Ricardo De la Vega

Autonomous University of Madrid | UAM · Departamento de Educación Física, Deporte y Motricidad Humana

Resumen El objetivo de este estudio fue adaptar el cuestionario Toulouse-Piéron revisado al contexto arbitral, analizando su equivalencia y convergencia con el Test de Figuras Arbitrales, creado desde el CTA por David Boillos, como responsable del área de psicología del deporte. Se hipotetizó que ambos tests serían equivalentes en parámetros como n...

A csapatsportokban a teljesítményt és az együttműködést helyezik előtérbe, szemben az egyéni sportokkal, melyekbenszubjektív célok és érzelmi állapotok dominálnak. Ennek alapján jelen in-situ tanulmányunkban azt feltételeztük,hogy a pozitív affektivitás magasabb az egyéni sportokban, míg a csapatsportokban ez kisebb mértékben, vagy egyáltalán nem l...

Mental fatigue is a psychophysiological state that adversely impacts performance in cognitive tasks, increasing risk of occupational hazards. Given its manifestation as a conscious sensation, it is often measured through subjective self-report. However, subjective measures are not always true measurements of objective fatigue. In this study, we inv...

Exercise addiction is widely studied, but an official clinical diagnosis does not exist for this behavioral addiction. Earlier research using various screening instruments examined the absolute scale values while investigating the disorder. The Exercise Addiction Inventory-3 (EAI-3) was recently developed with two subscales, one denoting health-rel...

Caffeine is a widely used ergogenic aid in society, which has made it a topic of interest due to its various benefits at cognitive, physiological, and sports levels, among others. This review aims to investigate the potential benefits of caffeine supplementation in psychophysiological performance through a structured search in the SportsDiscus/Scop...

Motocross racing is a seldom-researched popular extreme sport. This field research aimed to investigate feeling states, perceived arousal, anxiety, and negative and positive affect in the anticipatory and recovery race periods and their relationship to expected and perceived performance. Twenty Motocross racers completed psychometric scales before...

Training systems based on high-intensity interval training (HIIT) have experienced great influence in recent years within the context of exercise and sport. This study aims to provide insight on whether the immediate outcomes (e.g., central and peripheral acute responses) may be intensified or attenuated when a HIIT protocol is performed using a FF...

Introduction This study aimed to study the relationships between emotional regulation and impulsivity on sports performance, according to the gender and competition level in national-level volleyball players. Methods In total, 77 players from the 2018–2019 top two Spanish divisions completed the ERQ (emotion regulation) and the UPPS-P (impulsivity...

The aim of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to examine the influence of exogenous factors related to nutritional and hydration strategies and environmental conditions, as modulators of fatigue, including factors associated with performance fatigability and perceived fatigability, in endurance tests lasting 45 min to 3 h. A search was c...

Exercise addiction (EA) refers to excessive exercise, lack of control, and health risks. The Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) is one of the most widely used tools in its assessment. However, the cross-cultural psychometric properties of the EAI could be improved because it misses three pathological patterns, including guilt, exercise despite inju...

Training in self-defense techniques is carried out regularly in both civil and military contexts. Self-defense techniques are put into practice in dangerous situations such us a threat or a physical attack, which can generate great stress on the individual. When carrying out this study, we wanted to analyze the influence that training in self-defen...

The aim of the present study was to develop an explanatory model of doping susceptibility among competitive track and field athletes using a logistic regression analysis accounting for some morality-related variables which were not explored in previous studies. A total of 281 Spanish elite track and field athletes (49.5% women, 48.4% have competed...

Spatial navigation is a key aspect of human behavior and it is still not completely understood. A number of experimental approaches exist, although most of the published data in the last decades have relied on virtual maze on-screen simulation or not-completely freely moving 3D devices. Some interesting recent developments, such as circular mazes,...

This study was performed to investigate further the two-dimensional aspect of passion and its relationship to the risk of exercise addiction (REA) in nine nations and to clarify the unresolved gender differences. The here reported results stem from the reanalysis of data gathered in three previous empirical studies. The analyses demonstrated that h...

