Hard skills are those skills that can be learned and trained. They ...
Uribe León, Mónica (Date of defense: 2021-06-11)
As indicated by Palomar (2007), beyond being a biological fact, motherhood is also a social construction located in a specific historical-cultural context, composed of particular discourses and practices ...
Popartan, Lucia Alexandra (Date of defense: 2020-10-08)
The thesis studies the discursive construction of cognitive frames in the water sector in order to understand the dynamics of politicisation and depoliticisation in the water conflict in Barcelona ...
Donoso Pérez, Gonzalo Armando (Date of defense: 2021-09-21)
The present research work is composed by two independent studies. The first study explores how access, management and use of Information and Communication Technologies in secondary schools are related ...
Ditzel, Ana Loreto (Date of defense: 2022-06-07)
This doctoral thesis aims to explore different aspects of the subjective well-being of children living in conditions of social vulnerability and participating in after-school programs in Chile. To this ...
Úbeda Arias, Yulán (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)
The rating method is based on raters’ assessment on animal behavior by using descriptive items on a questionnaire. Some psychometric and pragmatic aspects have been translated ...