Marta Gil-Lacruz

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• Phd Social Psychology
• Professor (Full) at University of Zaragoza

In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly increased in the field of workplace well-being. This study systematically reviews the most common applications of AI in this context, covering literature published between 2018 and 2023, and evaluates both its current and potential impact. The research involved a comprehensi...

Introduction The 2030 Agenda and the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) define companies and public authorities as agents for social change sharing objectives such as promotion of health, personal development and social engagement, among others. Care homes for the older adult are an example of organizations that should be particula...

This article aims to review the scientific production on social interventions (SI) in the field of persons with disabilities (PWD) and their families and to analyze its evaluations. To do so, it starts from the context of the social model of care of the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the sustainable develo...

Introduction So far, both for the general and older population, research on human values and wellbeing mainly shows correlational associations but does not inquire about the direction of this relationship. This is also true for values and civic participation. Therefore, our objective is to identify the directional association between civic particip...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the background and consequences of the Spanish job market on the employment conditions of Spanish women and on underlying attitudes on gender role in the working environment. Design/methodology/approach From the European Social Survey (2004, 2008, 2010, 2016), the authors draw a sample of 3,706 indiv...

Las normas internacionales, como la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad, suponen un avance hacia la equidad. Asimismo, implican tanto un incremento de la legislación nacional y autonómica, como una mayor complejidad institucional, para hacer efectivos estos derechos. Por ello, queremos conocer cómo se ha implementado el d...

Background: Nowadays, the increase in life expectancy needs to be matched by an increase in the wellbeing of older adults. A starting point is the definition of what is understood by health-related quality of life and its measurement in different contexts. Our research translates these international priorities to a local base. Objective: To eval...

Brazilian education faces difficulties relating to performance and illness, suggesting that the characteristics of the work can affect both variables. This study aims to describe the work characteristics that increase the odds of having happy–productive patterns in education workers. A total of 4,598 employees of the Secretariat of Education of the...

Sustainable innovation is the cornerstone of economic growth and development of regions and nations, as well as of organizational competitiveness and success. Innovation is a complex process that relies on individuals and often implies social activities based on interaction with others. Higher Education (HE) is expected to prepare innovative and te...

The complex situation that global society is facing as a result of COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of companies committing to the principles of social responsibility. Among the internal initiatives, those related to the health of workers are, obviously, highly topical. The objective of our research is to provide concise knowledge of the rel...

Childhood cancer has a great impact on children and their environment. To minimize this, countries such as Canada and the USA have protocols in the field of social work, although these are scarce in Europe and especially in Spain. This paper aims to develop a pilot protocol in Aragon (Spain) for the practice of onco-pediatric social work in one of...

Membership in voluntary organizations is associated with individual and social benefits. Due to the negative consequences of the global pandemic on older people, and the governmental challenges posed by population aging, voluntary membership is of great importance to society. To effectively promote volunteering among older people, it is necessary t...

INTRODUCCIÓN La discriminación racial está relacionada tanto con el estrés laboral como con otros factores de riesgo organizacional: la sobrecarga laboral, la fatiga, malos tratos en la interacción con supervisores y/o compañeros de trabajo. [1]. En la prevención de la discriminación étnica resulta fundamental estudiar cómo las actitudes negativas...

Previous research on the direction of the relationship between civic participation and well-being has evidenced that civic participation is a promoter of well-being among older adults in Europe. Accordingly, the objective of the present study is to identify and analyze the differences between European welfare systems regarding both civic participat...

Background: The relationship between self-rated health and gender differs across countries and generations. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of socioeconomic conditions on self-rated health from a generational perspective, its differential effect on gender, and its influence on the gender gap in order to explore health diversity usin...

Gauging the social relationships of the elderly is a significant sociometric research subject and a deep biomedical concern—particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is imperative for facultatives in primary care, for geriatric clinics, and for social care services. In this respect, this article explores the validity of an abbreviated version of...

This research analyzes how gender equality influences the participation of European senior citizens in a range of volunteering activities (Social Awareness, Professional and Political, Education, and Religion). The main contribution is the simultaneous consideration of different levels of data aggregation: individual, national and welfare system. T...

