Amalio Blanco

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | UAM · Social and Methodological Psychology

El libro Investigación en psicología: aplicaciones e intervenciones II presenta los avances en la investigación de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Católica de Colombia. La lectura de cada capítulo permite observar el esfuerzo tanto de los diferentes docentes e investigadores internos y externos como de los estudiantes por responder a lo...

This study analyses the publications by Spanish institutions indexed by the Web of Science in the thematic category of “Psychology, Social”. The objectives are to determine whether such publications address topics related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to what extent the research conducted contributes to achieving the goals propose...

La reexperimentación emocional (re) permite dar sentido a hechos traumáticos o estresantes mediante un proceso dirigido por instrucciones verbales o escritas, y por ello puede generar beneficios en el bienestar psicológico y la salud física autoinformada. El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar la comprensión de tres tipos de instrucciones exp...

An ethos of violence based on political ideologies aiming to delegit-imize an adversary is a psychosocial barrier to solving lasting conflicts , such as in Colombia. Beyond the signing of a peace agreement, the cessation of political violence implies modifying the complex symbolic dynamics constructed by various opposing actors to legitimize acts o...

Given the important limitations of direct (explicit) measures, the study of indirect (implicit) measures of psychological constructs has received increased attention of social researchers. However, in the field of well-being the measures that have traditionally been used have tried to capture people’s well-being in an explicit and direct way, with...

Introducción: Se diseñó y validó un instrumento de evaluación de trauma psicosocial en víctimas de desplazamiento forzado asociado al conflicto armado en Colombia, denominado TPS-6. Método: el estudio fue instrumental. El plan de prueba, los ítems y la escala de valoración fueron evaluados por siete expertos, con quienes se realizó la validez de c...

This article describes the effects of an intervention program that uses community resilience and the psychological, social, and subjective well‐being of victims of forced displacement as a reference framework. Following a multiple instrumental case study methodology with pre–post‐intervention measurements, the cases of eight people were analyzed, s...

Violent extremism is commonly conditioned by a variety of psychological processes and mechanisms that when activated or deactivated aid implication in extreme behavior, including destructive actions with a large dose of cruelty against people and groups. One of those processes is moral disengagement, which was originally postulated by Bandura. To t...

In line with the hypothesis that PTSD is a memory disorder, recent studies on perceptual priming have focused on identifying the differences between population with and without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This study addresses priming in people who have been exposed to traumatic experiences of forced displacement. To that end, three categ...

Background: The effect of indirect (versus direct) exposure to a traumatic event on the quality of life of terrorist attack victims has received considerable attention in the literature. However, more research is required to examine whether the symptoms and underlying processes caused by both types of exposure are equivalent. Our main hypothesis i...

Although there is a growing body of evidence that health is the presence of well-being and not just the absence of a disease, research related to victims of terrorists attacks is mostly focused on the presence/absence of pathology (e.g. PTSD). The present study aims to apply the Complete State Model of Health to evaluate the mental health status of...

The sociohistorically built and created nature of knowledge and subjectivity that social constructionism seems to have arrogated is part of the history of social science. Moreover, criticism to the casual mechanistic model as the only source of knowledge -that the constructionist movement considers as one of its main epistemological contributions-...

Publicación en formato cartilla que presenta las actividades realizadas en el programa de intervención Construyendo comunidades resilientes con victimas del conflicto armado. Estas actividades permitieron promover la resiliencia comunitaria y con esto lograr favorecer el bienestar de las personas que participaron Puede consultarla en este link htt...

This chapter examines the factors that affect the quality of life (QoL) of internally displaced people in Colombia. First, we review previous studies on the factors that affect QoL of displaced persons including inter alia, individual characteristics, traumatic events, situations of escape, the adaptation of the refugee to host communities and new...

The most common and extreme suffering humankind has ever experienced comes from interpersonal and collective intentional violence. In dealing with traumatic outcomes psychology must overcome the mutually constitutive interaction between the (dis)order of a given macro or microsocial context and the mental health of the persons living in it. Social...

Given the current debate over the distinction between subtle and blatant prejudice, this study provides new evidence regarding problems with the construct validity of the Pettigrew and Meertens’ Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scale. To assess these issues, an existing data sample of 896 Chilean participants collected in 2010 was reanalyzed. The main...

