David Sánchez-Teruel

University of Granada | UGR · Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment

Background. Positive mental health can be defined as the presence of emotional, psychological, and social well-being. The original version of the Positive Mental Health (PMHs) scale appears to have good psychometric properties. This study aims to validate the Spanish version for the general population. Methods. A sample of 845 participants (425%–50...

Few studies have investigated the effects of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 on health professionals, especially nurses, from the point of view of the protective factors of mental health. The aim of this study was to assess the level of resilience in healthcare workers, to determine whether there were differences between two moments of the pandemic...

Aims: Sexual and gender minorities are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety caused by COVID-19. However, they also have specific variables that have been little studied but which may protect them from this adverse situation. The aim of this study was to find out whether there were differences in socio-demographic and psychosocial vari...

Background The assessment of resilience as an outcome in adolescents remains a challenge, with few instruments available. Some studies have focused on risk factors, but few have focused on protective factors as a formula for measuring resilient outcomes. Aims To adapt a new Suicide Attempt Resilience Scale (SRSA-18) for use with adolescents, analy...

2022) Cooperative learning, psychometric adaptation, and invariability of the academic satisfaction scale in Spanish university students. It is necessary to understand the measurement of academic satisfaction (AS) in a variety of cross-cultural contexts. The first aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of AS scale, to explore its structura...

The Herth Hope Index (HHI) is used to measure hope. Assessing the psychometric properties of HHI in Spanish population, exploring its structural validity, the different functionalities of the items and the invariability of this measure according to the gender and age of the population. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to explore the scale...

The immigration of young people from Morocco has increased considerably in Spain. However, there are few studies on this particular subpopulation of immigrants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of resilience in young immigrants and to determine what differences there were compared to the young non-immigrant population, analysin...

The pandemic produced by COVID-19 can lead the population to suffer serious psychological disorders. However, there are several psychosocial variables that can enhance resilient outcomes in adverse situations. The aim would be to establish the level of resilience of the general Spanish population exposed to a traumatic situation by the COVID-19 in...

Background Drastic changes in the lifestyle of individuals have been caused by coronarivus SARS‐CoV‐2 with lethal effects associated with COVID‐19, which acts as a stressor for the population with adverse effects on mental health status. The aim was to identify which sociodemographic variables and psychological factors predict psychological disorde...

Background: Predicting suicidal vulnerability based on previous risk factors remains a challenge for mental health professionals, especially in specific subpopulations. Aims: This study aimed to use structural equation modelling to assess which sociodemographic and clinical variables are most predictive and modulating of repeated self-injury or rea...

Background: Suicide attempts (SA) is a global mental health problem, especially in Spain. Classical research has focused on determining the risk variables; however, few studies focused on protective variables. The aim was to assess which protective variables are more predictive of the greater or lesser lethality of a made SA. Methods: The sample co...

Background: The Family-Centered Practices Scale assesses the degree to which staff in Early Childhood Intervention and Development Centers use this therapeutic approach. However, there is no adaptation of this scale to families of children with Down syndrome, which is one of the most prevalent intellectual disabilities in early intervention OBJECT...

Desde que se pusieron en marcha los programas de estimulación precoz en España, allá por los años setenta del pasado siglo, la evolución de esta disciplina ha sido muy considerable. El auge de la Atención Temprana -como ahora llamamos a esta especialidad- ha sido la consecuencia de una serie de factores. A nadie se le escapa que el empuje de los pa...

Es necesario comprender mejor la medición de la Satisfacción académica en una variedad de contextos interculturales mediante la Satisfacción académica (AS), y especialmente en situación de pandemia por COVID-19, ya que representa una situación estresante para la población estudiante universitaria debido a los importantes cambios en sus condiciones...

Objective: Early detection of suicide attempts remains a handicap for suicide prevention. Most studies have focused on risk factors, but few have assessed protective factors that promote resilient outcomes, especially in subpopulations vulnerable to suicide re-attempts. This study aims to create and adapt a new Scale of Resilience to Suicide Attemp...

This paper reports on the psychometric properties of the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) with a sample of 311 Iranian patients who were suffering from cancer between September and December 2020. A cross-sectional study design was used, and convenience sampling was employed. Reliability was evaluated by internal consistency Cronbach’s alpha, McDon...