Addressing fatigue is useful in a variety of scenarios and activities. Fatigue has recently been studied from a psychophysiological standpoint. As a result, the expression and impact of peripheral and central fatigue has been evaluated. Driving is one occupation where tiredness has disastrous consequences. BAlert is a smartphone app that approaches...

El optimismo es un recurso psicológico positivo que tiene una gran relevancia en cuanto a que es una variable predictora de buena salud, mejores conductas adaptativas de afrontamiento ante eventos estresantes, menor vulnerabilidad a enfermedades físicas, mejor funcionamiento inmunológico y mejor rendimiento académico y deportivo. En concreto en el...

Se ha analizado, mediante un diseño cuasi-experimental con 19 sanitarios (33.7 ± 5.1 años), la importancia de la condición física, cognitiva y el rendimiento al portar un equipo de protección con mascarilla quirúrgica durante situaciones de entrenamiento en contextos significativos de intervención militar. Se midieron la frecuencia cardíaca y su va...

Background: This study’s aim was twofold: (i) to compare starters and non-starters on a professional soccer team in terms of variations in training intensity indexes across a season, calculated through total distance, sprint distance, accelerations (Acc), and decelerations (Dec) and (ii) to analyse the relationship between the intensity indexes for...

The aim of this study was to examine differences in achievement motivation (measured with the Objective Achievement Motivation Test, OLMT, Schuhfried®) and competitiveness between male and female semi-professional football players. The OLMT objectively assessed three constructs regarding achievement motivation: motivation through personal goals, as...

Various levels of lockdown due to COVID-19 limit people’s habitual physical activity. Individuals addicted to exercise, health-oriented, and team-exercisers could be the most affected. We examined the COVID-19-related changes in exercise volume in 1079 exercisers from eight Spanish-speaking nations based on exercise addiction categories, primary re...

Fifty-nine articles written by authors from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania provide a rich discussion about the topic “Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Psychological and Behavioral Consequences of Confinement on Physical Activity, Sedentarism, and Rehabilitation.” This collection shows that physical activity behavior and COVID-19 are re...

La Ansiedad-Rasgo es una medida disposicional y estable, siendo en el contexto deportivo relevante su evaluación, por la interpretación que realiza el deportista de sus sensaciones ansiosas para el rendimiento competitivo. El propósito ha sido la adaptación al español del Competitive Trait Anxiety Inventory (CTAI-2D), en 421 deportistas (66.3% homb...

Coaches strongly influence athletes' attitudes toward doping and can shape athlete's beliefs, behaviors, and decisions to be for or against doping. Coached-centered studies examining multiple factors affecting coaches' doping attitudes and behavior are scarce. The aim of this study was to analyze for the first-time attitudes toward doping in athlet...

Physical activity has been shown to have positive benefits on many brain function indices. Nonetheless, evidence is scant regarding attention. This study therefore aimed to analyse the chronic effects of an interval physical exercise programme at moderate-to-high intensity on selective and sustained attention indicators amongst schoolchildren aged...

Background and aims. In the last thirty years, the continuously increasing number of studies investigating Exercise Addiction (EA) stimulated interest in developing instruments assessing the risk of exercise addiction (REA). One widely used tool is the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) because it is a brief, easy-to-use, time-saving, and psychomet...

The COVID-19 pandemic struck Spain severely from the beginning. Prevention via information that fosters knowledge, reasonable concern, control, and personal care is the most effective means to slow down the pandemic. In this intervention field study, first, we assessed actual knowledge, concern, control, and care about the COVID-19 in 111 Spanish u...

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between learning physical education competence, teachers´ competence and students' motivation in quarantine. A primary goal of physical education is to develop competence in physically literate individuals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary for a physically active lifestyl...

The affective benefits of a single bout of exercise are widely reported, but the affect measured after exercise is influenced by several factors. One is the last experience linked to the exercise session. In this laboratory study we manipulated progressive treadmill exercise to ventilatory threshold by using cognitive tasks during and immediately a...

