Aina M. Gassó

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya | UIC · Department of Legal and Political Sciences

Aim This study aims to understand the perceptions regarding physical restraints of the elder‐care professional's stakeholders. Design A qualitative methodology was employed. Methods Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with a convenient sample of 19 participants, which included nursing homes' managers, nurses and physicians; law, ethics, qua...

Introduction IBSA has been defined as taking, distributing, and/or making threats to distribute, a sexual image without a person's consent, and up to date there is still limited research on IBSA perpetration and characteristics of IBSA perpetrators. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify characteristics of IBSA perpetrators, in order to guide...

Undergraduate healthcare students were mobilized to support healthcare systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we have scarce information regarding their experience and its impact on their wellbeing. An anonymous online survey was conducted among undergraduate students and recently graduated physicians of a medical university in Spain, regarding...

Introduction In the past years, research regarding sexting behaviours and online sexual victimization has been rapidly growing, with literature examining the social, legal, psychological and psychopathological consequences of being coerced into sexting. However, up to date, there is little evidence exploring the psychopathological profile of sextin...

The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has impacted daily routines, forcing people to stop socializing in person and changing the way people express their feelings and their romantic or sexual interactions. Social distancing has changed the way people behave online, and we expect that engagement in sexting and online sexual victimization behaviors have inc...

Sexting is generally known as creating, sending and/or forwarding of sexual content using electronic devices. When such content is non-consensually disseminated, it becomes a criminally relevant behavior. To date, very few empirical studies have examined the prevalence of non-consensual dissemination of sexting, and none of them have analyzed the r...

Research on sexting has highlighted the association between sexting coercion and mental health correlates. This study aimed to investigate the psychopathological correlates of different sexting coercion behaviours using clinically validated measures, analysing differences by gender. The sample comprised 1370 Spanish university students (73.6% femal...

Introduction In the past years, research regarding sexting behaviours and online sexual victimization has been rapidly growing, with literature examining the social, legal, psychological and psychopathological consequences of being coerced into sexting. However, up to date, there is little evidence exploring the psychopathological profile of sextin...

Despite the growing body of research regarding sexting and online sexual victimization, there is little evidence exploring cultural differences in association with those behaviors. The aim of this study was to examine cultural differences in sexting practices by comparing an American sample and a Spanish sample of university students. The original...

Recent research on sexting highlighted a relationship between this new technology-mediated behavior and psychopathology correlates, although up to date results are mixed, and so far, studies have often used simple and not clinically validated measures of mental health. This study aimed to investigate sexting behaviors, online sexual victimization,...

Recent research on sexting suggests it could be related to mental health, but so far studies have often used simple and not clinically validated measures of mental health. Specific aims of this study were: 1) to analyze the lifetime prevalence of sexting behaviors among a Spanish College Sample by gender, and 2) to examine the psychopathological pr...

The practice of creating and sharing sexual images via technological devices, known as sexting, has received crescent attention in the past years, especially due to the increase of adolescent engagement in this behavior. Although consensual sexting is not prima facie a crime, as some research has shown, it has the potential to be a risky behavior,...

Hoy en día las TIC forman parte de las actividades cotidianas de gran parte de la población a nivel mundial. Los procesos de socialización de los menores y jóvenes a través de las TIC han suscitado una creciente atención y preocupación por parte de la comunidad científica y educativa. Muchas de las conductas que se llevan a cabo en el mundo físico...

Resumen Desde finales de la década de 1970, el acoso entre menores en edad escolar o bullying se ha venido consolidando como un fenómeno global de victimización de primera magnitud. En este sentido, se dispone ya de numerosas investigaciones dirigidas a conocer este fenómeno en profundidad y aplicar programas de prevención e intervención eficaces....