Bárbara Luque

• Doctor of Psychology
• University of Córdoba

Childhood obesity is a public health problem, and most of the interventions are focused on healthy habits as reducing energy intake, avoiding a sedentary lifestyle, and increasing physical activity. However, usually, they are based in individual programs, with few structured interventions in health systems without satisfactory results. PinPo aims t...

Weight control issues are a challenge today, especially in children and adolescents. Self-efficacy may play an important role in adherence to healthy eating behaviors, and good assessment tools are required. This study aimed to both explore the implications of dietary self-efficacy on healthy eating and emotional variables and validate the Child Di...

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...

Background: Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease especially affecting young people. Mindfulness-based psychological interventions might reduce emotional symptoms post-diagnosis, but the evidence is limited. Objectives: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness interventions on psychological well-being and biomedical...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in children and adolescents requires a lifelong commitment to disease control, which involves insulin treatment and constant blood glucose monitoring. Framed by Albert Bandura's self‐efficacy theory, we focused on analysing the impact of domain‐specific self‐efficacy for T1D control in children and adolescents and its relation...

Childhood obesity is a public health problem and most of the interventions are focused on healthy habits as reducing energy intake, avoiding a sedentary lifestyle and increasing physical activity. However, usually they are based in individual programs, with few structured interventions in health systems without satisfactory results. PinPo aims to c...

A longitudinal design was used to examine the psychometric properties of the Self-Efficacy for Diabetes Self-Management (SEDM) for children and adolescents with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (T1D). The SEDM was adapted to Spanish and the best factorial solution was selected to test the invariance of the measures of age and gender. Individuals betw...

Psychosocial dimensions are essential to guarantee an optimal approach to improve emotional well-being in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is evidence of sex differences regarding these dimensions. Thus, the connections between them are crucial to implement personalized therapies. Network model analyses were conducted on data from...

Objetivo: Investigar los factores que promueven los resultados de salud cardiovascular es esencial para la prevención secundaria. En una muestra de pacientes con enfermedad coronaria, examinamos los efectos directos e indirectos de factores psicológicos seleccionados sobre el comportamiento de actividad física y la Calidad de Vida Relacionada a la...

Introduction Bisexuality is a more frequent and vulnerable sexual orientation than homosexuality. Yet it has received considerably less attention, resulting in the limited availability of valid measures to detect negative attitudes toward bisexual individuals, even in countries where social rights are notably promoted. This study aims to provide va...

To effectively manage type 1 diabetes (T1D) insulin is essential, with dosages based on lifestyle. The Mediterranean diet has demonstrated its advantages in preventing and enhancing the management of chronic diseases. Our objective was to investigate the potential mediation of sensor activity on the relationship between adherence to the Mediterrane...

Purpose: To effectively manage type 1 diabetes (T1D) insulin is essential, with dosages based on lifestyle. Mediterranean diet has demonstrated its advantages in preventing and enhancing the management of chronic diseases. Nevertheless, the evidence supporting this association in younger patients with type 1 diabetes remains limited. Our objective...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease that is usually diagnosed in childhood, underscoring the importance of early disease control for overall wellbeing. Our aim was to design an explanatory model of subjective emotional wellbeing in children and adolescents with T1D. A longitudinal study was conducted at the Reina Sofia University Hospital in...

Objective: Psychological and physical distress commonly affect cancer patients. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has shown promising results when it comes to ameliorating symptoms that may develop as a result of this. Meanwhile, it has come to light that the impact of psychological interventions may be enhanced by the use of mobile applicat...

Psychological well-being is a good predictor of several health outcomes in cardiovascular disease patients (adherence, quality of life, and healthy behaviors). The perception of health control and a positive orientation seem to have a beneficial effect on health and well-being. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of the hea...

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...

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown and containment measures have instigated substantial changes in our daily lives and have affected many people’s mental health. This paper reports two studies exploring gender-based differences with regard to the impact of COVID-related confinement on individuals’ self-efficacy to regulate neg...

The lockdown situation caused by COVID-19 has increased the use of social networks, which could, in turn, increase social networks addiction. This research consists of two integrated studies aimed at (1) developing and validating the Social Networks Motives Scale (SN-MotiveS) and (2) examining the relationships between the frequency of use of socia...

