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International Journal of Health Science

Objectives: The goal of this study was to provide a description regarding the perceived concerns ... more Objectives: The goal of this study was to provide a description regarding the perceived concerns and threats of the healthcare workers facing treatment of patients with COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic in Argentina, also analysing how these issues affected their psychological wellbeing. Study design: Cross-sectional design. Methods: During the third week (April 4-10) of mandatory quarantine, a questionnaire was administered to 809 healthcare workers from all over the country. The developed questionnaire covered: socio-demographic data, questions related to concerns of the health personnel about facing patients with coronavirus, and indicators of depression, anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and coping. Results: Results showed that the main worries of these healthcare workers were the possibility of infecting their loved ones (84%), followed by the possibility of infecting themselves (65%). Also, 76% considered that the work environment worsened, and 77% that it would help them to count with mental support staff in their workplace. In addition, the healthcare workers showed significantly increased levels in indicators of depression, anxiety, and intolerance of uncertainty and in developing coping strategies that were predominantly of emotional control. The results also indicated that fear of contagion and fear of infecting their loved ones, as well as fear of the possibility of having to choose who would receive attention and who would not, were perceived as stressors having the greatest influence on discomfort. Conclusions: Altogether, these results show the need for preventive contingency interventions targeted to healthcare workers in order to preserve the well-being of their mental health and the quality of the therapies they apply to patients with COVID-19.

Psychology and Covid-19 in the Americas

The objective of this work is to study if children¿s perception of parental relationship and pare... more The objective of this work is to study if children¿s perception of parental relationship and parental empathy can predict prosocial behaviour during childhood. The sample was composed of 934 Argentine children, aged 9 to 12, of middle socio-economical level. The participants completed Argentine Scale of Children Perception of Parental Relationship (Richaud de Minzi, 2007), an Argentine adaptation of Scale of Prosocial Behaviour (Caprara and Pastorelli, 1993) and a questionnaire to measure children¿s perception of parental empathy (Richaud de Minzi, 2006). Structural equations modelling (SEM) analyses were conducted to explore our ypotheses. Six theoretical models fit the data very well. The results showed that parental styles of acceptance and pathological control impact on children prosocial behavior. Children¿s perception of parental empathy was positively associated with children prosocial behavior. Finally, parental acceptance and pathological control were associated with children's perception of parental empathy, but negligent parental behaviour did not.

Perspectivas en Psicología, Jun 17, 2018

Conocimiento y uso de tecnologías digitales en psicoterapia entre los psicólogos de Buenos Aires

Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento ( RACC ), 2016

XV Jornadas de Investigación y Cuarto Encuentro de Investigadores en Psicología del Mercosur, 2008

Científicas y Técnicas-CONICET-. Argentina RESUMEN El propósito de este trabajo es presentar el p... more Científicas y Técnicas-CONICET-. Argentina RESUMEN El propósito de este trabajo es presentar el proceso de construcción del Cuestionario de Experiencia Óptima para niños y adolescentes. La prueba fue administrada a 1600 sujetos de 9 a 15 años, que asistían a escuelas privadas y públicas de las provincias de Tucumán, Catamarca y Buenos Aires de Argentina. La mayoría de los ítems incluidos en el Cuestionario de Experiencia Óptima mostraron tener una muy buena capacidad discriminativa. Palabras clave Experiencia óptima Poder discriminativo ABSTRACT THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS OF THE OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE SURVEY The purpose of this study is to present the construction process of The Optimal Experience Survey. The sample includes about 1600 participants, aged 9 to 15, of middle socioeconomic level, from Argentina. The results showed that most of the item had high discriminative power.

I Congreso Internacional de Investigación y Práctica Profesional en Psicología XVI Jornadas de Investigación Quinto Encuentro de Investigadores en Psicología del MERCOSUR, 2009

Acta Académica es un proyecto académico sin fines de lucro enmarcado en la iniciativa de acceso a... more Acta Académica es un proyecto académico sin fines de lucro enmarcado en la iniciativa de acceso abierto. Acta Académica fue creado para facilitar a investigadores de todo el mundo el compartir su producción académica. Para crear un perfil gratuitamente o acceder a otros trabajos visite: https://www.aacademica.org. Palabras clave Flow Vínculos parentales ABSTRACT THE CHILDRENS´ PERCEPTION OF PARENTAL BEHAVIOR SUBJECTS IN OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE The propose of this study is to analyse the effect of parenting style on Optimal Experience. The sample considers 307 participants, aged 10 to 15, of middle socioeconomic level, from Argentina. For measure parenting style used Escala Argentina de Percepción de la Relación con los Padres (Richaud de Minzi, 2007)and for measure Optimal Experience used Cuestionario de Experiencia Óptima para niños y adolescentes(Mesurado, 2008

