Mercedes Borda Mas

Universidad de Sevilla | US · Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment

Individuals with subthreshold Eating Disorder (ED) symptomatology and anorexia nervosa experience difficulties in integrating auditory-signals related to body weight into their body perception. However, it is unclear whether these impairments are specific to auditory bodily signals or extend to any auditory signals. We used the "auditory Pinocchio...

The aim of this study was to analyze the role of sensory processing sensitivity in the perception of stress under certain working conditions and its relationship with indicators of quality of professional life, in service sector workers. The participants (n = 3180) completed the Spanish versions of HSPS-S, CoPSoQ and ProQoL. The results show that e...

Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is the reactivity to different stimuli that occurs in some people with sufficient intensity to cause interference in daily life. There are not many previous studies that determine the influence of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies on health-related quality of life through indicators of mental (anxiety a...

Background Bodily illusions can be used to investigate the experience of being in a body by manipulating the underlying processes of multisensory integration. Research suggests that people with eating disorders (EDs) may have impairments in visual, interoceptive, proprioceptive, and tactile bodily perception. Furthermore, people with EDs also show...

University students are a high-risk population with problematic online behaviours that include generalized problematic Internet/smartphone use and specific problematic Internet uses (for example, social media or gaming). The study of their predictive factors is needed in order to develop preventative strategies. This systematic review aims to under...

Previous studies suggest a stronger influence of visual signals on body image in individuals with eating disorders (EDs) than healthy controls; however, the influence of other exteroceptive sensory signals remains unclear. Here we used an illusion relying on auditory (exteroceptive) signals to manipulate body size/weight perceptions and investigate...

Background Problematic Internet use (PIU) is an emerging public health problem, and university students comprise a high-risk population. This systematic review aims to examine the terminology, assessment tools, prevalence, and predictive factors associated with PIU in university students. Methods A literature review was performed according to the...

Background Experimental research based on bodily illusions suggests that people with eating disorders (EDs) might have impairments in visual, interoceptive, proprioceptive, and tactile perception, potentially underpinning altered multisensory integration processes. Along this line, research indicates that people with EDs show abnormalities in integ...

Background: Many technological interventions designed to promote physical activity (PA) have limited efficacy and appear to lack important factors that could increase engagement. This may be due to a discrepancy between research conducted in this space, and software designers' and developers' use of this research to inform new digital applications...

The aim of this research was to study the mediation of motivational regulations on the relationship between body image and physical activity (Preliminary Work)

Background Recent research indicates that patients with anorexia (AN) show specific eye movement abnormalities such as shorter prosaccade latencies, more saccade inhibition errors, and increased rate of saccadic intrusions compared to participants without AN. However, it remains unknown whether these abnormal eye movement patterns, which may serve...

Background: Recent research indicates that patients with anorexia (AN) show specific eye movement abnormalities such as shorter prosaccade latencies, more saccade inhibition errors, and increased rate of saccadic intrusions compared to participants without AN. However, it remains unknown whether these abnormal eye movement patterns, which may serve...

Background: Recent research indicates that patients with eating disorders (ED) show specific eye-movement abnormalities namely square wave jerks (SWJs), which are involuntary, sporadic, horizontal, saccadic intrusions that interrupt fixation. As such, SWJs have the possibility to serve as potential biomarkers for an early diagnosis of EDs and preve...

Purpose: Previous research reported adequate psychometric properties of the BQPA, which was developed based on barriers detected in the overweight population. To increase its generalizability, to the general population, the BQPA was revised based on a non-restricted literature review (BQPA-G). This study analyses the reliability, factor structure a...

Purpose: This article describes a cross-cultural adaptation of the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) to the adult Spanish population, and psychometric analysis of its validation and reliability. Methods: Convenience sampling by participant accessibility was used. The original version was adapted culturally and linguistically using the back-tr...

1.-Introduction: AN are among the mental illnesses with the highest mortality rates and the worst therapeutic outcomes. Earlier treatment response is essential to later symptom remission. Eye-tracking studies show that AN is linked to specific eye movement patterns (shorter latencies or larger inhibitory errors, e.g., Phillipou, et al., 2016), bein...

Introduction: Physical activity (PA) has significant health benefits. However, a third of the adult population across Europe is physically inactive and numbers are on the rise. To address this problem, a large body of the literature has tried to identify the variables influencing the adherence to PA (barriers or facilitators). Consequently, it is k...

The study analyzes sensory processing sensitivity and the compassion satisfaction as risk/protective factors against burnout and compassion fatigue, during the first period of the COVID-19 health emergency. A sample of 1566 Spanish adult healthcare (n = 694) and education (n = 872) professionals was evaluated. An ad hoc questionnaire for sociodemog...