The performance of professional tasks with a high cognitive, emotional, and even physiological demand, can cause a state of mental fatigue, which implies attentional alterations, greater errors in the tasks performed and a decrease in personal and work productivity caused by a deterioration of the cognitive control processes. The present study pres...

This study aims to analyze the convergent validity of an instrument for the three-dimensional measurement of mood states: the POMS-VIC.The instrument was applied to 62 students from the UAM Sports Service.The scores offered by the athletes when completing the POMS-VIC and other similar tests (PIED) Interactive Profile of Moods, (Barrios & González,...

The Sport Drug Control Model (SDCM) is likely to be the model which most explicitly represents the theoretical paradigm of the psychological study of the use of doping in sport. This model can be further developed through its analysis in different populations and cultures. The main aim of this study was to empirically test the SDCM while analyzing...

The objective of the study was to identify the possible differences in level of motivation, self-confidence and anxiety according to sex and the competitive level of two groups of judokas (High Performance Group and Specialization Group). The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory (CSAI-2R) and the Behavioral Regulation in Sport Questionnaire (BRSQ) w...

The objective of the study was to analyze the relationships between the factors that compose the coach’s controlling interpersonal style and the frustration of basic psychological needs, as well as to identify differences between category and training hours in competing judokas (M = 22.78; SD = 5.80). Descriptive and correlation analyses were perfo...

University students are considered a key population in promoting and establishing healthy lifestyles that will ensure a full life for the next generations. The purpose of this study was to do a cultural and linguistic adaptation of the healthy lifestyle questionnaire for Ecuadorian university students (EVS-EUE). Two thousand, one hundred and eight...

The aim of this research is focused on analyzing the alteration of the psychophysiological and cognitive response to an objective computerized stress test (Determination Test - DT-, Vienna test System®), when the behavioral response is controlled. The sample used was sports science students (N = 22), with a mean age of 22.82 (Mage = 22.82; SDyears...

In Spain, the state of alarm declared on March 14, 2020 caused changes in the population in relation to the habits of physical activity and sports practice. This study analyzed what motivational variables predicted the self-efficacy and commitment to sports practice, as well as the differences according to gender, during lockdown and the progressiv...

Trait-Anxiety is a dispositional and stable measure whose evaluation is relevant in the sporting context as the way in which athlete's interpret feelings of anxiety is relevant to competitive performance. The purpose of the present study was to adapt the Competitive Trait Anxiety Inventory (CTAI-2D) into Spanish through a sample of 421 athletes (66...

The aim of the study was to analyse the relationships established between the different factors that make up coaches’ controlling interpersonal style and frustration of basic psychological needs, as well as to identify the differences that may exist in terms of gender and training hours, and whether the latter may trigger these variables in adol...

The aim of this research was to create and validate an instrument that allows for reliable knowledge base assessment regarding tactical offensive aspects in IF players with MID, and that can be used for complementary starting-level assessment to guide the training process. The sample was composed of 68 players (Mage=27; SDage=9.06 and Mexperience=1...

Considering that legislative, biomedical and psycho-social factors could be the cornerstones in antidoping research, the latter has been the latest to be developed. The aim of this study is to carry out an in-depth bibliographic review on the study of doping in elite sport from the perspective of the social sciences and to identify new anti-doping...

El objetivo de este trabajo se centra en construir y validar una herramienta que permita, de forma fiable, evaluar el conocimiento de base de jugadores con discapacidad intelectual leve en aspectos de táctica ofensiva en FS, permitiendo usarlo como evaluación inicial complementaria que guíe el proceso de entrenamiento. El tamaño muestral fue de 68...

The COVID-19 pandemic is now a major global health issue, affecting world population and high-performance athlete too. The aim of the present research was to analyze the effect of psychological profile, academic schedule, and gender in the perception of personal and professional threat of Olympic and Paralympic athletes facing the 2021 Tokyo Olympi...

