
Martha Frías ArmentaUniversity of Sonora · Department of Law
Martha Frías Armenta
Doctor of Philosophy
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January 1999 - January 2016
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Aggressive and antisocial behaviors are symptomatic indicators of antisocial psychopathologies and can be explained through transdiagnostic variables applied at structural, emotional, and cognitive levels. The aim of this study was to develop a preliminary multivariate explanatory model incorporating structural (Behavioral Activation and Inhibition...
La investigación en justicia transformativa pretende investigar las estructuras y las condiciones que perpetúan la injusticia, centrándose en modificar las estructuras que mantienen las desigualdades. Aunque la justicia desempeña un papel fundamental en la educación formal, se ha prestado poca atención sistemática al análisis de la percepción que t...
Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching (i.e., Do people positively evaluate partners who mat...
Assertiveness as a human right refers to the empowerment to express ideas and opinions while still respecting others and improving social relationships. Our theory suggests that exercising assertive rights results from the interplay of social and individual factors as well as legal institutions. The integration and balance between the systems, cont...
Assertiveness as a human right refers to the empowerment to express ideas and opinions while respecting and thus improving social relationships. The present study analysed assertiveness as a human right through an interdisciplinary focus. We used mixed methods, the hermeneutic, to interpret assertiveness through a legal lens—a questionnaire assesse...
El objetivo de este estudio fue validar una escala de justicia sobre los
procesos al interior del hogar, específicamente en la crianza. Esta
escala mide factores que integran la justicia procedimental: voz, imparcialidad, consistencia, transparencia y representación. Se incluyó en el
estudio una escala de estilos de crianza para medir validez conve...
Se presentó una propuesta de un tribunal de dependencia para atender casos de maltrato infantil basado en justicia terapeútica.
Un ambiente escolar positivo (AEP) puede promover la percepción de justicia escolar (JE), la manifestación de conductas sostenibles (CS) y la experimentación de bienestar. En este sentido, el objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar la relación entre AEP, JE, CS y el Bienestar Escolar Subjetivo (BES) en estudiantes de bachillerato. Para ta...
La transformación social discurre un cambio fundamental en la vida de las personas. Esta comprende procesos liberatorios contra la injusticia, opresión, y explotación de los/as ciudadanos/as para cambiar el orden social existente. El objetivo de esta es encontrar un nuevo sistema que fomente nuevas relaciones y fuerzas sociales basados en la justic...
At present, research suggests a gap between the goals of the legal framework in Children's participation and the reality of its application from the state to the family level. Addressing incongruences in fairness, voice, and autonomy is critical to improving the efficacy of initiatives that promote progressive participation while protecting the rig...
The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over the Life Course examines how countries devised measures for child protection outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The UNCRC highlights the importance of protecting children from a range of human rights violations. In response, countries respond differently to human r...
Keywords: Mexico, child violence, children at risk, poverty, malnourishment, antisocial behaviors, early childhood Subject: Social Work Series: Oxford Handbooks Children represent approximately one-third of the population of Mexico, home to around 39.2 million individuals under the age of 18 (Instituto Nacional Estadística Geografía e Informática [...
Authors outline factors that influence scientific advancements in Latin America and identify potential avenues for reframing research conducted in the region, especially by Latin American researchers, in the global scientific landscape
The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over the Life Course examines how countries devised measures for child protection outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The UNCRC highlights the importance of protecting children from a range of human rights violations. In response, countries respond differently to human r...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures...
Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching (i.e., do people positively evaluate partners who mat...
Cumplir con las medidas de prevención de la salud es fundamental para controlar brotes de enfermedades infecciosas como aquellos causados por la COVID-19. Se han realizados numerosas investigaciones para comprender algunas variables psicosociales (desde personalidad hasta diferencias culturales) asociadas con las conductas de precaución en contexto...
Increased interest in the study of the relationships between human and nonhuman animals over the past few decades has often focused on what factors shape people’s attitudes and treatment towards nonhuman animals. Some scholars have focused on features of the nonhuman animals (cuteness, intelligence, and utility) and how those features predict human...
