Lourdes Contreras

University of Jaén | UJAEN · Department of Psychology

Most of the literature on juvenile delinquency is aimed to the identification of the protective and risk factors of the antisocial and criminal behaviors. In this line, a study was carried out to assess whether the family setting, personal variables of the youngster and variables linked to the judicial measure execution mediate in recidivism. For t...

Research shows that drugs and delinquency are frequently linked, the abuse of various types of substance being a widespread practice among young offenders. At the same time, some psychosocial characteristics are associated with both drug abuse and criminal/antisocial behavior. To help us explore the relationship between young offenders' drug abuse...

Some authors have proposed that the mechanisms underlying adolescent-to-parent abuse seem to be different from other forms of juvenile delinquency. Given that this aggression is exerted within the family setting, our study was aimed to explore if there was a differential family profile for those adolescents who commit a parent abuse offense compare...

This study aimed to explore some psychological features of adolescents who have been reported by their parents for being violent towards them, analysing how they differ from other young offenders and from non-offender adolescents. Concretely, the presence of clinical diagnosis was explored and whether these juveniles received some psychological/psy...

Introduction Numerous studies have found that exposure to violence at home is a risk factor for child-to-parent violence. However, most of the available studies do not delimit a time frame for exposure to violence. This aspect is fundamental to differentiating lagged effects (compensation) from simultaneous effects (reciprocal). The purpose of this...

Introduction: Numerous studies have found that exposure to violence at home is a risk factor for child-to-parent violence. However, most of the available studies do not delimit a time frame for exposure to violence. This aspect is fundamental to differentiating lagged effects (compensation) from simultaneous effects (reciprocal). The purpose of thi...

Empirical evidence supports the simultaneous relationship between parental warmth and child-to-parent violence (CPV). However, no studies analyze the lagged effects of perceived parental warmth and the potential impact of cognitive mechanisms legitimizing immoral behavior on this relationship. This study aimed to examine the mediating role of moral...

The number of crimes related to child-to-parent violence (CPV) has increased in recent years. Most cases are undetected. This is the first study to compare CPV-justice involved youth (CPV-JI/detected CPV) and CPV non-justice involved youth (CPV non-JI/undetected CPV), with the aim of examining differences in risk factors and pattern of violence. Th...

This study examines the influence of exposure to family violence during childhood on child-to-parent violence (CPV) through moral disengagement. The sample included 1868 Spanish adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years (57.9% female, Mage = 14.94, SD = 1.37). Participants completed the Child-to-Parent Violence Questionnaire, the Mechanisms of Moral...

Background/Objectives: Current research has identified direct victimization at home as one of the main predictors of child-to- parent violence (CPV). However, the mechanisms involved in this relationship have not been studied. Thus, we first analyze the differences between CPV offenders and offenders who have committed other types of offenses, as w...

Child-to-parent violence is a serious social problem that has prompted numerous studies in various countries in the last decade. However, in some countries, such as Chile, there is a lack of research in this field. The objective of the present study was to adapt a specific instrument for assessing child-to-parent violence for use with Chilean adole...

Objective: Research on child to parent violence has increased in recent years, wakening an interest in the study of parenting styles in order to improve the understanding of child to parent violence. However, research on parenting style in child-to-parent violence has analysed this phenomenon with samples of adolescents, and very few with samples o...

This study examines the influence of punitive parental discipline on child-to-parent violence (CPV). The moderating roles of parental context (stress and parental ineffectiveness), mode of implementation of parental discipline (parental impulsivity or warmth/support) and the gender of the aggressor in the relationship between punitive discipline an...

This study analyzes child-to-parent violence during strict confinement due to COVID-19 as well as its association with other forms of family violence (parent-to-child violence and exposure to violence between parents) and with different psychosocial stressors: Academics/work, family coexistence , finances, COVID-19 and physical and psychological he...

