María Vicent Juan

• Doctora en Investigación Educativa, Universidad de Alicante
• Profesora Titular de Universidad at University of Alicante

The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and school-related stress sources and manifestations in child population using a person-centered approach. The sample consisted of 759 students aged between 8 and 12 years old (M =9.68, SD =1.24). The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale and the School...

School refusal is a serious problem that negatively affects academic performance, connection to school, and socioemo- tional well‐being of students. Numerous scientific works have suggested that school refusal is associated with internalizing problems. However, it is necessary to determine how this condition may affect certain academic variables, s...

The Achievement Goal Theory has been commonly used in the literature and the relation between the goal orientation construct and aspects of athletes’ personality and well-being is an important element to be considered in the sports field. The objectives of this study were: (i) to confirm the reliability, factorial invariance and existence of latent...

This study attempts to clarify the relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and academic self-efficacy in adolescents using a dual approach: variable-oriented and person-oriented. The study sample consisted of 1375 students aged 15 to 18 (M = 16.36, SD = 1.04). The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale and the Perceived Self-Efficacy...

Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar las tendencias de procrastinación del alumnado en función del curso y vida laboral. Se empleó una muestra compuesta por 436 estudiantes universitarios. Se utilizó la Pure Procrastionation Scale (PPS) que consta de 12 ítems valorados a través de una escala de respuesta tipo Likert de 5 puntos (0 = muy rarame...

Background Perfectionism is considered a vulnerability factor for eating disorders. However, the role of perfectionism in binge eating needs clarification due to notably inconsistencies between studies. The purpose to this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the perfectionism-binge eating association. Method Syst...

Introduction This study aims to confirm the existence of profiles according to the combinations of anxiety, depression, and stress, and looks to examine the differences between profiles according to the mean scores obtained in school anxiety. Methods A total of 1,234 Spanish students at the secondary education level with an age range of 13–16 year...

Background: During the last years, the affective profiles model has been applied to study individual differences among Spanish children in psychological characteristics, such as optimism and pessimism. This research has replicated past studies from adult and adolescent Swedish populations by identifying four profiles using clustering methods on sel...

Este trabajo se propuso estudiar el nivel de conocimientos sobre el Trastorno del Espectro del Autismo (TEA) que poseen 51 maestros. Se empleó el Autism Knowledge Questionnarie (AKQ) como instrumento para evaluar el conocimiento sobre el TEA. Se obtuvo que un 5.9 %, 47.1 % y 47.1 % de los participantes presentaron, respectivamente, un nivel de cono...

Introduction: This paper aims to examine the psychometric properties, i.e., validity, reliability, factorial invariance, and latent mean differences based on gender, of the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale, PSPS, in the Ecuadorian context. Method: A sample consisting of 597 Ecuadorian undergraduates participated in the study. Results: Conf...

This study examined the relationship between perfectionistic concerns (PC) and perfectionistic strivings (PS) with the subcomponents of emotional intelligence (EI) through a latent class person-centered approach. A sample of 1582 Ecuadorian adolescents (619 females) aged from 12 to 18 was employed. The trait meta-mood scale-24 (TMMS-24) and the chi...

School attendance problems are a serious issue for educators, psychologists and physicians. Nonattendance is a key risk factor for academic failure, violence, psychiatric disorders or economic deprivation. This study aimed to identify different school refusal behavior profiles and to determine whether these profiles differ from each other based on...

In recent years, the study of perfectionistic automatic thoughts (PAT) has increased given its maladaptive nature since it is link to numerous psychological disorders. From our knowledge, no previous research has addressed the relationship between PAT and the four components of aggressive behavior (anger, hostility, verbal aggression, and physical...

School anxiety and psychopathological symptoms tend to co-occur across development and persist in adulthood. The present study aimed to determine school anxiety profiles based on Lang’s model of the triple response system (cognitive anxiety, psychophysiological anxiety, and behavioral anxiety) and to identify possible differences between these prof...

The prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression is a topic of concern for general population but also for the educational context. Consequently, due to the great rates of anxiety, depression, and stress problems in undergraduates, the use of a standardized instrument to accurately detect these constructs in the university context is needed. As a...

El estudio de los Pensamientos Automáticos Perfeccionistas (PAP) está en auge tras observar su efecto negativo sobre la salud de las personas. De ahí la necesidad de buscar estrategias de prevención de estas rumias de perfección. El objetivo del estudio fue observar si existen diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las dimensiones de la viv...

Los Pensamientos Automáticos Perfeccionistas (PAP) son rumias basadas en la necesidad de ser perfecto, por lo que lleva consigo un alto nivel de angustia. Es por ello necesario diseñar estrategias de prevención y/o descenso de PAP. El presente trabajo partía de dos objetivos. El primero de ellos fue analizar si existen diferencias estadísticamente...

La ansiedad escolar consiste en un conjunto de respuestas de tipo cognitivo, conductual y psicofisiológico que los estudiantes emiten cuando perciben situaciones del ámbito escolar como una amenaza. Aunque el alumnado puede tener mayor probabilidad de manifestar respuestas de ansiedad escolar según su estilo atribucional en el área de Lenguaje, la...

The present study had a dual objective: to verify the existence of profiles of anxious students and to relate the possible profiles with causal self-attributions in the area of mathematics. The sample consisted of 1,730 Chilean children from 9 to 11 years old ( M = 10.05; SD = 1.03). The Visual Analog Scale for Anxiety-Revised and the Sydney Attrib...

Students with School Refusal Behaviour (SRB) are a diverse group, often associated with negative academic repercussions (e.g., low academic performance, learning difficulties or academic demotivation). The aims of this research were: 1) to identify school refusal behaviour profiles based on low and high scores on the four functional conditions asse...

The relationship between school refusal behavior (SRB) profiles and personality traits has received little attention from investigators. Identifying the profiles of students with school attendance problems may improve the understanding of the characteristics defining these students. The aim of this study was to identify different SRB profiles and a...

Perfectionism is considered to be a significant personality factor within the sport and exercise field. However, very little is known about the reasons why individuals with different perfectionistic tendencies engage or not in physical activity. This study aims, from a person-oriented approach, to analyze if participation motives and barriers may d...

Children experience significant number of stressful situations at school during their academic years. The aims of this study were to identify school refusers groups of children through latent profile analysis and to test their associations with school-related sources and manifestation of stress. Data were obtained from 755 schoolchildren (8-11 year...

School refusal behaviour has a major impact on the lives of children and adolescents, seriously affecting their personal, academic and social adjustment. The objectives of this research were: (1) to identify, using latent profile analysis, school refusal behaviour profiles based on the functional model and (2) to analyse the relationship between th...

In order to reduce school attendance problems and aggressive behavior, it is essential to determine the relationship between both variables. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to examine the mean differences in scores on aggression, based on school refusal behavior, and (2) to analyze the predictive capacity of high scores on aggression, based...

Little has been studied on the relationship between affect and school problems related with attendance. This study aims to identify different affective profiles and to determine whether these profiles differ from each other based on the four functional conditions of school refusal behavior. Participants comprised 1,816 Spanish adolescents aged 15–1...

The maladaptive nature of Perfectionistic Automatic Thoughts (PAT) increases the importance of evaluating the construct. This study aims to identify different clusters of PAT in undergraduates, and to check possible inter-cluster differences in the dimensions of dispositional empathy and emotional intelligence in a sample of 691 Spanish undergradua...

Failure in dealing with anxiety-provoking situations and stressors in the school setting may have negative consequences not only on children’s performance, but also on their well-being in the future. This research aimed to examine the relationship of forms of anxiety (anticipatory anxiety, school-based performance anxiety, and generalized anxiety)...

Assessment methods for school attendance problems (SAPs) have burgeoned tremendously in recent years. This study involved a systematic review of questionnaires assessing SAPs. Literature searches up to November 2019 were conducted in four databases (Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO and ERIC). Nine instruments met the four selection criteria: (1) to...

