Eduardo García-Cueto

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Psychology

When one-way ANOVA is statistically significant, a multiple comparison problem arises, hence post-hoc tests are needed to elucidate between which groups significant differences are found. Different post-hoc tests have been proposed for each situation regarding heteroscedasticity and sample size groups. This study aims to compare the Type I error (α...

Los ítems tipo Likert son comúnmente utilizados en ciencias sociales. Este estudio comprueba si se pueden mejorar las propiedades psicométricas de los autoinformes variando los formatos de respuesta. Los formatos comparados han sido el tipo Likert de cinco alternativas y el VAS (Visual Analog Scale). Para ello, 584 personas (75.2 % mujeres) con una...

Researchers have questioned whether grit should be conceptualized and measured as a global (i.e., domain‐general) or domain‐specific construct. Although evidence is beginning to appear that grit in educational and sport contexts may be measured as domain‐specific, it has not yet been explored in the organizational context. The objective of this res...

Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills encompass a broad range of interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities that are crucial for establishing and maintaining relationships, managing emotions, setting and pursuing goals, and exploring new learning opportunities. To address the lack of consensus regarding terminology, definition, and assessme...

Background. Numerous studies have examined the consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on mental health. Nonetheless, there is no comprehensive analysis of different profiles of coping strategies based on relevant sociodemographic characteristics (gender, age and decreased income), maladaptive habits during lockdown (level of problematic use of socia...

Entrepreneurship is one of the most important aspects for the growth of any country. On the one hand, because it is a source of innovation, employment and wealth and, on the other hand, because of the negative consequences of entrepreneurial failure, economically, socially and psychologically. The study of entrepreneurship is carried out through di...

Grit, defined as passion and perseverance for long-term goals, has received much attention over the last decade. However, its dimensionality is still very much up for debate. The present study examines whether the bidimensional structure of the construct is a statistical artifact caused by item reversal. The sample consisted of 1,115 participants (...

Título: Revisitando la versión para adolescentes y breve del Inventario de Sexismo Ambivalente: problemas, soluciones y consideraciones. Resumen: El inventario de sexismo ambivalente (ASI) es frecuentemente utilizado en la investigación aplicada, lo que ha llevado a que en ocasiones se propongan versiones modificadas del mismo. La presente investig...

The long-term effects on academic self-concept of grade retention are unclear. The objective is to examine the progression of academic self-concept in relation to school performance for retained students and non-retained students. The academic self-concept of 5712 students (1381 retained students) was evaluated at the fourth and eighth grade of com...

Aims: To describe the contribution of nursing students to clinical settings based on the perceptions of nurse preceptors and to examine whether certain characteristics of nurses' professional activity are associated with a positive perception of nursing students. Background: Most clinical agencies receive many nursing students each year, who acq...

Grit is a non-cognitive variable that helps predict important variables in people’s lives, such as academic, sport, and work performance, physical and mental health, and subjective well-being. However, there are few instruments measuring grit in the Chilean context. The aim of this study is to contribute new evidence of validity of the Oviedo Grit...

Aim To adapt the ‘Nursing Student Contributions to Clinical Settings’ scale (CEEEC, Spanish acronym), designed for specialized care and to evaluate the validity and reliability of a measure in the primary health care setting. Additionally, a description of the contributions of nursing students to primary health care in Spain is presented, based on...

Likert items are often used in social and health sciences. However, the format is strongly affected by acquiescence and reversed items have traditionally been used to control this response bias, a controversial practice. This paper aims to examine how reversed items affect the psychometric properties of a scale. Different versions of the Grit-s sca...

Moral disengagement is a process of cognitive restructuring that allows individuals to disassociate from their internal moral standards and behave unethically without feeling distressed. It has been described as a key predictor of maladaptive behaviors (e.g., delinquency, aggression, and cyberbullying) and as a mediator between individual variables...

We aimed to provide evidence of validity and reliability for the scores of a stressful life events risk assessment in offender and non-offender Chilean adolescents. The design was instrumental. A total of 2,516 adolescents from two previous projects were part of the study. The offender sub-sample (25.36%) was recruited by non-probabilistic convenie...

Introducción: Razonamiento, creatividad, apertura, motivación, responsabilidad y neuroticismo son variables que habitualmente se han asociado con el rendimiento académico, sin embargo, apenas existen estudios que examinen conjuntamente los efectos de estos factores. El objetivo fue estudiar algunas de las variables que afectan al rendimiento académ...

El grit es una variable importante para predecir indicadores de éxito en diversos contextos entre los que se encuentra el académico. Sin embargo, son escasos los instrumentos de medida de grit bien validados en apoyo a la investigación. El objetivo del presente estudio es consolidar la validación de la Escala Grit de Oviedo (EGO) presentando datos...

