Juan Herrero

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Psychology

After more than a decade of research on smartphone addiction, there is currently empirical evidence on the main sociodemographic, psychological, and psychosocial correlates of this type of behavioral addiction. However, research in this field has not yet paid sufficient attention to the influence that the social context may have on smartphone addic...

Studies of intimate partner violence (IPV) have generally focused on only one partner. Although this has allowed advances in scientific knowledge on the causes of IPV, currently recent literature is demanding the need to study both members of the couple. Methodologically, the study of dyads requires the use of appropriate statistical techniques to...

In recent decades, criminological theories have identified a set of vulnerabilities in potential victims that seek to explain their victimization. When it comes to explaining cybercrime victimization, however, the important role that addiction to the vulnerabilities associated with technological devices can play has tended to be overlooked. In this...

Background: The co-occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been usually determined by co-occurring reports of perpetration and victimization, but still not considering the interdependence of both members' reports. The current research aimed to analyze the dyadic patterns of IPV perpetration and victimization, considering the influence of...

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are some of the most prevalent diseases in the world. They have a multifactorial aetiology encompassing ergonomic and psychosocial risk factors. The aim of this study is to analyse the way job insecurity and physical workload are linked to musculoskeletal disorders, as well as the mediating role other psychoso...

Abstract: Antecedentes: Existe un grado de interdependencia afectiva considerado normal que solo se torna patológica cuando provoca excesivo sufrimiento, tanto para el sujeto como para sus allegados. Nuestro objetivo es validar psicométricamente una escala de dependencia afectiva abreviada y eficaz, la Escala de Dependencia Afectiva (ADS-9). Métod...

Background: There is a degree of affective interdependence that is considered normal and only becomes pathological if it causes excessive suffering, both for the subject and for those close to them. Our objective was to introduce and psychometrically validate a short and effective affective dependency scale, the Affective Dependence Scale (ADS-9)....

Most empirical research on the relationship between peer victimization, aggression, and mental health has been conducted with correlational designs. Much of this research has also focused primarily on linking peer victimization with either the potential aggressive behaviors of victims or a deterioration in their mental health. This study analyzes t...

The study of intimate partner violence (IPV) has evolved into more complex and integrative models to better understand the explanatory mechanisms of IPV perpetration. Nevertheless, integrative models rarely permit an in-depth analysis of a large number of relevant variables, and more specific approximations are required as basis of them. In this se...

Background/objective: Although measurement instruments for intimate partner violence (IPV) are available, their validity considering the interdependence of victimization and perpetration self-reports based on dyadic reports has not been tested. The aim was to test the validity and reliability of a new version of the Dating Violence Questionnaire (...

This study tests a model to predict suicidal ideation in adolescents, considering violence and school victimization, family and academic self-concept, and depressive symptoms as antecedents. 792 Mexican high school adolescents participated (49.4% women, 50.6% men) between 11 and 16 years old (M = 13.3, D.T. = 1.0), selected with a non-probabilistic...

In recent years, digital networks have given rise to new spaces for socialization, action and protest, favouring the emergence of new forms of social participation that generate their own languages and new symbolic strategies. In order to analyze online mobilization within the Spanish context and in order to explore these realities in more depth, a...

En los últimos años, las redes digitales han dado lugar a nuevos espacios de socialización, acción y protesta, favoreciendo la aparición de nuevas formas de participación social que generan lenguajes propios y nuevas estrategias simbólicas. A fin de analizar la movilización online en el contexto español y de profundizar en estas realidades, se ha l...

(1) Background: This paper combines lifestyle-routine activities (L-RAT) and self-control (SCT) theories along with the literature on smartphone addiction in a joint model that addresses the multiple vulnerabilities that make the smartphone user a potential victim of cybercrime. This model, which we call the dual vulnerability model of cybercrime v...

Based on the recent scientific literature on the social ecology of smartphone addiction, we have examined the empirical relationship between social digital pressure (SDP) and smartphone addiction by also looking at the influence of users' personalities, psychological distress, social support, and residential social living conditions on this addicti...

Major depression is one of the most prevalent mental health problems in the penitentiary context and has been related to different undesirable outcomes. The aim of the current research was to evaluate the utility of screening tools for major depression brief assessment in the jail context. We interviewed 203 male inmates and complimented the MCMI-I...

Health professionals find it difficult to identify cases of partner violence (IPV) against women. Sexist attitudes toward women and low formation level on IPV can hinder the intervention on cases of IPV in Health Services. Our objective is to analyze the relationship between sexist attitudes and the implication of health professionals on IPV cases,...

Aim: To develop and psychometrically test the Stanford Presenteeism Scale-6 to assess presenteeism in the Spanish healthcare population. Background: Presenteeism, referring to going to work despite being ill, has been associated with job stress, productivity losses, reduced patient safety and increased health problems among the professionals who...

