José Manuel Otero-López

University of Santiago de Compostela | USC · Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología

The inter-relationships between the Big Five personality traits, self-esteem, and compulsive buying are supported by strong empirical evidence. What is yet unknown is to what extent self-esteem can channel the influence of personality traits on compulsive buying. The main objective of this study is to explore the possible mediating role of self-est...

Over the last few decades, research has seamlessly confirmed the marked multicausal nature of compulsive buying, since variables from different realms (e.g., family, social, and contextual domains) have demonstrated their explanatory capacity. However, it has been personality variables that have, to a greater extent, aroused the interest of researc...

The appraisal of goal-related constructs, generally, and of personal projects (PP) in particular, is one of the most solid research paths with regard to subjective well-being and health. In the last few years, the appraisal of PP has been linked to such problems as excessive alcohol and marijuana use, but no study has been conducted in the field of...

The study of goal-oriented behaviour, because of its undeniable repercussions on physical and mental health, is one of the target topics of contemporary research. However, the content of life aspirations, emphasised from the self-determination theory, has received little attention from the field of compulsive buying although it plays an important r...

Personality traits and coping strategies have historically been two key elements in the field of health psychology. It is, therefore, striking that there is no study in the field of compulsive buying that integrates the most generic, decontextualized and stable aspects (traits) with those having a more marked processual and dynamic nature, which ar...

Background: The integration of units of differing natures which are found in different parts of some multilevel personality models is one of the most thought-provoking paths in contemporary research. In the field of compulsive buying, little is known about the interrelationships between the comparative and stable units such as personality traits (...

Background: Compulsive buying has become a severe problem among young people. The prominent role that psychological variables play in this phenomenon support their consideration in establishing a risk profile for compulsive buying that serves as a guide for the development of prevention and treatment programs with guarantees of effectiveness. Howe...

La idea de que los recursos personales constituyen un poderoso tamiz de la influencia negativa de los estresores en el proceso de burnout constituye uno de los aspectos con mayor consenso en el ámbito de la Psicología Positiva. No es menos cierto que la identificación de cuáles son y cómo actúan estas “competencias o fortalezas personales” sería cr...

En los últimos años parece existir un notable consenso acerca de la importancia de las conductas y/o actitudes problemáticas de los alumnos, las situaciones conflictivas y la ausencia de apoyo social como factores que dificultan la convivencia escolar y contribuyen a incrementar el malestar laboral de los docentes. No obstante, son escasos los estu...

This study intends to gain better insight into the role the life aspirations described in the framework of Self-determination theory play in compulsive buying. Profiles based on the importance and likelihood for extrinsic and intrinsic personal goals in three groups with low, moderate, and high compulsive buying propensities from a general populati...

The notion that personal resources are a powerful screen for the negative influence of stressors in the burnout process is one of the aspects where consensus is more widespread in the domain of Positive Psychology. It is nonetheless true that identifying them and finding out how these “personal strengths or competences” operate would be crucial to...

This paper examines the relationship between affective and normative interactions of family enviroment, and male adolescent delictive behavoir. Sample of study was composted by 3 groups of adolescents: non-delinquents, non-detected delinquents, and detected delinquents (institutionalized). Results of realized analysis point out the existence of sig...

Compulsive buying has become a serious problem affecting a growing number of people in contemporary consumer societies. Nevertheless, research examining its prevalence in representative samples from the general population is still scarce and mainly focused on the exploration of sociodemographic factors, neglecting other aspects like psychological d...

In recent years, the broad dimensions of the Five-Factor Model have been an object of an increasing interest in the compulsive buying field. Nevertheless, the absence of studies that analyse the FFM facets in compulsive buyers is surprising. This study, employing the NEO-PI-R, intends to assess whether there are differences in both facets and broad...

There is empirical evidence regarding the interrelationships between materialism, negative emotions, and addictive buying. The aim of this study was to clarify the direction of the relationships among these variables. Specifically, the main objective was to explore the possible mediating roles of anxiety and depression in the link between materiali...

Previous research has shown consistent relationships between the Five-Factor Model personality traits, materialism and excessive buying. However, little is known about the channels of influence through personality traits and materialism leading to excessive buying. Therefore, the main objective of this current study is to examine whether materialis...

There seems to be a remarkable consensus in recent years with regards to the importance of student disruptive behaviors and/or attitudes, conflictive situations, and the lack of social support as factors hindering school life and contributing to the increase of teacher occupational malaise. However, there are few empirical studies about the relatio...

En los últimos años parece existir un notable consenso acerca de la importancia de las conductas y/o actitudes problemáticas de los alumnos, las situaciones conflictivas y la ausencia de apoyo social como factores que dificultan la convivencia escolar y contribuyen a incrementar el malestar laboral de los docentes. No obstante, son escasos los estu...

There is a widespread consensus in the literature as to the interrelations between materialism, life satisfaction and addictive buying. The field of study, however, requires models that throw light on the channels of influence existing among these variables. The main objective of the present study was therefore to examine the mediational role of li...

Introducción La adicción a la compra se ha erigido, en las últimas déca-das, en una de las problemáti-cas psicosociales que mayor atención ha despertado entre los miembros de la comunidad científica interesados en las adicciones comportamentales. La creciente incidencia y prevalencia del fenómeno en las modernas sociedades de consumo, los elevados...