The research on Masculinity and Femininity has a long history. Despite this, there is still discussion about the nature of these concepts. In the present study, the development of the Oviedo Gender Roles Scale (GRSO) is presented. A sample of 612 participants belonging to general Spanish population is used (Myears = 34.2; SDyears = 15.9). The dimen...

Evidence from several longitudinal studies has established the relevance of the approach of evolutionary criminology to understanding and intervening with adolescent criminal offenders, seeking to halt the criminal behavior before its potential consolidation in adulthood. The aim of this study is to present the psychometric properties of the Crimin...

The FER-R, Risk and Resource Assessment Form, is a multidimensional inventory of structured professional judgment that assesses criminogenic risks and resources for the design and management of individualized intervention plans with criminally sanctioned adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the FER-R, rev...

Experiential Avoidance is a trans-diagnostical variable that contributes to the development of psychological problems. AAQ-II measures this construct but the sample used for its validation with the general population was not representative. In this study, a validation of AAQ-II on the general Spanish population was carried out. Through an online fo...

While sex is defined as the biological difference between men and women, gender has been associated to behavioral, social, and cultural differences related to men and women. Differences in personality traits based on sex are still being found in recent research. The aim of the study was the creation of a self-report battery to assess gender roles (...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy states that Experiential Avoidance contributes to the development of psychological issues. The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II measures Experiential Avoidance. The objective of the current study is to perform a validation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II in the general Spanish population. A samp...

Personality traits play an important role when it comes to predicting people's entrepreneurial behaviour. The objective of this study was to determine whether the specific traits of enterprising personality predicted entre-preneurial behaviour better than general (Big Five type) traits. The sample comprised 1153 working people (33% entrepreneurs)....

Introducción: La resiliencia académica consiste en obtener altas calificaciones a pesar de hallarse en una desventaja socioeconómica. En el presente estudio se observó si el esfuerzo, las expectativas y el autoconcepto académicos forman parte de la resiliencia académica o estarían explicando un buen rendimiento académico en general. Método: Los pa...

Technological development has enabled the use of sophisticated methods for assessing multiple human behaviors. Despite the advantages of these new technologies, concerns exist regarding their equivalence with paper-based measures in epidemiological and health-related surveys. To date, literature on this topic in relation to adolescents is virtually...

Background A validated questionnaire to measure the contributions of nursing students to clinical settings could potentially assist in the improved management of students in healthcare institutions. Aim To develop and test the psychometric properties of the questionnaire ‘Nursing Student Contributions to Clinical Settings’ (CEEEC, Spanish acrony...

The psychological approach to entrepreneurial activity helps to explain why people decide or not to undertake. The objective of this study is to analyze different entrepreneurial personality profiles, as well as to identify the personality variables that can explain becoming a self-employed. Using a sample of 586 participants (Mage = 39.31; SDage =...

El enfoque psicológico en torno a la actividad emprendedora contribuye a explicar por qué las personas deciden o no emprender. El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar diferentes perfiles de personalidad emprendedora, así como identificar las variables de personalidad que puedan explicar el convertirse en trabajador por cuenta propia. Empleando...

Resumen La tenacidad académica, conocida como la pasión y la perseverancia por objetivos escolares a largo plazo, ha sido ampliamente estudiada en el contexto educativo. Sin embargo, pocos son los estudios que analizan esta variable como dominio específico y de manera longitudinal. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar en qué medida la tenac...

Academic grit, known as passion and perseverance for long-term academic goals, has been widely studied in the educational context. However, few are the studies that analyze this variable as a specific domain and longitudinally. We used a sample of 4,853 students, assessing their levels of academic grit at two timepoints four years apart: in the fou...

The analysis of sociodemographic variables such as age and sex has demonstrated their importance in entrepreneurial activity. Therefore, it is important to study the role these variables play in entrepreneurial personality. The aim of this research was to examine measurement invariance of the Battery for the Assessment of the Enterprising Personali...

Grit is a construct that is related to perseverance and passion for achieving set goals. Its relationship to school performance has been widely researched although the results are not conclusive. The aim of this study was to examine the temporal stability of grit and its relationship to adolescents’ school performance. A sample of 5,371 students we...

Background: Organizational Climate (OC) is a basic construct in work and organizational environments, since it allows exploration of individual and group behaviours within organizations. The object of the present study was to develop a new scale called the Subjective Work Environment Organizational Climate Scale (Escala de Clima Organizacional del...

Grit is one of the non-cognitive variables that has received the most attention in recent years given its relationship to and influence in various aspects of life. There are very few reliable, valid instruments to evaluate it in Spanish-speaking countries. Because of that, the aim of this study is the development and validation of a new scale to ev...