Higher Education Instituions (HEIs) should be the driving force behind the training of college students in terms of both hard and soft skills (for example, innovation and teamwork competencies), and they should also do so without neglecting their health and well-being, perhaps more than ever in these complex times of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Game-ba...

Background: Leader-Member Exchange theory provides strategic information about how to improve the leader's role and nurses' satisfaction on healthcare organizations. Objectives: The main objective of this research was to study the quality of the supervisor-nurse relationship in relation to the nurses' job satisfaction. This research also analyse...

The main goal of this research is to determine the link between happiness and individual subjective life expectancy (SLE) among Chilean senior citizens. We use data from the 2015 edition of the Chilean Social Protection Survey. Our sample consists of 1298 seniors: 700 aged 65–74, 421 aged 75–84, and 177 aged 85 and older. We provide a novel methodo...

This article analyses how physical activity reinforces each of the dimensions (mental, physical, social, etc.) of the health-related quality of life concept. To that end, we determined whether this relationship is moderated by educational level and area of residence. The empirical part was based on data obtained from a cross-sectional survey carrie...

This study analyzes the dimensions and consequences of the burden of caregivers of patients with SMD (Severe Mental Disorder) and the repercussions that this role has on their quality of life and health in the physical, psychic and social spheres. This is a descriptive cross‐sectional study and inferential observational study which explores caregiv...

The main objective of this research is to understand how civic participation influences the well-being of older people, thus being a key activity of active aging. In addition, it recognizes differences by gender, age group and generational cohort. The data are drawn from the European Social Survey (2002–2016), considering individuals born before 19...

University volunteering is a type of activity that is part of the University Social Responsibility. The paper analyzes the relationship between student volunteering and the motivations for volunteering and delves into the areas of interest of university students to volunteer. A total of 680 university students from a Campus of the University of Zar...

Introducción: Se marca como objetivo del estudio conocer el grado de satisfacción que tienen los beneficiarios (directos e indirectos) del Servicio de Ayuda a Domicilio como indicador de calidad; analizar los resultados obtenidos y proponer opciones de mejora encaminadas a lograr el aumento de la calidad de vida de las personas.Objetivos específico...

Background The high prevalence of emotional disorders leads to a high demand for mental care which results in high costs and long waiting lists in public mental health settings. The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) is a recent emotion‐regulation‐based intervention that can be a cost‐effective solution in pu...

Immigration is a process that affects both the immigrants and the native population. The aim of this present study was to analyse negative attitudes of resident populations towards immigration (ATIs) and the influence of these attitudes on life satisfaction. The main contribution of the work is that it considers the perspectives of 3 generational c...

The main contribution of this paper is an analysis of the nature of the link between internal coherence and risk aversion. Both variables play an important role in individual decisions concerning risk behaviors. We compare the levels of internal consistency and risk aversion among smokers and non-smokers. To measure the individual internal coherenc...

Background: The concept of health-related quality of life and education integrates the bio-psychosocial perspective of health and the multidimensional potentialities of education for wellbeing. This present work is especially relevant to young people because understanding the interaction between health and education can facilitate the design of pr...

Senior volunteering is associated with improved welfare, in addition to contributing to social development. Thus, the involvement of seniors in non-profit organizations (NPO), the third sector, or the social economy is encouraged by European national governments. At the organizational level, the situation for older volunteers in the third sector ha...

Esta investigación evalúa el bienestar percibido de los inmigrantes de América del Sur y Central que viven en Teruel. Teruel es un municipio rural de Aragón, España, donde el descenso de la tasa de fertilidad y el envejecimiento está aumentando notablemente durante las últimas décadas. Para llevar a cabo este estudio utilizamos una base de datos de...

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Background: The relation among gender differences and culture in self-rated health is not only bidirectional and static. In this sense, it is important to difference between effects of age and cohort. The aim of this study is analyzing gender gap differences in self-rated health from a generational perspective in order to explore health diversity f...

Healthier aging implies lower health service expenditure and the possibility for individuals to make a longer and more valuable contribution to society. Lifestyles, including volunteering, affect our health. The policy implications of the present study are that it aims to broaden the state of knowledge and be useful to public decision-makers: if vo...

