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The objective was to analyse the relationships between multidimensional self-esteem (academic, social, emotional, family, and physical), loneliness, the problematic use of social networking sites (PUSNS) and the different roles involved in school violence - non-involved, aggressors, victims and victim-aggressors-, depending on sex. Participants inc...
According to official sources, the amounts of children-to-parent violence (CPV) in most advanced countries have been on an increasing trend for more than a decade, which generates great social concern. This phenomenon has also aroused enormous interest among researchers, who have identified risk and protective factors related to adolescent CPV in n...
According to official sources, the numbers of children-to-parent violence (CPV) in the most advanced countries have been on an increasing trend for more than a decade, which generates great social concern. This phenomenon has also aroused enormous interest among researchers, who have identified risk and protective factors related to adolescent CPV...
El primer programa a gran escala contra el bullying fue implementado a principios de los ochenta por parte de Olweus y desde entonces, muchas otras estrategias anti-bullying se han desarrollado, aunque no en todos los casos se han llevado a cabo evaluaciones rigurosas de su efectividad. Son los programas multidisciplinares o whole-school que afecta...
La calidad de la comunicación entre padres e hijos es un factor de riesgo o protección para el desarrollo de dificultades en los adolescentes; por ello, es fundamental que los profesionales de la prevención e intervención psicológica dispongan de instrumentos válidos y fiables para evaluar este indicador de la calidad del funcionamiento familiar. E...
Bullying victimization is strongly associated with increased psychological distress and suicide in adolescents and poor family functioning. Knowledge of gender differences influencing these factors will improve the prevention of mental problems and suicide in victimized adolescents. A total of 1685 Mexican secondary students, 12–17 years old (m = 1...
The aim of the present study was to examine the mediating role of the problematic social networking sites use (PSNSU) in the relationship between both cybervictimization and offline victimization and cyberbullying in boys and girls. The sample consisted of 2,011 adolescents (50.67% boys and 49.32% girls), aged between 12 and 18 years old (M = 14.17...
Abstract The aim of this article is to present scientific evidences of validity and reliability of the Intrafamily Relations Scale (I.R.S.). A total of 1498 school-aged adolescents participated, selected from a proportionate stratified sample, aged between 11 and 15 years, of whom 728 were boys and 770 girls. The results obtained through explorator...
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships between sociometric types in the classroom—rejected, preferred, neglected, controversial and average—and psychological discomfort, life satisfaction and cyber-aggression, based on the adolescent’s gender. 2398 adolescents of both sexes participated in the study (49.8% girls), aged between 12 an...
La presente investigación es el resultado de un segundo abordaje tiene como objetivo entender qué elementos integran el modelo del desarrollo positivo adolescente y hacerlo además desde una perspectiva de género. Tras la publicación del estudio cualitativo que precede a éste, ahora se ha trabajado con la participación de 13 centros escolares de And...
La presente investigación es el resultado de un segundo abordaje tiene como objetivo entender qué elementos integran el modelo del desarrollo positivo adolescente y hacerlo además desde una perspectiva de género. Tras la publicación del estudio cualitativo que precede a éste, ahora se ha trabajado con la participación de 13 centros escolares de And...
This transversal study over a random representative sample of 1687 Mexican students attending public and private secondary schools (54% girls, 12–17 years old, M = 13.65. DT = 1.14) aimed to analyze psychosocial differences between victims and non-victims of bullying from the bioecological model. It included individual variables (ontosystem), famil...
El objetivo es analizar la prevalencia de la violencia escolar (manifiesta y relacional) en los planteles educativos urbanos y suburbanos del estado de Nuevo León. La muestra estuvo constituida por 8,115 adolescentes de ambos sexos y de edades comprendidas entre los 11 y 16 años, en 118 escuelas secundarias. Los resultados nos indican que la mayor...
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting dimensions (involvement/acceptance vs. strictness/imposition) and school victimization, considering the possible mediating role of social anxiety. The sample comprised 887 adolescents (52.3% girls) aged between 12 and 16 (M = 13.84 and SD = 1.22) enrolled at three compulsory se...
