Marisol Navas

• Psicologia
• Professor (Full) at University of Almería

Introduction. This work aims to compare the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of Spanish adolescents with the adaptation of immigrant-origin adolescents living in Spain. The relationship of different sources of social support with these variables are also tested. Method. Participants included 1805 adolescents (54.3% girls): 1122 Spanish, a...

The Roma—an ethnic minority group in Europe—continues to face high levels of discrimination. This research explores how the quality of contact between Roma and non‐Roma is associated with collective action participation for Roma rights in Spain. It examines non‐Roma as potential allies (Study 1; N = 239) and Roma (Study 2; N = 259), while consideri...

Previous research showed that majority group members’ perceptions of how minority groups acculturate are associated with their acculturation preferences. However, these studies have focused exclusively on traditionally devalued immigrants and have not examined the potential mediator role of emotions in the association between acculturation percepti...

The aim of this study was to analyze the perceptions and acculturation preferences of teachers toward young Moroccans and Romanians using quantitative and qualitative methodology. The quantitative study involved 181 teachers from Spanish public schools (56% female) who evaluated young Moroccans (N = 101) and Romanians (N = 80). In the qualitative s...

Mexico is one of the most diverse countries with numerous social minorities such as indigenous Mexicans, but also immigrants coming from countries so different like Honduras or the United States (US). The relationship between stereotypes about minorities and perceived threat has been extensively studied; however, it has not been tested whether such...

Acculturation is a bidirectional process in which both the majority and minority groups change as they relate to each other. In Spain, studies have usually focused on the acculturation of minorities (e.g., Moroccans) upon their arrival in Spanish society, but little has been said about the accul-turation of the majority. In this study, we analyzed...

Two studies were conducted to investigate the role of the morality dimension in the prejudice towards a group of Roma (the Romanian Roma) in comparison with other immigrants (Moroccan and Romanian immigrants). Since prejudice towards Romanian Roma is a subject that is still underexplored, Study 1 describes stereotype content (in terms of morality,...

La migración hondureña hacia los Estados Unidos atraviesa México en forma de caravanas migrantes, lo cual ha generado un intenso debate sociopolítico. Empero, no se ha realizado un análisis psicosocial centrado en las percepciones y las tendencias comportamentales de los mexicanos. Se analizaron la calidad del contacto de los residentes mexicanos c...

Background Insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant created a crisis that has had immediate and long-term consequences for the population in Iraq. Yazidis are among the most affected ethnoreligious groups in the region. The current study focuses on investigating the level of psychological distress and its association with subjective r...

This study aimed to analyze the relationship among different evaluative reactions of the intergroup attitudes and contact in Spanish adolescents evaluating different ethnic minorities and in immigrant-background adolescents evaluating Spanish youth. This study was based on psychosocial models of great impact in the study of intergroup relations suc...

One of the difficulties in social research has been to disentangle the effects of race/ethnicity from social class. In two experimental studies with samples of both students and general population (total N = 416), we analyzed the effect of social class, ethnicity and their interaction on prejudice and discrimination using experimental methods. Soci...

The objective of this study was to analyse the relationship between variables of the family context (perceived family support, quality of parent–adolescent communication and family ethnic socialisation) and the acculturation process (perceptions and preferences of cultural maintenance and adoption) among adolescents of Moroccan origin living in Spa...

Acceptance of cultural differences can contribute to diversity. However, naïve realism-the conviction that one's views are objective whereas others' are biased-might hinder intercultural coexistence. We tested, in three experimental studies, whether a cognitive strategy based on raising awareness of the naïve realism, without any reference to cultu...

En este capítulo, trataremos los procesos de aculturación que experimentan las personas y grupos como resultado de su contacto con personas y grupos de culturas diferentes, así como su relación con distintas variables clave en el estudio de las relaciones intergrupales, como el prejuicio. La investigación sobre el proceso de aculturación puede co...

We tested whether moral judgments in a cross-cultural setting are related to both culture and moral foundations. Our objective was to verify if the relationship between cultural power distance and moral judgment of both egoistic and other-oriented lies told to one’s supervisor is mediated by adherence to the ethics of authority. We analyzed data fr...

Although the relationship between stereotypes and acculturation preferences has been previously studied from the majority perspective among adults, the perspective of adolescents and minority groups is understudied. This research analyzed the contribution of four stereotype dimensions (i.e., morality, immorality, sociability, and competence) to the...

