José Berríos-Riquelme

University of Tarapacá | UTA · Departamento de Ciencias Sociales

The University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI) has shown good psychometric properties in studies with different university students and diverse cultural contexts. Previous adaptation and evaluation studies in Chilean college students showed good validity and reliability results. Nevertheless, invariance studies have not been carried out in this...

South American immigrants in Chile constantly suffer workplace discrimination, which is usually related to different variables that are inherent to their immigration process. The objective of this article was to evaluate perceived workplace discrimination by South American immigrants in Chile. A cross-sectional design with a descriptive scope was u...

This study evaluated the discrimination perceived by South American immigrants located in the Tarapacá region of Northern Chile, according to their socio-demographic variables. A cross-sectional design was employed in which a questionnaire was administered to 374 South American immigrants of legal age, and who had been living in Chile for more than...

Introduction: Our study compares the emotional impact of the first month of the lockdown on teachers and students due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, focusing on the variables of generalized anxiety, emotions, and perceived threat. Method: A non experimental design was applied, the sample consists of 452 participants (teachers = 188, young adul...

La integración social en los primeros años de universidad ha mostrado ser muy relevante para propiciar que los estudiantes participen de forma comprometida, obtengan buenos resultados académicos y permanezcan en sus estudios. La pandemia por COVID-19 ha impuesto barreras a la integración social de los estudiantes, cambiando las formas de la relació...

Academic engagement and the conditions that favor it have become relevant in recent decades due to their relationship with academic performance, well-being, and university permanence. Variables such as perceived social support and sense of belonging are relevant aspects of social integration to promote engagement. Evidence shows both variables pred...

Most international immigrants have mental health problems because of perceived discrimination. This research aims to analyze the possible mediating role of self-esteem in the impact of perceived discrimination on the mental health problems of the four most extensive South American immigrant nationalities in Chile. It involved 772 immigrants who hav...

Social and academic integration variables have been shown to be relevant for the understanding of university dropout. However, there is less evidence regarding the influence of these variables on dropout intention, as well as the predictive models that explain their relationships. Improvements in this topic become relevant considering that dropout...

Analyze whether the content of three moral messages (deontological, ethical utilitarianism, ethical virtue) and a control message differentially affect the probability of engaging in four behaviors: Washing their hands, participating in public gatherings, staying at home/avoiding social contact, and forwarding the message to inform more people. In...

This article describes the labor market insertion experiences of a group of professional Venezuelan immigrants in northern Chile. Using a qualitative methodology, fourteen people who met the inclusion criteria were interviewed. The participants' discourses show that their experiences have been stressful because they have not been able to revalidate...

Background: Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is the most widely used instrument to assess subjective well-being in different populations. Aim: The purpose of the present investigation was to evaluate the psychometric properties and the factorial invariance of the SWLS in Latino immigrants living in Chile, Spain, and the United States. Method:...

La Escala de Amenaza Grupal Internalizada, es un instrumento que mide el prejuicio percibido por inmigrantes latinoamericanos desde la teoría de la amenaza. El objetivo de la investigación fue evaluar las propiedades psicométricas de esta escala en inmigrantes latinoamericanos que viven en Chile. A través de una metodología no-experimental, que tuv...

Introduction The intergroup contact variable has been widely studied in the literature, and it has been shown to be closely related to less prejudice. The present article analyzes the role of an affective mediator in the relationship between the degree of contact-rejection of the outgroup (same-sex parents) variables, linked to the variable quality...

Science is undergoing a crisis that has been referred to, since the early 21st century, as a crisis of confidence and a crisis of replication. This article reviews questions pertaining to the replication crisis; questions addressing the quality and credibility of the sciences; specifically, questions linked to what are known as false positives, nul...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the factorial structure of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure on Ukrainians immigrants in two countries of Occidental Europe. The factorial structure was put to test with a confirmatory factorial analysis and with the factorial invariance between the samples of both countries. The results indicate that...

Resumen. La dictadura militar que vivió Chile entre los años 1973 y 1990 persiguió punitivamente a sus detractores, motivo por el que miles de personas tuvieron que abandonar el país para proteger su integridad. Entre los distintos destinos escogidos por la diáspora, Suecia fue una sociedad hospitalaria por el contexto social y político imperante....

La satisfacción con la vida es una escala que se ha usado ampliamente para estudiar la medida del bienestar subjetivo en distintas poblaciones. Esta medida permite valorar de una manera global los elementos que son relevantes para la calidad de vida actual de una persona. El objetivo de la presente investigación es evaluar las propiedades psicométr...

Dentro del contexto de la crisis socioeconómica que afecta a España se desarrolla una escala para medir la amenaza grupal internalizada por inmigrantes latinoamericanos. El constructo se entiende como la auto-estigmatización que tienen los inmigran- tes desde el enfoque de la amenaza grupal. El objetivo del es- tudio es entregar las evidencias inic...

The purpose of the study was to provide evidence on the validity and reliability of the Queer/Liberationist Scale (QLS, short version) among heterosexual Italian university students. The QLS analyzes new manifestations of sexual prejudice. A four-factor structure was supported. The subscales were related to gender, political ideology, religious bel...

This study examines the factorial invariance of the Scale on Beliefs About Children’s Adjustment in Same-Sex Families (SBCASSF) across countries in three samples: Chilean, Spanish, and Hispanic university students. The scale analyzes attitudes toward the consequences of the rearing and education of children by parents with a homosexual sexual orien...