<p>Bakgrund: Idag (år 2009) är hjärtinfarkt den vanligaste dödsorsaken i Sverige. När hjärtat drabbas upplever människor ett hot mot livet och mot allt som känns viktigt att kunna utföra i det dagliga livet. Sådana upplevelser är emotionellt laddade, vilket i sin tur påverkar både patienten och familjen. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva emotionella upplevelser hos personer som har vårdats på sjukhus på grund av hjärtinfarkt. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie har gjorts där vetenskapliga artiklar har granskats och aktuell forskning har sammanställts under fyra kategorier till ett nytt resultat. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i fyra kategorier: <em>Reaktioner, förändringar i livet, bemötande och trygghet i eftervården,</em>vilka presenteras i resultatet. Slutsats: det sociala nätverkets betydelse, Resultatet visade att de som insjuknat i hjärtinfarkt mår emotionellt dåligt efter utskrivning till hemmet. Det visade även att det finns brister i hjärtrehabiliteringsprogrammen och att personer som insjuknat i hjärtinfarkt upplever att den information de får om sin diagnos och om eftervården är bristfällig. Sjuksköterskans roll är att lindra lidande. Det är viktigt att vi som sjuksköterskor har ett holistiskt synsätt och uppmärksammar patientens hela situation och inte bara den medicinska diagnosen.</p> / <p>Background: Today myocardial infarction is the most common cause of death in Sweden. When the heart is affected by a heart attack people experience a threat against life and against everything that feels important to be able to do in life. Such experience is emotionally charged, which in turn affects both the patient and his family for a long time. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe emotional experiences in persons who had been in hospital care because of a myocardial infarction. Method: A literature review has been made, where a scientific article on the subject has been analyzed and the result presented as four categories. Results: The four categories are: <em>reactions, changes in life, treatment and safety</em>witch is presented in the result. in aftercare, the meaning of the social network, Conclusion: The results show that the persons who had suffered a myocardial infarction felt emotionally ill after coming home from the hospital. There where also a lack of support in the heartrehabilitationprogrammes and the participants who had suffered an myocardial infarction felt that there was a need of information regarding their diagnoses and the after care. The nurse’s role is to mitigate suffering. It’s important that the nurse implies a holistic vision and observes the whole patients situation and not only the medical diagnose.</p>

Bakgrund: Idag (år 2009) är hjärtinfarkt den vanligaste dödsorsaken i Sverige. När hjärtat drabbas upplever människor ett hot mot livet och mot allt som känns viktigt att kunna utföra i det dagliga livet. Sådana upplevelser är emotionellt laddade, vilket i sin tur påverkar både patienten och familjen. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva emotionella upplevelser hos personer som har vårdats på sjukhus på grund av hjärtinfarkt. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie har gjorts där vetenskapliga artiklar har granskats och aktuell forskning har sammanställts under fyra kategorier till ett nytt resultat. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i fyra kategorier: Reaktioner, förändringar i livet, bemötande och trygghet i eftervården,vilka presenteras i resultatet. Slutsats: det sociala nätverkets betydelse, Resultatet visade att de som insjuknat i hjärtinfarkt mår emotionellt dåligt efter utskrivning till hemmet. Det visade även att det finns brister i hjärtrehabiliteringsprogrammen och att personer som insjuknat i hjärtinfarkt upplever att den information de får om sin diagnos och om eftervården är bristfällig. Sjuksköterskans roll är att lindra lidande. Det är viktigt att vi som sjuksköterskor har ett holistiskt synsätt och uppmärksammar patientens hela situation och inte bara den medicinska diagnosen. / Background: Today myocardial infarction is the most common cause of death in Sweden. When the heart is affected by a heart attack people experience a threat against life and against everything that feels important to be able to do in life. Such experience is emotionally charged, which in turn affects both the patient and his family for a long time. