Benito Arias

Universidad de Valladolid | UVA · Department of Psychology

One of the strongest predictors of future academic achievement is the early and informal math skills children begin their school studies. Because of this, it is essential to have proper tools for measuring the development of mathematical thinking at an early age to be able to intervene in a timelier, more effective way. The purpose of this research...

The research aim is to know how the students of the Primary Teacher Degree at the University of Valladolid conceptualize heritage and determine the way in which links are built and intervened on the generation of identities. N = 472 texts published in the digital environment www.pesonasypatrimonios.com between 2018 and 2021 were used. Text mining t...

Información sobre el instrumento: http://web.teaediciones.com/DABS-Escala-de-Diagnostico-de-Conducta-Adaptativa.aspx La DABS es una prueba diagnóstica fácil de aplicar destinada a la detección de déficits significativos en la conducta adaptativa, que es uno de los criterios requeridos para el diagnóstico de discapacidad intelectual y otros trastor...

This book describes the outcomes obtained regarding two closely related research projects, namely: "Development and validation of a support needs assessment scale for children and adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [Ref PSI2012-36278]) and "Assessment and diff...

The List of Indicators is training material used for the Supports Intensity Scale—Children’s version (SIS-C). It is aimed at helping interviewers distinguishing between extraordinary and age-related typical support needs in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) when implementing the SIS-C, and thus improve supports plannin...

The Supports Intensity Scale–Children’s Version (SIS-C) is the only available tool to assess extraordinary support needs for children and adolescents with intellectual disability. In past years, several works have proclaimed the need for its ongoing improvement as a measurement instrument. To contribute to this line of research, the goal of this wo...

In self-report surveys, it is common that some individuals do not pay enough attention and effort to give valid responses. Our aim was to investigate the extent to which careless and insufficient effort responding contributes to the biasing of data. We performed analyses of dimensionality, internal structure, and data reliability of four personalit...

Background: The purposes of this study were to empirically determine whether the support needs construct is generalizable across children with and without intellectual disability and to conduct cross-group comparisons to explore how extraordinary and non-extraordinary support needs differ in children. Method: One thousand thirty-six children (81...

El DSM-5 requiere para el diagnóstico del trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad (TDAH) la presencia de, al menos, seis síntomas en cualquiera de los dos grupos (déficit de atención e hiperactividad/impulsividad), dando lugar a tres subtipos o presentaciones posibles del trastorno. Sin embargo, este procedimiento de clasificación no h...

Los niños con autismo se ubican habitualmente en las zonas periféricas de sus redes de sociales, con menos amistades recíprocas y peores resultados en su percepción de diferentes dimensiones de la amistad. El estudio de la precisión de los informantes es relevante porque el comportamiento social puede estar más asociado con la percepción de las rel...

Improving the assessment of the quality of educational programs is one of the main objectives of research in heritage education. However, we do not have an instrument that is brief, objective and allows the use of a common standard for unbiased quality comparison between different programs. The objective of this study has been to design and develop...

Nowadays it is common to speak of inclusive classrooms without providing evidence of the true meaning of the term. In this paper we propose to pres- ent the process of development and validation of the ACOGE scale whose objective is to evaluate the quality of school classrooms to address diversity from an inclusive approach. In the development proc...

This mixed-methods study examined differences in social interaction patterns between a school-age boy with autism and his friends, non-reciprocal friends, and non-friends during recess time at a mainstream school (third grade of elementary school). Through a combination of observational methodology and social network analysis with an idiographic, f...

Background: Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered a valid diagnosis for children with intellectual disability, no studies have evaluated the invariance of ADHD symptom ratings across children with and without intellectual disability. Method: Parents completed ratings on the ADHD symptoms for 189 children with intell...

Mejorar la evaluación de la calidad de los programas educativos es uno de los principales objetivos de investigación en educación patrimonial. Sin embargo, no se dispone de un instrumento que sea breve, objetivo y que permita el uso de un estándar común para la comparación insesgada de la calidad entre distintos programas. El objetivo de este estud...

Assessing quality of life of people with brain injury has a relevant role for developing strategies focused on personal outcomes that allow us to guide good practices and rehabilitation. So far, assessment of quality of life for this population has been restricted to an evaluation of personal outcomes from a health-related quality of life perspecti...

Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder have been shown to be on the periphery of their social networks more often; to receive lower scores on companionship, closeness, intimacy and help; and to have fewer reciprocal friendships compared to their typical peers. Non-reciprocal friendships are a relatively unexplored phenomenon; however, a...

Spanish Autism Research Coauthorship Network I Encuentro AETAPI de Investigación Universidad de Sevilla Facultad de Psicología 02-02-2018 Power Point Presentation

Archivo Google Earth que permite la geo-localización de los documentos analizados. Puede abrirse con las herramentas Google Earth o Google Maps. En el siguiente enlace se puede acceder a una previsualización del mismo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z4xQ4OfYYdNRsCokN-5CT5qM0iqukyp-/view

Resumen: Con el desarrollo de nuevos instrumentos de evaluación, la salud mental de las personas con discapacidad intelectual ha suscitado un interés creciente en los últimos años. Algunos trabajos parecen indicar que estas personas pueden padecer psicopatologías comórbidas con una frecuencia similar o superior a la población general, sin embargo,...

Resumen: Aunque los problemas de conducta y la presencia de trastornos mentales afectan a las personas con discapacidad intelectual, no está claro el tipo de relación entre ambos y los factores que pueden contribuir a su aparición. El objetivo de este trabajo fue estimar la prevalencia de alteraciones graves de conducta entre las personas con dis-...

Resumen: Sigue abierto el debate de si el trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad (TDAH) es un síndrome válido para su diagnóstico en niños con discapacidad intelectual. Si bien los grupos sintomáticos habituales (inatención, impulsividad e hiperactividad) son exhibidos por personas con DI, existen dificultades para juzgar hasta qué pu...

En los últimos años ha aumentado considerablemente la investigación en torno al diagnóstico de trastornos mentales en personas con discapacidad intelectual. Sin embargo, la gran mayoría de estos estudios han dado resultados inconsistentes y aun contradictorios, o han utilizado muestras de tamaño muy limitado. En el presente estudio nos propusimos e...

La escala ACOGE permite evaluar la calidad de las aulas escolares para atender la diversidad desde un enfoque inclusivo. Se describen las características esenciales del proceso de construcción de la escala. Los ítems fueron sometidos a un proceso de selección y clasificación en las dimensiones de inclusión educativa definidas por Ainscow, Booth y D...

The study aims to examine the structure of third sector professionals’ attitudes towards people with disabilities. A novel approach is proposed from network psychometrics called exploratory graph analysis, in which the nodes represent the attitudes and the relational links represent the estimated statistical relationships. The Attitudes Scale towar...

La Escala CAVIDACE tiene como objetivo evaluar resultados personales de calidad de vida en adultos con daño cerebral adquirido. Está compuesta de 64 ítems que recogen aspectos observables de calidad de vida y que han de ser respondidos por un observador externo que conozca bien a la persona evaluada (i.e., profesional, familiar, etc.). La escala p...

Con la finalidad de actualizar el trabajo de Belinchón et al. (2010) se analizó la estructura de las redes de colaboración, temáticas y fuentes de financiación en investigación en autismo, a nivel nacional, entre 2008 y 2017. En particular se examinaron los artículos publicados en revistas de impacto (Social Sciences Citation Index) durante este pe...

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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...

A common practice in the field of social anxiety assessment in Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries is the use of instruments, developed in English-speaking countries, without prior adaptation to the country of application. Recently, it has been empirically developed the new Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ) with social situations...

This is the English PDF version of the Social Anxiety Questinnaire for Children (SAQ-C) (boys and girls version). You can use it freely, without asking for permission, with the only condition of citing the original source.

Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children (SAQ-C) with boys and girls versions

Cuestionario de ansiedad social para niños (CASO-N) con versión para chicos y chicas

Given the lack of any Chinese instrument validated for Emotional Intelligence (EI) among adolescents, the purpose of this study was to explore new sources of validity evidence drawn from scores on the EQ-i: YV-S in a sample of Chinese adolescents. The sample was composed of 406 adolescents (236 girls). Results support the multidimensionality of the...

