
Raúl NavarroUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha · Psychology
Raúl Navarro
Doctor of Psychology
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December 2020 - present
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Cuenca
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Dating violence is a significant issue among emerging adults. Using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model, this study investigates its precursors through interviews with 21 individuals aged 18–25 who experienced dating abuse. By applying the social-ecological model, this study underscores the complexity of dating violence, highlighting the necessity of...
Peer status among preschool children has been associated with their roles in aggression-related interactions. This study analyses the differences between aggressors, victims, aggressor-victims and defenders on two measures of peer status (social impact and social preferences) whilst controlling for individual factors. The sample comprised 394 presc...
Drawing on social cognitive theory, three main research objectives have been addressed. In the first instance, we examined the relationship between parental proviolence attitudes and aggressive behaviour in preschool children. Secondly, we analysed the relationship between parental moral disengagement and aggressive behaviour in preschool children....
The majority of studies in the current literature analyse cyberbullying at the secondary education stage. Nevertheless, although it has been shown that cybervictim and cyberbully roles may arise from the Primary School stage onwards, more research is still needed. The consequences of this problem can be manifested in indicators of psycho-social and...
Introduction
Preschool aggression, a significant concern, requires an in-depth examination beyond individual factors. This study explored the link between individual characteristics, immediate social environment variables, and the likelihood of preschoolers being nominated as aggressors or victims. The novelty of the study lies in its comprehensive...
Background
Breadcrumbing, defined as the act of sending out flirtatious, but non-committal text messages to lure a sexual/romantic partner without expending much effort, has gained attention in popular culture and the media due to its relevance to contemporary dating dynamics. However, there is lack of evidence of the association between attachment...
Background: Breadcrumbing is an unexplored dating trend disguised in the form of subtle manipulation in relationships. With the increase in online dating apps, people have started to initiate, maintain and end relationships, and the use of manipulative tactics have increased on such platforms. The present study explores the meaning of breadcrumbing...
Adolescent cyberbullying continues to be a global public health concern, which garnered the attention of scholars around the world. Cyberbullying is concerning for adolescents as adolescents have increasingly relied on social media, which increases their risk of cyberbullying victimization. This chapter aims to review the existing research literatu...
Background:
Family relationships and self-esteem are relevant variables into the understanding of cyberbullying. However, little is known about the mediating role of self-esteem in the connections between cyberbullying and parenting. The study had two goals: (1) to analyze the relation between being a cybervictim and/or cyberaggressor and self-est...
Background:
A growing body of research has shown that children behave aggressively from an early age. In recent decades, such behaviour has become a focus of scientific interest, not only because of the adverse consequences of these interactions, but also because high levels of aggression, especially at an early age, may be a risk factor for the u...
El acoso escolar es un grave problema social y para la salud de los menores, por lo que las escuelas deben implicarse desde el inicio de la escolarización en su prevención e intervención. Los álbumes ofrecen narrativas textuales y visuales que reflejan los comportamientos de acoso. La literatura infantil es un medio adecuado para conocer y reflexio...
Cyberbullying is a serious social and health problem for children.
Cyberbullying behaviours occur among peers at school, affecting day-to-day
life in the classroom, and are reported among students in the final years of
primary education. This study analyses the relationships between social support
from friends, socio-emotional competencies and cybe...
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a common pathway to risky behaviour , violence or re-victimisation, disability, illness, and premature mortality and, as such, may be associated with victimisation and perpetration of dating violence not only in adolescence but also in adulthood. Method: A scoping review was performed in accordan...
Cyberbullying behaviours begin at primary school, so the actions taken by pre-teachers will play a key role in achieving the goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More specifically, active coping strategies are essential in reducing victimisation. The aim of this study was to identify the coping strategies considered effective by pr...
Las experiencias de ocio son espacios de integración social. La investigación ha mostrado que el aislamiento es un factor relevante en los procesos de bullying. Si entendemos el bullying como un proceso interpersonal se han de ampliar los contextos de análisis más allá de las relaciones de aula, ampliándolo al estudio de las relaciones en los espac...
Digital life forms part of daily reality for young people. For this reason, traditional bullying in school has been reproduced in the online environment, resulting in an overlap of off- and online bullying. Research on socio-emotional competencies and bullying is revealing interesting results among students in secondary schools. However, studies in...
El objetivo del estudio ha sido analizar las diferencias de bullying (tradicional y cyberbullying) en contextos rurales y urbanos. Ha participado un total de 2,162 estudiantes de 5º (52.7%) y 6º (47.3%) de Educación Primaria, un 49.3% en contexto urbano y 50.7% en contexto rural. Los resultados indican un porcentaje de intervención similar en coleg...
