Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría

• Professor
• Universidad de la República de Uruguay

The factor structure of the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFCS-14) is currently subject to debate and little is known about its temporal stability, or indeed whether temporal changes affect the factor structure. This study examined the factor structure of a Spanish version of the CFCS-14 in Uruguayan and Spanish samples. In Spain data...

Episodic foresight (EF) refers to the ability to anticipate future states of the self. Despite almost two decades of research, no studies explored how family context variables relate to the development of this ability. The objectives of this study were to explore the association of socioeconomic status (SES), parental consideration of future conseq...

Temporal psychology constructs are an individual difference variable related to behavioral outcomes. Recent research has shown that there are different time attitude profiles based on different configurations of the six Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory-Time Attitude (AATI-TA) subscales. The objective of this study was to analyze the psychometric...

The COVID-19 context has created the most severe disruption to education systems in recent history. Its impact on child development was estimated comparing two cohorts of 4- to 6-year-old Uruguayan children: control (n = 34,355, 48.87% girls) and COVID cohort (n = 30,158, 48.95% girls) assessed between 2018 and 2020 in three waves, by a routinely a...

El estudio de las transiciones durante el curso vital es un tema central en el desarrollo, ya que los cambios significativos que provocan en el contexto vital demandan, para su adecuada tramitación, recursos cognitivos y emocionales. El ingreso a la escuela primaria es una de las transiciones que más atención ha reclamado en las últimas tres década...

School Readiness (SR) encompasses the developmental competencies and skills essential to successfully transition to primary school and subsequent academic achievement. Teachers’ beliefs about SR in pre-K, kindergarten, and primary school significantly influence educational practices and may impact preschoolers’ transition outcomes. Using a qualitat...

Child abuse and neglect (CAN) is linked to poorer cognitive and socioemotional development. This study examined the impact of CAN and its subtypes on school readiness, considering different school socioeconomic status (SES) contexts. We analyzed records of 868 preschoolers (Mage = 5.0 years) from child protection services databases who were also as...

Importance Dual language learners (DLL) (ie, children learning 2 or more languages) present lower school readiness than non-DLL children, putting DLL children at risk of later school difficulties and adverse outcomes. However, it is unclear whether participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services may reduce this gap. Objective T...

One of the pending challenges facing Education for Sustainable Development is to change students' behavior in favor of sustainability so that these are lasting and even transferable to other people. This study analyzes how various psychological factors, including motivation, attitudes, beliefs and emotions, can be channeled to enhance social and ec...

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting mitigation measures have led to increased vulnerabilities in early child development. However, research is scarce and there are no studies on the persistence of these losses three years into the pandemic among young children. To fill in this gap, we examined census-like evaluations of school readiness carried out...

Early detection of developmental delays among infants and young children is crucial to foster timely interventions. Uruguay has two large-scale systematic assessments for the early detection of developmental risk profiles: the National Guide for Developmental Surveillance (GNVD) applied in healthcare centers, and the School Readiness-Child Developm...

Child maltreatment is a health issue worldwide, known to be detrimental to child development and well-being. Research on child maltreatment has particularly focused on addressing sexual abuse over other types of maltreatment, usually measured by retrospective adolescent and adult self-reports. Also, most research has been developed within western a...

Con el fin de promover el desarrollo integral y estimular el bienestar en la infancia, diversos académicos y organismos especializados recomiendan la implementación de políticas de evaluación e intervención en el desarrollo temprano y en particular durante la transición inicial-primaria. Siguiendo esta línea, Uruguay implementa de forma ininterrump...

Se analizaron las relaciones entre la autorregulación y la preparación para la escolarización en preescolar, y la validez predictiva de ellas sobre el involucramiento escolar en primaria. Se utilizó un diseño longitudinal en tres tiempos, multi-informante y multi-método. Participaron 58 niños entre 62 y 76 meses de edad, de tres instituciones educa...

Resumen Abstract Tabla de Contenido Se presenta la validación al español de la Scale of intrinsic versus extrinsic orientation in the classroom adaptada para escolares uruguayos. Participaron del estudio 912 niños (52.4% niñas y 47.6% varones), con un promedio de edad de 10.19 años (DE = 1.10), pertenecientes a 10 Instituciones Educativas (61.4% pú...

