Pedro Juan Pérez-Moreno

• Ph.D.
• Professor at University of Huelva

Antecedentes: La curiosidad desempeña un papel importante en múltiples áreas, desde el ámbito clínico hasta el educativo, y ofrece vías prometedoras para intervenciones psicológicas. Definir y medir la curiosidad con precisión es fundamental para desbloquear su potencial de aplicación. Los métodos tradicionales, como el análisis factorial, pueden p...

Introduction: The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is a widely used screening tool with several scoring systems, the criterion one being the most common in clinics. However, its dimensionality and convergent validity remain unclear. Objectives: This study aims to provide robust evidence of the dimensionality, factorial invariance, re...

Background: This study focused on the widely used Body Image subscale, a dimension of the Body Investment Scale developed by Orbach and Mikulincer in 1998. Specifically, we explored its psychometric properties and potential use for health promotion research among young Spanish university students. Method: A sample of 793 participants (75.28% female...

Introduction: The psychometric properties of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) have been evaluated across numerous languages and population groups, primarily from a factor analysis perspective. In some studies, inconsistencies in structural invariance have been identified. Objective: This study aims to analyze the properties and gender invari...

Background: This study aimed to analyse the psychometric properties of the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II (CEI-II) to provide evidence of validity for its use in research on health promotion and the quality of life of young Spanish university students. Method: A sample of 807 participants (75.09% female) aged 18-26 years (M = 20.68; SD =...

This study analyzed, in a Spanish sample, the differences in emotional processing in patients diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD) and patients with a dual diagnosis (DD), and tested whether alterations in emotional regulation were related to the severity of dependence and consumption during treatment. A descriptive follow-up study was condu...

The objective of this study was to compare performance on a comprehensive impulsivity battery of SUD outpatients who dropout versus those who do not dropout and of abstainers versus relapsers at 3 and 12 months of treatment follow-up. Impulsivity was measured at the start of treatment and adherence and relapse at 3 and 12 months. The participants a...

El uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en edades tempranas es cada vez más generalizado. El objetivo de este trabajo fue aportar evidencias de validez y de fiabilidad de la adaptación al español de la Escala de Uso Problemático de Medios con Pantallas (Problematic Media Use Measure) y su versión corta (Problematic Media...

Background Implicit cognition has been linked to relapse in substance use disorder (SUD). Studies on attentional bias have found different outcomes related to the therapeutic context, finding an association with relapse in inpatients but not in outpatients. There are no similar studies that use associations in semantic memory as a measure of implic...

The aim of this study was to analyze the main leisure habits of students at the University of Huelva and the relationship with perceived health by grouping the various activities into components whilst also evaluating possible gender differences. The sample was selected through random cluster sampling and was composed of 903 students from various c...

Objective The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the evidence for impaired executive functioning in patients diagnosed with a dual pathology of personality disorder (PD) and substance use disorder, and to identify whether differences exist in comparison to those with a single diagnosis. Methods: A systematic search was conducted to id...

Background Various authors have described the elements of impulsive approach and inhibitory control in drug users. These two components have been studied in terms of personality traits, performance on tasks that measure impulsive behavior, and neurophysiology. However, few studies have analyzed the association between these constructs. Thus, the ai...

In recent years there has been increased interest in the study of cyber dating violence, however it is necessary to examine the research methodology that supports the evidence obtained so far. This article presents a systematic review of the scientific literature that analyzes 30 instruments for the measurement of cyber dating violence in adolescen...

En los últimos años ha aumentado el interés por el estudio de la ciberviolencia en la pareja, sin embargo es necesario examinar la metodología de investigación que sustenta las evidencias obtenidas hasta el momento. Este artículo presenta una revisión sistemática de la literatura científica que analiza 30 instrumentos de medida de ciberviolencia en...

Objective: To analyze the relationship between suicide in men and stratified measures of religiosity. Methods: We studied 192 suicides and 81 controls (nonsuicide, sudden, or accidental death). We employed the psychological autopsy method to compile diagnoses based on DSM-IV criteria. Overall, religiosity and participation in religious associati...

Background: Interpretation bias tasks such as word association tests have shown a moderate relation with substance use, but most studies have been conducted in nonclinical samples and these tasks are difficult to rate. Objectives: To provide: (1) reliability evidence of the Word Association Task for Drug Use Disorder (WAT-DUD), a novel and easy-to-...