Much research have outlined that traditional bullying and cyberbullying is linked to family characteristics, such as poor parent-children relationships, lack of parental emotional support, infrequent and poor parental monitoring, sibling warmth and family cohesion. Studies around the world has also highlight the important role that parents can play...
The present study is part of a large study analyzing the prevalence of ghosting and breadcrumbing in sample of Spanish adults aged between 18 and 40 years. The study was split into different papers to better organize and understand the data obtained. The present paper investigated the prevalence of ghosting and breadcrumbing and associations betwee...
Bullying is a frequently occurring problem behavior among youths. Some youth are persistently victimized across different school contexts. However, the impact of bullying experiences before and in university on well-being is relatively underexplored. Students who experienced victimization at both time points (before and at university) were classifi...
Purpose
Previous research has documented a negative association between subjective well-being and different forms of victimization. The present study aims to examine differences in well-being among university student victims of cyber dating abuse and bullying after controlling for acceptance of dating violence.
Design/methodology
This a cross-sec...
Ghosting is a relationship dissolution strategy in which the ghoster elects to cease all forms of communication with their partner without explanation. The partner tends to be unaware that they are being ghosted. As a result, the ghosted partner is left to manage and understand what lack of his/her partner’s communication means. The present study w...
Gender research on the role of technology use in dating abuse during adolescence has been focused in analyzing which gender is more involved in digital victimization and perpetration. Results from international research have shown mixed results and it is difficult to conclude that digital abuse is a gender-specific behavior in adolescents’ romantic...
The present study aimed to examine differences in three psychological constructs (satisfaction with life, loneliness, and helplessness) among adults experiencing ghosting and breadcrumbing. A sample of 626 adults (303 males and 323 females), aged from 18 to 40 years, completed an online survey asking to indicate whether someone they considered a da...
The present study examined the relations among poly-bullying victimization (experiencing multiple forms of peer bullying), resilience and subjective well-being. This study specifically examined late adolescents′ resilience as a moderator of the relation between poly-bullying victimization and subjective well-being. In a region of central Spain, 143...
Objectives
Previous research has shown that children and youths in residential childcare are exposed to different aggressive behaviors, including peer violence. However, research that has analyzed prevalence of bullying and its relation with psychological distress in this vulnerable group is scarce. Our study was designed to extend previous resear...
The present study aimed to analyze the prevalence, and the differences in the fre quency and chronicity of cyber dating abuse according to different sociodemographic variables. Additionally, the relationship of cyber dating abuse with the myths of romantic love, mobile abuse and acceptance of violence was analyzed. Using a sample of 1,657 universit...
The present study examined the relationship linking social-interpersonal factors (interpersonal dependency, social support, social skills), cognitive-individual factors (planning behavior and goal efficacy), and different victimization and perpetration forms of cyber dating abuse (direct abuse, control abuse, and the combination of both abuse types...
Gender norms and the co-occurrence of perpetration and victimization behaviors have been examined as key factors of female dating violence in offline contexts. However, these relationships have not been analyzed in digital environments. This is why the present study had a twofold objective: (1) exploring the co-occurrence nature of cyber dating abu...
Gender role norms have been widely studied in the offline partner violence context. Different studies have indicated that internalizing these norms was associated with dating violence. However, very few research works have analyzed this relation in forms of aggression against partners and former partners using information and communication technolo...
By building upon previous studies, the current study explores Cross-cultural children’s subjective perceptions of well-being. Specifically, using visually-oriented focus groups this study explore their satisfaction and evaluations of different dimensions in the lives of children under 9 years old in South Korea, Mexico and Spain, with a special foc...
The aim of this study was to determine well-being and its relationship to social support from friends and family communication in university students. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1679 university students aged 18-25 years from four universities in Spain. Logistical regression models were tested (p < 0.05). The students in the last yea...
Bullying has been recognized as an important risk factor for mental health. A growing number of researchers have encouraged parents to work collaboratively with schools to prevent and intervene in bullying situations. This study explores the relationship between parents’ awareness of bullying involvement, adolescents’ self-reported victimization, a...
Las investigaciones sobre los ciberagresores son escasas. El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido conocer las variables que predicen la agresión de ciberacoso. El presente estudio examinó la relación entre las variables socio-cognitivas y emocionales con la agresión de ciberacoso. Se examinó la desconexión moral hacia el ciberacoso. Se midió tamb...
Estudios previos muestran resultados dispares en relación con la efectividad de la mediación parental en el uso de Internet. El objetivo fue analizar la influencia de los padres sobre el empleo de la red que llevan a cabo los hijos. Participaron en el estudio 938 familias con hijos entre 12 y 17 años. El análisis de regresión destaca la importancia...
