Alicia Arenas

University of Seville | US · Social Psychology

Introduction Social norms campaigns are communication strategies designed to influence people’s behaviour by highlighting the social norms of their reference group. Such campaigns have been shown to be effective in promoting healthy behaviours in a variety of settings. This study explored the effectiveness of a social norms campaign applied to COVI...

Introduction: The demanding nature of healthcare work poses significant challenges to healthcare workers. These professionals face a unique combination of stressors due to the critical nature of their work, including heavy workloads, intense emotional demands, and exposure to suffering and death of patients. Such stressors can negatively impact th...

This study describes the development and validation of the Sexual Identity Disclosure Dynamics Scale (SIDDS), a new measure to assess the process of disclosure at work that includes the reaction of supervisors, coworkers, and clients to the disclosure preferences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) employees. The items were constructed based on the...

Las medidas de conciliación trabajo-familia fueron diseñadas para aplicarse de manera equitativa entre hombres y mujeres, pero la realidad muestra que los hombres hacen menos uso de ellas, es importante evidenciar esta problemática. Este estudio tiene como objetivo explorar y describir las investigaciones realizadas sobre las medidas de conciliació...

Changing situations develop work environments where workers must generate strategies to learn and persist from continuous errors and setbacks. Previous research has shown that errors enhance motivation, break the routine, lead to creative solutions, and reduce frustration; however, this positive aspect seems to have a stronger presence if personal...

Introduction Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are a complex working context whose main characteristic resides in the dichotomy between paid staff and volunteers. Despite its benefits for goal achievement, this circumstance can be also a challenge, for both groups' interaction, for their comprehension of their own role and to HR management. The aim o...

Background: In recent years, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, awareness of the high level of stress among health care professionals has increased, and research in this area has intensified. Hospital staff members have historically been known to work in an environment involving high emotional demands, time pressure, and workload. Furthermore, the pa...

This scoping review systematizes the evidence available to date on the manifestations of heteronormativity in the workplace. The reviewed literature shows that, at an organizational level, heteronormativity is reproduced in the configuration of space, organizational policies, and the monitoring of their accomplishment by leaders. At an interpersona...

The aim is to validate the Spanish version of the Cardiac Self-Efficacy (S-CSE) Scale by examining its psychometric properties and to test the invariance for women and men. Two groups - 722 and 522- of patients completed the S-CSE Scale and other psychosocial measures during a medical revision several months after being diagnosed with cardiovascula...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way organizations operate, forcing many of them to opt for remote-working as an alternative to the face-to-face mode. This global phenomenon has increased the importance of studying the psychosocial risks linked to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as technostress....

Objectives: How individuals perceive the risk of COVID-19 influences their mental health and protective behaviors. Therefore, the development of an instrument to capture COVID-19-related worries and fears is relevant. This study aims to develop and validate the CoV-WoFe to measure COVID-19-related worries and fears. Methods: An online questionnaire...

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of a multicomponent, eHealth-based self-efficacy intervention to promote subjective well-being and self-efficacy in patients with cardiovascular disease, exploring sex differences. Design: A pilot study of a two-arm non-randomized controlled trial. Methods: Forty-two cardiovascular patients (31% women) partic...

Related to the research of working conditions, the link between organizational factors and health was traditionally analyzed using linear models. However, the literature analysis suggests inconsistencies in linear models predicting workers’ health levels. To clarify this issue, this exploratory research compares the linear and non-linear relationsh...

This article focuses on the interactional dynamics which take place during disclosure of non-heteronormative sexual orientations at work. Since the disclosure might be considered a process through which lesbian and gay (LG) people share information about their personal life at work, Boundary Theory, which explores how people create boundaries betwe...

The emotional impact that a cardiovascular disease may have on a person’s life can affect the prognosis and comorbidity of the disease. Therefore, emotion regulation is most important for the management of the disease. The aim of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of a brief mHealth psychological intervention in emotion regulation to promo...

BACKGROUND In recent years, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, awareness of the high level of stress among health care professionals has increased, and research in this area has intensified. Hospital staff members have historically been known to work in an environment involving high emotional demands, time pressure, and workload. Furthermore, the pand...

In recent years, work-related stress has grown exponentially and the negative impact that this condition has on people’s health is considerable. The effects of work-related stress can be distinguished in those that affect workers (e.g., depression and anxiety) and those that affect the company (e.g., absenteeism and productivity). It is possible to...

Work-related stress is a dangerous and expensive problem because it affects performance, and, if prolonged, can even result in serious health problems. With the advance towards the ubiquitous use of digital technology at work, a new form of work-related stress is emerging: techno-stress. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have few, if any, resourc...

Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) employees use the invisible character of their sexual identity to adopt strategies that reveal or hide their sexual orientation at work. Previous research has focused on environmental and individual factors that play a role in the disclosure process of LGB employees, yet cultural factors that may also impact this pro...

Objectives: The chronic restrictions to mitigate the new SARS-CoV-2 virus may result in pandemic fatigue. This study set out to develop a short, reliable, valid, and gender-invariant instrument—the Pandemic Fatigue Scale (PFS). Methods: In the first phase, 300 students responded to a pilot questionnaire that allowed the reduction and refinement of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the confinement of most populations worldwide, through stay-at-home orders. Children have continued their education process at home, supervised by parents, who, in most cases, have adopted the role of prime drivers of their learning processes. In this study, the psychological impact of confinement was explored, as w...

Background: Psychological well-being and health-specific self-regulation have been associated with cardiovascular health. This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship of positivity and health-specific self-regulatory variables to health-related quality of life in patients with cardiovascular disease. Methods: A sample of 550 cardiac...

Introducción La pandemia resultante de la aparición y propagación del SARS-Cov-2 ha supuesto el confinamiento de gran parte de la población (Cohen & Kupferschmidt, 2020). El proceso educativo siguió su curso desde los hogares, en supervisión de los tutores legales, profesores improvisados que asumieron todo el peso del proceso de enseñanza (Doyle,...

Three studies (Study 1, with 354 teaching and administrative staff at the University of Córdoba, Study 2 with 567 teachers, Study 3, longitudinal, with 111 teachers) analyzed the role adopted by self-regulatory variables in the relationship between type D personality (TDP) and burnout. Moderated mediation analyses in the three studies confirmed: (1...

Objectives Psychological well-being and sociodemographic factors have been associated with cardiovascular health. Positive psychological well-being research is limited in the literature; as such, this study aimed to investigate how patients with cardiovascular disease could be classified according to their perceived mental and physical health, and...

Employee silence, the withholding of work-related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective learning as well as the detection of errors and unethical behaviors in many areas of the world. To facilitate cross-cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four e...

Se aborda en el presente trabajo el desarrollo de una agenda de investigación enmarcada por las dificultades del entorno socioeconómico y su incidencia en las políticas de igualdad en el contexto laboral. Se presentan cuatro estudios desarrollados en el marco de la mejora del diálogo social y la promoción de organizaciones inclusivas, resaltando el...

Employee silence, the withholding of work-related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective learning as well as the detection of errors and unethical behaviors in many areas of the world. To facilitate cross-cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four e...

Esta guía va dirigida a la comunidad universitaria y personas dedicadas a la gestión de la diversidd en la educación superior pretendiendo servir como recurso de orientación en asuntos de diversidad sexual y de género. Comienza clarificando los conceptos de sexo, género, expresión de género y orientación sexual para dar a conocer al/la lector/a qué...

Background and Objectives: Anxiety and stress influence the onset and prognosis of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but little is known about what CVD patients do when experiencing stress/anxiety. This study aimed to identify the behavioral strategies CVD patients use to regulate these emotions. Design: Instrumental and longitudinal. Methods: A theore...

Se analizaron las diferencias en satisfacción, inseguridad y salud laboral en población empleada en las dos últimas encuestas andaluzas de condiciones de trabajo, coincidentes con el período previo de crisis económica (2008) y el más agudo (2012). Las hipótesis se probaron median-te comparación de medias. Los resultados mostraron que los niveles de...

One of the challenges of aging is the increase of people with chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). Men and women experience the disease differently. Therefore, it has an impact on how CVD is treated and its outcomes. This research analyzed the relationship between psychosocial variables and health promotion among cardiovascular p...

Today, cardiovascular disease has a great impact on the global population due to its high prevalence. One challenge that cardiovascular patients face to achieve a better prognosis is to follow a healthy diet. This study focused on psychological factors linked to adaptation to a healthy diet in these patients. The main objective was to analyze the i...

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are quite complex in terms of organizational structure, diversity at the workplace, as well as motivational mechanisms and value rationality. Nevertheless, from the perspective of organizational psychology, the systematic analysis of this context is scarce in the literature, particularly regarding conflicts. This qua...

A pesar de los avances legislativos y sociales para la inclusión de las personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales e intersexuales (LGBTI) en la sociedad ecuatoriana, éstas siguen siendo objeto de discriminación en el entorno laboral. Ante esta situación, las organizaciones tienen la responsabilidad de implantar prácticas que sean capaces d...

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world’s most prevalent chronic disease and the leading chronic cause of morbidity. There are several psychosocial factors associated with quality of life during CVD. Our main objectives were to analyze the roles of conscientiousness, subjective wellbeing and self-efficacy beliefs. The sample comprised 514 patient...