Objective: This study aimed to develop the BQPA and evaluate its psychometric properties, which covers all the relevant barriers for Physical Activity (PA) reported in the literature. Method/Design: A cross-sectional study was performed in 2019 through a dedicated online panel. A sample of 610 participants was selected using a stratified random sam...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity is a main risk factor of death worldwide, and contributes to psychological and physical problems, including obesity. Physical activity (PA) is critical to preventing health deterioration. Many technological interventions designed to promote PA have limited efficacy as some critical variables affecting PA are not consi...

This study describes the clinical case of a 20-year-old woman diagnosed with bulimia nervosa (BN), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and impaired executive functioning. The objectives were to: 1) Determine the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialec-tic behavioral therapy (DBT) in a case of BN and BPD comorbidity, evaluating...

Being a housewife may already be a psychosocial risk factor leading to chronic stress and burnout, and this may be aggravated when the housewife must also become the caregiver of a family member with Alzheimer’s. The burnout syndrome and how it can affect general health and the presence of emotional disorders were studied in housewives who were fam...

Background: Emotional exhaustion causes adverse effects in those who suffer from it. Housewives are not excluded. Domestic and care chores, which are considered to be sources of stress, increase when taking on the role of caregiver for a family member with Alzheimer's disease. Objective: To analyse the influence of emotional exhaustion, somatic...

The valid assessment of the impact of transplantation on psychological well-being is highly relevant to optimize treatment. However, to date there is no standardized instrument available in Spain. The Transplant Effects Questionnaire (TxEQ) evaluates the specific problems associated with organ transplantation, such as worry about transplant, guilt...

Objective: Analyze the influence of 2 variables (post-traumatic growth and time since liver transplantation) on coping strategies used by the transplant recipient's family members. Methods: In all, 218 family members who were their main caregivers of liver transplant recipients were selected. They were evaluated using the Posttraumatic Growth In...

Objective: The aim of this work was to find out whether thinking frequently about the donor influences post-traumatic growth of liver transplant recipients. Methods: The sample of 240 patients selected was made up of 185 men and 55 women with an overall mean age of 60.21 (SD 9.3) years. All of them had received liver transplants from cadaver don...

Bariatric surgery has become the most efficient technique in the treatment of morbid obesity. The goal of this study was to analyze the differences between a bariatric surgery candidates group and a control sample in the variables attachment, rumination, and referential thinking. The design of this study is ex post facto prospective. From the 285 s...

Objective Little is known concerning post-traumatic growth (PTG) after liver transplantation. Against this backdrop the current study analysed the relationship between PTG and time since transplantation on quality of life. Furthermore, it compared PTG between liver transplant recipients and their caregivers. Design Cross-sectional case–control stu...

Background/Objective: The evidence on efficacy of cognitive-behavioral interventions in Eating Disorders (ED) still shows inconclusive results with respect to the role of purging behaviors, more so in uncontrolled situations. Evolution of ED patients with and without purging behavior was studied 30 months after start of a multicomponent treatment....

The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in coping strategies employed by liver transplant recipients and their family members according to patient posttraumatic growth. Two matched groups of 214 liver transplant recipients and 214 family members were selected. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory and Brief COPE were used. The most re...

The most used inference schemes in approximate reasoning are the socalledModus Ponens for forward inferences, and Modus Tollens for backward inferences. In this way, finding new fuzzy implication functions satisfying these two properties has become an important topic for researchers. In the framework of fuzzy logic, they can be written as two inequ...

In fuzzy logic, the Modus Ponens property for fuzzy implication functions is usually considered with respect to a continuous t-norm T and for this reason this property is also known under the name of T-conditionality. In this paper, the t-norm T is substituted by a uninorm U leading to the property of U-conditionality. The new property is studied i...

The aim of this study was to test a structural model designed to determine how perceived parenting styles (rejection, emotional warmth, and overprotection) may, in women with eating disorders (ED), affect their personal development (low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction) and the emotional disturbances (anxiety and depression) they experience, an...

In this paper it is investigated when some kinds of fuzzy implication functions derived from uninorms satisfy the Modus Ponens with respect to a continuous t-norm T, or equivalently, when they are T-conditionals. The study is done for RU-implications and -implications with N a continuous fuzzy negation leading to a lot of solutions in both cases. F...

This paper wants to be a compilation of the different existing classes of uninorms. From their introduction, uninorms have been extensively studied not only as aggregation operators but also as logical connectives. The study of both aspects has produced many results on this kind of operators and many different classes have appeared. This work does...

In this paper the notions of α-migrative t-conorms over a fixed t-conorm S 0, and α-migrative uninorms over another fixed uninorm U 0 with the same neutral element are introduced. All continuous t-conorms that are α-migrative over the maximum, the probabilistic sum and the Łukasiewicz t-conorm are characterized. Uninorms belonging to one of the cla...

