Universidad de Extremadura EspañaResumen. La comprensión lectora es uno de los principales temas de estudio en el ámbito educativo, tanto por la complejidad de los procesos y habilidades implicados como por la importancia que tiene en la adquisición de contenidos escolares. El déficit en la lectura comprensiva es consecuencia de varios factores entre los que se encuentra la pobreza de vocabulario. Con nuestra investigación tratamos de determinar en qué medida existen dificultades en la comprensión lectora en escolares de educación primaria y si existen limitaciones en el vocabulario de los niños que la presentan.Palabras clave: comprensión; lectura; vocabulario; educación; investigación aplicada.
Abstract.Reading comprehension is one of the principal areas of study in the educational field, as much for the complexity of the processes and abilities it implicates as for its importance in school children's education. The reading comprehension deficit is a consequence of several factors, one of which is found to be poverty of vocabulary. Our investigation tried to determine the level of reading comprehension difficulties in primary school children, and to assess the limitations of their vocabulary.
This research analyses the level of psychosocial adaptation of young victims of physical neglect who are under care orders for their protection and in residential care centres. The aim was to determine the relationships between the different levels of competence and/or functioning in the various areas of adaptation. Young people between the ages of 12 and 14 years participated in the study. The instruments used to evaluate their psychosocial adaptation were the Inventory of Behavioural Adaptation and the Multifactorial Self‐evaluation Child Adaptation Test. The results indicate that young people suffering from physical neglect have difficulties in various areas of psychosocial adaptation. There is evidence of greater problems in the personal, social and school context than in the family context. The study stresses the importance of programmes applied in residential care centres and individualised educational treatments for the psychosocial adjustment of these young people, while also taking into account the personal, social and family circumstances that surround them.
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This research analyses psychosocial adaptation of young victims of physical neglect under care orders or institutionalised in residential care centres.
The sample was made up of young people institutionalised in residential care centres.
Results point to difficulties in various areas of psychosocial adaptation.
There is evidence of greater problems in the personal, social and school context than in the family context.
The study stresses the importance of the programmes applied in the residential care centres.
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