Violence between adolescent couples is a topic of social relevance, highlighted by its prevalence rates and its serious consequences. As an objective, it is proposed to check the levels of prevalence of violent events in adolescent and young couples and to determine the levels of concordance in the occurrence of violence during courtship based on t...

Psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most prevalent form of IPV and is often thought to precede physical IPV. However, psychological IPV often occurs independently of other forms of IPV, and it can often emerge during routine relationship interactions. Using data from imprisoned male offenders we investigate the effect of hostile an...

For some years now, scholars have been exploring some of the negative consequences for the psychosocial well-being of users that the rapid incorporation of smartphones into our lives has caused. Most of the empirical studies to date are cross-sectional and are carried out with participants from convenience samples, which has been a limitation in th...

Smartphone use has brought convenience to users, although its excessive use and addiction might also have negative consequences. Using a representative sample of 526 smartphone users in Spain, the present study analyzes smartphone extensive use and addiction as well as its relationship to smartphone harm. Self-reported and scanned data were obtaine...

Recent literature has suggested that smartphone addiction is negatively associated with users’ psychosocial well-being. Much of the research on this subject, however, is of a correlational nature, which has been pointed out as an important limitation that does not allow distinguishing the antecedents of the consequences. In this study, 416 smartpho...

We all need to resort to deception, either with ourselves (denial, self-deception, mystification) or with others (with modalities, such as impression management, social desirability), to a greater or lesser extent. Lies, in their broader meaning, are interpreted as something rather adaptive, useful, and necessary in our socioaffective world. In par...

Resumen Todos sentimos la necesidad de recurrir al engaño para con uno mismo (negación, autoengaño, mistificación) y hacia los demás (con modalidades como manejo de impresiones, deseabilidad social), en mayor o menor medida. La mentira, en el sentido laxo del término, es interpretada como algo en buena medida adaptativo, útil y necesario en nuestro...

Resumen Todos sentimos la necesidad de recurrir al engaño para con uno mismo (negación, autoengaño, mistificación) y hacia los demás (con modalidades como manejo de impresiones, deseabilidad social), en mayor o menor medida. La mentira, en el sentido laxo del término, es interpretada como algo en buena medida adaptativo, útil y necesario en nuestro...

In Ibero-America, interest in the evaluation and prevention of violence in young couples has been increasing. However, there are not enough Spanish-speaking standardized questionnaires. The psychometric analyses of the Checklist of Experiences of Psychological Abuse to the Couple (CEPA) are presented as a subset of the Checklist of Experiences of A...

Conflict resolution is linked to satisfaction in the relationships, subjective well-being or violence. The objective of this work is to analyze the psychometric properties of the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory (CSRI; Kurdek, 1994), in the Mexican context. The sample composed of 1161 participants aged between 14 and 31 years (M = 20.99, SD = 2...

ABSTRACT: Conflict resolution is linked to satisfaction in the relationships, subjective well-being or violence. The objective of this work is to analyze the psychometric properties of the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory (CSRI; Kurdek, 1994), in the Mexican context. The sample composed of 1161 participants aged between 14 and 31 years (M = 20....

Este artículo analiza el proceso de socialización y radicalización política en militantes del Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso, quienes participaron del conflicto armado interno en Perú en los años de 1980 a 2000. Así, mediante un diseño fenomenológico, se les realiza 16 entrevistas en profundidad, a las cuales se les efectúa un análisis...

The revictimization of women during the life cycle has attracted the interest of many researchers in recent years. In this study, we examined the relationship between the experience of child abuse and the subsequent victimization by a male partner in adulthood. Specifically, we proposed that childhood abuse experiences negatively affect the develop...

Research on male batterers has found that in some cases of severe intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, male aggressors were also generally violent beyond the family realm. These findings have been used by researchers to illustrate the common etiology of both general and IPV. Using data from imprisoned male violent offenders, we analyzed t...

Introduction: Little scholarly attention has been paid to the analysis of the history of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women with different male partners and how it could be related to levels of IPV with the current male partner. From this point of view, been a victim of IPV could increase the vulnerability of women and, therefore, exert...

Research on male batterers has found that in some cases of severe intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, male aggressors were also generally violent beyond the family realm. These findings have been used by researchers to illustrate the common etiology of both general and IPV. Using data from imprisoned male violent offenders, we analyzed t...

Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) requires effective batterer intervention programs. Although psychopathy seems to be a key variable for successful treatment, little is known about the role of psychopathic traits among male IPV perpetrators. Therefore, a systematic review of all empirical quantitative studies (N = 41) on the relationship b...