Actualmente, la mayoría de centros asistenciales incorporan estudiantes de enfermería que realizan prácticas clínicas. Durante su formación interaccionan con profesionales sanitarios, pacientes y familiares, por lo que consideramos importante diseñar y validar un cuestionario que recoja las contribuciones del alumnado de Grado en Enfermería a los e...

Background: Enterprising personality is related to business creation and success. The objective of this study was the development and psychometric analysis of a reduced version of the BEPE Battery for the Evaluation of Enterprising Personality. Method: We used a sample of 1,170 people, 60% women, with a mean age of 42.34 years (SD = 12.96). We c...

Background/objective: Entrepreneurial behavior is of great importance nowadays owing to its significance in the generation of economic, social, personal, and cultural wellbeing. This behavior is influenced by cognitive and personality characteristics, as well as by socioeconomic and contextual factors. Entrepreneurial personality is made up of a s...

Background/objectives: Even though humor its part of everyday life, only in the last 40 years has Psychology begun to discern its impact on mental health. The aim of this paper is to explore the role that humor styles may have as protectors against anxiety and depression and their relationship with optimism. Method: A sample of 804 participants...

Objective: Perfectionism is one of the variables related to the correct emotional development or with the appearance of clinical symptomatology in childhood. A study has been designed to evaluate the differential effect that each dimension of perfectionism (external pressure, self-exigency, and negative self-evaluation) has in a Spanish children sa...

Attentional and working memory processes undergo significant changes during different stages of development. However, currently there are not many Continuous Performance tools based on Virtual Reality (VR) for measuring attentional capacity in adults. The present study aimed to obtain normative data for the Nesplora Aquarium VR test in a Spanish po...

Background: Slots and electronic gaming machines (EGMs) are the most addictive gambling activities. The Spanish regulation allows venues of the hospitality sector to operate slot machines. Despite this high availability and accessibility, no data exists on the number of slot users and their associated characteristics. Aim: To describe the profile o...

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Background: The study of entrepreneurial activity has undergone intense development in recent decades. Traditionally this topic has been addressed from three approaches: economic, sociological and psychological. In the study of enterprising personality, two fundamental perspectives stand out: the use of general personality traits, like the Big Five...

Background: The use of positively worded items and reversed forms aims to reduce response bias and is a commonly used practice nowadays. The main goal of this research is to analyze the psychometric implications of the use of positive and reversed items in measurement instruments. Method: A sample of 374 participants was tested aged between 18 a...

RESUMENAntecedentes: El objetivo de la investigación es estudiar la influencia del atractivo físico en la construcción del prejuicio sobre la inteligencia y la extraversión. Método: La muestra fue incidental. Estuvo compuesta por 628 personas con edades comprendidas entre los 16 y los 80 años, y un 47,4% fueron mujeres. Como instrumentos de evaluac...

Influencia del atractivo físico en la percepción de la inteligencia y de la extraversión. Physical attractiveness influence on the perception of the intelligence and extraversion. RESUMEN Antecedentes: El objetivo de la investigación es estudiar la influencia del atractivo físico en la construcción del prejuicio sobre la inteligencia y la extravers...

RESUMENAntecedentes: la homofobia se puede considerar como el prejuicio hacia el colectivo homosexual, caracterizado por la presencia tanto de actitud negativa como incomodidad, entendidas respectivamente como rechazo y temor. El objetivo del presente estudio ha sido crear una escala de medición de la homofobia que refleje el nivel de homofobia en...

There is no doubt that the teaching change generated by the adaptation of the former study programme to the EHEA has led to significant shifts regarding teaching loads and the organization of subjects. This paper assesses the students’ perception of the subject, the teacher and the teaching organization according to the study programme followed. Fo...

Background/Objective: Emotional intelligence is a variable which has been the subject of significantly increased research in recent years. Relationships have been shown with both physical and psychological problems. The aim of this study is to analyse the direct and indirect effect that emotional intelligence exerts over the manifestation of physic...

Sexist and transcendent attitude during courtship between latin American university. The gender-role attitudes in situations, concerning various fields, contribute significantly to our behavior, and acceptance or rejection of behaviors that we consider relevant or not at any given time. Our aim is to examine the development of gender-role attitudes...

Backgound: Assessing specifi c personality traits has shown better predictive power of enterprising personality than have broad personality traits. Hitherto, there have been no instruments that evaluate the combination of specifi c personality traits of enterprising personality in an adaptive format. So, the aim was to develop a Computerized Adapti...