This study investigates the relationship between spiritual wellbeing, social support, and financial distress with depressive symptoms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A path analysis was used to analyze data collected from 1,156 Iranian participants via an online survey. The results showed that spiritual wellbeing and social support were negatively re...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the resilience of health care systems worldwide. In this regard, one group of people whose physical and mental health has been affected has been family caregivers of people with dementia. Objective This study aims to identify the variables that predict a high degree of well-being in famil...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) for the general Spanish population. Method: A cross-sectional investigation was carried out in several stages. Participants (N = 699) between the ages of 18 and 73 (M = 27.79; SD = 12.68) completed both the FCV-19S and the Hospital,...

Scale of Resilience to Suicide Attempts, SRSA-18

The objective of this work was to construct and validate an instrument for assessing resilience to suicide attempts in a Spanish clinical population that has made a previous attempt, and to verify its efficacy for predicting future suicide reattempts at 6 months. For the construction of a Scale of Resilience to Suicide Attempts (SRSA) the theoretic...

The emergence of COVID-19 worldwide has had serious consequences for physical and psychological health. Spain is one of the countries that has been most-seriously affected by the pandemic. This study aims to evaluate the psycho- metric properties of the Spanish version of the COVID-19 fear scale (FCV-19S), assessing its structural validity, differe...

Background/Objective: Researchers have traditionally reported that individuals with Down syndrome possess a strength in their social development, yet the opposite occurs with Asperger’s syndrome. Based on this premise, we sought to assess effectiveness of the social skills training program. Method: Thirty adolescents aged 11 to 14 years with Down s...

Suicide is a major global public health problem. The most predictive behavior of completed suicide is prior suicide attempt. However, studies focused on risk factors have to date proved unsuccessful in reducing death by suicide rates. To adapt a hope assessment tool to a Spanish clinical population having carried out a suicide attempt, to evaluate...

Background The Family-Centered Practices Scale assesses the degree to which staff in Early Childhood Intervention and Development Centers use this approach. However, there is no adaptation of this scale to families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in early intervention in Spain. Objectives: To validate and analyze the psychometric properti...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a stressful situation for the university population due to the important changes in the development of their studies and in their living conditions. However, the impact of factors related to the family unit (living with COVID-19 positive patients and living with Essential Services Workers-ESW) and other protective p...

Profesionales lamentan que 268 suicidios de jóvenes en España aún no sean suficientes para desarrollar planes de prevención Las lesiones autoinfligidas o autolesiones no suicidas previas en adolescentes y adultos jóvenes se han clasificado como síntomas de otros trastornos, enmascarando su importancia clínica transdiagnóstica. Un reciente estudio t...

The social functioning of adults with Down Syndrome (DS) specially influences their quality of life. Emotional intelligence (EI) plays a key role in social outcomes because it is defined as a variety of social and emotional skills that enable people to be more effective in their personal and social lives. Thus, validated EI tests for use among adul...

Immigration appears to produce emotional disturbance in some young Sub-Saharans, but a significant proportion also show high levels of resilience, encouraging faster adaptation to the country of destination. However, the most predictive factors that produce high levels of resilience in this population have hardly been studied. Purpose To assess th...

La pandemia aumenta los casos de suicidio en Córdoba y el riesgo entre los más jóvenes En lo que va de año han muerto así 58 personas, un 15% más que en el 2019. Los expertos advierten de los efectos del con namiento y el aislamiento social Los adolescentes y jóvenes han sufrido con más intensidad el aislamiento, lo que puede dejarles secuelas.-CÓR...

Anxiety continues to be one of the most frequent disorders with typically developing children and youth. However, people with intellectual disability (ID) lack validated diagnostic tests backed by sufficient methodological rigor. Analyze the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in this clinica...

Introduction: Suicide risk assessment remains a handicap for public health policies. Suicide is a major global public health problem. The most predictive behavior of completed suicide is prior suicide attempt. However, studies focused on risk factors have to date proved unsuccessful in reducing death by suicide rates. Aim: To adapt the Herth Hop...

Introduction The Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth version-EQ-i:YV was developed by Bar-On & Parker in 2000 and later translated and adapted for the general Spanish adolescent population by Ferrandiz et al. in 2012. The Spanish scale presents similar psychometric properties to the original version (54 items and five subdimensions). The Emotional...

Background The people with Down syndrome who are now adolescents can face a self‐report questionnaire with guarantees of being answered with validity to evaluate areas of development that traditionally have not been able to be evaluated. This is the case of emotional intelligence, measured in this research with the Emotional Quotient Inventory: You...