AbstrAct The aim of this study is to identify, from an integrative approach, the main predictors of different manifestations of occupational malaise (stress, burnout and job dissatisfaction). The sample consists of 1,386 teachers from compulsory secondary education. The results from statistical analysis conducted (correlation and regression) strong...

School coexistence, stress, personality variables, burnout, causal models.

En las últimas décadas existe un importante consenso, entre teóricos e investigadores, acerca del protagonismo, que tanto las conductas y/o actitudes problemáticas de los alumnos, como la percepción del docente, de la dificultad para manejar los conflictos, tienen en el malestar laboral de los profesores. No obstante, existen muy pocos esfuerzos em...

This study explores moral emotions associated to adolescents when discussing about peer bullying in school contexts. Bearing this objective in mind, we asked participants about the emotional experience of guilt, shame, pride, and indifference of bullies, victims and bystanders. In addition, we asked them to justify these associations. Secondly, we...

The aim of this paper is to use an integrative approach to identify the main correlates and/or predictors at different levels (personal, psychosocial, occupational and outside the workplace) of the burnout dimensions. The sample consists of 813 university professors. Results from statistical analyses show that there are, indeed, both common and spe...

The aim of this paper is to examine from an integrative approach to what extent occupational stressors when in combination with other variables that have accredited their explicative value in accounting for teacher distress in other domains (personal, psychosocial and outside the occupational sphere) contribute to predicting and/or explaining the d...

This study examines not only the role of students" disruptive behaviour and/or attitudes but also the difficulties perceived by teachers in managing conflicts as a function of the different sociodemographic and occupational variables (gender, age, professional experience, teaching cycle). The results obtained from a sample consisting in 1386 ESO te...

Purpose: This paper is to present a proposal of cognitive-behavioral psychological intervention to be used of patient oncological pain. Especifically, after a brief incursion in the characteristics of ontological patients who suffer pain, a program of psychological intervention adjusted to that patients is explain in detail. Patients: Patient ontol...

La relación entre la variable autoestima y el consumo de drogas constituye un tema particularmente controvertido dentro del campo de estudio de la desviación social. Aunque determinados modelos teóricos y múltiples programas de intervención hacen hincapié en la importancia que la autoestima adquiere en el desarrollo del consumo de drogas, la eviden...

This paper further explores the drug–delinquency relationship. Three hypotheses present in the literature are examined: (1) drug abuse causes delinquency; (2) delinquency causes drug abuse; and (3) there is no causal relationship between drug abuse and delinquency, and other variables are responsible for the statistical relationship. The sample of...

This paper further explores the drug-delinquency relationship. Three hypotheses present in the literature are examined: (1) drug abuse causes delinquency; (2) delinquency causes drug abuse; and (3) there is no causal relationship between drug abuse and delinquency, and other variables are responsible for the statistical relationship. The sample of...

Though widely used in research on personality, the impulsivity construct is far from being well defined. Different ways of measuring and operationalizing this construct have led to contradictory empirical results. Nor is it clear where impulsivity belongs in multidimensional personality models. For instance, in Eysenck's original scheme it is treat...

This study analyzes the relationships between impulsivity and antisocial behavior in a noninstitutionalized sample, taking into account the multidimensional nature of impulsivity and the diversity of types of antisocial behavior. Data were obtained in 1989 and 1990 from 1,226 adolescents aged 12-18 years (583 boys and 643 girls) as part of a longit...

This study analyzes the relationships between impulsivity and antisocial behavior in a noninstitutionalized sample, taking into account the multidimensional nature of impulsivity and the diversity of types of antisocial behavior. Data were obtained in 1989 and 1990 from 1,226 adolescents aged 12–18 years (583 boys and 643 girls) as part of a longit...

The discrepancy among operational definitions of delinquency is one of the main causes of the fragmentation in this area of research. In this paper, we defend the need to analyse juvenile delinquency as a multidimensional construct rather than as a dichotomous variable. This approach allows one to identify homogeneous classes of behaviour, to take...

Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of buspirone (1 mg/kg/day) on the delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response of mice exposed to an auditory stressor. Our results show that the DTH response to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was inhibited by the stress and this difference was greater when stress was administered before SRBC sensibi...

En: Análisis y Modificación de Conducta Valencia 1994, v. 20, n. 73; p. 675-709 Se presenta un trabajo que utilizando una muestra de 230 adolescentes, de edades entre 14 y 18 años seguidos durante tres años, pretende integrar es un modelo explicativo los predictores, seleccionados de distintos contextos (familiar, grupal, escolar y personal), más p...

The current confused status of the research on impulsivity may be attributed to the lack of precise definitions, the reliance of most operationalizations on a single index, and inconsistency among different measures of the construct. Empirical measurements of impulsivity by self-reports, rating scales, or performance tasks suggest that the instrume...

Compared the psychometric properties of the I.7 Impulsiveness Questionnaire by S. B. Eysenck et al (see record 1986-20991-001) and the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-10) developed by E. S. Barratt (1985). 467 female and 104 male university students served as Ss, with 132 Ss taking the measures again at a 1-yr follow-up. Data reveal a high correla...

This article sets out the basic guidelines being applied in governmental and institutional action concerning drug trafficking and consumption in Spain. After a brief survey of the history of trafficking and consumption, and of government policy in this area, the current Spanish National Drugs Plan is described in detail. This ambitious project is o...