Ramon Cladellas

• Doctor
• Autonomous University of Barcelona

Background Previous studies have associated videogame playing and social media use with suicidal behaviors together with lower stress coping or poor emotion regulation strategies. Due to the inconclusive evidence regarding the factors associated with suicidal behavior, the present study aimed to overcome the limitations of previous research and e...

Es presenten els resultats d'un projecte d'innovació educativa orientat a comparar la docència en context exterior, interior i en línia en experiència d'aprenentatge i condicions d'aprenentatge. Els resultats mostren que les millors condicions d'aprenentatge dels contexts interior i en línia van quedar compensades per la millor experiència hedònica...

Abstract Background/Objective: During Covid-19, high prevalences of anxiety and depression were reported among university students, suggesting that they may be at higher risk than the general population of developing psychological disorders in lockdown situations. This study aimed to analyze how sociocultural factors and individual differences con...

Previous studies have reported that adolescents were at higher risk for mental health disorders during and after the COVID-19 pandemic due to the characteristics of their developmental period and to the impact of social and mobility restrictions on their daily routines. In response to these reports, we designed, implemented, and evaluated the impac...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, professors of the Psychology Degree at UAB implemented a new teaching experience in a first year subject. MOTEMO-OUTDOOR is an active learning program applied to three environments: indoors, outdoors and online. At the same time, they evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of this teaching strategy. The su...

Unlabelled: The restriction measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic posed notable challenges for formal teaching-learning processes because they had to be adapted to ensure health security. An active learning programme applied to three environments (indoors, outdoors, and online) was tested with 273 undergraduate university students in...

Over the last few years, various studies have reported decreasing well-being levels among doctoral students, who show a higher risk of suffering from psychological distress than the general population. Accordingly, European policies in higher education encourage well-being promotion programs among doctoral studies to enhance young researchers’ well...

Previous studies during the Covid-19 pandemic reported particularly high prevalence of anxiety and depression among university students, suggesting that they can be a vulnerable group at greater risk than the general population for developing psychological disorders in situations of confinement. However, the impact varied between countries and indi...

Eating disorders strongly affect psychological distress and its perception. However, most of the existing instruments for assessing life satisfaction rely on a point-estimation method that is biased due to the circumstantial conditions around the time of assessment. The main goal of this study was to apply a different kind of instrument—the Life Sa...

Results of the Third Half at the UAB, presented on August 26th. 2022 at the 1st. Conference of Researchers' Mental Health, Budapest (Hungary), organized by the Researcher Mental Health Observatory.

The restriction measures posed notable challenges for formal teaching-learning processes in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic since they had to be adapted to guarantee health security. An active learning programme applied to three environments (indoor, outdoor, and online) was tested on 273 undergraduate university students in an a within-subjec...

The containment measures in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic have posed a notable challenge for formal teaching-learning processes, which have had to be adapted to a context of health security. An active learning program, MOTEMO-OUTDOOR was tested on a sample of 273 university undergraduate students. A within-subjects design was carried out with a...

The objective of this study is to make a quick assessment of the psychological resources and emotional distress of the general population locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic (in Catalonia, Spain), and to observe their evolution over the course of two waves during lockdown: at two weeks and at one month (April 1th to 3th and April 17th to 19th)...

The level of life satisfaction perceived during childhood and adolescence is an excellent indicator of healthy psychological emotional development. The main aim of this work is to study the levels of life satisfaction perceived by young people throughout their childhood and adolescence. To this end, an innovative retrospective approach is adopted t...

Adolescence is a period where youngsters still do not know much about themselves. That makes some decisions, like those concerning vocational elections, a complicated issue that has important consequences for their life. The main goal of this piece of research is to measure implicit interests using a situated, unobtrusive computer tool (PrUnAs: Pre...

Previous studies show how time perception can be altered by cannabis consumption, but it is not clear yet whether cannabis produces temporal underproductions or overproductions after acute cannabis intoxication. The present study aimed to analyze a sample of 50 regular cannabis users controlling for cannabis strain (sativa, indica, and hybrid) and...

Becoming a professional musician is highly demanding and requires a deliberate practice that involves participation in a highly structured activity to improve performance and high levels of concentration. Musicians often begin to study music at a very young age, and their lives are subjected to constant pressure and prone to high levels of stress t...

Se presentó la Unidad de Coaching y Acompañamiento Académico de la UAB (UCAA_UAB) en el XVII Encuentro de Servicios Psicológicos y Psicopedagógicos Universitarios (ESPPU) que se celebró los días 15 y 16 de abril del 2021 en la Universidad de Cádiz. El XVII ESPPU facilitó el intercambio de ideas, de propuestas, de reflexiones y experiencias, sobre...

