Arantzazu Rodríguez-Fernández

• University of the Basque Country

This book is a dissemination of research on mental health and school adjustment approached from a psychoeducational perspective. From this perspective, mental health and/or psychological variables are examined for higher academic performance and better school adjustment. The study of mental health and school adjustment is especially relevant if we...

Antecedentes: Conocer las variables que afectan a la satisfacción vital es importante para poder promoverla desde las escuelas. El objetivo de este estudio es doble: (1) Analizar la capacidad predictiva que tiene el apoyo de progenitores, amistades y docentes sobre el autoconcepto, inteligencia emocional y satisfacción vital; (2) Analizar la capaci...

Social support has been found to play a keyrole in certain adolescent school behaviours and it is widely accepted that it fosters school engagement. On the contrary, more recent theoretical contributions regarding the principal sources and types of social support during adolescence suggest that this relationship may vary. To respond to this gap in...

Introducción: El trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) carece de tratamiento definitivo, si bien como alternativa para sus síntomas destacan las actividades asistidas con animales, especialmente con caballos, ya que estos parecen contribuir a potenciar diversas áreas de funcionamiento (motora, cognitiva…) y reducir, en cierta medida, la desconexión...

Studies focusing on subjective well-being during adolescence are relatively scarce yet necessary, due to the drop in wellbeing that occurs during this developmental stage. The aim of the present study is therefore: (1) to analyze the variability of perceived emotional intelligence (PEI) and subjective well-being in accordance with sex and age; and...

Background: Adolescents spend a large percentage of their time at school, where learning and achievement are important activities that are vital to their future educational success and subsequent career opportunities. However, studies reveal a significant drop in satisfaction and performance during the teenage years. Aim: Based on the ecological...

Adolescence is a stage characterized by many biological and psychosocial changes, all of which may result in a decrease in subjective well-being. It is therefore necessary to identify those factors that contribute to increased life satisfaction, in order to promote positive development among young people. The aim of this study is to examine the dyn...

Despite the growing interest in perceived social support as a means of achieving sustainable psychological development and well-being in the various contexts of the adolescent, its definition and composition remain unclear. The aim of this study is to test both the hierarchical order and the types and sources of a theoretical model of the social su...

Este estudio se centra en comprobar la posible relación positiva que la Inteligencia Emocional (IE) autopercibida y sus dimensiones ejercen sobre dimensiones del ajuste escolar individual, el rendimiento académico y la implicación escolar en Educación Primaria. Para ello se proponen los siguientes objetivos: a) analizar la variabilidad de la IE en...

The objective of this study is to analyze the role that peer support plays in the incidence relationships between sociometric popularity and general self-concept based on sociometer theory. A total of 676 randomly selected secondary school students from the Basque Country (49.6% boys and 50.4% girls) between 12 and 18 years of age (M = 14.32, DT =...

La inclusión educativa implica valorar la presencia, la participación y los logros de todo el alumnado. Se ha demostrado que el apoyo docente contribuye a la adaptación exitosa al contexto escolar y al rendimiento académico. Cabe plantear que un mayor apoyo docente podría asegurar los principios de equidad e igualdad de oportunidades. El estudio se...

IEP4-Infantil es el diseño de un nuevo cuestionario para evaluar la inteligencia emocional percibida en primaria. Los objetivos del estudio fueron: (a) comprobar la estructura interna de la inteligencia emocional en Educación Primaria, y (b) evidenciar la validez de dicha estructura y cuestionario (validez de contenido, validez del constructo, y fi...

Background: During secondary education, a stage with a high risk of failure and school dropout, social support is an important contextual variable for the prevention of school maladjustment. The aim of this study is to examine a theoretical model of the explanatory capacity of social support in terms of school adjustment, understood as school enga...

Although there is a growing interest in identifying the psychological strengths that enhance students’ life satisfaction, there is a lack of understanding of the mechanisms involved in during adolescence. This study aimed to examine whether resilience serves as mediator in the relationship between perceived emotional intelligence and life satisfact...

The aim of this study is two-fold: (a) to determine the general degree of family affect/communication and strictness by examining the combination of the two classical dimensions of mother parenting style: affect/communication and strictness, and (b) to analyze the impact of both parents’ affect and strictness on the family style, thereby exploring...

