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Psicoterapia Cognitivo Conductual. Psicología Basada en Evidencia
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Objetivo: adaptar la Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (BADS) y someterla a análisis factorial confirmatorio en una muestra de pacientes oncológicos. Método: Estudio instrumental en dos fases, en la fase 1 se tradujo y adaptó la escala original (BADS) al castellano según los estándares de la American Psychological Association (n= 101), en...
Introduction
Non-suicidal self-injuries (NSSI) are a worldwide health problem that affects principally young people, and can impact negatively the mental and physical health of those that self-injure.
Objective
To examine the frequency of NSSI in 564 undergraduate students (132 male, 432 female) from Mexico City and the association of NSSI with de...
Introduction:
Distress intolerance has been implicated in various aspects of smoking maintenance and quit behavior, although past work has been conducted almost exclusively among European American samples.
Method:
The present study sought to extend past work by exploring distinct subdimensions of distress tolerance (Tolerance, Appraisal, Regulat...
Resumen
La presente investigación evalúa las propiedades psicométricas de la adaptación al español del Inventory of Statements About Self-injury de Klonsky y Glenn (2009). Esta escala evalúa las diferentes motivaciones o funciones que las personas refieren para realizar autolesiones no suicidas. Se aplicó la escala en una muestra (N = 435) de alumn...
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El propósito de éste estudio fue generar un instrumento válido y confiable para medir factores de riesgo psicosocial en el trabajo de profesores universitarios mexicanos. Se construyó una escala de 66 ítems con cinco opciones de respuesta. Para realizar su validación psicométrica se aplicó a 500 profesores de escuelas públicas de Cd. de México de e...
This research had two goals: (1) it tested hypotheses of the State-Trait Model of anger, and (2) it explored characteristics that may distinguish individuals with high trait anger who recognize problems with their anger from those who do not recognize anger problems. Regarding the first goal, findings supported three hypotheses tested. In particula...
La presente investigación comparó a jóvenes de preparatoria (M de edad = 15.92, DE = 0.9) con alto y bajo enojo rasgo con respecto a cuándo, dónde y hacia quién mostraron su enojo por medios físico- agresivos (e. g., golpear a alguien, dañar objetos). Los grupos de alto y bajo enojo rasgo quedaron definidos por la pertenencia de sus integrantes al...
El proposito del estudio fue identificar las variables psicologicas y las caracteristicas del cuidado que predicen la aparicion de carga en cuidadores primarios informales (CPI) de ninos con cancer, en un hospital de la ciudad de Mexico. La muestra no probabilistica consto de 100 participantes, quienes contestaron una bateria integrada por la encue...
The purpose of the study was to identify the psychological characteristics and care variables that predict the onset of primary informal caregivers burden (CPI) of children with cancer, in a hospital in Mexico City. The nonrandom sample consisted of 100 participants, who answered an integrated battery conformed by a health interview for the CPI, th...
p>El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar los niveles de engagement en el trabajo en las organizaciones ubicadas en la Ciudad de México, usando pruebas estandarizadas, para determinar su relación con la ocurrencia del síndrome de desgaste ocupacional (SDO), la socialización organizacional (SO), y la resiliencia psicológica. A una muestra de 1110 em...
This study compared high and low trait anger youth (M of age = 15.92, SD = 0.9) from high school in terms of when, where and towards whom they expressed their anger in physically aggressive ways (e.g., hitting someone, hitting objects). High and low trait anger youth were those who scored in the upper (high anger, n = 125) and lower (low anger, n =...
Se adaptó la Escala Utrech Work Engagement (uwes) y la Escala Socialización Organizacional (osi) con una muestra de 904 empleados, 56.5% del sexo masculino, de edades entre 18 y 66 años. El estudio fue ex post facto. El análisis factorial confirmatorio del uwes corroboró el modelo de tres factores: vigor, absorción y dedicación, con un buen ajuste...
The aim of this study was to assess the levels of work engagement in organizations located in Mexico City using standardized tests, and to determine its relationship with the occurrence of occupational burnout (OB), organizational socialization (OS), and psychological resilience. To a sample of 1110 employees, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, the...
The study of social phobia is gradually increasing, arguing association between social phobia and multiple measures of dysfunction. After institutional approval, and in accordance with the ethical principles required for social research, socio-demographic data, measurements of social anxiety and alcohol consumption pattern, were obtained from 3164...
Se adaptó la Escala Utrech Work Engagement (UWES) y la Escala Socialización Organizacional (OSI) mediante el análisis de validez de contenido por interjueces, análisis discriminante, consistencia interna, validez de constructo con análisis factorial exploratorio y análisis factorial confirmatorio en 904 empleados. El análisis del UWES corroboró el...