Se presenta la validación al español de la Scale of intrinsic versus extrinsic orientation in the classroom adaptada para escolares uruguayos. Participaron del estudio 912 niños (52.4% niñas y 47.6% varones), con un promedio de edad de 10.19 años (DE = 1.10), pertenecientes a 10 Instituciones Educativas (61.4% públicas y 38.6% privadas) de la ciuda...

En este capítulo se analizan los principales fines de la evaluación del desarrollo en primera infancia y los resultados de dos de las experiencias más significativas de evaluación del desarrollo infantil que existen en Uruguay.

Consideration of future consequences (CFC) was originally proposed to be a stable personality trait that describes the degree to which individuals consider the immediate versus distant results of their actions. Recent studies debate whether CFC fluctuates over short periods of time and whether it is a domain-specific construct. The present study ai...

Trayectorias académicas en la Universidad de la República. El rol de los factores sociodemográficos y psicológicos en el abandono en dos servicios altamente masificados

This paper presents the results of a nationwide, low-cost intervention that used messages informed by behavioral economics and delivered through the government’s official mobile app to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay. We document null results for attendance and child development outcomes. We also estimate conditional average treatment effe...

In this study we explore the possibility that maternal depressive symptomatology and personality would influence parenting practices which would in turn influence their offspring's socio-emotional and cognitive-motor development. We used a large representative sample of Uruguayan children and their mothers. The Big Five Inventory (BFI), subscales o...

El estudio de las transiciones durante el curso vital es un tema central en el desarrollo, ya que los cambios significativos que provocan en el contexto vital demandan, para su adecuada tramitación, recursos cognitivos y emocionales. El ingreso a la escuela primaria es una de las transiciones que más atención ha reclamado en las últimas tres década...

Need for cognition is an important individual diference referring to the tendency to enjoy and engage in efortful cognitive activity. We psychometrically validated a very efcient version of the scale in Spanish with 6 rather than 18 items. Shorter questionnaires are in high demand as they can decrease participant fatigue for example. Questionnaires...

In this study, the Environment Characterization Inventory for Early Education (INCA-EI) psychometric properties and the effect of socioeconomic context and type of institution on the quality of environments were assessed. One hundred forty-two early education classrooms were evaluated. The analysis of Unidimensionality for the Structure Dimension a...

Measurement of early childhood development at the population level has traditionally been neglected in Latin America. In this context, Uruguay stands out for having two population-based protocols: the Nutrition, Child Development and Health Survey (ENDIS), a home survey, and the School Readiness - Child Development Inventory (INDI). This paper aims...

La detección de posibles dificultades en el desarrollo infantil permite articular acciones entre organismos vinculados al sector educativo y sanitario, para intervenir oportunamente y tener un mayor impacto en el desarrollo del niño. Este trabajo presenta una experiencia de aportes a la consecución de los Objetivos 3 y 4 de Desarrollo Sostenible de...

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has majorly disrupted many aspects of people's lives, provoking psychosocial distress among students. People's positive and negative attitudes towards the past, present and future were a dispositional pre-COVID-19 reality. Faced with a pandemic, people have reported disruptions in the speed of passing time. Peop...

Introduction: Fostering positive academic behaviors among university students can allow youth do well in school and later in the workforce. This includes achieving high grades and having positive attitudes about the University and the professors. We accounted for three levels of determinants reflecting an etiological framework ranging from distal t...

Interest in research on future thinking has surged over the last two decades but studies carried out among school age children would be lacking. Future thinking can be viewed as a cognitive function or a disposition, impacting a wide variety of behaviours across the lifespan. Future thinking would undergo developmental milestones in the school age...

We worked within a conceptual framework wherein past, present and especially future time perspectives impact academic behaviors through motivational mechanisms. We assessed dimensions of time perspectives, motivation (self-efficacy, test anxiety, intrinsic value), academic performance and feelings of belonging among 409 undergraduate students. We f...

The novel coronavirus has taken a catastrophic toll worldwide on physical and mental health. We focused on the psychosocial impact among students in Uruguay, a country relatively protected from the pandemic. Our study had three main aims : 1) describe in detail the impact among university students, 2) identify relationships between different dimens...