El objetivo del presente estudio consiste en analizar el apoyo docente percibido por el alumnado de secundaria con Necesidades Específicas de Apoyo Educativo (NEAE) y sin NEAE y su relación con la implicación escolar. Para ello, se administran los siguientes instrumentos de evaluación: el cuestionario de Implicación Escolar (SEM) y, para medir el...

El rendimiento académico constituye en la actualidad una temática de gran interés en el ámbito de la educación por su relevante papel en el ajuste del alumnado. El apoyo social percibido, el autoconcepto y la inteligencia emocional son variables potencialmente relacionadas e influyentes sobre el rendimiento académico. Así, los objetivos de esta inv...

El apoyo social percibido es crucial en el comportamiento escolar de los adolescentes, especialmente en la implicación escolar. En general, los contextos cercanos de una persona promueven su implicación escolar, pero no todas las fuentes de apoyo social tienen el mismo efecto. Los objetivos de esta investigación son dos: (a) analizar las relaciones...

ESocial support has become a subject of great interest in different scientific disciplines, what has generated a great diversity of definitions that have resulted in a high quantity and heterogeneity of measuring instruments. In addition, there are hardly any instruments that differentiate the sources of social support despite it is considered a vi...

El apoyo social (familia, profesorado y grupo de iguales), así como la percepción que tienen los individuos de sus habilidades emocionales podrían ser factores que condicionasen el rendimiento académico en Educación Secundaria, aunque la evidencia empírica no es del todo concluyente. El objetivo de este estudio es examinar la influencia directa de...

El presente trabajo es un estudio sobre la imagen de la mujer en la literatura infantil y juvenil vasca contemporánea. Se han analizado los 55 libros que escribieron los autores vascos en el año 2013 y las 19 obras de creación en euskara premiadas entre 2009 y 2014. En las 74 obras examinadas se han investigado los estereotipos de género (caracterí...

Son muchas las variables analizadas en relación al ajuste escolar. Sin embargo, la cantidad de trabajos que analizan la relación entre los estilos de socialización parental y el ajuste escolar son escasos, especialmente en nuestro país. El presente trabajo pretende examinar el rol de tales estilos de socialización parental, diferenciando el del pad...

El objetivo del presente estudio consiste en analizar el apoyo docente percibido por el alumnado de secundaria con NEAE y sin NEAE y su relación con el autoconcepto. Para ello, se administran los siguientes instrumentos de evaluación: El Cuestionario de Autoconcepto Dimensional (Audim-33) y, para medir el Apoyo del profesorado, una subescala del cu...

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo someter a comprobación empírica un modelo explicativo sobre el ajuste psicosocial en la adolescencia, entendiendo el ajuste psicosocial en este etapa de la vida como la conjunción del ajuste escolar (o implicación en la escuela) y el bienestar subjetivo. Según este modelo hipotetizado, el ajuste psicosocial d...

The aim of this study was twofold: first, to analyze the relationship between school engagement and resilience, self-concept and perceived social support. Second, to determine predictors of school engagement. The sample was comprised of 1,250 students between 12 and 15 years of age (M = 13.72, SD = 1.09), of which 612 were boys (49%) and 638 (51%)...

This study tests the verification of a comprehensive explanatory structural regression model of physical activity based on the key personal and contextual motivational factors of the achievement-related choices model (Eccles, 2011). Participants were 429 adolescents, 233 (54.30%) boys and 196 (45.70%) girls, all aged between 11 and 19 (M = 14.93; S...

Aurreko baliozkotze pilotu batetik abiaturik, Lehen Hezkuntzarako kirol-jarduera fisikoko inplikaziorako galdeketaren (IMAF) barne trinkotasuna behin hobetuta faktore-analisi baieztatzailea egiten da. Horretaz gain, itaunketa autokontzeptu fisikoarekin korrelazionatzean kanpo baliotasuneko ebidentziak lortzen dira. Azkenik galdeketaren aldagarritas...

El apoyo social es una de las variables más estudiadas desde finales del siglo XX por lo que se ha creado una gran diversidad conceptual con maneras muy diferentes de entenderlo y de evaluarlo, lo que ha derivado en una gran cantidad y heterogeneidad de instrumentos de medida. El objetivo de esta investigación es revisar y clasificar diferentes ins...