Positive environments (PEs) are traditionally understood as contexts that provide the material and social resources necessary to allow individuals to flourish and experience physical and mental wellbeing. This traditional approach frames positive environments as primarily resource deliverers, which guarantee wellbeing by satisfying individual needs...
Law can shape individual and social behavior in different ways including through perceived control and legitimacy of authorities. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether legitimacy of authorities, social and personal control, and social cohesion influence antisocial behaviors in juvenile offenders. The study, included a sample of t...
The purpose of this study was to examine how attitudes toward different nonhuman animal species (including emotional empathy, cognitive empathy, and harm avoidance) are shaped by the coevolutionary histories between the ancestors of contemporary humans and these different nonhuman animal species. We compared the explanatory power of alternative cat...
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in t...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...
Investigaciones previas sugieren que las conductas antisociales y delictivas son más prevalentes en individuos que presentan una baja inteligencia emocional, así como en aquellos que perciben una baja probabilidad de sanción y una nula legitimidad de las autoridades. El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar los efectos de la inteligencia emoc...
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Communicating in ways that motivate engagement in social distancing remains a critical global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study tested motivational qualities of messages about social distancing (those that promoted choice and agency vs. those that were forceful and shaming) in 25,718 people in 89 countries...
A positive school environment (PSE) could enhance student well-being and promote sustainable behaviour (SB). However, there is little research on PSEs in universities. In order to explore the relationships between PSE, SB and well-being, and to test the psychometric properties of the instruments used, we conducted research with asample of 285 under...
Antisocial behavior (AB) is a complex phenomenon, predicted by a wide range of biological, environmental, and personality factors. These have high human and economic costs especially in adolescents, highlighting the importance of investigating factors that may be associated with these behaviors. Among the most potent predictors of AB are early life...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...
Violence in schools is a global issue. Approximately 32% of Mexican students have experienced some form of violence in the school setting in their lives. Previous research has tended to focus on the causes of violence and antisocial behaviors in offenders or adolescent samples and has found evidence to suggest the underlying role of environmental a...
Residential care continues to be the primary child protection measure for children in Mexico given the limited access to family placements and family support programmes. Legislation regulating residential care homes was not enacted until 2014. The first census of children in care was conducted in 2015. Prior to that year, key information such as ho...
The first lines of defense during an epidemic are behavioral interventions, including stay-at-home measures or precautionary health training, aimed at reducing contact and disease transmission. Examining the psychosocial variables that may lead to greater adoption of such precautionary behaviors is critical. The present study examines predictors of...
Theoretically, a positive environment (PE) includes (a) tangible and intangible resources that satisfy human needs, (b) enablers of healthy, pro-social, and pro-environmental behaviors that guarantee socio-environmental quality and wellbeing, and (c) environmental challenges that must be faced and solved. One of the most salient challenges is the g...
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear w...
El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar la relación entre los distintos factores relativos al ambiente familiar, el conocimiento y el goce de derechos familiares, y el apoyo social con adolescentes altos en bienestar subjetivo. Previo consentimiento informado, participaron 259 estudiantes de escuelas secundarias con niveles de excelencia en...
In 2014 Mexico created the General Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents, which establishes a new organization of the child protection system that legally complies with the requirements of international treaties. Since this change, the focus of attention of policy makers, civil society organizations and society in general has been on c...
La adolescencia es una etapa del ciclo vital del ser humano con cambios físicos y psicológicos que presenta riesgos, pero también oportunidades. El enfoque más común para el abordaje de la adolescencia consiste en el análisis de los comportamientos negativos y de los riesgos que se enfrentan en esta etapa. Esta obra presenta una postura diferente,...
Executive functions are still developing during adolescence. It is important to analyse if juvenile delinquency is related to a delay in the development of these functions. The objective of this study was to analyse cognitive inhibition and flexibility, two components of executive functions, in juvenile delinquents. Participants were 81 males, 17.4...