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe emotional experiences in persons who had been in hospital care because of a myocardial infarction. Method: A literature review has been made, where a scientific article on the subject has been analyzed and the result presented as four categories. Results: The four categories are: reactions, changes in life, treatment and safetywitch is presented in the result. in aftercare, the meaning of the social network, Conclusion: The results show that the persons who had suffered a myocardial infarction felt emotionally ill after coming home from the hospital. There where also a lack of support in the heartrehabilitationprogrammes and the participants who had suffered an myocardial infarction felt that there was a need of information regarding their diagnoses and the after care. The nurse’s role is to mitigate suffering. It’s important that the nurse implies a holistic vision and observes the whole patients situation and not only the medical diagnose.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:34:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VictorZaia.pdf: 1290098 bytes, checksum: 0726c62d2a12344770061aa35626b0ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aimed to evaluate the Quality of Life (QoL) depressive symptoms, stress, sexual satisfaction and emotional experiences in patients with infertility. Participated in the study 500 subjects (men and women), with a minimum age of 18 years, atendy at service of assisted reproductive technology (ART), located in the Greater ABC Paulista, Brazil. For the evaluations, we used the following tools: WHOQOL-Bref, BDI-II, ISQ, ICQ, ISS and socio-demographic questionnaire. The subjects showed a high level of education (62.4pc), good economic situations (80.2pc), the majority over 30 years (82.8pc) and primary infertility (73.2pc). On the QV, levels of depression and stress are men to have better results than women. Sexual satisfaction was found on 56.6pc of subjects, with no differences between the genders. The analysis showed a greater number of women compared to men who seek service (64.8pc). It has been shown that besides the difficulty of the problem of infertility care in ART, in itself, is an impact on the lives of these people. Several research participants have described changes in mood (42.8pc), symptoms of depression (38.8%) and stress (41.4pc) above the general population average. Considering the specific quality of life was examined whether a greater impact in the psychological domain (15.20 points) when compared to the physical domain (15.68 points). The results also showed the importance of psychotherapy for people in care in ART / Este estudo teve como objetivos avaliar a Qualidade de Vida (QV), sintomas depressivos, estresse, satisfação sexual e vivências emocionais em pacientes que apresentam infertilidade. Participaram deste estudo 500 pessoas (mulheres e homens), com idade igual ou maior a 18 anos, pacientes de um ambulatório de reprodução humana localizado no Grande ABC Paulista. O estudo utilizou instrumentos de avaliação autoaplicáveis: WHOQOL-Bref, BDI-II, ISQ, ICQ, ISS e questionário sócio-demográfico. A caracterização da amostra estudada demostrou alto nível escolar (62,4pc), boa condição econômica (80,2pc, idade superior a 30 anos (82,8pc) e a maioria apresenta infertilidade primária (73,2pc). Quanto à QV, níveis de depressão e estresse os homens apresentam melhores resultados quando comparados às mulheres. No que ser refere aos níveis de satisfação sexual 56,6% dos participantes descrevem ter satisfação sexual, mas 45,4% afirmam ter insatisfação sexual e não houve diferença entre os gêneros. As análises dos dados mostraram que é maior o número de mulheres do que o de homens que procuram atendimento para infertilidade (64,8pc). Pôde-se comprovar que além das dificuldades provenientes da infertilidade, o tratamento, também, impacta sobre a vida dessas pessoas. Foram diversos participantes que descreveram significativas mudanças (42,8pc), dos quais apontaram em maioria absoluta (92,6pc) uma piora no estado de humor devido ao tratamento. Como também é alto o índice de pessoas que descrevem sintomas de depressão (38,8pc) e estresse (31,4pc) acima da média da população geral. Ao considerar as especificidades da qualidade de vida averiguou-se um maior impacto no domínio psicológico dos pacientes (15,20 pontos) comparado ao físico (15,68 pontos). Estes resultados ressaltam a importância do atendimento psicológico para as pessoas em programas de reprodução humana.