It is known that alterations in Down syndrome (DS) occur at cognitive and language levels that affect the acquisition of reading and academic skills. The aim of this study is to know which neuropsychological variables predict the potential efficacy of early intervention in reading in this population with a program traditionally used with this popul...

Background: anxiety remains one of the most common disorders in typically developing children and young adults. Adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) lack diagnostic tests for evaluation. Methods: this study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders inventory in its self-report version in 63...

Background: Suicide has become a major global public health problem in some clinical subpopulations. Adolescents and young adults with self-inflicted injuries or non-suicidal self-harm appear to have been understudied. The aim of this study is to assess which socio-demographic and prior co-morbid psychopathology condition variables in adolescents...

Background/Objective People with Down syndrome (DS) experience anxiety problems more often than the normal population, but there are no adequate screening tests for diagnosis. This study therefore analyses the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders in Spanish adolescents with DS. Method Descriptive stat...

It is known that alterations in Down syndrome (DS) occur at cognitive and language levels that affect the acquisition of reading and academic skills. The aim of this study is to know which neuropsychological variables predict the potential efficacy of early intervention in reading in this population with a program traditionally used with this popul...

Introducción: El síndrome de Down presenta importantes diferencias en tasas de incidencia según territorios y países, siendo además una de los trastornos genéticos más complejos, aunque su detección sea la más precoz de los trastornos genéticos. En España se ha producido una drástica reducción de nacimientos, existiendo un aumento en otras zonas de...

INFORME Suicidio, un drama oculto Córdoba es la tercera provincia andaluza en tasa de suicidios. Los expertos advierten de las alarmantes cifras, sobre todo, entre la población joven y reclaman más visibilización y prevención Los jóvenes son la población es la población más vulnerable.-CÓRDOBA ¿Cuántas campañas de prevención del suicidio les suenan...

Introducción: La adolescencia es una etapa de importantes retos (físicos, psicológicos y socioculturales) lo que incrementa la probabilidad de sufrir depresión, así mismo, constituye una época de “experimentación” de una serie de dificultades como la orientación sexual, la autoestima, la personalidad y/o conductas de riesgo como sexuales y/o consum...

Objetivo: esta investigación pretende estudiar las variables epidemiológicas relacionadas con la tentativa y el reintento de suicidio y si entre ellas los trastornos de ansiedad son importantes. En la conducta suicida existen fases previas menos investigadas que son altamente predictivas del suicidio consumado, como son los intentos o reintentos de...

En esta obra se presenta una descripción de la inteligencia emocional, encuadrándola teóricamente según diversos modelos actuales. Se describen algunos instrumentos de medida de este constructo moderno. Se muestra la diferencia entre inteligencia general e inteligencia emocional, a lo largo de los últimos veinte años. Así como, la relación entre in...

Correspondencia: dsteruel@uco.es (David Sánchez-Teruel) Resumen Introducción: Las tentativas duplican las tasas de muerte por suicidio, y es la única conducta hasta el momento que predice reintentos futuros más lesivos o la muerte por esta causa. Sin embargo, no existen muchos estudios donde se analice el perfil sociodemográfico y clínico en person...

Resumen Introducción/Objetivo: Actualmente hay un creciente interés en el conocer del proceso de envejecimiento de las personas con síndrome de Down y discapacidad intelectual, dado que la esperanza de vida está aumentando. Cada vez es mayor la necesidad y el interés sobre cómo envejecen y qué medidas tenemos para ayudarlos en este proceso, tanto a...

A raíz de la publicación, realizada recientemente en la Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clínica, del artículo denominado "Variables de riesgo y protección relacionadas con la tentativa suicida", nos solicitan desde INFOCOP una breve aportación sobre esta conducta humana (Sánchez-Teruel, Muela-Martínez y García-León, 2018). Esta solicitud nos...

Introduction: Suicide attempts double death by suicide rates. To date it remains the only behavior that predicts more harmful future reattempts or deaths from suicide. However, few studies have analyzed the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of older adults who have suffered selfinflicted injuries or attempted suicide. Objective: To assess whic...

Risk and protection variables related to suicidal attempt. Suicide is an important public health problem, being the suicidal attempt the most predictive behavior of completed suicide. The aim of this study was to detect if there are differences in psychosocial and emotional variables in people with and without suicidal ideation and attempt. The sam...