REOP - Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía

RESUMEN Se presentan dos estudios en los que se empleó un diseño instrumental en dos muestras de ... more RESUMEN Se presentan dos estudios en los que se empleó un diseño instrumental en dos muestras de estudiantes universitarios de ambos sexos, de entre 17 y 30 años, que completaron la Escala Grit en su versión original (Duckworth et al., 2007) y abreviada (Duckworth y Quinn, 2009), y la adaptación española para estudiantes de la Utrecht-Work Engagement Scale (UWES-SS) (Schaufeli et al., 2002), adaptada y validada para su aplicación en población argentina (Mesurado et al., 2016). El Estudio 1 se realizó con una muestra de 233 alumnos para analizar la validez factorial de la adaptación argentina de las dos primeras escalas mencionadas, aplicando la matriz de correlaciones tetracóricas con el paquete estadístico Factor (Lorenzo-Seva y Ferrando, 2020) y el análisis de consistencia interna; asimismo, se analizó la convergencia de ambas escalas con la UWES-SS. Con la segunda muestra (n=235), se llevó a cabo el Estudio 2, en el que se realizó un análisis factorial confirmatorio de la Escala ...

Revista ConCiencia EPG

En el presente artículo se realiza una revisión teórica sobre la aversión a la inequidad. Esta es... more En el presente artículo se realiza una revisión teórica sobre la aversión a la inequidad. Esta es el rechazo que sienten las personas ante distribuciones de recursos injustas, la cual se puede presentar cuando la persona recibe menos de lo que considera apropiado (aversión a la inequidad en desventaja), o cuando recibe más de lo que considera apropiado (aversión a la inequidad en ventaja). Se describen las etapas del proceso que comprende componentes cognitivos, emocionales y conductuales. Se comentan las teorías principales que destacan la función que la aversión a la inequidad cumple en los seres humanos, estas son las teorías sociales y las teorías no sociales. Seguidamente se presentan los desarrollos teóricos y empíricos que dan cuenta del surgimiento temprano de la aversión a la inequidad en la niñez. Por último, se revisan los estudios que describen las bases comportamentales del constructo. Dado el rol que cumple la aversión a la inequidad en el desarrollo y evolución de las...

Frontiers in Psychology

BackgroundThis study analyzed the difference in psychological distress of the healthcare workers ... more BackgroundThis study analyzed the difference in psychological distress of the healthcare workers in three different periods of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Argentina. Specifically, from the third week of the mandatory quarantine through the two following weeks.MethodsAnalysis of the responses of 1,458 members of the health personnel was done on a questionnaire on healthcare workers concerns regarding the care of patients with coronavirus, indicators of depression, anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and coping.ResultsThe psychological indicators that were considered presented differences between the evaluated periods. Perceived concerns about the possibility of infecting loved ones and infecting themselves were greatest in the periods after the onset of the pandemic. In addition, the perception of how the work environment worsened and how lack of sleep interfered with their work was also higher in periods 2 and 3. The same results were found in the indicators...

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emergin... more Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emerging adults. However, theories on altruism born of suffering or adversarial growth suggest that we might also see prosocial behavior as a function of the pandemic, which may protect against mental health challenges. Because cultural values are central in determining prosocial behavior, the current study explored how cultural values were differentially associated with adaptive prosocial behaviors that might protect against mental health challenges. Participants for the current study included 5,682 young people aged 18–25 years from 14 different countries around the world (68% female, 62% college students). Path analyses suggested that there were few differences in patterns as a function of culture, but revealed that horizontal individualism and horizontal and vertical collectivism were indirectly associated with lower levels of depression via prosocial behavior toward family members. Discuss...

Journal of Social Issues

This study examined parents’ (N = 10,141, 64% women) reports of their and their childrens’ depres... more This study examined parents’ (N = 10,141, 64% women) reports of their and their childrens’ depression, anxiety, and stress in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. The data come from the COVID‐19 Family Life Study (Ben Brik, 2020) and cohort recruited between April and December 2020. Participants completed online surveys that included the DASS‐21 and the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Our findings indicate that socio‐economically disadvantaged families fared worse in mental health during the early phases of the COVID‐19 pandemic compared with families with more social and economic resources. Mothers reported higher anxiety, depression, and stress compared with fathers. Parents of adolescents and adolescents fared worse than did families with younger children. Parental physical activity was associated with better parent and child mental health of anxiety symptoms. We discuss the need to address the adverse impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on mental health in familie...