Based on Pettigrew and Meertens’ Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scale (1995), a new scale for assessing the expression of prejudice is proposed in this article. The original scale has been changed in three ways: (a) items were rewritten to avoid double assertions, (b) three new items were considered to adequately measure the ‘denial of positive emoti...

In the study of well-being there are two partially overlapping traditions that have been developed in parallel. Subjective well-being (SWB) has been associated with the hedonistic approach of well-being, and psychological well-being (PWB) with the eudaimonistic one. However, satisfaction with life, the most common SWB indicator, is not strictly a h...

Fatalism has been a core construct in the study of psychological and social processes related to well-being and life quality in social sciences. The objective of the present research is to develop a new instrument, the Social Fatalism Scales (SFS), which allows us to study the influence of individualist and collectivist fatalism on well-being acros...

In this study, a detailed exploration is carried out of the production of research and theory in social psychology in the Spanish context. The main research areas are: Work and organizational psychology, social health psychology, community and social services psychology, environmental research, judicial and political psychology, psycosocial theory...

p align="justify">Se presenta un estudio de las representaciones sociales acerca de lo masculino y lo femenino elaboradas por una muestra de 435 estudiantes de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Para el análisis de dichas representaciones se ha utilizado el método de Asociación Libre de Palabras a un conjunto de estímulos inductores. Los resultados d...

With approximately four million affected people, forced displacement is nowadays one of the largest social problems Colombian society must face. About half of these four million are women. This article uses various studies carried out in the last years at the Psychology Department of the Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla) based on qualitative met...

RESUMEN La obra de Hans Anger en la psicología social alemana, representa un puente que vincula la labor precursora de Wundt y Hellpach con la obra posterior a la segunda guerra mundial de investigadores contemporáneos como Klaus Scherer y Martin Irle. La importancia de la figura, relativamente anónima en el mundo de la psicología social, como es e...

Este trabajo comienza con una aproximación al concepto de bilingüismo, aportando varias definiciones. Para el autor se trata de un estado que puede ocupar un lugar específico en un espacio imaginario en cuyos polos opuestos se encuentran el bilingüismo mínimo y el bilingüismo ideal y equipara el proceso de bilingüización a la acción de un traductor...

With approximately four million affected people, forced displacement is nowadays one of the largest social problems Colombian society must face. About half of these four million are women. This article uses various studies carried out in the last years at the Psychology Department of the Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla) based on qualitative met...

Very frequently, reality and literature hold a suspicious similarity. It could be because it's impossible for our fantasy to let go completely of what surrounds us, or could be because all act of literary genre is nothing more than a copy of our own biographical vicissitudes. Sometimes, social scientists create metaphors that try to account for wha...

p>Con mucha frecuencia, el mundo de la literatura y el de la creación científica guardan entre sí un sospechoso parecido de familia. Será porque a nuestra fantasía le resulta imposible desprenderse de manera definitiva de lo que nos rodea; será porque todo acto de creación literaria no es más que un trasunto de nuestra propia peripecia biográfica....

El estudio del bienestar constituye hoy en día uno de los capítulos de mayor relevancia y futuro más prometedor en el campo de la Psicología. Con la ayuda de dos estudios hemos analizado las relaciones existentes entre los constructos más empleados para su medición: el bienestar subjetivo (BS), el bienestar psicológico (BP), y el bienestar social (...

There is general agreement in the literature on emotions concerning their central role in many aspects of our every day life. In order to give an overview over the theoretical issues in the field of emotion psychology, we will define first of all emotion, as well as their components and functions, before we turn to differentiate between emotions, f...

Vitality and inner resources as relevant components of psychological well-being. The multidimensional model of well-being, created by Carol Ryff, proposes the following dimensions to study psychological well-being (PSWB): self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth. One of t...

The main purpose of the present article was to analyze in Hispanic population the psychometric properties of Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI), a measure of trauma-related thoughts and beliefs developed by Edna B. Foa. The inventory was administered to 132 participants of general population of Spain, 363 participants of El Salvador, and 47...

It has been established that having clear goals is a required condition to achieve objectives. In the following research we will analyze if having clear goals is a needed condition to achieve goal. Clear goal instruction triggered better performance only if the individual posses adequate competencies to develop task (Study 1); otherwise goal instru...