Descriptores: Validación, Conducta motivada, Sensibilidad al refuerzo, Análisis confirmatorio, Estudiantes
El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar las características de la psicología forense (PF) y sus posibles aplicaciones en el contexto legal mexicano. El PF es el psicólogo que trabaja en los tribunales resolviendo las interrogantes de los jueces. Las aplicaciones más relevantes han sido en los casos de imputabilidad penal, custodia en los casos...
Despite the notion that characterizes criminals as lacking virtues or character strengths, evidence shows that people who engage in antisocial and delinquent behavior are not dissimilar in possessing character strengths as compared to the general population. Character strengths may be used to either do ‘good’ or ‘wrong’; so that the question is, wh...
El estudio de la huella de la memoria o los aportes de la neurociencia a la justicia restaurativa dan buena prueba del grado de sofisticación y amplitud que han alcanzado las ciencias sociales y del comportamiento. Por lo que Psicopatología de la violencia: aspectos jurídicos y evaluación criminológica hace excelentes aportaciones sobre la política...
It is estimated that aproximately 4% of the world’s population is either living with depression, anxiety, or both. The prevalence of these disorders has been consistently increasing. This widespread and increasing prevalence highlights the importance of having well-validated scales to assess symptoms in different languages. The Mood and Anxiety Sym...
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Restorative Justice (RJ) represents a holistic and humane alternative to punitive measures traditionally used in schools. The goal of RJ is to bring affected parties together following a conflict in order to identify a shared solution for reparation of damages. RJ has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing recidivism and improving community relatio...
The objective of this study was to analyze attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct disorder (CD) symptoms, as well as components of attention and two components of executive functions (cognitive inhibition and flexibility), in juvenile delinquents.
Participants were 87 males (17.87 ± 1.54 years old). A group of 29 juvenile d...
Juvenile criminality has recently been on the increase. Given these higher rates, this study aim was to analyze the effects of legitimacy perception, deterrence, and prosocial attitudes related to antisocial behavior of adolescents. Sample included 100 Mexican lower and upper secondary students. Questionnaires assessed demographics, legitimacy perc...
The Aztecs severely punished disobedient and antisocial children. In the Colonial period, Mexicans eliminated the death penalty for children and, after independence, juvenile delinquents were judged as adults. At the end of the nineteenth century, the tendency was to remove minors from the reach of criminal law and transfer juvenile transgressors t...
Según la teoría del desarrollo de la psicopatología, algunas trayectorias del desarrollo resultan en adaptación, otras en psicopatología. Nuestra hipótesis es que algunas variables positivas son funcionales a la adaptación psicológica y participan en nicho adaptativos, que son contextos donde regularmente encontramos las competencias adaptativas, c...
En este artículo, se comprueba mediante análisis de validez convergente y divergente que no hay diferencias entre los constructos de Psicopatía y Maquiavelismo que son dos de los componentes que conforman a la Triada oscura (TO) de la personalidad. Por lo tanto, surge la necesidad de que las próximas medidas que componen a la TO sean mas cercanas a...
La psicología positiva se enfoca en el desarrollo óptimo del ser humano reconociendo que todos los niños y jóvenes tienen fortalezas, que se desenvolverán cuando éstas se empaten con los recursos requeridos en los diversos ámbitos en los que viven. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de este estudio fue analizar los recursos que promueven el desarrollo posit...
No Mexico, os abrigos infantis sao necessarios para garantir niveis minimos de bem-estar as criancas (vitimas). Estes abrigos educadores adquirem muita importância. Portanto, o objetivo geral do estudo foi analisar a formacao de educadores em abrigos de criancas e sua relacao com o meio ambiente e comportamento anti-social de menores. A escala ELES...
Adolescence is a crucial developmental phase that shapes people's futures. Positive psychology investigates the variables that promote the optimal development of human beings. It recognizes that all children and adolescents have strengths that will develop once these strengths match the resources needed to achieve this in the various settings in wh...
