Adaptación a la prisión y ajuste psicológico en una muestra de internos en centros penitenciarios

  1. MERCEDES NOVO 3
  2. ANA PEREIRA 1
  3. MARÍA JOSÉ VÁZQUEZ 2
  4. BÁRBARA G. AMADO 1
  1. 1 Unidade de Psicoloxía Forense, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  2. 2 Departame nto AIPSE, Universidade de Vigo
  3. 3 Facultade de Psicoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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Revista:
Acción psicológica

ISSN: 1578-908X

Año de publicación: 2017

Título del ejemplar: Juridic Pyschology

Volumen: 14

Número: 2

Páginas: 113-128

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5944/AP.14.2.20784 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Acción psicológica

Resumen

Aunque la literatura ha abordado ampliamente el estudio de la prisionización, el estudio de los efectos de las va­riables criminológicas en la adaptación a prisión y del status social en prisión, y de éstas en el ajuste psicoló­gico y las destrezas cognitivas que emplean los internos no ha sido suficientemente trabajado. Para conocer de ello, evaluamos en variables criminológicas, adaptación a prisión, status social en prisión, ajuste psicológico y destrezas cognitivas a una muestra de 112 internos varo­nes en cumplimiento de una pena privativa de libertad de una prisión portuguesa, con edades entre 23 y 74 años (M = 40.40, DT = 1.04), 77 (68.8 %) con antecedentes penales (reincidentes). Los resultados revelaron que las variables criminológicas (e.g., problemas en la familia) estaban relacionados con niveles más bajos de adapta­ción prisión. Además, los internos presentaban peor ajuste psicológico que la población general, y los reinci­dentes que los primarios. Asimismo, también pusieron de manifiesto que los internos se caracterizaban en la reso­lución de problemas por recurrir a estrategias de afron­tamiento evitativas (i.e., Evitación cognitiva, Aceptación o Resignación, Búsqueda de recompensas alternativas, Descarga emocional), en detrimento de las aproximativas (i.e., Análisis lógico). Se discuten las implicaciones de los resultados para el diseño de programas de interven­ción dentro de prisión y la preparación para la vida en li­bertad (i.e., tercer grado).

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