Students with school attendance problems are a diverse and heterogeneous group whose patterns of symptomatology can change over time. This study aims to identify different school refusal behavior profiles and to determine whether these profiles differ from each other based on four situational factors and three response systems of school anxiety acr...

School attendance problems imply a serious threat to a child’s academic, social and emotional development. The aim of this study was to validate the Spanish version of the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-R) in Ecuadorian adolescents. Participants were 1786 students (51% boys) aged 15 to 18 years (M = 16.31; SD = 1.01) randomly selecte...

Perfectionistic Automatic Thoughts (PATs) are currently being studied due to their association with maladaptive variables. This study aims to validate the Spanish version of the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (PCI) in a sample of Ecuadorian undergraduates as well as to analyze latent mean differences across sex. The sample was composed by 3060...

Children tend to develop forms of anxiety that can be associated with school violence. However, the previous scientific literature on anxiety and aggression is scarce. In addition, it has only focused on examining differential relationships between both variables. This study aimed to analyze the relationships between three forms of anxiety (anticip...

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo examinar las propiedades psicométricas del Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) en una muestra de 614 universitarios españoles entre 21 y 39 años de edad. El AFE arrojó un modelo del VVIQ compuesto por 12 ítems estructurados en 4 factores (Imágenes Espaciales en Movimiento [IEM]; Imágenes Familiare...

La relevancia psicológica, social y educativa del presente estudio reside en la escasez de trabajos previos que hayan evaluado el rechazo escolar en Latinoamérica y las elevadas tasas de deserción a las que se enfrentan en esta región. El objetivo de esta investigación consistió en examinar las diferencias en las puntuaciones medias de rechazo esco...

This study complements extant variable-centered research that focus on the relationship between perfectionism and the autonomous and controlled motivation to exercise. A person-centered approach is used for identifying perfectionism profiles as well as analyzing inter-profile differences in terms of the six regulatory styles located on the autonomy...

Background: This study aimed to validate the Spanish version of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS) in Ecuadorian adolescent population. Methods: The study involved 1,562 students aged 12 to 18 (Mage = 14.83, SD = 1.86) from Quito (Ecuador). Data analysis included Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with Satorra-Bentler scaled χ²,...

Positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) are related with aspects that are part of people’s psychological well-being, and the possibility of combining both dimensions to create four affective profiles, self-fulfilling (high PA and low NA), low affective (low PA and low NA), high affective (high PA and high NA) and self-destructive (low PA and high NA...

Research on perfectionism is gaining importance. However, there is a lack of research findings on perfectionistic automatic thoughts (PATs). Accordingly, the first aim of this study was to validate a newly developed Spanish version of the Perfectionistic Cognitions Inventory. The second aim was to ascertain different profiles of PATs and examine in...

Not all adolescents with school attendance problems attribute their behavior to the same causes. Knowing the subtypes of students who reject school and their relationship with new variables, such as self-concept, is an unresolved task. This study aimed to identify different school refusal behavior profiles and to determine whether these profiles di...

The present study analyzed the psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of the child–adolescent perfectionism scale (CAPS-S), as well as its factorial invariance and latent means differences across sex and age. A sample of 1809 Spanish students of Primary Education, aged between 8 and 11 (Mage = 9.53, SD = 1.11), was used. Confirmatory fact...

School attendance problems negatively affect students’ development. This study attempted to identify different school refusal behavior profiles and to examine their relationship with three dimensions of social anxiety (fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance and distress in new situations, and social avoidance and distress that is experienced...

This study aims to examine the factorial invariance and latent mean differences across gender of the Spanish version of the Child and Adolescent Social Adaptive Functioning Scale (Study 1) and to value the function of social functioning as a protective ability of school refusal behavior (Study 2). Participants were Spanish students aged 8–12 years...