The study of discrete aggregation functions (those defined on a finite chain) with some kind of smoothness has been extensively developed in last years. Many different kinds of aggregation functions have been characterized in this context. In this paper discrete aggregation functions with the kernel property (which implies the smoothness property)...

El tratamiento quirúrgico del cáncer de mama puede producir importantes secuelas psicológicas en las pacientes. Para comprobar cuáles son aquellos factores que predicen un mejor ajuste postquirúrgico de estas mujeres así como un mayor deseo de someterse a reconstrucción mamaria postmastectomía, se llevó a cabo un análisis de regresión múltiple. En...

In this paper the notions of α-migrative uninorms over a fixed t-norm T and over a fixed t-conorm S are introduced and studied. All cases when the uninorm U lies in any one of the most usual classes of uninorms are analyzed, characterizing with some assumptions on continuity all solutions of the migrativity equation for all possible combinations of...

In this paper the notion of @a-migrative uninorms over a fixed uninorm U"0 with the same neutral element is introduced. All uninorms U that are @a-migrative over a uninorm U"0 are studied. All cases when U and U"0 have continuous underlying operations and belong to any one of the most usual classes of uninorms are analyzed, characterizing all solut...

This study aimed to determine biopsychosocial differences (anxious-depressive symptomatology and quality of life) among three groups of patients who underwent surgical interventions related to body manipulation, as well as to assess the clinical significance of these results versus reference values. Four groups were compared: women who underwent or...

Body dissatisfaction in adolescence is one of the factors predisposing to the development of eating disorders (ED). The dancers are a risk group for ideal physical characteristics and aspiration of “dominating her body" turning the body into a working tool and a midst of artistic expression. Objetive: To analyze the degree of body dissatisfaction a...

Introduction: Dance is a high risk activity for eating disorders (Ed). It seems that there is a lack of studies focused on the analysis of Ed risk among dance genres. Method: 176 female dancers from different genres (aged 12-20) from a professional dance conservatoire take parte in the study. The Eating Attitudes Test, 26 was administered. Results:...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue investigar las diferencias de edad, estado nutricional (Índice de Masa Corporal o IMC), ansiedad, depresión e insatisfacción corporal en pacientes con trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA.), con una autoestima baja, media y alta. Además, intentamos distinguir las discrepancias entre el estado nutricional r...

The aim of the present study was to investigate differences in age, nutritional state (Body Mass Index or BMI), anxiety, depression and body dissatisfaction in eating disorder (ED) patients with low, medium and high self-esteem. We also attempted to identify discrepancies between the real and desired nutritional state. A total of 146 women with EDs...

In this study we aimed to: 1) examine whether there were differences in mental health and quality of life of liver transplant recipients according to etiology that led to transplantation (alcoholic cirrhosis, Hepatitis B/C Virus, hepatocellular carcinoma and others); and 2) to compare mental health and quality of life between liver transplant and c...

The surgical treatment of breast cancer can change patients' physical appearance and lead to important physical sequelae. Therefore, in order to ascertain whether the level of satisfaction with the aesthetic outcome, as well as with regard to self-esteem or the body image in these patients, differs depending on the kind of surgery undergone (unilat...

We study some properties of De Morgan triplets. Firstly, we introduce submodular De Morgan triplets and we study its relationships with subdistributive ones. Moreover, we characterize them both in the strict and non strict archimedean cases. Secondly, we introduce the concepts of modularity, distributivity and (S, T)-distributivity degrees and we g...

This paper looks over a class of operators introduced in ([2]), called t–operators. Introduced in order to be applied to fuzzy preorders, their properties lead them to be also appropriate in some fields like aggregation problems and expert systems. We characterize these operators as a special combination of a t-norm and a t-conorm on [0, 1] in a si...

The study of discrete aggregation functions (those defined on a finite chain) with some kind of smoothness has been extensively developed in last years. Smooth t-norms and t-conorms, nullnorms and some kinds of uninorms, copulas and quasi-copulas have been characterized in this context. In this paper discrete aggregation functions with the kernel p...

Resumen En este artículo se describe el tratamiento cognitivo-conductual llevado a cabo en un caso de fobia a la muerte, con un seguimiento de doce meses. La paciente es una mujer de 38 años. En la evaluación se utilizó el SCL-90-R, la CL-FODS y las conductas-objetivo. El tratamiento se aplicó en 16 sesiones. Se utilizaron técnicas de control de la...

El objetivo de este estudio ex post facto ha sido poner a prueba un modelo estructural sobre el papel mediador de la autoestima y el perfeccionismo en la relación entre los rasgos de personalidad y los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA). La muestra estuvo compuesta por 155 mujeres (18 a 31 años): 93 cumplían criterios diagnósticos DSM-IV p...

