Carmen Viejo

University of Cordoba (Spain) | UCO · Department of Psychology

Dating violence can manifest itself in different ways, with important consequences for both members of the couple. Due to the normalization of certain behaviour and the perceived quality of the relationship, it may be difficult to identify this violent dynamic in its early stages, allowing it to escalate and lead to severe levels of violent behavio...

Objective: There is a broad consensus on the detrimental consequences of dating violence, yet its association with well-being remains underexplored. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the relationship between dating violence victimization and subjective, psychological, and social well-being among adolescents and emerging adults. Meth...

Introducción: En Colombia, la violencia de pareja es una importante causa de agresión contra las mujeres. Sus principales detonantes son el machismo, los celos y la infidelidad. Algunas investigaciones señalan que los “mitos románticos” podrían contribuir a esta violencia, al reafirmar roles de género desiguales y patriarcales. Método: El trabajo...

Despite previous research on adolescence points to an association between social competence and well-being, limited knowledge is available. Most studies have documented a one-way pattern of influence, although reciprocity has also been suggested. However, they mainly use a cross-sectional design, do not focus on psychological well-being, and do not...

El éxito de las relaciones sentimentales adolescentes estará determinado por el dominio de ciertas habilidades de carácter bidireccional que requieren del desarrollo individual e interpersonal, tales como habilidades para el inicio de la relación, para ser asertivo y decir no, para la autorrevelación, para el apoyo emocional y para la gestión de co...

Background: Previous research has suggested that bullying could be related to teen dating violence; there may be a psycho-developmental transition between bullying and other forms of violence during adolescence as an evolution of the aggressive pattern. This study attempts to identify the role of bullying as a risk factor for psychological violenc...

Adolescent courtship is emerging as an important developmental process which impacts social balance and adjustment in the teenage years. Both the cultural context and different individual competencies seem to determine the success or failure of this process. However, there is little research focusing on the direct relationship between interpersonal...

Objetivo. La investigación está haciendo evidente que los procesos psicoevolutivos de cortejo e inicio de las primeras relaciones sentimentales inciden en la vida social de los centros escolares. La convivencia escolar es un constructo complejo que exige el análisis de todos los elementos relevantes para el bienestar de los miembros de la comunidad...

Uno de los retos más importantes en el contexto de la Educación Superior actual es el fomento de competencias en el alumnado. Concretamente, en los estudios de postgrado, se hace necesario formar a los y las estudiantes para que sean capaces de enfrentar tareas de carácter científico, prestando especial atención a las competencias de alto nivel cog...

The concept of well-being is complex and is in common use not only in the area of health but also in the field of human development. Well-being depends on both the individual and the environment, and during childhood and adolescence, the environmental factor can be decisive. Family, school, and peers are widely recognized as significant contexts fo...

Adolescence and emerging adulthood are both stages in which romantic relationships play a key role in development and can be a source of both well-being and negative outcomes. However, the limited number of studies prior to adulthood, along with the multiplicity of variables involved in the romantic context and the considerable ambiguity surroundin...

Involvement in bullying perpetration or victimization could be risk factors for perpetration or victimization in early romantic relationships that emerge within an evolving peer group. Nevertheless, research on this topic is still in its early stages. This study was conducted to fill these gaps in knowledge through a comprehensive research synthesi...

Este estudio pretende avanzar en la comprensión del proceso de formación de una identidad europea en etapas previas a la edad adulta. Participaron 268 jóvenes españoles de entre 16 y 25 años, respondiendo cuestiones sobre el futuro de Europa y su propio futuro. Los resultados mostraron que la población investigada manifiesta una alta sensibilidad a...

RESUMENLa Universidad se ocupa de dotar a las nuevas generaciones de la capacidad para comprender ideas y procesos complejos, pero también de formar la personalidad de los y las jóvenes para ser capaces de identificar los retos para avanzar hacia un futuro mejor. Con el objetivo de describir el análisis crítico que la juventud española hace de la E...

Over the last few years, different theoretical approaches have emerged advocating for a positive understanding of adolescence, recognizing it as a stage characterized by plasticity, the acquisition of competences and the achievement of satisfactory levels of well-being and positive adjustment. Based on Ryff's multidimensional model of psychological...

Objective: In Chile, between 7 and 24% of young people claim to be victims of physical violence in their romantic relationships, but there is a lack of validated questionnaires to measure these behaviors and research in this area is still limited. Due to this fact, adapting and validating the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al....

Gender-based violence or violence against women which takes place in the context of intimate partner relationships, despite stimulating social rejection, still persists. A psychosocial glance could provide a theoretical model which explained the phenomenon that, being multicausal, seems to be strongly influenced by the vicarious learning which occu...

Early years education was found to be a key period for children's development. Children enter the school setting for the first time and are eager to learn as much as possible. At the same time, teachers need to address this demand that, increasingly, exceeds the purely academic boundaries and moves towards the child's holistic development. Therefor...

Play expresses that human beings use activity as the most natural and adaptive way to be in the world. However, children's play had not been a subject of study and theoretical reflection until the beginning of the last century. Fortunately, the spread of developmental and educational psychology has been little by little sensitive to this extraordin...

This chapter presents how interaction with the social world stimulates the learning ability in the early years. There are two types of social relationships that affect the development of the individual in childhood: adult-child relationships and peers. Both social systems give rise to different vital experiences that will influence their social dev...

Background: Attachment Theory has become one of the leading theories in human development. Nonetheless, empirical studies focusing on how attachment unfolds during adolescence are still scarce particularly in Spain, due to the lack of adequate measures. Objective: This study aims to validate the Important People Interview (IPI) in a shorter ques...