Introduction: In European countries, the increasing of dependency affects individual, family-level and political aspects. The purpose is to analyse the effects on the health of informal carers living with a dependent person and the number of hours taken up by this care. Results between genders will be compared with other situations (time, energy c...

Objective We analyzed the preference of three psychological intervention formats—individual, group, and online—in a sample of 267 patients with a primary diagnosis of emotional disorder in Spanish public mental health settings. Method We studied patients’ preferences considering sociodemographic characteristics, diagnoses, history of psychological...

As one of the training methodologies employed in the health care context, ‘Learning by Doing’ prioritizes the transference of competence, control, and workplace motivation. However, there are few published works that consider the opinions of health care professionals in relation to the effects of this kind of training on their workplace competence....

In whatever domain of life, from cells to organisms to societies, communicative exchanges underlie the formation and maintenance, and decay, of the emerging collective structures. It can be clearly seen in the human social world. The different classes of social bonds in a complex society revolve around, and are intimately related with, the communic...

La participación ciudadana en el ámbito de la salud se entiende como una estrategia fundamental para el desarrollo comunitario en general y, en este caso, de la promoción y la educación para la salud. Las transformaciones sociales y el cambio de los valores éticos acontecidos en estos últimos años han posicionado al paciente en un rol activo frente...

La participación ciudadana en el ámbito de la salud se entiende como una estrategia fundamental para el desarrollo comunitario en general y, en este caso, de la promoción y la educación para la salud. Las transformaciones sociales y el cambio de los valores éticos acontecidos en estos últimos años han posicionado al paciente en un rol activo frente...

La formación continua sanitaria es una estrategia organizativa que pretende la mejora de las competencias profesionales y la calidad asistencial. Sin embargo, la evaluación del impacto formativo es una práctica poco extendida que dificulta la futura toma de decisiones. Con el fin de analizar las posibilidades metodológicas que tiene la evaluación d...

There is abundant scientific literature concerning factors that affect patients' perceptions of the quality of health care. However, there are few published works that consider the opinions of health care professionals. This article aims to conjointly analyse two organisational strategies that determine professional health care practice: continuous...

This article aims to analyze psychosocial variables associated with verbal abuse in women who suffer intimate partner violence. The following factors, taken from the scientific literature, were examined: social and family isolation; low self-esteem; an excess of empathy for the abuser; submission; psychological dependence on the abuser; and, self-b...

This paper focuses on how Japanese immigrants who settled in Spain and Scotland are building new social networks and questions how this process changes the way they relate to Japan and their Japanese identities. A grounded theory approach was used to gather data for the study. The sample is composed of 14 immigrants interviewed in Scotland and 17 i...

Los profesionales sanitarios requieren de un proceso formativo constante que les permita hacer frente a retos actuales como: la innovación tecnológica, los nuevos modelos organizacionales, la medicina basada en la evidencia, los cambios epidemiológicos, la participación del usuario, etc. A pesar de los recursos y esfuerzos invertidos, no se ha pres...

Objetives: The purpose of this work is to analyse the effects on informal caregiver's health and lifestyle when living with a dependent person at home. A comparison will be made between this situation and other situations involving commitment of time and energy, taking into account gender and age differences in each stage of the life cycle. Desig...

El proceso de envejecimiento demográfico, transformará la manera de entender social y culturalmente a la población en su composición por edad y sexo, su capacidad para el trabajo y el desarrollo, los niveles de competencia, su estado de salud y sus necesidades. •. Se constata que la vejez no es igual en la tercera y la cuarta edad, existen diferenc...

La violencia es el recurso de quien no tiene más recursos para afrontar las situaciones cotidianas de la vida. Basada en el poder del fuerte sobre el débil, se utiliza para someter a una persona a la voluntad de quien la ejerce. La mujer ha sido uno de los destinatarios de la violencia a lo largo de la historia. Sin embargo, los estudios demuestran...

Este libro aborda el estudio de la violencia en distintos contextos y especialmente el de la violencia que tiene a la mujer como víctima. Desde la Psicología Social y especialmente desde el Grupo de Investigación Bienestar y Capital Social (BYCS), perteneciente a la Red de Investigación dependiente del Gobierno de Aragón y la Universidad de Zaragoz...