Literature has traditionally shown the potentially harmful consequences of risk-taking in a variety of domains. Less scholarly attention, however, has been directed to the study of risk-taking in the computer use domain. Using scanned data from 1902 computers, we sought to analyze the potentially harmful consequences that sensation-seeking and comp...

Objective: The influence of partners’ traditional gender role and partners’ level of general violence on intimate partner violence (IPV) against women has been studied separately most likely because they represent key aspects of apparently contrasting theoretical views. The main goal of the present study was to investigate the influence of both par...

Background/Objective: Despite the growing interest in the study of dating violence, relatively few psychometrically sound instruments are available to researchers. To provide an instrument to researchers and professionals to assess victimization in dating relationships, with adequate psychometric properties. Method: Participants were 6,138 adolesc...

Backgrounds: The high rates of school dropout world wide and their relevance highlight the need for a close study of its causes and consequences. Literature has suggested that school dropout might be explained by multiple causes at different levels (individual, family, school, andneighborhood). The aim of the current study is to examine the relatio...

Resumen la inclusión en el pcl-r del comportamiento criminal previo como criterio para la evaluación de la psi-copatía en las prisiones, supone que los individuos evaluados como psicópatas en la comunidad por sus consistencias de personalidad no sean detectados al llegar a prisión. Se pretende establecer el perfil diferencial del psicópata no detec...

The previous criminal behavior included in the PCL-R like a criterion to evaluation of the psychopathy in the prisons, suppose that individuals considered as psychopaths in the community for their personality were not detected when they arrive to prison. The aim of this research was to establish the different profile of the undetected psychopath in...

Sexist attitudes have been claimed to play an important role in acceptability of intimate partner violence (IPV). Empirical evidence suggests that sexist individuals are also more accepting of violence in social relationships than non-sexist individuals. Results from multilevel regression models of data from 72,730 respondents of 51 countries aroun...

Introducción La Ley Nº 20.066 de Violencia Intrafamiliar promulgada en el año 2005 por el Ministerio de Justicia de Chile establece que: Será constitutivo de violencia intrafamiliar todo maltrato que afecte a la vida o la integridad física o psíquica de quien tenga o haya tenido la calidad de cónyuge del ofensor o una relación de convivencia con él...

Sexist attitudes have been claimed to play an important role in acceptability of intimate partner violence (IPV). Empirical evidence suggests that sexist individuals are also more accepting of violence in social relationships than non-sexist individuals. Results from multilevel regression models of data from 72,730 respondents of 51 countries aroun...

In this study we apply the versatile/specialist offender debate to the research of intimate partner violence. We propose the existence of two types of imprisoned male batterers: the generalist and the specialist batterer. The individual, family, and community characteristics of these types of batterers are further explored in 110 imprisoned males i...

La alarma social generada por la delincuencia juvenil se ve incrementada cuando el infractor, ademas, es extranjero. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el perfil sociodemografico, la problematica psicologica y delictiva de estos jovenes, estableciendo una comparacion entre los menores extranjeros no acompanados (MENAs) y los acompanados (proce...

The aim of this study was to determine which of the factorial solutions proposed for the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) of two, three, four factors, and unidimensional fitted best the data. Two trained and experienced independent raters scored 197 prisoners from the Villabona Penitentiary (Asturias, Spain), age range 21 to 73 years (M =...

The objective of the study is to establish the relationship and incidence of burnout syndrome and emotional climate in prison professionals, while determining the influence that the emotional climate and burnout factors have on each of the burnout variables according to two ways of understanding the prison. The sample is composed of 222 professiona...

r E s u m E n Este artículo es resultado de un estudio cuantitativo que tiene como objetivo el definir el perfil de las redes de apoyo formales e informales en relación con la reincorporación social de los usuarios del programa de la Dirección del Sistema Postpenitenciario y Atención a Liberados del Estado de Jalisco, México. La muestra esta integr...

This paper results from a quantitative study, which aims to define the profile of the networks of formal and informal support in relation to social reintegration program users of the Postpenitentiary System Office and The Attention of the Released Bureau of the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The sample consists of 260 users of this system, who agreed to...

The need for implementing supplementary strategies to prevent the potential negative effect of psychosocial hazards and manage associated risks in the workplace using a "corporate social responsibility (CSR)-inspired" approach is being increasingly debated and propagated. A CSR-inspired approach to the management of psychosocial issues at work can...

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...

This paper presents a theoretical review of the major findings during the last decade on the study of personality and psychological characteristics of men convicted of violence against their female partner. Three characteristics of the studies are reviewed: assessment tools, sample type and typologies found. The most commonly used assessment tools...

The main goal of this study is to analyze the degree to which several community elements such as insecurity, discrimination and informal community support might have an influence on the social integration of Latin-American immigrants, a group at risk of social exclusion in Spain. Multivariate linear regression analyses results showed that informal...