Hasta la fecha, el síndrome de burnout no ha sido específicamente analizado en el colectivo arbitral, aun conociendo sus importantes consecuencias físicas y emocionales. En el presente trabajo se evalúa, mediante el Athlete Burnout Questionnaire, la totalidad de árbitros de 1ª y 2ª División de la LFP (n=123). Además, se estudia la relación del sínd...

Background: Empathy is a personality feature that can play a major role in predicting the emotional and social functioning of adolescents (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2006). Recent research confirms the existence of two fundamental dimensions embedded within this construct, Affective Empathy (experiencing a congruent emotional response with another per...

Locus of control (LOC) has a long tradition in Psychology, and various instruments have been designed for its measurement. However, the dimensionality of the construct is unclear, and still gives rise to considerable controversy. The aim of the present work is to present new evidence of validity in relation to the dimensionality of LOC. To this end...

La depresión es uno de los trastornos mentales que más preocupan a nivel mundial. Una de las teorías que más investigación ha suscitado es la teoría cognitiva de la depresión de Beck. El Inventario de Tríada Cognitiva (CTI) se ha elaborado para evaluar los diferentes componentes de la tríada cognitiva, si bien la mayoría de sus estudios se han desa...

To date, the burnout syndrome has not been specifically assessed in referees, knowing its important physical and emotional consequences. In this paper, all soccer referees from 1st and 2nd Division (n=123) of the Professional Spanish Soccer League (LFP) are assessed through Athlete Burnout Questionnaire. Furthermore, the relationship between the sy...

Depression is one of the mental disorders that concern worldwide. One theory that has attracted more researches is the Beck´s cognitive theory of depression. The Cognitive Triad Inventory (CTI) has been developed to evaluate the different components of the cognitive triad, although most studies had been developed in adult and adolescent population....

El locus de control (LOC) es una variable frecuentemente evaluada debido a que juega un importante papel en diferentes contextos. Sin embargo, no existe un acuerdo unánime sobre cuántas dimensiones componen la estructura factorial del locus de control. El objetivo de esta investigación fue añadir nuevas evidencias de validez transcultural en relaci...

Optimism has been shown to have numerous physical and emotional benefits in a range of populations and professional contexts. Nonetheless, there are few instruments for its evaluation and they have significant limitations, especially in young people. This work presents a questionnaire which, through 9 items, evaluates dispositional optimism and ana...

In relation to substance use, Spanish adolescents aged 12 to 14 can be largely classified in four groups, from highest to lowest prevalence: a) No substance use, b) Only alcohol use, c) Alcohol and tobacco use, and d) Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use. The aim of the present study is to analyze the possible relationship between impulsivity and the...

The use of nonparametric tests is recommended when the data do not meet the assumptions of normality and homoscedasticity. However, the assumptions of normality of the data or the use of goodness of fit tests that are not appropriate for the assessed sample are common aspects. In many cases, this implies the use of statistical tests unadjusted for...

Despite the important role that referees holds, there has been very little research that examined their role in a psychological context. Soccer referees have socioeconomic conditions clearly different from the rest of the referee pool, as they are exposed to a high level of social pressure; alongside this they have significantly higher wages. In th...

El uso de pruebas no paramétricas resulta recomendable cuando los datos a analizar no cumplen los supuestos de normalidad y homocedasticidad. Sin embargo, la suposición de la normalidad de los datos o el empleo de pruebas de bondad de ajuste que no son adecuadas para el tamaño muestral empleado son aspectos habituales. Este hecho implica, en muchas...

Optimism has been shown to have numerous physical and emotional benefits in a range of populations and professional contexts. Nonetheless, there are few instruments for its evaluation and they have significant limitations, especially in young people. This work presents a questionnaire which, through 9 items, evaluates dispositional optimism and ana...

Gender roles depend on the attitudes and beliefs about them, which at the same time facilitate the formation of stereotypes that will foster violence in interpersonal relationships in couples. The assessment tools used tend to represent the sexist attitude towards women, without taking into account that men can also be recipients of the same behavi...

Adolescence is a critical period of life during which significant psychosocial adjustment occurs and in which emotional intelligence plays an essential role. This article provides validity evidence for the Trait Meta-Mood Scale–24 (TMMS-24) scores based on an item response theory (IRT) approach. A sample of 2,693 Spanish adolescents (M = 16.52 year...

Assuming that the perception of emotional climate results in the social interaction of the individual with environmental events, this study is based on the need for a tool to assess the climate in a stressful environment like prisons. The objective is to adapt an emotional climate scale, whilst establishing the factors that shape it and their re...

Assuming that the perception of emotional climate results in the social interaction of the individual with environmental events, this study is based on the need for a tool to assess the climate in a stressful environment like prisons. The objective is to adapt an emotional climate scale, whilst establishing the factors that shape it and their relat...