Ernesto Magallón-Neri

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment

Teenagers may experience potentially traumatic interpersonal and non-interpersonal events in everyday life that could cause discomfort. The general aim of this study was to explore changes over time in the perception of such discomfort and the psychopathological symptoms and coping linked to such change. The specific objectives were to: (a) describ...

Introduction: Several studies have noted the potentially negative effect of eating disorders (ED) on cognitive performance. Objective: To compare the impact of the duration of abnormal eating behaviors on cognitive performance in a sample of people with short-and long-term eating disorders and in two control groups matched for age. Method: The neur...

Cyberbullying and social anxiety in adolescents: A systematic review. Cyberbullying has aroused the interest of researchers in the field of psychology. One of the variables related to cyberbullying that have been studied in recent years is social anxiety. However, a global and specific evaluation of results between these two big areas has not been...

Introduction: Given the increasing prevalence of mental health problems in the general population, it is indispensable to use assessment tools aimed to assess the outcome of therapeutic interventions in order to refine the process of psychological rehabilitation. Method: We describe the process of adaptation into Spanish and a first psychometric...

The harmful effects of victimization on mental health have been demonstrated in several age groups, cultures, and populations, but there is wide variability in the resulting psychopathology. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) allows the expression of an emotional state to be recorded at any given time and linked to a situation or context. This s...

Adolescents’ Daily Perception of Internalizing Emotional States by Means of Smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Assessment – CORRIGENDUM - Volume 20 - Teresa Kirchner, Ernesto Magallón-Neri, Manuel S. Ortiz, Irina Planellas, María Forns, Caterina Calderón

Introducción. Ante la creciente prevalencia de proble-mas de salud mental en la población general, resulta impres-cindible el uso de instrumentos de evaluación destinados a evaluar el resultado de las intervenciones terapéuticas, con el fin de facilitar el proceso de rehabilitación psicológica. Metodología. Se expone el proceso de adaptación al es...

This study uses ecological momentary assessment (EMA) with smartphone devices to examine community adolescents’ perceptions regarding both the intensity of and variability in their daily sadness/depression, anxiety, and somatic problems over the period of one week. Participants were 90 high-school students ( Mage = 14.61, SD = 1.64; range 12–18). T...

Knowledge about prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders and mental health services use among parents and relatives of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is limited, particularly when referring to epidemiologic samples. The current study is based on an island-wide probabilistic multistage cluster sample of adult individuals (N = 3062) liv...

Background Bullying at school and victimization problems in adolescence have a negative impact in personal identity development specifically in mental health field. Objective To analyze coping profiles used in a communitarian adolescents sample in relation to victimization among peers and controlling the other victimization subtypes. Method From...

Often, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can present deficits for acquiring superior level of theory of mind (ToM) in the detection of false beliefs o blunder situations. The objective of this study is to assess 51 subjects with a primary education level (18 with ASD compared to 33 control subjects) comparing ToM level by using the test...

Coping strategies are factors that mediate the relationship between interpersonal victimizations and psychological maladjustment. The objectives are as follows: (a) to establish the coping profile of adolescents according to the number of reported interpersonal victimizations; (b) to identify the most victimized adolescents (poly-victims), detectin...

Given the increasing prevalence of mental health problems in the general population, it is necessary to use assessment tools aimed at collecting psychological information of the person, (re)designing appropriate therapeutic interventions, and ultimately promoting adequate psychological rehabilitation. For that purpose, the Young Person’s – Clinical...

Aim: To analyze the viability of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) for measuring the mental states associated with psychopathological problems in adolescents. Methods: In a sample of 110 adolescents, a sociodemographic data survey and an EMA Smartphone application over a one-week period (five times each day), was developed to explore symptom...

Substance use is a risk behavior that tends to increase during adolescence, a time when part of the personality is still in development. Traditionally, personality psychopathology has been measured in terms of categories, although dimensional models have demonstrated better consistency. This study aimed to analyze differences in personality profile...

This paper examined the ability of two different approaches (the multi-type maltreatment approach, and the poly-victimization approach) to reflect the psychopathological aftermath of victimization. It also analyzed gender-related differences in psychopathological symptoms at varying levels of exposure to violence. The study was conducted in 923 Spa...

Poly-victims are described as subjects who experience extremely high levels of victimization. This condition is regularly associated with wide psychopathological distress. Children and adolescents are special risk collective for this type of victimization. Objective To describe and analyze more frequents mental health problems in adolescents with...

Study of mental disorders phenomenology is a field increasingly developing. The Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is a methodology that allows to capture mental microprocesses fluctuations in the moment they happen. Objective To explain the development of an application based on EMA methodology by using smartphones, for assessing several crite...

Introduction Several studies have reported that immigrant adolescents suffer high rates of victimization. Polyvictimization was established as a well predictor of mental health problems. Many authors have highlighted the need to study immigrant adolescents’ community as they were immersed in a stressful process. Objective The aim is to assess mult...

The objective of this study is to explore and compare the prevalence of categorical and dimensional personality disorders (PDs) and their severity in Spanish adolescents with Eating Disorders (EDs). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision-10 modules of the Int...

The study aimed to compare methods of identification of Personality Disorders (PD) in adolescent patients with psychiatric disorders. A sample of 120 Spanish adolescents with clinical disorders was assessed using the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) interview, its Screening Questionnaires (IPDE-SQ) comprising the ICD-10 and DSM...

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to analyze the usefulness of the International Personality Disorder Examination Screening Questionnaire (IPDE-SQ) for identifying DSM-IV and ICD-10 Borderline and Impulsive personality disorders (PD) in Spanish adolescents. Method: The DSM-IV and ICD-10 IPDE-SQ screeners were used and compared with the diagn...

El objetivo principal de este estudio fue replicar y ampliar los resultados de estudios previos sobre subtipos de adolescentes con trastorno por uso de sustancias (TUS), de acuerdo con sus perfiles de personalidad en el Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for adolescents (MMPI-A). Sesenta pacientes con TUS y comorbilidad psiquiatrica (41.7%...

The main aim of this study was to replicate and extend previous results on subtypes of adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD), according to their Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for adolescents (MMPI-A) profiles. Sixty patients with SUD and psychiatric comorbidity (41.7% male, mean age = 15.9 years old) completed the MMPI-A, the...

The aims of this study were to explore the influence of personality disorders (PDs) in Spanish adolescents with Axis I psychiatric disorders on their use of mental health services and to analyze the risk of having a comorbid PD in relation to psychiatric service use. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)...

The objective of this study was to examine the association of different personality traits on severity of addiction indexes and patterns of drug use level, in a sample of adolescent psychiatric patients with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), based on the dimensional model of Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) of the MMPI-A. Method The Teen Addi...

The use of psychiatric services has been associated with a wide range of clinical variables. However, information about the impact of adolescent personality pathology related to hospital admissions is limited. Objective To analyze the different combination of personality pathology associated to variables of psychiatric hospital admissions (number...

School phobia is characterized by fear to diverse events associated to school such as being beaten by a classmate, bullied or criticised in front of the class, having to speak in public, doing exams, getting undressed to practice sports, etc. and can frequently cause young children to a chronic school re-fusal leading to significant social and acad...