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:34:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ALINE FERREIRA DE LIMA.pdf: 680123 bytes, checksum: 8591da3dacdb9ac03f9e424483b2137b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-07 / This is a qualitative survey that investigated the perception of risk factors and health protection in adolescent users of social networking sites, to characterize the emotional experiences from the adolescents, social network users at the Internet and discuss the contribution of the experiences of virtual friendships for the emotional links in the live context. This work was conducted with 13 adolescents between 16 and 18 ages, students of the National Service of Commercial Learning (Senac São Paulo), from February to July 2011, was used as an instrument for data collection the Focus Group and the content was recorded by means of a voice recorder, and subsequently transcribed. Data analysis was performed using Grounded Theory. During this study it was possible to investigate the risk factors and health protection in adolescent users of social networks at the Internet, we highlight some important mechanisms of protection, such as blocking of your personal information to strangers in order to protect of risks arising from improper use of the material posted on the web. / Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que buscou investigar a percepção de fatores de risco e de proteção à saúde em adolescentes usuários de redes sociais na internet, caracterizar as experiências emocionais dos adolescentes, usuários das redes sociais da internet e discutir a contribuição das experiências das amizades virtuais para o vínculo afetivo no âmbito presencial. Esse trabalho foi realizado com 13 adolescentes, entre 16 e 18 anos, estudantes do Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial de São Paulo (SENAC São Paulo), no período de fevereiro a Julho de 2011, foi utilizado como instrumento para obtenção dos dados o Grupo Focal e o conteúdo foi registrado por meio de um gravador de voz e transcrito posteriormente. A análise dos dados foi realizada através da Grounded Theory. Durante esse estudo foi possível investigar os fatores de risco e de proteção à saúde em adolescentes usuários das redes sociais na internet, destacamos alguns mecanismos importantes de proteção, como o bloqueio de suas informações pessoais a desconhecidos para se protegerem de riscos decorrentes de uso indevido do material postado na rede.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:29:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliane Gasparini.pdf: 2989781 bytes, checksum: 336ce92e619721141fd7369dba5d739c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-27 / This study relates the emotional experiences of infertile couples who decided to seek help in reproductive treatment. The objectives were: to investigate and analyze the main emotional reactions experienced by couples during the fertility treatment; to study the consequences of the reproductive treatment in couple s bonds as well as their bonds with the medical staff and the psychologist; to understand the psychic representations of the desire to have children when associated to a reproductive treatment, and to describe the psychologist s impressions and emotional experience in regard to the couples subjected to the study. Six couples with different medical diagnosis for infertility, seeking for medical treatment for such a problem were surveyed as primary source of information. For the purpose of the study were used methods and techniques such as the psychoanalytical method applied to the couple group ? special group ? according to K?es (1977) and Anzieu (1993), as well as he technique of non-directive interview of Bleger (1993), and the projective technique of free drawings. The technique of content analysis proposed by Mathieu (1967) and K?es (1977) was used to analyze the material collected. Psychoanalysis and group analysis theories were employed in the interpretation of couple s subjective experiences. From the analysis of the interviews and drawings, some elements in the couple s group mentality could be identified, among them the hipercatexization of the desire to have children. The difficulties associated to satisfying such desire unchained a regressive movement and also defensive reactions. The attempt to preserve omnipotent fantasies has compromised the process of tolerance to frustration and to the capacity to wait, or reformulation of the couple s projects. Persecutory-related anguishes were broken out, mainly in the elements of the couples whose personality aspects happened to be compromised the most. Infertility diagnosis as well as the various different fertility treatments led to the unstructuring of couple s bonds. We could observe the loss of intimacy and decrease in sexual desire after successive fertility treatments that break link between sexual intercourse and the reproductive act. Both the desire to transmit genetic heritage forward and the appreciation of biologic child are still part of couple s psychic representations. The biological-child, from the same blood, is the