Paula Samper

University of Valencia | UV · Departamento of Basic Psychology

Los factores familiares de riesgo y protección desempeñan un papel clave en el desarrollo adolescente, influyendo en la violencia y el bienestar digital. Desde un enfoque basado en teorías ecológicas y de aprendizaje social, los estilos y prácticas de crianza emergen como determinantes cruciales. Factores como el control psicológico, la crítica, la...

Sleep is an important factor influencing the balance between adaptive and maladaptive behaviours and is especially relevant in the adolescent and young adult population where there is an (ab)use of information and communication technologies (ICT) that can interfere with normal sleep needs. In turn, there is evidence that shows that education on mor...

Introduction Emotional education is learned by living with others. This study analyzes how different actors participate in the classroom, influencing students’ emotional regulation. Methods Using a mixed methods approach [structured in macro-stages QUAL-QUAN-QUAL], 9 classes in three Chilean schools with children aged 10 to 12 are systematically o...

Independent migration of children and adolescents is becoming a political and social issue in recent years. Literature documents that the migration process of young people without an adult referent entail serious psychological problems. Moreover, the lack of coherence in the assessment and care processes aggravates the damage suffered by minors, wh...

Background: Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) manifest in individuals facing attachment system challenges, particularly observed in minors under protective measures. The lack of standardized tools for assessing these difficulties and uncertainty about the most effective instruments from a psychome...

This study aimed to determine, through a systematic review, the relationship between Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and the presence of psychopathology in children and adolescents, and to determine the existence of differences in terms of internalising and externalising psychological problems between the RAD group and groups with other disorder...

The risk factors of child maltreatment have been studied by focusing on the characteristics of the victim or the close environment, leaving aside the community-related factors. We aimed to develop and provide psychometric properties of the Adolescents and Children Risk of Abuse and Maltreatment Community Scale (ACRAM-CS), a 21-item scale for the as...

Emotional regulation is a developmental milestone, as it promotes well-being throughout life. Children between 10 and 12 years old are expected to reach capacities that allow them to regulate themselves emotionally, the school context being a natural setting for this challenge. With the objective of analyzing the forms of expression and regulation...

Focusing on school tasks and regulating emotions are often challenges for students to achieve. The objective of this research is to describe and analyse the behaviours associated with emotional regulation that affect the way students participate in the classroom and contribute to the subject matter. From the mixed methods perspective, an observatio...

Introducción. El maltrato a la infancia y la adolescencia es un problema a nivel mundial que tiene graves consecuencias que pueden durar toda la vida. La detección y evaluación eficaz del maltrato infantil se considera esencial para facilitar el proceso de toma de decisiones profesional. No obstante, en la actualidad, la descentralización de la ate...

Extensive research considers the hypothesis that gender differences in aggression and violence are due, in part, to the influence of the culturally defined concept of traditional or hegemonic masculinity. Traditional masculinity is considered as the negative and socially aversive traits and behaviors related to idealized societal masculine norms an...

Child maltreatment is a complex reality that has become a worldwide social and public health problem; therefore, its early detection is crucial. At present there are no scientifically rigorous instruments that cover all areas of child maltreatment. The aim of this study is to report on the development and content validation of the ACRAM (Adolescent...

Background: Although prior research shows supportive evidence that parental practices are associated with adolescents' prosocial behaviors, limited evidence exists on the effects of parents' use of social and material rewards on distinct forms of prosocial behaviors, and the mediating effects of sociocognitive and socioemotive traits in these rela...

Emotional self-regulation in childhood and adolescence constitutes a growing interest in the scientific community, highlighting in recent years the need to observe its development in their daily life. Therefore, the objective of this systematic review is to characterize publications referring to the development of emotional self-regulation of peopl...

Assessment of child maltreatment has been inconsistent across literature due to its complexity, multidimensionality, and the variety of conceptualizations of this construct. Five instruments have recurrently examined psychometric properties across the last years of research: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Expos...

The world's population is currently overcoming one of the worst pandemics, and the psychological and social effects of this are becoming more apparent. We will present an analysis of the psychosocial effects of COVID-19: first, a cross-sectional study in an Ecuadorian sample (n = 301) and second, a comparative study between two samples from the Ecu...

Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emerging adults. However, theories on altruism born of suffering or adversarial growth suggest that we might also see prosocial behavior as a function of the pandemic, which may protect against mental health challenges. Because cultural values are central in d...

Resumen La pandemia de la COVID-19 está impactando en la salud emocional de los adolescentes. Factores como la resiliencia pueden amortiguar este impor-tante impacto sobre su bienestar. Nuestro objetivo fue estudiar la asociación entre la sintomatología ansioso-depresiva y la resiliencia en adolescentes de España y Ecuador, y comparar las diferenci...

The health and socioeconomic challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have led to greater reliance on the internet to meet basic needs and responsibilities. Greater engagement in online activities may have negative mental and physical health consequences for some vulnerable individuals, particularly under mandatory self-isolation or 'lockdown'...

Traditional masculinity includes norms that encourage many of the aggressive behaviors whereas traditional femininity emphasizes aggression very little. In addition, the lack of emotional regulation as well as a poor impulse control have been related to aggression and, in particular, with reactive and proactive aggression. The objective of this stu...

La adopción no es un fenómeno nuevo, pero sí su creciente incremento en los últimos años. Los procesos emocionales y cognitivos que desarrollan los padres y el menor, así como los estilos de crianza influyen en el proceso de adaptación familiar. Un estudio empírico realizado en nuestra Comunidad Valenciana constata una serie de factores de riesgo d...

Research on young offenders has primarily focused on identifying predictors of the maladaptive, aggressive behavior; there is a scarcity of evidence on factors that relate to prosocial behavior in these adolescents. The current study examined the link from parenting, emotional instability, and prosocial reasoning to prosocial behavior, while also e...

Studies of the Spanish adolescent population has concluded that victimization is related to lack of emotional regulation and impulse control. Therefore, if a victim is unable to recognize, understand and regulate their emotions, this can result in rejection by their peers. A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine regulatory emotional self-e...

The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine the associations among peer attachment, warmth from the mother and father, strict control by the mother and father, prosocial behavior, and physical and verbal aggression in adolescence. Few longitudinal studies have examined how peer attachment and parenting styles of the mother and father relate...

Examined the longitudinal links among empathic concern, perspective taking, prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behaviors. Four hundred and seventeen adolescents (225 girls; Mage = 14.70 years) from public schools in Spain completed measures of those constructs in three successive years. Path analyses showed support for the notion that empathic...

Sexist attitudes are rooted in patriarchal structures, which uphold traditional gender stereotypes, and which are still found in society today. Scholars have found gender differences in perceived academic achievement, with girls performing better than boys, and negative relationships between sexism and perceived academic achievement. Moreover, perc...

We analyzed the roles of parenting style and peer attachment in predicting emotional instability in late childhood and early adolescence. Effects were analyzed separately by gender. Children’s personal variables analyzed were empathy, anger, and the mechanisms used to cope with anger (externalization and self-control). Participants were 316 girls a...

Background: Emotions are potent modulators and motivators of the behaviour that the individual displays in the different situations they have to live and they can act as a protection factor or vulnerability of the adapted or maladaptive behaviour. This study focuses on anxiety in adolescence. Objectives: The objective is, through a longitudinal...

This study has two objectives. On the one hand, to analyze the relationships between empathy, prosocial behavior and prosocial moral reasoning, as well as the differences between them in terms of gender. On the other hand, to analyze the predictive value of these variables on empathy, taken as a criterion variable. The sample comprised 1,557 partic...

We examined the links between perceived parental use of social and material rewards and prosocial behaviors across youth from two countries. Six hundred forty adolescents (297 girls; [Formula] age = 15.32 years) from Valencia, Spain, and 552 adolescents (321 girls; [Formula] age = 13.38 years) from the United States completed measures of their perc...

Background: Depression is a broad and heterogeneous diagnostic grouping, central to which is depressed mood or inability to enjoy most activities. Depressive symptoms are frequently accompanied by conduct problems stemming from anger. It is very important to know the interrelation of these emotions very well to be able to help adolescents to manag...