The main goal of the present research is to identify the support networks of women victims of partner violence paying attention to both sources and type of support provided. Information about network support from 204 participants living in Guadalajara (Jalisco, México) was obtained using the Relationship-specific Perceived Social Support (Gracia &...

The main aim of this study was to analyze the relation between responsibility assumption among men convicted for domestic violence against women and self-esteem, narcissistic personality and antisocial personality. Participants in the study were 177 men participating in a court-ordered batterer intervention program in the community. Three MANCOVAS...

Social integration has consistently shown its positive effects on both physical and psychological well-being. The study of the influence of residential characteristics on both social integration and well-being, however, has been traditionally neglected. The present study analyzes the joint influence of both social disorder and social integration on...

El principal objetivo de este estudio es analizar la relación entre la asunción de responsabilidad de hombres condenados por violencia doméstica contra la mujer, la autoestima, la personalidad narcisista y la personalidad antisocial. Los participantes en este estudio fueron 177 hombres que participaban en un programa de intervención con maltratador...

In this study, the factor structure of the Spanish version of Tarrant's Group Identification Scale is analyzed. This scale is based on the social identity theory and measures cognitive, evaluative, and affective aspects of group identification. Although this scale has been considered unidimensionally with adolescents, it is based on previous group...

El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar las características del apoyo social informal otorgado a la mujer maltratada por su pareja íntima, quiénes lo aportan, así como el tipo de apoyo percibido por las entrevistadas. Es un estudio cuantitativo realizado en Guadalajara, Jalisco, en el que se aplicó el Cuestionario de Apoyo Social Percibido de la...

In this study the factorial structure of the Spanish version of Tarrant’s Group Identification Scale is analyzed. This scale is based on the Social Identity Theory and measures cognitive, evaluative and affective aspects of group identification. Although this scale has been considered in a unidimensional way with adolescents, it is based on previou...

The aggressiveness in the school classrooms is a growing up phenomenon that is now in the center of the social concern. This study was conducted in a Elementary School Center at The Principality of Asturias, and aims to establish the relationship between the interactions the children make with their peers and the violent behaviors inside of the sch...

This research presents a study of the factor structure and temporal stability of the Self-Esteem Questionnaire (CA-14) using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) techniques. The paper pretends to offer a potential guide to researchers, paying special attention to data requirements, estimation methods suggested in the literature, recommended fit indic...

This research presents a study of the factor structure and temporal stability of the Self-Esteem Questionnaire (CA-14) using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) techniques. The paper pretends to offer a potential guide to researchers, paying special attention to data requirements, estimation methods suggested in the literature, recommended fit indic...

This paper examines, first, data about perceptions and attitudes in Latin-American immigrants and the Spanish population towards intimate partner violence against women. Secondly, it explores correlates of attitudes towards reporting cases of partner violence against women in a sample of Latin-American immigrants. Three data sources, which include...

Investigación subvencionada por el Instituto de Mayores y Servicios Sociales (IMSERSO) del Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales (proyecto 126/2007) y por el Gobierno del Principado de Asturias con cargo a fondos del Plan de Ciencias, Tecnología e Innovación del Principado de Asturias. Resumen El apoyo social circunscrito a las redes so-ciales p...

El apoyo social circunscrito a las redes sociales presenciales y cercanas se ha vinculado de forma consistente con el bienestar psicológico. Sin embargo, con Internet aparecen otras formas de relación social que también demandan investigación. En el presente artículo, prestaremos atención a las relaciones sociales online como fuentes potenciales de...

Older people are among the segments of the population for which the digital divide is most persistent and are considered to be at risk of losing out on the potential benefits that the information society can provide to their quality of life. Little attention has been paid, however, to relationships between Internet use and actual indicators of heal...

The objective of this study was to test whether the Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scales of Meertens and Pettigrew (1992) are valid for the evaluation of prejudicial attitudes in Spanish school-based adolescents. To do so gypsies and immigrants were chosen as two exogroups that might be the object of prejudice among the Spanish population. Participa...

In the present study we explore the relationship between perceived neighbourhood social disorder (perceived crime and insecurity in residential areas) and attitudes toward domestic violence against women in Latin-American population in Spain (N = 350). Perceived severity of incidents of domestic violence, its acceptability, victim-blaming attitudes...

In order to better understand the relationship between immigration and partner violence, our aim in this study is twofold. First, we compare perceptions and attitudes toward partner violence against women between native-born population and Latin-American immigrants in Spain. And second, we explore correlates of attitudes toward reporting partner vi...

This study analyzes the relationship between neighborhood social disorder, and attitudes toward partner vio-lence against women among immigrants. To test hypotheses, a sample of Latin-American immigrants living in Spain was used. Relationships between perceived neighborhood disorder and the following sets of attitudes toward partner violence agains...