Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla

University of Valencia | UV · Facultad de Psicología

La adolescencia es una etapa de cambios que pueden afectar a la salud mental si no se gestionan adecuadamente. Desarrollar habilidades de inteligencia emocional ayuda a experimentar mayor bienestar y menos síntomas emocionales. Resulta de especial interés el papel que juega el clima en el aula para fomentar estos recursos en el contexto escolar. La...

Emerging adulthood is a stage that involves significant changes in emotional, social, academic, and work domains, which can often lead to high levels of stress and mental health challenges. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential benefits of an online intervention program that is based on mental health psychoeducation and suicide risk...

Las personas no-monógamas experimentan dificultades para salir del armario (“outness” en inglés) a raíz del miedo a la discriminación, y esto parece aumentar en personas que pertenecen a más de un grupo minoritario, como las mujeres y personas no binarias bisexuales. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la influencia del estilo relacional...

Many studies have attempted to analyze the main neurophysiological characteristics of emotional response, but few have been carried out at early ages, including adolescence or early adulthood. The main objective of the present study is to assess the electrophysiological correlates of emotional response in adolescents and young adults through electr...

The study of prosocial behavior, from the cognitive-evolutive approach, has indicated that moral reasoning is the basis of pro-social decisions. Advances in the study of decision-making have shown that there are other factors associated with rational capacity that affect prosocial decision-making. The role of rational decision-making is an aspect t...

The aim of this study is the relationship between psychological variables and adjustment to the disease in patients and their primary family caregivers to analyze the possible existence of emotional contagion between them. A total of 150 caregiver–patient dyads participated. The results indicate higher levels of anxious-depressive symptomatology in...

Introduction In recent years, it has been described that the dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota plays a transcendental role in several pathologies. In this sense, the importance of the gut microbiota in the gut-brain axis, with a bidirectional communication, has been demonstrated. Furthermore, the gut microbiota has been linked with mood disord...

Antecedents Interpersonal emotional regulation (IER) is the deliberate attempt to influence others’ emotions. There is not enough research on IER in the context of romantic couples. Aim The aim of the present study was to develop and validate an instrument to assess couples’ IER and understanding its functioning at both an individual and dyadic le...

Aim This study aimed to investigate the impact of bronchial asthma‐related factors on the emotional well‐being of adolescents with bronchial asthma and their primary caregivers. Background Bronchial asthma is a common chronic disease in childhood and adolescence that can have a psychological impact on both patients and their primary caregivers. M...

Introduction/Objectives: COVID-19 has had a significant emotional impact on people’s lives, especially adolescents. Therefore, the aim was to assess the predictors of suicide risk during the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents in Ecuador by means of a longitudinal study. Method: The application of a longitudinal design with two measures: before the s...

The pandemic caused by the spread of COVID-19 has unleashed a health, economic, social and humanitarian crisis worldwide. The strict measures implemented to control this global crisis have threatened adolescents’ coping mechanisms and social support, putting their mental health at risk. This study aims to determine the changes that have occurred in...

The current pandemic caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) and lockdown as a strategy to contain and control infections, showed new challenges in mental health care. This study focused on analysing the differences in emotional symptoms, concerns, and satisfaction with life during lockdown due to COVID-19 in young people with mental health problems a...

The presence of a chronic non-communicable (NCD) in adolescence can increase emotional distress. Emotional competencies may buffer this impact. The aim was to analyse the relationship between emo- tional competencies and emotional distress, and to observe whether there are gender differences be- tween adolescents with and without NCDs. A total of 4...

In psychology, subjective well-being can be assessed mainly from two approaches: hedonic and eudaimonic. Hedonic well-being refers to life satisfaction and positive and negative affect, and eudaimonic well-being refers to the search for meaning and good living. The Positive and Negative Experiences Scale (SPANE) assesses the frequency of different...

Background: Quality of life (QoL) is a widely studied term concerning asthma because it allows the impact of the disease on the patient's life to be assessed through the patient's perception. The study aims to analyze which asthma-related, psychological, and family variables affect the QoL of adolescents with asthma. Design and methods: This cro...