Family Relations

Objective: We examined how relationship satisfaction changed during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pa... more Objective: We examined how relationship satisfaction changed during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as how relationship satisfaction related to public policy support. Background: Conservation of resources (COR) theory suggests that societal-level stressors (such as a global pandemic) threaten familial and individual resources, straining couple relationships. Relationship satisfaction is in turn linked with important individual, familial, and societal outcomes, necessitating research on how COVID-19 impacted this facet of relationships. Method: Drawing from an international project on COVID-19 and family life, participants included 734 married and cohabiting American parents of children under 18 years of age. Results: Findings revealed relationship satisfaction declined moderately compared to retrospective reports of relationship satisfaction prior to the pandemic. This decline was more precipitous for White individuals, women, parents less involved in their children's lives, and those reporting higher levels of depressive symptoms. We also found that higher relationship satisfaction was associated with higher levels of support for family policy, particularly for men. At higher levels of relationship satisfaction, men and women had similarly high levels of support for family policy, while at lower levels, women's support for family policy was significantly higher. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic likely amplified facets of social inequality, which is especially concerning when considering the large socioeconomic gaps prior to the pandemic. Implications: Therapists, researchers, and policy makers should examine how relationship satisfaction may have changed during the pandemic because relationship satisfaction is

Fundación Acta Fondo para la Salud Mental, Dec 1, 2017

La empatía es un componente de la cognición social, que implica la capacidad para comprender al o... more La empatía es un componente de la cognición social, que implica la capacidad para comprender al otro y ponerse en su lugar. En psicoterapia es un concepto que se suele utilizar en las diferentes formaciones académicas y prácticas, pero pocos estudios han logrado realizar investigaciones dirigidas a conocer las diferencias individuales y a evaluar la importancia e implicancia en los resultados terapéuticos. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar estudios acerca de la capacidad de empatía en profesionales de la salud ?médicos y psicólogos? a través de la revisión de diferentes estudios fisiológicos y cognitivos y su relación con el vínculo terapéutico. A su vez, se analizan viñetas clínicas y su relación con los conceptos desarrollados en la revisión. Por último, se presentan estudios previos acerca de las intervenciones que pueden beneficiar y mejorar la habilidad de empatía en profesionales de la salud, que se están implementando en diferentes universidades y centros de salud del mundo.In social cognition, empathy is a major component, which implies the ability to understand others and put yourself in their place. In psychotherapy this is a concept that is often used in different academic and practical formations, but few studies have been able to carry out research aimed at knowing the individual differences and evaluating the importance and implication of empathy in therapeutic results. The objective of this research is to show studies about empathy capacity in health professionals: physicians and psychologists, through different physiological and cognitive studies and their relationship with the therapeutic bond. In turn, clinical vignettes are analyzed together with their relation with the concept developed in the review. Finally, previous studies are presented on interventions that can benefit and improve empathy capacity in health professionals, and there are implemented in different universities and health centers in the world.Fil: Putrino, Natalia Inés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; ArgentinaFil: Etchevers, Martín Juan. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; ArgentinaFil: Mesurado, Maria Belen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentin

Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología, 2022

Los estudios de empatía requieren abordar procesos afectivos, cognitivos y sociales asociados con... more Los estudios de empatía requieren abordar procesos afectivos, cognitivos y sociales asociados con la maduración individual, que permiten comprender la interacción social desde las disposiciones emocionales básicas. El objetivo de este estudio fue validar la escala de empatía desarrollada por Richaud, Lemos, Mesurado y Oros (2017) en una muestra de niños, niñas y adolescentes colombianos de 9 a 14 años, describiendo sus propiedades psicométricas. Para lograr este objetivo se aplicaron tres procedimientos: primero, la validez de constructo y la confiabilidad; segundo, la validez convergente, utilizando las escalas IRI (Davis, 1983) de empatía y la prosocialidad desde Caprara y Pastorelli (1993); tercero, se establecieron comparaciones de invariancia por edad y sexo en la muestra colombiana. Los resultados mostraron buenos índices de validez de constructo (Chi cuadrado/ fd = 1.72; GFI = 0.96; AGFI = 0.95, CFI = 0.94 e IFI = 0.94). La escala validada mostró buenos índices de correlación...

Los objetivos del presente estudio son: estudiar la relacion entre los cinco grandes rasgos de pe... more Los objetivos del presente estudio son: estudiar la relacion entre los cinco grandes rasgos de personalidad (extraversion, estabilidad emocional, apertura a la experiencia, responsabilidad y agradabilidad), el flujo y el compromiso academico; y poner a prueba un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales que analice la relacion de los rasgos de personalidad sobre el flujo y el compromiso academico, asi como el efecto de la experiencia de flujo sobre la promocion del compromiso academico en estudiantes universitarios. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 171 estudiantes de pregrado argentinos, 70 hombres (40,94%) y 101 mujeres (59,06%) de una universidad de Buenos Aires. Para evaluar la personalidad se utilizo Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) de Gosling, Rentfrow, y SwannJr. (2003), el compromiso se evaluo con la Escala de Compromiso Academico de Utrecht (UWES, Schaufeli, Martinez, Marques Pinto, Salanova y Bakker, 2002) y la escala de Experiencia Optima de Mesurado (2008, 2009) se utilizo p...