En este estudio se analizan las propiedades psicométricas de la versión Española del Cuestionario de Conciencia Emocional (EAQ30; Rieffe et al., 2008). La EAQ30 fue administrada a 1316 adolescentes españoles de 14 a 16 años. Los datos confirman la estructura original de la escala de 6 factores. Los coeficientes de consistencia interna de las subesc...

Emotional awareness is an attentional process that enables us to monitor our emotions and to differentiate between various emotions in a qualitative sense, to locate their antecedents, and to acknow ledge the physiological correlates of the emotion experience (Rieffe, Oosterveld, Miers, Terwogt, & Ly, 2008). Rieffe and colaborators (2008) consider...

The aim of this study was to analyse the cognitive processes (prosocial moral reasoning, perspective taking) and emotional processes (empathic concern, emotional instability, state-trait anger) which interact in predicting aggressive behaviour and prosocial behaviour of adolescents who have committed a crime and those who have not, for the purpose...

This study has the aim to analyze the different role of parental styles (affect and communication versus control), of functional developmental variables (empathy and adaptative coping styles) and dysfunctional variables (emotional instability and inefficient coping styles) in school victimization, or conversely with peer attachment. Participants we...

Prior theories and scholars rarely distinguished between distinct forms of prosocial behaviors (i.e., actions intended to benefit others) and most scholars operationalize prosocial behaviors as a global construct. Furthermore, stringent tests of psychometric properties of prosocial behavior measures are rare, especially in countries other than the...

The aim of this research is to analyze cognitive, emotional, and socio-family variables to determine which of these factors have the greatest predictive power to predict effective coping mechanisms among adolescents forced to resolve problems. The sample is made up of 532 students in the third stage of compulsory secondary education (mean = 14.45 y...

El objetivo del estudio es analizar las variables cognitivas, emocionales y socio familiares que alcanzan un mayor poder predictor del afrontamiento eficaz en la adolescencia. Han participado 532 estudiantes de 3º curso de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, (edad media: 14.45 años y SD= .763). Los ANOVA realizados muestran diferencias de género en l...

"Resumen Recientes revisiones confirman la efectividad de los programas educativos, cuyo objetivo es facilitar la evolución del juicio moral. En este caso nos centramos en un programa de intervención para el desarrollo del juicio moral y en un programa de intervención en el autoconcepto-autoestima. En el programa de intervención para el desarrollo...

Prosocial behaviors, actions intended to help others, may serve a protective function against association with deviant peers and subsequent delinquent and antisocial behaviors. The present study examined the relations among specific types of prosocial behaviors, deviant peer affiliation, and delinquent and aggressive behaviors. Six hundred and sixt...

Parental expectations are influenced by cultural models, which in turn are subject to a great influence from historically fluctuating features of the socioeconomic background. Parental expectations seem to be linked to children’s’ social and emotional development in terms of empathy and prosocial behavior. The current study aims to: 1) compare low-...

El objetivo de esta investigación es presentar una adaptación y validación en población española de la Escala de Expectativa de los hijos adolescentes so- bre la reacción de sus padres frente al comportamiento prosocial y antisocial, desarrollada por Wyatt y Carlo (2002). La muestra estuvo compuesta por 632 adolescentes españoles de entre 15 a 18 a...

The aim of this study is to carry out an adaptation and validation of Adolescents' Expected Parental Reactions Scale in Spanish sample. This original scale was developed by Wyatt and Carlo (2002). The sample was composed by 631 adolescents, between 15 and 18 years, middle-class and both sexes. A confirmatory factor analysis was carried out to study...

The current study aims to examine the mediating role of prosocial behavior with empathy and aggressive behavior in depression and anxiety. Participants are 937 Spanish adolescents, 48% girls and 54% boys, aged between 15 and 16 years old (M = 15.32; SD = .47), with medium to medium-low income levels. The structural equation modeling shows that aggr...

"Resumen El objetivo de este estudio es encontrar las relaciones que existen entre actitudes, creencias religiosas y valores humanos, saber si hay conexión entre creencias y valores así como ver qué implicación tiene en unos valores concretos el hecho de ser de una religión concreta. Para ello, se parte de la hipótesis de que distintas actitudes y...