Family can be a supportive and protective mental health context for trans children, yet little research, mainly qualitative, has focused on the experience of parents, who also suffer the impact of minority stress and live a process of meaning-making during gender affirmation process. This research aims to explore the impact of ambiguous loss and it...

La transición de género puede comprometer la homeostasis familiar, experimentando sentimientos de pérdida y diferentes emociones según cómo se elabore el proceso. Esta investigación concluye que las familias que relatan experiencias de pérdida refieren menos emociones positivas y más emociones negativas en el inicio, quizá retrasando el afrontamien...

Introduction/objective: Worries regarding COVID-19 and its economic, social, and psychological consequences, together with the strict measures implemented to control this health crisis, have threatened the mental health of adolescents. The aim of this study was to test the mediating role of resilience and life satisfaction in the association betwee...

Background The lockdown due to COVID-19, has affected the mental health of the population. Recent literature suggests a greater psychological impact on adolescents regardless of their cultural background. Objective The aim is to analyze the emotional state, life satisfaction and worries about COVID-19 in Chilean and Spanish adolescents. Method A...

Emotional competencies as well as secure attachment relationships with peers are protective factors that facilitate psychological adjustment among adolescents. In this study, we will analyse how these socio-emotional factors influence adolescents’ emotional symptoms, conduct problems and peer problems. The participants were 815 Spanish adolescents...

This study aims to determine the impact of the disease on the perceived stress levels of caregivers of adolescents with asthma. A total of 140 primary caregivers, whose mean age was 45.43 years (SD = 5.03), of whom 85% were mothers, were assessed using the perceived stress questionnaire (PIP), and medical indicators related to asthma were recorded....

Objectives: Analyze the relationship between family styles and quality of life in adolescents with bronchial asthma and study the influence of self-esteem as a protective factor and threat perception as a risk factor. Methods: Family styles, quality of life (QoL), perceived threat of the disease, and self-esteem were assessed in a total of 150 a...

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la relación entre el apego y la satisfacción con la relación de pareja, considerando el papel mediador de las competencias emocionales, y controlando la influencia del género, la edad y la duración de la relación. En el estudio participaron 265 jóvenes españoles (59,2% mujeres) de entre 18 y 36 años con parej...

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between attachment and satisfaction with the partner relationship, considering the mediating role of emotional competences, and taking into account the influence of gender, age, and duration of the relationship. 265 Spanish youths (59.2% women) between 18 and 36 years of age with a current partner...

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is an empirically supported humanistic treatment that considers clients’ emotional processes as the path to therapeutic change. The present aim was to develop a bibliometric study of EFT articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. Books and chapters were not included in this research. The bibliometr...

The pandemic context presents remarkable psychological challenges for adolescents and young adults. The aim of the present work was to construct and study the psychometric properties of a scale in Spanish language (W-COV) to measure their worries related to the pandemic. Participants were 5559 people aged between 14 and 25 years old (M = 19.05; SD...

La regulación emocional es una de las competencias emocionales más relevantes y complejas, destacando sus beneficios sobre el bienestar y la salud en general. Que los adolescentes dispongan de buenas habilidades para regular sus emociones puede atenuar la experimentación de sintomatología emocional o física, que a su vez tiene efectos positivos sob...

The aim of this study was to test whether resilience and life satisfaction (two traditional protective factors) mediate between COVID‐19 related worries and the development of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in adolescents and young adults. Participants involved 392 adolescents and young adults (70.20% female) aged between 12 and 25 yea...

BACKGROUND: As a result of national lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak, teachers were forced to suspend their classes and replace them with online teaching and home schooling. Additional stressors such as competing family responsibility have increased their worries and mental health problems. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of...

The ongoing pandemic has dramatically disrupted daily life, increasing the risk of developing psychiatric disorders and poor mental wellbeing. The compound effects of social, political and psychological stressors have increased psychological symptoms among adolescents and young people, with worries about COVID-19 playing a central role in the clini...

