A5074807690- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Stress and Burnout Research
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Aging, Health, and Disability
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Higher Education Teaching and Evaluation
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Mental Health via Writing
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Sports and Physical Education Studies
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Universidad de La Laguna
2014-2024
Background and aims: Epidemiological community-based surveys consistently report gender differences in mental health. This study examines psychological distress by analyzing the relevance of stress, coping styles, social support time use. Methods: Psychological tests were administered to a convenience sample 1,337 men 1,251 women from Spanish general population, aged between 18 65 with different socio-demographic characteristics, although both groups had similar age educational levels....
Emerging adulthood is a critical period of life that entails many transitions in living arrangements, relationships, education and employment, which can generate stress psychological distress the emerging adult. The aim present study was to assess relevance stress, coping styles, self-esteem perceived social support adult women men. sample consists 4816 people (50% females) from Spanish general population, ranging age 18 29 years old. All participants were assessed through questionnaires...
ABSTRACT Objectives: Gender is an important social determinant of health, but gender has played only a marginal role in the geriatric and gerontology research practice. The aim this study was to examine relevance psychological well-being older adults. Design: A cross-sectional conducted. Setting: carried out Spain. Participants: total 1,201 people aged between 65 94. Measurements: participants completed sociodemographic data four questionnaires: Bem sex inventory, Ryff’s scale, York...
In this study we compared the efficacy of virtual reality exposure combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy (VRET) to that traditional (CBT) alone in reducing phobic symptoms a sample patients long-term agoraphobia. The was between-subject design three experimental conditions (VRET group, N = 30; CBT and medication only 20) repeated measures (pre-treatment, post-treatment, six-month follow-up). All were receiving antidepressant medication. Results showed all therapies statistically...
Abstract Specific phobia represents an anxiety disorder category characterized by intense fear generated specific stimuli. Among phobias, small animal (SAP) denotes a particular condition that has been poorly investigated in the neuroscientific literature. Moreover, few previous studies on this topic have mostly employed univariate analyses, with limited and unbalanced samples, leading to inconsistent results. To overcome these limitations, characterize neural underpinnings of SAP, study...
Emerging adulthood is a critical period of life involving many transitions that may generate stress and compromise health mental well-being.To know the most frequent events women men in emerging adulthood, analyzing also relevance such stressors have on their psychological well-being satisfaction. A second aim to determine age, educational level, events, coping styles, perceived social support as risk protective factors for well-being.The sample consisted 2,000 individuals from general...
Although time use is one of people’s most important resources, there are social forces and inequalities that shape how used. The aim this research to examine gender differences in from adolescence old age analyze the association such with sociodemographic characteristics women’s men’s health well-being. A cross-sectional study was conducted a sample 5700 women (54.2%) men (45.8%) Spanish general population, aged 14 85 years. Participants were assessed using five self-reported measures use,...
Abstract The present study investigates gender differences in stressful events, psychological distress and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19 Spain, analyzing women’s men’s risk resilience factors for well-being. Participants were 1758 individuals from general population, 50.8% women, aged between 18 79 years. Women men did not differ age, number children, educational level, occupation or marital status. participants assessed by seven self-report questionnaires scales. results...
Adolescents' mental health and well-being is a public concern. We examined gender differences in stress, psychological distress predictors of adolescent boys girls. A cross-sectional study with sample 954 Spanish adolescents aged between 13 17 years was conducted. All participants were assessed through questionnaires that measure distress, eudaimonic well-being, life satisfaction, coping styles, masculine/instrumental feminine/expressive traits, self-esteem social support. find girls scored...
It is well-known that traumatic events and adverse life situations are very important in both physical psychological health. Prevalence studies suggested adolescents experience at least one potentially event before reaching age 18. The paradigm of research centered on expressive writing has evidenced the beneficial effects emotional disclosure previous traumas produces health adjustment. aims study threefold: determining prevalence or events; examining extent to which psychopathological...
Comorbidity between personality disorders (PD) and substance-use (SUD) is one of the most common findings in psychiatric field. The patients with Cluster C present maladjustment traits often characterized by high levels anxiety. main aim this study was to find evidences about higher anxiety depression prevalence on than others Clusters, analyzing similarities differences within, other A B PD without PD.A total 822 substance dependent (ages18-78; Mean = 38.35, SD 10.14) completed structured...
Brain regions involved in small-animal phobia include subcortical and cortical areas. The present study explored the neuronal correlates of through fMRI data to determine whether a manipulation number proximity parameters affects neurobiology processing feared stimuli. participants were 40 individuals with without (28.7% male 71.3% female). They watched videos real virtual images spiders, cockroaches lizards motion presented more or less nearby one three stimuli different conditions. results...
There is a high dropout rate of oral contraceptive pills (OCP), mainly due to lack adherence treatment. The aim this study was identify the psychological processes and attitudes toward medication involved in OCP, depending on prescription, avoid unintended pregnancies (AUP) or gynecological problems (GP).This cross-sectional conducted by asking 689 young women fertile period, mean age 23.41 (SD = 5.90), complete questionnaires related attitudes, beliefs, reactance, locus control, medication....
Los efectos beneficiosos sobre la salud de reexperimentación emocional mediante utilización escritura expresiva vivencias traumáticas están bien establecidos. La efectividad parece verse afectada por ciertas condiciones. Entre las variables personales que han mostrado tener influencia recuperación tales se ha destacado el optimismo y alexitimia. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue evaluar los una intervención basada en mental. Se aplicó un diseño experimental intergrupo pre posttratamiento....
En este articulo se presenta un estudio de contrastacion del modelo elaborado por Michael Dugas para la prediccion trastorno ansiedad generalizada (TAG) y su posible relacion con otros trastornos. Para ello, evaluo medio diseno correlacional a una muestra 300 personas en las variables TAG depresion, asi como proceso, predictoras TAG: intolerancia hacia incertidumbre, creencias sobre preocupacion, orientacion pobre al problema evitacion cognitiva. Los resultados muestran apoyo mostrar...
Introduccion. La evidencia disponible recoge resultados consistentes sobre cambios cerebrales morfologicos y funcionales producidos por el tratamiento psicologico. terapia cognitivo-conductual (TCC) de exposicion es actualmente psicologico mas eficaz para las fobias. Objetivos. Explorar los autoinformados en pacientes con fobias especificas a animales pequenos sometidos un programa TCC comprobar si consiguio que estos procesaran estimulos temidos manera similar personas no fobicas. Sujetos...