Luis Manuel Blanco-Donoso

• Doctor of Psychology
• Lecturer at Autonomous University of Madrid

Work intensification is a psychosocial risk that has been increasing in recent decades and may have been accentuated after the COVID-19 pandemic. Its effects on health are negative, but they can be moderated by contextual and personal factors. The aim of this study was twofold: to analyze the effect of work intensification on workers' stress, anxie...

Antecedentes: La Escala de Intensificación de las Demandas Laborales (IDS) es un instrumento multidimensional diseñado para captar el fenómeno de la intensificación laboral que caracteriza a las sociedades occidentales modernas. Sin embargo, en España, el instrumento no ha sido validado para evaluar este fenómeno. Por ello, el objetivo de este estu...

This study aimed to explore whether an acceptance and commitment (ACT) approach to stress management training improved the levels of depression, anxiety, and stress among a group of twenty-two health professionals from an intensive care unit. Questionnaires were administered before and after training, and follow-up was carried out one month after t...

Nursing home workers have been exposed to great physical and mental burdens during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although this has generated high levels of exhaustion, it may also have contributed to feelings of professional satisfaction. The objective of this study was to explore the levels of satisfaction among nursing home workers during the COVID‐19 p...

The objective of this study is twofold: first, to analyze whether the daily level of energy in terms of vigor at work could explain the way in which workers psychologically detach from their work, relax, practice challenging activities, and have the feeling of having control over their leisure time when arriving home. Second, to check if the daily...

El 22 de marzo de 2024 he participado en las VIII Jornadas de Emociones y Bienestar organizadas por la Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y Estrés (SEAS). Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid Consejo General de la Psicología de España. Las jornadas se han celebrado en el CaixaForum, situado en el Paseo de Prado 36, Centro, 28014...

Introduction Nursing professionals working in Intensive Care Units (ICU) face significant challenges that can result in secondary traumatic stress (STS). These challenges stem from witnessing patients’ suffering and managing difficult tasks (i.e. communication with patients’ relatives). Furthermore, these professionals encounter emotional demands,...

Actualmente, los trabajadores/as están expuestos a una gran exigencia y desgaste por el uso continuado de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) en el ámbito laboral, con previsión de crecer en los próximos años. El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar el impacto del tecnoestrés junto con otras demandas laborales y temporales relac...

Background: The Intensification of Job Demands Scale (IDS) is a multidimensional instrument designed to capture the phenomenon of work intensification that characterizes modern Western societies. However, in Spain the instrument has not been validated to assess this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of th...

This study focuses on Intensive Care Units (ICU) and aims to test whether daily job demands are related to daily emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS) after work through the experience of passion at work and whether personal resources in ICU, such as empathy and self-compassion, moderate these relationships. A diary study was de...

The present study seeks to build on burnout research by examining daily fluctuations of role stress and work incivility, and their impact on employees’ energy loss. Optimism and recovery (i.e., psychological detachment and relaxation), two mechanisms that allow workers’ self-care and self-defence from these toxic conditions when faced by these job...

Entrevista a Luis Manuel Blanco-Donoso

This study of 104 Chilean employees examines the process of WFF—recovery—general health on a daily basis. Drawing on the work–home resources (W-HR) model, we hypothesized that daily work-to-family facilitation and work engagement predict recovery experiences during off-job time in the evening (i.e., detachment from work and relaxation) and subseque...

COVID-19 has increased the likelihood of healthcare professionals suffering from Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). However, the difficulty of this crisis may lead these professionals to display personal resources, such as harmonious passion, that could be involved in posttraumatic growth. The goal of this study is to examine the STS and posttraumat...

The current COVID-19 crisis may have an impact on the mental health of professionals working on the frontline, especially healthcare workers due to the increase of occupational psychosocial risks, such as emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS). This study explored job demands and resources during the COVID-19 crisis in predicting...

Abstract: There is an intensification of work in global health systems, a phenomenon that could increase work-family conflict, exhaustion, and intentions to leave among healthcare workers. The main objective of this study is to analyze if daily work-family conflict and burnout could explain the daily leaving intentions and vitality of healthcare wo...

This study aimed to analyze the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing home workers, as well as the influence of certain related stressors and job resources. Two-hundred twenty-eight nursing home workers in Spain participated in this cross-sectional study. High levels of workload, social pressure from work, contact with suff...

Introduction Physicians of Intensive Care Units (ICU) have a potential risk to develop negative outcomes such as emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS). Specifically, job demands in these units (i.e., work stressors and emotional effort) may positively predict these outcomes, whereas personal resources such as harmonious passion...