The link between language, communication and open discrimination has been the focus of numerous studies. For many years, language has been a vehicle of prejudice and negative stereotypes. However, in the last few years, overt verbal aggressions have diminished thanks to the implementation of equality policies and awareness-raising initiatives. Desp...

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo examinar la influencia del tipo de comportamientos del docente sobre la efectividad de una Comunidad Virtual de Aprendizaje (CVA) y los factores motivacionales y personales que promueven la participación de los miembros en las VCL. Para hacerlo, analizamos la influencia de los comportamientos de los docentes d...

Workplace Incivility (WI) occurs worldwide and has negative consequences on individuals and organizations. Valid and comprehensive instruments have been used, specifically in English speaking countries, to measure such adverse process at work, but it is not available a validated instrument for research carried out in Spanish speaking countries. In...

Although discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation is prohibited by law in many countries, negative prejudices against Lesbian and Gay (LG) people, as a stigmatized minority, might be internalized by co-workers, being a source of a modern and subtle form of discrimination. Results from 39 in-depth semi-structured interviews with LG employees...

Many studies have focused on the negative effects of discrimination on workers’ well-being. However, discrimination does not affect just victims but also those people who witness discriminatory acts or who perceived they are working in a discriminatory work environment. Although perceiving a discriminatory work environment might be a stressor, the...

Los entornos laborales representan un intrincado conjunto de relaciones interpersonales, de vivencias y experiencias, que influyen en el bienestar y la salud de las personas dentro y fuera del contexto laboral. Teniendo esto en cuenta, los autores del libro abordan esta temática desde su experiencia en el estudio y la promoción de organizaciones in...

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This introductory chapter shows the way the handbook explores whether and how organizations can be transformed so as to promote equity, voice, participation and empowerment in the workplace. In doing so we examine the role that Social Dialogue can play in encouraging organizational change for inclusion. In this chapter, we propose that shaping incl...

Societies, labor markets, and work relationships face fast changes, and several dynamics are shaping a new landscape which includes workers with diverse cultures and backgrounds. However, if changes are not managed well, they might be perceived as chaotic, and the results might be different from those expected. Walking through the Circle of Inclusi...

The Mediterranean diet has several beneficial impacts on health. Self-efficacy may be crucial for adhering to the diet. This study set out to develop a reliable and valid instrument that would enable measurement of the extent to which people are confident about their ability to adhere to the Mediterranean diet: the Self-Efficacy Scale for Adherence...

This book presents Social Dialogue as a social innovation strategy for managing diversity at any step of the human resource circle. It showcases empirical research on how to improve open dialogue and constructive negotiations between management, trade unions and employee representatives using multi-disciplinary perspectives from psychology, busines...

Discrimination is a complex phenomenon with adverse consequences at personal and organizational levels. Past studies have demonstrated that workers who are victims of discrimination might show less job satisfaction, less organizational commitment and worse levels of health and productivity. Although most research has focused on the effects of discr...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence rate of workplace bullying in a sample of Italian and Spanish employees, and its differential consequences on employees’ job satisfaction and psychological well-being. The effects of workplace bullying on job satisfaction and psychological well-being were explored taking into account...

Since the early 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to the impact of workplace bullying on employees’ well-being and job attitudes. However, the relationship between workplace bullying and job satisfaction remains unclear. This study aims to shed light on the nature of the bullying-job satisfaction relationship in the Italian context (n = 1,3...

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JMP-01-2013 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role that conflict management styles play in the relationship between interpersonal conflict and workplace bullying. Design/methodology/approach – A survey study was conducted among 761 employees from different organizations in Spain....

To be published in: Revista de Psicologia Social / International Journal of Social Psychology http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21711976.2015.1016753#abstract Also available in Spanish / También disponible en español Workplace bullying is considered the final stage of a prolonged conflict where there is a power imbalance between the affe...

In recent years there has been a great deal of social and legislative progress in the struggle against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. However, the coming out process in the workplace is still a crucial aspect in the lives of many lesbians and gays (LG). This study sets out to analyse the different strategies that Spanish LG adopt...

The current economic crisis is triggering a new scenario of uncertainty, which is affecting the organizational behavior of individuals and working teams. In contexts of uncertainty, organizational performance suffers a significant decline—workers are faced with the perceived threat of job loss, individuals distrust their organization and perceive t...

This paper addresses the developing research agenda in the context of the difficulties of the socio-economic environment and its impact on equality policies in the employment context. We present four studies developed in the framework of improving the social dialogue and the promotion of inclusive organizations, highlighting the status of the issue...