Background The Ages & Stages Questionnaires Third Version (ASQ-3) identifies the risk of developmental delay in children aged 2 to 66 months. The ASQ-3 is available in many languages. However, there is little evidence of the psychometric properties of the Spanish version and using nationally-representative samples. Aims This study evaluates the re...

El libro "El Inventario de Desarrollo Infantil y la evaluación sistemática del desarrollo en contextos educativos.Teoría, creación e implementación" intenta ser una obra de referencia en la formación de docentes e investigadores en temas de evaluación del desarrollo en primera infancia y en el Inventario de Desarrollo Infantil (INDI).La primera par...

CBCL 1½–5 is one of the most widely used behavioural problem screening instruments internationally. However, few studies have explored its psychometric properties in national representative samples. Additionally, there is limited evidence on the existence of latent profiles of behavioural problems in preschool samples. This study aimed to analyse t...

The Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social–Emotional (ASQ-SE) is a developmental screening test used around the world. However, research assessing the psychometric properties of the Spanish version or in nationally representative samples is scarce. The aim of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of ASQ-SE in Spanish, and to character...

The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries (N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower stat...

RESUMEN La escala de Consideración de las Consecuencias Futuras (CCF) evalúa el grado que las personas son influenciadas por las consecuencias inmediatas o distantes de sus comportamientos. En una muestra representativa de Montevideo, este estudio procuró explorar sus propiedades psicométricas, establecer sus baremos poblacionales, explorar su dist...

Introducción: El bienestar y el éxito dentro del entorno universitario es una preocupación clave para los psicólogos, educadores y formuladores de políticas que buscan el bienestar estudiantil. Para mejorar el desempeño de los estudiantes en la universidad, sería beneficioso comprender mejor qué determina estos comportamientos académicos y actitude...

Ana Silva // Desafíos de la modernidad al reloj biológico ancestral Tianna Loose // Personalidad, perspectiva temporal y motivación en estudiantes uruguayos Víctor E.C. Ortuño // La psicometría al servicio del tiempo subjetivo Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría // Los cuatro niveles de la psicología del tiempo: caracterización de los estudios en Uruguay...

La Perspectiva Temporal es un constructo cognitivo-motivacional con gran impacto al nivel conductual y cognitivo. En la actualidad, el Inventario de Perspectiva Temporal de Zimbardo (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999) es uno de los más utilizados en la literatura científica. Sin embargo, aún se debate activamente sobre su estructura factorial. En el presente e...

The adapted Autobiographical Interview (AI)is one of the most commonly used and widely cited measures of prospection in adult humans. The use of this instrument requires investigators to make many decisions that can influence the outcomes of studies. Here, we performed a systematic review of studies utilizing the adapted AI. We assessed and charact...

Al momento de iniciar sus trayectorias escolares los niños varían en sus experiencias tempranas, habilidades socioemocionales, cognitivas y contexto familiar. Estos aspectos inciden en el desarrollo e impactan en los procesos escolares. Para explicar estas diferencias se ha propuesto el concepto de Preparación Para la Escolarización (PPE) que nucle...

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings, with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect magnitudes across samples and settings. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples that comprised 15,305 participants from 36 countries and territories....

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance to examine variation in effect magnitudes across sample and setting. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples and 15,305 total participants from 36 countries and territories. Using co...

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance to examine variation in effect magnitudes across sample and setting. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples and 15,305 total participants from 36 countries and territories. Using co...

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings, with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect magnitudes across samples and settings. Each protocol was administered to approximately half of 125 samples that comprised 15,305 participants from 36 countries and territories....

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo la adaptación al español de la Escala de Consideración de las Consecuencias Futuras de Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, (1994). Para ello se examinó a una muestra compuesta por 184 estudiantes universitarios quienes cumplimentaron dicho instrumento y el Inventario de Personalidad de los Cinco Grandes. Los re...

AimThe Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale (SCBE-30) is a 30-item questionnaire designed to assess preschoolers’ behavioral problems (externalizing and internalizing) and social competence. It is widely used in the developmental research. This study aims to contribute to the adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version of the tea...

La Perspectiva Temporal (PT) es el proceso mediante el cual las personas categorizan, archivan y recuperan experiencias personales y sociales utilizando como referencia categorías temporales relacionadas con el pasado, el presente y el futuro. Estas mismas categorías determinan varios aspectos de la cognición y el comportamiento humano. Estudios pr...