The objective of this study was to compare individual, family, and social variables, such as the perception of loneliness, family communication, and school adjustment in a sample of 2399 Andalusian (Spanish) adolescents aged 12 to 18 (M = 14.63, SD = 1.91) suffering from cybervictimization (low, moderate, and high). The results show that adolescent...
The aim of the present study is to explore the relation among school victimisation and school violence, taking into account the motivations of revenge, avoidance, and benevolence. The sample includes 671 adolescents of both sexes, between 10 and 16 years old, attending primary and secondary school. The structural equation model, calculated with EQS...
El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar por qué a los niños/as de 6-7 años no les gustan otros compañeros/as de su misma aula. El trabajo profundiza en el fundamento y la definición de cada categoría de motivos de desagrado propuesta por García Bacete, Marande, Carrero y Musitu (2017), y en el significado de motivos específicos, lo que permite ser...
The objective of the present study is to analyse the relationships between parental socialization styles-indulgent, authoritarian, authoritative and negligent, school adjustment (social integration, academic competence and family involvement) and cyber-aggression (direct and indirect) in adolescents. Participating in this study were 1304 Spanish st...
Parents exert a strong influence on several adjustment outcomes. However, little is known about their influence on adolescents' connectedness with the environment. This study examined the relationships between parenting styles, empathy and connectedness with the environment. The two-dimensional socialization model was used with four resulting style...
Consequences of adolescent's school victimization compel a better understanding of the relations between infl uential factors. A randomized representative sample, was selected by conglomerates, including 1.698 Mexican adolescents (46% boys and 54% girls), with ages between 12-17 years (M = 13.65. SD = 1.14) attending secondary school. Self-report d...
The aim of the present study is to explore the relation among school victimization and school violence, taking into account the motivations of revenge, avoidance, and benevolence. The sample includes 671 adolescents of both sexes, between 10 and 16 years old, attending primary and secondary school. The structural equation model, calculated with EQS...
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar la violencia relacional entre iguales desde una perspectiva psicosocial, examinando variables familiares (funcionamiento y comunicación), sociales (reputación social –percibida e ideal– y actitud hacia la autoridad institucional) e individuales (malestar psicológico e ideación suicida), en adolescentes...
Background:
This paper aims to identify predictive variables of relational aggression related to the individual, family and school environment in Mexican adolescents according to sex and age.
Method:
A total of 8,115 Mexican adolescents (51.5% boys), aged 11 to 16 years old (M = 13.34 years, SD = 1.040), selected by proportional stratified sampl...
La violencia de género es un fenómeno social complejo que involucra dinámicas de tipo cultural y que cada año afecta a una cantidad significativa de mujeres víctimas en cualquiera de sus tipologías: física, sexual, psicológica o patrimonial. A pesar de la creciente visibilidad del tema en los medios de comunicación y que se han desarrollado algunas...
The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between fear of crime, perception of police performance, honesty, and trust, as a function of gender among adolescents and young people in Mexico. A survey was conducted on a stratified sample made up of 3060 adolescents and young people (49.9% female and 50.1% male) between 12 and 25 years of a...
The objective of the present study was to analyze the relationships between child-to-parent violence and parental socialization styles with the problematic use of social networking sites, alexithymia and attitude towards institutional authority in adolescents. A sample of 2,399 adolescents (50.2% boys and 49.8% girls) enrolled in schools in Andalus...
El objetivo del presente trabajo de investigación fue analizar la prevalencia del ciberacoso en adolescentes escolarizados del nivel medio en el estado de Nuevo León, en función del sexo y de la condición (urbana y suburbana). La muestra estuvo constituida por 8,778 adolescentes de ambos sexos y de edades comprendidas entre los 11 y 16 años, a part...
Abstract: The affective involvement of parents in the socialization of their children is fundamental
for the proper psychological and emotional adjustment of adolescents, although we know that it
is difficult to study. In this research, the relationship between parenting style and hostility was
analysed in Spanish adolescents. Five-hundred and thir...