Data base corresponding to the accepted manuscript Cannabis and its different strains: do they have differential effects on time perception? In the journal "Experimental Psychology"

Previous studies show how time perception can be altered by cannabis consumption, but it is not clear yet whether cannabis produces temporal underproductions or overproductions after acute cannabis intoxication. The present study aimed to analyze a sample of 50 regular cannabis users controlling for cannabis strain (sativa, indica, and hybrid) and...

Casual videogames (CVGs), played on smartphones, are becoming increasingly popular, especially among females and adults. Whereas the addictive potential of online (computer) videogames is well-established, there is yet insufficient evidence for Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in mobile gamers and for the mediating role of some mechanisms involved. T...

The use of slide-presentations has become ubiquitous in university majors. Previous research has focused on its general effectiveness, although results are not clearly consistent. The format of the slides has been analysed in few cases and its correspondence with the specific disciplines has never been considered. This study focuses on the perceive...

The objective of this study was to examine the variables that affect the use of PowerPoint by university professors. Based on the revised unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT-2), a theoretical model adapted to the study context was proposed. The impact of the attitude towards PowerPoint, performance expectancy, effort expectanc...

Resumen Antecedentes y objetivo El suicidio es la primera causa de muerte evitable entre los jóvenes de 15 a 24 años. El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer la prevalencia de la conducta suicida (CS) en estudiantes universitarios, analizar la relación entre la regulación emocional (RE), la procrastinación académica (PA) y la CS, y si la RE podría...

Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los efectos de escuchar una música subjetivamente agradable/desagradable para el oyente sobre los niveles de ansiedad medida mediante el inventario STAI Rasgo/Estado. Veinte participantes indicaron las músicas que les eran subjetivamente agradables/desagradables. Se les administró el STAI, pre- y post...

PowerPoint is one of the most widely used technological tools in educational contexts, but little is known about the differences in usage patterns by faculty members from various disciplines. For the study we report in this article we used a survey specially designed to explore this question, and it was completed by 106 faculty members from differe...

El rendimiento adulto de personas con diagnóstico de alta capacidad es un campo que ha sido poco investigado. Los resultados existentes indican que la excelencia se presenta en proporciones mucho menores que los casos con alta capacidad detectados durante la infancia/juventud, siendo relativamente pocos los casos de alta capacidad entre las persona...

Objectives To determine whether specific external signs of emotional distress (ESED) can be an indirect measure of emotional distress in caregivers. Methods A cross-sectional multicentre design was used. 148 primary caregivers of advanced cancer patients attended in four Spanish palliative care units participated in this study. The emotional distr...

En este trabajo se estudia la relación entre el uso lúdico de la televisión y los videojuegos en alumnos de primaria y su tendencia a la procrastinación.Se recabó información de los padres de 670 alumnos. Los resultados mostraron que en los alumnos los cambios en la procrastinación en función del tiempo de televisión son más radicales que en las al...

The purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship between the executive functioning and the academic performance in arts, science, mathematics and language. The sample consisted of 77 students aged from 6 to 9 years, without clinical diagnostics. The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function BRIEF for parents was administered. The resu...

In the last decade, positive psychology interventions (PPI) applied in both clinical and non-clinical samples have demonstrated a proven efficacy to increase positive emotions, well-being, and life satisfaction. However, few studies have used objective indicators of performance to explored the efficacy of PPI to increase students' motivation to stu...

Objective : There's a lot of literature about teachers' work conditions and the effects of such conditions on them. The goal of this research focuses on the analysis of the effects derived from the type of labour relationship with the University on the psycho-social dimensions of satisfaction, stress and perceived health. Methods : Quasi-experim...

This paper studies the relationship between primary education students' leisure use of television and video games and the students' tendency to procrastinate. Information was gathered from the parents of 670 students. The results showed that male students experienced greater changes in procrastination as a function of television time than female st...

Introducción. Algunos trabajos anteriores han demostrado que la participación en actividades extraescolares optimiza tanto las notas académicas de los alumnos como sus procesos de socialización. Sin embargo, ninguno ha relacionado las actividades extraescolares con la tendencia a la procrastinación académica, o sea la costumbre, más o menos arraiga...

Introducción. Son diversos los estudios sobre las diferencias de género en la escuela. Pero son escasas las investigaciones que hayan tenido en cuenta la variable género en el estudio de los comportamientos disruptivos convencionales e instruccionales. En este trabajo pretendemos hacer un acercamiento al tema.Método. Esta investigación es un estudi...