Objetivo: Analizar en un entorno comunitario la relación entre vulnerabilidad socioeconómica y utilización y frecuentación de servicios sanitarios, usando una aproximación multidimensional del concepto de vulnerabilidad. Material y Métodos: Estudio transversal en adultos del barrio de Casablanca (Zaragoza). Se seleccionó una muestra representativa...

Objectives: To analyze the association between socioeconomic vulnerability and use and frequentation of health care attention in a neighbourhood, by using a multidimensional operative definition of socioeconomic vulnerability. Material and Methods: A transversal survey was implemented in Casablanca neighborhood (Zaragoza, Spain). 1032 people were s...

In Spain, fewer men are smoking every year yet the number of women smokers remains relatively high. This paper examines the impact of two anti-smoking policies (increased prices and obligatory pictorial health warning labels) on womens smoking decisions; generation cohorts are used to elucidate the determinants of those decisions. We have drawn 48,...

Tabla 1. Tendencias de centralidad •Es importante destacar que con la edad cambia el peso especifico atribuido a la significatividad que tiene la vida para las personas mayores. Cuando se es más joven se encuentra mas sentido a la vida y cuanto se es mas mayor se comprende de manera mas confusa como se organiza ésta. Pese al posible deterioro cogni...

The relationship between flow and fixity in globalization literature, leads to questions about how a sense of belonging is achieved, especially when given concepts such as home, family and nation are becoming detached from physical boundaries. In adding to the literature on migration and belonging, this project focuses on how Japanese immigrants in...

Social network play an important role in both the decision to emigrate and the choice of location. Related to migrants and its social net, very little is known about patterns of integration and community participation in rural and low population density contexts in Spain. This article explores these issues and is based on a study, in the province o...

El Instituto Aragonés de la Juventud (en adelante IAJ) cuenta desde el año 2012 con un proyecto educativo cuya primera medida está basada en determinar un proyecto educativo fundamentado en los valores definidos por la Comunidad Europea y aplicados a las actividades desarrolladas desde la Institución. Los objetivos se centran en la participación de...

This paper studies how household social capital affects adolescents' demand for alcoholic drinks. To that end, we focus on a theoretical framework that combines elements from the Model of Rational Addiction and the Model of Social Economics. For the empirical framework, we use a simultaneous Type II Tobit model, with data drawn from the Spanish Nat...

Objective To analyse the association between perceived and diagnosed health, sport practice, and the belonging to a vulnerable socioeconomic group.DesignObservational study. Questionnaire.SettingCasablanca neighbourhood. Primary Health Care Area in the city of Zaragoza (Spain).Participants1032 residents aged over 15 years.Main measurementsa) Percei...

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the association between perceived and diagnosed health, sport practice, and the belonging to a vulnerable socioeconomic group. DESIGN: Observational study. Questionnaire. SETTING: Casablanca neighbourhood. Primary Health Care Area in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). PARTICIPANTS: 1032 residents aged over 15 years. MAIN MEASUREMEN...

The flaws in today’s healthcare systems and practices are well-documented: millions remain far from optimal health due to a variety of psychological and social factors; large numbers of patients do not fully cooperate with medical advice; errors in medical decision-making—some stemming from flaws in interpersonal relations—regularly lead to needles...

This research aims to analyze the relationship between sociocultural values and human food preferences. The latter, as shown in this paper, are greatly influenced by cultural identity. This work stems from a theoretical context that originated in Europe and the United States towards the mid-twentieth century, within the field of the anthropology of...

El debate sobre la calidad y sostenibilidad de nuestro sistema sanitario nos remite a cuestiones relativas a la medida de su acceso y valoración por parte de la ciudadanía. La atención primaria centra dichas premisas en el ámbito local y comunitario. En el barrio de Casablanca (Zaragoza) preguntamos a 1.032 vecinos sobre la percepción de sus servic...

This paper aims to identify the inter-relationships between the social factors that influence epidemiological patterns in the city neighbourhood of Casablanca, Zaragoza (Spain). Data for a cross-sectional survey were collected between January 2008 and April 2008 from a representative random sample of 1032 residents aged more than 15 years. The stud...

