Albaladejo Natalia

University of Alicante | UA

Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), linked to processing external and internal stimuli, has drawn attention to its associations with clinical factors, particularly with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) variables. This study examined the relationships among SPS, stress, sleep quality, and HRQOL, establishing an explanation model. Eight hundr...

Attentional processes are cognitive functions directly related to academic performance, being mainly involved in several teaching-learning processes. Although there are several evaluation tools for the cognitive assessment of attention in the educational context, more research is needed on the development of new ecological and computer-based evalua...

An increasing number of studies are focusing their efforts on developing ecologically valid and computer- based tools for the neuropsychological evaluation, both in clinical and general populations. In this regard, emergent studies are demonstrating the advantages of computer-based tools for cognitive evaluation, especially in the case of certain d...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which entails several deficits in executive functioning and attention processes, typically emerging in early childhood and adolescence. Based on the negative impact of this disorder on academic performance, a growing body of contemporary researchers is directing attent...

The prevalence of executive dysfunction and attention deficits during childhood has increased dramatically during the last years, having been related to the diagnosis of some disorders such as the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Being one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental conditions, it has been demonstrated that having this...

An increasing number of studies emphasize the advantages of developing ecologically valid computer-based tools for neuropsychological assessment, applicable to both clinical and non-clinical populations. These tools target cognitive functions like attention, memory, and processing speed, relevant to conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivit...

SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection is still under study today, mainly because of its long-term effects. This study aims to analyse health status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in survivors of coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) who have developed pulmonary sequelae. Prospective observational study of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumoni...

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed mainly in children, marked by inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity. The symptoms are highly variable, such as different ages of onset and potential comorbidities, contributing to frequent misdiagnoses. Professionals note a gap in modern diagnostic tools, making accurate identification challenging...

Introduction It has been shown that lifestyle is a highly modifiable determinant having a direct effect on the health status. Therefore, short and simple questionnaires assessing the lifestyle of the general and clinical population are needed to create interventions on behavioral aspects that can improve the health status. The Simple Lifestyle Indi...

Introduction The inextricable bond between humans and the environment underscores the pivotal significance of environmental sensitivity. This innate trait encompasses a wide array of ways individuals perceive, process, and react to various internal and external stimuli. The evaluation of this trait in children is generally conducted by parents. How...

Introduction. Research suggests that environmental sensitivity may be associated with greater sensitivity to emotional stimuli. Highly sensitive people appear to process emotional subtleties more deeply, which is related to overstimulation. These issues may explain why high sensitivity can influence health outcomes such as sleep quality. Depending...

Introduction. Environmental Sensitivity (ES) is defined as an innate trait that makes individual differences in the way of perceiving, registering and interpretating both environmental and inner information. From a neuropsychological perspective, previous studies have suggested that highly sensitive people show a reduced inhibitory control and incr...

Previous forms of bullying in the school context have been altered by the widespread use of the internet and social networks, raising the need to understand the dynamics of cyberbullying. The aim of this study was to analyze the frequency and factors associated with cyberbullying in secondary schools in two Spanish cities (2019–2020). A cross-secti...

In recent years, the issue of environmental sensitivity has generated interest not only among many researchers, but also practitioners. Reports indicating the poten�tial mental health risks related to increased sensitivity due to external and internal stimuli have also increased the interest of clinicians, psychologists and psychothera�pists in th...

Introduction: The assessment of group cohesion is a fundamental aspect in the context of higher education. However, there is a need for appropriate and specific instruments to assess this construct in the university context. Objective: To adapt and validate the University Group Environment Questionnaire (UGEQ) group cohesion measure to the Spanish...

Introduction: the assessment of group cohesion is a fundamental aspect in the context of higher education. However, there is a need for appropriate and specific instruments to assess this construct in the university context. Objective: to adapt and validate the University Group Environment Questionnaire (UGEQ) group cohesion measure to the Spanish...

Aim The aim of the article is to systematize the knowledge regarding the theoretical background of the notion referred to in numerous studies as high sensitivity. The basis for the undertaken analyses is the concept of sensory processing sensitivity, which is important for the theoretical development of the issue of environmental sensitivity. Due t...

