Francisco Holgado-Tello

National Distance Education University | UNED · Departamento de Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento

Background: Experiencing psychological problems during childhood and adolescence is common. However, the detection of behaviors as symptoms of psychopathologies requiring clinical diagnosis and treatment remains low. In order to advance understanding of psychological phenomena and particularly their behavioral manifestations, new theoretical and m...

Positive Psychology has turned its attention to the study of emotions in a scientific and rigorous way. Particularly, to how emotions influence people’s health, performance, or their overall life satisfaction. Within this trend, Flow theory has established a theoretical framework that helps to promote the Flow experience. Flow state, or optimal exp...

The combination of depression and anxiety is among the most prevalent comorbidities of disorders leading to substantial functional impairment in children and adolescents. The network perspective offers a new paradigm for understanding and measuring psychological constructs and their comorbidity. The present study aims to apply network analysis to e...

Children with dysphoria symptoms have an increased risk of aggression problems. However, previous research has found that when the confounding effect of other depression characteristics, such as self-esteem and oppositional misbehavior, is taken into account, levels of aggression problems tend to be reduced to a great extent. This observation promp...

This study is based on a 40-item work climate scale in hospital emergency services (WCSHES). Teams working in these emergency services experience a heavy workload and have a limited amount of time with each patient. COVID-19 has further complicated these existing issues. Therefore, we believed it would be helpful to draft an abridged version of the...

The aim was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Gain in Alzheimer Care Instrument (GAIN), providing validity evidence based on its internal structure, reliability, item analysis, and relationships with other variables. A sample of 113 informal caregivers of people with dementia completed the GAIN, along with questio...

The purpose of this work is to verify the factorial structure and analyze the reliability of the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i): Youth Version (YV) (S) by evaluating emotional intelligence in a more extensive sample of Spanish adolescents than has been used to date, since this inventory has been employed in various studies but with a very limi...

Parental rejection and children's psychological adjustment: The moderating role of perceived family warmth from a multi-informant perspective. Abstract: This study explores the moderating effect of children's perceptions about family environment on the relation between parental acceptance and children's psychological adjustment, from a multi-inform...

Childhood aggression is important to acknowledge due to its social impact and importance in predicting future problems. The temperament of a child and parental socialization have been essential in explaining behavioral problems, particularly in the case of childhood aggression. The aim of this study is to examine-from the parents' perspective-the r...

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Flow is a positive and optimal state of mind, during which people are highly motivated and absorbed in the activity they are doing. It is an experience that can occur in any area of life. One of the measurement instruments which is most commonly used to evaluate this construct is the Flow State Scale-2 (FSS-2). This instrument has been used in diff...

El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la función predictiva que las variables autoconcepto físico, orientación a la tarea, práctica de actividad física extraescolar y motivos para la práctica del citado tipo de actividad ejercían sobre el rendimiento académico en la materia de educación física y la intensidad con la que estas predicciones ocurrían...

We describe the internal structure of the Symptom Assessment-45 Questionnaire (SA-45; Davison et al., 1997) in a sample of non-clinical Spanish subjects. The scale was developed for treatment outcome assessment in psychiatric settings; however, many studies have examined its psychometric properties in non-clinical populations. The internal structur...

The differential contribution of maternal and paternal acceptance-rejection to children’s psychological adjustment has been explained by differences in interpersonal power and prestige within families; however, there is not yet enough empirical support for this explanation. This study examines the moderating effects of interpersonal power and prest...

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This study examines the relationships between temperament traits (negative affectivity, extraversion and effortful control) and children’s externalized and internalized behavioral problems. The sample was composed of 424 children from the ages of 3–6 years old (60% male). Use of a hierarchical regression analysis revealed direct and interactive eff...

The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) (Garnefski et al., 2001) is a 36-item instrument for measuring cognitive strategies of emotional regulation. There is a brief, 18-item version that measures the same nine strategies as the full version (Garnefski & Kraaij, 2006a). The aim of this study was to develop a brief form of the CERQ, ta...

In order to obtain evidences about construct validity through Confirmatory Factor Analysis, it has been usual treating Likert-type scales as if they were continuous variables measured on an interval scale. Therefore, Maximum Likelihood estimation method has been broadly applied, but in turn it implies problems concerning both Pearson correlations a...

El presente trabajo se enmarca en la teoría de orientación a metas que representan las razones para realizar una tarea y los criterios para evaluarla. Sin embargo, las orientaciones de meta han sido poco estudiadas en alumnos con deficiencia visual. El objetivo de este estudio es averiguar si las metas que persigue el alumnado con deficiencia visua...