Resumen Objetivos: Determinar la influencia de un programa de intervención psicoterapéutica en pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC). Pacientes y Métodos: Los pacientes fueron asignados aleatoriamente a un grupo de trata-miento (GE) o a un grupo control (GC

Breast cancer patients could experiment an important reduction in psychological adjustment due to mastectomy. So, breast reconstruction is considered a procedure to reverse the sequels of breast mastectomy. Two groups were evaluated in order to determine if anxiety and depression symptoms, coping style and quality of life in breast cancer patients...

El tratamiento quirúrgico del cáncer de mama puede producir importantes secuelas psicológicas en las pacientes. Para comprobar cuáles son aquellos factores que predicen un mejor ajuste postquirúrgico de estas mujeres así como un mayor deseo de someterse a reconstrucción mamaria postmastectomía, se llevó a cabo un análisis de regresión múltiple. En...

El tratamiento quirúrgico del cáncer de mama puede alterar el aspecto físico de las pacientes y producirles importantes secuelas psicológicas. Así, para comprobar si el nivel de satisfacción con el resultado estético, así como la autoestima o la imagen corporal de estas pacientes difería según el tipo de cirugía realizada (mastectomía unilateral o...

Breast cancer patients could experiment an important reduction in psychological adjustment due to mastectomy. So, breast reconstruction is considered a procedure to reverse the sequels of breast mastectomy. Two groups were evaluated in order to determine if anxiety and depression symptoms, coping style and quality of life in breast cancer patients...

In this paper smooth aggregation functions on a finite scale are studied and characterized as solutions of a functional equation analogous to the Frank functional equation. The particular cases of quasi-copulas and copulas are also characterized through a similar functional equation. Previous characterizations of these kind of operations through s...

The purpose of this study has been to test, with a sample of 193 Professors of the University of Seville, a structural model on the mediating role of personal perceived competence in the appearance of burnout syndrome and stress symptoms under potentially stressful work conditions. The instruments used to evaluate were a socio-demographic and work-...

El objetivo de este trabajo es construir el Inventario de Fobia a la Sangre-Inyecciones (BIPI) y determinar la fiabilidad y validez de un instrumento para medir la ansiedad y fobia a la sangre, adaptado a la población española. El BIPI recoge las propiedades psicométricas en 174 participantes. Es un inventario compuesto de 18 situaciones o estímulo...

The present study has tested on a sample of 315 employees of the University of Seville (193 faculty and 122 non-faculty) a structural model of the mediating role of personal perceived competence in the appearance of burnout syndrome and stress symptoms under stressful work conditions. The evaluating instruments used were: a sociodemographic questio...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of core of burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization), stress symptoms, and its relation to a series of psychosocial factors (socio-demographic and work-related variables) involved in its appearance. The sample was comprised of 315 employees of the University of Seville (193 were p...

The objective of this paper was to determine the efficacy of a program applied to 115 girls in 1st and 2nd grade in Secondary Obligatory Education (ESO) (average age=12.71; SD=0.72) in six sessions to prevent the onset of eating disorders. Pre-, post-program and after a one-year follow-up, the EAT-40 and BSQ were applied. Additionally, a questionna...

The purpose of this ex post facto investigation is to determine whether there are differences in a series of psychosocial variables (anxiety, depression, Type A behavior pattern, and social support), which can be assessed immediately after transplantation, between the transplanted patients who die and those who are still alive one year after the tr...

Comunicación presentada en: VII Congreso de la Asociación Española para el Estudio de los Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria. AEETCA. Palma de Mallorca; 20-22 de mayo de 2009.

El trasplante puede llevar asociado importantes deterioros en el funcionamiento biopsicosocial. Para conocer la calidad de vida de los enfermos un año después del trasplante, se comparó a 58 trasplantados con tres grupos diferentes de enfermos (pacientes con EPOC estabilizados y descompensados, y enfermos quirúrgicos de cáncer de pulmón). Se les ev...

In fuzzy logic, connectives have a meaning that, can frequently be known through the use of these connectives in a given context. This implies that there is not a universal-class for each type of connective, and because of that several continuous t-norms, continuous t-conorms and strong negations, are employed to represent, respectively, the and, t...

Transplantation may imply severe biopsychosocial impairments. In order to know the quality of life of patients one year after transplantation, 58 subjects were compared to three different groups of patients (stabilized and acute COPD patients, and lung cancer patients in a surgery unit). Patients filled in two questionnaires: EORTC QLQ-C30 (quality...

The aim of the present study is to explore the MCMI-II personality style and MCMI-II possible disorder of borderline personality (BPD) in various groups of women. 93 patients-31 anorexia nervosa restricting subtype (ANr), 31 anorexia nervosa binge-eating/purging subtype (ANp), and 31 bulimia nervosa purging subtype (BNp); 31 women at high risk for...