Cel Celem artykułu jest usystematyzowanie wiedzy dotyczącej teoretycznych podstaw zagadnienia, które w wielu opracowaniach określane bywa mianem wysoka wrażliwość. Podstawą dla podjętych analiz jest koncepcja wrażliwości przetwarzania sensorycznego, mająca istotne znaczenie dla teoretycznego rozwoju zagadnienia wrażliwości środowiskowej. Koncepcja,...

The Mediterranean Lifestyle (MLS) has been related to better health and quality of life. However, there is no consensus on how to assess this lifestyle. The main objective of this work was to systematically review the methodology used in different studies on the evaluation of the MLS. The specific objectives were (1) to analyze the MLS components e...

Purpose: the aim of the article is to show the role of dating and dating violence victimisation, different socioeconomic characteristics, personal experiences of abuse, perceived social support, and the ability to resolve social problems in happiness among adolescents in Europe. Methods: the study had a cross-sectional design. The study participant...

SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection and the course of its sequelae remain to be defined. The aim of this study is to analyze health status and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in a Spanish sample of survivors of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. Methods: Prospective observational study of patients who survived SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia,...

Study of the neurodevelopment of children is vital to promote good quality of life during childhood. Few batteries showing adequate reliability and validity indices are available to evaluate the different neuropsychological domains. The objective of this study was to obtain initial evidence on the validity of the Computerized Battery for Neuropsych...

Peer-feedback has demonstrated to be one of the best methodologies to improve the teaching-learning process in the university context. Previous studies have demonstrated that, peer-feedback increases motivation for learning, improves the teaching-learning process, enhances a positive climate in class and allow students to improve several academic s...

SPS is a temperamental trait that characterizes approximately 30% of society. Research confirms that highly sensitive people (HSP) process information and stimuli from the environment more intensively and also more deeply than others. People who fall within this group are more sensitive to both positive and negative environments. The evidence from...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused several changes in society, especially in the educational context, where several learning methodologies and social interactions have been modified significantly. This fact could have had a negative impact on academic stress levels of students and the classroom climate, especially in the university context. The main...

Background: Sexism results in a number of attitudes and behaviors that contribute to gender inequalities in social structure and interpersonal relationships. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Lights4Violence, an intervention program based on promoting health assets to reduce sexist attitudes in young European people....

It has been demonstrated that athletes in competitive sports suffer from high levels of competitive anxiety, especially in the case of females. In this sense, it is necessary to identify possible risk and protective factors of those athletes in this collective who suffer from this type of anxiety. However, few studies analyze the relationship betwe...

Environmental sensitivity is the ability to perceive, register and process information about the environment, which differs among children and adolescents. The Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale has been used to assess environmental sensitivity in youngsters. The HSC scale is a short and 12-item adapted version of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)...

Background Machismo and acceptance of violence (AV) against women are part of the social construction of hegemonic masculinity and are related to the risk of dating violence. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the Lights4Violence program in reducing machismo and AV in secondary school students from different European cities. Methods Q...

The Questionnaire on Sensory Processing Sensitivity in Children (QSPSinCh) is designed to measure the personality trait of Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) in children aged 3 to 10 years. SPS is a phenotypic personality trait, characterised by deep cognitive, sensory and emotional processing of environmental information. SPS presents a wide ran...

Health care personnel constitutes the most vulnerable group of professionals, as they are employed in a work context with higher exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health personnel (n = 2858) of two health departments in the Valencian community between March 2020 and April 2021, a...

Tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use are important health problems that contribute greatly to causes of death in worldwide. Early onset of substance use increases rapidly during adolescence and it has been associated with a wide range of adverse events. Because substance use is associated with dramatic consequences, delaying the initiation of substanc...

Self-esteem seems to be a crucial factor in adolescents’ psychological well-being. Our study aimed to identify the likelihood of high/medium/low adolescents’ self-esteem in personal experiences of abuse and/or violence (abuse by an adult in childhood, bullying and cyberbullying, and dating violence victimization), different socioeconomic characteri...