En el estudio que se informa se presentan tres modelos teóricos explicativos de la experiencia óp... more En el estudio que se informa se presentan tres modelos teóricos explicativos de la experiencia óptima. El primer modelo propone la experiencia óptima como un único factor compuesto por las ocho características que definen el flow. El segundo modelo propone que las características que integran la experiencia óptima podrían resumirse en dos factores: el primer factor incluiría las experiencias afectivas y cognitivas durante la realización de la tarea propiciadora de flow y el segundo factor estaría dado por la percepción de logro y habilidad para hacer frente a la tarea. Finalmente, el tercer modelo expone que serían necesarios cuatro factores para explicar la experiencia de flow: (a) capacidad cognitiva, (b) experiencia afectiva positiva, (c) percepción de habilidad y (d) percepción de logro durante la realización de la actividad. El objetivo de este trabajo fue investigar cuál de los tres modelos teóricos tiene una mejor adecuación a los datos empíricos. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 1.585 niños y adolescentes argentinos de 9 a 15 años, estudiantes de escuelas públicas y privadas. Para el análisis de los datos se empleó el modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, esta técnica permite testear modelos teóricos con datos empíricos. La evaluación de los índices resultantes de la aplicación de los modelos estructurales sugiere que el modelo de cuatro factores provee un mejor ajuste a los datos. Posteriormente se comprobó la existencia de dos factores de segundo orden subyacentes a los cuatro factores que explicarían el constructo experiencia óptima.The flow is described as a positive and gratifying state of consciousness. The flow is associated with the perception of high challenges in the task at hand and personal skills high enough to face those challenges. Also is described it as a situation of high concentration, involvement, enjoyment, absorption in the task, unselfconsciousness, control, and clear-cut feedback on the course of the activity. People is involved in the task for its own sake, regardless of extrinsic rewards or social approval -in other words, on the basic of intrinsic motivation. A balance of high challenge and high skill defines the conditions where optimal experience is most likely to occur, but does not necessary describe the experience of flow. "Experientially, flow is characterized not only by a balance of challenges and skill but also by deep concentration, loss of self-consciousness, and deep engagement" (Hektner, Schmidt & Csikszentmihalyi, 2007, p. 46). In this investigation three explanatory theoretical models of the optimal experience are presented. The first model intends that the optimal experience is only a factor compound for the eight characteristics that define the flow. The second model intends that the characteristics that compose the optimal experience could be summarized in two factors: the first factor would include affective experiences and cognitive experiences during realization of the activity and the second factor would be given by achievement perception and ability perception of the task. Finally, the third model exposes that, would be necessary four factors to explain the flow experience: capacity cognitive, positive affective experience, ability perception and achievement perception, during the realization of the activity. The objective of this work is to investigate which of the three theoretical models has a better adaptation to the empiric data. The sample was composed by 1585 children and adolescents, between 9 and 15 years, students of public and private schools. For the analysis of the data it was used the methods of structural equations. The evaluation of the resulting indexes of the application of the structural models, suggests that the pattern of four factors provides a better adjustment to the data. Subse-quently was put on approval a new model that postulates that the optimal experience is a latent variable that can be explained by means of the existence of two underlying factors of second order: affect positive and activation cognitive, on one hand, and achievement perception and ability perception for the other one. The flow experience can be explained by a process that begins with the perception of an activity that is defiant and the person perceives that he/she has the enough capacities to reach with success the proposed end. The following stage would be given by the activation of the person's cognitive capacities to concentrate its attention in the realization of the task and then to be able to maintain it centered in the activity. The positive affection would arise when concluding the activity like a consequence of the same one. When a person is in flow state he/she feels the challenge of carrying out the activity the best thing possible and this takes it to constantly improve her abilities.Fil: Mesurado, Maria Belen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro…

The Personal Growth Initiative is the active, conscious and intentional participation of a person... more The Personal Growth Initiative is the active, conscious and intentional participation of a person in its process of change in any domain of its life. The objective of this article is to adapt the Personal Growth Initiative Scale II (PGIS II) to Spanish language for a teenage population in Entre Ríos, Argentina. The construct validity will be analyzed using AFC; and the convergent validity studying its relationship with the academic self-effectiveness. The sample consisted of 313 adolescents between 12 and 16 years old (M = 13.46 and DE = 1.05). The results indicate that the Spanish adaptation presents acceptable levels of construct validity confirming the four-factor structure proposed by the original author (readiness for change, planning, resources use and intentional behavior). Likewise, PGIS II positively correlated with academic self-effectiveness, confirming good levels of convergent validity. Also, the instrument presented adequate levels of internal consistency