IT IS ONLY A DRAFT OF THE MANUAL IN ENGLISH. The Scale is being validated in English, and the Manual should be reviewed.

The main purpose of this study was the construction and validation of a scale of attitudes towards people with disabilities, mainly directed at professionals in the areas of health and education. Participants were 976 professionals from different fields (health, education, career counseling, media, administration), with an age range between 18 and...

Presentamos algunos de los conceptos que se enmarcan dentro de la psicología cultural que sirven para comprender cómo aprendemos las personas en interacción y que suponen la base para desarrollar el potencial de los entornos CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning). Exponemos algunas propuestas exitosas sobre entornos comunicativos que demu...

Among the instruments used to assess core-self evaluations, the core self-evaluations scale (CSES; Judge et al., 2003) is commonly used. A recent study (Gu, Wen & Fan, 2015) has revealed a method factor associated with the negatively worded items of the CSES. Ignoring this systematic variance produced biased validity and reliability estimates. Our...

This study describes a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses that were conducted with the 44-item Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children- 4th version (SAQ-CIV) to identify a reduced set of items that might be used to construct a new abbreviated instrument for measuring social anxiety in children and adolescents. The fourth versi...

Study of peer-mediated intervention with an autistic child through lag sequential analysis.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnostic criteria assume that the 18 symptoms carry the same weight in an Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis and bear the same discriminatory capacity. However, it is reasonable to think that symptoms may differ in terms of severity and even in the reliabi...

Characteristic response curves and the information curve for 9 items of the IA subscale. (TIFF)

Excel file with the raw data used in this research. (RAR)

Information function of items for ADHD symptoms at different levels of the latent trait. (DOCX)

Characteristic response curves and the information curve for 9 items of the HI subscale. (TIFF)

Este trabajo pretende dar a conocer el programa preventivo ADHISO diseñado para la mejora de las habilidades atencionales y cognitivas, así como las conductas hiperactivas e impulsivas de los alumnos de educación infantil que presentan sintomatología TDAH. Un buen funcionamiento ejecutivo es fundamental para un adecuado desarrollo cognitivo y compo...

Background: Interest in the support needs of people with intellectual disability has directed attention to developing assessments to measure of the pattern and intensity of supports which people need to participate in valued life activities. Assessments of the support needs of children must account for the influence of age. Method: Four hundred fif...

El «Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos» (CASO) es una medida de autoinforme desarrollada para los países de habla española y portuguesa. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la validez de constructo y la fiabilidad del CASO en Colombia. Participaron 5477 personas de la población general contestando el CASO y la «Escala de ansiedad soc...

The assessment of support needs has gathered much attention over the last few years in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities, becoming a key aspect during the development and implementation of individualized support plans. In this sense, there is increasing research interest in the development and use of reliable and valid tools...

La Escala KidsLife evalúa resultados personales relacionados con la calidad de vida de niños/as y adolescentes con discapacidad intelectual entre 4 y 21 años. Recoge un conjunto de cuestiones sobre aspectos observables de calidad de vida que pueden ser respondidas por un observador externo que conozca bien a la persona (al menos desde hace 6 meses)...

Support needs assessment instruments and recent research related to this construct have been more focused on adults with intellectual disability than on children. However, the design and implementation of Individualized Support Plans (ISP) must start at an early age. Currently, a project for the translation, adaptation and validation of the support...

We tested first-order factor and bifactor models of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) to adequately summarize the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, (DSM-IV-TR) symptoms observed in a Spanish sample of preschoo...

Abstract: Th is study presents the validity and reliability of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (saq), developed in an attempt to improve some of the shortcomings of self-report instruments, commonly used to assess social phobia/anxiety in Latin American countries. Th is measure has been globally validated for most of Latin American coun...

This study presents the validity and reliability of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (saq), developed in an attempt to improve some of the shortcomings of self-report instruments, commonly used to assess social phobia/anxiety in Latin American countries. This measure has been globally validated for most of Latin American countries, but h...

El «Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos» (CASO) es una medida de autoinforme desarrollada para los países de habla española y portuguesa. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la validez de constructo y la fiabilidad del CASO en Colombia. Participaron 5477 personas de la población general contestando el CASO y la «Escala de ansiedad soc...