Angélica Quiroga

Universidad de Monterrey · Psychology, Health SciencesVice Chancellery

Background To mitigate against the possible adverse effects of stress among nurses due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we designed a 12-week mind–body based online intervention program to promote well-being and prevent stress-related disorders such as burnout. Our study aimed to compare the impact of the intervention on perception of stress, negative emo...

This study investigates the role of shame, guilt, and fear activations related to Covid-19 stressful experiences in predicting traumatic symptoms. We focused on 72 Italian adults recruited in Italy. The primary outcome was to explore the traumatic symptoms severity and negative emotions associated with COVID-19-related experiences. The presence of...

Introducción. El abuso de alcohol es considerado como un problema de salud pública, socialmente generalizado y normalizado. Contribuye a más de 60 enfermedades y problemas sociales, violencia familiar, problemas de pareja y económicos, comportamiento impulsivo, accidentes automovilísticos y una menor productividad laboral. Objetivo. Encontrar el va...

The high prevalence in Mexico of both child sexual abuse and emerging psychopathological syndromes in adulthood, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder, self-injurious behavior, and suicide, makes it necessary to investigate in greater depth the relationship between these circumstances. The findings on the incidence in Mexico and the interacti...

Adaptarse dando sentido a las situaciones adversas de la vida como las pérdidas inevitables a lo largo de la vida y otros eventos estresantes es crucial para que las personas mantengan su bienestar físico y psíquico. Holland et al. (2010, 2014) crearon y validaron dos versiones -larga y corta- de una escala para evaluar el grado de adaptación de un...

Objective The study examined the association between depressive symptoms and iron status, anaemia, body weight, and pubertal status among Mexican adolescent girls. Design In this cross-sectional study, depressive symptoms were assessed by the 6-item Kutcher Adolescent Depressive Scale (6-KADS), and latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify...

Economic inequality is a main issue in current societies and it affects people’s psychological processes. In this research, we propose that perceived economic inequality might affect how people perceive men and women. In two experiments carried out in Spain (N = 170) and Mexico (N = 215), we tested whether high (vs. low) economic inequality leads t...

En la actualidad el sistema de salud se ve afectado por cargas excesivas de trabajo que conllevan el desarrollo de estrés y ansiedad durante la actividad laboral en sus trabajadores. En distintos hospitales de México la prevalencia del estrés laboral va del 22 a 63%, encabezando la lista médicos residentes y enfermeras. Con el objetivo de probar la...

This manuscript explores the psychometric properties of a scale measuring self-curiosity, a facet of general curiosity, consisting of the attitude and interest people have in understanding themselves better. In this study, we provide data on the comparison between the Self-Curiosity Attitude-Interest Scale in an Italian and a Mexican sample, paired...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar factores socioculturales que repercuten en la percepción de conductas sexuales. El estudio tiene un enfoque mixto, con análisis cuali-cuantitativo. Participaron 313 adolescentes de tercer año de secundaria. Un bajo funcionamiento familiar, una baja resistencia a la influencia de pares y una adherencia...

Frente a la pandemia COVID-19, la actividad académica pasó de clases presenciales a aprendizaje sincrónico en línea. La transición generó dificultades para atender los desafíos ante el inesperado cambio. Con el fin de explorar las percepciones de estudiantes universitarios acerca de su experiencia de enseñanza-aprendizaje durante la contingencia sa...

Objetivo. En el presente estudio se buscó demostrar de qué manera se explica la depresión comúnmente asociada a la falta de aceptación personal y familiar de las personas homosexuales. Material y método. Investigación empírica cuantitativa, explicativa, de corte transversal. Participaron 354 personas, hombres y mujeres homosexuales mayores de edad...

Objetivo. En el presente estudio se buscó demostrar de qué manera se explica la depresión comúnmente asociada a la falta de aceptación personal y familiar de las personas homosexuales. Material y método. Investigación empírica cuantitativa, explicativa, de corte transversal. Participaron 354 personas, hombres y mujeres homosexuales mayores de edad...

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in an increase in known risk factors for mental health problems. Mexico adopted lockdown and physical distancing as a containment strategy with potential consequences on day to day life, such as social isolation, loss of income and loneliness that can have important consequences in terms...

Sexist attitudes reinforce gender inequality, but, are they absent on Women’s Day? This research examines the extent to which, in some contexts, Women’s Day can activate sexist attitudes that reinforce structural inequalities between men and women. Based on ambivalent sexism theory, we propose that people are more likely to agree with benevolent se...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and pursuant to the governments’ order of citizens remaining at home, several countries were required to transition from face-to-face instruction to an online model to provide higher education to their students. While factors affecting the use of online learning are diverse and have been studied by models of use and ac...

Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, and character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these two styles with the BenCor in 22 countries. The present study extends the previous one by including further countries (a total of 25 countries in 29 samples with N...

Esta investigación analizó el grado de equidad y estereotipos de género que se presentan en uno de los periódicos más longevos e importantes de México: El Norte de Grupo Reforma, considerando el género de los autores de las notas, de las fuentes citadas, pero principalmente de sus protagonistas (tomando en cuenta el contenido de los titulares, foto...