Mobile phone addiction has attracted much attention recently and is showing similarity to other substance use disorders. Because no studies on mobile phone addiction had yet been conducted in Spain, we developed and validated a questionnaire (Cuestionario de Abuso del Teléfono Móvil, ATeMo) to measure mobile phone abuse among young adults in Spanis...

The purpose of this chapter is to measure social and environmental responsibility in the commercial activities of banks (external CSR performance)—in contrast to other models based on internal stakeholders—and define to what extent it is influenced by a bank’s size, banking model or business specialization. The banking sector is composed of diverse...

An adequate work climate fosters productivity in organizations and increases employee satisfaction. Workers in emergency health services (EHS) have an extremely high degree of responsibility and consequent stress. Therefore, it is essential to foster a good work climate in this context. Despite this, scales with a full study of their psychometric p...

This study examined the effects of perceived discrimination on the well-being of people with HIV and the mediating role of self-exclusion as a function of the participants' symptoms of lipodystrophy. An ex post facto study with a sample of 706 people with HIV was conducted. Self-perception of lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy, perceived discriminatio...

The present study explores the dimensionality of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children and Adolescents (CES-DC; Radloff, 1977, 1991) in a sample of 986 Spanish children and adolescents (55% girls) between 9 and 18 years old. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed for a first order 4-factor model based on the origi...

The present study aimed to determine the optimum response time (RT) needed to identify images of everyday objects when filtered using different spatial frequency bands. Subjects were randomly presented with different images of familiar objects that were both serialized and progressive in their spatial frequencies. The time needed to recognize them...

El objetivo de este estudio es averiguar si hay diferencias en las metas deportivas en función de que la actividad física se realice en contextos escolares o de competiciones deportivas. Participan 574 estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, de entre 11 y 17 años, y 511 deportistas, de entre 16 y 45 años, quienes responden al Cuestionario...

Men who batter are often affected by cognitive distortions related to gender roles and the legitimization of violence as a valid way to solve conflicts. The objectives of this research were: to analyze the psychometric properties of the Inventory of Distorted Thoughts about Women and the Use of Violence-Revised (IPDMUV-R), to delete non-updated ite...

GOAL ORIENTATIONS IN THE STUDENTS OF THE EDUCATION FACULTY OF ALICANTEThe aim of this study was to analyze the factorial dimensioning of the Goal Orientation Scale in the context of the Faculty of Education at the University of Alicante. Three hundred fifty-seven students in Grade Teacher (Nursery and Primary) took part in this research, with an av...

Research has shown that father involvement and children’s perceived parental warmth contribute significantly to children’s psychological adjustment. This study examines the mediating role of parental acceptance (i.e. that of mothers and fathers) between the father’s involvement and the child’s psychological adjustment in terms of personality dispos...

La aceptacion-rechazo parental se ha revelado como un importante factor de riesgo para el ajuste psicologico de los hijos y su adaptacion. El objetivo: Analizar la capacidad predictiva del comportamiento parental percibido por los hijos sobre su pertenencia a un grupo clinico vs otro general. Se analizaron la aceptacion-rechazo materno y paterno y...

the posttraumatic stress Disorder (ptsD) symptom severity scale-revised is a 21-item structured interview based in DSM-5 criteria and intended to assess the severity of the symptoms of this mental disorder. This paper describes the psychometric properties of this instrument for assessing PTSD. The sample consisted of 526 patients who had been victi...

The Campbellian tradition provides a conceptual framework to assess threats to validity. On the other hand, different models of causal analysis have been developed to control estimation biases in different research designs. However, the link between design features, measurement issues, and concrete impact estimation analyses is weak. In order to pr...

This study examines the relationships between perceived parental acceptance and children’s behavioral problems (externalizing and internalizing) from a multi-informant perspective. Using mothers, fathers, and children as sources of information, we explore the informant effect and incremental validity. The sample was composed of 681 participants (22...

The main aim of this study is to examine the concurrent and longitudinal effects of perceived affection of mothers and fathers separately on the self-reported symptoms of children's depression. Data were obtained from a 3-wave study of 535 families with children (41.3% boys) aged 9-15 years of age. Structural equation models were performed to test...

This study is based on the perspective that analyzes the goal content in academic settings in order to explain the motivation to study. The aim is to analyze the structure that the multiple goals present in Chilean students and their relationships with academic performance. This involves the study of the Goals Questionnaire psychometric properties...

The measurement of psychological and sociological interventions often implies important random and systematic degrees of error which bias the substantive conclusions. Results can be affected by the mismatch between the statistical assumptions and the data characteristics. When using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to obtain construct validity evidence...