Introducción. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar de qué modo la gestión del tiempo de trabajo en función de la distribución horaria de la docencia de los profesores universitarios, influye en los factores psicosociales relacionados con la percepción de salud y los síntomas de estrés. Se ha considerado especialmente la incidencia de las franjas...

Previous studies have shown that Sensation Seeking, one of the traits most related to risk taking behavior, is associated with lower academic performance in students with primary and secondary levels of education. Given the relevance of identifying early outcomes of sensation seekers to prevent negative risk taking, the present study explored the r...

São cada vez mais as mulheres que se incorporam no mercado laboral, o que faz com que sejam cada vez mais as famílias em que ambos os progenitores trabalham. Este artigo tem por objetivo comprovar o impacto dos horários laborais dos pais, tratados em conjunto ou em separado, no rendimento académico de alunos do 1º ciclo do ensino básico em Espanha....

Objeto: Verificar si la percepción del proceso de aprendizaje, según se oriente a la comprensión o al recuerdo, está asociada a los procedimientos de tecnología docente empleados y de evaluación del mismo. Diseño/metodología: A partir de una muestra de 315 registros sobre asignaturas obligatorias de segundo curso de Grado, obtenidos a partir de 63...

The feeling of knowing (FOK) is a component of meta-memory that helps people decide if they know or do not know a specific piece of information. By using over-claiming technique as a convenient method for measuring FOK, this study aims to analyse if it varies systematically across different academic levels. It is worth to analyse this issue because...

El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar la posible incidencia en el rendimiento académico de alumnos de primaria, de la realización -o no- de actividades extraescolares, según su tipología (recreativas, cognitivas o ambas) y el número de horas de actividades realizadas. La muestra final estaba formada por un total de 721 alumnos de primaria (366 niñ...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar la posible incidencia que tienen los comportamientos disruptivos (instruccional y convencional) en el aula sobre el rendimiento académico. Respecto al método, la muestra se configuró con un total de 391 participantes y se utilizó la escala IG de indisciplina, la cual discrimina tipos de comportamientos...

Introduction. The social networks have changed the news media scene and the media are striving to adapt to this new space by posting news that is attractive to their users. On Facebook in particular, the inclusion of images in news posts is very important, as they compete with the images depicting the users’ personal interests and those of their so...

Las relaciones existentes entre el sueño y la vigilia, los ciclos de descanso y actividad, por una parte, y la práctica de la actividad física o deporte, por la otra, son muy complejas, intrincadas y multifactoriales en ambos sentidos (García-Mas, Aguado, Cuarto, Calabria, Jiménez y Pérez). Posiblemente influya en ello la diversidad de métodos usad...

The aim of this paper was to study the connection between students' rest patterns (appropriate and inappropriate), accumulated hours of extracurricular physical and sports activities, and the academic results of primary school students. The sample includes 573 primary school students from Barcelona and the Balearic Islands (54.62% boys and 45.38% g...

En el presente trabajo se ha relacionado el gusto y la afición por la lectura y el tiempo que pasan los alumnos viendo la televisión o jugando a videojuegos en los ratos de ocio, y cómo estas variables correlacionan con el rendimiento académico, medido a través de las notas escolares. La muestra ha sido compuesta por un total de 510 alumnos de los...

This paper relates the pleasure and the fondness for reading to the time students spend wat-ching TV or playing video games in their leisure time, and how these correlate with academic performance, measured by school marks. The sample comprised a total of 510 Spanish Primary School students from public and private schools. Data were obtained throug...

Introduction: Some previous studies have shown that participation in extra-curricular activities optimises both academic grades and the socialisation process of students. However, nobody has so far related extracurricular activities with a tendency for academic procrastination; that is, the more or less deep-rooted habit of leaving study tasks unti...

El objetivo de este trabajo es comprobar hasta qué punto la procedencia de los sujetos (urbana vs semi-rural) incide en la estimación del tiempo en tareas realizadas por Internet. Un total de 120 estudiantes chilenos con una media de edad de 15,33 años, la mitad de procedencia urbana y la otra mitad de procedencia semirural, estimaron el tiempo que...

El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar la posible incidencia en el rendimiento académico de alumnos de primaria, de la realización -o no- de actividades extraescolares, según su tipología (recreativas, cognitivas o ambas) y el número de horas de actividades realizadas. La muestra final estaba formada por un total de 721 alumnos de primaria (366 niñ...

