Pablo Olivos

University of Castilla-La Mancha

On 18 October 2019, the Chilean people witnessed an unprecedented social outbreak across most of their country. We argue that a state of anomie is a factor associated with the weakening of states, and an anomic state might negatively influence people’s well-being through an increased feeling of irritation. Convenience recruitment via social network...

The study of factors that predict pro-environmental behavior is interesting, given the need to develop sustainable actions in urban and rural contexts. The available scientific evidence shows knowledge gaps and opportunities about the role that environmental identity, connectedness with nature, and well-being play in pro-environmental behavior. To...

Climate change represents a threat to life; as such, it is associated with psychological disorders. The subjective perceptions of life impacts from different traumatic experiences develop understanding and the enable predictions of future consequences. This psychological impact also tends to increase the risk perception of climate change and the in...

This study extends the literature on people’s understanding of happiness by asking whether positive and negative events could affect the causal attributions of what makes others happy. Using a factorial survey applied to a representative and probabilistic sample of Chileans, we examined three central causal attributions deeply rooted in Latin Ameri...

Well‐being is transversal to different urban‐related challenges such as increasing urbanization or adaptation to the effects of climate change. One possible response to these challenges is the use of nature in cities. The aim of this study is to investigate how the objective quantity of natural space near the home, the perception of these natural e...

The positive outcomes for human health from the development of a strong human–nature relationship are increasingly well established, and the role of a connection with nature in this process has been studied from different perspectives. The study intends to validate the brief version of the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) through psychometric va...

This study extends the literature on people’s understanding of happiness by asking whether positive and negative events could affect the causal attributions of what makes others happy. Using a factorial survey applied to a representative and probabilistic sample of Chileans, we examined three central causal attributions deeply rooted in Latin Ameri...

This study extends the literature on people’s understanding of happiness by asking whether positive and negative events could affect the causal attributions of what makes others happy. Using a factorial survey applied to a representative and probabilistic sample of Chileans, we examined three central causal attributions deeply rooted in Latin Ameri...

Subjective perception is considered a key element in the prediction of resistant or vulnerable responses to trauma and crisis. This study aimed to assess the relationship between perceived physical life threat and perceived life impact with posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology in a sample of 3.565 persons from 12 countries across 9 differen...

A relevant intrapersonal characteristic for understanding intentions and behavior toward environmental sustainability is the degree to which nature is important for a person’s self-definition. Clayton’s Environmental Identity (EID) scale purports to measure this construct. However, a limited number of prior exploratory studies of this measure have...

Climate change has significantly increased the frequency and severity of natural disasters. Exposed people not only feel that their physical integrity is at risk, they are also afraid of losing their homes and landscapes (Haney, 2018). In fact, the feeling of loss of place is one of the most important impacts of these events (Díaz & Daval, 2008). I...

The aim of this study is to understand the effect of asymmetric social comparison on subjective well-being, and how it differs due to reciprocity. Our approach considers the social network of individuals as a local reference group. We tested competing hypotheses on negative and positive effects of comparison with worse-off (downward) and better-off...

Purpose. Subjective perception is considered a key element in the prediction of resistant or vulnerable responses to trauma and crisis. This study aimed to assess the relationship between perceived physical life threat (PT) and perceived life impact (PI) with post-traumatic symptomatology (PTSD), in a sample of 3.565 persons from 12 countries acros...

Formal education is theorised to be an essential vehicle to promote and trigger pro‐environmental attitudes and behavioural changes among citizens via the increase of public awareness and concern. However, robust estimations of its causal effect on individuals’ concern for the environment are scarce. This study aimed to estimate the effect of educa...

Introduction Connectedness to nature is a concept that reflects the emotional relationship between the self and the natural environment, based on the theory of biophilia, the innate predisposition to the natural environment. However, the biophobic component has largely been ignored, despite, given its adaptive functional role, being an essential pa...

The aim of this study is to understand the effect of asymmetric social comparison on subjective well-being, and how it differs due to reciprocity. Our approach considers the social network of individuals as a local reference group. We tested competing hypotheses on negative and positive effects of comparison with worse-off (downward) and better-off...

Natural experiences influence identity and the way of interacting with the environment, and their effects are varied, including wellbeing and positive thoughts towards nature. This study analyzes the effects produced as a result of real or virtual experiences of nature. A total of 288 people took part in this research, distributed among three exper...