The COVID-19 pandemic affects the whole world. Spain is one of the most affected nations. Prevention via information that fosters knowledge, reasonable concern, control and personal care is the most effective means to slow down the pandemic. In this intervention study we assessed extant knowledge, concern, control and care about the COVID-19 in 111...

The COVID-19 pandemic affects the whole world. Spain is 5th in the world and 3rd in Europe with the largest number of diagnosed cases. Spanish citizens’ attitudes are important in controlling the pandemic. This research assessed attitudes of Spaniards toward COVID-19 in two studies. One (n = 64) was conducted in a shopping centre in Madrid and anot...

The COVID-1 pandemic affects the whole world. Spain is 3rd in the world and 2nd in Europe with largest number of diagnosed cases. Spanish citizens’ attitudes are important in controlling the pandemic. This research assessed key attitudes of the Spanish people toward COVID-19. One study (n =64) was conducted in a shopping center in Madrid and anothe...

The objective of the study was to identify the differences in task motivation, personal goal motivation, aspiration level, and competence motivation in combat sports, depending on gender, type of sport and competitive level. To overcome the limitations of self-report motivation assessments, achievement motivation was assessed by means of a computer...

Resumen: El objetivo del estudio fue identificar las diferencias en la motivación relacionadas con la tarea, la motivación hacia las metas personales, el nivel de aspiración y la motivación relacionada con la competencia en deportes de combate, según género, tipo de deporte y nivel competitivo. Para superar las limitaciones de las evaluaciones de l...

Recent studies have shown a relationship between the risk for exercise addiction (REA) and passion. This research examined whether levels of REA, volume of exercise (in weekly hours), and self-reported exercise intensities yield differences in obsessive passion and harmonious passion among individuals with long history of exercise. Respondents (n =...

Objetivo: El presente estudio pretende conocer la influencia que ejerce el estado emocional y la manipulación afectiva en el rendimiento deportivo, de forma experimental. Método: 126 deportistas universitarios (Medad = 22.79; DT = 4.46), 54 mujeres (42.86%) y 7.78 años de experiencia deportiva (DT = 3.20), participaron en este estudio que midió el...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the new collaborative learning methods and tools used by elite FIFA referee technical instructors, referees and assistant referees to master the Laws of the Game. These tools allow instructors to learn through practical exercises off the field of play, while they carry out activities in a participativ...

The current military training requires the development and optimization of different strategies to improve performance in extreme conditions as well as the possible risk of suffering attacks with chemical and/ or radioactive substances. It turns out mandatory to research the psychophysiological response of soldiers and sanitary personnel when weari...

Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) has been considered as a measure of heart-brain interaction and autonomic modulation, and it is modified by cognitive and attentional tasks. In cognitive tasks, HRV was reduced in participants who achieved worse results. This could indicate the possibility of HRV predicting cognitive performance, but this as...

El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la ansiedad competitiva en judokas de categoría cadete identificando las posibles diferencias que puedan existir en función del peso y del género de los deportistas, para ello se administró el Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS- 2) en su versión española a un total de 53 judokas con edades comprendidas entre los 14 y...

Swimming is a popular sport and leisure activity worldwide, but its psychological effects may vary in different situations. The current in situ study compared swimmers’ acute psychological responses in leisure swimming and athletic training. Fifty-four swimmers (27 in each group) were tested in their normal swimming environments. Measures obtained...

Risk propensity is a decision which entails either becoming involved in - or avoiding risks. Risk propensity has a general and specific aspect. The premise is that risk propensity has to encompass several domains and a temporal dimension. The level of propensity, situational demand, gender, age and past experience produce inconsistency in risk appr...

Increased research on passion in exercise calls for direct examination of possible moderating variables, such as culture and gender, that could influence the interpretation of the research results. This study using a nation by gender between‐participants design, examined differences in obsessive‐ and harmonious passion in Spanish and Hungarian phys...

New evidence suggests that passion is linked to exercise addiction. The objective of this work was to determine the strength of the relationship between exercise addiction, obsessive passion, and harmonious passion in team versus individual sports. Athletes (n = 190) from three team and three individual sports were examined. Results of hierarchical...

