Francisco Herrera Clavero

Síndrome de desgaste profesional en trabajadores de atención a la salud en el área sanitaria de Ceuta

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the levels of burnout among employees of health care workers in the Health Area of Ceuta (Spain). DESIGN Prevalence study. SETTING Ceuta Health Area (Primary and Specialty Care). PARTICIPANTS A sample of 200 workers stratified by sex, job and workplace. MEASUREMENTS The tool used was the MBI (Maslach Burnout Inventory). We also studied personal (age, sex, marital status) and work variables (centre, job, age) and blood parameters (C-reactive protein and others). RESULTS The burnout syndrome was present in 17.2% of workers (95% CI: 10.4-26.0). There was a significant relationship with job, with differences in emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and professional achievement. C-reactive protein was significantly higher in workers with burnout. CONCLUSIONS Burnout prevalence in the health care workers in our sample is similar to other studies. The differences between health and non-health workers could be due to greater motivation for professional achievement, but they scored higher in exhaustion and depersonalisation. The increase in C-reactive protein, a non-specific inflammation marker, seems to confirm the findings of other studies.

La inteligencia emocional como predictora del rendimiento académico en la infancia: el contexto pluricultural de Ceuta

There´s a high concern about the low results in the different academic areas, which promotes the search of new teaching techniques and methods. These sudden changes make our students to be constantly on the look out for new abilities in order to adapt to this ever-changing process. From this point of view we stress the relevance of the whole range of emotions and their appropriate control to achieve higher academic results. The main objective of this paper is to reflect the predictors of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Academic Achievement (AA) of children from 6 to 12 in the city of Ceuta. To make it possible we focused on 404 participants from 4 different schools that clearly reflect the city’s multicultural features; 47.8% of them are boys and 52.2% girls, 68.8% are Muslims and 31.2% Christians. The techniques used in this survey are a similar adaptation of MSCEIT, Salovey & Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (Mayer et al., 2009) as well as the children’s grades. The results show medium-high levels on all of the research variables. The predictors of EI are grade and AA. Socioeconomic and cultural and custom/religion work as a predictor, but not in all cases. The predictors of AA are EI, customs/religion and grade. Socioeconomic and cultural variable is a predictor of two factors. We have also found a statistically significant relationship between EI and AA which increases when EI levels are higher.

PERFIL CONATIVO DE UNA MUESTRA DE NIñOS DE LA CALLE DE CEUTA COnATiVE PROFiLE OF A SAMPLE OF STREET CHiLdREn OF CEuTA

This research seeks to achieve two goals: First, to identify the conative profile of a sample of street children from the Autonomous City of Ceuta and, secondly, to emphasize the need to incorporate to the traditional study of the specific characteristics of street children and youth, other aspects that, at world-wide level, share each other as a population group. The obtained data allows us to affirm the existence of two differentiated profiles that cluster the chil dren of the sample. The first profile groups the children who “adapt better” to the institutional scope

Qué ocurre entre el autoconcepto y el rendimiento académico, en un contexto pluricultural. = What happens between the self-concept and the academic achievement, in a pluricultural context.

RESUMEN Este trabajo pretende describir y explicar los diferentes tipos (dimensiones), niveles y relaciones del autoconcepto y el rendimiento academico del alumnado en un contexto educativo pluricultural, como base para poder disenar, desarrollar y evaluar la intervencion mas adecuada.Los analisis llevados a cabo han permitido constatar diferencias estadisticamente significativas en diversas dimensiones del autoconcepto y el rendimiento, por curso, cultura y sexo; destacando particularmente la desventaja del alumnado musulman.Asimismo, se han podido observar correlaciones moderadas entre las variables estudiadas y, ademas, el poder de prediccion del autoconcepto sobre el rendimiento, en sus distintas dimensiones. ABSTRACT This work tries to describe and to explain the different types (dimensions), levels and relations of self-concept and academic achievement of pupils in a pluricultural educational context, as a basis to be able to design, develop and evaluate the most suitable intervention.The analyses carried out have allowed to state statistically significant differences in diverse dimensions of self-concept and academic achievement, by course, culture and gender; particularly emphasizing the disadvantage of the Muslim pupils.Also, it has been possible to observe moderate correlations between the studied variables and, in addition, the power of prediction of self-concept on academic achievement, in its different dimensions.