The magnitude-estimation method from the social psychophysics was used to study the relative importance that men and women, with different number of children, assigned to 63 marital activities. The results were adjusted with a power function from which the exponent describes the rate of relative importance assigned to the activities. For men, the exponent was progressively lower as the number of children increased. For women, the exponent remained more or less at the same level regardless of the number of children. An analysis by marital-interaction areas corroborated the changes in the global exponents previously described. The importance of social psychophysics to analyze phenomena such as marital satisfaction is discussed.Key words: Magnitude-estimation method, power function, social psychophysics, marital satisfaction. RESUMENSe empleó el método de estimación de las magnitudes de la psicofísica social para averiguar la importancia que hombres y mujeres, con diferentes números de hijos, asignaron a 63 actividades maritales. Se ajustaron los resultados con una función de poder cuyo exponente muestra la razón de importancia de las actividades. Se encontró que para los hombres el exponente disminuyó conforme aumentó el número de hijos. Para las mujeres el exponente permaneció más o menos igual, independientemente del número de hijos. Un análisis por áreas de la interacción marital corroboró los cambios en los exponentes globales previamente descritos. Estos resultados muestran la utilidad de la psicofísica social para analizar fenómenos como la satisfacción marital.Palabras Clave: Método de estimación de las magnitudes, función de poder, psicofísica social, satisfacción marital.Artículo recibido/Article
Self-controlled behavior, defined as refraining from taking a reward until an external criterion is reached, was study with 36 participants that were exposed to pairs of TV videos which were available according to the following contingency. An attempt to play the first video (SR1) turned off it and cancelled the second video (SR2) presentation, otherwise SR2 could be played. Four SR1 durations were programmed according to three repetitive time cycles (T cycle) of different length each one. The obtained duration of SR1 de percentage of SR2 delivered per session were lower as SR1 duration was lengthened and this effect was higher with longer T cycles. These findings show the viability of this type of procedure to study self-controlled behavior. RESUMENSe estudió la conducta autocontrolada definida como "abstenerse" de consumir una recompensa para consumirla después en 36 estudiantes expuestos a pares de presentaciones de un video que podían ver conforme a la siguiente contingencia. Si intentaban reproducir el primer video (ER1) este se apagaba y se cancelaba el segundo video (ER2); en el caso contrario, se podía reproducir el ER2. Se programaron cuatro duraciones del ER1 conforme a tres duraciones de un ciclo de tiempo repetitivo (ciclo T). Las duraciones obtenidas del ER1 y el porcentaje de ER2 obtenido por sesión fueron menores conforme se alargó el ER1 y este efecto fue mayor con ciclos T más largos. Estos hallazgos muestran la viabilidad del procedimiento para estudiar el autocontrol.Palabras clave: Parámetros temporales, conducta autocontrolada, videos de TV, humanos.Artículo recibido/Article
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