María Jesús Irurtia

University of Valladolid | UVA · Department of Psychology

Introducción. La violencia vicaria ha permanecido mayoritariamente invisibilizada como tipo de violencia de género antes y durante el recorrido de la Ley de Violencia de Género en nuestro país. Objetivo. Este artículo tiene por objetivo visibilizar este tipo de violencia de género revelando las características conceptuales y contextuales que lo enm...

Background Mental health literacy (MHL) is especially important for young people, but comprehensive studies on MHL in adolescents are limited, with no nationwide studies in Spain. This research aims to study MHL among Spanish adolescents and its relationship with sociodemographic factors. Methods An exploratory study is carried out using stratifie...

El Programa Psicomotor de Estimulación para el Desarrollo Infantil en Comunidades Vulnerables (PEDICV) se creó, desde la extensión universitaria, como una estrategia para favorecer el neurodesarrollo en menores vulnerables en edad preescolar en los municipios de Sahagún y Lorica en Colombia. Esta investigación tuvo como propósito principal analizar...

La mayoría de los instrumentos de evaluación resume una serie de parámetros que cuantifican el comportamiento, apoyándose en el sentido de la visión, pero no incluye medidas fisiológicas. El objetivo principal de esta investigación fue registrar los movimientos oculares de los participantes, mediante un dispositivo de seguimiento ocular (Eye...

The book represents a novel approach to the treatment of social anxiety, which we have called Multidimensional Intervention for Social Anxiety (MISA program). This program combines traditional cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, such as cognitive restructuring, exposure, or social skills training, with processes of the so-called third generati...

El déficit de autocontrol sobre la ansiedad puede influir de forma significativa a la hora de interpretar la realidad de manera objetiva. Así mismo, puede distorsionar la capacidad de descifrar las representaciones gráficas. El Protocolo RBT se construye con elementos gráficos básicos y claramente identificables (fig.1) donde se registra la detecci...

VOL. 2: Plan for Developing Teaching Methodologies

The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) is an assessment tool to evaluate cognitive emotion regulation strategies. The main objective of this study is to provide new empirical evidence about the validity and reliability of the CERQ via a sample of 271 Spanish adolescents (136 female, 135 male) aged from 15 to 18 years (M = 15.7, SD =...

El Pensamiento Visual (PV) es un constructo cognitivo que resulta cada vez más relevante para explicar la representación mental que hacemos del mundo y de la realidad que nos rodea, a partir de la percepción y el razonamiento espacial. Estos conceptos están asociados a la inteligencia y resultan significativos para la educación tanto en el ámbito a...

Este livro reflete o trabalho de mais de 15 anos realizado pelos autores sobre ansiedade social na Espanha, Portugal e 18 países ibero-americanos. Os resultados desta pesquisa serviram como base para o desenvolvimento do atual Programa de Intervenção Multidimensional para Ansiedade Social (IMAS). Único programa que combina técnicas tradicionais de...

Background Face-to-face procedures have been postponed during COVID-19 pandemic. We aim to evaluate the impact of onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up delay in migraine during COVID-19 pandemic.Methods Subjective worsening, intensity of migraine attacks, and frequency of headache and migraine were retrospectively compared between patients with unmodified a...

Objective Previous studies have demonstrated that emotional stress, changes in lifestyle habits and infections can worsen the clinical course of migraine. We hypothesize that changes in habits and medical care during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown might have worsened the clinical course of migraine. Design Retrospective survey study...

En la presente investigación se ha realizado una evaluación de la escritura en estudiantes con diagnóstico de Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad (TDAH). Para ello, se analizan las diferencias en el desarrollo de la escritura en sujetos con TDAH a lo largo de 5 años, comparándolas con otros estudiantes sin diagnóstico de TDAH. Los...

Background Strict confinement and social distancing measures have been imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries. The aim was to assess the temporal evolution of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown from two surveys, separated by one month, performed in Spain. Methods Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress,...

We studied the short-term psychological effects of the COVID-19 crisis and the quarantine on 3550 adults from the Spanish population in a cross-sectional survey. Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress were analyzed using the 21-item version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale. Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder were analyzed using th...

The aim of the study was to determine if the difficulties that people may experience to regulate their negative emotions have an effect on intolerance of uncertainty (the ability to tolerate the distress associated with uncertain stimuli). To do this, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale were applied...

