Actualidades en Psicología
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description: Actualidades en Psicología (AP) is an official publication of the University of Costa Rica sponsored by the Psychological Research Institute (IIP, for its initials in Spanish), an entity belonging to the same university. Its objective is to promote scientific production in all fields of psychological science and associated fields, which is achieved via the publication of original and unpublished articles that present results of empirical research, mixed studies, methodological contributions, narrative states of the art, meta-analyses and literature reviews. This freely accessible journal is aimed primarily at students and professionals in the area of psychology and related sciences. The journal publishes in Spanish, English and Portuguese. The journal has been published continuously since 2018; i.e., article are published one at the time until the complete issue is compiled (issue closings are held in June and December). The journal’s call for papers is likewise open and permanent; thus, authors are welcome to submit their manuscripts throughout the year. The submissions should reflect the guidance provided under “Authors Guidelines.” Submission, revision and processing of manuscripts is free of charge. The journal is interested in original research contributions to the psychological sciences, which must respect and adhere to the highest ethical and scientific rules. Current Trends in Psychology seeks to encourage scientific investigation, to promote the discussion of relevant ideas for psychological sciences, and to disseminate professional and academic information relevant to the discipline. The journal currently ranks high in the UCRIndex. Furthermore, it is indexed in: PsycINFO , la base de datos de la Asociación Americana de Psicología SCIELO , Biblioteca Científica Electrónica en Línea-Brasil REDALYC , red de revistas para América Latina, el Caribe, Portugal y España PEPSIC , Revistas Electrónicas de Psicología – Brasil DIALNET , base de datos de revistas espa…
publisher: Universidad de Costa Rica
language: en
publication name: Actualidades en Psicología
issn: 0258-6444
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items: Revisores
items: Verification of a Theoretical Model Between Empathy, Ethic Socialization and Cultural Orientation in Young Brazilian
items: Family influence on antisocial behavior in adolescents from Arequipa, Peru
items: El psicólogo en los Centros de Salud: informes distantes del SUS
items: Adaptation of two measures of social support in argentinian university students
items: Measuring Emotion Understanding with the Rasch Model
items: Construction and Statistical Analysis of the Multidimensional Inventory of Romantic Jealousy: Preliminary Study
items: Psychometric Analysis of Attitudes Toward Mathematics Through the Graduated Response Samejima Model
items: Innovations in Measurement: Visual Analog Scales and Retrospective Pretest Self-Report Designs
items: Editorial
items: Evaluadores
items: Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) as a Theoretical Framework to Understand Behavior Change
items: Evaluation of a Multicomponent Tele-care Model for Supporting People with Prediabetes and Obesity in Chile
items: Open Access Scientific Evidence of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Fibromyalgia
items: Factors associated with treatment adherence of Brazilian patients undergoing hemodialysis
items: Relationships between Social Support, Self-Regulation and Drug Consumptions among Portuguese Adults
items: Quality of Life in Costa Rican Patients with Brain Tumors: Neuropsychological Contributions
items: Mindfulness and Symptoms of Depression in Mexican Adolescents High School Students
items: Happiness Differences by Sex and Age in Peruvian University
items: Emotional Intelligence and Health in Aging: PECI-PM Program Benefits
items: (De)Gendering Older Patients: Exploring Views on Aging and Older Patients in Romanian General Practitioners
items: Presentation
items: The Partial Credit Model applied to the Lie Scale of the Big Five Questionnaire
items: Influence of motivation towards sports in alcohol, tobacco and cannabis consumption in adolescent students
items: Validity and Reliability of a Questionnaire in Exploring the Protective Factors of Mental Health in Cuban University Students
items: Technostress, Career Commitment, Satisfaction with Life, and Work-Family Interaction Among Workers in Information and Communication Technologies
items: Stress, Coping And Health-Related Quality Of Life In Breast Cancer Women
items: Parental Practices, Healthy Eating and Objective Measures of Body Composition in Preschool Children

Revisores
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subject: Reviewers
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creator: AP Evaluadores
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27