Introduction. Physicians of Intensive Care Units (ICU) have a potential risk to develop negative outcomes such as emotional exhaustion and secondary traumatic stress (STS). Specifically, job demands in these units (i.e., work stressors and emotional effort) may positively predict these outcomes, whereas personal resources such as harmonious passion...

Background: Secondary traumatic stress (STS), a construct formed by compassion fatigue, shattered assumptions, and symptomatology, has been scarcely studied in intensive care units (ICU). In these units, healthcare workers encounter daily work stressors which impact on their health and well-being. Also, previous literature revealed a passion for ca...

Based on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, this diary study investigated the mediator role of academic resources in the relationship between personal resources and variables of well-being. The study postulates that the perceived level of academic support received by students during the day mediates the relationship between the levels of self-...

We examine the role of personal resources (hardiness) and personal vulnerability factors (external locus of control and helplessness) at work, among 430 teachers at private schools. Based on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and the conservation of resources theory, we parallel tested both motivational and health-impairment processes on the te...

The Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth-Short Form (AFQ-Y8) was designed to measure psychological inflexibility in children and adolescents. However, it has not yet been validated to the Spanish population. The present study examines the factorial structure, internal consistency, convergent and incremental validity, and measurement invaria...

Abstract. One of the job resources most strongly associated with nurses’ well-being and motivation is social support. However, the psychosocial mechanisms that would explain this relationship have not been sufficiently researched. Thus, the main aim of this study was analyzing whether this relationship could be mediated by two variables: role ambig...

Workplace incivility is a growing problem in nursing. However, most studies that explore this psychosocial risk and its consequences do so considering a single level and a between-person perspective. The aims of the study were to explore whether the effects of experiencing incivility during work-time could explain the daily levels of well-being of...

Nursing professionals who work in intensive care units and participate in activities related to organ donation and transplantation are exposed to a significant number of stressors their work, which favors the appearance of certain psychosocial risks such as work stress, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, moral stress, and the conflict between wor...

La literatura muestra que los médicos en etapa de formación sufren altos niveles de desgaste y fatiga, con serias consecuencias para los propios estudiantes y la organización. El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar cómo la forma en la que los médicos internos regulan sus emociones se encuentra asociada con sus niveles de fatiga ocupacional. La mu...

Objective Victims of external causes of trauma, caused either by traffic accidents or by violence in general, are mostly youngsters who evolve to brain death and potential donors. Considering that the time to determine brain death may interfere on the quality of the offered organs, the purpose of this study was to analyze the period of brain death...

La energía y motivación de los profesionales de enfermería son fundamentales para su bienestar, para garantizar la calidad asistencial, así como la permanencia de los trabajadores dentro de las organizaciones con altos niveles de compromiso. El objetivo de este trabajo fue explorar el valor añadido que tenían dos recursos personales del propio trab...

This study investigates the mediating role of psychological meaningfulness among social job resources (i.e., coworkers and supervisor support), vigor, and emotional exhaustion in a nursing context. In spite of progress in understanding which organizational influence affects nurses’ vigor and emotional exhaustion, the psychological mechanisms assume...

Introduction and objectives: The Cambridge Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Review (CAMPHOR) is a patient-reported outcome measure of health-related quality of life and quality of life specific to individuals with pulmonary hypertension (PH). This questionnaire has demonstrated superiority over other instruments assessing similar domains. The objecti...

Nurses develop their work in a highly stressful context, where their emotional, attentional and well-being resources are frequently impaired. Because the health care work context is a dynamic and changing context, it is necessary to continue implementing and evaluating the efficacy of brief interventions that consider the organizational needs. The...

College students face numerous academic demands on a daily basis. The resources of the University and of the students to cope with these demands are essential to explain students’ levels of well-being. The purpose of this investigation is to explore the role of day-level curiosity and meaning in life in the explanation of students’ levels of engage...

Nurses develop their work in a highly stressful context, where their emotional, attentional and well-being resources are frequently impaired. Because the health care work context is a dynamic and changing context, it is necessary to continue implementing and evaluating the efficacy of brief interventions that consider the organizational needs. The...

Introduction and objectives: The Cambridge Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Review (CAMPHOR) is a patient-reported outcome measure of health-related quality of life and quality of life specific to individuals with pulmonary hypertension (PH). This questionnaire has demonstrated superiority over other instruments assessing similar domains. The object...

Background: Research on the implication of experiential avoidance in the aetiology and maintenance of diverse forms of psychopathology has grown considerably over the last 10 years. However, the potential contribution of experiential avoidance to cancer-related distress has received limited attention. Accordingly, the objective of this study was t...