Purpose The aim of this study is to compare climacteric symptomatology and sociodemographic conditions and their effect on quality of life in two populations: Monterrey (Mexico) and Madrid (Spain). Methods 469 women from Monterrey (mean age 50.5 + 4.3 years) and 452 (mean age 51.7 + 3.7 years) from Madrid participated in the study. Descriptive ana...

La adolescencia es una etapa vital en el desarrollo de una persona, los sucesos estresantes dentro de los subsistemas en esta etapa pueden provocar sintomatología ansiosa-depresiva. El objetivo del estudio, fue diseñar un programa de intervención narrativa socioemocional para disminuir síntomas ansioso-depresivos en adolescentes. Se buscó fortalece...

Análisis de contenido para explorar la posible presencia de tendencias estigmatizadoras y atribuciones en medios impresos de Monterrey, México, en la noticia de un estudiante de secundaria que realizó una balacera en el aula con saldo de cuatro heridos, divulgándose que padecía depresión. Se analizó la cobertura de los diarios El Norte y Milenio, e...

Los temas que aquí se abordan están relacionados a la interacción que se encuentra en la modernidad del Internet, su uso constante, y los efectos que su acceso puede tener en la población joven. Se busca conocer si existe una relación entre el nivel de uso de internet, la comparación social y los niveles de sensación de soledad debido al estar en c...

Objetivo. Incidir en el trato digno hacia las personas con problemas de salud mental por parte de la comunidad y de los medios de comunicación. Material y métodos. Se seleccionaron dos periódicos matutinos locales de los más importantes grupos informativos de Monterrey, México. Se realizó un juicio de expertos para determinar la presencia de inform...

This study, characterized by a mixed, comparative focus, evaluated the influence of internal and external systemic factors among students with high intellectual potential who attend an extracurricular educational center. The findings indicate that internal factors, resilience, and emotional intelligence are helpful for students as they handle the s...

Socioeconomic class is a relevant variable with regard to the process of social hierarchization; specifically, subjective social class (SSC) has been found to correlate positively with the self-efficacy of persons. In the present study, with mixed methodology and a population size of 280 participants, we attempted to replicate these results by oper...

Recently, two forms of virtue-related humor, benevolent and corrective, have been introduced. Benevolent humor treats human weaknesses and wrongdoings benevolently, while corrective humor aims at correcting and bettering them. Twelve marker items for benevolent and corrective humor (the BenCor) were developed, and it was demonstrated that they fill...

El suicidio es un problema social que aumenta de manera alarmante a nivel mundial, en los últimos 45 años la tasa de suicidios se elevó en un 60%. Se estima que por cada 10 intentos hay un suicidio consumado y que aproximadamente un millón de personas se suicida por año (OMS, 2016). Aunque en México, la tasa es menor (5 por cada 100 mil; INEGI, 201...

Objectives: To investigate women's subjective experiences in the climacteric transition, especially the impact of self-concept, quality of life and depression on the severity of climacteric symptoms. Method: Non-experimental, cross-sectional study, purpose sampling. To analyze the results, we proposed a three-way interaction, in which the direct...

Objectives. To investigate women's subjective experiences in climacteric transition, especially the impact of self-concept, quality of life and depression on the severity of climacteric symptoms. Method. Non-experimental, cross-sectional study, purpose sampling. To analyse the results, we propose a three-way interaction, in which the direct effect...

Factores que inciden en las conductas laborales contraproducentes (CLC) dentro de las empresas han sido abordados previamente por en la literatura, sin embargo, poco se ha hablado sobre el papel que juega la inteligencia emocional (IE) en su manifestación. El presente estudio maneja la literatura existente (k = 10, n = 2731) y los procesos del meta...

El modelo pedagógico de la Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) tiene como eje transversal el Aprendizaje-Servicio. Asimismo, con el compromiso de formar integralmente a psicólogos capaces de dar respuesta a problemas del bienestar psíquico los estudiantes inscritos al curso Aplicaciones en Psicología Clínica, dedican 20 horas del trabajo de campo que t...

Children who have to stay in hospital for a period of time can experience anxiety, fear and insecurity. Narrative therapy has been used to help address the traumatic experiences of hospitalised paediatric patients by promoting changes in perspective, enabling distance from pain or trauma, and identifying skills and strategies for managing the hospi...

A This paper is based on gamification technique through the use of a gameplay, where computer science and psychology join together to understand the human emotions and the behaviour, looking for issues to manage the stress produced in the students during a new learning program. This tool is a computer game created with the objective of treating anx...

In Mexico violence across the country has increased in recent years and has become a social problem of great importance. The continuous exposure to all types of interpersonal violence leads adolescents to cope with experiences and challenges of great risk of development deviations. Trying to find a more comprehensive understanding of violence outco...

During the last years, different types of violence have severely damaged Mexico. In this paper we examine the consequences that violence could have in children, one of the most vulnerable segments of society. In short, we predict that exposure to any type of violence will led to higher depression and that this effect could be explained through the...

Las tendencias actuales hacia una mayor globalización, las innovaciones tecnológicas y procesos cada vez más complejos, cambiantes y contradictorios demandan que las universidades formen recursos humanos de alto nivel ya que es imperativa la producción de conocimiento científico e intervenciones exitosas en la solución de los grandes problemáticas...