Resumen. Se presenta un estudio sobre las competencias docentes con el fin de llegar a hacer una aproximación sobre qué competencias debe poner en práctica el profesorado de educación física que permita definir un perfil docente excelente y eficaz. Para conseguir este objetivo, se ha llevado a cabo una revisión de los marcos para la buena enseñanza...

Resumen. Se presenta un estudio sobre las competencias docentes con el fin de llegar a hacer una aproximación sobre qué competencias debe poner en práctica el profesorado de educación física que permita definir un perfil docente excelente y eficaz. Para conseguir este objetivo, se ha llevado a cabo una revisión de los marcos para la buena enseñanza...

Psychophysiological requirements of chess players are poorly understood, and periodization of training is often made without any empirical basis. For this reason, the aim of the present study was to investigate the psychophysiological response and quantify the player internal load during, and after playing a chess game. The participant was an elite...

Resumen En este estudio se analizan las creencias de autoeficacia de los y las docen-tes españoles y españolas, en el contexto de la Educación Primaria, Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO) y Bachillerato, aplicando el cuestionario CACPD (Cuestionario de autoeficacia de las competencias profesionales del docente), en el curso escolar 2014-2015. L...

The etiology of sports injuries has a multifactorial nature including psychological factors such as perceived risk of injury (PRI). An instrumental study and a difference between group study were made to adapt to argentinian sport population the Risk of Injury in Sport Scale (RISSc). First the scale was translated to Spanish. Second, content validi...

La etiología de las lesiones deportivas posee una naturaleza multifactorial entre los que se encuentran factores psicológicos como la percepción de riesgo de lesión (PRL). Se realizó un estudio instrumental y un estudio de diferencias entre grupos para adaptar a población deportiva argentina la Risk of Injury in Sport Scale. Primero se realizó la t...

This quasi-experimental study analyses the effect of an orienteering race conducted in the natural environment on the knowledge acquired by patients who have suffered a heart attack. During the race, activities were carried out in order to increase the assimilation of knowledge about healthy habits after infarction, in a fun and enjoyable way. The...

A study about teaching competences is presented with the aim to get to an approximation of the competences advocating excellent and effective teaching profile when put into practice by physical education teachers. To achieve this goal, two actions were taken: a review of the frameworks for good teaching at national and international level, and a re...

BACKGROUND: To explore the physical and physiological activity demands of talent soccer referees which belong to the Spanish Referees Technical Committee (CTA-RFFM) in order to understand the need of physical training and prescribe the most adequate exercise. METHODS: Fourteen semi-professional referees (25.8±3.8 years old; 1.79±0.03 m; 74.4±2.3 kg...

The purpose of the present study was to experimentally assess the effect of cognitive strategies of association and dissociation while running on central nervous activation. A total of 30 long distance runners volunteered for the study. The study protocol consisted on three sessions (scheduled in three different days): (1) maximal incremental tread...

ACCESS / DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://revistas.um.es/cpd/article/download/301921/216611 (COPY LINK INTO YOUR BROWSER) People’s thoughts influence their action that led researchers to investigate the placebo effect in exercise performance. In the current study the placebo effects of creatine monohydrate on a one-minute anaerobic step-exe...

The primary objective of this research is to study the relationship between reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT) in a sample of 121 football referees. Assessment has been performed using an objective computer-ised test (RT, Vienna Test System Ó), with regard to the average score obtained for refereeing performance over the season (RAR in Spani...

p> In Sport, most research on resilience is focused on athletes, with quite a low amount on coaches, especially regarding adapted sport. Therefore, the aims of this research are: to describe the resilience characteristics of Adapted paddle coaches by developing specific scales for the sample under study; to establish possible differences in the tot...

Resumen. El presente estudio pretende analizar las propiedades psicométricas de un nuevo instrumento para la medición del perfil de estados de ánimo (considerando tres dimensiones, Valencia, Intensidad y Control): el POMS-VIC, según se aplique siguiendo un criterio de presentación de los ítems ordenados o aleatorizados. El instrumento fue aplicado...