El artículo que aquí se presenta es expresión del proyecto de Innovación Docente que bajo el título “Aprendizaje estratégico en las enseñanzas de postgrado: desarrollo de la competencia metacognitiva para la investigación científica y su entrenamiento en el Trabajo Fin de Máster”, se viene realizando por un amplio número de docentes de un máster ps...

A medida que los chicos y chicas crecen, también lo hacen sus ideas y creencias sobre el significado de la pareja, los roles que cada uno asume y lo que es espera-ble de este tipo de relaciones en función del género. Los estudios han señalado que esta ideología socialmente aprendida podría estar entre los factores de riesgo que inciden en la implic...

Resumen La convivencia escolar es un escenario que ha estado en la reflexión y ha sido transversal en las distintas esferas educativas en los últimos años. De hecho, en el año 2011, el Ministerio de Educación estableció la Ley de Violencia Escolar como una forma de diseñar e implementar líneas de acción que propendan a fortalecer la relación entre...

This study investigated whether demographic variables, efficacy beliefs, visions, and worries are associated with four different forms of (dis)engagement with the European Union (EU): intended voting in the 2019 EU elections, nonconventional political engagement, psychological engagement, and the wish that one’s own country should leave the EU. The...

La colección Actualidad forma parte del catálogo de publicaciones científicas de la fundación y está destinada tanto al lector especializado como a la opinión pública en general. Cada una de sus ediciones se estructura como informes monográficos para el fomento de la reflexión y el análisis sobre aspectos de relevancia para la sociedad andaluza del...

Knowledge management is presented as a model to achieve that college graduates apply their knowledge to solve complex problems in an effective way. It is defined by three basic dimensions, that is, structural, relational and cognitive. Project-based Learning methodology could promote positive effects in knowledge management. The aims of this study...

Love has been identified as one of the most important aspects of interpersonal strength. During adolescence, the main social contexts in relation to love are friendships and dating relationships. The aim of this study was to measure the link between romantic relationship experience and personal adjustment, taking into account effects of age and sex...

La adolescencia es un periodo crítico de cambios biológicos, comportamentales y sociales continuos. Estos cambios pueden ser fuente tanto de crecimiento como de obstáculos para el desarrollo en años posteriores. El desarrollo puberal, los cambios morfológicos y funcionales a nivel cerebral, y la ampliación del contexto social y las dinámicas de rel...

This study analyses the characteristics of adolescent relationships and influence that has social self-efficacy and social support. A number of 209 youth (49.3% boys) aged between 12-18 years (X=14.28; D.T.=1.21), enrolled in three centers of compulsory secondary education of Cordoba, completed a selfreport consisting of open-ended questions that r...

Mixed-gender friendships, romantic relationships, and sexual behaviors increase during adolescence as a normal part of development. However, some studies have revealed potential risks to these types of social relationships. Different authors have indicated that dating violence among adolescents is an issue for concern. To date, there has been littl...

Resumen Las primeras relaciones de pareja suelen surgir dentro del grupo de iguales, por lo que las competencias que los y las adolescentes aprendan en este contexto servirán de base para que sus relaciones sentimentales sean de mejor calidad. No obstante, pese a que las amistades y las relaciones de pareja comparten caracte-rísticas como el apoyo,...

Much research on adolescent dating violence has been constrained by the tradition of studies on gender-based violence. In contrast, other studies have indicated that the violence that occurs in these early dating relationships could be the result of adolescent inexperience in the dating process, which may result in erotic-aggressive dynamics. On th...

Abstract This instrumental study examines the psychometric properties of the Psychological Dating Violence Questionnaire (PDV-Q). The scale was developed with the aim of evaluating subtle and overt psychological abuse among dating couples, and its possible bi-directionality in the implication as victim and as aggressor. A sample group of 670 hetero...

Las relaciones de pareja requieren de un aprendizaje y de un proceso en el que influyen no sólo factores personales sino también de cómo han sido las relaciones de amistad. Este es uno de las cuestiones que aborda la tesis ‘Dating Violence y cortejo adolescente: un estudio sobre la violencia en parejas sentimentales de los jóvenes andaluces’, de la...

National and international studies have pointed out Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS, Straus, 1979, 1996) as one of the most widely used measures for assessing the strategies used in situations of conflict within young couples. Nevertheless, there is not any conclusive result about its structure. Especially the physical dating violence scale has undergo...

Background: In recent years, an increasing number of studies have emerged that contribute to the explanation of the development and consolidation of adolescent romantic relationships. In this regard, Collins made a significant contribution to the previous models focusing on different stages; his proposal is focused instead on the meaning of each s...

During last years have risen a lot of studies about Physical Dating Violence (PDV). Boys and girls are involved in these behaviors more than expected. However the most of this literature has not identified the severity of the aggression or the frequency in which it occurs. Some previous studies have pointed out that PDV follows an increasing aggres...

National and international studies on dating violence have been very frequent in the last years but to date, there are not conclusive results and theoretical models regarding the explanation of this phenomenon. Although different models emphasize the role of unique factors on the explanation of dating violence, multicausal and multiprobabilistic mo...

El presente estudio supone una primera aproximación descriptiva al estudio de la calidad de las relaciones sentimentales adolescentes y a la presencia de comportamientos violentos en estas primeras relaciones. Se entrevistó a 446 adolescentes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato (47.50% chicos, 52.50% chicas, edad media 16.08 años) co...