El objetivo de este estudio fue doble: en primer lugar, analizar las relaciones entre la implicación escolar y la resiliencia, el autoconcepto y el apoyo social percibido. En segundo lugar, determinar variables predictoras de la implica- ción escolar. Participaron en el estudio 1250 estudiantes entre 12 y 15 años ( M =13.72, DT =1.09), de los cuale...

La implicación escolar constituye en la actualidad una temática de gran interés en el ámbito de la educación por su relevante papel en el desarrollo positivo y el éxito académico del alumnado de los estudiantes. Los objetivos de esta investigación fueron los siguientes: en primer lugar, analizar las posibles diferencias en función del nivel educati...

Este estudio tiene por objeto identificar diferencias asociadas a la edad y al sexo en el autoconcepto social medido con el Cuestionario de Autoconcepto Social (AUSO), de Autor (2011), que consta de las escalas de responsabilidad social y de competencia social. Participaron en la investigación un total de 767 estudiantes, 318 hombres (41.5%) y 449...

Resumen Este estudio analiza las relaciones entre el autoconcepto y el bienestar subjetivo (satisfacción con la vida, afecto positivo y afecto negativo). Participaron 1.250 estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (media de edad = 13.72, DT=1.09) seleccionados aleatoriamente. Se administraron los siguientes instrumentos de evaluación: el Cue...

The aim of this study is to identify differences associated with age and sex in the social self-concept measured by the Social Self-Concept Questionnaire (AUSO), by Fernández-Zabala (2011), made up for two scales: social responsibility and social competence. In the research participated a total of 767 students, 318 men (41.5 %) and 449 women (58.5...

Ikerketa honetan jarduera kirol-fisikoko inplikazioaren itaunketa (IMAF) Lehen Hezkuntzarako balidatzen da. Horretaz gain, ongizate eta ondoeza psikologikoak inplikazio kirol-fisikoarekin daukan erlazioa ikertu da, autokontzeptu fisikoa eta erresilientzia ongizatearen adierazle gisa aukeratuz eta depresioa eta antsietatea ondoezarenak. Hori guztia...

Se analizan las relaciones explicativas entre el bienestar (entendido como autoconcepto físico y resiliencia) y el malestar psicológico (entendido como depresión y ansiedad) respecto a la implicación en actividad físico-deportiva con el objetivo de plantear un modelo teórico explicativo de incidencias. Han participado 100 alumnos (41% chicas; 59% c...

The aim of this study was to analyse the relationships between resilience and behavioural, emotional and cognitive components of school engagement. The study included 1,250 secondary education students with a mean age of 13.72 years (SD = 1.09) of whom 612 (49%) were male and 638 (50%) female. Two assessment tools were administered: Connor-Davidson...

The scientific study of school engagement has recently been the subject of considerable interest in the field of educational psychology, and significant advances have been made in our knowledge of this construct. For instance, there is currently consensus in the scientific community that it is multifaceted, and has three dimensions: behavioral enga...

La visión de la escuela como un entorno promotor del bienestar personal ha generado un gran interés en el ámbito de la investigación psicoeducativa por el estudio de variables relacionadas con el desarrollo positivo del alumnado. Este trabajo analiza mediante un modelo estructural tanto la influencia directa como indirecta del apoyo del profesorado...

The view of the school as a enviromental promoter of personal well-being has raised great interest in the study of variables related to positive development of students in the field of psychoeducational research. This study aims to test a structural model which posits both direct and indirect influence of perceived teacher support through school en...

The view of the school as a enviromental promoter of personal well-being has raised great interest in the study of variables related to positive development of students in the field of psychoeducational research. This study aims to test a structural model which posits both direct and indirect influence of perceived teacher support through school en...

The aim of the present study was to empirically test an explanatory model of psychosocial adjustment during adolescence, with psychosocial adjustment during this stage being understood as a combination of school adjustment (or school engagement) and subjective well-being. According to the hypothetic model, psychosocial adjustment depends on self-co...

The study of school engagement is currently a topic of great interest in psychoeducational research, since it offers a new vision of students’ development. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between perceived social support, general self-concept and school engagement. Participants were 1,250 students (49% boys; 51% girls) aged bet...