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar si las dificultades que las personas pueden experimentar para regular sus emociones negativas poseen un efecto sobre la intolerancia a la incertidumbre, entendiendo a esta última como la capacidad para tolerar el malestar asociado a estímulos inciertos. Para ello, se aplicó a 152 estudiantes universitarios...

The aim of this study was to assess the temporal evolution of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown from two surveys carried out in Spain with a time difference of about one month. Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress, and the psychological impact of the situation were longitudinally analyzed using the Depression Anxiet...

The aim of this study was to analyze the psychological impact of COVID-19 in the university community during the first weeks of confinement. A cross-sectional study was conducted. The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) was employed to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. The emotional impact of the situation was analyzed using...

The aim of this study was to analyze the psychological impact of COVID-19 in the university community during the first weeks of confinement. A cross-sectional study was conducted. The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) was employed to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. The emotional impact of the situation was analyzed using...

Background: The outbreak and spread of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) led to a confinement situation in many countries worldwide. Our objective was to analyze the short-term psychological effects of the COVID-19 crisis and the quarantine on the population. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. A survey was completed by 3550 adults...

El objetivo de este Manual Básico de Psiquiatría de la Infancia y Adolescencia es ayudar a comprender mejor el funcionamiento psíquico y acceder, de manera ordenada y concisa, al conocimiento de los trastornos que se presentan en estas etapas iniciales de la vida. No está dirigido a especialistas del ramo, sino a profesionales que atienden a menore...

Partiendo de la fundamentación teórica en neuroeducación, se emplean una serie de estímulos neuroeducativos con los que mejorar el autocontrol del alumnado y, en consecuencia, reducir las conductas disruptivas dentro del aula. Si se conoce el posible papel que juegan los docentes dentro de este campo, se podrá poner en práctica esta propuesta metod...

La comunicación es una acción consciente de intercambio de información entre dos o más personas con el fin de transmitir o recibir información u opiniones distintas. Pero solo cobra sentido si se contempla dentro de un contexto determinado. La comunicación es una necesidad primaria en el ser humano y fundamental para un buen desarrollo en la prácti...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue indagar acerca del efecto del uso de estrategias cognitivas de regulación emocional sobre las habilidades académicas de cálculo y comprensión lectora en población adolescente. Para ello, se administró el Cuestionario de Regulación Emocional Cognitiva, la Prueba de Competencia Lectora para Educación Secundaria y...

The way in which people regulate their e motions is related to the appearance, course and development of a broad spectrum of psychopathologies. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the use of cognitive emotional regulation strategies on high school students’ anxiety level. To this end, the Spanish adaptation of the CER-Q and the Spanis...

Resumen La forma en la que las personas regulan sus emociones suele influir en la aparición, curso y desarrollo de un amplio espectro de psicopatologías. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto del uso de las estrategias cognitivas de regulación emocional sobre el nivel de ansiedad de estudiantes de nivel secundario. Para ello se aplicó l...

tFamily caregivers of people with dementia usually have high levels of anxiety, depression, and over-load symptoms, and are reasons for being considered a clinically vulnerable population. The objectiveof the present review is to examine the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based stress reduction pro-gram (MBSR) applied to this population. A search...

Introducción: las Funciones Ejecutivas (FE) refieren a procesos cognitivos regulatorios de alto orden que se encuentran involucrados en tareas o actividades complejas o novedosas. Las FE han demostrado un alto grado de asociación con otros procesos cognitivos complejos como la inteligencia fluida y el razonamiento, y con el rendimiento en diversas...

El libro refleja el trabajo que durante más de 15 años nuestro grupo ha llevado a cabo sobre la ansiedad social en España, Portugal y 18 países iberoamericanos. Los resultados de dicha investigación han servido de base para desarrollar el actual programa de Intervención multidimensional para la ansiedad social (IMAS). Este programa, único a nivel i...

This paper examines self-esteem and its dimensions using the Revised Janis-Field Feelings of Inadequacy Scale (RJFFIS) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) in a sample comprising mostly university undergraduates (n= 826). We analyzed their relationship with social anxiety (SA) and social skills (SS), assessed with the Social Anxiety Questionn...