Verification of a Theoretical Model Between Empathy, Ethic Socialization and Cultural Orientation in Young Brazilian
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description: The present study aims to investigate the association between empathy, transmission of moral and ethical values and cultural orientation in youth. Theoretically, empathy and the functional exchange of experiences layout of people is believed to be important for moral and ethical training of the young, as well as to the orientation of the conventional patterns culturally established. 427 subjects of both genders between the ages of 12- 19 years old of private and public institutions of the city of João Pessoa-PB and Patrocínio-MG answered the multidimensional Davis Interpersonal Reactivity test. This consists on a set of questions about the belief of parents and teachers conveying / teaching moral and ethical principles and scale attributes of individualist and collectivist cultural orientation. It was observed that empathy was positively associated to socialization and ethical collectivist orientation, but in relation to the individualistic orientation, the first two variables were negatively associated. Thus, those who develop empathic abilities in their interpersonal relationships, both contribute to the transmission of social and moral values, as well as to the orientation, cooperation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Cultural Orientation
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subject: empathy
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subject: values and ethics
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subject: theoretical model
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creator: Nilton S. Formiga
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 99
ending page: 114
doi: 10.15517/wr4fw752

Family influence on antisocial behavior in adolescents from Arequipa, Peru
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description: The aim was to determine the influence of the family on antisocial behavior in non-institutionalized adolescents. The sample consisted of 929 high school students, between 14 and 17 years old. In the process, a battery of test about social-demographic data, antisocial behavior and family functioning: relationship, satisfaction, cohesion, adaptability and family communication was applied. We analyzed variables using structural equation models differentiated by sex. The results indicated that family functioning in both sexes and the number of siblings in males are considerable factors when discussing antisocial behavior. The risk factors are: child abuse and violence between parents in females, besides consumption of alcohol by parents in both sexes.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Family functioning
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subject: antisocial behavior
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subject: behaviornon-institutionalized adolescents
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subject: child abuse
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subject: ecological model
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creator: Renzo Rivera
creator: Milagros Cahuana Cuentas
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 85
ending page: 97
doi: 10.15517/fmcxna37

El psicólogo en los Centros de Salud: informes distantes del SUS
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description: La investigación tuvo el objetivo de comprender las concepciones acerca de la salud y el papel profesional, en la vida cotidiana, entre psicólogos de las Unidades Básicas de Salud. Fueron realizadas diez entrevistas a Psicólogos de la región metropolitana de la ciudad de São Paulo. Se obtuvo información acerca de la trayectoria profesional, el trabajo diario, el papel del psicólogo, las concepciones de salud, las orientaciones teóricas, además de expectativas y desafíos. El Análisis de Contenido de las entrevistas apunta a que las acciones de los psicólogos son orientadas por presupuestos de la práctica clínica ejercidas en el ámbito del consultorio privado. Los datos sugieren que la identidad profesional se sustenta por los ideales clínicos, y que las prácticas son restringidas a la psicoterapia. Los cambios necesarios para una atención coherente con los principios del Sistema Único de Salud (SUS), solo ocurrirán si los espacios académicos y profesionales se convierten en ambientes democráticos de intensa reflexión crítica y de producción de nuevos saberes.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Psicólogos
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subject: Centros de Salud
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subject: Rol Profesional
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subject: Sistema Único de Salud
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subject: Salud Publica.
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creator: Davi Sousa Renata
creator: Montanar Franco Erich
creator: Domingues Rodrigues Adriana
creator: Araújo Vinícius Marcos
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 71
ending page: 83
doi: 10.15517/f2mprx30

Adaptation of two measures of social support in argentinian university students
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description: Social support is an important construct in education which influences behavioral, cognitive and affective terms. Although there are numerous instruments to assess this construct, in Argentina there are no published scales to assess perceived support by students. Therefore, our aim was to adapt Social Support for Children and Adolescents (Malecki, Demaray & Elliot, 2003) and Academic Support (Lent et al., 2005) scales in college students. For this projectIn this regard, data from 551 students of different degrees from the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) was collected. For both instruments, results showed satisfactory internal consistency values (composite reliability, ρ > .70) and the original structure was replicated for each measure using confirmatory factor analysis. Limitations and new lines of research are suggested.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Social support scale for children and adolescents
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subject: academic support
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subject: social support
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subject: university studentsEliminar university students
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creator: Mauricio Federico Zalazar Jaime
creator: Marcos Cupani
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 57
ending page: 70
doi: 10.15517/582gx633