The present study examines the role of daily difficulties in emotion regulation at work in nurse’s daily well-being and how certain job resources and recovery experiences influence this relationship. We hypothesized that daily difficulties to regulate emotions at work would be significantly and positively related to emotional exhaustion at work in...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire in Mexico (FFMQ-M) solving previous methodological limitations. A transversal study was carried out with 1210 Mexican students and a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was performed in Mplus 7.0. A confirmatory factor analysis i...

Beneficios positivos de cuidar en la motivación y el bienestar del personal de enfermería: un estudio de diario sobre el papel de las habilidades de regulación emocional en el trabajo Arch Prev Riesgos Labor 2015; 18 (3): 152-154 Donoso LM, Demerouti E, Garrosa Hernández E, Moreno-Jiménez B, Carmona Cobo I. Positive benefits of caring on nurses' mo...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire in Mexico (FFMQ-M) solving previous methodological limitations. A transversal study was carried out with 1210 Mexican students and a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was performed in Mplus 7.0. A confirmatory factor analysis i...

Las habilidades sociales han aumentado su importancia en las nuevas organizaciones. En el artículo se exponen algunos de los actuales contextos que requieren un aumento de los recursos interactivos y relacionales por parte de los trabajadores. En primer lugar, el rápido e imprevisible cambio interactivo de las organizaciones obliga al aumento de la...

S. M. V.; DONOSO, L. M. B.; REIS, L. N. dos; VIEIRA, T. R. Aspectos ético-legais envolvidos no proces-so de doação/transplante. Arq. Ciênc. Saúde UNIPAR, Umuarama, v. 16, n. 3, p. 105-109, set./dez. 2012. RESUMO: A pesquisa evidencia os aspectos ético-legais de equipes intra-hospitalares no processo de doação/transplante de órgãos e tecidos, deline...

Background: One of the most traditional approaches to the positive study of personality has been the research on Hardiness or Hardy Personality. However, studies about this construct have systematically suffered from a lack of sufficient psychometric guarantees of the measures. Method: This paper presents the Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire...

Una perspectiva salutogénica se está imponiendo en el ámbito de las organizaciones. Frente al estudio del desgaste profesional o burnout, y en cierta medida, gracias a él, ha surgido el concepto de vinculación al trabajo o engagement. Este trabajo plantea conocer el nivel de engagement de los voluntarios de una asociación que atiende a personas con...

A salutogenic perspective within organizations is becoming more important. Faced with the study of burnout, and to some extent, thanks to its, has emerged the concept work engagement. This study aims to deter-mine the level of engagement of volunteers from an association that serves people with cancer and their families, and show some factors that...

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue proporcionar una visión integradora de las relaciones entre el bienestar diario emocional de los empleados (afecto positivo y negativo) y la interacción entre la familia y el trabajo, el agotamiento relacionado con el trabajo, el distanciamiento y el significado de la vida. Trabajadores del sector de ser...

Las actitudes, comportamientos, emociones, pensamientos y percepciones de los trabajadores han mostrado ser elementos importantes para explicar el comportamiento organizacional y la salud ocupacional. Las características de los individuos son capaces de explicar buena parte de sus niveles de bienestar, salud, satisfacción y rendimiento laboral (Rob...

El 11 de marzo de 2004 Madrid sufrió el mayor ataque terrorista de su historia. Cientos de personas vivieron ese día un suceso traumático. Pocas personas negarían que el accidente de un ser querido es un trauma para muchas familias, sin embargo, es menos frecuente que la gente reconozca que el accidente de un ser querido también pueda suponer un tr...

El estudio de las emociones positivas se encuentra en auge desde los años 90 promovido en parte por el interés renovado de algunos expertos por estudiar aquello que “funciona” y “está bien” en las personas (Seligman y Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Las organizaciones son contextos potenciales en los que los trabajadores pueden desarrollar y expresar sus...

TÍTULO: El conflicto entre el trabajo y la familia: estrategias para superar el estrés laboral. FUENTE: Gestión Práctica de Riesgos Laborales, nº 78, enero 2011. RESUMEN: Los cambios económicos y sociales que han tenido lugar en las últi-mas décadas, han hecho que resulte cada vez más complicado compaginar la vida laboral con la familiar. Desde est...

TÍTULO: Emociones positivas y bienes-tar Laboral. FUENTE: Gestión Práctica de Riesgos La-borales, nº 74, pág. 22, septiembre 2010. RESUMEN: David McClelland descubrió que los trabajadores con un desempeño laboral sobresaliente, no sólo demues-tran un talento singular como, por ejem-plo la iniciativa y creatividad, sino que también presentan habilid...