El presente estudio expone las características de la conducta deshonesta en el aula, describe sus causas y examinalas nefastas consecuencias que tiene para el aprendizaje. Con el fin de analizar el estado de la cuestión en nuestropaís, se ha hecho una entrevista psicoeducativa y se ha aplicado un cuestionario a un total de 306 alumnos deúltimo curs...

The aim of this paper is to present the issue of academic cheating, describe its causes, and examine the obstacles this behaviour creates for learning. The research was carried out with 306 students from Barcelona (Spain) which were administered both with a psycho educational interview and a questionnaire. Results are similar to those from other co...

The aim of this study is to assess the potential impact of extracurricular activities on the academic performance of elementary school students. Attendance or not attendance, type of extracurricular activities (recreational, cognitive or both) and the number of hours a week have been taken into account. The final sample consisted of a total of 721...

Purpose: This study focuses on whether the use of PowerPoint technology as the main resource to convey information has an effect on students’ learning compared with classes taught without this technology.Design/methodology/approach: The sample consisted of 205 psychology students, divided into four groups, who were taught an ordinary Educational Ps...

Quantitative-summative assessment usually devotes not much attention to the organisation of knowledge, though it is a dimension as or more important than the amount of retrieved information for describing the accomplished learning and, particularly, the possible use of it. These traditional systems of assessment commonly involve response procedures...

The aim of this paper is to present the issue of academic cheating, describe its causes, and examine the obstacles this behaviour creates for learning. The research was carried out with 306 students from Barcelona (Spain) which were administered both with a psycho educational interview and a questionnaire. Results are similar to those from other co...

Quantitative-summative assessment usually devotes not much attention to the organisation of knowledge, though it is a dimension as or more important than the amount of retrieved information for describing the accomplished learning and, particularly, the possible use of it. These traditional systems of assessment commonly involve response procedures...

Addiction to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become an important research topic. The aims of the present study were to determine the problematic uses of Internet and cell phones in Spanish teenagers and young students and analyze the predictive capacity of these problematic uses to explain scores on the CERI (Cuestionario d...

Las adicciones a las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación han devenido una importante área de investigación. Los objetivos del estudio fueron caracterizar el posible uso problemático de Internet y móvil y analizar la capacidad predictiva de estos usos problemáticos para explicar las puntuaciones en el Cuestionario de Experiencias Rela...

Introduction: There are several studies on gender differences in school. Some have referred in treatment over their pupils by gender, others have referred to the perceptions of teachers and students about school discipline. But there is little research that has taken into account the gender variable in the study of social and instructional behavior...

Introduction: This article has two purposes. First, to show the correlation between two unfortunately very common academic habits: procrastination and cheating. Second, to analyse the sequential trend of these two tendencies, from the final year of compulsory secondary education (in Spain 4 th year of ESO; age 16) to the final year of university (a...

The aim of this study is analyse the relation between the teacher´s burnout and the school organisation and classroom management. The sample is formed by 1.360 teachers of Catalonia (Spain), to which has applied the MBI, a questionnaire that collects social and professional data, and the questionnaire of Factors of the Teachers Internal Context, de...

Research on personality and circadian typology indicates evening-type women are more impulsive and novelty seeking, neither types are more anxious, and morning types tend to be more active, conscientious, and persistent. The purpose of this study is to examine the differences between circadian typologies in the light of the Zuckerman's Alternative...

INTRODUCTION. The main goal of this work was to identify subgroups of patients with fibromyalgia (FM) by means of a frequently used clinical tool, the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). METHODOLOGY. A total of 66 women diagnosed with FM participated in the study. Two subgroups of patients were identified by analysis of a hierarchical cluster...

El presente estudio investiga la relación entre aspectos cuantitativos y cualitativos del sueño y el rendimiento académico en niños de 6 y 7 años. Un total de 142 alumnos de primaria (65 niñas y 77 niños) procedentes de diversos centros escolares y sin alteraciones patológicas que afectan el sueño fueron evaluados, a través de un cuestionario prese...

The aim of this research is to test weather the perception of time availability different from the actual task time might modify the task's outcome. 92 students of Sixth Grade, randomized in 4 different groups were tested with the PMA spatial scale for a period. Although each group indeed had 5 minutes to respond, they were informed that the availa...

Introduction: The aim of present research is the analysis of how work time managing, depending on the placement of the teaching activity within the timetable, influences psycosocial factors bonded to health and stress symptoms. The effects of extreme periods of the official timetable have particularly been studied. Method: The sample comprised 172...