Measuring Emotion Understanding with the Rasch Model
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description: The aim of this study was to construct emotion understanding items from the Rasch Model approach by experimenting through comparison between verbal /image response format. The participants were 204 subjects from a Spanish community sample. A randomized experiment was carried out to test the effect of response format (verbal/image) and participants’ gender on the emotion understanding Rasch measurements. The effect on item difficulty of the social distance (close/far) was also contrasted. No interaction effect was found. Response format had a significant effect on measurement regardless of gender: the verbal response format was easier than the image one. There were significant gender differences on emotion understanding favoring women. Items describing situations with close receivers were significantly easier than the items showing far recipients.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Emotion understanding
  topic: keywords
subject: item construction
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subject: gender differences
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subject: Rasch model
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subject: response format.
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana R. Delgado
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 47
ending page: 56
doi: 10.15517/vg3kem17

Construction and Statistical Analysis of the Multidimensional Inventory of Romantic Jealousy: Preliminary Study
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description: Aiming to construct and validate a test to measure jealousy, the Multidimensional Inventory of Romantic Jealousy (MIRJ) was developed from three axes: 1) the notion of jealousy, 2) the situations that generate it and 3) cognitive, affective and behavioral responses involved. The MIRJ consists of five Likert scales with five response options each. The inventory was validated by expert judgment on the content validity and exploratory factor analysis to construct the validity of each scale, showing higher reliability coefficients (α > .85). MIRJ has a fairly clear structure with independent dimensions that measure with reasonable accuracy the three axes. In Conclusion, romantic jealousy is a multidimensional construct with affective, cognitive and behavioral responses, triggered from a situation that represents the possible loss of a partner.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Romantic jealousy
  topic: keywords
subject: validation
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subject: measuring
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subject: factorial analysis
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subject: etnopsychologic
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creator: Jaqueline Mota Palma
creator: Norma Ivonne González-Arratia López-Fuentes
creator: José Luis Valdez Medina
creator: Sergio González Escobar
creator: Gabriela Hernández Vergara
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 31
ending page: 45
doi: 10.15517/etmnkk70

Psychometric Analysis of Attitudes Toward Mathematics Through the Graduated Response Samejima Model
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description: The assessment of attitudes in education has been used as a tool for preventing the loss of subjects and the desertion. The aim of the study is to perform a psychometric analysis of the “Attitudes towards Mathematics” scale with Samejima´s graded response model (MRG). The sample was of 944 students from different university careers. To analyze the TCT and the MRG model was used. In conclusion, the scale has good psychometric quality. Finally, the benefits of using the MRG for assessing attitudes are presented.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Attitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: polytomous items
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subject: MRG
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subject: college students.
  topic: keywords
creator: Olga Rosalba Rodríguez Jiménez
creator: Sergio Enrique Mora Mojica
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 7
ending page: 30
doi: 10.15517/d0n3xm17

Innovations in Measurement: Visual Analog Scales and Retrospective Pretest Self-Report Designs
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description: The authors discuss limitations of two popular measurement procedures, the Likert scale and conventional pretest-posttest self-report design. Both techniques have limits and yet are often combined, leading to restricted fidelity for measuring change. The authors go on to discuss two innovations in measurement that provide researchers with greater assessment fidelity: Visual analog scales and the retrospective pretest design. Moreover, when used in combination, these innovations measurement techniques provide dramatic increases in the power to detect and quantify change.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Attitudes
  topic: keywords
subject: polytomous items
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subject: MRG
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subject: college students
  topic: keywords
creator: Brittany K. Gorrall
creator: Jacob Curtis
creator: Todd Daniel Little
creator: Pavel Panko
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
starting page: 1
ending page: 6
doi: 10.15517/tj47ad50

Editorial
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Rolando Pérez Sánchez
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-06-27
publication date: 2016-06-27
doi: 10.15517/xm8wzh56

Evaluadores
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subject: Reviewers
  topic: section
creator: Evaluadores Evaluadores
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-10
publication date: 2016-12-10
starting page: 131
ending page: 131
doi: 10.15517/h0617q09

Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) as a Theoretical Framework to Understand Behavior Change
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description: A theoretical framework to explain, predict, and modify health behaviors is presented which consists of various psychological constructs and a mediator mechanism. Risk perception, outcome expectancies, self-efficacy, intention, planning, and action control constitute the building blocks for a mediator model that is based on two processes: goal setting and goal pursuit. When it comes to the development of interventions to modify behaviors, one can target either the initial motivation phase or the subsequent volition phase. This is an open architecture framework allowing for various research designs and subsets of constructs. Hundreds of studies have been conducted based on this model. Three correlational and two intervention studies were chosen to illustrate the diversity of approaches targeting physical activity in Germany and Costa Rica, dental cleaning in India and Poland, and dust mask wearing in China. They differ in terms of the predictors that emerged as most relevant for behavior change.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Outcome expectancies
  topic: keywords
subject: self-efficacy
  topic: keywords
subject: planning
  topic: keywords
subject: action control
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subject: self-monitoring
  topic: keywords
creator: Ralf Schwarzer
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 119
ending page: 130
doi: 10.15517/5d09sg62