It has been established that having clear goals is a required condition to achieve objectives. In the following research we will analyze if having clear goals is a needed condition to achieve goal. Clear goal instruction triggered better performance only if the individual posses adequate competencies to develop task (Study 1); otherwise goal instru...

Usually, well-being has been measured by means of questionnaires or scales. Although most of these methods have a high level of reliability and validity, they present some limitations. In order to try to improve well-being assessment, in the present work, the authors propose a new complementary instrument: The Implicit Overall Well-Being Measure (I...

Este trabajo ha obtenido el 2.º Premio Estudios Financieros 2009 en la modalidad de Recursos Humanos. En la última década ha existido un renovado interés en el estudio del bienestar tanto por parte de la filosofía, como por parte de las ciencias sociales y las ciencias de la salud. El estudio de las organizaciones no ha sido impermeable a esta tend...

This study studied Subjective and Objective Psychological Well-being, and Fatalism, Trauma and Irrational Posttraumatic Cognitions, in adults displaced by socio-political violence, living in Barranquilla, Colombia. Outcomes suggest that people who have been victims of forced displacement exhibit undeniable symptoms of psychosocial trauma, and that...

This article presents the welfare description of a small group of people from the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. The sample selected for the study was formed from subjects that have not been exposed to any kind of violent situation. This articles intent to make an accurate and argumentative point in regards to the welfare of the subjects given the...

La Psicología Social no se ha traducido en un progreso sustantivo del bienestar y las relaciones humanas, ni tampoco parece haber contribuido a producir los cambios sociales y políticos que se podría esperar de una disciplina dedicada al estudio científico de la conducta social humana. En el presente trabajo se analizan algunas de las barreras con...

En este artículo se presenta una descripción del bienestar de un grupo de personas de la ciudad de Barranquilla, Colombia. La población seleccionada está constituida por sujetos que no han estado expuestos a ningún tipo de hecho o acontecimiento violento. En búsqueda de hacer un reconocimiento puntual y sustentado de forma teórica acerca del bienes...

Fatalism has been a central framework for understanding the psychological processes in cultures with pronounced collectivism that are economically poorly developed. In this context, fatalism emerges as cognitive schema defined by passive and submissive acceptance of an irremediable destiny, governed by some natural force or the will of some God. Th...

This article aims to provide researchers interested in using Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Wellbeing with additional information to make an informed decision on the scales and items to use. It builds on the discussion in the literature on the six factor structure of this measure. An alternative shortened version of this wellbeing measure (Van Dier...

Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In order to specify the contents of this positive state, the Complete State Model of Health (CSMH) considers mental health as a series of symptoms of hedonia and positive functioning, operationalized by measures of subjective, p...

Human rights are an essential element of a civil society. Attitudes about these laws and the role of peer influence in shaping these attitudes, has not garnered much attention. This study examined the strategies individuals employ to influence a peers’ beliefs about human rights laws in Spain. One hundred ninety-six participants at the Universidad...

Taking as a framework one of the most well-known theories by Emile Durkheim, this paper addresses the relationship between social order and a number of health related topics. Social order understood not just as an event as such, but as a perceived event unfolded into five wellbeing dimensions: social integration, social acceptance, social contribut...

Throughout history, humans have frequently carried out harmful actions against one another. Often, these actions result in intensive and long lasting pain and suffering. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis has been the theoretical tool used mostly by psychologists to understand the physical, emotional and behavioural symptoms following a...

The aim of this paper is to adapt to Spanish the D. van Direndonck version of Carol Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scales, and to analyse its consistency and factorial validity. All the scales exhibited good internal reliabilities, with Cronbach alpha's ranging from 0.83 (Self-acceptance) to 0.68 (Personal growth). However, confirmatory factor ana...

Se presenta un estudio de las representaciones sociales que tiene una muestra de profesionales sobre el movimiento antiglobalización. Para el análisis de dichas representaciones se ha utilizado un método de asociación libre de palabras a un conjunto de estímulos, y un cuestionario de imagen del movimiento (similar a un diferencial semántico). Los r...

Taking as a framework one of the most well-known theories by Emile Durkheim, this paper addresses the relationship between social order and a number of health related topics. Social order understood not just as an event as such, but as a perceived event unfolded into five wellbeing dimensions: social integration, social acceptance, social contribut...

