Irene Checa

ORCID: 0000-0003-1832-0865
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Research Areas
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Sports and Physical Education Studies
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Sports Performance and Training
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Social Skills and Education
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Universitat de València
2016-2025

Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación
2022

Universidad de Sevilla
2020

Colciencias
2017

We aied to examine the psychometric properties of several wellbeing scales among Latinos in US, most which have never been validated a US-Latino population. leveraged secondary baseline data from one-arm mHealth trial on dementia caregiver support. included 100 responses for caregiver-focused and 88 care recipient-focused scales. Scales Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire Severity Distress scales, Six-item Zarit Burden Inventory, Ten-item Center Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale,...

10.1177/07399863241308996 article EN Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 2025-01-10

The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) is widely used to measure emotional experiences, but not much known about its cross-cultural utility. present study evaluated the measurement invariance SPANE across adult samples ( N = 12,635; age range 18-85 years; 58.2% female) from 13 countries (China, Colombia, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, United States). Configural partial scalar were supported. Three items capturing specific...

10.1177/10731911211021494 article EN Assessment 2021-06-09

Introduction: The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), developed by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin in 1985, comprises five items seven response options terms of agreement-disagreement. Recently, there has been a suggestion to reduce the SWLS optimize its applicability different cultural contexts. Objective: study aims assess psychometric properties Colombian population. Specifically, we studied dimensionality, invariance gender age (among group adolescents emerging adults under 25 years...

10.3389/fpubh.2021.767534 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Public Health 2022-01-13

There is increasing interest in the study of flourishing as an indicator subjective wellbeing. The objective herein was to adapt and psychometric properties Diener’s Flourishing Scale (FS) among Colombian population. Accordingly, a cross-sectional conducted with non-probability sample 1255 adults. scale’s structure, invariance by gender, convergent concurrent validity were studied from confirmatory perspective using structural equation models. factor analysis showed excellent fit indicators...

10.3390/ijerph18052664 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021-03-06

Worldwide, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) has become most widely used measure of life satisfaction. Recently, an authorized Vietnamese-language version been introduced. Using a convenience sample comprising community volunteers from Ho Chi Minh City (N = 1073), confirmatory support was found for cross-national constancy one-dimensional structure underlying SWLS. Corrected item-total polyserial correlations and Omega coefficient were satisfactory. multi-group factor analysis,...

10.3390/ijerph19063460 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-03-15

Well-being has been measured based on different perspectives in positive psychology. However, it is necessary to measure affects and emotions correctly explore the independence of negative affect. This cross-sectional study adapts validates Scale Positive Negative Experience (SPANE) with a non-probabilistic sample 821 Spanish adults. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed two related factors correlated errors. The average variance extracted was 0.502 for affect (SPANE-N) 0.588 (SPANE-P)....

10.3390/ijerph17228359 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020-11-12

In these times of pandemic, the acceptance or rejection vaccines has become increasingly clear, with a considerable rise in anti-vaccine movement Spain. It is important to understand attitudes that lead person refuse vaccination order develop more effective public health campaigns. The objective this study been psychometric properties and measurement invariance Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) scale Spanish sample. Confirmatory factor analysis structural equation modelling have used...

10.1186/s40359-022-00929-y article EN cc-by BMC Psychology 2022-09-19

Abstract Emerging adulthood is a stage that involves significant changes in emotional, social, academic, and work domains, which can often lead to high levels of stress mental health challenges. The purpose this study explore the potential benefits an online intervention program based on psychoeducation suicide risk prevention for emerging adults who are studying at university. A psychoeducational was conducted with 567 participants, whom 82.2% were female, aged between 18 29 years (M =...

10.1007/s12144-024-05932-7 article EN cc-by Current Psychology 2024-04-26

Studies on the prevalence of burnout in professionals service organizations who work direct contact with clients or users organization have concluded that is a serious health disorder has increased due to COVID-19 pandemic. A significant advantage Spanish Burnout Inventory (SBI) over other instruments it provides broader conceptualization by including feelings guilt as dimension explain its development. However, measurement invariance SBI across countries not been investigated. The purpose...