In recent decades, there have been an increasing number of notable contributions from social psychology to the study of immigration, one of the major social problems and challenges of the twenty-first century with important consequences for both the displaced persons and the host societies. Social psychology has studied immigration using a classic...

The presence of adolescents with immigrant backgrounds in Spain is a structural phenomenon with major implications and challenges for intergroup coexistence. The purpose of this study is to analyse the possible existence of psychosocial profiles in these adolescents. Using latent class cluster models (LCCM), profiles were identified where these ado...

Acculturation preferences of the majority towards minorities influence how their acculturation process takes place. According to the relative acculturation extended model (RAEM), these preferences depend on the area (public or private) in which it occurs. The aim of this study is to analyse the acculturation preference profiles of Spaniards towards...

Este estudio analiza el contacto, las actitudes intergrupales y otras variables psicosociales relacionadas en usuarios de bibliotecas públicas españolas, con objeto de conocer si el cumplimiento por las bibliotecas de las Directrices IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) para Comunidades Multiculturales favorece el contacto y mejo...

Le but de cet article est de présenter le Modèle Amplifié d’Acculturation Relative (MAAR). Prenant comme point de départ le modèle de l’acculturation de Berry (1990, 2005 et 2011), le MAAR est le résultat de plus de dix ans de recherche sur le processus d’acculturation. Il propose une analyse détaillée des relations interculturelles. Les avancées m...

Le but de cet article est de présenter le Modèle Amplifié d’Acculturation Relative (MAAR). Prenant comme point de départ le modèle de l’acculturation de Berry (1990, 2005 et 2011), le MAAR est le résultat de plus de dix ans de recherche sur le processus d’acculturation. Il propose une analyse détaillée des relations interculturelles. Les avancées m...

This work proposes a conceptual model of psychological adjustment of native and immigrant adolescents who live in Spain. Psychological adjustment was expected to mediate between perceived family support and adolescents’ school adjustment and problem behaviors. Spanish adolescents ( n = 156) and immigrant adolescents ( n = 137) filled out a self-rep...

In this article we show that when analyzing attitude towards lying in a cross-cultural setting, both the beneficiary of the lie (self vs other) and the context (private life vs. professional domain) should be considered. In a study conducted in Estonia, Ireland, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden (N = 1345), in which participants ev...

Se analiza el papel de la percepción de amenaza exogrupal y la naturaleza del contacto intergrupal en el prejuicio afectivo experimentado por autóctonos chilenos hacia tres grupos migrantes latinoamericanos residentes en la región norte del país (peruanos, bolivianos y colombianos). Participaron 420 personas que respondieron a un cuestionario con d...

The role of the outgroup threat perception and nature of intergroup contact in the affective prejudice experienced by Chilean natives towards three Latin American migrant groups (from Peru, Bolivia and Colombia) living in the northern region is analyzed. Four hundred and twenty participants answered a questionnaire with different items and scales t...

The psychosocial processes involved in the acculturation preferences of immigrants are important to understand intercultural relationships in multicultural contexts. This work analyzes how three stereotype dimensions and positive emotions are related to the acculturation preferences of Ecuadorians living in Spain. A sample of 92 Ecuadorians (53.3%...

Resumen:El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar creencias sexistas, creencias sobre la naturaleza del amor y percepción de indicadores de abuso en la pareja, en mujeres de diferentes edades. Participaron 130 mujeres, adolescentes (Grupo 1, n = 65) y mayores de 50 años (Grupo 2, n = 65) que cumplimentaron un cuestionario. Los resultados muestra...

This study tests two serial models of intergroup contact in intergroup relations between users of Spanish public libraries and the directionality of the contact-prejudice relationship. Participants were selected in libraries that meet IFLA Guidelines in Barcelona (NSpaniards = 138 and NMoroccans = 89) and libraries that do not meet these guidelines...

Introducción. Este estudio analiza la influencia de un programa de meditación sobre los valores en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios.Método. Para ello se contó con la participación de 84 estudiantes universitarios que fueron asignados aleatoriamente a un grupo experimental (N=45), que recibió la intervención en meditación, y a un grupo cont...

This research aimed to analyse interpersonal behaviour towards immigrants by exploring related psychosocial variables such as intergroup similarity and quality of intergroup contact. A new interpersonal behavioural tendencies scale was developed. In Study 1, Spanish participants reported their willingness to take different actions towards a Morocca...