This is the English PDF version of the Social Anxiety Questinnaire for Children (SAQ-C) (boys and girls version). You can use it freely, without asking for permission, with the only condition of citing the original source.

Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children (SAQ-C) with boys and girls versions

Cuestionario de ansiedad social para niños (CASO-N) con versión para chicos y chicas

The assessment and training of social skills constitutes a continuous hot topic both in clinic and research settings. However, social skills assessment has been since its beginnings a difficult area to address. One ongoing issue is that even today self-report instruments for social skills published in the 1970s are still profusely used. The main ob...

This study describes a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses that were conducted with the 44-item Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Children- 4th version (SAQ-CIV) to identify a reduced set of items that might be used to construct a new abbreviated instrument for measuring social anxiety in children and adolescents. The fourth versi...

Desarrollo de un modelo pedagógico basado en Neuroeducación

Realizamos una investigación descriptiva del constructo Pensamiento Visual en los estudiantes del último curso de Grado en Educación. Se analizan las referencias espaciales de los factores clásicos de visualización y el factor de razonamiento proporcional en la percepción, para relacionar ambos con el proceso de lectura e interpretación de imágenes...

En el estudio se proyecta mejorar y potenciar tanto los procesos de atención y memoria como la flexibilidad cognitiva en el aprendizaje.

Abstract: Th is study presents the validity and reliability of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (saq), developed in an attempt to improve some of the shortcomings of self-report instruments, commonly used to assess social phobia/anxiety in Latin American countries. Th is measure has been globally validated for most of Latin American coun...

This study presents the validity and reliability of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (saq), developed in an attempt to improve some of the shortcomings of self-report instruments, commonly used to assess social phobia/anxiety in Latin American countries. This measure has been globally validated for most of Latin American countries, but h...

This article presents the psychometric properties of a new measure of social anxiety, the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for adults (SAQ), composed of 30 items that were developed based on participants from 16 Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Two groups of participants were included in the study: a nonclinical group involving 18,133 per...

This article presents the psychometric properties of a new measure of social anxiety, the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for adults (SAQ), composed of 30 items that were developed based on participants from 16 Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. Two groups of participants were included in the study: a nonclinical group involving 18,133 per...

The self-reporting of social skills continues to be assessed through the assertiveness inventories developed in the 1970s, such as the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS), the Assertion Inventory (AI), and the College Self-Expression Scale (CSES). The study reported here involved 421 university students (76.5% women) and obtained the factor structu...

The relationship between social skills and social anxiety has been addressed conceptually but studied little empirically. Scarcer still are the studies on the relationship between social skills and personality styles/disorders. This paper uses a sample of mostly university students to find possible relationships between social skills, on the one ha...

La relación entre las habilidades sociales (HHSS) y la ansiedad social (AS) ha sido planteada conceptualmente pero poco estudiada a nivel empírico. Más escasos son los trabajos sobre la relación entre las HHSS y los estilos/trastornos de la personalidad (TTPP). El presente trabajo pretende hallar las posibles relaciones entre las HHSS por una parte...

La evaluación de las habilidades sociales por medio de medidas de autoinforme sigue realizándose con instrumentos desarrollados en los años 70, como el “Inventario de asertividad de Rathus” (RAS), el “Inventario de aserción” (AI) o la “Escala de autoexpresión universitaria” (CSES). Este estudio llevado a cabo con 421 estudiantes universitarios (76,...

Sex differences between men and women in social anxiety are largely unexplored. This study sought to shed some light on this topic. We administered self-report measures of social anxiety to community samples of 17,672 women and 13,440 men from 16 Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal, as well as to a clinical sample of 601 patients diagnosed...

Sex differences between men and women in social anxiety are largely unexplored. This study sought to shed some light on this topic. We administered self-report measures of social anxiety to community samples of 17,672 women and 13,440 men from 16 Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal, as well as to a clinical sample of 601 patients diagnosed...

The assessment of social anxiety through self-report measures often involves questionnaires that are widely used at the international level: SPAI, LSAS-SR, SPIN, SPS, and/or SIAS. In this study, these questionnaires were administered to university students, and their factor structure, reliability and internal consistency were obtained. The best fac...