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue examinar la violencia relacional entre iguales desde una perspectiva psicosocial, analizando variables familiares (funcionamiento y comunicación familiar), sociales (reputación social - percibida e ideal - y actitud hacia la autoridad institucional) e individuales (malestar psicológico e ideación suicida) en ado...
Dating violence is a huge transcultural and alarming phenomenon, directly linked with endless discrimination against women. The latest research on dating violence in adolescence shows how dating violence is persistent and common in the adolescent period as well and pinpoints the origin of gender violence from first adolescent relationships. This el...
The problematic use of social networking sites is becoming a major public health concern. Previous research has found that adolescents who engage in a problematic use of social networking sites are likely to show maladjustment problems. However, little is known about its links with peer aggression and victimization. The main goal of this study was...
Percepción de inseguridad, victimización y restricciones en la vida cotidiana en función del ciclo vital, en Morelos, México Perception of insecurity, victimization and restrictions in daily life according to the life cycle, in Morelos, Mexico Percepção da insegurança, vitimização e as limitações na vida diária baseada no ciclo vital, em Morelos, M...
Resumen El objetivo del presente estudio es examinar las relaciones existentes entre miedo al delito, victimización y satisfacción con la vida, en función del género. La muestra estuvo conformada por 7535 sujetos de ambos sexos (49.8 % mujeres y 50.2 % hombres) de entre 12 y 70 años, seleccionados a partir de un muestro estratificado proporcional....
Objetivo:
examinar la percepción de inseguridad, victimización y variaciones de las rutinas en función de la edad.
Método:
se ha realizado una adaptación de la Encuesta Nacional sobre Victimización y Percepción de Inseguridad (ENVIPE). Participaron 8.170 sujetos de ambos sexos (49,9 % mujeres y 50,1 % hombres), de entre 12 y 75 años, residentes en...
FAMILY STRESS MODEL IN ADOLESCENCE: MEFAD.The main aim of this work is to present the model M.E.F.A.D. (Family Stress Model in Adolescence), related to adjustment problems in this period of the life cycle. It is also the model in which the participations in this symposium are substantiated. We analyze the antecedents of the model as well as its six...
According to recent studies, Spanish adolescents show low perception of risk in alcohol consumption. The current study aims to analyze the factors that favor this low perception based on the opinion of a group of 32 professional experts on adolescence, family, school, mass media, and local policies. A qualitative methodology was used, based on Grou...
El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la violencia escolar y el ajuste psicosocial —autoestima, soledad y satisfacción con la vida— en función de la participación e implicación comunitarias. La muestra estaba constituida por 565 adolescentes escolarizados de ambos sexos (51% mujeres y 49% varones) con edades comprendidas entre los 11 y 18añ...
Objective: The aim of this research was to obtain the views of young children regarding their reasons for rejecting a peer.
Method: To achieve this goal, we conducted a qualitative study in the context of theory building research using an analysis methodology based on Grounded Theory. The collected information was extracted through semi-structured...
La ciencia que estudia el curso y los procesos implicados en el desarrollo humano ha
experimentado durante las últimas décadas unos importantes cambios que han supuesto
un aumento del interés por determinadas etapas evolutivas más allá de la infancia, por
las competencias y fortalezas de las personas y por los factores contextuales capaces de
promo...
El acoso escolar, entendido como una conducta
violenta entre compañeros/as caracterizada por su
intencionalidad, persistencia y desequilibrio de poder
(Olweus, 2005), este tiene graves consecuencias para
el desarrollo y ajuste psicosocial de la víctima (Buelga
et al., 2012; Cava et al., 2010; Estévez, Murgui, Moreno
y Musitu, 2007; Hunter, Mora-Mer...
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the relationships between victimization, perception of insecurity, and changes in routines.
METHODS
The 8,170 subjects of both sexes (49.9% women and 50.1% men) aged between 12 and 60 years, selected from a proportional stratified sampling, participated in this study. The measuring instrument was an adaptation of the National...