Las investigaciones sobre las actitudes prejuiciosas de los grupos minoritarios hacia la mayoría dominante son aún escasas, y las existentes se limitan al colectivo afroamericano, principalmente en EE. UU. Este trabajo pretende ser una primera aproximación a la forma que adoptan las actitudes de los inmigrantes magrebíes hacia la población española...

Introducción: el sentimiento de arrepentimiento relaciona aspectos emocionales y cognitivos. Se experimenta por haber realizado algo en el pasado cuyas consecuencias proporcionan un malestar en la actualidad o por no haber realizado algo que creemos que habría cambiado la situación actual que nos incomoda. Este trabajo pretende estudiar en qué medi...

Several variants of biculturalism have recently been proposed (Schwartz, Birman, Benet-Martínez, & Unger, 2016). Nevertheless, few studies have identified different types of bicultural individuals, and no one has addressed the possibility that these types could depend on acculturation domains. By using the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAE...

The psychosocial processes involved in the acculturation preferences of immigrants are important to understand intercultural relationships in multicultural contexts. This work analyzes how three stereotype dimensions and positive emotions are related to the acculturation preferences of Ecuadorians living in Spain. A sample of 92 Ecuadorians (53.3%...

La amenaza exogrupal es una variable fundamental para entender y predecir las relaciones y actitudes intergrupales. La ausencia de instrumentos psicométricamente adecuados en el contexto chileno para medir esta variable justifica el objetivo del presente estudio: analizar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Percepción de Amenaza Exogrupal...

The out-group threat is a fundamental variable to understand and predict intergroup relationships and attitudes. The absence of psychometrically suitable instruments in the Chilean context to measure this variable justifies the objective of this study: to analyze the psychometric properties of the Outgroup Threat Perception Scale (OTPS). Participan...

This study focused on the minority’s perspective, and analyzes the assessments that the three immigrant groups most representative in Spain maintain about each other on the variables defended by the stereo- type content model (SCM). Four hundred and nine immigrants participated assessing the other two groups: Moroccan immigrants were assessed by Ec...

The main goal of this research was twofold. First, we aimed at determining how acculturation preferences and emotions were related to specific intergroup behavioural tendencies towards majority and minority groups. Second, we aimed at developing an intergroup behavioural tendencies scale that differentiates between valence (facilitation and harm) a...

Introduction: the feeling of regret relates emotional and cognitive aspects. It is felt after having done something in the past whose consequences make us feel discomfort today or when we have not done something that we think it would have changed this actual uncomfortable situation. This work aims to study to which extend immigrants people reg...

Two studies are presented with the purpose of analyzing out-group perception of 471 native and 333 Latino immigrant adolescents in Madrid city and differences regarding age and level of outgroup contact. In order to evaluate outgroup perception, a measure was created using de-scriptions provided by adolescents with similar characteristics during fo...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the quality of library service provision to immigrants in the Bibliotecas de Barcelona network using as a reference IFLA’s Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services. By adopting these guidelines, public libraries can become environments capable of facilitating social cohesion, knowledge and cultu...

This research aimed to analyse interpersonal behaviour towards immigrants by exploring related psychosocial variables such as intergroup similarity and quality of intergroup contact. A new interpersonal behavioural tendencies scale was developed. In Study 1, Spanish participants reported their willingness to take different actions towards a Morocca...

This study examines acculturation perceptions and preferences in peripheral and central life areas in immigrant and host adolescents from Italy (N = 359) and Spain (N = 295), using a questionnaire based on the Relative Acculturation Extended Model by Navas et al. Results showed a discrepancy between immigrant and host participants’ perspectives in...

The main goal of this study was to identify acculturation preference profiles using cluster analysis in public and private areas of culture in the host and immigrant populations, and to find out the relationship between these profiles and prejudice levels. Four hundred and ninety-nine Spaniards and 500 Romanians participated in a survey. The sampli...

The main objective of this research was to show that majority members differ in their perceptions of different immigrant groups as regards their warmth, competence, similarity, and triggered threat, and that these differences might explain why majority members vary in their perception of adaptation and the perceived need to adapt for different immi...

This paper presents theoretical foundations that legitimize intercultural library services, presents case studies of good library practice and describes part of an investigation conducted in public libraries in the province of Almería. The aim is to show that public libraries can facilitate social integration of foreigners if they adopt the guideli...

