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Papers by Elena Briones

Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 2010

Based on Social Cognitive Theory, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of several... more Based on Social Cognitive Theory, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of several demographic and psycho-social factors involved in teachers' job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 68 secondary school teachers in cultural diversity settings. Their average age was 43.56 years old (SD =10.93); 60.3% were women and 38.2% were men. Path analyses showed that the teachers' job satisfaction was significantly and positively related to personal achievement and perceived support from colleagues, and significantly and negatively related to emotional exhaustion. The teachers' self-efficacy was an indirect predictor of job satisfaction, and a direct predictor of personal achievement and perceived support from colleagues.

RESUMEN En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de una colaboración internacional para la for... more RESUMEN En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de una colaboración internacional para la formación ética centrada en valores personales y profesionales dentro de la educación formal superior empleando las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación. La formación diseñada basada en la técnica dialógica pretende que el estudiante clarifique sus valores, se posicione ante dilemas éticos y desarrolle estrategias argumentativas, así como un compromiso ético con su profesión y contribución a la sociedad. La principal innovación de esta formación es la incorporación del diálogo online entre grupos de estudiantes heterogéneos por su origen cultural, esto fue posible gracias a la colaboración de dos universidades y al apoyo tecnológico y administrativo aportado por las mismas. Para analizar el efecto de esta formación innovadora se ha empleado un diseño cuasi-experimental con grupo control, en el que se formaba en valores pero no existía la posibilidad de un diálogo online con estudiantes de otra cultura. En este estudio participaron estudiantes

Teaching and Teacher Education

Two studies examined the impact of a programme that used Creative Drama and Forum Theatre on the ... more Two studies examined the impact of a programme that used Creative Drama and Forum Theatre on the social, emotional, and ethical skills of student teachers. The first study qualitatively analysed 49 teaching conflict situations devised by 280 students. The second analysed the programme's effect on 626 students' empathy and perception of their teaching-learning processes. The types of conflicts, contexts, and ethical dilemmas involved were categorised. Pedagogical tools and their effect on self-knowledge, perspectivetaking, and socio-moral sensitivity and reflection were favourably assessed. The emotional understanding component of empathy significantly improved. The results support a more comprehensive training of future teachers.

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2020

The Smartphone has become the device that offers the greatest number of possibilities to Mobile L... more The Smartphone has become the device that offers the greatest number of possibilities to Mobile Learning dynamics, and university students are increasingly optimizing its potential. This research offers a classification of student profiles according to their knowledge and use of Smartphones, and analyzes their relationship between their interest towards training, the perceived academic benefits and the time spent using the device as a pedagogic resource. For this, through a quantitative methodology, a cluster analysis was conducted, which allowed for the defining of student profiles, and through non-parametric tests, the significance was analyzed with respect to their interest in training, the academic benefits perceived, and the time spent using the Smartphone. The results showed the existence of three profiles, namely: High degree of knowledge and academic use of the Smartphone; Average degree of knowledge and use of the Smartphone; and Low degree of knowledge and use of the Smart...

Psyecology, 2010

... reflejada ante situaciones de desastres naturales o conflicto social (p. ej., en Nueva Orlean... more ... reflejada ante situaciones de desastres naturales o conflicto social (p. ej., en Nueva Orleans tras el huracán Katrina o en ... Con este procedimiento se pretendía tener una muestra semejante de estudiantes y vecinos distribuida homogéneamente en diferentes barrios de la ...

Psyecology: Revista Biling??e de Psicolog??a Ambiental, 2010

Social Psychology of Education, 2012

Based on social cognitive theory, the purpose of this study is to examine certain social cognitiv... more Based on social cognitive theory, the purpose of this study is to examine certain social cognitive and demographic factors involved in intrinsic satisfaction amongst secondary school students of different cultural backgrounds in a new migrantreceiving country. Given the role of schools in youth acculturation and adaptation, it is important to detect the variables related to successful academic adaptation of adolescents. The sample comprised of 938 South American, African and Spanish adolescents who settled in Spain. Correlation analyses showed that age, social self-efficacy, academic self-concept, attribution style and intrinsic satisfaction were related. ANOVAs revealed that girls displayed a greater tendency to attribute their outcomes to internal factors than boys. Furthermore, older and Spanish adolescents displayed lower levels of intrinsic satisfaction than younger and immigrant adolescents. Path analyses found that social self-efficacy and academic self-concept were the best predictors of intrinsic satisfaction. Therefore, the promotion of social self-efficacy and academic self-concept should increase intrinsic satisfaction in schools. In addition, research into the role of cultural origin in self-regulation in schools may be necessary.

The results of a research on the processes of mentoring and assessment of Final Degree Projects (... more The results of a research on the processes of mentoring and assessment of Final Degree Projects (FDP) are presented. This research was developed in three stages: 1) preparation of a -targetsurvey to apply to students who have defended the FDP; 2) an assessment of their suitability by university teachers, and further improvement of the survey; 3) dissemination of the survey among students who defended their FDP during the academic years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 in UVA or in UC. In total, 685 students and 118 teachers have participated. The achieved results and the information on the proposals for the FDP assessment system are analyzed.

