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Abstract The use of instant messaging affects different areas of users’ daily lives (personal, social, family, work). The aim of this research was to develop and validate a scale that measures the negative impact of Wh...

In this paper we review the idea of dissociation, dissociative disorders and their relationship with the processes of consciousness. We will deal specifically with multiple personality disorder and posttraumatic stress d...

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la relación entre el poder sobre la relación de pareja y la doble moral, y su influencia en la predicción del riesgo de infección de VIH en adolescentes colombianos. La muestr...

Abstract The study faces two objectives: (a) to examine the construct validity of the 3x2 Classroom Goal Structures Questionnaire, and (b) to jointly analyze the influence of the classroom goal structures and 3x2 achieve...

Objective: To explore whether the symptoms and diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), as defined in the DSM-IV, are equally impairing for girls and boys from the general population in the early school years. M...

Desde una concepción multidimensional de las expectativas, este artículo pretende analizar la validez y precisión psicométrica de una escala para su medida en los estudiantes universitarios de primer año. La muestra...

Abstract: For almost a century now, the concern of universities about student satisfaction with teaching quality has been increasing. A literature review has enabled the attributes of quality teaching to be classified in...

Abstract This investigation established unpleasant past experience in interdependent and predictive relations with irrational beliefs, test anxiety, self-regulated study and academic stress, variables belonging to the co...

Un área de estudio importante en el acoso escolar continúa siendo el análisis de las causas del fenómeno y de los factores que actuarían como protección/riesgo en los ámbitos culturales, sociales, personales, esco...

This research tested a theoretical model of the relationships between certain psychological variables and creativity. Specifically, the relationships among intelligence, personality, intrinsic motivation, creative self-e...

La literatura sobre cuidadores familiares de adultos mayores señala que la abnegación es un atributo característico en quien asume el rol del cuidado aún a expensas del deterioro de la propia salud física y/o emocio...

Abstract People with Down syndrome experience a type of ambivalent stigmatisation, which combines stereotypes, emotional reactions, and both positive and negative attitudes. The aim of this study is to analyse the relati...

This study analysed the discursive strategies used to construct the phenomenon of gay and lesbian parenting in different public settings such as academia, the media, and the law. A qualitative research method was used: s...

El alcohol es posiblemente la droga psicoactiva más consumida en el mundo. La ingesta moderada es común, pero para algunos individuos el consumo de alcohol se convierte en un trastorno adictivo. La progresión desde un...

Abstract: Psychological capital is a construct that is included in the positive organizational behavior framework, which is based on positive psychology principles. This concept is composed by four dimensions, self-effic...

This study presents a personality evaluation instrument adapted to the vocational setting: the Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire (AVPQ). The questionnaire was developed and tested in a sample of 2160 universi...

Gender stereotypes are beliefs about attributes associated to women and men that reveal gender discrimination. In order to identify changes of gender discrimination, the study of the stereotypes that prevail nowadays is ...

Abstract Drawing from the transformational leadership theory, this study aims to translate and analyse the psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Transformational Teaching Questionnaire (TTQ). A cohort sampl...

Previous research has shown that perceived control, task value, behavioral engagement and disaffection are personal determinants of academic performance. However, little research has simultaneously examined these constru...

Abstract Orthorexia nervosa could be conceptualized as extreme or excessive preoccupation with eating food believed to be healthy. Orthorexia nervosa and healthy orthorexia (interest in healthy eating) can be distinguise...

Las lesiones deportivas son una de las consecuencias más negativas que se derivan de la práctica deportiva. Son múltiples los factores que pueden estar en su origen, creciendo el interés en la búsqueda de las variab...

La reciente publicación del DSM-5, introduce la novedad de aceptar la posibilidad de un diagnóstico comórbido de los Trastorno de Espectro Autista (TEA) y el Trastorno por Déficit de Atención/Hiperactividad (TDAH). ...

Las situaciones de riesgo en conducción requieren, en la mayoría de las ocasiones, una decisión de carácter urgente, distinguiéndose de lo que se ajustaría más a una conducta evaluativa que podría llevar a cabo u...

In this study, we tested in older and younger adults the efficacy of two well-known procedures to experimentally induce anxiety: a) Velten self-statements combined with music; b) film scenes. We extended the previous fin...