La evaluación de la ansiedad social por medio de medidas de autoinforme suele utilizar alguno de los cuestionarios ampliamente conocidos a nivel internacional: el SPAI, la LSAS-SR, el SPIN, la SPS y/o la SIAS. En el presente estudio dichos cuestionarios se han aplicado a estudiantes universitarios, prestando especial atención a su estructura factor...

Bullying is a highly topical issue, appearing with some frequency in the mass media, especially in extreme circumstances. It is a difficult problem to address, but in order to do so we must first evaluate it. Yet even its assessment poses a major challenge. Following a review of the self-report instruments available for dealing with bullying today,...

Social phobia/anxiety is a topic that has received considerable attention in adults and, to a lesser extent, in children and adolescents. One of the more widely debated issues in this area of research involves the assessment of social phobia/anxiety with self-report measures. Prior research papers (Caballo et al., 2010, 2012) have developed and val...

La ansiedad/fobia social constituye un tema de constante investigación en adultos y, en menor medida, en niños y adolescentes. Una de las áreas más controvertidas es el de la evaluación por medio de medidas de autoinforme. Trabajos previos (Caballo et al., 2010, 2012) han desarrollado y validado un sólido instrumento de evaluación para la ansiedad...

A pesar de ser considerada la percepción espacial como una capacidad básica, la competencia relacionada con la inteligencia espacial no se reconoce entre las habilidades básicas del profesorado. Los adultos por lo general reconocen dificultades para interpretar y reproducir los aspectos visuales de la información.

Much has been written about the situations most often feared by persons with social phobia, and several self-report measures are frequently used to assess such feared situations. However, it is not clear whether the situations feared by persons with social phobia form unidimensional or multidimensional factors. If these situations are multidimensio...

IntroductionThe aim of this study was to analyse attacks on health professionals in the Community of Castilla y León (CCL) since the creation of the Aggressions Observatory in 2008.Material and methodAn observational study was performed to analyse the attacks on health professionals registered in the CCL Assault Centre between July 1, 2008 and June...

Much has been written about the situations most often feared by persons with social phobia, and several self-report measures are frequently used to assess such feared situations. However, it is not clear whether the situations feared by persons with social phobia form unidimensional or multidimensional factors. If these situations are multidimensio...

This study focuses on the relationship between school bullying and social anxiety in a sample of 1,810 Spanish children between the ages of 9 and 15. The relationships between these two constructs and their dimensions were tested using two new self-report instruments: the “Multimodal Questionnaire on Bullying for Children” (CMAE-1; Caballo, Caldere...

This paper presents the results of the application of a new recreational program focused on social skills for the intervention and prevention of social anxiety and school bullying. The program “Playing and Learning Social Skills" (JAHSO) was applied at two schools in Granada (Spain) to a total of 193 children aged between 9 and 14. The results show...

Personality disorders are a topic of ongoing interest. Their assessment and treatment are controversial and there is a lot of work still to be done in both areas. The aim of this study is to present certain psychometric characteristics of the “Cuestionario Exploratorio de Personalidad-III” (CEPER III) (Exploratory Questionnaire of Personality-III),...

Personality disorders are a topic of ongoing interest. Their assessment and treatment are controversial and there is a lot of work still to be done in both areas. The aim of this study is to present certain psychometric characteristics of the "Cuestionario Exploratorio de Personalidad-III" (CEPER III) (Exploratory Questionnaire of Personality-III),...

La Organizacion mundial de la Salud (OMS) estima que uno de cada seis trabajadores enferma por maltrato en el ambito laboral. Uno de los riesgos a los que estan sometidos los trabajadores en el desempeno de su actividad diaria es consecuencia de la interaccion con otras personas, la cual puede derivar en comportamientos agresivos o de sometimiento...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the typology and profiles of abuse among equals both in person and on the Internet. Reference is made to the most relevant research, the most usual evaluation instruments, and proposals for the intervention and preventative action needed in each sector of the educational community. In addition, the challenges...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the typology and profiles of abuse among equals both in person and on the Internet. Reference is made to the most relevant research, the most usual evaluation instruments, and proposals for the intervention and preventative action needed in each sector of the educational community. In addition, the challenges...

In 1996 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the eradication of the violence against women a priority for public health. This violence causes serious consequences, not only physical but also psychological and social, to women and their families. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of a medico-legal assessment of the psy...

