Inmaculada Marín-López

University of Cordoba (Spain) | UCO · Department of Education

Objective: Vaccines are an effective means to reduce the spread of diseases, but they are sometimes met with hesitancy that needs to be understood. Method: In this study, we analyzed data from a large, cross-country survey conducted between June and August 2021 in 43 countries (N = 15,740) to investigate the roles of trust in government and science...

Background: Adolescent substance use has been widely related to different individual, school, family and community factors. Yet, the number of studies with all these variables together in a model from an ecological perspective is still low, and they rarely used a longitudinal design. The aim of this study was to explore, from an ecological perspec...

Las competencias sociales y emocionales son cruciales para el éxito académico y social. Aunque existan programas para su promoción en las escuelas, no todo el profesorado está preparado para desarrollarlos. Este proyecto se centró en promover competencias sociales y emocionales en futuros maestros. Un total de 322 participantes fueron asignados a u...

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new survey to address the dynamic landscape of the pandemic. This survey was released with the goal of a...

Background/Objective Substance use is one of the main risks for adolescent health. Many research projects have studied longitudinal patterns of use and risk/protective factors, but the number of studies focused on within-individual stability and change is low. The objective of this study was to discover specific longitudinal profiles of drug use an...

Bullying and cyberbullying have been intensively studied in many countries, and research on the topic has been fruitful. Nevertheless, it is still necessary to advance knowledge on bullying and cyberbullying in many geographical areas and to discover their risk and protective factors. The objective of this study was to describe and compare the invo...

This study examined the extent to which active and passive sexting behaviors are associated with family-, school-, peer-, and romantic-level variables. Young people ( N = 3,322; 49.1% female, 48.3% male, 2.6% other) aged 11 to 15 years old ( M = 12.84, SD = 0.89) took part, and all attended mainstream secondary schools in Scotland. Participants com...

Social and emotional competencies have gained importance given their relation with high prosocial behavior and low violence. Social Networking Sites have become a key context for adolescents’ interpersonal relationships. Thus, it could be useful to discover if social and emotional competencies are expressed differently when using electronic devices...

Information and communication technologies are used in education, leisure and working spaces. In those contexts, individuals interact through electronic devices daily, usually for several hours. Individuals and groups communicate, learn and work through cyberspace. They feel, think, act and make decisions while interacting online. Social and emotio...

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Information and communication technologies can be used for prosocial and educational purposes but they can also be misused or abused. Although technology abuse is a serious problem among youth, the number of studies on risk and protective factors against this problem behavior is still low. Thus, our aim was to describe and analyze the relations bet...

Las emociones tienen una gran utilidad, tanto desde la perspectiva de la supervivencia de nuestra especie (y muchas otras) como desde el punto de vista psicológico o social. Aunque las emociones se hayan desarrollado en diferentes animales y en el ser humano precisamente para luchar o huir y, de esta manera, preservar las especies, los ámbitos psic...

La psicología general sanitaria es una profesión que requiere de unos conocimientos y procedimientos estrictos, empíricamente comprobados y rigurosamente aplicados. A su vez, como toda actuación práctica, requiere de otras muchas competencias que necesitan desarrollar las psicólogas y los psicólogos generales sanitarios. Muchos estudios han demostr...

Background: Studies on emotional intelligence show that some of its dimensions are related to psychological adjustment and the quality of interpersonal relationships. Besides face-to-face interaction, nowadays, relationships are also initiated and maintained in cyberspace. Some studies suggest that emotional content is present in cyber-behavior. T...

Research on cyberbullying started at the beginning of the 21st century and the number of studies on the topic is increasing very rapidly. Nevertheless, the criteria used to define the phenomenon and evaluation strategies are still under debate. Therefore, it is still difficult to compare the findings among the studies or to describe their prevalenc...