Intervention in health prevention and treatment via mobile phones is becoming a key element on health promotion. Testing the efficacy of these mobile health (mHealth) psychological interventions for cardiovascular health is necessary as it is a chronic pathology, and it can influence the affective and cognitive states of patients. This research aim...

Background: The prevalence and comorbidity of anxiety disorders are significantly different between women and men, with research showing a greater impact on women. The aim of this review was to identify the psychosocial and biological factors that have been considered to explain this gender and sex difference in prevalence and determine whether the...

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...

Background Cancer survivors frequently develop cognitive impairment, which negatively affects their quality of life and emotional well-being. This study compares the effectiveness of a well-established treatment (neuropsychological treatment) with the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) to reduce these cogniti...

The emotional reactions to social exclusion can be associated with physiological responses that could allow researchers to estimate the valence and intensity of the ongoing affective state. In this work, respiratory activity was analysed to verify whether breathing rate variations can be considered as predictive factors of subsequent positive and n...

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...

Food literacy is a combination of functional, critical, and relational skills that pave the way for navigating the food system properly, taking personally and contextually available resources into account. The aim was to validate the Spanish version of the self-perceived food literacy scale in university students to explore the factorial structure...

Background: Cancer survivors frequently develop cognitive impairment, which negatively affects their quality of life and emotional well-being. This study compares the effectiveness of a well-established treatment (neuropsychological treatment) with the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) to reduce these cognit...

Psychological flexibility is a key concept of acceptation and commitment therapy (ACT). This factor has been linked with psychological wellbeing and associated factors, such as quality of life, in cancer patients. These and other positive results of acceptation and commitment therapy in cancer patients found in previous research could be enhanced b...

(1) Background: Numerous studies state that the abuse of psychoactive substances produces cognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between the consumption of different psychoactive substances with cognitive performance and depression. (2) Methods: The sample was composed of 254 individuals...

Background: Unhealthy eating habits in children and adolescents and low personal judgment of efficacy in maintaining healthy eating behaviors have negative repercussions for health. These negative effects can have a differential affectation associated with psychosocial factors. Objectives/Method: The objectives were: to validate the Weight Efficacy...

The main objective of this study was to develop and validate a reliable and valid scale that allows the measurement of the perception that teachers have of attention to diversity in the classroom: the Perception of Attention to Diversity Scale (PADS). To this end, 456 teachers answered a survey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirme...

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...

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...

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...

Given the negative costs of exclusion and the relevance of belongingness for humans, the experience of exclusion influences social affiliation motivation, which in turn is a relevant predictor of prosocial behavior. Skin conductance is a typical measure of the arousal elicited by emotions. Hence, we argued that both inclusion and exclusion will inc...

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...

El desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) permite en el ámbito docente la posibilidad de realizar actividades que suelen resultar atractivas para el alumnado. Cuando están vinculadas de una manera pertinente hacia las competencias que se pretenden conseguir en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, tienen un gran valor d...

El burnout constituye un riesgo laboral, haciéndose patente la relevancia de explorar los determinantes psicosociales relacionados con dicho síndrome. El patrón de conducta tipo D (PCTD; Denollet, 2005)—caracterizado por una alta afectividad negativa e inhibición social—se ha relacionado con el estrés laboral y el burnout (Geuens et al., 2015; van...

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...

The appearance of a new coronavirus (Covid-19) and its rapid expansion throughout the world has forced all countries to establish regulations based on social confinement. In the early days of a pandemic, the adherence to regulations is crucial to be able to block its spread. This research aims to analyse the relationship between motivational variab...

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...

La formación inicial y permanente del profesorado constituye una herramienta clave para lograr una enseñanza de calidad. Es necesario incluir en la formación de docentes el desarrollo de competencias socioemocionales para su futura práctica docente. El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar cómo percibe sus niveles de Inteligencia Emocional (IE) y Emp...

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La incorporación de la mujer al trabajo ha provocado uno de los cambios sociales más profundos del pasado siglo generando un nuevo modo de cooperación y compromiso entre mujeres y hombres para el reparto equilibrado de responsabilidades en la vida laboral y familiar. Sin embargo, a pesar de los avances legislativos en España en materia de conciliac...

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...

In both developing and underdeveloped countries there has been a worrying increase in the number of young people drinking alcohol; this public health problem warrants more research. This multilevel study analyzed the influence of drinking refusal self-efficacy, peers’ motivation, and protective behavioral strategies as predictors of alcohol consump...