This work falls within the framework of the study of acculturation processes of natives and immigrants. Its goal is to test an explanatory multi-group model of natives' acculturation attitudes as a function of diverse psychosocial variables: Prejudice and natives' appraisal of their own culture (in a direct way) and inter-group contact and perceive...

This work aimed to apply and extend the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) in Spain, in order to identify Spanish participants' stereotypes about the three main immigrant groups in the country. This survey included morality and sociability as separate dimensions, instead of the unified warmth dimension. Participants assessed Moroccans (N = 140), Romani...

Este estudio pretende analizar las dimensiones de mantenimien- to y adaptación cultural expresadas por inmigrantes de diferentes orígenes en España, así como las variables psicosociales y sociodemográficas que las predicen. Se realizó un estudio correlacional en el que participaron inmi- grantes marroquíes (N = 71), rumanos (N = 74) y ecuatorianos...

Este trabajo pretende aplicar y ampliar el Modelo del Contenido de los Estereotipos (MCE) en España, con el fin de conocer los estereotipos de una muestra de españoles sobre los tres principales grupos de inmigrantes en dicho país. Se incluyó la moralidad y la sociabilidad como dimensiones separadas, frente a la dimensión unitaria de calidez. Los p...

Resumen: El presente artículo expone los fundamentos teóricos que legitiman la prestación de servicios bibliotecarios intercultura-les, presenta experiencias de buenas prácticas bibliotecarias y describe parte de una investigación realizada en bibliotecas públicas municipales de la provincia de Almería. El objetivo es mostrar que las bibliotecas pú...

El objetivo del trabajo es estudiar las propiedades psicométricas de una nueva escala (Escala de Percepción de Amenaza Exogrupal, EPAE), destinada a medir la percepción de amenaza exogrupal, una variable psicosocial estrechamente relacionada con actitudes negativas hacia los exogrupos que la elicitan. Participaron en el estudio 302 personas español...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate gender differences in leadership styles and in organizational outcome variables, together with the influence of organizational/contextual variables on leadership styles in female and male partici- pants in Spain. The sample comprised 226 participants (35 leaders and 191 subor- dinates) belonging to 3...

Introduction: The multicultural coexistence is one of the most important issues in the new educational challenges. In the face of the limitations of the frameworks of prejudice reduction, this problem begins to be addressed from the Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies based on mindfulness and acceptation. This study analyses the influence of a psyc...

This study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of a new scale: the Out-group Threat Perception Scale (OTPS). The OTPS was designed to measure the perception of out-group threat, an important psychosocial variable that is closely related to negative attitudes towards out-groups. Three hundred and two Spanish participants responded to the OT...

Introducción. La convivencia multicultural es uno de los temas más importantes en los nuevos retos que plantea la educación. Como respuesta a las limitaciones de los enfoques de reducción del prejuicio, se ha comenzado a afrontar este problema desde las terapias cognitivas y comportamentales de nueva generación basadas en el mindfulness (conciencia...

The aim of the work is to evaluate if there are differences in similarity perceived depending on the acculturation option of natives and immigrant. It will also be taken into account the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM) socio-cultural domains (public and private). This study involved two samples of Spaniards (499 Spaniards rating Romani...

ste trabajo se enmarca en el estudio del prejuicio en las pobla- ciones autóctona e inmigrante. El objetivo es llevar a cabo un estudio de las propiedades psicométricas de una nueva medida de la actitud de prejuicio para los diferentes grupos (mayorías y minorías), el Test de Actitud Prejui- ciosa (TAP). El TAP se basa en una concepción tricomponen...

El objetivo del trabajo es comprobar si existen diferencias en similitud percibida en función de la opción de aculturación preferida por autóctonos e inmigrantes, teniendo en cuenta los ámbitos socioculturales, públicos y privados, del Modelo Ampliado de Aculturación Relativa (MAAR). Participaron dos muestras de españoles (499 españoles evaluaban a...

There have been two basic approaches for the study of minority group prejudice against the majority: to adapt instruments from the majority group, and to use qualitative techniques by analyzing the content of the discourse of the groups involved. Neither of these procedures solves the problem of measuring intergroup attitudes of majorities and mino...

The following research study analyses the relationship between types of sexism and intergroup strategies. Specifically, we explored 1) the dimensions attributed by the male in-group to different female subtypes, as well as 2) the relationship between types of sexism and strategies of intergroup differentiation and in-group favouritism. 180 men, wit...