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue explorar las relaciones del bienestar subjetivo con resiliencia, autoconcepto y apoyo social, identificando variables predictoras del bienestar subjetivo. Se llevó a cabo un estudio ex post facto retrospectivo de tipo transversal. Se administraron la Escala de satisfacción con la vida (Diener, Emmon, Larsen, & G...

Background/Objective: The objective of this ex post facto study is to analyze both the direct relationships between perceived social support, self-concept, resilience, subjective well-being and school engagement. Method: To achieve this, a battery of instruments was applied to 1,250 Compulsory Secondary Education students from the Basque Country (4...

El estudio de la implicación escolar (school engagement) constituye en la actualidad una línea de investigación de gran interés en el ámbito de la psicología de la educación. En este trabajo se realiza una revisión teórica actualizada de las principales contribuciones que la literatura científica ofrece sobre la conceptualización y la medida de la...

This study aims to analyze the factorial structure of the newly-created Cuestionario de Autoconcepto Social – AUSO (from here on the Social Self-concept Questionnaire, or AUSO), which consists of two scales meas-uring social responsibility and social competence. The theoretical proposal which posits that social self-concept is the result of the com...

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between resilience and dimensions of subjective well-being (satisfaction with life, positive affect and negative affect). Participants were 1250 students of secondary education (M=13.72, SD=1.09) of whom 612 (49%) were male and 638 (50%) female. Three assessment instruments were administered: t...

The scientific study of resilience is a subject of great interest in the field of psychology to provide a new and positive view of human development. To promote adolescent adjustment, is necessary to determine individual and contextual factors that influence resilience during the developmental stage of adolescence. The objective of this study was t...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar las relaciones entre la resiliencia y los componentes conductual, emocional y cognitivo de la implicación escolar. Participaron 1.250 estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (M = 13,72, DT = 1,09), de los cuales 612 (49%) eran chicos y 638 (51%) chicas. Se administraron los siguientes instrument...

Para dar respuesta al desarrollo de las competencias transversales desde los Grados de Educación de la Escuela de Magisterio de Vitoria-Gasteiz (EMVG) se han implementado trabajos interdisciplinares de módulo innovadores basados en metodologías activas. En este trabajo se presenta una experiencia de Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas y Análisis de Cas...

The four-dimensional model of physical self-concept which differentiates the physical self-perceptions of ability, condition, attractiveness and strength is widely accepted. In the last two decades much research has been done on the physical self-concept and its relations with the psychological well-being/distress, anxiety disorders or Eating Behav...

The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Dimensional Self-Concept questionnaire (AUDIM) to measure general self-concept and its twelve dimensions (verbal academic self-concept, math academic self-concept, physical ability, fitness, physical attractiveness, strength, honesty, emotional adjustment, autonomy, self-realiz...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar las relaciones entre la resiliencia y las dimensiones del bienestar subjetivo (satisfacción con la vida, afecto positivo y afecto negativo). Participaron 1250 estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (M=13.72, DT=1.09), de los cuales 612 (49%) eran chicos y 638 (51%) chicas. Se administraron los...

The main aim of this study was to explore the relationships between personal self-concept and satisfaction with life, with the latter as the key indicator for personal adjustment. The study tests a structural model which encompasses four dimensions of self-concept: self-fulfillment, autonomy, honesty and emotions. The 801 participants in the study,...

Aunque la mayor parte de los autores está de acuerdo en que las actitudes están formadas por tres componentes referidos a lo cognitivo, lo afectivo y lo conductual, y que gran cantidad de estudios han examinado las actitudes lingüísticas en función de variables sociopersonales y psicológicas como la motivación, son muy escasos los trabajos que han...

Background: The aim of this study is to analyze the four-factor structure (advertising, information, family environment and friendship setting) of the Cuestionario de Influjos Socioculturales sobre el Autoconcepto Físico (CIAF) [Sociocultural Influences on Physical Self-concept Questionnaire] and its invariance in relation to sex, age and physical...

En este trabajo se somete a verificacion un modelo estructural segun el cual el ajuste escolar y el personal (satisfaccion con la vida) durante la adolescencia dependen del autoconcepto academico del alumnado, ejerciendo el apoyo social percibido (tanto el familiar como el del circulo de amistades) un efecto fundamental tanto sobre el autoconcepto...

This study aims to test a structural model which posits that school and personal adjustment (satisfaction with life) during adolescence depend on students’ academic self-concept, with perceived social support having a influence on both self-concept and both kinds of adjustment. The study comprised 858 students aged between 12 and 22 from the city o...