dreamt and idealized child. The satisfactory bond that the couple established with medical staff has interfered in how safe they feel and in their levels of hope and confidence that the fertility treatment will yield positive results. The majority of the couples managed to establish satisfactory bonds with the psychologist, using the interview session as a way to freely express their emotional experiences. The experience with infertile couples on one hand has allowed to increase their level of sensitivity in regard to the emotional phenomena associated to infertility, and on the other hand has helped such couples to think about appropriate means to deal with some problems that are a consequence of this situation. The method used in this study has assured good conditions for research and analysis once it has made possible the proper interpretation of the relationships between the elements of the couple, between the couple and the institution and of the couple and the psychologist. A work of such transference nature is based on the assumption that it is possible to understand the intensity of the psychic representations of the couple group. We recommend the creation of new environments where infertile couples can keep on freely discussing their desires, difficulties, fantasies and hopes, making it easier to understand the experiences originated from infertility. / Este estudo relata as viv?ncias emocionais de casais que apresentavam dificuldades para engravidar e que decidiram buscar ajuda na medicina reprodutiva. Os objetivos foram: investigar e analisar as principais rea??es emocionais desencadeadas no casal ao longo do tratamento para a infertilidade; estudar a repercuss?o do tratamento reprodutivo no v?nculo do casal, bem como do casal com a equipe m?dica e do casal com a psic?loga; compreender as representa??es ps?quicas em torno do desejo de ter filhos quando associadas a um tratamento reprodutivo, e descrever as impress?es e viv?ncias emocionais da psic?loga com rela??o aos casais estudados. Foram estudados seis casais, com diferentes diagn?sticos m?dicos para infertilidade, e que buscaram aux?lio na medicina reprodutiva. Utilizou-se o m?todo psicanal?tico aplicado ao grupo casal - grupo especial, conforme K?es (1977) e Anzieu (1993), assim como a t?cnica da entrevista livre n?o-diretiva de Bleger (1993), e a t?cnica projetiva do desenho livre. Para a an?lise do material coletado foi adotada a t?cnica de an?lise do conte?do proposta por Mathieu (1967) e K?es (1977), e para interpretar as experi?ncias subjetivas dos casais utilizaram-se as teorias da psican?lise e grupan?lise. A partir da an?lise das entrevistas e desenhos, alguns elementos foram identificados na mentalidade do grupo casal, entre eles a hipercatexiza??o do desejo de ter filhos. A dificuldade em atender a este desejo desencadeou um movimento regressivo e rea??es defensivas. A tentativa de preservar fantasias onipotentes dificultou o processo de toler?ncia ? frustra??o e ? capacidade de espera, ou reformula??o dos projetos do casal. Ang?stias de car?ter persecut?rio foram desencadeadas, principalmente naqueles c?njuges cujos aspectos da personalidade encontravam-se mais comprometidos. O diagn?stico da infertilidade, assim como os diversos tratamentos provocaram uma desestrutura??o no v?nculo conjugal. Observamos a perda da intimidade conjugal, a diminui??o do desejo sexual ap?s os sucessivos tratamentos que desvinculam as rela??es sexuais do ato reprodutivo. O desejo de transmitir a heran?a gen?tica e a valoriza??o do filho biol?gico ainda fazem parte das representa??es ps?quicas do casal. O filho biol?gico, do pr?prio sangue , ? o filho sonhado, idealizado. O v?nculo satisfat?rio que o casal estabelece com a equipe m?dica interferiu na sensa??o de seguran?a e esperan?a que os casais depositam no ?xito do tratamento. A maioria dos casais conseguiu estabelecer um v?nculo satisfat?rio com a psic?loga utilizando o espa?o da entrevista como forma de express?o livre das suas experi?ncias emocionais. A experi?ncia com os casais inf?rteis possibilitou por um lado sensibiliz?-los aos fen?menos emocionais diante da situa??o da infertilidade, e por outro, pensar em meios apropriados para resolver alguns dos problemas que surgem diante desta problem?tica. O dispositivo t?cnico que institui a interpreta??o para o trabalho psicanal?tico com os casais sobretudo aqueles inseridos na institui??o garantiu boas condi??es de pesquisa e an?lise, j? que possibilitou a interpreta??o necess?ria entre as rela??es dos membros do casal, entre o casal e a institui??o, e do casal com a psic?loga. Um trabalho desta natureza, de an?lise intertransferencial, baseia-se na concep??o de que ? poss?vel compreender a intensidade das representa??es ps?quicas do grupo casal. Recomendamos a cria??o de novos espa?os onde os casais inf?rteis possam continuar a discutir livremente sobre seus desejos, suas dificuldades, fantasias e esperan?as, facilitando a compreens?o das experi?ncias advindas com a infertilidade.