This chapter analyzes the relationship between family and cyberbullying, a type of technological harassment among peers which is of growing concern in the scientific community and in today’s society. First, this chapter discusses factors associated with family functioning that may predict cyberbullying, particularly the family climate (cohesion, ex...
El número de denuncias por violencia filio-parental (VFP) está aumentando significativamente en los últimos años. Sin embargo los dispositivos y servicios especializados para atender esta problemática son aún escasos, ocupándose en muchas ocasiones los profesionales de Servicios Sociales de la intervención en estos casos. El objetivo de este estudi...
To identify the views of a sample of adolescents on the pattern of alcohol consumption shown by adults in their social environment.
A qualitative study was conducted using the method proposed by grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Data were collected through five discussion groups. Participants were selected by theoretical sampling in the ini...
Teacher' perception of their students' school adjustment can be an important indicator of psychosocialwell-being and provide useful information for the development of interventions to improve theirpsychosocial adjustment. This is the reason why it is essential within the school adjustment to consider notonly students' academic achievement but also...
Cyberbullying, Adolescents, Perpetrators, Prevalence, Gender, Age.
En este estudio se pretende analizar las relaciones existentes entre la comunicación familiar y el funcionamiento y la autoestima (dimensiones familiar y académica) con el consumo de alcohol en adolescentes escolarizados y el consumo de familia y amigos. También, se examinaron estas relaciones en función del sexo. Participaron 1,245 adolescentes me...
El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la percepción de niños y adolescentes pertenecientes a zonas con necesidaddes de trasnformación social, acerca de la influencia del barrio en la conducta violenta escolar y en la configuración de la identidad social urbana de egresores y victimas. Se utilizó una metodología cualitativa, con 10 grupos de...
Purpose
– This paper aims to explore the prevalence rate of adolescents engaging in aggressive behaviours towards their peers using the Internet and mobile phones, while examining the duration and intensity of this cyberbullying, and to analyse differences in cyberbullying behaviours based on gender and age (academic grades). Research on cyberbully...
The aim of present study was to validate the Portuguese version of the Parental Socialization Scale in Adolescence (ESPA-29) of Musitu and García (2001, 2004). A sample of 849 adolescents (57.2% girls and 42.8% boys), aged 10 to 18 years (M = 14.57, DP = 2.43), from the southern region of Portugal, participated in the study. Construct validity was...
The objective of this study is to obtain the views of experts on adolescence, family, school, public authorities and media, regarding the role played by the media in alcohol consumption among adolescents. The method proposed by Grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) has been utilized. Data were collected through discussion groups informed by semi...
This number contains:
- Emotional intelligence as addiction prevention strategy.
- Media and alcohol consumption in adolescents: What do the experts say?
- Assessment of brief counseling skills evaluation the addiction scenarios.
- Risk perception and stages of smoking acquisition.
- Smoking cessation interventions with inpatients for a cardiovascu...
En este trabajo se ofrece una propuesta para analizar las buenas prácticas en coeducación en España y para evaluar los programas orientados a la Educación en Igualdad de Oportunidades entre los Géneros, Coeducación o Coenseñanza. Para ello, se introduce el concepto de género y su desarrollo, se estudia la Educación como un proceso esencial para log...
This chapter analyzes current evidence between parenting styles and parenting practices for the Spanish context. As opposed to traditional results obtained in Anglo-Saxon contexts with European-American samples, evidence from emergent research from Spain (a South European country) shows that adolescents from indulgent families (characterized by war...
Socialization is an interactive process through which cultural contents are transmitted and incorporated into the personality of human beings in the form of behaviors and beliefs. It can also be defined as a not formalized and largely unaware learning process by which, through a complex system of interactions, people assimilate the knowledge, attit...
El Programa Domitila debe su nombre a una mujer indígena que llegó de Tlama, Guerrero, a instalarse en la colonia actualmente conocida como Patios de la Estación, la cual es una de las más excluidas del municipio de Cuernavaca, Morelos. Domitila fue la primera mujer que Alejandro Vera, María Elena Ávila y Gonzalo Musitu entrevistaron hace diez años...