Se revisan los factores que activan conductas colectivas pro y antisociales en situaciones de catastrofes

Version per printo borrador del capitulo con el mismo titulo. Se revisa el impacto de las catastrofes, sus efectos reales, el fenomeno de la resilencia colectiva como predominio de conductas prosociales mas que antisociales, las formas de crecimiento post traumatico y los factores que las facilitan. Tambien se discuten los mitos de las catastrofes...

En los últimos años el uso de información normativa –normas sociales para la promoción de la conducta proambiental ha recibido una atención notable, mostrando un gran potencial para la intervención psicosocial. Este artículo pretende transferir y hacer accesible los principales resultados de los estudios sobre información normativa para incentivar...

Connectedness to nature represents the relationship of the self with the natural environment and has been operationalized using different scales. One of the most systematically studied in the Anglo-Saxon context is the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS). In an attempt to study the psychometric properties of this instrument in a French-speaking con...

Environmental psychology has contributed to the study of wellbeing from the early 1970s from the perspective of Restoration Theory. There is a lot of empirical evidence to support the relation between contact with nature, positive emotions, and psychophysiological variables that operationalize various conceptions of wellbeing. Most of these studies...

This article compares attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour, liberal economic thinking, happiness and favourability to the construction of nuclear power plants in two physical and cultural contrasting Chilean territories — one of them insular, predominantly natural or rural (Easter Island) and the other continental, eminently urban (Talca). It...

Although there is ample research about Kolb's learning styles, few studies have examined their relationship with motivations to transfer, a concept used to assess whether the content and competencies learned through professional training activities are transferred to the workplace context. Ninety-six students (M=24.58 years old; 99% males) from thr...

La formación continua es una estrategia de recursos humanos para desarrollar conocimientos destinados a satisfacer las necesidades de cambio y de mejora de las organizaciones. Existen cuatro niveles de estrategias para la evaluación de la formación, una de las cuales corresponde a la evaluación de la conducta, entre las que se encuentra la evaluaci...

One of the most important personal challenges in our society is the construction of positive and lasting self-identities (e.g. Gergen 1991; Giddens 1991; Ryan and Deci 2003; Taylor 1989). The study of self and identity is also an important subject of research in social sciences, because of its cultural, social and psychological relevance, and becau...

El transfer es el resultado final del proceso de formación, que se expresa en la aplicación en el puesto de trabajo de los conocimientos aprendidos (Balwin y Ford, 1988; Holton, Bates y Ruona, 2000). Algunos autores proponen una relación estrecha entre transfer y autoeficacia, entendiendo esta última como la creencia de un individuo de que puede ad...

Resumen Se estudia la relación entre las creencias ambientales y la motivación para transferir lo aprendido sobre un conjunto de prácticas en energías renovables. Participaron 48 alumnos de tres centros de formación profesional (M = 25 años), quienes completaron un cuestionario autoadministrado compuesto de 15 ítems que miden egobiocentrismo, biofe...

Although there is ample research about Kolb's learning styles, few studies have examined their relationship with motivations to transfer, a concept used to assess whether the content and competencies learned through professional training activities are transferred to the workplace context. Ninety-six students (M=24.58 years old; 99% males) from thr...

XXXV Congreso Interamericano de Psicología. Lima 12-16 julio, 2015. MOTIVACIÓN PARA APRENDER Y MOTIVACIÓN PARA TRANSFERIR, EN LA FORMACIÓN CONTINUA Maya, Yuxa y Olivos, Pablo La formación continua es una estrategia de recursos humanos para desarrollar conocimientos destinados a satisfacer las necesidades de cambio y de mejora de las organizaciones....

This activity is part of a teaching collaboration between the Renewable Energy Research Institute of UCLM and two Vocational Training Institutes of Castilla-La Mancha, in the scope of teaching innovation projects of CYTEMA. While three months, was conducted a series of laboratory practices related to various types of renewable energy. Attended by 4...

Connectedness with Nature (CNS) and Environmental Identity (EID) have been developed to explain the incorporation of natural environment into the self, however, there is not conclusive information about the role they can play as predictors of pro-environmental behaviours (PEB). Was analysed the responses of 306 undergraduate students who completed...

Connectedness with Nature (CNS) and Environmental Identity (EID) have been developed to explain the incorporation of natural environment into the self, however, there is not conclusive information about the role they can play as predictors of pro-environmental behaviours (PEB). Was analysed the responses of 306 undergraduate students who completed...

This paper analyses materialistic and postmaterialistic attitudes towards work amongst university faculty and also the relationship between work attitudes and changes in workloads and levels of well-being and burnout. The sample of 111 teachers completed questions about changes in workload, a scale of postmaterialist and materialist attitudes to la...