The objectives of this study are: (a) to analyze if the relationship between parenting dimensions and children adjustment regarding coping strategies are similar in Argentinian and Spanish samples within poverty contexts; (b) to compare parental dimensions in the two groups studied, and (c) to determine the efficiency of parenting through the study...

Los objetivos del presente trabajo son: (a) analizar si las relaciones entre las dimensiones de la parentalidad y el ajuste de los niños en lo que se refiere a estrategias de afrontamiento, se mantienen constantes en una muestra argentina y otra española en contextos de pobreza; (b) comparar las dimensiones de la parentalidad en los dos grupos en e...

El presente trabajo supone una aproximación a la psicología contemporanea sobre género y procesos psicológicos. Se analizan las publicaciones aparecidas sobre el tema en el periodo comprendido entre 1.974 y 1.995, con especial interés en los procesos emocionales. Los datos obtenidos muestran la presencia de áreas de conocimiento diferentes: Medicin...

Resumen: El objetivo es estudiar si el patrón de la relación entre el comportamiento de los padres y el desarrollo socioemocional de los niños se mantiene a través de diferentes contextos socioeconómicos y nacionales (Argentina y España). Se administró la Escala Argentina de Percepción de la Relación con los Padres para Niños, el Verbal Aggression...

The study was designed to examine the structure and correlates of a measure of prosocial moral reasoning in a sample of young and middle-aged adolescents. Participants were 1,556 students (53% male, M age = 13.12 years, SD = 0.87) from Valencia, Spain, who completed paper-and-pencil measures of prosocial moral reasoning (PROM), empathy, prosocial b...

The objective of this work is to study whether the pattern of the relation between parental behaviour and children's socio-emotional development remain invariant through different socio-economic and national contexts (Argentina and Spain). The Argentine Scale of Children Perception of Parental Relationships, the Physical and Verbal Aggression Scale...

This study assesses the relation between coping strategies and emotions to know to what extend these are processes related to aggressive behavior. We assume that the aggression influence coping mechanisms in solving problems and handling of emotions: emotional instability (lack of self-control in stressful situations) or empathy (feelings faced to...

Mediating and moderating effects of socioemotive traits and coping styles on aggression and prosocial behaviors were examined. A sample of 1557 students from Spain (53% male, M age = 13.12) completed self-report instruments of coping, empathy, emotional instability, physical aggression, and prosocial behaviors. Structural equation analysis showed s...

Este estudio analiza la relación entre las estrategias de afrontamiento y las emociones para determinar en qué medida son procesos relacionados con la conducta agresiva. Se parte del supuesto de que en la agresividad influyen los mecanismos de afrontamiento en la resolución de problemas y el manejo de las emociones: inestabilidad emocional (falta d...

Child rearing provides messages and rules that mediate the children's personality. These messages have a positive or negative influence on their behaviour. The objective of this empirical study was to analyse the relationship between physical and verbal aggression of sons and daughters and parenting style practiced by the father and the mother. The...

Prosocial moral reasoning and behavior of young people in early and middle adolescence were examined in relation to the association among the variable of cultural group, age, and gender. Adolescents from Valencia, Spain (673 boys, 579 girls) and Ankara, Turkey (185 boys, 145 girls) participated in this study. Results showed significant cultural gro...

Developmental scholars assert that parents are important in fostering prosocial behaviors in adolescents, but longitudinal investigations on this topic are limited. Participants consisted of 372 boys and 358 girls with a mean age of 10.84 years (SD = 1.57) at Wave 1 from a mostly middle class community in Spain. Across three successive years, parti...

There is debate regarding the roles of sociomoral cognitions and emotions in understanding moral development. The short-term longitudinal relations among perspective taking, sympathy, prosocial moral reasoning, prosocial behaviors and aggression in adolescents were examined. Participants were 489 students (M age = 12.28 years, SD = .48; 232 boys) i...

This article pursues a double aim: to analyse parent-child relationships and how it affects child development, as well as the association between aggression and emotional instability. Sample consisted of 2,747 students, aged 10 to 15 years old, from 36 education centres of the Valencian Community (50.6% boys and 49.4% girls). Results show a strong...