The purpose of this study was to examine the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism via a person-oriented approach in a sample of 1588 Ecuadorian students aged 12- to 18-years-old ( M = 14.83, SD = 1.86). The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS) and the School Anxiety Inventory (IAES) were employed. The statistical analysis included...

This study analyzes the relationship between the two intrapersonal perfectionism dimensions (i.e., Self-Oriented Perfectionism-Critical, SOP-C, and Self-Oriented Perfectionism-Strivings, SOP-S) and the components of aggressive behavior (cognitive, emotional and motor) in a sample of 804 (48.3% females) Spanish students between the ages of 8 and 11...

On the basis of the heterogeneous casuistry that characterizes the students who refuse going to school, it is useful to have a classification of this population in homogeneous groups. For this, the aim of this study was, first, to identify by cluster analysis the profiles of school refusal behavior based on the functional model evaluated through th...

The literature reports that the prevalence of anxiety in childhood has increased exponentially during the last decades, generating with it the need to permanently monitor emotional states mainly in children and thus avoid the difficulties of this problem. The objective was to establish differences in school anxiety according to gender and academic...

This study analyses the relationship between the perfectionism dimensions, i.e. Self-Oriented Perfectionism-Critical (SOP-C) and Self-Oriented Perfectionism-Striving (SOP-S), and affect and the Big Five traits of personality in a sample of 804 Spanish students aged 8 to 11 (M = 9.57; DE = 1.12). Student’s t test, Cohen’s d index and logistic regres...

The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between child perfectionism and academic causal self-attributions using a dual approach: variable-oriented and person-oriented. The sample consists of 431 Spanish students (49.42% girls) between the ages of eight and 11 years (M = 9.60, SD = 1.08). The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale an...

Los niños perfeccionistas quieren ser siempre los mejores, se autoimponen unas metas tan elevadas que con frecuencia resultan imposibles de alcanzar. Les aterra equivocarse, especialmente delante de los demás, tienen problemas para trabajar en equipo, son muy competitivos, rumiantes y especialmente sensibles a las críticas de sus profesores, famili...

Resumen El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la relación entre el perfeccionismo infantil y las autoatribuciones causales académicas a través de un doble enfoque: centrado en la variable y en la persona. La muestra se compone de 431 estudiantes españoles (49.42% mujeres) con edades comprendidas entre los ocho y los 11 años (M = 9.60, DE = 1.08)....

The objectives of this study were twofold. Firstly, it attempted to validate the scores of the Youth Life Orientation Test in Spanish children. Secondly, it had the objective of estimating the mean differences in scores and predictive capability of optimism and pessimism for school refusal. The sample consisted of Spanish students between the ages...

The aim of this study was twofold: to identify different emotional intelligence (EI) profiles and to verify possible statistically significant differences in school refusal factors that result in a demotivation to attend school. Participants were 2362 Chilean adolescents aged from 13 to 17 (M = 15.25; SD = 1.33), who completed the Trait Meta-Mood S...

The aim of this meta-analysis was to examine the effectiveness of sex education programs for people with intellectual disabilities, exploring the effects of possible moderating variables. 31 independent studies were identified, from 8 research reports published between 1988 and 2017. The results revealed mean effect sizes in favor of the experiment...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between positive affectivity and school refusal based on four explanatory factors: I. Avoidance of Negative Affectivity, II. Escape from aversive Social/Evaluative situations, III. Pursuit from Attention and IV. Pursuit of Tangible Reinforcement. 1078 Spanish students participated from 3rd to 6t...

Anxiety is a common mental health factor associated with school refusal behaviour. This study aims to identify different school refusal behaviour profiles and to determine whether or not these profiles differ from each other based on three anxiety dimensions (Anticipatory Anxiety, School-based performance anxiety and Generalized Anxiety). Participa...

Background: Perfectionism is a prevalent disposition of personality involved in the development and maintenance of a wide range of psychological disorders. The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS) is the most usually applied test to assess perfectionism in children and adolescents. This study aimed: (a) to conduct a reliability generaliz...