Descriptores: Rasgos de personalidad, capital social, virtudes y fortalezas, conducta antisocial, psicología evolucionista.
disuasión, legitimidad, conducta antisocial, adolescentes, leyes
Descriptores: Adolescentes, clínica y de la salud, validación, adicción a las drogas, análisis factorial
El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo construir y validar una escala para medir la percepción de la crianza paterna en adolescentes mexicanos. Participaron en él 432 adolescentes, seleccionados mediante un muestreo no probabilístico; ellos provenían de seis estados de la República Mexicana (180 de Sonora, Toluca e Hidalgo, 60 eran cada uno; 100 de...
This chapter introduces two advanced multivariate statistical procedures that are becoming increasingly influential in environment-behavior research: multi-level modeling and structural equation modeling. The chapter provides an overview of fundamental concepts, and describes common types of research questions that can be addressed using each proce...
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las variables que influyen en el aprovechamiento escolar de los jóvenes. Se configuró una batería de pruebas para medir autoeficacia, autodeterminación, autorregulación, aspectos del contexto escolar y familiar, y espiritualidad. La muestra fue de 250 estudiantes regulares de nivel medio superior. Se estimar...
This study was aimed at testing a structural model that analyzed the relationship between procedural and distributive justice and the amenability of psychological treatment for juvenile delinquents. Ninety-two adolescents receiving treatment in detention and community facilities following a judge’s sentence constituted the sample. Participants resp...
El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo construir y validar una escala para medir la percepción de la crianza paterna en adolescentes mexicanos. Participaron en él 432 adolescentes, seleccionados mediante un muestreo no probabilístico; ellos provenían de seis estados de la República Mexicana (180 de Sonora, Toluca e Hidalgo, 60 eran cada uno; 100 de...
La propensión al riesgo se define como la tendencia de una persona a tomar riesgos sin temor al peligro. Justificación: se ha encontrado que en la adolescencia existen más actos delictivos y que en México han aumentado en los últimos años. Objetivo: describir la relación entre la propensión al riesgo, la violencia de su barrio y la conducta antisoc...
El objetivo del presente estudio fue conocer la eficacia del Programa de Pensamiento Prosocial (PPS) en una población de delincuentes jóvenes. La muestra consistió en 159 jóvenes internos en centros de internamiento en el estado de Sonora, 156 hombres y tres mujeres, de 14 a 22 años con promedio de edad de 16.7 (DE = 1.3). Se utilizaron las siguien...
Executive functions are still developing during adolescence. It is important to analyse if juvenile delinquency is related to a delay in the development of these functions. The objective of this study was to analyse cognitive inhibition and flexibility, two components of executive functions, in juvenile delinquents. Participants were 81 males, 17.4...
Descriptores: adolescentes, cyberbullying, netiqueta, redes sociales, violencia virtual
Descriptores: Justicia Restaurativa, víctima, ofensor, reintegración, conferencias restaurativas
Inspired by the emergence of the positive psychology (PP) movement, recent environmental psychology studies have identified a need for further inquiry into “positive environments” (PEs). Recognizing that PP has largely neglected the role of environmental factors in the appearance of positivity, this paper proposes the study of person–environment re...
Based on the theory that a positive environment meets human needs whilst at the same time it stimulates engagement in environmentally protective behaviours, this study empirically tested a model of family positivity, considering the responses given by 200 Mexican interviewees in a research survey. In the model, a series of positive characteristics...
This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security in the developing world, by integrating scientific knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological modelling, environmental economic...
This paper examines the degree of similarity in assortative pairing for life history strategy, mate value, delinquency, and sensational interests for same-sex friends compared to opposite-sex romantic partners in persons across a variety of nations that are culturally quite different, in spite of some sharing the same language. Specifically, we sam...
Literature indicates the child abuse has long and short-term effects, place victims at risk of behavioral, cognitive, and affective problems. Therefore, the aim of this study is to measures these consequences in a risk population. 60 adolescents arrested by the police and 60 matched by age, school grade and income participated in the study. The ins...
The first tribunal in Mexico was established in the central state of San Luis Potosi in 1926. The Law Regarding Social Prevention and Juvenile Delinquency for the Federal District and Mexican territories was promulgated in 1928. In 2005, Article 18 of the Mexican Constitution was modified to establish a comprehensive system ("Sistema Integral de ju...