Bullying is an aggressive behavior among school-aged children. Bullying is repeated over time and includes behaviors such as hitting, breaking someone's things, name-calling, spreading rumors, or posting someone's private photos online. Researchers all over the world have found that children who are bullied may have serious health problems, includi...
While preliminary research supports the association of interpersonal difficulties with cyberbullying victimization in adolescence, it remains unclear how cyber-relationship motives and strategies for coping with stressful peer situations in "real settings" differ between victims and non-victims of cyberbullying. The purpose of this study was to ver...
The present study used quantitative data to address two gaps in cyberbullying research. First, to examine the relationship between fatalism and cyberbullying victimization in an adolescent sample not previously explored. Second, despite investigating these relationships from a main effects perspective, the present study extended research by examini...
INTRODUCCIÓN. El bullying es una conducta de violencia entre iguales caracterizada por la persistencia, la intencionalidad y el desequilibrio de poder entre agresores y víctimas. Cuando los ataques se producen a través de las TIC hablamos de ciberbullying. El rol del padre y de la madre en el bullying podría trasladarse al ciberbullying, aunque tod...
. En este artículo se presenta una revisión sobre el bullying y el cyberbullying y la relación entre ellos, desde una perspectiva psico-socio-educativa. Con el objetivo de estudiar la continuidad de los procesos de cyberbullying, presentamos los resultados iniciales de tres estudios descriptivos. En el primero, se analiza el origen del cyberbullyin...
The present study examines the relationship between different roles in cyberbullying
behaviors (cyberbullies, cybervictims, cyberbullies-victims, and uninvolved) and self-reported
digital piracy. In a region of central Spain, 643 (49.3% females, 50.7% males) students (grades 7–10)
completed a number of self-reported measures, including cyberbullyin...
Few studies have analyzed cyberbullying victimization among university students in comparison to research conducted in other educational levels. The main purpose was to analyze the associations between the cyberbullying victimization and social and emotional factors such as involvement in traditional bullying victimization and perpetration, lonelin...
La preocupación ante el potencial de Internet como un espacio donde se puede producir distintas formas de victimización está creciendo entre los investigadores, padres y educadores a tenor de las consecuencias de estas interacciones negativas para el funcionamiento psicológico de los jóvenes. La investigación sobre el cyberbullying trata ahora de c...
El acoso escolar ha salido de las aulas a través de las nuevas tecnologías de la información. En la actualidad para hablar de acoso entre iguales debemos referirnos simultáneamente al bullying y al cyberbullying. Las investigaciones señalan una continuidad entre ambos fenómenos, por lo que es importante un tratamiento conjunto. Desde el inicio del...
Cyberbullying has been recognized as an important risk factor for mental health. Few studies have analyzed relationships between family variables and cyberbullying victimization. This ex post facto study analyze the relationships between loneliness, parent-child communication and different groups of cyberbullying victims (non-involved, occasional a...
A large amount of research in cyberbullying has been conducted in recent years. However, research has prioritized quantitative analysis rather than qualitative ones, even when a qualitative perspective allows focusing on the group dynamics that characterized these negative online interactions. The present study aims to learn the meanings that young...
El objetivo de este libro es analizar aspectos relevantes de las conductas violentas de niños y adolescentes en diferentes con-textos, y hacerlo buscando y reforzando cuáles son los entornos que protegen a los menores de este tipo de conductas. Puede que solo lo hayamos conseguido en parte, porque se trata de un tema complejo que requiere un anális...
Gender studies on cyberbullying have attempted to determine which gender is more involved in cyberbullying victimization and perpetration. However, international research has shown mixed results, and we cannot affirm that cyberbullying is a gender-specific behavior. In this chapter, we argue that the analysis of gender is still relevant, but we nee...
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the current research in the global epidemic of electronic bullying. Scholars and professionals from the Americas, Europe, and Asia offer data, insights, and solutions, acknowledging both the social psychology and technological contexts underlying cyberbullying phenomena. Contributors address questions th...
This study explores whether risk factors on traditional social bullying are also risk factors for engaging in cyberbullying. The study examines the association among victimization, perpetration and different psychosocial factors (e.g., closeness to friends, social support, self-efficacy and social reputation) and explores differences and similariti...
En este estudio se analiza la asociación entre el conflicto de rol de género masculino y las conductas de acoso y victimización escolar. La muestra estuvo formada por 786 chicos estudiantes españoles, de edades comprendidas entre los 11 y los 17 años (M=14.5, DT=1.58). Se establecieron tres grupos de experimentación del conflicto de rol de género t...
Previous research has indicated that victims and perpetrators of bullying are vulnerable to poorer psychological well-being. In this study, we examined whether the roles of victim and perpetrator in cyberbullying and social bullying are related to guarded optimism, global and school-related happiness and specific domains of life satisfaction as ind...