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-10-02T13:28:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Caroline Teixeira Ortega_.pdf: 915980 bytes, checksum: 9bda19ffbc0b4e1743cc4b67ea718cd5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-02T13:28:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Caroline Teixeira Ortega_.pdf: 915980 bytes, checksum: 9bda19ffbc0b4e1743cc4b67ea718cd5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-24 / Nenhuma / Os calçados femininos exercem importante papel na vida das mulheres à medida que representam símbolos como poder, elegância e sensualidade. O amor declarado por calçados é comumente percebido na sociedade e pode ser compreendido como o resultado de um conjunto de experiências emocionais positivas vividas pelas mulheres. Dessa forma, o calçado é visto como pertencente a um sistema que engloba elementos que transcendem os aspectos físicos do produto. Sob o âmbito de sistema-produto, este estudo objetivou analisar as experiências femininas de dez mulheres de 20 a 53 anos com seus calçados declarados amados a partir de uma análise de appraisals. Esta análise foi realizada através de Análise de Conteúdo, que possibilitou relacionar dez categorias empíricas aos sete componentes do modelo componencial da Teoria dos Appraisals. Este estudo permite compreender os gatilhos emocionais que levaram as entrevistadas desta pesquisa a amarem seus sapatos. Contudo, também como resultado, este trabalho apresenta elementos que poderão contribuir aos designers para projetar calçados que possam vir a se tornar amados pelo público feminino. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa contribui para os estudos sobre calçados femininos e para a área de design emocional. / Female shoes have important role in women’s life as they represent symbols of power, elegance and sensuality. Shoes assumed love is commonly seen in our society and can be understood as a result of a set of positive emotional experiences lived by women. In this way, the shoe is perceived as belonging in a system that encompasses elements that transcend the physical aspects of the product. Under the product system scope, this study aimed to analyze experiences of ten women from 20 to 53 years old with their loved shoes from an Appraisals analysis. This analysis was made by content analysis, that enabled to conceive empiric categories which were related to seven appraisals components of Appraisals Theory. This study enable to understand the positive emotional triggers that resulted in the love by shoes. Thereby, as a result, this study relates elements which can contribute to designer to design shoes which can become loved shoes by women. Therefore, this research also contributes to women’s shoes studies and for emotional design area.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This thesis is about HELLP Syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count in pregnancy): a devastating maternal hypertensive complication that results in multi-system changes that can rapidly deteriorate into organ failure and death. Despite rapid advancesin medical technology and medical science this disease continues to take the lives of women and their infants. The only effective intervention for this disorder is immediate termination irrespective of the gestational stage of the pregnancy. The primary objective of this thesis was to explore the subjective experiences and meaningmaking processes of women in and through their high-risk pregnancies. This objective crystallised into the following aims: to facilitate and listen to the voices of women who were HELLP Syndrome survivors; to explore the reported bodily, psychological and emotional experiences of HELLP Syndrome survivors; to understand the role medical intervention and biomedical discourses play in these women’s experiences and finally to explore the subjective experiences of HELLP Syndrome in the context of traditionallyheld notions of motherhood. The study was couched in a feminist poststructuralist epistemology. A material-discursive framework which comprised phenomenological and poststructuralist theorising was usedin an attempt to understand both the lived experiences as well as the discursively constructed nature of those subjective experiences. Thus the analysis encompassed both a broadly phenomenological framework to understand the lived experiences of HELLP Syndrome, and a discourse analysis to