Resumen La preparación para la escolarización (PPE) refiere al conjunto de competencias necesarias para que un niño pueda tener éxito en la escuela. El problema que orienta este trabajo reside en la ausencia de consenso sobre la evaluación de este constructo. Se presenta una revisión sistemática de literatura científica a partir de la búsqueda de l...

Puede consultar libremente todos los capítulos y materiales complementarios en cognicion.psico.edu.uy . Capítulo 1. Introducción a la história y a los métodos en psicología cognitiva Capítulo 2. Percepción Capítulo 3. Atención Capítulo 4. Memoria: Sistemas y Procesos. Capítulo 5. Pensamiento y Lenguaje Capítulo 6. Lenguaje escrito y procesos cogn...

The Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC-S) is a measure of the extent to which individuals reflect and are influenced by the immediate as well as by the distant outcomes of current behavior. It´s composed by 12 items, grouped into two subscales (future and immediate). This study aims to explore the factor structure, psychometric propert...

Se presentan los resultados preliminares de la validación de la "Escala de motivación intrínseca vs extrínseca en el salón de clases" (Harter, 1981) que contó con la participación de 909 niños de 4to, 5to y 6to de Educación Primaria de la ciudad de Montevideo.

Empirically analyzing empirical evidence One of the central goals in any scientific endeavor is to understand causality. Experiments that seek to demonstrate a cause/effect relation most often manipulate the postulated causal factor. Aarts et al. describe the replication of 100 experiments reported in papers published in 2008 in three high-ranking...

The Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC-S) is a measure of the extent to which individuals reflect and are influenced by the immediate as well as by the distant outcomes of current behavior. It´s composed by 12 items, grouped into two subscales (future and immediate). This study aims to explore the factor structure, psychometric propert...

Este trabajo examina la equivalencia entre diferentes medidas de previsión episódica y su relación con los procesos orientados a futuro, y la teoría de la mente en la edad pre-escolar. Los procesos orientados a futuro y la previsión episódica (PE), han sido señalados como componentes importantes para ciertos logros evolutivos como la planificación,...

La educación en Uruguay y Latinoamérica es cuestionada hace ya varias décadas, muchos de los agentes involucrados en esta área entienden que una de las aristas de este problema es que la motivación de los niños es cada vez menor. Nuestro país no cuenta con estudios ni técnicas adaptadas que evalúen la motivación en Educación Primaria. El instru...

Primer etapa para la validación de una escala que evalúa la motivación por el aprendizaje en escolares de Montevideo. Cuevasanta, D 1 ; Curione, K 2,3 ; Vásquez, A 4,5. 1 Estudiante de Psicología, 2 Tutor, 3 Magister en Psicología, 4 Co-Tutor, 5 Doctor en Psicología Objetivo • Validación predictiva de la Escala de Orientación Extrínseca versus Intr...

Time Perspective is the process by which people categorize, archive and recover personal and social experiences through temporal frames (past, present, and future), influencing various aspects of human behaviour and cognition. It was proposed that it is related to selfesteem, though until now the main approach when exploring this relation was corre...

Time Perspective – TP has a determinant infl uence on human behavior and cognitions. Hence, it’s also a powerful predictor of several functional and dysfunctional behaviors (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). Still, depending on the nature of the studied construct, different facets of TP should be considered. The objective of this study is to clarify the pred...

Since the beginning of psychology researchers have tried to explain the subjective experience of time on cognitions, emotions and behavior. As it is one of the most complex and influential dimensions of the mind, it has been approached from different conceptions without a common consensual framework. This article attempts to contribute to the syste...

Pesquisadores têm tentado explicar, desde o início da psicologia, a experiência temporal das pessoas e sua influência nas cognições, emoções e comportamentos. Trata-se de uma das dimensões mais complexas e influentes da psique, que tem sido abordada a partir de concepções diferentes e sem uma estrutura consensual. Este artigo tem o objetivo de cont...

This research intended to identify representations, mental models and personnel management practices related to innovation management between managers of the IT sector in Montevideo. 39 subjects of 34 organizations took part. Methodological design was qualitative. For reaching validation two focus groups were carried out. Textual material was conte...