The authors examined several different predictive and mediation models of longitudinal parental inconsistency over a 3-year time span. They hypothesized that parental behavior (communication/affection, kindness, and positive control) mediated the relationship between parental inconsistency (mother or father) and two emotional problems in children:...

Este estudio parte de la perspectiva que analiza el contenido de las metas en contextos académicos para explicar la motivación para los estudios. El objeti - vo es analizar la estructura que presentan las metas múltiples en estudiantes chilenos y sus relaciones con el rendimiento académico. Esto implica valorar las cualidades psicométricas del Cues...

En Psicología, para obtener evidencias sobre validez de constructo mediante Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio es habitual trabajar con variables ordinales que presentan asimetría. En este estudio de simulación se analiza el comportamiento del método de Mínimos Cuadrados no Ponderados (ULS) en escalas tipo Likert con base en los índices χ2 de razón d...

This study examines the mediating role of effortful control between reactive temperament traits (negative affectivity and extraversion) and children’s internalizing and externalizing behavioural problems. The sample was composed of 424 non-clinical children from 3 to 6 years of age (60% male). Use of a structural equation model revealed effortful c...

The primary goal of this study was to adapt Berger et al.’s (2001) HIV Stigma Scale in Spain, using Bunn et al.’s (2007) version. A second goal assessed whether the four-factor structure of the adapted scale could be explained by two higher-order dimensions, perceived external stigma and internalized stigma. A first qualitative study (N=40 people w...

ANTECEDENTES: Las necesidades de atención en salud mental infantil hacen necesario contar con estudios epidemiológicos que sirvan de base para perfeccionar las intervenciones y acrecentar el diagnóstico, con instrumentos fiables y adecuados al contexto. OBJETIVO: El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala p...

Father involvement has been positively related to different signs of children’s adjustment including externalizing and internalizing problems. Few studies have concurrently explored the direct and indirect effects of fathers’ involvement and warmth on youths’ functioning, and even less attention has been paid to the potential of including fathers’...

This study examines relations between the perceived parental acceptance and children´s behavioral problems (externalizing and internalizing) using parents (mothers and fathers) and children as sources of information. The sample was composed of 270 participants (90 children, 90 fathers, and 90 mothers). Children (38% boys) aged from 9 to 16 years (M...

El poder y el prestigio son dos constructos ampliamente estudiados en la psicología social y en la sociología. No obstante, estos aspectos están siendo utilizados también en el contexto específico de las relaciones familiares, donde se han mostrado útiles en la explicación de la relación existente entre la aceptación parental y el ajuste psicológic...

In order to obtain evidences about construct validity through Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Social Sciences, working with skewed ordinal variables has been usual. In this simulation study the performance of Unweighted Least Squares (ULS) method in Likert scales according to Likelihood Ratio Test (C2) and RMSEA indices is analysed through Type I e...

Program evaluation is usually applied to non-standardized intervention contexts. This implies, among others, deficiencies of: a) validated theoretical models; b) non-standard measurement instruments; c) reliable measures. In this work, we show that Factor Analysis with polychoric correlations and Multilevel Analysis could be an adequate procedure t...

This study analyses the dimensionality and psychometric properties of the Affective Balance Scale by comparing two versions, the original by Warr, Barter, and Brownbridge (1983) and the proposed by Godoy-Izquierdo, Martínez, and Godoy (2008), and examines the effect of some items’ wording on the possible outcome. Six-hundred people between the ages...

Service-oriented e-learning platforms can be considered as a third generation of learning management systems (LMSs). As opposed to the previous generations, consisting of ad hoc solutions and traditional LMS, this new technology contemplates e-learning systems as services that can be integrated into different learning scenarios. This paper shows th...

This article analyzed the moderator role of perceived interpersonal power and prestige in the relation between perceived parental acceptance and children’s psychological adjustment. The sample consisted of 187 children (43% boys) ranging in age from 9 through 12 years (M = 10.58). The measures used were the child versions of the Parental Acceptance...

La obtencion de evidencias de validez de contenido se torna en un aspecto central en la construccion de cualquier instrumento de medida ya sea estandarizado, semi-estandarizado, o no estandarizado. Un buen y correcto estudio de validacion de contenido va a tener importantes implicaciones y consecuencias positivas en todas las fases de elaboracion d...

Resumen Este estudio tiene como objetivo elaborar un cuestionario para medir las estrategias que las personas con VIH usan para afrontar el estigma. Se partio para su desarrollo del modelo de Compas et al. (2001) sobre el estres y su afrontamiento. Para ello, en primer lugar, y con la finalidad de obtener evidencias de validez de contenido, se real...