explore the meaning-making processes of participants in relation to larger social discourses, in particular the dominant biomedical and motherhood discourses. A qualitative approach using in depth semi-structured interviews was utilisedto gather data. Eleven participants from very diverse backgrounds consented to be part of thisstudy. The findings of the study highlighted the immense trauma, difficulties and challenges participants faced in these high-risk situations. What was evident from the analysis was that their experiences were so diverse and werecompletely shaped by the severity of the disorder and the gestational stage of the pregnancy. Some women ended up in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) and had near-death experiences, some had very premature babies, while some of the participants lost their babies during the process. With regards to the emotional, psychological and corporeal aspects of the disorder,participants described their situations as a disaster, painful and difficult. Due to the rapid deterioration of symptoms, they described the tempo of these events as a whirlwind in which they felt they had no control. Emotions ranged from shock, total disbelief and surprise to anger, helplessness and powerlessness. Lacking knowledge and access to appropriate information further compounded the situation for participants. Theparticipants who had premature babies found the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit experience (NICU) extremely challenging and stressful. A discourse analysis revealed that women’s talk was shaped by the disciplinary frameworks oftechnocratic medicine and patriarchal notions of gender. Participants’ discourses about their encounters inthe medical context werelocated in, and shaped by, the structure of health care in our country. In this regard binaries (like private versus public health care, women versus men and nurses versus doctors) were evident. Furthermore their hospital stay reflected their experiences in the Intensive Care (ICU) and the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) both of which are highly technologically orientated and managed. Biomedical discourses that filtered through the participants’ talk were: medicine as indisputable truth;mechanistic model of the body as machine; medical doctors as gods and the foetus as ‘super subject’. Discourses of risk were inevitably taken up as participants tried to make sense of both their current pregnancies and the potential ones to follow. The passage into motherhood for these participants was dependent on whether they had live babies or not. For those who had live babies it was a difficult time as they had to contend with their own recovery as well as the prematurity of their infants. The NICU experience was described as tiring, trying and cumbersome. For mothers who lost their babies it was a time of profound sadness and loss coupled to the notion that motherhood itself was lost. This loss of their children symbolised broken dreams, severed connections and a powerful taboo. In addition, discourses in which motherhood was naturalised and normalised saturated their talk and framed their experience in a narrative of deficit and failure. The ideologies of mother blame and the ‘all responsible’ mother were pervasive in their discussions. In conclusion, this high-risk situation represented a time of tremendous uncertainty and unpredictability for all participants and was powerfully shaped by dominant discourses about motherhood and the biomedical discursive and institutional framework in which participants were subjugated. The study thus highlights how the HELLP syndrome experience illuminates the erasure of women’s subjectivities while the foetus/infants’ life takes precedence. This has significant implications for scholarship in general and feminist scholarship in particular and highlights the need for this type of engagement in an area that has remained on the periphery of feminist research. / South Africa

Objetivo: Describir los factores de riesgo a los que están expuestas las participantes y conocer sus experiencias emocionales. Método: Estudio cualitativo y diseño fenomenológico. Entrevista semiestructurada. La muestra fue de 8 mujeres entre 40 y 60 años. Se realizó un análisis de contenido de las categorías: factores de riesgo y experiencia emocional, para analizar la narración de cada participante. Resultados: La importancia de la salud mental de las participantes para elaborar las experiencias negativas y positivas resulta un factor protector fundamental para su aprendizaje y crecimiento. Conclusiones: Se descubrió que, debido a la complejidad e intensidad de las experiencias emocionales, la salud menta de estas mujeres