El objetivo de este estudio es analizar las relaciones existentes entre la victimización, el miedo al delito y los cambios en las rutinas en función del género. Participaron 8170 sujetos (49.9% mujeres y 50.1% hombres) con edades entre los 12 y los 60 años, residentes del Estado de Morelos (México), seleccionados a partir de un muestreo estratifica...
Objective:
To examines the influence of victimization, perceived insecurity and restrictions on daily routines in life satisfaction.
Materials and methods:
Participants were 7535 (50.2% men) aged between 12 and 60, selected from a proportional stratified sampling. MANOVA and polytomous logistic regression model were calculated.
Results:
We fou...
Este estudio ex post facto analiza tanto las relaciones directas existentes entre la victimización y la conducta violenta manifiesta y relacional de adolescentes escolarizados como las relaciones indirectas entre esas variables a través del clima escolar, la soledad, la reputación ideal no conformista y la transgresión de normas sociales. La muestr...
Objetivo: Conocer la opinión de un grupo de adolescentes y profesionales/expertos en adolescencia, familia, escuela, medios de comunicación y políticas locales acerca de la eficacia de las políticas institucionales en la prevención del consumo de alcohol en adolescentes.
Emplazamiento: Cuatro centros educativos de la provincia de Sevilla. Sede cent...
The distinction between subtypes of passive and aggressive victims in studies of bullying has been a cornerstone of research in recent decades. However, some aspects of victimization still need further elaboration, such as the differentiation of subtypes of aggressive victims of bullying, the dynamics of the process of victimization, and the percep...
La marginación urbana en México ha crecido enormemente en los últimos años afectando directamente a los jóvenes. En este estudio empírico se analizó su efecto sobre la resiliencia y felicidad juvenil en función de factores estructurales. Se aplicó el Cuestionario RESI–M y la Escala de Felicidad de un ítem, a 1201 estudiantes mexicanos de secundaria...
The present study analyses the relationship between adolescents perception of reputation and aggressive behavior among peers. The sample is made up of 1319 adolescents aged 11 to 16 years old. Statistical analyses with structural equation modeling were carried out to examine the direct and indirect effect of perception of reputation (real and idea...
The objective of this study is to obtain the views of a sample of adolescents and experts on adolescence, family, school, local policies and media, regarding the effectiveness of institutional policies to prevent adolescent alcohol use.
Four educational centers in the province of Seville. Head office of the Alcohol and Society Foundation in Madrid....
The aim of this study was to test an explanatory model about illegal drug use among schooled adolescents. Different types of variables were used, including personal variables (academic self-esteem, social selfesteem and depressive symptoms), family variables (family functioning, father-mother communication), school variables (academic expectations)...
This study aims to analyze the influence of communication with the mother and father on adolescents' life satisfaction, as well as possible indirect effects through self-esteem, feelings of loneliness, and perceived classroom environment. These relationships, and possible gender differences, were analyzed in a sample of 1,795 adolescents (52% male,...
Background:
The literature has rarely paid attention to the differential influence of intergroup contact on subtle and blatant prejudice. In this study, we hypothesized that the influence of intergroup contact on subtle prejudice will be smaller than its influence on blatant prejudice.
Method:
This hypothesis was tested with data from a cross-se...
Los objetivos de este estudio son, en primer lugar, conocer la visión sobre el bullying que proporcionan las canciones de hip-hop en español sistematizando sus aportaciones de cara a un mejor aprovechamiento de las mismas como recurso educativo, y en segundo lugar, crear una lista de canciones de hip-hop en español que traten el tema del bullying c...
Resumen: Las actitudes de los adolescentes hacia la autoridad institucional se relacionan con su implicación en comportamientos transgresores y con conductas de riesgo tales como el consumo de sustancias o las conductas predelictivas. Las actitudes que mantienen hacia profesores, policía, escuela y leyes constituyen, por tanto, una variable relevan...
