Darío Páez

Universidad Andrés Bello | UNAB · Facultad de educacion y ciencias sociales

A Truth Commission (TC) was carried out in Brazil (2012-2014) to investigate human rights violations perpetrated by state agents, especially during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). TCs are supposed to help societies on the reconstruction of social cohesion after authoritarian or violent periods. We conducted three studies with undergraduate s...

Revision de textos, temas y autores de la psicología social latinoamericana Este numero especial de la Revista Anthropos Incluye textos de Amalio Blanco (España), N Roselli (Argentina), JM Salazar, MA Banchs y M Montero (Venezuela), R Diaz Guerrero y R Diaz Loving (Mexico), I Martin Baro (El Salvador), S Maurer Lane y A Rodrigues (Brasil) G Marin (...

RESUMEN El SOGS (Lesieur y Blume, 1987) es un cuestionario de 20 ítems, basado en los criterios diagnósticos de juego patológico del DSM-111 y del DSM-111-R, que sirve para evaluar la dependencia al juego tanto en sujetos normales como en pacientes. En este articulo se describe la validación de este instrumento en una muestra española, que contó co...

Intimate partner violence against women is a pervasive and significant problem around the world that causes victims to suffer grave mental and physical health issues. The Stages of Change or SOC model has been used in recent study to examine the stage of change in female victims as a potential predictor of their readiness to end their relationship....

Libro revisa la problematica de la violencia colectiva y como superarla MECANISMOS, IMPACTOS COLECTIVOS Y FACTORES ASOCIADOS A LA VIOLENCIA COLECTIVA CAPÍTULO 1. AGRESIÓN, ODIO, CONFLICTOS INTERGRUPALES Y VIOLENCIA COLECTIVA, S. UBILLOS, C. MARTÍN-BERISTAIN, M. GARAIGORDOBIL & E. HALPERIN.......... 0 CAPÍTULO 2. LA CULPA EN CONTEXTOS DE VIOLENCIA P...

Background: Health literacy is a determinant, powerful predictor of health. The Newest Vital Sign test (NVS) evaluates health literacy assessing the capacity of participants to understand the nutrition information label of an ice cream. Aim: To validate The NVS test for its application in the sociocultural context on primary care patients in Chile....

Although different social crises may eventually favour undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such anti-democratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research investigates how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic may favour greater support for anti-democratic...

One of the greatest challenges in the domain of emotional regulation is comprehending the functionality of strategies and their utilization in various social contexts. In this sense, this study analyzes differences in the use and efficacy of regulation strategies, particularly of interpersonal strategies like altruism, social support, negotiation,...

Social representations of history (SRH) provide symbolic resources enabling a society or culture to communicate what has worked for it in the past when facing challenges today. SRH (or collective memories) enrich process-oriented psychology with content that moderates and provides mediators for culture-general theories. They are produced by nation-...

This study analyzed the structure of social representations of an authoritarian regime in Brazil (Military Regime, 1964-1985), the variables associated with reporting different emotions about that past, and support for authoritarian solutions in the present. A sample of 200 participants aged 18 to 85 years (M = 31.54; SD = 13.84) responded to a fre...

A recent line of research in the field of humor has proposed the existence of two morally based comic styles. One of them, corrective humor (or satire), seeks to ridicule and mock to establish justice. In contrast, benevolent humor attempts to correct deviances using humor in a friendly manner understanding human imperfections. Considering their fo...

This article reviews and synthesizes 10 free-recall studies on collective memory carried out in Latin America, Europe, and Palestine. Results show the high prevalence of the topics of politics, collective violence and warfare, but around 50% of recalled events were appraised as positives, disconfirming a negative bias in collective memory. However,...

We proposed and found that, SDO increased individuals' motivation to get involved in actions favoring the ingroup, by boosting their motivation to compete with the opposing high-status outgroup, consistent with an ideological strategy to guarantee the legitimacy of future ingroup status-enhancement.

Complementary material 1 to Collective behavior and social movements... Definition of constructs about collective behavior and social movements

Background: The impact of social movements (SMs) and collective behavior (CB) supports the relevance of approaching this phenomenon from social psychology. Several systematic reviews (10) and meta-analyses (6) have been carried out in the 21st century, but there is a lack of integration. Aim: This study seeks to review the patterns of CB and cor...

Complementary material 2 This protocol operationalizes the predictor variables, the frequency of CB and SM participation, the processes at work during CB episodes, and their outcomes. A first set of variables and instruments aims at examing the level of participation and the factors that lead to participation in SM. Variables of psychological well-...

PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL Temas e teorias Ana Raquel Rosas Torres Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima Elza Maria Techio Leoncio Camino Organizadores 3ª edição revisada e ampliada

El rito de perdón tiene un coste, pero puede ayudar a los abusados y a la sociedad" El catedrático de Psicología Social Darío Páez señala que actos como el de este viernes en Bilbao "llevan a las personas afectadas a revivir lo ocurrido" Arantza Rodríguez Bilbao | 24·03·23 | 09:00 | Actualizado a las 10:34 "La vela que yo coloque en el altar será e...

Even though Mapuche people represent the largest indigenous population in Chile, the “logic of double rationality” in their educational knowledge and its link with acculturation dynamics, has been scarcely studied. The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between the attitudes toward school education and the acculturation orientations...

This article analyzes the relationship between successful dealing with deviant acts (i.e., acts of corruption) and social cohesion. We conducted an experimental research with 148 university students based on the subjective group dynamics theory. We informed the research participants of some corruption cases in Chile (ingroup) and Argentina (outgrou...

For Durkheim (1915), individuals’ survival and well-being rest on cultural resources and social belonging that must be revived periodically in collective assemblies. Durkheim’s concern was to clarify how these assemblies achieve this revitalization. An intensive examination of primitive religions led him to identify successive levels of engagement...

For young women, the power imbalance in favor of males in dating relationships has been related to dating violence (DV) victimization. In addition, the use of rumination to cope with DV may increase their psychological distress. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether experiences of DV and rumination mediate the association between...

Recent studies suggest that identification with all humanity (IWAH), apart from being related to universalistic values, could also be related to self-transcendent emotions (STE). In this scenario, the general objective of this cross-cultural longitudinal study is to examine the relationship between identification with proximate categories (i.e., co...

Las sociedades post-conflicto se enfrentan al desafío de superar un pasado marcado por duros episodios de confrontación social y violencia política. Este reto se afronta, generalmente, en un clima de desconfianza, con el tejido social aún fracturado y arrastrando un pasado histórico compuesto de hechos colectivos violentos. La violencia colectiva s...

Introduction. Critical thinking is a highly-valued skill in higher education, even though there are few studies that demonstrate its effectiveness on scientific skills of pedagogy students. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a critical thinking program (PENCRIT-RC) on inquiry and probabilistic reasoning skills in pedagogy studen...

In this article, we review the conceptions of Collective Effervescence (CE) –a state of intense shared emotional activation and sense of unison that emerges during instances of collective behavior, like demonstrations, rituals, ceremonies, celebrations, and others– and empirical approaches oriented at measuring it. The first section starts examinin...

This study analyzed a predictive model of posttraumatic growth (PTG) in a cohort of 244 workers affected by an occupational accident. A longitudinal design with three points in time (i.e., 1, 6, and 12 months after the accident) was used. PTG, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), subjective severity of the event, deliberate rumi-nation, and seekin...

This study analyzed a predictive model of posttraumatic growth (PTG) in a cohort of 244 workers affected by an occupational accident. A longitudinal design with three points in time (i.e., one month, six months and twelve months after the accident) was used. PTG, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), subjective severity of the event, deliberate rum...

Cuadernos con fichas e instrumentos de 01.- Cuestionario SF36 - SALUD 02.- Cuestionario BIENESTAR: PNA - AFECTIVIDAD 03.- Cuestionario PANAS 04.a.- Satisfacción Cuestionario SATISFACCIÓN CON LA VIDA: PREGUNTA GENERAL Y DOMINIOS 04.b.- Cuestionario SATISFACCIÓN CON LA VIDA DIENER 05.- Cuestionario FREDRICKSON DESm 06.- Cuestionario BIENESTAR PSICOLO...

We propose that support for group-based hierarchy among mem-bers of low-status or subordinate groups may be boosted by beliefsin future ingroup high status. Specifically, the more individualsbelieve their group may hold a higher status, the more they supporthierarchical intergroup relations (i.e., high social dominance orienta-tion; SDO), by boosti...

This study explores the relationship between remembered sociohistorical events and well-being. Its objective is to ascertain the content of historical memory and the way it is associated with this construct. The PHI remembered well-being scale and the CEVI instrument, which asks respondents to describe four relevant historical events during their l...

Belonging to a social group or category permeates a person’s emotions, thoughts, and behavior. Economic and political globalization has permitted the creation of a broader classification of identity, such as global identity, which implies the adoption of cultural practices and values of a global culture. This study analyzes the psychometric propert...

Perceived changes in basic beliefs and growth related to life events were examined in three studies. A representative sample (N = 885), a sample of students and their families (N = 291) and a sample of students (N = 245) responded with a list of positive and negative life events, a scale of changes in basic beliefs and a post-traumatic growth scale...