10.1007/s11482-022-10108-1 article EN cc-by Applied Research in Quality of Life 2022-11-03

RESUMEN: Para la evaluación de las competencias psicológicas los deportistas se han empleado diferentes instrumentos como cuestionarios estandarizados, técnicas autoinforme construidas ad hoc o anamnesis; aunque son estas últimas que incluyen el mayor rango conductas definen rendimiento deportivo y aquellas respuestas estados influyen en mismo.Por ello, objetivo este trabajo fue crear un instrumento con formato entrevista semi-estructurada recogiera todas necesidades psicológico pudieran...

10.5093/rpadef2017a3 article ES cc-by-nc-nd Revista de Psicología Aplicada al Deporte y el Ejercicio Físico 2017-01-01

<p>La investigación acerca del desarrollo de competencias con ABP ha crecido mucho en los últimos años, sin embargo, no se han investigado sus consecuencias sobre procesos psicosociales, como la creatividad, liderazgo entre iguales y cohesión equipo el trabajo grupo. En este además analizan las diferencias nivel competencial 16 grupos 4 estudiantes asignatura Psicología Social Deporte Grado Ciencias Actividad Física resultado su participación una metodología evaluada rúbricas. Los...

10.4995/redu.2019.9907 article ES cc-by-nc-nd REDU Revista de Docencia Universitaria 2019-12-30

Resumen: El interés por el estudio del bienestar psicológico (Ryff, 1989) y su relación con las estrategias de afrontamiento se ha producido también en ámbito deportivo. En esta investigación, evalúan la ansiedad competitiva, utilizadas competición 213 deportistas, cuatro deportes diferentes. Los resultados permiten predecir, a través los análisis regresión, posibilidad experimentar contexto competitivo, regulado papel mediador dirigidas tarea. Abstract:Interest in the study of psychological...

10.22544/rcps.v34i02.02 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Revista Costarricense de Psicología 2015-12-16

ResumenEn el aula universitaria la motivación estado de los estudiantes puede verse influenciada por muchos factores, siendo uno ellos percepción éstos sobre comportamiento docentes.El objetivo este estudio consistió en adaptar y validar al español Escala Motivación Estado (Christophel, 1990) una

10.21865/ridep58.1.10 article ES Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnóstico y Evaluación - e Avaliação Psicológica 2021-01-01

Aim Although they have been frequently used in the literature, there has much confusion concerning Ryff's Well-being Scales, such as their factor structure and effects of method due to use reversed items. A common practice nowadays is positively worded items forms, order reduce response bias. However, many different studies seen that this introduce scores, leading problems reliability validity. This work had two goals: first, verify 29-item Spanish version original Scale an athlete...

10.4172/neuropsychiatry.1000488 article EN Neuropsychiatry 2018-01-01

(1) Background: The need to offer brief scales with items that can be answered few response options is increasingly important in order able access a broad range of the population. three-item version Diener’s Satisfaction Life Scale has recently been proposed. objective this study psychometric properties five options, as well measurement invariance by gender, Colombian sample; (2) Methods: A confirmatory factor model three scale together Flourishing tested, and gender studied. results very...

10.3390/ijerph19052595 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-02-23

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) has shown strong evidence of reliability, validity, and gender invariance, there is some invariance across age, culture, educational levels. So far, sexual orientation not been studied, despite the number works that relate well-being to orientation. SWLS should be invariant able compare group means. This study aimed explore A non-probabilistic sample 553 Spanish adults (208 males, 345 females; 212 heterosexuals, 182 gays, 138 bisexuals among other...

10.1007/s10508-021-02240-0 article EN cc-by Archives of Sexual Behavior 2022-05-19

In health professionals, negative stereotypes toward older adulthood have been associated with the difficulty in recognizing pathological processes and refusal to care for patients because of assuming that communication them will be uncomfortable frustrating. For these reasons, research on groups has acquired growing importance. The usual strategy identify evaluate agist is use scales questionnaires. Although multiple are currently used, Latin America, Questionnaire Evaluation Negative...

10.2196/42340 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023-03-09
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