En un contexto multicultural, donde grupos distintos comparten un mismo entorno geográfico y social, los este-reotipos que los autóctonos mantienen sobre diferentes grupos inmigrantes son esenciales a la hora de com-prender las relaciones interculturales armoniosas o conflictivas que se establecen entre ellos. En efecto, los estereotipos pueden ens...

Concordance or discrepancy between majority and minority acculturation attitudes, and between majority attitudes and perceptions of minority acculturation, as well as their influence on intergroup relations have recently begun to be evaluated. This work attempts to widen the perspective of the second approach, using the Relative Acculturation Exten...

In-group favouritism has become a variable of enormous importance in the study of inter-ethnic relations. According to current approaches, it can be understood as a tendency among the members of one group to favour or value the behaviour, attitudes, preferences or perceptions of their own group over those of another group to which they do not belon...

Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo ha sido detectar, empleando el Modelo Ampliado de Aculturación Relativa (MAAR), y tomando como referencia a inmigrantes rumanos y ecuatorianos y a autóctonos españoles, aquellos ámbitos socioculturales en los que pueden predecirse relaciones conflictivas o problemáticas entre inmigrantes y autóctonos—frente...

The aim of this paper has been to detect, using the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM), those socio-cultural domains in which conflicting or problematic relations between autochthons and immigrants (from Romania and Ecuador in this case) can be predicted in order to address intervention. In this study, 1967 people have participated: 992 n...

Introduction: This study analyzes the influence of a meditation program on the values of a university students' sample. Method: 84 university students were assigned to an experimental group (N=45) and a control group (N=39). The experimental group participates in a meditation program. Values of participants were evaluated with a Spanish adaptation...

Tradicionalmente se ha conceptualizado el sexismo como una hostilidad genérica hacia las mujeres. Sin embargo, éste puede manifestarse conjuntamente con actitudes benevolentes y con el reconocimiento de características “positivas” del estereotipo femenino. La respuesta a esta contradicción está en la naturaleza de estas características: no se puede...

This study has two main goals: (a) to compare the relationship between transformational leadership and other important leadership styles (i.e., democratic versus autocratic or relations- and task-oriented leadership) and (b) to compare the effects of transformational leadership and the other styles on some important organizational outcomes such as...

The purpose of this work was to study acculturation of the African immigrant and host populations in an area in the southeast of Spain (Almería), characterized by a high rate of immigration. A new acculturation model, the Relative Acculturation Extended Model, RAEM [Navas, M., Pumares, P., Sánchez, J., García, M. C., Rojas, A. J., Cuadrado, I., & A...

The purpose of this study is to undertake a non-systematic revision of the bibliography dedicated to the perception The objective of the present study was to adapt the Scale of Modern Racism to the Brazilian context. Specifically, it was intended to know its construct validity (factorial structure) and reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha, a). It consiste...

The purpose of this study is to undertake a non-systematic revision of the bibliography dedicated to the perception The objective of the present study was to adapt the Scale of Modern Racism to the Brazilian context. Specifically, it was intended to know its construct validity (factorial structure) and reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha, α). It consiste...

This research is based on the work of Berry, Bourhis, Piontkowski, and their colleagues on general immigrant acculturation attitudes. The main purpose is to show that the division of the general acculturation attitude into different areas provides more complete information on the acculturation process undergone by immigrants. A new acculturation mo...

This study is framed in a wider research on the acculturation process through a new acculturation model. The aim of this paper is to analyse the mutual prejudice between ethnic groups in contact and its relation to their preferred acculturation attitude. A questionnaire composed by various scales was given to four groups of people living in municip...

Prejudice and attitudes of acculturation: perspectives of autochthonous and immigrants. This study is framed in a wider research on the acculturation process through a new acculturation model. The aim of this paper is to analyse the mutual prejudice between ethnic groups in contact and its relation to their preferred acculturation attitude. A quest...

This research has two aims: first, to determine the relationship between the intergroup differences perceived and the anxiety experienced by ingroup members in their contact with members of the outgroup. Second, to examine the moderator and/or mediator role of a series of variables considered relevant in the literature on intergroup prejudice, take...

The worldwide volume and social relevance of migratory processes justify the need to study the psychological acculturation of the host and immigrant populations through a model adapted to the social context in which they develop. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to carry out a review of some of the existing acculturation models (e.g...