La crisis económica desencadena un nuevo escenario de incertidumbre que incide sobre el comportamiento organizacional de individuos y equipos de trabajo. El rendimiento organizacional se deteriora en contextos de incertidumbre—ante la amenaza percibida de mantener el trabajo, los individuos muestran desconfianza con la organización y competitividad...

Se aborda en el presente trabajo el desarrollo de una agenda de investigación enmarcada por las dificultades del entorno socioeconómico y su incidencia en las políticas de igualdad en el contexto laboral. Se presentan cuatro estudios desarrollados en el marco de la mejora del diálogo social y la promoción de organizaciones inclusivas, resaltando el...

Research findings underline the negative effects of exposure to bullying behaviors and document the detrimental health effects of being a victim of workplace bullying. While no one disputes its negative consequences, debate continues about the magnitude of this phenomenon since very different prevalence rates of workplace bullying have been reporte...

Objective: The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we examine the prevalence rate of workplace bullying among employees in Japan. Second, we explore antecedents of bullying exposure at work in this population. Method: 699 employees recruited in 5 labor unions in the Tokyo area (Japan) voluntarily participated in this questionnaire-based study....

Workplace bullying has been a topic of increasing interest since the 90s. Several studies have contributed to a better understanding of the antecedents and consequences of being exposed to negative acts at work during a prolonged period of time. However, there is a lack of validated instruments in Italian to map workplace bullying. Consequently, th...

This cross-sectional exploratory study analysed the interrelations between group status, different psycho-social variables related to intergroup contact -attitudes toward other cultures, in-group bias, acculturation attitudes, and perceived enrichment of other cultures- and host satisfaction, in order to identify variables that improve the psycholo...

This paper examines the role that conflict management styles play in the relationship between interpersonal conflict and workplace bullying. We propose that exposure to negative acts depends on how interpersonal conflict is managed. In that sense, a survey study among 707 employees from different organizations in Spain was conducted. Results sugges...

This study attempts to analyse the effect of gender on performance in a complex decision-making task. Performance in achievement tasks is linked to self-regulatory processes such as self-efficacy, self-set goals, and task commitment, determined by dispositional factors such as goal orientation or, as recently discovered, error orientation. Specific...

This study attempts to analyse the effect of gender on performance in a complex decision-making task. Performance in achievement tasks is linked to self-regulatory processes such as self-efficacy, self-set goals, and task commitment, determined by dispositional factors such as goal orientation or, as recently discovered, error orientation. Specific...

Based on Social Cognitive Theory, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of several demographic and psycho-social factors involved in teachers' job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 68 secondary school teachers in cultural diversity settings. Their average age was 43.56 years old (SD =10.93); 60.3% were women and 38.2% were men. P...

El objetivo de este estudio, formulado desde la Teoría Social Cognitiva, fue examinar el efecto de algunas variables demográficas y psicosociales implicadas en la satisfacción laboral de los profesores. La muestra consistió en 68 profesores de secundaria en contextos caracterizados por su diversidad cultural. La media de edad fue de 43.56 años (DT...

Workplace bullying is a complex phenomenon that affects a large number of organizations and employees in our country. As we know, the latest scientific data reported a prevalence of around 4%. This data, coupled with the potential negative consequences at individual, group, organizational and social levels of workplace bullying, justifies the need...

We developed a cultural self-efficacy scale for adolescents (CSES-A) and tested its psychometric properties using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Cultural self-efficacy (CSE) was defined as person's perception of his/her own capability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity. On the basis of Band...

Nowadays, the work environment is ever-changing and more and more competitive which necessitates the development of new skills, facing risky situations and making difficult decisions. The perception of personal capacity to carry out the demands of a job influences stress levels and, consequently, professional health. Employees with low self-efficac...

The authors tested the role of dispositions and self-regulatory mechanisms in the relation between social exclusion and self-defeating behavior. The authors manipulated the perception of social exclusion by giving participants feedback about the likelihood of their ending up alone. The authors randomly assigned participants to the following experim...

Resumen Los mapas cognitivos son considerados de interés para comprender cómo la gente interacciona con su entorno y organiza sus desplazamientos habituales. En el procesamiento de la información ambiental, las características del entorno físico, la experiencia subjetiva del ambiente y los factores cognitivos y afectivos del individuo determinan el...

Nowadays, organizations create a lot of situations of interdependence in which individuals try to maximize their personal benefit over the benefit of the group they belong to. Contexts that promote competition make people cope with social dilemmas similarly to dilemmas of other sciences such as economy, grow development, population studies, environ...

This study explores the interrelationship among goal orientation, self-regulatory mechanisms and error orientation with a view to predicting performance in a management task involving decision making at a furniture factory in an uncertain situation. The sample was randomly assigned as a control group and an experimental group, but only the particip...