se convierte en un elemento clave, ya que a partir de ahí se puede determinar su capacidad para lograr integrar y elaborar los aspectos positivos y negativos de sus experiencias. / Objective: To describe the risk factors to which the participants are exposed and to know their emotional experiences. Method: Qualitative study and phenomenological design. Semi-structured interview. The sample consisted of 8 women between 40 and 60 years old. A content analysis of the categories was carried out: risk factors and emotional experience, to analyze the narration of each participant. Results: The importance of the mental health of the participants to elaborate negative and positive experiences is a fundamental protective factor for their learning and growth. Conclusions: Poverty and its risk factors alter their nervous system in various ways, which is manifested in mental imbalances, which must be treated, to minimize the impact on their environment. / Tesis

La presente investigación realiza un recorrido descriptivo e interpretativo respecto a las experiencias de la práctica del mindfulness con niños. Para tal efecto, se utilizó un enfoque cualitativo con carácter fenomenológico interpretativo. Los hallazgos de este estudio se establecen en cuatro categorías inductivas y deductivas, a partir de los fundamentos teóricos y la narración de los niños. De esta manera, es posible el análisis de las experiencias de cada uno de los niños. Para ello se utilizó una entrevista semi-estructurada a 4 niños (dos niños y dos niñas). Así, 2 de los 4 niños especificaron haber experimentado concentrarse durante los ejercicios, sin embargo, todos ellos afirmaron utilizar alguno de sus 5 sentidos para recoger información tanto del medio exterior como el interior. Por otra parte, todos ellos comentaron poder reflexionar y generar un aprendizaje en base a la experiencia del taller. También expresaron la posibilidad de explorar y conocer más sobre sus pensamientos y sentimientos. Finalmente, señalaron haber podido reconocer emociones en ellos y en los demás, con la finalidad de aplicarlas en casos personales. Se concluye que las experiencias de los niños a través del taller de mindfulness, denotan la exploración de elementos mentales y emocionales. / This research carries out a descriptive and interpretive journey regarding the experiences of the practice of mindfulness with children. For this purpose, a qualitative approach with an interpretive phenomenological nature was used. The findings of this study are established in four inductive and deductive categories, based on the theoretical foundations and the children's narration. In this manner, the analysis of the experiences of each of the children is possible. A semi-structured interview was used to collect the information from the 4 children (two boys and two girls). Thus, 2 of the 4 children specified having experienced concentrating during the exercises, however, all of them claimed to use some of their 5 senses to collect information from both the external and internal environment. On the other hand, all of them commented to be able to reflect and generate learning based on the experience of the workshop. They also expressed the possibility of exploring and learning more about their thoughts and feelings. Finally, they indicated having been able to recognize emotions in themselves and in others, in order to apply them in personal cases. This study concludes that the experiences of the children through the mindfulness workshop denote the exploration of mental and emotional elements. / Tesis

This study examines the emotional experiences of 152 respondents visiting ‘light’, ‘lighter’, and ‘lightest’ dark tourism sites and the relationship those experiences have with positive word-of-mouth. Therefore, the theoretical contribution of this study fills in the research gap by focusing on the destinations on the ‘lighter’ periphery of Stone’s Dark Tourism Spectrum. The ‘lighter’ destinations which are more commercialized, education- or entertainment-based in nature. In contrast to the destinations on the ‘darker’ periphery of the Dark Tourism Spectrum which are commemorative and where death and tragedy actually occurred. Our results suggest that tourists experience a broad range of both positive and negative emotions when visiting these destinations. Specifically, emotions like Interest, Positive Surprise, Disgust, and Negative Surprise have been found to have a positive relationship with Positive Word-of-Mouth. The results also suggest the practical contribution of this study and confirm that the suppliers of ‘lighter’ destinations are properly managing the dark tourism sites which results in their visitors to spread positive word-of-mouth.