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COECYT (State Science and Technology Board of the state of Coahuila) is an independent public organism of the State Public Administration, with its own legal personality and own resources. Its aim is to establish bases t...

Materias / palabras clave: Psychology; Affect (linguistics); Social psychology; Developmental psychology; Communication

In recent studies of the structure of affect, positive and negative affect have consistently emerged as two dominant and relatively independent dimensions. A number of mood scales have been created to measure these facto...

A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost 10-fold tempor...

Perspectives on Sexuality Sex Research - an Overview Part 1. Biological Perspectives: Sexual Anatomy 1. Sexual Physiology 2. Human Reproduction 3. Birth Control 4. Abortion Part 2. Developmental Perspectives: Childhood S...

This study investigated the relation of the “Big Five” personality dimensions (Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience) to three job performance criteria (job p...

We developed a multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress. Five scales (of four items each) measure conceptually distinct aspects of problem-focused coping (active co...

This article describes the development of a new sex-role inventory that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or &amp...

Materias / palabras clave: Classification of mental disorders; Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood; Psychology; Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders; Psychiatry; Prevalence of...

In Childhood and Society, Erik H. Erikson presents his influential theory of psychosocial development, emphasizing the relationship between individual growth and social structures. Drawing on clinical experience and cros...

This article presents a framework for emotional intelligence, a set of skills hypothesized to contribute to the accurate appraisal and expression of emotion in oneself and in others, the effective regulation of emotion i...

Five studies tested two general hypotheses: Individuals differ in their use of emotion regulation strategies such as reappraisal and suppression, and these individual differences have implications for affect, well-being,...

To facilitate a multidimensional approach to empathy the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) includes 4 subscales: Perspective-Taking (PT) Fantasy (FS) Empathic Concern (EC) and Personal Distress (PD). The aim of the pr...

Existe suficiente evidencia de que el apoyo que entrega la familia, especialmente los padres, previene la aparicin de sintomatologa en adolescentes que han sufrido abuso sexual. No obstante, el estudio del rol que juega ...

In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming procedures, and the important psychometrics ...

The present article presents a meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. With 713 independent samples from 515 studies, the meta-analysis finds that intergroup contact typically reduces intergroup prejudice. Multi...

Mindfulness is an attribute of consciousness long believed to promote well-being. This research provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the role of mindfulness in psychological well-being. The development and...