Since the 1970s there has been a growing interest in analysing sex differences in psychological variables. Empirical studies and meta-analyses have contributed evidence on the differences between male and female individuals. More recently, the gender similarities hypothesis has supported the similarity of men and women in most psychological variabl...

Since the 1970s there has been a growing interest in analysing sex differences in psychological variables. Empirical studies and meta-analyses have contributed evidence on the differences between male and female individuals. More recently, the gender similarities hypothesis has supported the similarity of men and women in most psychological variabl...

The infantile and juvenile aggressiveness is considered to be a complex phenomenon, with multiple factors that contribute to different aggressive manifestations. This phenomenon has been an object of many investigations, which have the aim to understand the basic mechanisms that cause and regulate this behaviour and it is important to consider that...

Aggressiveness and coping in adolescence. An intercultural perspective . The infantile and juvenile aggressiveness is considered to be a complex phenomenon, with multiple factors that contribute to different aggressive manifestations. This phenomenon has been an object of many investigations, which have the aim to understand the basic mechanisms th...

The work shows two studies carried out with Spanish adolescents. The objective was to evaluate the relation between rearing styles, prosocial behaviour and empathy, aggressiveness, emotional instability and anger, from a double perspective. In one of these studies (N = 531), the rearing styles were evaluated by the mother and in the other one (N =...

El trabajo muestra dos estudios realizados con adolescentes españoles cuyo objetivo es estudiar la relación entre los estilos de crianza, el comportamiento prosocial y la empatía, la agresividad, la inestabilidad emocional y la ira desde un doble planteamiento: en uno de los estudios (N = 531) la evaluación de los estilos de crianza la realiza la m...

The present longitudinal study examined psychological processes involved in prosocial behavior. A sample of 499 Spanish adolescents were evaluated (12-14 years old; 240 boys and 259 girls) for 3 consecutive years with 6 instruments: Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM), Physical and Verbal Aggression Scale (AFV), Emotional Instability Scale...

ResumenLa agresividad infantil y juvenil es considerada un fenómeno complejo, con múltiples factores que contribuyen a diferentes manifestaciones agresivas. Por todo ello, este fenómeno ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones, que persiguen el objetivo de comprender los mecanismos básicos que causan y regulan dichas conductas (Eron y Huesmann,...

This study presented an adaptation in Spanish of the Child's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory (CRPBI) . The CRPBI is an instrument that allows us to assess family discipline perceived by children in the relation with their mothers and with their fathers. It's considered a good instrument to assess the perceptions that children have of parent...

A review of personal and family variables that regulate prosocial behavior is based on a sample of 1,433 Spanish adolescents (ages 9 to 13; 743 boys and 690 girls) who were assessed on the Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure, the Physical and Verbal Aggression Scale, the Emotional Instability Scale, the State-Trait Anger Inventory, the Child's Re...

The present longitudinal study examined psycho-logical processes involved in prosocial behavior. A sample of499 Spanish adolescents were evaluated (12-14 years old; 240boys and 259 girls) for 3 consecutive years with 6 instruments:Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM), Physical andVerbal Aggression Scale (AFV), Emotional Instability Scale (I...

La agresividad infantil y juvenil es considerada un fenómeno complejo, con múltiples factores que contribuyen a diferentes manifestaciones agresivas. Por todo ello, este fenómeno ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones, que persiguen el objetivo de comprender los mecanismos básicos que causan y regulan dichas conductas (Eron y Huesmann, 1984; C...

Desde hace unos años es patente en España la preocupación por una nueva expresión de ocio juvenil que popularmente se conoce como ¿botellón¿, consistente en la reunión de multitud de jóvenes en espacios abiertos para beber, escuchar música y hablar entre ellos. La preocupación se centra en dos aspectos clave: las molestias ocasionadas por las reuni...

Measuring empathy: The Interpersonal Reactivity Index. The main aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) (Davis, 1980, 1983) in its Spanish adaptation. It is one of the questionnaires but used to evaluate the empathy from a multidimensional perspective that includes two cognitive facto...