Evaluation of a Multicomponent Tele-care Model for Supporting People with Prediabetes and Obesity in Chile
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description: Background: Prediabetes is a reversible condition and its treatment a chance to change unhealthy practices. Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-component tele-care model to support people with pre-diabetes and obesity in Chile. Method: a randomized clinical trial in primary care setting, Santiago, Chile. Participants: 70 adults with pre-diabetes: BMI between 25 and 34 and access to mobile phone. GI (n = 33) received telephone counseling, SMS, educational materials and self-monitoring equipment and GC (n = 32) usual care and self-monitoring equipment. Measures of knowledge of prediabetes, unhealthy diet, physical activity, weight, waist circumference, glucose, triglycerides and total cholesterol were made pre and post intervention. Results: in GI the intervention to maintain stable knowledge level about pre-diabetes, and decrease triglycerides level was effective. The model did not exceed usual care for decrease in weight, waist circumference, glucose and cholesterol.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Pre-diabetic state
  topic: keywords
subject: primary health care
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subject: health behavior
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creator: J. Carola Pérez Ewert
creator: Claudia Bustamante
creator: Claudia Alcayaga
creator: Margarita Medina
creator: Hugo Sánchez
creator: Solange Campos
creator: Angela Beltrán
creator: Mila Urrutia
creator: Ilta Lange
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 103
ending page: 117
doi: 10.15517/vk1fge38

Open Access Scientific Evidence of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Fibromyalgia
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description: Objective: To provide a summary of scientific open access resources Cognitive Behavioral Therapy interventions in patients with fibromyalgia. Method: Bibliographical search performed in Pubmed and PsycInfo, Latindex, Scielo and Redalyc online databases. No year of publication criterion was applied. Results: 377 citations were reduced to a list of 59 relevant publications, from 1993 to 2016. Most studies were performed in adult samples, in Spain or the United States, with pre-post quantitative design. Only 15 publications were open access. Conclusions: Empirical evidence is ample, yet mostly restricted. Open access material might promote interest in and encourage the design, implementation and evaluation of CBT interventions in the benefit of fibromyalgia patients, the health system and science.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Fibromyalgia
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychotherapy
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subject: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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subject: CBT
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subject: Open Access
  topic: keywords
creator: Lizzette Gómez-de-Regil
creator: José Álvarez-Nemegyei
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 91
ending page: 102
doi: 10.15517/jysjw747

Factors associated with treatment adherence of Brazilian patients undergoing hemodialysis
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description: Objective: To evaluate patients’ adherence to hemodialysis (HD) and its relationship to psychosocial variables. Methods: Participated in the study 64 adult patients undergoing HD, assessed in regard to depression, anxiety, social support, disease and treatment knowledge, and adherence. Results: It was found association between sex and adherence to HD, to diet and to medication, as well as between schooling and overall adherence. There is association between disease knowledge and depression, with adherence to fluid restrictions. No association was found between adherence and anxiety. Conclusion: Identifying the determinants of treatment adherence is essential to devise efficacious strategies to improve patients’ quality of life.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: hemodialysis
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subject: depression
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subject: anxiety
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subject: social support
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subject: treatment adherence
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creator: Renata Tamie Nakao
creator: Ricardo Gorayeb
creator: José Abrão Cardeal da Costa
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 77
ending page: 90
doi: 10.15517/t4119v02

Relationships between Social Support, Self-Regulation and Drug Consumptions among Portuguese Adults
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description: In this study the relationships between perceived social support, self-regulation and consuming behaviors of tobacco and other psychoactive substances we investigated. The sample consisted of 340 adult participants. Social support correlated positively with self-regulation, but was solely in the aspect of satisfaction with social support that this trend was noted clearly. The number of support providers differed considerably with the use of tobacco, which suggests the affiliative scope of some psychoactive substances. Accordingly, the use of tobacco may be associated with a larger social network, but not with the quality of social support.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Social support
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subject: Self-regulation
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subject: Use behaviors
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subject: Tobacco
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subject: Other substancesEliminar Other substances
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creator: José Manuel Borges
creator: Jose A. García del Castillo
creator: Juan Carlos Marzo
creator: Álvaro García del Castillo-López
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 67
ending page: 75
doi: 10.15517/hgf9a535