RESUMEN Se describe la producción en términos de revistas y artículos de la psicología social iberoamericana y se examina la evidencia bibliomé-trica que muestra un aumento de la producción, pero que coexiste con el peso dominante de la producción de EEUU y, en menor medida, europea, que constituyen el centro del sistema científico. El mayor peso d...

La presente investigación pretendió determinar las variables que influyen en los tipos de memorias colectivas, tipificadas como memoria recuerdo, memoria manipulada y olvido, evocados por 3 lugares vinculados con la dictadura (1973-1990) en Concepción, Chile. Se utilizó un diseño de investigación cuantitativo, descriptivo, con un muestreo no probab...

The book is part of the Psychology in Latin America series of the American Psychological Association (APA) edited by Judith Gibbons and Patricio Cumsille. The book presents a series of chapters written by Latin American researchers from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador and Peru on different topics relevant to political psychology in Latin Am...

This monograph aims to disseminate the results of various research studies carried out in the field of social and community psychology. The studies focus on efforts to build a culture of peace in post-conflict contexts and societies that have suffered collective and socio-political violence, with multiple and persistent human rights violations. The...

Objective to compare the relationships between emotional symptomatology and perceived social support according to gender identity and sexual orientation in LGBTQ+ university students. Methods 322 Chilean LGBTQ+ college students answered an online survey based on sociodemographic information and validated instruments. Analysis of variance and linea...

La actual pandemia de la COVID-19 ha supuesto un marcado incremento de las brechas sociales preexistentes. En esta investigación analizamos las relaciones de diferentes facetas de clase social con el bienestar y afectividad general a lo largo de un total de 8 países de la región cultural iberoamericana. Asimismo, también pusimos a prueba el potenci...

Our study examined the psychometric properties and factor structure of an instrument to assess emotional climate during the COVID-19 pandemic using a sample of 601 Portuguese individuals. Two sub-samples were created, one to perform an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), composed of 300 participants, and the other to conduct a confirmatory factor an...

Perceived changes in basic beliefs and growth related to life events were examined in three studies. A representative sample (N = 885), a sample of students and their families (N = 291) and a sample of students (N = 245) responded with a list of positive and negative life events, a scale of changes in basic beliefs and a post-traumatic growth scale...

The Truth Commission in Colombia was established based on the transitional justice model. Its function is to serve as a measure of recognition of the violent events during the armed conflict, which has left more than nine million victims. In this scenario, a descriptive correlational study (N=1166) was conducted with a sample of 22 provinces of the...

This study compares the problem-focused emotion regulation strategies used by 200 female survivors of intimate partner violence (age: M = 40.16, SD = 11.27, 18-66 years) to cope with violence throughout various stages of change (SOC). It examines the relationship between problem-focused coping strategies and positive and negative affect, and the im...

This paper analyzes the socio-cognitive and emotional processes related to collective action in the context of the 2019 populist social movement in Chile. It proposes an integrative explanation of populism as social movements and collective gatherings along with their relation with creativity and social representations of mass movements. A comprehe...

English and spanish Recension of Political psychology in Latin America, edited by Claudia Zuñiga and Wilson Lopez-Lopez. Washington: American Psychological Association. 2021. The book is part of the Psychology in Latin America series of the American Psychological Association (APA) edited by Judith Gibbons and Patricio Cumsille. The book presents a...

This book presents a set of studies examining the psychosocial determinants of Well-Being (WB). The literature on social relations and WB describes several concepts as associated with social belongingness (SB). Among them, we can find social cohesion (SCo), social integration (SI), social support (SS), social capital (SC), social or group identific...

This article analyzes the effect of a pedagogic module, designed to help reflect on political violence in Peru, facilitating political and social attitudes directed toward promoting a culture of peace in higher education settings. As a main source of information for developing the module, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report was used. T...

Se revisan en base a los estudios de psicología social recientes las ocho creencias compartidas, mitos modernos o representaciones sociales sobre la creatividad más relevantes, como que la creatividad se basa en la generación de ideas, la libertad, autonomía y espontaneidad, es típica de niños y menos frecuente en los viejos, se basa en la inspirac...

For decades, in a situation of armed conflict in Colombia, women have suffered polyvictimization and discrimination with severe consequences that last even during the postwar peace process. This study analyzes the impact on posttraumatic stress and recovery of war-related violence against women, discrimination, and social acknowledgment. A cross-se...

Abundant literature shows the effects of negative emotions on motivations to engage in collective action (i.e., to collectively mobilize personal resources to achieve a common objective), as well as their influence on the creation of shared identities. In this proposal, we focus on the possible role of Self-Transcendent Emotions (STEs) defined as p...