Resumen El propósito fue obtener evidencia de vali-dez de la escala de carga del cuidador de Zarit en cuidadores primarios informales de niños con alguna enfermedad crónico degenerativa, en un hospital de la ciudad de México. La mues-tra constó de 252 participantes. Se utilizó la escala de carga del cuidador de Zarit (CBI), el cuestionario general...
p>Gradualmente se incrementa la investigación acerca de la fobia social, argumentando asociación entre ésta y diversas medidas de disfuncionalidad. Se obtuvieron datos sociodemográficos, mediciones de ansiedad social y de consumo de alcohol, de 3164 adolescentes mexicanos escolarizados voluntarios (hombres y mujeres) entre 12 y 18 años de edad ( =...
The purpose was to obtain evidence of the validity of the Zarit Burden Scale in informal primary caregivers of children with chronic illness, in a hospital in Mexico City. The sample consisted of 252 participants. The instruments used were Zarit Burden Interview (CBI), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). The...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate a factor mixture-based taxonic-dimensional model of anxiety sensitivity (AS) (Bernstein et al. Behavior Therapy 41:515-521, 2010), as measured by the ASI-3 (Taylor et al. Psychological Assessment 19:176-188, 2007), in regard to panic attacks, anxiety symptoms, and behavioral impairment among a university...
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la utilidad de la retroalimentación biológica y la relajación para reducir ansiedad y estrés en pacientes que se encontraban en tratamiento médico de hemodiálisis por enfermedad renal crónico terminal (ERCT) utilizando e...
retroalimentación biológica y la relajación para reducir ansiedad y estrés en pacientes que se encontraban en tratamiento médico de hemo-diálisis por enfermedad renal crónico terminal (ERCT) utilizando estrategias derivadas del modelo cognitivo conductual. Participaron ocho pacientes del servicio de Nefrología del Hospital Juárez de México a los qu...
Accumulating evidence suggests that anxiety sensitivity (fear of arousal-related sensations) plays an important role in many clinical conditions, particularly anxiety disorders. Research has increasingly focused on how the basic dimensions of anxiety sensitivity are related to various forms of psychopathology. Such work has been hampered because th...
The aim of the present investigation was to extend previous work on anxiety sensitivity (AS) and early smoking relapse among a sample of 130 (74 females) young adult (M (age) = 22.5 years, SD = 2.1) daily low-level smokers (9.3 cigarettes/day, SD = 11.5) from Mexico City, Mexico. Results indicated that of the global-level and lower-order factors (i...
Taxometric coherent cut kinetic analyses were used to test the latent structure of anxiety sensitivity in samples from North America (Canada and United States of America), France, Mexico, Spain, and The Netherlands (total n = 2741). Anxiety sensitivity was indexed by the 36-item Anxiety Sensitivity Index--Revised (ASI-R; [J. Anxiety Disord. 12(5) (...
Panic disorder is a complex phenomenon according to its biochemical and psychosocial etiology. Therapeutic interventions of panic disorder are aimed to promote effectiveness through the combined use of medication and behavioral cognitive therapy. Anxiety is a normal human response. Moderate levels of anxiety are well accepted because they act as an...
Panic disorder is a complex phenomenon according to its biochemical and psychosocial etiology. Therapeutic interventions of panic disorder are aimed to promote effectiveness through the combined use of medication and behavioral cognitive therapy. Anxiety is a normal human response. Moderate levels of anxiety are well accepted because they act as an...
In the present study, the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised (ASI-R; ) was administered to a large sample of persons (n=2786) from different cultures represented in six different countries: Canada, France, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. We sought to (a) determine the factor structure and internal consistency of the ASI-R and...
The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is one of the most widely used instruments to assess severity of anxiety symptoms. The purpose of the present study was to translate, adapt and establish the psychometric properties of the BAI with a Mexican population. Four successive studies led to such endeavor. In the first, the BAI was translated and pilot-test...
This study describes the psychometric process followed to standardize a Mexican version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Three studies were conducted. The first one, according to the accepted international criteria, translated and adapted the BDI. The normative sample included 1508 people living in Mexico City; their ages ranged between 15 a...
Enrique O. Aragon (1880–1942) was a Mexican physician responsible, in great measure, for the development of academic psychology in Mexico in the first decades of the century. He wrote the first book devoted solely to psychology in Mexico, and his founding of the first psychological Wundtian-style laboratory at the National University of Mexico was...
Reviews applied psychology efforts in Mexico during the 1920's and 1930's concerning the assessment, prevention, and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquency. The achievements of various penal and mental health institutions and professionals during the 1920's and 1930's are reviewed. The collaboration between psychology and criminology is emphasized....