RESUMEN. Las valoraciones del medio ambiente son también una representación cognitiva de sí mismo, que se ha estudiado a través de la Conectividad con la Naturaleza. Investigaciones vinculan dimensiones del self con la conservación y la preocupación ambientales, sin embargo, no hay estudios acerca del concepto de self subyacente al de Conectividad....

People's assessment about the environment is also a cognitive representation of themselves, studied through the Connectedness with Nature. Research has linked dimensions of Self to environmental conservation and concern; however, there are not studies inquiring about the concept of self underlying such connectedness. In this, both themes were compa...

Las excursiones e itinerarios a través de entornos naturales son frecuentes en la educación ambiental, pero existe poca evidencia empírica de investigaciones que aporten resultados que permitan comprender mejor los efectos de las experiencias de contacto directo con ambientes naturales, y menos aún acerca de su relación con la conectividad con la n...

150 words maximum) Research in the area of restorative effects has shown the positive effects of contact with nature on wellbeing. On the other hand, research in the area of exercise recognizes the physical and psychological benefits for individuals, and more recently, those related to outdoor practice, particularly in natural environments. This st...

Different measures have been proposed to study the connection between self and nature, a concept known as Connectedness to Nature. One such measure is the IAT-Nature. It is an implicit association test between stimuli that has received many comments in the literature about its methodological conditions and its relationship with other explicit measu...

Different measures have been proposed to study the connection between self and nature, a concept known as Connectedness to Nature. One such measure is the IAT-Nature. It is an implicit association test between stimuli that has received many comments in the literature about its methodological conditions and its relationship with other explicit measu...

Albeit there is research about basic concepts involved in environmental education, enough evidence is lacking about the experiences of contact with natural environments, so common in this field, and even less about his relationship with Connectedness with Nature, Environmental Concerns and Pro-environmental Behavior. We report results of two studie...

Aunque existen diferentes modelos de evaluación de la formación, son pocos los destinados a la evaluación de la transferencia de los aprendizajes realizados al puesto de trabajo, lo que se conoce en la literatura como Transfer (Broad y Newstrom, 2000; Kirkpatrick y Kirkpatrick, 2007; Pineda, 2007; Prieto, 1994). Broad y Newstrom fueron los primeros...

Various proposals have been made in order to measure worldviews and identity in extreme trauma or loss experiences. The use of these scales has provided mixed results. The Vital Impact Assessment Scale (VIVO) was designed to fill some of the gaps of the existing tools: (a) to be administered to the general population, as well as to survivors of ext...

Se han llevado a cabo estudios sobre el bienestar subjetivo y su relación con el efecto restaurador del contacto con la naturaleza (e.g. Gatersleben, 2008; Kaplan, 2001; Sagar, 2007). Sin embargo, estas investigaciones no suelen distinguir entre diferentes tipos de bienestar, ni mucho menos lo relacionan con el burnout y el trabajo. Por ello, este...

The Environmental Identity (EID) Scale was proposed by Clayton to study the relationship between identity and nature. Although it is cited in several publications, it has rarely been subjected to psychometric analysis. The main aim of this study is to analyze the fulfilment of construct and convergent validity criteria for this scale. For this purp...

La Escala de Identidad Ambiental (EID) ha sido propuesta por Clayton para estudiar la relación entre identidad y naturaleza. A pesar de ser citada en varias publicaciones, pocas veces ha sido sometida a análisis psicométrico. El objetivo principal de este estudio ha sido analizar el cumplimiento de criterios de validez de constructo y convergente d...

Connectedness to Nature represents the relationship of the Self with the natural environment and has been made operative using different scales. One of the most systematically studied in the Anglo-Saxon context has been the Mayer and Frantz (2004) Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS). In an attempt to study the psychometric properties of this instru...

Resumen En la investigación de la percepción del riesgo, el paradigma psicométrico se ha venido aplicando, habitual-mente, para analizar la percepción de un gran número de riesgos, utilizándose, en este caso, para conocer cómo se percibe un solo riesgo: la gripe A (H1N1). En este estudio empírico se analiza la percepción que una muestra de estudian...

International Journal of psychology, 43(3/4), p. 292.

Estudio cualitativo que analiza el concepto de Educación para el Desarrollo Sustentable en una muestra no probabilística (n=64) de representantes del Consejo de Desarrollo Sustentable. Los resultados permiten describir el fin, los medios, la visión de ser humano y su relación con el ambiente, en los contenidos de las definiciones analizadas. A la l...

Research in the area of restorative effects has shown the positive effects of contact with nature on wellbeing.

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