Objective The structure, reliability, and validity of the Child-to-Parent Violence Questionnaire (CPV-Q) for youth is analyzed. Additionally, the frequency of child-to-parent violence and the reasons for carrying it out are analyzed. Background Child violence toward parents is a type of violence that has recently garnered great social and scientif...

Child-to-parent violence has dramatically risen in the last decade, becoming a concerning issue in many countries, so research on this issue has also increased. However, most of the studies on this topic have been conducted with samples of adolescents, and very few with samples of parents. In addition, the variety of assessment instruments does not...

The relationship between child-to-parent violence (CPV) and the perceived parental warmth dimension has been well established. However, it is necessary to further investigate the nature of this relationship considering the involvement of other variables. The objective of this study was to analyze the role of cognitive (hostile attribution), emotion...

La violencia filio-parental es un fenómeno de gran transcendencia social debido a su repercusión en las dinámicas familiares. La mayor parte de las investigaciones sobre este tema han sido realizadas en EEUU y España, siendo muy escasas en países de Latinoamérica, como por ejemplo, Chile. El objetivo del presente estudio fue adaptar y analizar las...

Introduction: The aim of the current cross-sectional study was to examine the role of social- cognitive processing in the relation between violence exposure at home and child-to-parent violence. Methods: The study included 1,624 adolescents (54.9% girls) aged between 12 and 18 years (Mage = 14.7, SD = 1.7 years) from Jaén and Oviedo (Spain) who com...

Research on prevalence of child-to-parent violence has analyzed this phenomenon with samples of adolescents from community samples in which participants report their violent behaviors towards their parents. The aim of this study is to assess child-to-parent violence in a group of fathers and mothers of adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years old f...

Marital breakup is considered as one of the most stressful events in the life of any family, being possible to appear numerous conflicts until reaching the new family restructuring. It has been previously noted that negative effects of divorce on children are mainly determined by the interparental conflict. Therefore, this study was aimed to identi...

Background/Objective: Child-to-parent violence has generated great interest on the part of professionals and researchers in recent years. Consequently, there is a need to provide an assessment instrument that includes a wide range of child-to-parent violence behaviours and all of elements that define this type of violence. Thus, the purpose of the...

Research suggests that child-to-parent violence (CPV) is related to a previous history of violence within the family setting. The current study was aimed to explore the exposure to violence in different settings (school, community, home, and TV) and its relationship to some variables of the social-cognitive processing (hostile social perception, im...

This study examined some variables of the so-called social competence, such as the emotional intelligence, social attitudes, and personal values in adolescents who had committed a parent-abuse offense, analyzing whether there were some differences with respect to non-offender adolescents. The sample included 60 participants. From them, 30 were adol...

This study aimed to explore the family profile of adolescent-to-parent abuse cases. Concretely, this paper examines whether or not there is a different family profile of parent-abuse offenders compared with other types of offenders and with non-offender adolescents. The sample included 90 adolescents who were clustered into three groups (parent-abu...

Las investigaciones muestran que droga y delincuencia aparecen frecuentemente asociados, siendo una practica habitual entre los menores infractores el consumo de distintos tipos de sustancias. A su vez, existen ciertas caracteristicas psicosociales que estan relacionadas tanto con el consumo de drogas como con la conducta delictiva y/o antisocial....

The effectiveness of the established legal measures in the Organic Law 5/2000 concerning Penal Responsibility of Young Offenders has been criticized over and over, especially with regard to the young offenders’ social rehabilitation. Nevertheless, there are very few studies that have analyzed the execution of the judicial measures and the variables...

Resumen La efectividad de las medidas judiciales establecidas en la Ley Orgánica 5/2000 de Responsabilidad Penal de los Menores ha sido cuestionada en reiteradas ocasiones, fundamentalmente en relación con la reinserción social de los menores infractores. Sin embargo, han sido pocos los estudios que han analizado la aplicación de las medidas judici...