La incorporacion al Espacio Europeo de Educacion Superior ha supuesto la obligatoriedad de la ela... more La incorporacion al Espacio Europeo de Educacion Superior ha supuesto la obligatoriedad de la elaboracion de los Trabajos de Fin de Grado (TFG), circunstancia que representa una novedad importante en el sistema universitario espanol por las importantes repercusiones que sobre el funcionamiento academico acarrea. Este trabajo aporta informacion relevante sobre los procesos de tutorizacion y evaluacion de los TFGs, desde la perspectiva del alumnado y las consiguientes propuestas de mejora. Los resultados alcanzados indican que, al menos en las instituciones en las que se ha realizado el estudio, es imprescindible la puesta en marcha de iniciativas orientadas a: la mejora de plazos, medios y recursos necesarios para la realizacion del TFG, la incorporacion de criterios mas idoneos que los actuales para su evaluacion, la mejor preparacion para la tutorizacion de los profesores implicados, proporcionar una informacion previa mas adecuada y precisa a los estudiantes en relacion con el TFG...

Revista de Psicodidáctica (English ed.)

Abstract Although research carried out over the last few decades into social and emotional learni... more Abstract Although research carried out over the last few decades into social and emotional learning has shown the benefits this can have for the well-being and success of both children and teachers alike, little work has been done with regard to teacher training. The present study explores the impact of a training program focusing on social and emotional learning, implemented in a pre-service teacher curriculum. Using an experiential and collaborative methodology, an attempt is made to develop emotional skills (self-esteem, empathy, affect), as well as their social skills (assertiveness, communication skills). A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 250 students who completed several well-known scales in pre-test, post-test assessment, and control groups. After controlling for personality traits, the findings point to significant effects in favor of the experimental group, who increased self-esteem, empathy, and confidence when speaking in public, while fear of public speaking, and negative affect was seen to decrease significantly.

Contextos Educativos. Revista de Educación, 2017

En las últimas décadas la investigación educativa ha aumentado su interés sobre las emociones, ta... more En las últimas décadas la investigación educativa ha aumentado su interés sobre las emociones, tanto en relación a la salud del docente como por su implicación en su desempeño y eficacia profesional. Al tiempo, cada vez hay mayor evidencia del rol de las habilidades emocionales en el bienestar y desarrollo infanto-juvenil. Así, podemos encontrar una gran variedad de programas educativos dirigidos a la educación emocional en los escolares; sin embargo, apenas existen iniciativas para la formación docente, menos aún para su educación formal. En este trabajo presentamos dos propuestas pioneras dirigidas a la educación emocional, tanto en la formación inicial como permanente del docente. Una vez transcurridos varios años de implementación, y a través de varias evaluaciones, hemos recogido información valiosa que nos permite obtener conclusiones sobre su efectividad, así como identificar las metodologías más apropiadas para llegar a esos resultados. Precisamente por ello, parece necesari...

Revista De Psicodidactica, 2017

Although research carried out over the last few decades into Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) ... more Although research carried out over the last few decades into Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has shown the benefits this can have for the well-being and success of both children and teachers, alike, little work has been done with regard to teacher training. The present study explores the impact of a pioneer training program focusing on SEL, implemented in a pre-service teacher curriculum. Through an experiential and collaborative methodology, this compulsory subject aims to develop students' emotional competencies (self-esteem, empathy, affect), as well as their social competencies (assertiveness, communicative competencies). It was conducted a quasi-experimental study with 250 students who completed several well-known scales in pre-test, post-test assessment and control groups. After controlling for personality traits, findings point to significant effects in favor of the experimental group, who increased self-esteem, empathy and confidence when speaking in public, while fe...

The Qualitative Report, 2021

University Student Volunteering (USV) requires attention to guarantee its pedagogic quality and i... more University Student Volunteering (USV) requires attention to guarantee its pedagogic quality and its fulfilment of community service. However, a review of the literature reveals a lack of tools for assessing the quality of USV. Thus, our research question was: how can we evaluate the efficacy of volunteer programs in higher education? This article follows a qualitative methodology through an evaluative case study of the creation of a set of instruments for the comprehensive diagnostic of USV (ICD-USV) with a 360° perspective, which provide feedback and feedforward for the development of USV, thus offering indicators of its quality. The application of the ICD-USV at a Spanish university and the participation of one volunteer student, five participating entities' technicians and two USV unit managers allowed for the identification of new analysis criteria for the adequate management of a USV program. Measures that could be used to guarantee the quality of basic, pedagogic, logistic...

Host country satisfaction, as an index of immigrants’ psychological adaptation, has particular im... more Host country satisfaction, as an index of immigrants’ psychological adaptation, has particular importance for immigrant communities in the destination country. We explain immigrant adolescents’ satisfaction with their level of life in Spain by examining the contribution of sociodemographic variables, ethnic and mainstream identification, the perception of ethnic group discrimination, and the length of time lived in the host country. We examine a group of 347 Moroccans and Ecuadorians adolescent immigrants, two of the biggest immigrant communities in Spain that differ in their cultural distance (e.g., language, religion) to the mainstream culture. We provide empirical evidences that; first, Spanish language proficiency, mainstream (and not ethnic) identification, and time lived in Spain are positively related to host country satisfaction; second, immigrants’ perception of ethnic discrimination is negatively associated with host country satisfaction; and third, cultural distance to th...