Background: Sensory processing has been described as the ability to register, modulate, and organize sensory information to respond to environmental demands. Different theoretical approaches have studied the differential characteristics of sensory processing, such as Dunn's model. From this framework, high sensitivity in sensory processing has bee...

Sensory Processing Sensitivity, characterized by a more deeply cognitive, sensory and emotional information processing, has been previously related to several mental health problems. However, the studies are rare and an integration of the obtained findings needs to be addressed. We conducted a systematic review of studies using scientific databases...

Suicide is one of the main premature causes of death in patients with schizophrenia. However, little is known about the relationship between neurocognitive functioning and suicidality in violent offenders with schizophrenia who have been sentenced to psychiatric treatment after committing violent crimes. We examined the neurocognitive functioning o...

Introduction: Obesity is one of the most important health problems worldwide. The prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically in the last decades and is now recognized as a global epidemic. Given the dramatic consequences of obesity, new intervention approaches based on the potential of technologies have been developed. Methods: We conducted a...

Purpose: To analyze the potential association between social support, experiences of violence, and sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents and the likelihood of acceptance of violence and machismo in different European countries. Methods: Cross-sectional design. We recruited 1,555 participants ages 13e16 from secondary schools in Alicante (...

This study examined the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Spanish version of the Homophobic Content Agent Target (HCAT) scale in a sample of 1848 high school students. Participants completed an online survey including measures of homophobic bullying, depression, and anxiety. The factor structure showed adequate fit indices in Span...

Significant progress has been made in developing intervention programmes for adolescents at high risk of delinquency, school failure and emotional problems. The most effective programmes incorporate behavioural and skills training aimed at changing attitudes and promoting psychosocial and emotional skills in adolescents. This study examined the eff...

Suicide is the highest external cause of death in the majority of developed countries. In adolescents, the prevalence of suicide has increased significantly in recent years, becoming a serious public health concern. The main aim of the present study is to characterize suicidal behavior, and to evaluate the relationship between family and school con...

This study examined the relations between problematic cannabis use, physical assault, and getting involved in a motor vehicle accident under the influence of cannabis in a sample of adolescents randomly selected from 25 public and semiprivate high schools in Alicante (Spain). Participants (n = 648) completed The Spanish National Standardized Survey...

Bullying has been traditionally related to a significant reduction in well-being and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of adolescents. This negative impact on HRQoL seems to be modulated by the developed role in bullying (uninvolved, bully, victim or bully-victim). However, no studies have identified if these negative results are the same when...

Background Preventing intimate partner violence or dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health priority due to its magnitude and damaging short and long-term consequences for adolescent and adult health. In our study protocol, we complement prior experiences in DV prevention by promoting protective factors (or assets) against gender v...

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) has previously been related to better quality of life in the general population. Further, children and adolescents have obtained better health outcomes when they have shown high adherence to the MD in recent studies. Nevertheless, the association between the adherence to this type of diet and subjective happ...

The increase in the prevalence of bullying and cyberbullying in recent years worldwide is undeniable. Although several intervention programs oriented towards the reduction of bullying and cyberbullying have been developed and implemented, significant disparities have been found regarding their efficacy. In most of the cases, the lack of the impleme...

La presente red de innovación docente se fundamenta en el desarrollo de nuevas acciones educativas de carácter eminentemente práctico en el alumnado de Criminología. El objetivo fundamental de esta Red fue evaluar las competencias prácticas adquiridas por el alumnado de 4º Curso del Grado Criminología en la asignatura Profiling: perfil psicocrimino...

Loneliness perception during adolescence has been increased dramatically in recent years. Changes in lifestyle and difficulties in social interaction could explain this increased phenomenon. As described in previous research, this fact has been associated with the development of high stress levels and dysfunctional lifestyles, in which eating habit...