Quality of Life in Costa Rican Patients with Brain Tumors: Neuropsychological Contributions
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description: The systematization of a clinical and educational experience in a hospital setting shows evidence of the neuropsychological contributions to the multidisciplinary care for patients with brain tumors. Four cases of people diagnosed with brain tumors are exemplified. The patients were treated at the Neurosurgical Unit at the Hospital Mexico, Costa Rica. Each patient underwent neuropsychological evaluations as part of the established protocol for neurosurgical interventions.Results showed a slight yet consistent trend of cognitive performance improvement after each surgery, and identified residual neurocognitive consequences that would have a direct impact on the patients quality of life. This paper discusses the challenges associated with health expectancy of prolonging life while preserving its quality and functionality.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Neuropsychology
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subject: brain tumor
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subject: neurosurgery
  topic: keywords
subject: quality of life
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subject: assessment
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subject: neuropsychological deficits
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subject: cognitive rehabilitation
  topic: keywords
creator: Mónica Salazar Villanea
creator: Luis Enrique Ortega Araya
creator: Jorge Ortiz Álvarez
creator: Miguel Angel Esquivel Miranda
creator: Rocío Vindas Montoya
creator: Patricia Montero Vega
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 49
ending page: 66
doi: 10.15517/d38j5q96

Mindfulness and Symptoms of Depression in Mexican Adolescents High School Students
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description: The objective of this research was to identify the relation between depressive symptoms and mindfulness levels in mexican adolescents high school students. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 930 baccalaureate students between 15 and 19 years old was performed. The instruments, CESD (depressive symptoms) and MAAS (mindfulness) were applied, finding a 17.3% prevalence of depressive symptoms, furthermore, 55.2% of participants had low levels of mindfulness, and also adolescents with depressive symptoms have higher levels of mindfulness. The relation between depression symptoms and mindfulness was negative (r= -0.53; <.001). Conclusion: Study the feature of full awareness or mindfulness as a positive psychological factor because it’s reducing effect is demonstrated in psychological symptoms such as depression.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mindfulness
  topic: keywords
subject: depression
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subject: adolescents
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subject: students
  topic: keywords
subject: high school
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcela Veytia-López
creator: Rosalinda Guadarrama Guadarrama
creator: Octavio Márquez-Mendoza
creator: Rocio J. Fajardo Gómez
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 39
ending page: 48
doi: 10.15517/w8xser05

Happiness Differences by Sex and Age in Peruvian University
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description: The study, comparative descriptive, describes the differences of happiness in Peruvian youth and adults based on sex and age using the Lima Happiness Scale (Alarcon, 2006). 402 people, male (50 %) and women (50 %), between 16 and 35 years old (average = 19.59, SD = 3.75) of the city of Lima participated in the study. The results show that women are more likely to experience some degree of happiness; while people of the older age group have higher happiness scores than the younger age group. The results contribute to a better understanding of happiness and its relation to sociodemographic variables related to health and well-being. This provides important empirical information for the implementation of actions to promote the development of positive variables
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Age
  topic: keywords
subject: happiness
  topic: keywords
subject: positive psychology
  topic: keywords
subject: sex
  topic: keywords
creator: Humberto Castilla
creator: Tomás Caycho
creator: José Luís Ventura-León
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 25
ending page: 37
doi: 10.15517/20x9w634

Emotional Intelligence and Health in Aging: PECI-PM Program Benefits
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description: Training emotional intelligence in the elderly, it has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the quality of life. The aim is to analyze the health benefits of a program of cognitive stimulation and emotional intelligence for older people (PECI-PM). The sample consisted of 28 students of the University Senior Almeria, who completed the first phase of PECI-PM. For the (pre-post) assessment of health, the Spanish version of the SF-36 was applied. The results showed significantly higher scores after the intervention, the dimensions of health: social function, bodily pain, vitality and social function. The first implementation of the PECI-PM reveals positive effects of emotional training on perceived health in the elderly.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Emotional intelligence
  topic: keywords
subject: cognition
  topic: keywords
subject: health
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subject: elderly
  topic: keywords
subject: PECI-PM
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creator: María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes
creator: José J. Gázquez Linares
creator: María del Mar Molero Jurado
creator: África Martínez
creator: Ana Belén Barragán Martín
creator: María del Mar Simón Márquez
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 11
ending page: 23
doi: 10.15517/9zbn9r21