Cyberbullying victimization research on individual and familial correlates is scarce in Spain. By building upon previous studies, this research examines the role of Internet usage and parental mediation in online victimization. Spanish children from rural public schools (10–12 years; n = 1068) completed a self-report questionnaire which measured be...
Previous research has indicated that gender identity is related to children’s adjustment and well-being. In the current study, involvement in school bullying was our indicator of well-being, and we tested how gender identity and gender typing measures are related to victims, bullies and bully-victims. The relations between these variables were exam...
The main aim of this review was to examine international research on children’s preferences regarding gender-typed objects and colours. Firstly, we provide the theoretical background on gender development to elucidate the ways in which individuals can learn gender stereotypes and develop gender-related preferences. Secondly, we review international...
The main aim of this review was to examine international research on children’s preferences regarding gender-typed objects and colours. Firstly, we provide the theoretical background on gender development to elucidate the ways in which individuals can learn gender stereotypes and develop gender-related preferences. Secondly, we review international...
2014). Estresores narrados y salud mental en migrantes peruanos en Santiago: el rol de las estrategias de afrontamiento. Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología: Ciencia y Tecnología, 7(2), 57-66. Resumen La atención psicosocial de las personas migrantes requiere el desarrollo de estrategias de intervención dirigidas a prevenir o mitigar los efectos d...
Early acquisition of stereotypes that associate “blue” with boys and “pink” with girls can influence their preferences for these colors and also their choices in clothing, toys or objects in relation to gender stereotypes. In a Spanish sample (5–10-year olds, n = 614), this study reproduces the previous research conducted by Karniol (Sex Roles 65(1...
Gender role conflict scale for adolescents (GRCS-A) measures the gender role conflict experienced by adolescents. GRCS-A consists of four patterns, namely Restricted affection between men, Restricted emotionality, Conflict between work, school, and family, and Need for success and achievement. The objective of this study was to analyze the factoria...
Sexist beliefs from 3193 secondary school students (50.4% men) of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) are analyzed in the light of ambivalent sexism theory. This research aims to study the relationship between school bullying and adolescent's sexist beliefs, especially among male youths. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Instrument to assess the incid...
Sexist beliefs from 3193 secondary school students (50.4% men) of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) are analyzed in the light of ambivalent sexism theory. This research aims to study the relationship between school bullying and adolescent's sexist beliefs, especially among male youths. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Instrument to assess the incid...
Sexist beliefs from 3193 secondary school students (50.4% men) of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) are analyzed in the light of ambivalent sexism theory. This research aims to study the relationship between school bullying and adolescent's sexist beliefs, especially among male youths. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Instrument to assess the incid...
El presente estudio fue diseñado para conocer las conductas de comunicación online en una muestra de preadolescentes (10-12 años, n=812). Se analizó el efecto de la ansiedad social, las habilidades sociales y las experiencias de cibervictimización sobre la comunicación online. La comunicación online comprendía ítems relacionados con el tiempo emple...
The present research examined online communication behaviour in a sample of preadolescents (10-12 years, n= 812). In addition, we examined the effect of social anxiety, social skills and experiences of cyberbullying on online communication behaviour. Online communication measures included items related to time online, platforms used, relationships...
This paper presents data concerning culturally prescribed gender traits and their influence on bullying/victimization problems
and aggressive tendencies from a wide sample of 1,654 Spanish adolescents. The aims of this study were to clarify the effect
of masculine traits on male and female secondary students’ aggression, and also to explore the rol...
Cyberbullying research has increased in recent years given the consequences of victims’ personal and social domains. However, very few studies have analyzed the antecedents that make individuals more vulnerable to cyberbullying victimization. This research, based on previous studies on school bullying, aimed to examine social anxiety, interpersonal...
"Su mente estaba llena de recuerdos: los recuerdos de la revelación al acorralar a aquel jabalí combativo, la revelación de haber vencido a un ser vivo, de haberle impuesto su voluntad, de haberle arrancado la vida, con la satisfacción de quién sacia una larga sed ". Ha trascurrido ya medio siglo desde que William Golding nos regalara su " señor de...
This article enquires into the role of gender in the use of different forms of aggression and in the appearance of conflicts within the interactions between students of 12-17 years of age. In order to understand both aspects, the conversational fragments of students and teachers from two high schools are expounded; discourses obtained using a quali...
Sabemos que las drogas, los consumos y las vivencias asociadas a ellas no son realidades estrictamente objetivas (Megías, 2000; Megías y Rodríguez, 2001). Se trata de realidades que se modifican históricamente conforme lo hacen los contextos y la propia realidad social desde la que se analizan estos aspectos. Por ello, independientemente de que las...