Objective: Our aim is to study changes in sleep and emotions in Spanish population during the confinement period due to first wave of COVID-19. Methods: A total of 363 adults (69.4% women) aged between 18 and 65 (Mage = 32.59; SD = 12.57) participated in the study. Socio-demographics, sleep quality and emotional experience were evaluated. The st...

Aim: To validate the psychometric properties of a questionnaire to measure adherence to treatment among people with type 1 diabetes mellitus and to evaluate its relationship with metabolic control. Design: A cross-sectional study of 167 adult people with type 1 diabetes mellitus recruited from the Endocrinology Service of University Hospital Doc...

COVID-19 and the measures adopted have been a problem for society at all levels. The aim of the study was to analyze the main predictors of life satisfaction among adolescents in Ecuador during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 902 adolescents from Ecuador aged between 12 and 18 years (M = 15.30; SD = 1.28). Variables such as life satisfacti...

Abstract: Suffering from a chronic disease (CD) in adolescence can significantly impact the emotional health of adolescents and their families. MHealth can be a useful tool for these groups. However, few intervention programmes include the family system. The aim is to design an intervention programme (10Vida) for a paediatric population with a CD,...

Aims and objectives: To evaluate perceived stress, concern about hypoglycaemia and the level of knowledge of management of the disease in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their relationship with glycaemic control, gender and age. Background: Perceived stress and concern about hypoglycaemia are significant obstacles to achieving adequat...

Resumen La pandemia de la COVID-19 está impactando en la salud emocional de los adolescentes. Factores como la resiliencia pueden amortiguar este impor-tante impacto sobre su bienestar. Nuestro objetivo fue estudiar la asociación entre la sintomatología ansioso-depresiva y la resiliencia en adolescentes de España y Ecuador, y comparar las diferenci...

The aim of this study was to analyse the anxious and depressive symptomatology, stress and life satisfaction of adolescents from Spain and Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, the aim was to carry out a cross-cultural study looking for possible differences and similarities in the adaptation of adolescents from these two countries of the s...

Introduction The development of emotional competences may be a protective factor for mental health problems, promoting well-being at such a complex age as adolescence. Technologies may be used to carry out this empowerment because adolescents are attracted to them. The purpose of the study is to design a serious game based on the Mayer et al ’s emo...

Background/objective: Decision-making is a set of skills useful for daily functioning which allow people to perform their tasks and control objectives and goals, generating responses to the environment’s demands from their resources. Research and intervention with adolescents require reliable instruments to assess decision-making. The Melbourne Dec...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare disease that severely compromises health and interferes with the lives of those who suffer from it and is especially challenging in adolescence. The use of tools such as MHealth may benefit the physical and psychological health of adolescents with CF. Therefore, this study aims to examine the benefits of MHealth in ad...

The health and socioeconomic challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have led to greater reliance on the internet to meet basic needs and responsibilities. Greater engagement in online activities may have negative mental and physical health consequences for some vulnerable individuals, particularly under mandatory self-isolation or 'lockdown'...

La adolescencia es una etapa vital susceptible de desarrollar estrés y problemas emocionales que reducen el bienestar. El objetivo de este trabajo fue estudiar la relación entre el apego a la madre, al padre y a los iguales, considerando el papel mediador del estrés, y controlando la influencia del género y la edad. También se estudió la relación e...

El presente trabajo estudia la percepción de amenaza hacia la seguridad y/o integridad física en las relaciones de pareja durante la juventud en relación con variables del bienestar personal y de pareja en la actualidad. Participaron 316 jóvenes entre 18 y 36 años (M=23.61; DT=3.678) de diferentes orientaciones sexuales. Se evaluó la percepción de...

Short stature in childhood and adolescence: psychopathology and family educational style. Having short stature (stunting) during childhood oradolescence may be associated with increased clinical distress and depression. Factors such as parenting styles, gender, age, treatment, hospital-izations and height of the adolescent and parents may influence...