Reading is a key aspect in the process of acquiring and developing school learning. Cognitive deficits in Down syndrome affect the developmental process of reading; however, these deficits can be minimized with an early reading learning program. The method for teaching reading in Down syndrome of Troncoso & del Cerro (2005) has been selected. In th...

Correspondencia: dsteruel@uco.es (David Sánchez-Teruel) Resumen Introducción: La resiliencia se ha contemplado como un posible resultado derivado de un proceso de envejecimiento saludable. Sin embargo, existen escasos instrumentos de evaluación de la resiliencia en español sencillos y fáciles de aplicar, para ser utilizados en contextos socio-sanit...

La actual sociedad del conocimiento concebida como sociedad en red y organizada digitalmente, presenta una nueva realidad con alto potencial para conectar personas. Sin embargo, en este mundo globalizado y altamente comunicado se refleja una desigualdad demostrada por la realidad contrastada de que estas nuevas tecnologías no son accesibles ni aseq...

Global data warns that a quarter of all adults they report having suffered physical abuse and one in five women and one of every thirteen men report having suffered sexual abuse in childhood. Childhood abuse requires a thorough and precise knowledge of the causes that cause it, They maintain and favor. The phenomenon of bad Childhood treatment, neg...

The purpose of this study was to analyse behavioural biomarkers within the health sciences. Recent and classic contributions of psychoneuroimmunology have been reviewed, illustrating the importance of psychosocial factors that modulate certain functions and biological systems offering an epigenetic perspective on health and disease. The obtained re...

La Atención Infantil Temprana sobre niños de 0 a 6 años se ha convertido en un área multidisciplinar destacada a nivel nacional e internacional. Este libro pretende dar respuesta a un espacio limitado de publicaciones donde se plantea procesos específicos de evaluación y tratamiento en niños y niñas con trastornos metabólicos, genéticos, evolutivos...

Lack of sex education for young people promotes unhealthy sexuality

Resumen La evaluación de la inteligencia emocional (IE) es centro de interés para profesionales de diversos campos de la salud y la educación. Este arrculo ofrece una revisión sistemáca cuantava sobre los instrumentos de evaluación de la IE uulizando una herramienta de análisis bibliográfico basado en la metodología PRISMA. Los resultados obtenidos...

The objective of this study would be to adapt an instrument of evaluation of hope in clinical population Spanish, to assess whether hope modulates the level of resilience as a result after the discharge of the service emergencies and at the same time we try to analyze in population Clinical Scale Psychometric Properties Beck's hopelessness

The objective of the present study was to assess what variables sociodemographic and clinics, in adolescents and young people who have suffered self-inflicted injuries, are more predictive of a future attempt of suicide.

This paper examines the performance of both Down syndrome (DS) and Fragile X syndrome (FXS) pre-schoolers in cognitive tasks of nonverbal reasoning and short-term memory (visual and auditory) and the ability to stimulate cognitive functions with a methodology of learning potential. It is the first study where this methodology is applied to FXS. The...

Down Syndrome (DS) will cause alterations in cognitive development. Thus, it is necessary to consider how reading and writing development there are individual determinants which can affect this process. This study assessed the cognitive and psycholinguistic profile and writing and reading level of a 5 year old child with DS compared with a typicall...

The aim was to identify and describe socio demographic and clinical variables in individuals who have made a suicide attempt. An analysis of electronically stored records on persons admitted to the emergency departments of a northern health district during the period 2009-2011 for mental disorders was conducted. The records of 826 patients (30.1% o...

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability. However, findings reported in cross-sectional studies on this population are heterogeneous. This chapter focuses on the longitudinal assessment of a boy with FXS from 12 months through to 6 years of age using two tests: one that assesses psychomotor development...

This article describes an investigation where a learning potential evaluation scale was applied to 32 children with Down syndrome (DS) -15 came from urban areas and 17, from mountainous rural areas, where there is no access to early child intervention-.The main objective of this research was to determine which is the proile of departure for both gr...

The quality of life has become a public health priority in the welfare of many countries. various conceptual issues on the enjoyment or gaudiebility are presented, and suggest that factors are more related to psychological well-being and quality of life in health. The aim of this study is to identify the results on the relationship between gaudiebi...

