  We investigate the structure of the SU(3) octet and decuplet baryons
employing a constituent quark model designed for the study of the baryon-baryon
interaction and successfully applied to the meson spectra. The model considers
through the interacting potential perturbative, one-gluon exchange, and
non-perturbative, boson exchanges and confinement, aspects of the underlying
theory, QCD. We solve the three-quark problem by means of the Faddeev method in
momentum space. We analyze the effect of the different terms in the interaction
and make contact with the use of relativistic kinematics. We find an
explanation to the strong contribution of the pseudoscalar forces in the
semirelativistic approach for the octet baryons. A phenomenological recipe for
the regularization parameter of the one-gluon exchange is found.