(De)Gendering Older Patients: Exploring Views on Aging and Older Patients in Romanian General Practitioners
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description: Abstract. Purpose: Demographic changes make it necessary to improve communication with older patients and design gender sensitive health promotion. The present article aimed to explore how general practitioners see old age and what role gender may play in their representations of aging. It also looked whether the gender of the older patients played a role for how general practitioners treated them. Methods: Episodic interviews were conducted with 17 women and 17 men who worked as general practitioners in Romania. Thematic coding was used to analyze data. Results: Findings showed that general practitioners saw old age as negative no matter their gender. Older patients were perceived as difficult and mostly older women were given as negative examples to illustrate treatment non-adherence and psychological or social problems related to aging. Conclusion: Negative aging views combined with a (de)gendering of aging patients may lead to maintain negative aging stereotypes and gender inequality in old age. Implications for preventing this from happening are discussed
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: aging views
  topic: keywords
subject: active aging
  topic: keywords
subject: general practitioners
  topic: keywords
subject: gender
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subject: older patients
  topic: keywords
creator: Catrinel Craciun
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: 1
ending page: 9
doi: 10.15517/wfft8385

Presentation
type: item
subject: Presentation
  topic: section
creator: Benjamín Reyes Fernández
creator: Tamara Baker
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: IX
ending page: X
doi: 10.15517/p4sjq361

Editorial
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Rolando Pérez Sánchez
rights: Copyright (c) 2016 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2016-12-05
publication date: 2016-12-05
starting page: VII
ending page: VII
doi: 10.15517/qtrjj203

Evaluadores
type: item
subject: Reviewers
  topic: section
creator: Evaluadores Evaluadores
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-20
publication date: 2017-06-20
starting page: 149
ending page: 149
doi: 10.15517/92y2vx91

The Partial Credit Model applied to the Lie Scale of the Big Five Questionnaire
type: item
description: The Partial Credit Model (PCM) of the Item Response Theory was applied to the Spanish Lie Scale adaptation of the Big Five Questionnaire. The scale measures individuals’ tendency to provide a distorted profile. The sample comprised 1592 adults from the general population (55% females). All analyses were performed by means of Winsteps software. The PCM exhibited satisfactory goodness-of-fit for all items. However, a considerable proportion of respondents had incongruent response patterns which were not in agreement with the model’s expectations. Five items presented inversions in the order expected for the estimated values of threshold parameters. These findings show the scale weaknesses and yield useful information to guide possible changes in future research.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Partial Credit Model
  topic: keywords
subject: Lie Scale
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Desirability
  topic: keywords
subject: Big Five Questionnaire
  topic: keywords
subject: Item Response Theory
  topic: keywords
creator: Facundo Juan Pablo Abal
creator: Gabriela Susana Lozzia
creator: Sofía Esmeralda Auné
creator: Horacio Félix Attorresi
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-21
publication date: 2017-06-21
starting page: 133
ending page: 148
doi: 10.15517/7cnw3f69

Influence of motivation towards sports in alcohol, tobacco and cannabis consumption in adolescent students
type: item
description: One of the most serious problems faced by our society is the use of drugs by young people. Sports practice can act as a preventive factor being one of the most representative habits of a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, the objective of the study is to analyze the relationship and influence of motivation towards sports practice in the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis of school sports adolescents. The results reveal significant influences of intrinsic, extrinsic motivations and lack of motivation in the different prevalence of consumption in more or less self-determined and adaptive behavior patterns.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: motivation
  topic: keywords
subject: drugs
  topic: keywords
subject: consumption
  topic: keywords
subject: adolescent
  topic: keywords
subject: sport
  topic: keywords
creator: Pablo Usán
creator: Carlos Salavera
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-21
publication date: 2017-06-21
starting page: 119
ending page: 131
doi: 10.15517/b4f2k306

