The Constructivist Research Group of the UNED (GICUNED) has been developing its research work in the exploration of the world of personal meanings of individuals, with specific actions in the exploration of the cognitive structure of clinical and non-clinical subjects, studies on cognitive complexity, as well as the exploration of meanings related to specific health problems, such as the acquisition of healthy habits, meanings associated with the implementation of breastfeeding, assessment and attribution of meanings of the different parts of the body in mastectomized women, etc., and their application for psychotherapeutic work.

For the exploration of the world of meanings we use both the Repertory Grid Technique and narrative techniques.

The group has developed specific protocols for the use of the Repertory Grid Technique to generate homogeneous samples for analysis, as well as tools to evaluate the quality of the data obtained and tools to explore the change in personal meanings over time and detection of atypical changes. We have a database of more than 12.000 interviews.