: Background. There is international concern about the negative consequences for health related to young people’s alcohol consumption. Peer relationships can play a positive and protective role to cope with risky behaviors associated with alcohol consumption. Objective. This study investigated the influence of protective behavioral strategies (PBS)...

La sociedad actual está saturada de nuevas tecnologías que conforman un nuevo modo de organización de la vida cotidiana y social. El uso de internet, del ordenador o del teléfono móvil es imprescindible en el día a día de la mayoría de las personas, incluso en la tercera edad. Sin embargo, los mayores tienen muchas dificultades en su incorporación...

Este manuscrito presenta la importancia del corpus teórico feminista en la práctica de la orientación para la mejora de la empleabilidad de las mujeres. Desde finales de la década de los años 90 del siglo pasado se están implementando programas de orientación que tienen por objetivo fomentar la participación en el mercado laboral e impulsar sus car...

En este artículo reflejamos un trabajo de coordinación y sistematización en torno al aprendizaje cooperativo en las aulas del primer curso de los Grados en Educación Primaria y en Educación Infantil. Hemos considerado tanto el ámbito del aprendizaje y la enseñanza del alumnado como también el desarrollo profesional del profesorado universitario. He...

El envejecimiento ha sido estudiado desde el interés científico relacionado más con un interés técnico que con una preocupación conectada con las necesidades de las personas que se encuentran en esta fase de sus vidas. Este trabajo estudia el significado que la vejez adquiere en las personas mayores de 75 años. Es vital explorar cuáles son las impr...

Objective: To explore the knowledge and skills that professionals maternal/child health centers area Melilla have on female genital mutilation (FGM). Material and methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in Melilla. Based on a self-administered survey of open questions about the current knowledge and skills in relation to FGM. The parti...

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...

Introducción. El consumo de sustancias psicoactivas provoca efectos dañinos a nivel comportamental, emocional y cognitivo. Atendiendo a la bidireccionalidad en las relaciones, parece importante analizar el papel de la autorregulación de emociones en este deterioro cognitivo. Objetivos. Se pretende explorar la relación existente entre algunas variab...

This research analyzes the role of prosocialness and trust in the use of water as a limited resource under situations of competition or cooperation. For this purpose, 107 participants played the role of farmers and made decisions about irrigating their fields in the web-based multiplayer game Irrigania. Before the simulation exercise, participants’...

Background: This research aims to understand the role of coping strategies and self-efficacy expectations as predictors of life satisfaction in a sample of parents of boys and girls diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder. Methods: A total of 129 parents (64 men and 65 women) answered a questionnaire on life-satisfaction, coping strategies and...

Introduction. Drug abuse is a broadly studies topic within the psychology field because of the resulting effects at behavioral, emotional and cognitive levels. Given the bidirectionality in these relationships, it seems important to analyze the role of self-regulation of emotions in this cognitive impairment. Objectives. It is intended to explore t...

El objetivo de este proyecto de innovación educativa ha sido poner en marcha un plan de formación para dotar a los futuros maestros y maestras en Educación Primaria de las competencias necesarias para desarrollar su papel como agentes de prevención en la escuela, concretamente en las conductas de riesgo relacionadas con el uso de las TIC en la edad...

The expression "work-life balance" refers to a set of measures designed to palliate the difficulties that issue from the necessity to reconcile our working life with our private life. In other words, the aim is to prevent conflicts between the working environment and the private sphere so that neither of them affects the development of the other. T...

El trabajo que se presenta parte de una investigación más amplia cuyo objetivo principal ha sido profundizar en el conocimiento de la experiencia y la vivencia de la sexualidad en mujeres mayores de 50 años, a partir de su propia voz. Contamos con una muestra de 729 mujeres con edades comprendidas entre los 50 y 80 años. La investigación se enmarca...

This research explores the relevance of cooperation and students’ environmental disciplinary concentration on decision-making with respect to environmental issues —specifically the use of water, a limited common-pool resource. For this purpose, 61 environmental sciences students and 46 educational sciences students played the role of farmers and ma...

Previous research on the motivation for environmentally responsible behaviour has focused mainly on individual variables, rather than organizational or collective variables. Therefore, the results of those studies are hardly applicable to environmental management. This study considers individual, collective, and organizational variables together th...