The purpose of this study is to adapt the Trait Meta-Mood Scale–24 (TMMS–24; Fernández-Berrocal, Extremera, & Ramos, 2004 Fernandez-Berrocal, P., Extremera, N., & Ramos, N. (2004). Validity and reliability of Spanish modified version of the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. Psychological Reports, 94(3), 751–755.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] [Google...

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between affect in its two commonly used theoretical categories, positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA), and social functioning dimensions (school performance, family relationships, peer relationships and home duties/self-care). The sample comprised 390 students of primary education aged 8...

Data set of affect and social functioning. (XLSX)

Negative emotional states are common among youth with problematic school absenteeism, but little is known about their presence across different school refusal behavior profiles. The aim of this study was twofold: to identify different cluster solutions across functional profiles of school refusal behavior (I. Avoidance of Negative Affectivity, II....

Background/Objectives This paper aimed to validate the Spanish version of scores of the Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety-Revised (VAA-R) in child population, and to verify the existence of anxiety profiles and to relate them to school refusal. Method The sample was made up of 911 Spanish students between 8 and 12 years old (M = 9.61, SD = 1.23)....

Although the study of affective profiles has generated great interest in recent years, no investigations were found that analyze their relationship with school refusal. The present study identified the affective profiles arising from combining positive affect (PA) and negative affect derived from the 10-item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule fo...

The distinction in recent years between positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) is becoming increasingly important due to their relationship with depression and anxiety. This work is composed of two studies. The first study aimed to validate the brief version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children-Short Form (PANAS-C-SF) in...

The aim of this research is twofold: to analyze the mean differences scores in mathematic self-attributions based on school refusal and to verify its predictive capability on high scores in school refusal. The Sydney Attribution Scale and the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised were administered to 1078 Spanish students (50.8% boys) aged betwee...

The aim of this study was to identify the existence of combinations of aggression components (Anger, Hostility, Physical Aggression and Verbal Aggression) that result in different profiles of aggressive behavior in children, as well as to test the differences between these profiles in scores of perfectionism, school refusal and affect. It is intere...

El comportamiento de rechazo a la escuela se refiere a la negativa de un niño a asistir al centro educativo y/o la dificultad persistente para permanecer en el aula durante toda la jornada escolar. A partir de la revisión de la literatura científica, es objeto de este trabajo describir el estado actual de la investigación sobre el rechazo escolar,...

El objetivo de este trabajo consistió en examinar la relación entre el perfeccionismo socialmente prescrito (PSP) y la agresividad, atendiendo a sus componentes: fisiológico-emocional (ira), motor (agresividad física y verbal) y cognitivo (hostilidad). Se empleó una muestra de 776 alumnos de tercero a sexto curso de Educación Primaria (M = 9.72; DE...

El objetivo de este estudio consistió en analizar la capacidad predictiva del rechazo escolar sobre los altos niveles de ansiedad ante el castigo escolar (ACE). Para ello, se reclutó una muestra de 1,003 estudiantes de Educación Primaria con edades comprendidas entre los 8 y los 12 años. Los instrumentos empleados fueron el Inventario de Ansiedad E...

Introducción. El objetivo de este estudio es describir y caracterizar la producción científica a nivel internacional en relación al tópico “actitudes hacia la discapacidad en el ámbito educativo”, a partir del uso de una batería de indicadores bibliométricos que permiten realizar un análisis y seguimiento de la actividad científica internacional.Mé...

La actividad física y el deporte reduce problemas de obesidad y enfermedades hipocinéticas, además de aumentar el bienestar mental y las habilidades sociales, en todo tipo de población. Sin embargo, con la llegada de la adolescencia, esta práctica decae significativamente, por varias razones entre las que se encuentran la carencia de tiempo libre,...

La ansiedad escolar es el conjunto de reacciones cognitivas, motoras y psicofisiolóficas emitidas por una persona ante situaciones del ámbito escolar que son percibidas como una amenaza. Los objetivos de investigación de este trabajo fueron dos. El primero de ellos fue describir los autoinformes de ansiedad escolar que han sido elaborados y/o valid...