Purpose Adolescence is a time of change when suffering from a medical condition such as short stature can impact the emotional well-being of adolescents. Our objective was to study the adjustment of adolescents with short stature (SS), ana- lyzing the factors influencing it. Method In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated 101 adolescents with SS...

Previous literature on the psychological impact of COVID-19 has shown a direct relationship between family conflicts and psychological distress among parents and their children during the domestic lockdown and social isolation; but there are also opportunities to enhance family bonding, encourage collective problem-solving and improve personal rela...

In recent times, there has been a paradigm shift in psychology regarding how gender is studied. Traditionally, assessment instruments included the variable of sex, referring to the distinction according to sex chromosomes (XX or XY), or the variable of gender, meaning whether the person identified as a man or a woman. Today, we know this binary per...

The literature indicates that adolescents with delinquent behavior have greater difficulty making rational decisions and show lower emotional intelligence and empathy. Decision-making is a set of complex processes associated with neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors which help regulate and guide behavior, which could be influen...

Establishing and maintaining relationships is one of the challenges facing young adults at the beginning of this stage in their lives. Emotional competences are related to relationship satisfaction and subjective well‐being. This paper aims to study the relationship between emotional competences and subjective well‐being in young adults, considerin...

Background: The empirical evidence accumulated on the efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of psychotherapeutic treatments in children and adolescents calls for an update. The main goal of this paper objective was to carry out a selective review of empirically supported psychological treatments for a variety of common psychological disorders and...

La pandemia provocada por la COVID-19 es una crisis sin precedentes en la historia reciente, cuyas consecuencias han tenido un impacto mundial. Una de las etapas más vulnerables a los efectos de esta emergencia sanitaria es la adolescencia, pues atraviesan un proceso vital de cambios en diversos aspectos de su vida, y la inestabilidad social y econ...

Emotional intelligence and subjective well-being may contribute to preventing perceived and physiological stress in adolescents. To provide an overall picture of the relations of emotional intelligence and well-being, both the traditional monotonic effects and the non-monotonic effects of emotional attention on well-being were explored in relation...

Adolescents’ problematic use of the internet and the risk of sexual online victimization are an increasing concern among families, researchers, professionals and society. This study aimed to analyze the interplay between adolescents’ addiction to social networks and internet, body self-esteem and sexual–erotic risk behavior online: sexting, sextort...

Introduction Technologies provide a brilliant opportunity to promote social-emotional competences, well-being and adjustment in adolescence. Game-based programmes and serious games are digital tools that pursue an educational goal in an attractive environment for adolescents. The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the effectiveness of...

The benefits of emotional intelligence and their alleviating impact on work-related stress among teachers have been gaining salience in this research field. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between emotional abilities and the burnout syndrome and whether the affective balance mediates this interplay. Using a structural equation...

This study analyzed the predictive power of sociodemographic (age, sex) and medical variables (months since diagnosis and in treatment, immunotherapy, number of environmental allergens, food allergies or atopic dermatitistypes) on the quality of life of patients with rhinoconjunctivitis and bronchial asthma, using mod- els based on comparative qual...

Resumen Los síntomas internalizantes como el estado de ánimo depresivo, las quejas somáticas y la ansiedad de los adolescentes es una preocupación importante y global para los padres, los educadores y los profesionales. Las investigaciones empíricas indican que una elevada autoestima está asociada con la adaptación psicológica y el bienestar emocio...

Resumen Debido al confinamiento por la COVID-19, las fa-milias españolas tuvieron que adaptarse a nuevas si-tuaciones y rutinas. El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido conocer qué variables explicaban el ajuste psicológico de cuidadores familiares de adolescentes ante la COVID-19, mediante un estudio longitudinal (evaluando primero a las 2-3 sem...

Este libro, Manual de educación emocional para docentes (MADEMO), pretende ayudar a los profesionales que trabajan con menores en la tarea de ser maestros emocionales. La capacidad de usar adaptativamente los procesos emocionales o ser emocionalmente inteligente es una habilidad crítica para la docencia, ya que el trabajo educativo es duro e incluy...