In this paper we will address early intervention in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in ages ranging from birth to six years old. Early intervention is a very recent matter, but today we have some evi- dences about how to deal with it and the principles that must guide early intervention in children with au- tism spectrum disorders. Th...

Some studies show that there are external, infrastructural, and economic factors that enable individuals and communities to act ecologically. A variable associated with sustainable behavior is the level of satisfaction with infrastructural and economic factors, which in turn relates to recycling behavior. The main aim of this study was to assess th...

Social skills training involves a set of interventional procedures including behavior modification principles and techniques that lead to the acquisition of basic learning experiences. Its main objective is to facilitate the development of a code of conduct aimed at enabling people to live independently; it has been applied in the treatment of schi...

Our research has been aimed at understanding the experience, practice, and sexual life in a group of Spanish women over 50 years of age. We studied a sample of 729 women between 50 and 80 years old. Our results provide qualitative and quantitative information and important insights about the sexual life of Spanish women and identify differences in...

Resumen El entrenamiento en habilidades sociales representa un conjunto de procedimientos de intervención que implica la utilización de principios y técnicas de modificación de conducta para la adquisición de experiencias básicas de aprendizaje. Su objetivo principal es facilitar el desarrollo de un repertorio de comportamientos dirigidos a permiti...

El trabajo que se presenta parte de una investigación más amplia cuyo objetivo principal ha sido profundizar en el conocimiento de la experiencia y la vivencia de la sexualidad en mujeres mayores de 50 años, a partir de su propia voz. Contamos con una muestra de 729 mujeres con edades comprendidas entre los 50 y 80 años. La investigación se enmarca...

We present results of our research, which has been aimed at understanding the experience, practice, and sexual life in women over 50 years of age. We studied a sample of 729 women of between 50 and 80 years of age. The research is part of qualitative feminist research methodology. Both qualitative and quantitative data have been collected through f...

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...

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...

The aim of our research is to unveil the practice and experience of sexuality in three groups of women between age 50 and 80. Both qualitative and quantitative data have been collected through focus groups and a questionnaire drawn up by our research team. Our sample group was composed of 729 women. The data collected reveal a qualitative differenc...

El libro se articula en tres grandes apartados. Primero, capítulos conceptuales, en los que se ponen las bases para comprender el estado actual de la atención temprana y los nuevos planteamientos de tratamientos eficaces en este ámbito. Segundo, capítulos de programación para la práctica, en los que se describen procedimientos susceptibles de ser a...

El aumento de la esperanza de vida ha revolucionado la explicación del ciclo vital humano. En el caso de las mujeres podemos identificar en el envejecer elementos diferenciales que tienen su origen en los cambios sociales de los últimos cincuenta años. Las características de la vida de las mujeres y su gran variabilidad interindividual hacen difíci...

The article takes a feminist approach to gerontology. It examines the stereotypes of ageism that derive from the relationship between culture and old age. It establishes the requirements for a type of research that reflects women's own experience of growing older, as well as the social construction of values related to women's old age. It focuses o...

Secretos y silencios en torno a la sexualidad de las mujeres mayores

Este artículo se centra en la sexualidad de las mujeres en el proceso de envejecimiento. Para ello se hace una revisión de las principales corrientes epistemológicas que tratan de explicar las características de la sexualidad en la vejez y los procesos de cambio a lo largo del ciclo vital. Se analiza el sistema de creencias que marca socioculturalm...

La socialización diferencial conlleva que mujeres y hombres elijan ocupaciones y programas educativos diferentes y que, por tanto, sus opciones vitales resulten sesgadas por el género. La presente investigación explora los itinerarios vitales y profesionales que han seguido un grupo de mujeres y hombres desde que finalizaron sus estudios universita...

La presente investigación fue diseñada para explorar los distintos itinerarios vitales y profesionales que han seguido un grupo de mujeres y hombres. En los resultados que presento se muestra que la perpetuación de los roles tradicionales y la “naturalización” de las capacidades atribuidas a los diferentes sexos suponen una limitación objetiva para...

Este artículo plantea la reflexión sobre la incorporación de la coeducación en la formación del profesorado, reconociendo los avances alcanzados y tratando de identificar los límites. Reflexionamos sobre la importancia del reconocimiento de la identidad como seres sexuados en el aula y el papel de la subjetividad en la construcción de saberes docen...