L'ús de gestors de referències com RefWorks agilitza el treball dels autors però el seu ús en castellà presenta dificultats a causa de la seva construcció original en anglès. Per això, un dels formats de RefWorks s'ha adaptat a les normes gramaticals i ortogràfiques del castellà i s'ha posat a disposició de la comunitat científica.Th...

In the present research, we explored the relation between the time management of university scholars and psico-socials factors, as the satisfaction, the health and the stress. A total of 164 university scholars volunteers of seven schools of Engineering in the Technical University College of Catalonia, distributed in three groups, according to diff...

El uso de gestores de referencias como RefWorks agiliza el trabajo de los autores pero su uso en castellano presenta dificultades debido a su construcción original en inglés. Por ello, uno de los formatos de RefWorks ha sido adaptado a las normas gramaticales y ortográficas del castellano y se ha puesto a disposición de la comunidad científica.The...

The aim of this paper is analyzing the economic concept of time based on historical and cultural factors. The manuscript presents the historical evolution of the concept of time, highlighting its conceptualization since ancient times until now. Subsequently, the paper analyzes the economic value of time down through the history of no-time (leisure...

The aim of this paper is analyzing the economic concept of time based on historical and cultural factors. The manuscript presents the historical evolution of the concept of time, highlighting its conceptualization since ancient times until now. Subsequently, the paper analyzes the economic value of time down through the history of no-time (leisure...

The aim of this paper is analyzing the economic concept of time based on historical and cultural factors. The manuscript presents the historical evolution of the concept of time, highlighting its conceptualization since ancient times until now. Subsequently, the paper analyzes the economic value of time down through the history of no-time (leisure...

This work pretends to show how time perception in the same country (Chile) can change depending on the cultural context (urban/rural). In order to achieve this, it describes and analyzes different particularities from different rural areas of the country, in contrast with those of the capital city (Santiago de Chile), and how these have a clear and...

En este trabajo se pretende mostrar como la percepcion del tiempo en un mismo pais (Chile) puede variar dependiendo del contexto cultural (urbano v/s rural). Para ello se describen y analizan diferentes particularidades de distintas zonas rurales del pais, en contraste con la vivida en la propia capital (Santiago de Chile), y como ello tiene una in...

El objetivo de este trabajo es comprobar hasta que punto la procedencia de los sujetos (urbana vs semi-rural) incide en la estimación del tiempo en tareas realizadas por Internet. Un total de 120 estudiantes chilenos con una media de edad de 15,33 años, la mitad de procedencia urbana y la otra mitad de procedencia semirural, estimaron el tiempo que...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo buscar la posible relación entre la falta de gestión de tiempo de los trabajadores de una empresa informática y diferentes factores psicosociales. Estos factores fueron evaluados a través del Cuestionario ISTAS21 versión en lengua castellana del CoPsoQ (Cuestionario Psicosocial de Copenhaguen), de las 21 dimensione...

This paper is aimed to explore the possible relationship between workers' lack of time management and several psychosocial risks. The psychosocial risks were assessed by means of the ISTAS21 Questionnaire, the Spanish version of the CoPsoQ (Copenhagen Psychological Questionnaire). More specifically, nine dimensions, which are directly related with...

This paper is aimed to explore the possible relationship between workers' lack of time management and several psychosocial risks. The psychosocial risks were assessed by means of the ISTAS21 Questionnaire, the Spanish version of the CoPsoQ (Copenhagen Psychological Questionnaire). More specifically, nine dimensions, which are directly related with...

The present article gives account of the main results of developed experimental investigations in Chile that it has by objective to compare the estimation of the time which adolescents do when they face the development of similar tasks with without computers. In addition possible cultural differences with groups of rural and urban subjects are anal...

Resumen Abstract El presente artículo da cuenta de los The present article gives account of the main principales resultados de investigaciones results of developed experimental investigations experimentales desarrolladas en Chile con el in Chile that it has by objective to compare objetivo de comparar la estimación del tiempo the estimation of the...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en averiguar si existen diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres tanto en velocidad (tiempo de respuesta) como en exactitud (número de errores) en una prueba computarizada de rotación mental. De acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos por (Campos y Cofan, 1986; Voyer, Voyer y Bryden, 1995, Luehring y Altm...

This work is adressed to check the effect of a long training in a computarized task, where one of the main processes involved is mental rotation. 63 university students, 44 women and 19 men solved a set of computarized spatial problems during 13 weekly sessions. Only the results of the sessions 1, 7 and 13 were computed. Results show that, although...