La Batería Computarizada de Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil (BENCI) ha sido diseñada para estudiar el neurodesarrollo infantil en diferentes contextos. Está compuesta por un total de 17 pruebas que evalúan los dominios de: velocidad de procesamiento, coordinación visomotora, memoria, lenguaje y función ejecutiva. Si bien existen datos sobre su...

This study examined the associations between eating or skipping breakfast and the quality of breakfast eaten on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), perceived stress and depression in 527 Spanish adolescents. Results showed differences in stress and two domains of HRQOL; Moods and Emotions and Parent Relations and Home Life between adolescent br...

The prevalence of bullying has increased dramatically during recent years, with numerous negative consequences for the health and quality of life of bullied adolescents. Although negative psychological consequences of this type of situation have been widely investigated, no previous research has evaluated the effects of bullying victimization on di...

Objective: To generate normative data for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III (PPVT-III) in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations. Method: The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was ad...

Objective: To generate normative data for the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations. Method: The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was administered t...

Objective: To generate normative data for the Stroop Word-Color Interference test in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations. Method: The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was administered...

Objective: To generate demographic-adjusted norms for the D2 Attention test in a pediatric population from Spain. Method: 964 healthy children from Spain were evaluated. Inclusion criteria were an IQ ≥ 80 on the Test of Non-Verbal Intelligence (TONI-2), a score of <19 on the Children Depression Inventory, and T-score < 65 on the Revised Child Anxie...

La identificación de las causas y circunstancias que rodean un hecho delictivo es fundamental para guiar la investigación policial. El análisis minucioso de las evidencias halladas en la escena de un delito, permite llevar a cabo una reconstrucción de la escena del crimen, esclarecer la autoría de los hechos investigados, la personalidad del delinc...

La realización de prácticas docentes de “Juicios Simulados” representa un importante avance en el proceso de enseñanzaaprendizaje en el alumnado de Criminología. Mediante este tipo de actividades, los estudiantes desarrollan las competencias académicas y profesionales adquiridas durante su formación, recreando contextos y situaciones reales en un e...

This study examined the connections between adolescent alcohol use in Alicante, Spain and variables reflecting adolescents’ academic problems, potentially delinquent behaviors, friends’ alcohol consumption, and friendship quality. Information about alcohol use and a number of school and social variables was collected from adolescent students (N = 5...

This study examined associations between adolescent alcohol use in Spain and family relationship quality, parental rules, sources of information about substances, and family behaviors. A sample of 565 students in Alicante, Spain completed measures of these constructs. After controlling for age and type of school, family relationship quality explain...

La reducción del consumo de drogas entre los jóvenes, constituye una de las políticas prioritarias de los estados miembros de la Unión Europea. La estrategia implementada en la Unión Europea en materia de drogas ha llevado a la realización de encuestas escolares para cuantificar la magnitud del fenómeno. Las encuestas representan un importante esti...

The aging process involves a decline in immune functioning that renders elderly people more vulnerable to disease. In residential programs for the aged, it is vital to diminish their risk of disease, promote their independence, and augment their psychological well-being and quality of life. We performed a randomized controlled study, evaluating the...

Traditional research on school violence has focused mainly on the later primary education grades and on secondary education, and has barely addressed the presence, characteristics, assessment, and intervention of interpersonal problems at early ages. The aim of this study was to construct and validate a questionnaire that identifies the onset and t...

Objective Assessing spiritual well-being is an essential and critical aspect of holistic and multidisciplinary patient care practice. A valid assessment of spirituality is necessary for clinical and research purposes. This study examined the presence of spiritual well-being, or meaning in life, in palliative care patients using a psychometrically-s...

Introduction: Spirituality can be defined as a personal search for meaning and purpose in life that may or may not encompass religion. In this article we report on the development and testing of an instrument for measuring spiritual well-being within a sample of haemodialysis patients. Material and method: The main instrument, a 21-item Meaning...

Introduction: Spirituality can be defined as a personal search for meaning and purpose in life that may or may not encompass religion. In this article we report on the development and testing of an instrument for measuring spiritual well-being within a sample of haemodialysis patients. Material and Method: The main instrument, a 21-item Meaning in...