Adolescent attitudes to institutional authority are related to their implication in deviant and risk behaviors such as substance abuse and pre-delinquency. Attitudes towards teachers, the police, the school and laws constitute, therefore, a relevant variable in the study of psychosocial adjustment in adolescence. The objective of the present work i...
Previous studies have identified two subgroups of school violence victims: submissive and aggressive. Submissive victims are characterized by their withdrawal in violent situations, while aggressive victims combine hostile behavior with victimization. This study focuses on the second subgroup and aims to analyze possible factors influencing the tra...
The objective of the present study was to analyze the psychosocial alcohol consumption in Mexican adolescents, taking into account simultaneously personal, family, school and social variables. The type of study is explanatory. The sample consisted of 1,245 adolescents girls and boys form two secondary and preparatory schools, with ages between 12 a...
The aim of this study is to analyze the differences between adolescents with low and high overt aggression in psychosocial variables such as loneliness, life satisfaction, attitude towards breaking school rules and attitude to institutional authority. The sample was composed of 565 adolescents aged from 11 to 17 years old. Statistical analysis were...
The objective of the present study was to analyze the psychosocial alcohol consumption in Mexican adolescents, taking into account simultaneously personal, family, school and social variables. The type of study is explanatory. The sample consisted of 1245 adolescents girls and boys form two secondary and preparatory schools, with ages between 12 an...
El objetivo del presente estudio es conocer la opinión de profesionales expertos en adolescencia, familia, escuela, medios de comunicación y políticas locales, respecto al rol que desempeñan los medios de comunicación en el consumo de alcohol en los adolescentes. Se ha realizado una investigación cualitativa siguiendo el esquema propuesto por la Te...
The present study aims to analyze the relationships between community involvement, perception of family and school climate, and emotional and social problems in adolescents (satisfaction with life, non-conformist social reputation, and school violence). The sample was composed of 1884 (52% boys and 48% girls) adolescents aged from 11 to 17 years ol...
This study aims to analyse the relationships between the perception of the quality of the family environment and school victimisation in educational centres taking into account the role played by adolescents' self-esteem, depressive symptomatology and gender. The associations between variables were analysed in a sample of 1,884 adolescents (52% boy...
To validate the adolescent victimization through mobile phone and internet scale (CYBVIC) through analysis of its psychometric properties.
A cross-sectional study was conducted in which two independent samples of adolescents aged 11-19, both male and female, participated. The first sample was comprised of 1 934 Spanish adolescents, and the second s...
The ESPA29 parental socialization scale allows for the measuring of four parental styles (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and negligent), considering the parents’ use of different socialization practices considered in this instrument, which are grouped into two factors or two independent dimensions of paternal
conduct (acceptance/involvem...
El objetivo general del presente estudio es examinar si el vínculo entre los escenarios de socialización familiar y escolar y la violencia escolar difiere en alumnos aceptados y rechazados. Participaron 1068 adolescentes, de entre 11 y 16 años, pertenecientes a cuatro centros educativos de la Comunidad Valenciana (España). Se llevó a cabo un modelo...
The general aim of the present study is to examine whether the link between the family and school contexts, as well as school violence is different among peer accepted and peer rejected adolescents. Participants were 1068 adolescents, ages ranged from 11 to 16 years old, from four schools in Valencian Community (Spain). Structural equation modellin...
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar las relaciones entre la reputación social del adolescente —percibida e ideal—, la victimización entre iguales en el contexto escolar y determinadas variables de ajuste psicosocial, como la satisfacción con la vida, la autoestima, la sintomatología depresiva y la soledad. La muestra estuvo formada por 13...
The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship among adolescent’s social reputation –perceived and ideal-, peer victimization at the school context and some specific psychosocial adjustment variables such as life satisfaction, loneliness, depressive symptomatology and self-esteem. The sample was composed of 1319 adolescents aged from 11 to 1...
The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship among adolescent’s social reputation –perceived and ideal-, peer victimization at the school context and some specific psychosocial adjustment variables such as life satisfaction, loneliness, depressive symptomatology and self-esteem. The sample was composed of 1319 adolescents aged from 11 to 1...
