Alucinaciones y apariciones: exploración intercultual de mediciones perceptuales entre estudiantes limeños y pucallpinos
Hallucinations and apparitions: intercultural exploration of perceptual measures between students from Lima and students from Pucallpa
Persona (Lima); (12), 2009
Publication year: 2009
Se estudiaron dos muestras:
una compuesta por 214 estudiantes de psicología de una universidad de Lima (74% mujeres y 26% varones), y la segunda por 184 estudiantes de educación secundaria de mayores de Pucallpa, (42%mujeres y 58%varones). Tanto estudiantes limeños como pucallpinos con experiencias aparicionales mostraron mayor propensidad a experimentar percepción inusuales pseudoalucinatorias que quienes no tuvieron la experiencia, así como también mayor propensión a la esquizotipia en comparación con quienes no tuvieron estas experiencias.
Two samples were studied, 214 students of psychology at a university in Lima (74% woman, 26% men) and 184 upper secondary students in Pucallpa, Peruvian region of Ucayali (42% women, 58% men). Results show that both students from Lima and from Pucallpa that had had apparitional experiences were more prone to experiment unusual pseudo-hallucinatory perceptions and more prone to skizotypy in comparison to those who reported not having experiences of the sort. In addition, students that had had apparitional experiences showehigher levels in the scales of dissociation, absorption and proness to phantasy compared to students with no apparitional experiences.