
Olga CuadrosUniversidad Católica Silva Henríquez · Facultad de Educación
Olga Cuadros
Doctor of Psychology
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My current projects are related to the identification of psychological, socio-emotional and contextual variables that helps to better understanding of motivation, quality of relationships, engagement, achievement, and well-being in school and college, using quantitative analyses. Research interests are focused on the analysis of socio-affective relationships, and how they are associated with cultural conditions promoted through the educational management models and educational practices.
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This study explores the subjective experiences and perceptions related to intimacy in friendships in a group of aggressive-popular adolescents in urban schools characterized by high rates of community violence. Individual interviews were conducted with 12 volunteering adolescents (12–14 years old). Procedures from grounded theory were used to enabl...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9220-9060 Resumen: Objetivo. Argumentar la visión de mercado educativo que prevalece en la implementación de indicadores cognitivos y no cognitivos de las evaluaciones estandarizadas nacionales y transnacionales en el mundo, particularmente en Chile, y ofrecer un marco conceptual desde la perspectiva de la psicolo...
Chile has established hybrid policies for the administrative distribution of its educational establishments, leading to significant gaps in educational results and school conditions between public, mixed, and private schools. As a result, there are high levels of segregation, and social and economic vulnerability that put public schools at a disadv...
District local educational administrators (sostenedores) in Chile play a central role in the context of the demunicipalization act after this Law No. 21.040 entered into force. The demunicipalization law mandates the transfer of schools' management from the municipalities to new Local Public Education Services, seeking to change the way of doing an...
Objetivo: identificar las evidencias sobre las principales características de los estudiantes que presencian situaciones de acoso. Método: revisión integradora de la literatura realizada en las bases de datos Web of Science, Eric, Cinahl, Pubmed y en la biblioteca electrónica Scielo, utilizando en las búsquedas los términos “acoso” y “observadores”...
designed upon the basis of different logical perspectives. The aim of this study was to understand the meanings that schools ascribe to the construct of SC, based on the assumption that their views will guide their actions and make intelligible their SC interventions. A qualitative methodology was employed. Active group and individual interviews we...
Although studies on peer relations acknowledge that having friends constitutes a protective factor against being victimized by peers at school, it is not enough for this factor to operate. The quality of these friendships does play a role too. The present study explored the moderating role of friendship-quality dimensions (closeness, support, discl...
Peer relations constitute a main developmental context for adolescents. Peers offer an instance for identity definition and set the norms of acceptable and valued characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes, representing a societal model that allows and restrains avenues for adolescents' socioemotional development. The present article departs from th...
This article presents the design and validation of a scale to assess Normative Beliefs About Prosociality (CNPROS), taking as a model the Normative Beliefs About Aggression Scale, NBAGGS (Huesmann & Guerra, 1997). The validation was developed in several phases during 2012 and 2013, with a convenience sample of 762 4th, 5th and 6th graders from 4 pr...