The issue of subjective wellbeing has recently been attracting a considerable amount of interest in psychological studies, and important progress has been made in our knowledge of this phenomenon. Empirical corroboration is required, however, in order to support some of the dif-ferent models which have been proposed in relation to its internal orga...

The aim of this research has been to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaire AF5 (García and Musitu, 2001) by means of exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis in a population of the Basque Country. The sample is composed by 1259 participants between the 12 and 84 years divided in 702 (55.8 %) females and 557 (44.2 %) males....

KEYWORDS: physical self-concept, body mass index, physical activity, perceived health, descriptive survey study. ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationships among physical self-concept, body image, body mass index and physical activity and perceived health. The sample was composed of 518 subjects between 19.4 and 49.7 years...

The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationships among physical self-concept, body image, body mass index and physical activity and perceived health. The sample was composed of 518 subjects between 19.4 and 49.7 years of age (M = 30.79 years old; SD = 9.24), of whom 301 were female (58.1%) and 217 male (41.9%). The results show that the s...

The aim of this research has been to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaire AF5 (García and Musitu, 2001) by means of exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis in a population of the Basque Country. The sample is composed by 1259 participants between the 12 and 84 years divided in 702 (55.8 %) females and 557 (44.2 %) males....

The aim of this work is to confirm the tetra-factorial validity of the Cuestionario de Autoconcepto Físico (CAF [in English, the Physical Self-concept Questionnaire]) in adulthood and old age from the responses of 1,114 people (39.50% men and 60.50% women), divided into four age groups (24 to 34 years, n= 390; 35 to 49 years, n= 277; 50 to 64 years...

One important area of research that has emerged in recent years is the assessment of factors that contribute to the development of body image problems and, more concretely, to the development of body dissatisfaction. The female sociocultural beauty ideal, a constant object of research for over three decades now, is so ultra–thin that it is both una...

Body image, perceived socio-cultural pressures, body dissatisfaction, life span

Los habitos de vida saludables guardan relacion con el autoconcepto fisico y tambien con el bienestar psicologico, al menos durante los anos de la adolescencia. Esto es lo que confirman los datos que se presentan en este estudio, cuya muestra la componen 539 estudiantes de entre 12 y 23 anos. Los participantes cumplimentaron el Cuestionario de Auto...

Healthy lifestyles are associated with both physical self-concept and psychological well-being, at least during the adolescence. In this study the results confirm the relation. The participants were 539 students between 12 and 23 years old. The instruments used were the Physical Self-Concept Questionnaire (CAF), a questionnaire about healthy behavi...

Mediante este estudio se buscaba identificar diferencias en el autoconcepto físico relacionadas con la edad y con variables culturalmente mediadas tales como el género, la práctica deportiva, los hábitos de vida saludable o los hábitos alimentarios y, así mismo, precisar relaciones entre el desarrollo del autoconcepto físico y algunas influencias s...

The CIDAF (Cuestionario sobra la Importancia de Distintos Aspectos Fisicos/Questionnaire about the Importance of Different Physical Aspects) is an instrument designed to measure the perceived discrepancy between real and ideal physical self-concept in four aspects or dimensions of the physical self (physical ability, physical condition, body attrac...

En: Revista de Psicodidáctica Bilbao 2005, v.10, n.1 ; p. 131-138 Hasta ahora la mayor parte de las investigaciones que han abordado la relación entre el autoconcepto físico y la salud psicológica se han centrado en averiguar las consecuencias negativas de un bajo autoconcepto físico, dejando en un segundo plano el bienestar psicológico. Del lado d...

El CIDAF (Cuestionario sobre la Importancia de Distintos Aspectos Físicos) es un instrumento construido para medir la discrepancia percibida entre el autoconcepto físico real y el ideal en cuatro aspectos o dimensiones del yo físico (habilidad física, condición física, atractivo y fuerza) así como el grado de importancia conferida a tal discrepanci...

The expansion of eating behavior disorders (EBD) has made it necessary to carry out the work of detecting cases as well as explaining this phenomenon as much as possible with certain features of the subjects and the behavior habits, for example, the practice of sports. A total of 740 students between 12 and 16 years old, whose sport's activity was...