This article describes an investigation that is on a scale of assessment of learning potential applies to 32 preschool children with Down syndrome and 32 with specific language impairment. The goal of this study was to examine whether the cognitive profile of the groups can be improved through a methodology as is the learning potential. The results...

Risks and potentialities in digital times for children and teenagers Resumen La era digital ha llegado a tener tanto impacto en la sociedad actual, que la familia, la escuela, la cultura y el entorno son variables determinantes que influyen en el uso o abuso que la población infantil y adolescente hace de estas tecnologías. Este artículo muestra a...

The psychometric properties of the Resilience Scale (RS) of 14 items Wagnild, (2009c) is presented in Spanish. Was applied to a sample of 323 college students (79 men and 244 women) aged 18 to 55 years (M=23.63 years, SD=5.86). The data show that the scale has adequate internal consistency (α = .79) and criterion validity with other measures of gen...

El estrés de los padres de niños con Síndrome de Down (SD) sigue siendo un tema de interés para profesionales durante todo el proceso de intervención en atención infantil temprana (0-6 años). El presente estudio pretende comprobar si existen diferencias en 78 padres de niños con Síndrome de Down (entre 3 y 11 meses de edad), con edades comprendidas...

The aim of this study was to describe and train social skills to a group of students in the field of health sciences. Social skill level was assessed in a group of health science students (N = 216; 131 [60.6%] women) aged between 20 and 54 years (M = 33.12; SD = 8.75) both before and after training in social skills using the role-playing technique....

El estrés de los padres de niños con Síndrome de Down (SD) sigue siendo un tema de interés para profesionales durante todo el proceso de intervención en atención infantil temprana (0-6 años). El presente estudio pretende comprobar si existen diferencias en 78 padres de niños con Síndrome de Down (entre 3 y 11 meses de edad), con edades comprendidas...

Se presentan distintas cuestiones conceptuales sobre el suicidio en adolescentes, y se plantean los factores de riesgo y protección que están relacionados con el comportamiento suicida. Se ofrece una visión sobre las variables demográficas y psicosociales a tener en cuenta para la valoración del riesgo de tentativa o de suicidio consumado en adoles...

Resumen Aunque el término Trastorno Específico del Lenguaje (TEL) ha sido cuestionado, sobre todo por el componente de específico, la realidad es que su uso está muy generalizado, si bien en ocasiones se recurre a otras denominaciones, como Trastorno del Desarrollo del Lenguaje. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es determinar el perfil de parti...

Aim: Suicide is the leading cause of non-accidental death in Spain across both sexes and all age groups; however, data on suicide attempts by region are heterogeneous and little reported. This study aimed to examine the socio-demographic and epidemiological variables most strongly related to suicide attempts in Jaén province. Methods: Data on peopl...

Suicide in adolescents and young adults has become a public educational and health priority. In this paper, various conceptual questions about suicide are presented, and the protective factors that are associated with suicidal behavior in this population are considered. An overview is provided, based on a review of the studies, on the aspects of re...

El suicidio en adolescentes y adultos jóvenes se ha convertido en una prioridad educativa y sanitaria pública. Se presentan distintas cuestiones conceptuales sobre el suicidio, y se plantean los factores de protección que están relacionados con el comportamiento suicida en esta población. Se ofrece una visión basada en la revisión de estudios sobre...

Suicide is a serious global public health problem in both developed and developing countries. The results of the research reviewed here reveal that, in Europe, one person dies by suicide every nine minutes, and that in Spain it is currently the leading external cause of death after road traffic accidents. This review presents the latest findings on...

Suicide being the second leading cause of death among college students, this article examined differences in psychological variables related to college students (21-34 years) in Psychology with teaching and with high suicidal ideation (BDI> 10). We evaluated the presence of suicidal ideation in these students (n= 40, 70% female, mean age 23.9 years...

Se valora la relación entre datos sociodemográficos, personalidad y resiliencia en una muestra de 348 policías masculinos de las unidades de intervención policial (UIP) de España (N = 348) entre los 23 y los 38 años (M = 26.88, DT = 3.12). Los resultados mostraron que la edad y el nivel educativo junto con la dominancia, la escrupulosidad, persever...

ABSTRACT Beyond present models, academic and scientific studies; there is a new reality with that brings new values and behaviors that encourage the difference and the traditional way of understanding and studying the different, but it is also a social innovation that can encourgae a truly inclusive society. This article aims to help all profession...