Section III of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition proposes an alternative diagnostic model for personality disorders based on the identification of pathological personality facets. Despite the existing evidence for the relationship between personality disorders and impulsivity in patients with substance use dis...

O objetivo deste estudo é a adaptação para espanhol da escala de empatia etnocultural de Wang, et al. Foi realizado um processo de tradução e retrotradução dos itens e as suas propriedades psicométricas foram exploradas numa amostra de 441 estudantes de Enfermagem de universidades da Andaluzia Ocidental. As análises exploratórias foram utilizadas p...

El objetivo de este estudio es examinar las relaciones entre estrés de rol, engagement y satisfacción laboral de acuerdo con el modelo demandas-recursos laborales. El modelo propuesto plantea que el engagement media la relación entre ambigüedad, conflicto y sobrecarga de rol, por un lado y satisfacción en el trabajo, por el otro. Para verificar el...

In order to differentiate between types of routine leisure activities and to evaluate their corresponding protection/risk value in adolescent development, we performed a study with a sample of 218 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 14 years by asking them to fill out a grid that analysed their daily routines. The results are presented here. The...

This work falls within the framework of the study of acculturation processes of natives and immigrants. Its goal is to test an explanatory multi-group model of natives' acculturation attitudes as a function of diverse psychosocial variables: Prejudice and natives' appraisal of their own culture (in a direct way) and inter-group contact and perceive...

ste trabajo se enmarca en el estudio del prejuicio en las pobla- ciones autóctona e inmigrante. El objetivo es llevar a cabo un estudio de las propiedades psicométricas de una nueva medida de la actitud de prejuicio para los diferentes grupos (mayorías y minorías), el Test de Actitud Prejui- ciosa (TAP). El TAP se basa en una concepción tricomponen...

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) is used as a screening tool for detecting drug consumers people who need a short intervention. This test's use could be suitable at primary care facilities. The test was translated into Spanish by the team that developed its English original version, but it lacks of the necessar...

There have been two basic approaches for the study of minority group prejudice against the majority: to adapt instruments from the majority group, and to use qualitative techniques by analyzing the content of the discourse of the groups involved. Neither of these procedures solves the problem of measuring intergroup attitudes of majorities and mino...

This article studies the relevance of several clinical symptoms to the hallucinatory experience, considering the role that experiential avoidance may play in this process. The results show that the predisposition to hallucinations is associated with several clinical symptoms. Specifically, depression is the most relevant factor in the predispositio...

Objetivo: Conocer las propiedades psicométricas del GHQ-28 cuando se administra a una muestra de pacientes con dependencia a opiáceos. Método: 138 pacientes con diagnóstico de dependencia a opiáceos han participado en el estudio. La fiabilidad se ha estimado por el procedimiento alpha de Cronbach y dos mitades con Spearman-Brown. Se ha aplicado un...

Satisfaction with Life is a relevant construct in the analysis of the quality of life of the people. For its measurement it is counted, among others tools, with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) of Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985). The adaptation to Castilian of the version of the five items Likert type from 1 to 5 has been applied...

To know the psychometric properties of the GHQ-28 when it is applied to a sample of opiate-dependent patients. Participants were 138 opiate-dependent patients. Reliability was estimated by means of the Cronbach's alpha and Spearman-Brown coefficients. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was applied to check the four-factor structure proposed by Goldberg a...

Con el objetivo de describir la frecuencia con la que chicos y chicas adolescentes escolarizados de entre 15 y 18 años consumen diferentes sustancias y de analizar la relación entre el tipo de amigos y tales consumos, se administró un cuestionario a 6821 chicos y chicas de todo el país. La muestra era representativa en cuanto a hábitat (rural/urban...

The purpose of the paper is to reflect on the passage of adolescence within the family context, analysing the changes that take place in the parents-child relationship. Our empirical work focuses on a dimensions defining quality of relations within the family context: the existence or not of a smooth communication between adolescents and their pare...

The aim of the present study was to analyze school coexistence in different European countries. A total of 2,196 pupils, teachers and parents from Spain, France, Austria and Hungary participated by filling out a school coexistence questionnaire, translated into the corresponding languages. The results obtained indicate a greater prevalence of schoo...

El Estudio Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children se desarrolla en su sexta edición en 32 países occidentales donde se utiliza un cuestionario común sobre conductas relacionadas con la salud de los adolescentes, teniendo el estatus de Estudio Colaborador de la OMS. Actualmente el equipo español cuenta con datos obtenidos de 13.522 participantes s...