La ansiedad escolar se define como un conjunto de respuestas cognitivas, psicofisiológicas y motoras que un individuo emite ante situaciones evaluadas como amenazantes, peligrosas o ambiguas, aunque objetivamente no lo sean. Las importantes consecuencias negativas a corto y largo plazo, que puede provocar la manifestación continuada de esta emoción...

El objetivo de este estudio consistió en analizar las diferencias en función del sexo y la edad en los niveles de perfeccionismo infantil, atendiendo a las dimensiones: Perfeccionismo Socialmente Prescrito (PSP), Perfeccionismo Auto-Orientado Críticas (PAO-C) y Perfeccionismo Auto-Orientado Esfuerzos (PAO-E). La muestra se compuso de 804 alumnos es...

This study aimed to test the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism in an Ecuadorian sample of 1562 students aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.83 years, standard deviation = 1.86 years). The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale and the brief 21-item version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales were used. Cluster analysis revealed four...

Resumen El objetivo de este estudio consistió en analizar la capacidad predictiva del rechazo escolar sobre los altos niveles de ansiedad ante el castigo escolar (ACE). Para ello, se reclutó una muestra de 1,003 estudiantes de Educación Primaria con edades comprendidas entre los 8 y los 12 años. Los instrumentos empleados fueron el Inventario de An...

The present work aims to identify possible combinations of Self-Oriented Perfectionism (SOP) and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) that lead to different profiles of child perfectionism, as well as to determine whether these profiles differ from each other as a function of scores on the three components of aggression (cognitive or Hostility,...

The School Refusal Assessment Scale–Revised (SRAS-R) is a self-report measure designed to assess four functional factors of school refusal behavior: avoidance of stimuli that provoke negative affectivity (Factor I), escape from aversive social and/or evaluative situations (Factor II), pursuit of attention from significant others (Factor III), and p...

El presente estudio tiene por objeto analizar la relación entre el Perfeccionismo Socialmente Prescrito (PSP) y el afecto durante la infancia. Se empleó una muestra compuesta por 804 alumnos de Educación Primaria entre 8 y 11 años (M=9.57; DE=1.12), así como la subescala PSP de la Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale y la 10-Item Positive and N...

El objetivo de este trabajo consistió en examinar la relación entre el perfeccionismo socialmente prescrito (PSP) y la agresividad, atendiendo a sus componentes: fisiológico-emocional (ira), motor (agresividad física y verbal) y cognitivo (hostilidad). Se empleó una muestra de 776 alumnos de tercero a sexto curso de Educación Primaria (M=9.72; DE=1...

The aim of this study was to analyze the factorial invariance and latent means differences of the Spanish version of the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised for Children (SRAS-R-C) in a sample of 1,078 students (50.8% boys) aged 8–11 years (M = 9.63, SD = 1.12). The results revealed that the proposed model in this study, with a structure of 18...

This study aims to analyze the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and affect during childhood. A sample of 804 students aged between 8 and 11 years old (M=9.57; SD=1.12), as well as the SPP subscale of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale and the 10-Item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children, which ass...

This study aims to analyze the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and affect during childhood. A sample of 804 students aged between 8 and 11 years old (M=9.57; SD=1.12), as well as the SPP subscale of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale and the 10-Item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children, which ass...

La ansiedad y el autoconcepto constituyen variables personales de gran influencia en el aprendizaje y el rendimiento académico. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las diferencias en ansiedad escolar en función de las puntuaciones obtenidas para las 11 dimensiones del autoconcepto. Participaron 1,414 estudiantes chilenos de educación media (69...

El rechazo escolar es un fenómeno complejo que afecta aproximadamente entre el 5 y el 28% de niños y adolescentes. El objetivo de este estudio consiste en ofrecer una revisión bibliométrica de la productividad científica publicada sobre rechazo escolar durante el transcurso temporal de 2004 a 2012. La base de datos utilizada fue Psycinfo, obteniend...