VIOLENCIA COLECTIVA Y BIENESTAR ANTECEDENTES Los efectos de las guerras -la desintegración de redes sociales y familiares, desestabilización de economías locales consecuencia de la deslocalización de los sistemas productivos, los éxodos- tienen profundas implicaciones en el bienestar de los supervivientes (Pedersen, 2002). La violencia colectiva ti...

This chapter examines truth commissions’ (TCs’) impact and relationship with psychosocial outcomes. TCs are a mechanism of transitional justice created to help with the evolution from a violent political regime to a democratic, peaceful one. From a psychosocial perspective, dealing with past collective violence implies (a) the construction of a com...

Breve revision del concepto de capital social, su relevancia para el bienestar y en la pandemia de Covid 19 Capitulo dentro Informe

This study analyzes the relationship between work satisfaction, family satisfaction, and general well-being in high performance managers in Santiago, Chile. The importance of the satisfaction of intrinsic and extrinsic needs and motivations was examined to advance in the development of a positive organizational psychology, which investigates the fa...

We discuss the idea that competition-based motives boost low-status group members' support for group-based hierarchy and inequality. Specifically, the more low-status group members feel motivated to compete with a relevant high-status outgroup, based on the belief that existing status positions may be reversed, the more they will defend status diff...

The influence of context on behavioral and emotional reactions to a war crime situation among military cadets (N = 315) is analyzed. The study is based on Milgram’s experience and the tragedy of My Lai. It examines personal and peer obedience to an anti-normative order (asking participants whether they would obey an order to shoot unarmed civilians...

Percepción de eficacia en el control de la corrupción y su relación con el clima socioemocional y la identidad nacional en el Perú: Un estudio experimental Este artículo revisa la definición de corrupción y sus correlatos individuales, macro y micro sociales. En un estudio de campo experimental con una muestra representativa peruana (N= 1,254), se...

Being a parent plays an important role in people’s life trajectory and identity. Though the general cultural perception is that having children is a source of subjective well-being, there is evidence that, at least in some societies, the subjective well-being of those who are parents is worse, in some aspects, than that of those who are not. This g...

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively...

This paper analyzes socio-cognitive and emotional processes related to collective action in the context of the massive protest movement of 2019 in Chile. A total of 262 individuals answered a comprehensive online survey that included measures of participation in demonstrations and victimization by police, socio-cognitive variables (identification w...

This paper analyzes social representations and psychosocial factors related to collective action in the context of the massive protest movement of 2019 in Chile. A total of 262 individuals answered a comprehensive online survey that included measures of participation and repertoire of different forms of collective action, identification with protes...

This is an expanded version of Oyanedel, J.C. & Páez, D. (2020). Editorial: Social Belongingness and WellBeing: International Perspectives. Frontiers of Psychology. 11Includes all meta-analyses main results and a largest discussion of constructs.

This paper analyzes social representations and psychosocial factors related to collective action in the context of the massive protest movement of 2019 in Chile. A total of 262 individuals answered a comprehensive online survey that included measures of participation and repertoire of different forms of collective action, identification with protes...

La salud mental en el tiempo del Covid19: se examina el impacto en los síntomas depresivos en base a meta analisis sobre estudios epidemiologicos previos y durante el año 2020, asi como se revisan la teoria y evidencia sobre las respuestas de resiliencia y crecimiento comunitario ante la pandemia desde una perspectiva colectiva y de salud pública d...

We propose that low-status group members' support for group-based hierarchy and inequality (i.e., social dominance orientation; SDO) may represent an ideological strategy to guarantee the legitimacy of future ingroup status-enhancement. Specifically, we argue that, under unstable social structure conditions, SDO serves as an ideological justificati...

Two quasi-experimental and longitudinal studies examined positive effects of participation in positively valence collective religious and secular activities. Collective emotional gatherings strengthen social cohesion, enhance personal and collective self-esteem, positive affect, and positive shared beliefs among participants, through processes of e...

Se revisan las definiciones de salud mental y las de bienestar desde el punto de vista de la psicologia social

Se discute el tema de la macropsicologia del bienestar y se describe un indicador global de bienestar

Salud mental: síntomas y bienestar Darío Páez, Marian Bilbao, Olaia Cusi, Jara Mendia, Jon Zabala, A. Pascual, S. Conejero & I. Alonso Esta es una versión ampliada del Cap. 12 Salud Mental que aparecerá en Psicología Social Aplicada editado por M-Moya, I. Segura, L. Steg, A.P. Buunk & K. Keizer. Esta versión es mucho más extensa e incorpora resulta...

Among the different ways of coping with stress, religious coping has shown particularly the promising results; nonetheless, there are few validated instruments to assess it in non-English language. This article presents the psychometric properties of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief-RCOPE) in Chilean adults exposed to stressful events. The s...