The aim of this study is to investigate the nature of the link associating the risk propensity of smoking and overweight. For example, a person who is a smoker and obese does not have to be more prone to risk than another person who is obese and a non-smoker. The data was taken from the German Questionnaire on Personality and Daily (Cross section f...

IntroductionThe aim of this study is to investigate the nature of the link associating the risk propensity of smoking and overweight. For example, a person who is a smoker and obese does not have to be more prone to risk than another person who is obese and a non-smoker.Material and methodsThe data was taken from the German Questionnaire on Persona...

Spain is a multilingual country where three additional official languages coexist (Catalan, Basque and Galician) with the state language (Spanish). The high costs of translation impose that policy makers are permanent negotiating which percentage of information should be provided in each language. Against this background, the language in the field...

De ser un país de emigrantes, España se ha convertido en poco tiempo, en un foco importante de inmigrantes que acuden a sus ciudades principales. En épocas de crisis e incertidumbre como la nuestra, a menudo el estudio de esta “marea humana”, se circunscribe a sus consecuencias en el mercado sociolaboral.Sin embargo, desde una perspectiva psicosoci...

The main contribution of this paper is an analysis of the nature of the link between internal coherence and risk aversion. Both variables play an important role in individual decisions concerning risk behaviors. We compare the levels of internal consistency and risk aversion among smokers and non-smokers. To measure the individual internal coherenc...

Acciones e Investigaciones Sociales es la revista científica de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo. La revista tiene carácter pluridisciplinar, recoge artículos vinculados a las diferentes disciplinas científicas que se imparten en el Centro: Relaciones Laborales, Mercado Laboral, Derecho del Trabajo, Contabilidad de Empresas, Trabajo S...

We investigated the socioeconomic determinants of tranquillizer use among Spanish teenagers. Highlighting these differences may help health professionals to be more effective in their diagnosis and corresponding prescriptions as well as supporting social agencies in designing better prevention strategies. We focused on Spanish society with data dra...

Introduction Although Spanish adolescents recognize that reiterative alcohol abuse has negative consequences over consumers and society in general, the percentages of teenagers who get drunk during the weekends keep alarming high. Young people are exposed to a wide range of messages about the externalities related to alcohol consumption whose conno...

In this article we examine the influence of a number of psychosocial variables on health attributions and the use of the health care system. The study sample consisted of 1,032 participants, who were representative of a stratified suburban community in Spain. Home-based interviews were conducted to identify participants' main health improvement res...

Introducción Aunque los jóvenes españoles reconocen que el abuso reiterado de bebidas alcohólicas tiene consecuencias negativas sobre los propios consumidores y la sociedad en general, el porcentaje de adolescentes que se emborrachan durante los fines de semana se mantiene preocupantemente elevado. Los jóvenes están expuestos a una amplia variedad...

A bstract This article analyzes the link between men's and women's perceptions of health and the demand for health goods and services. The study examines access to the health care system in a community characterized by social and economic variance. The data have been taken from a health survey carried out in a suburb of the city of Zaragoza in Spai...

The main goal of this article is to provide empirical evidence that alcohol consumption reinforces the occurrence of mental illnesses even at early stages of life. We control probit estimations for unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity. We have drawn a sample of 73,024 individuals from the Spanish National Survey on Drug Use in the School Popula...

Abortion rates are increasing all around the world, especially for young women. Our proposals for public policies to reduce unwanted pregnancies are based on an analysis of the socio-economic determinants of abortion rates. Special attention is paid to regional levels of alcohol consumption, living conditions, and public spending on health and educ...

Social inequalities influence community participation as well as the use of social resources such as health care. In this respect, women could be experiencing double discrimination. Our research has two aims: first, to analyze health care access in a particular region and community and the differing provision of these resources; second, to study ho...

En este artículo analizamos los determinantes del consumo de drogas de diseño entre estudiantes de 14 a 18 años. El trabajo lo concretamos en la sociedad española con la Encuesta sobre Drogas a la Población Escolar (1994-2006). Nuestros resultados evidencian que el consumo de estas sustancias no se reduce. Los jóvenes demandan las sustancias sintét...