En el presente artículo de investigación se ha adaptado al español la versión de D. van Dierendonck de las escalas de bienestar psicológico propuesta por Carol Ryff, y se ha estudiado su fiabilidad y validez factorial. Las escalas mostraron una buena consistencia interna con valores α de Cronbach compren- didos entre 0,83 (Autoaceptación) y 0,68 (C...

This research deals with the concept of self-stereotyping, which is analysed in relation to the concepts of national identity and favouritism towards the ingroup. The hypothesis is that the stronger the identification with one¿s nationality, the more positive will be the auto-stereotypes attributed to the national group. Furthermore, it is predicte...

El presente artículo se adentra en la concepción del bienestar social tomando como punto de partida el modelo teórico de cinco dimensiones planteado por Corey Keyes: integración social, aceptación social, contribución social, actualización social y coherencia social. Nuestro principal objetivo ha sido adaptar las escalas de bienestar social propues...

This study analyzes the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Social Well-Being Scales: social integration, social acceptance, social contribution, social actualization and social coherence. All the scales exhibited good internal reliabilities, with Cronbach alpha's ranging from 0,83 (social acceptance) to 0,69 (social integration)....

This research explores the role played by a mixed emotional experience on predicting a specific risk behavior (getting into a vehicle knowing that the driver has drunk excessive alcohol). These emotions could be different than the evaluative component of an attitude. A sample of young people with experience in this risk behavior remembered to have...

Cognitive, individual differences, and intergroup contact factors were examined in the formation of attitudes about human rights and ethnic bias in two studies conducted in Spain. A 7-item scale measuring knowledge about human rights laws in Spain and the European Union was used in both studies. Participants were university students enrolled at the...

Se presenta un estudio de las representaciones sociales sobre el movimiento antiglobalización elaboradas por una muestra de estudiantes. Para el análisis de dichas representaciones se ha utilizado un método de asociación libre de palabras a un conjunto de estímulos y un cuestionario de imagen del movimiento (en forma de un diferencial semántico). U...

Todos los procesos sociales que han generado alguna forma de violencia política se han servido de ciertas creencias o argumentos para su justificación. El análisis de esta clase de creencias y argumentos constituye una de las funciones sociales o éticas más importantes que pueden ser desempeñadas por la psicología social. Este trabajo procura ilust...

All the social process that has generated any form of political violence has involved some beliefs or arguments for justify it. The analysis of this kind of beliefs and arguments constitutes one of the most relevant social or ethical functions that can be developed through the social psychological research. This paper try to illustrate that idea by...

In this study the speeches are analyzed of de-humanization of the adversary used by two armed illegal groups in Colombia: FARC-EP y AUC. The analysis of the data showed the existence of three linguistic categories that it is to the service of peace objective: proscription, characterization of features and of political categories to dehumanize. En e...

Este artículo analiza los argu-mentos y creencias publicados por un periódico vinculado a un grupo terrorista, en un intento de legitimar el secuestro y asesinato de una víctima inocente. La amplia respuesta ciudadana contra ese acto criminal obligó a ese periódico a crear una versión de los hechos en la que se intentaba tanto reducir su impacto em...

The emotional experience and the prediction of risk behaviours. The predictive capacity of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen & Madden, 1986) in a prototypical risk behaviour such as unprotected sex has shown itself to be no more than moderate (Albarracin, Johnson, Fishbein & Muellerleile, 2001). In the present work we chose the behaviour...

Si el objetivo primordial de los movimientos sociales reside en buscar una solución a los problemas que plantea el orden establecido, se hace necesario contemplar la incidencia que la dinámica del poder, una variable olvidada en la Psicología social, y a su vera el conflicto, un elemento perteneciente a la propia naturaleza de los movimientos socia...

La capacidad predictiva de la teoría de la conducta planificada (TCP) (Ajzen y Madden, 1986) en una conducta de riesgo prototípica como es la relación sexual sin preservativo es moderada (Albarracín, Johnson, Fishbein y Muellerleile, 2001). En este trabajo hemos elegido la conducta de montar en un vehículo sabiendo que su conductor ha bebido alcoho...