This study analyzes the mediating role of social identity in the relationship between enacted stigma and internalized stigma and quality of life of people with HIV. A total of 557 people with HIV participated in this study. Participants were recruited from hospitals and non-governmental organizations. Questionnaires measuring perceived stigma (Berg...

El objetivo del estudio es probar la validez de una escala para medir la dimensión económica de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC). La escala final, compuesta por 14 ítems, es construida a partir del juicio de expertos, empresas y grupos de interés. La importancia de los ítems de la escala es evaluada a través de la metodología de análisis...

En este trabajo se define la envidia como una emoción de particular complejidad, de carácter displacentero, caracterizado por sentimientos de inferioridad, hostilidad y resentimiento (relacionado con la percepción de injusticia), producido por la toma de conciencia de que otra persona o grupo de personas disfrutan de una posesión deseada (objeto, p...

Introduction. The aim of this study was to verify whether the six-dimension structure of the Physical Self-Concept Questionnaire is maintained with Chilean students, and to assess its psychometric qualities in this population. Method. One thousand seven hundred sixty-seven students took part in this research, from Central and South Chile; 45.8% wer...

Este estudio tiene como objetivo elaborar un cuestionario para medir las estrategias que las personas con VIH usan para afrontar el estigma. Se partió para su desarrollo del modelo de Compas et al. (2001) sobre el estrés y su afrontamiento. Para ello, en primer lugar, y con la finalidad de obtener evidencias de validez de contenido, se realizó un e...

The widespread use of Pearson correlations and, by extension, the Maximum Likelihood estimation method, does not take into account the measurement properties of Likert scales observed variables when carrying out a construct validity process through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). This simulation study compares four estimation methods (Maximum L...

This study's objective is to analyze temperament and parenting variables as they relate to proactive and reactive aggression in children. To be specific, profiles based on these variables were analyzed in children with high levels of proactive versus reactive aggression. The sample was made up of two groups: 482 children (52.3% boys) between 1 and...

This article presents an empirical measurement invariance study in the substantive area of satisfaction evaluation in training programs. Specifically, it (I) provides an empirical solution to the lack of explicit measurement models of satisfaction scales, offering a way of analyzing and operationalizing the substantive theoretical dimensions; (II)...

The aim of this research is to analyze the relationships between several motivational variables in the teaching Music context during the Professional Grade of Music at the Conservatory. More specifically, it is tried to analyze the relationships between the students’ self-concept, their causal attributions, their academic goals and their content go...

The aim of this study was to analyse the attitude toward immigration of a group Chilean students in teacher training. 720 subjects participated. Results indicated positive trend, excepting when maintaining a permanent or intimate relationship. A significant number of subjects showed an intermediate attitude, which could be related to subtle prejudi...

Empathy is understood as a multidimensional construct involving both cognitive and emotional factors for which, traditionally, gender differences have been reported. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis in Catalog Sel Documents Psychol 10:1-19, 1980) is an instrument made up of four subscales, each measuring a different dimension of the global...

Corporate compliance with human rights has received little attention in the management literature. This papers aims to shed some light on this issue, by examining business recognition of HR; in particular how companies state their own commitment with the HR; the policies and procedures in place to ensure compliance, including mechanisms of control...

Purposes were to analyse motivational profles in Physical Education with the Goal Questionnaire (Wentzel, 1989) and to verify differences in performance (globally or specifically in Physical Education) according to profle. 574 students of Secondary of Alicante (Spain), aged between 11 and 17 years participated. Results showed that there are 2 profi...

Este estudio se fundamenta en el autoconcepto físico. La estructura del autoconcepto físico más aceptada es la que considera cuatro dimensiones (Fox & Corbin, 1989): habilidad física, condición física, atractivo físico y fuerza (Asci, Asci, & Zorba, 1999; Cox, 2009; Goñi & Ruiz de Azúa, 2009; Gutiérrez, Moreno, & Sicilia, 1999). El objetivo de este...

This article analyses the dimensions of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980). The sample comprised 721 Spanish participants between 9 and 16 years old. Diverse exploratory factor analyses were conducted as the basis for the final confirmatory factor analysis, through self-report. The results supported a structure with 5 first-order...

El compromiso de las empresas con los derechos humanos (ddHH) ha sido poco analizado por la literatura de gestión empresarial. este artículo pretende cubrir ese vacío examinando las políticas y los compromisos que asumen voluntariamente las empresas españolas que forman parte del ibex 35 respecto a los ddHH. la muestra utilizada estuvo compuesta po...