Purpose: adolescence is a time of change and it generally entails a greater family vulnerability thus; the aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for poor emotional adjustment to COVID among parents of adolescents. Design and methods: 94 parents of adolescents (11-18 years old, M = 13.90, SD = 1.85) participated at different times du...

Our aim was to assess the effectiveness of EMOVERE, a psychoeducational and experiential program to increase emotion regulation in couples. Forty-four young couples (n = 88) aged between 18 and 36 years old participated in the study (53.4% women; M = 24.18; SD = 4.34). Twenty-two couples belonged to the experimental group (received the intervention...

Internalizing symptoms such as depressive mood, somatic complaints and anxiety among adolescents are a major and global concern for parents, educators and professionals. Empirical research suggests that high level of self-esteem during adolescents is associated with psychological adjustment and emotional well-being. This study examines self-esteem...

Short stature (SS) is one of the main diagnoses in Pediatric Endocrinology. SS can have a negative impact on family dynamics, causing stress and psychopathology. Poor adaptation by the family caregiver negatively affects the pediatric patient. Our objective was therefore to study the adjustment of the main family caregivers of pediatric patients wi...

Las personas construyen y mantienen vínculos emocionales a lo largo de todo su desarrollo vital. El modo de vincularse, es decir, el estilo de apego, es consecuencia de los modelos mentales de relación construidos durante las experiencias afectivas. Los individuos con apego inseguro informan de elevada ansiedad y/o elevada evitación al establecer r...

Los programas socioemocionales que incorporan las tecnologías en su implementación podrían resultar atractivos en la adolescencia. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la percepción subjetiva de los y las adolescentes sobre sus aprendizajes, el atractivo y las mejoras del programa socioemocional mediante plataforma tecnológica denominado e...

La literatura señala que educar en emociones conduce a una mejora en la convivencia, la salud mental y el bienestar, no solo de los alumnos, sino también de los docentes, que cuentan con más recursos para hacer frente a las diferentes exigencias profesionales y el consiguiente desgaste psicológico. Dado los beneficios de la educación emocional para...

Debate sobre Sexo, Género y Sexualidad

Family adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: a dyad study. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought a host of vital changes to society. Families and their children have had to adapt to new routines and situations, which may have increased or aggravated the suffering of emotional symptoms. However, the presence of resilience and positive emo...

Objective: The objective was to analyze the moderating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between mental health difficulties and suicidal behavior in adolescence. Method: The sample was composed of 1,790 Spanish adolescents (M = 15.70 years; SD = 1.26; 53.7% girls) through a stratified random sampling by cluster at classroom level. The pa...

Information and communication technologies provide new opportunities for adolescents to establish and maintain intimate relationships, as well as exploring their sexuality. However, the young population is particularly vulnerable to becoming victims of violence or online abuse. The aim of this study was to understand to which extent the personality...

Adolescence is a challenging time when emotional difficulties often arise. Self-esteem, good relationships with peers, and emotional competences can buffer the effects of these difficulties. The difficulties can be even greater when coupled with the presence of a chronic physical illness (CD). Our goal is to analyze psychosocial factors and CD as p...

The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents is one of the most prevalent concerns all over the world. Adolescence is a developmental stage of high vulnerability due to the challenges this period entails. Additionally, the health emergency crisis has put adolescents even more at risk of developing mental health prob...

Subjective wellbeing has been conceptualized as a person’s cognitive and affective evaluation of their life. In this line, life satisfaction and somatic complaints may be outstanding indicators of well-being. The aim of this longitudinal study was to analyze the combined contribution of trait emotional intelligence, self-esteem and perceived stress...

Objectives Childhood adaptation is essential for proper social‐emotional development. Children growing up in a family context where they feel supported and protected are less vulnerable in the presence of psychopathology. The aim of this study is analysing the impact of parenting styles and the anxious‐depressive symptoms on child adaptation. Desi...