Este artículo analiza los argumentos y creencias publicados por un periódico vinculado a un grupo terrorista, en un intento de legitimar el secuestro y asesinato de una víctima inocente. La amplia respuesta ciudadana contra ese acto criminal obligó a ese periódico a crear una versión de los hechos en la que se intentaba tanto reducir su impacto emo...

Dans cette étude, une exploration détaillée de la production en ce qui concerne la recherche et la théorie en psychologie sociale a été effectuée. Les principaux secteurs de recherche sont : la psychologie du travail et des organisations, la psychologie sociale de la santé, la psychologie des services communautaires et sociaux, la recherche sur l’e...

La concepción tradicional sobre la causas de la violencia y de los conflictos violentos se corresponde con un paradigma explicativo que podemos denominar psicobiológico. No obstante, desde el punto de vista de la apuesta por una cultura de paz, este paradigma resulta manifiestamente inapropiado, tanto por razones de hecho como por motivos más pragm...

In this study, a detailed exploration is carried out of the production of research and theory in social psychology in the Spanish context. The main research areas are: Work and organizational psychology, social health psychology, community and social services psychology, environmental research, judicial and political psychology, psycosocial theory...

Este trabajo realiza una exploración pormenorizada de la producción de investigación y teoría sobre psicología social en el contexto español. Las áreas fundamentales de investigación son: psicología del trabajo y las organizaciones, psicología social de la salud, psicología comunitaria y de los servicios sociales, investigación en medio ambiente, p...

This article relates the development of the teaching of psychology in Spain from the creation of the Psychology Sections in the Arts and Philosophy Faculties (1968-69) up to the current academic curricula. Highlights are the efforts of the group of psychologists led by Yela, Pinillos and Siguán for the ‘recovery’ of psychology teaching after the Ci...

Tesis doctoral inédita leida en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicología, Departamento de Psicología Social. Fecha de lectura: 11-12-98

Recuento analítico de las principales tradiciones conceptuales de la psicología social, a saber: la tradición grupal, con sus respectivas correspondencias con el pensamiento idealista alemán; la individualista, vinculada estrechamente con el positivismo; la institucional, que mantiene cierta ambigüedad en el campo de la psicología social; la lewini...

Entrenamiento en habilidades sociales al personal de enfermería: efectos sobre la comunicación con el usuario de los servicios de salud Training program in social skills to nursey workers in primary assistance: effects on the communication with the health services user José M.ª LEON (*), Luis JARANA y Amalio BLANCO RESUMEN ABSTRACT PALABRAS CLAVE K...

Tesis doctoral inédita, leída en 1986 en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Facultad de Psicología

This article maintains the reflection that was begun in number 3 of Estudios de Psicología about the social matrix in which linguistic phenomenon are contained. This time, it is about to define the role and place of the linguistic fact in the socialization process, taking interaction as the base for social action and the common and group characteri...

Como aportación a una psicología social del lenguaje, se ha examinado el proceso de socialización lingüística en un medio bilingüe. Las teorías al respecto tienden a hablar en terminos de códigos ricos y pobres, elaborados y restringidos. Una ex plicación más adecuada sería, sin embargo, hablar de diferentes realidades sociales que poseen sus propi...

En los últimos quince años, la psicología social se ha visto determinada por una situación de crisis y de búsqueda de paradigma. Tal desorientación ha surgido de: (1) un abuso del método experimental en detrimento de la consideración del componente social que siempre había caracterizado el enfoque de la disciplina, y en menoscabo, por tanto, de la...

Este artículo ofrece una visión del trato que ha tenido el lenguaje en la Psicología desde las perspectivas más importantes que lo han abordado: conductista, psicosocial y psicolingüística; seguidamente el autor propone la conceptualización del lenguaje desde una perspectiva esencialmente conductual o socio-comportamental, considerándolo como la co...

Studied the efficacy of a social skills training program for nurses to increase communication with health care consumers. Human Ss: 21 normal male and female Spanish adults (mean age 32 yrs) (nurses). 84 normal male and female Spanish adults (aged 18–76 yrs) (health care consumers prior to training program). 84 normal male and female Spanish adults...

Traditionally, clinical psychology has addressed mental health with a focus on the individual, irrespective of his/her environment. On the contrary, a psy- chosocial approach has underlined the need to address conditions foregoing