Validity and Reliability of a Questionnaire in Exploring the Protective Factors of Mental Health in Cuban University Students
type: item
description: Objective: To analyze the validity and reliability of a questionnaire in exploring the protective factors of mental health in Cuban university students. Method: The sample was composed of 1377 students. A categorical principal components analysis, a two-step cluster analysis and decision trees were used. Results: Results revealed two components. The first dimension included items that have a positive meaning and express a development of these protective factors. This dimension showed a higher coefficient of reliability and was able to explain a higher proportion of the variance in the clusters identified. The second dimension grouped those items that were related to poor development of these protection factors, which could constitute to risk factors. Items associated with resilience, decision making ability, self- efficacy and self- esteem were the best predictors in the grouping process. Conclusion: The instrument developed showed its accuracy and precision in the process of obtaining the necessary information to evaluate the factors of protection of mental health in Cuban university students.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: protective factors
  topic: keywords
subject: mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: university students
  topic: keywords
creator: Evelyn Fernández-Castillo
creator: Osana Molerio-Pérez
creator: Luis Felipe Herrera Jiménez
creator: Ricardo Grau
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-21
publication date: 2017-06-21
starting page: 103
ending page: 117
doi: 10.15517/jcanvn02

Technostress, Career Commitment, Satisfaction with Life, and Work-Family Interaction Among Workers in Information and Communication Technologies
type: item
description: Technostress occurs when individuals experience negative psychosocial effects of technology usage and also demonstrate negative valence associated with ICT use. It is composed of four dimensions (Disbelief, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Ineffectiveness), which describe two aspects of technostress (Technoanxiety and Technofatigue). This study aimed to investigate the relation between technostress dimensions, career commitment, life satisfaction, and work-family interactions among ICT professionals. Variables including gender, age and length of employment were also considered. The sample was composed of 234 Brazilian individuals. It was found that work-family and family-work conflicts were associated with increased technofatigue and technoanxiety, and decreased career resilience. Age and gender differences were also identified. These differences emphasize the role of organizations and society in what refers to reduce inequalities in workplace and to support better preventive actions.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: technostress
  topic: keywords
subject: career commitment
  topic: keywords
subject: life satisfaction
  topic: keywords
subject: work-family interaction
  topic: keywords
subject: Information
  topic: keywords
subject: Communications Technologies
  topic: keywords
creator: Mary Sandra Carlotto
creator: Guilherme Welter Wendt
creator: Alice P. Jones
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-21
publication date: 2017-06-21
starting page: 91
ending page: 102
doi: 10.15517/vnfh7g31

Stress, Coping And Health-Related Quality Of Life In Breast Cancer Women
type: item
description: This study analyzes the contribution that traumatic stress, perceived stress, and coping have on the variability of physical and metal components of the HRQoL of 53 women with breast cancer. The instruments used include the SF-36 health survey, the COPE Inventory, the Perceived Stress Scale PSS and the Peruvian adaptation of the traumatic stress scale. The analysis found medium and high levels of global HRQoL. The migration status, type of treatment and traumatic stress account for 30 % of the variability of the physical component of HRQoL, whereas traumatic stress, perceived stress and emotional oriented style account the 43% of the variability of the mental component.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
  topic: keywords
subject: coping
  topic: keywords
subject: perceived stress
  topic: keywords
subject: traumatic stress
  topic: keywords
subject: breast cancer
  topic: keywords
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: type of treatment
  topic: keywords
creator: Vanessa Lostaunau
creator: Claudia Torrejón
creator: Mónica Cassaretto
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-21
publication date: 2017-06-21
starting page: 75
ending page: 90
doi: 10.15517/3mpw8w18

Parental Practices, Healthy Eating and Objective Measures of Body Composition in Preschool Children
type: item
description: This paper describes empirical evidence regarding the relationship between parental practices, healthy eating and objective measures of body composition in preschool children in European, American and Latin American contexts. Concordances are noted in terms of pressure and restriction to eat. Directions are proposed for the development of lines of research in the Latin American context: a) conducting more studies in order to confirm if the relations between the variables of interest are maintained or changed; b) conduct these studies with randomized and representative samples, with self-report and observational measures of parental feeding practices; c) exploration of mediator and moderator roles that cultural and social variables specific to the Latin American context have on the relationships between the variables of interest.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: feeding
  topic: keywords
subject: childhood
  topic: keywords
subject: weight
  topic: keywords
subject: BMI
  topic: keywords
subject: Latin America
  topic: keywords
creator: Gloriana Rodríguez Arauz
creator: Nairán Ramírez Esparza
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades en Psicología http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2017-06-21
publication date: 2017-06-21
starting page: 61
ending page: 73
doi: 10.15517/0z4ddj34