During the last years important advances have been achieved in the protection of the rights of people with intellectual disabilities. In that sense, the most significant advance has been the ratification of the he U. N. Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. However, there is a lack of research on the monitoring and assessment of th...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the typology and profiles of abuse among equals both in person and on the Internet. Reference is made to the most relevant research, the most usual evaluation instruments, and proposals for the intervention and preventative action needed in each sector of the educational community. In addition, the challenges...

Resumen En los últimos años se han realizado notables avances orientados a la protección de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad intelectual. En este sentido, el más notable ha sido la ratificación de la Convención Internacional de la ONU sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad; sin embargo, destaca la escasez de investigacione...

This study focuses on the relationship between school bullying and social anxiety in a sample of 1,810 Spanish children between the ages of 9 and 15. The relationships between these two constructs and their dimensions were tested using two new self-report instruments: the "Multimodal Questionnaire on Bullying for Children" (CMAE-1; Caballo, Caldere...

Mejorar en el alumno las habilidades sociales en el marco educacional resulta de vital importancia, dado que la educación tiene lugar en un contexto social en el cual la adecuada interacción entre alumnos, y entre éstos y sus profesores, favorece el proceso educativo, el rendimiento académico y el desarrollo social de cada estudiante. Para que los...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the typology and profiles of abuse among equals both in person and on the Internet. Reference is made to the most relevant research, the most usual evaluation instruments, and proposals for the intervention and preventative action needed in each sector of the educational community. In addition, the challenges...

This paper presents the results of the application of a new recreational program focused on social skills for the intervention and prevention of social anxiety and school bullying. The program "Playing and Learning Social Skills" (JAHSO) was applied at two schools in Granada (Spain) to a total of 193 children aged between 9 and 14. The results show...

The goal of this research was to find out what the relationships are between social anxiety, on the one hand, and personality traits, styles, disorders, and coping styles, on the other. Participants were university students who responded to four self-report instruments measuring social phobia/anxiety, a further two instruments assessing personality...

This paper reports on two studies conducted to develop and validate a new self-report measure of social phobia/anxiety – the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A) (Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos, CASO-A). A diary-item recording procedure was used to generate the initial pool of items. In Study 1, data from 12,144 participant...

This paper reports on two studies conducted to develop and validate a new self-report measure of social phobia/anxiety – the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A) (Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos, CASO-A). A diary-item recording procedure was used to generate the initial pool of items. In Study 1, data from 12,144 participant...

El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar las propiedades psicométricas del “Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos” (CASO-A30) con universitarios y analizar las diferencias y similitudes en ansiedad social en esta muestra. Participaron 15504 estudiantes de 20 carreras universitarias de 17 comunidades autónomas españolas a los que se les aplic...

This work presents the psychometric properties of the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A30) with university students and analyses the differences and similarities in social anxiety in the sample. The 15, 504 participants, students of 20 degree subjects in 17 Spanish Autonomous Community regions, were applied the SAQ-A30 and the "Liebowi...

This paper reports on two studies conducted to develop and validate a new self-report measure of social phobia/anxiety – the Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A) (Cuestionario de ansiedad social para adultos, CASO-A). A diary-item recording procedure was used to generate the initial pool of items. In Study 1, data from 12,144 participant...

The aim of this paper was to build an empirical and interpretable classification system of challenging behaviors in people with intellectual disability. We analyzed 19 challenging behavior labels using non metrical multidimensional scaling. Bi and tri-dimensional MDS solutions were supported both by a multiple regression analysis of 10 bipolar scal...

The relationship between anxiety and drug use is bidirectional: on the one hand, the continued use of a psychoactive substance can produce anxiety symptoms; on the other hand, some anxiety disorders may worsen if the person consumes drugs. There are many different ways of consuming psychoactive substances; therefore it is necessary to bear in mind...

Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo se centró en la construcción de un sistema de clasificación de conductas problemáticas en personas con discapacidad intelectual interpretable y basado en datos empíricos. Se analizaron 19 etiquetas de conduc-tas problemáticas utilizando escalamiento multidimensional no métrico y las solu-ciones encontradas f...

The abuse and maltreatment situations among students are increasingly common. Mass media frequently report on bullying incidents in sensationalist and frivolous terms, showing agressive behaviours as daily and/or excessively dramatic facts, without respecting the victims and family feelings. Students who are victims of lack of respect, intimidating...