Sonsoles Valdivia-SalasUniversity of Zaragoza | UNIZAR
Sonsoles Valdivia-Salas
PhD
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Introduction
Keywords (overview):
Mental health; wellbeing; psychological adjustment; behavior regulation; psychological in/flexibility; acceptance and commitment therapy; acceptance; relational frame theory; complex behavior.
Keywords related to ongoing research projects:
Adolescence; sexism; teen dating violence; school violence; violence perpetration; violence victimization; longitudinal methods; adults; acquired brain injury; center of pressure; rehabilitation; psychological acceptance.
Additional affiliations
November 2007 - October 2009
April 2006 - October 2007
October 2005 - March 2006
Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer
Position
- Medical Professional
Publications
Publications (72)
The tendency for anxious individuals to selectively attend to threatening information is believed to cause and exacerbate anxious emotional responding in a self-perpetuating cycle. The present study sought to examine the relation between differential interoceptive conditioning (IC) using carbon dioxide inhalation as a panicogenic unconditioned stim...
The present study examined the role of derived relations in the generalizability of the evaluative conditioning effect. Healthy university students participated. Four geometrical shapes were first established as discriminative stimuli for the contingent presentation of pictograms (B1, B2, C1, and C2, respectively). We then assessed the reinforcing...
The motivational function exerted by verbal antecedents has been extensively approached from a theoretical perspective and within the direct conditioning paradigm. However, there is little research concerning the alteration of the motivational function via verbal means. The current study presents 2 consecutive experiments in which the role of the v...
There is laboratory evidence that fear conditioning underlies the emergence of attentional bias (AB) for threat. Our main objective was to test, for the first time, whether derived or symbolic responding contributes to the generalization of AB across non-conditioned stimuli. Participants were all university students (N = 86) with no pre-existing co...
Teen dating violence (TDV) refers to a wide range of partner-directed harmful behaviors among adolescents. Since it was first documented in the 1980s, there is a growing interest in TDV due to its potentially devastating mid- and long-term consequences. Aiming at the early detection of TDV onset with prevention purposes, research has focused on the...
Previous evidence has shown that excessive valuing happiness may relate to lower psychological wellbeing across cultures. Considering the lack of data with Spanish population, we examined the relation between tightly holding happiness emotion goals and subjective wellbeing in a sample of Spanish women, and explored the mediation role exerted by psy...
The educational use of portfolios has been increasing in the last few years, especially as technology has also developed electronic versions of portfolios. Although there is abundant information about their benefits and practice description, few studies provide empirical evidence of their implementation. The objective of this study was to provide i...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic fundamentally disrupted humans’ social life and behavior. Public health measures may have inadvertently impacted how people care for each other. This study investigated prosocial behavior, its association well-being, and predictors of prosocial behavior during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and soug...
We aim to understand the factors that drive citizens of different countries adhere to recommended self-protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey data obtained through the COVID Impact project was used. We combined previous evidence and change-point detection analysis to establish variations in self-protective behaviors across partic...
A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted during the first COVID-19 wave,
to examine the impact of COVID-19 on mental health using an anonymous online survey, enrolling 9565 individuals in 78 countries. The current sub-study examined the impact of the pandemic and the associated lockdown measures on the mental health, and protective be...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive health crisis that has exerted enormous physical and psychological pressure. Mental healthcare for healthcare workers (HCWs) should receive serious consideration. This study served to determine the mental-health outcomes of 1,556 HCWs from 45 countries who participated in the COVID-19 IMPACT project, a...
This study aimed to compare the mediation of psychological flexibility, prosociality and coping in the impacts of illness perceptions toward COVID-19 on mental health among seven regions. Convenience sampled online survey was conducted between April and June 2020 from 9130 citizens in 21 countries. Illness perceptions toward COVID-19, psychological...
Objective: Illness perceptions (IP) are important predictors of emotional and behavioral responses in many diseases. The current study aims to investigate the COVID-19-related IP throughout Europe. The specific goals are to understand the temporal development, identify predictors (within demographics and contact with COVID-19) and examine the impac...
School violence is a serious social and public health problem prevalent worldwide. Although the relevance of teacher and classroom factors is well established in the literature, few studies have focused on the role of teacher perceptions in school violence and victimisation and the potential mediational role of classroom climate in this relationshi...
Empathy is an emotional response that may facilitate prosocial behavior and inhibit aggression by increasing empathic concern for others. But the vicarious experience of other’s feelings may also turn into personal distress when the person has poor regulation skills and holds stigmatizing beliefs. In thinking about the processes that may trigger th...
This study examines the reciprocal effects between two school-based relationships within the classroom—namely, perceived teacher support and relatedness with classmates—and school aggression (overt and relational) across two courses of secondary education. Participants were 654 adolescents (48% boys), who were assessed in three waves: first, at the...
School violence towards peers and teen dating violence are two of the most relevant behaviour problems in adolescents. Although the relationship between the two types of violence is well established in the literature, few studies have focused on mediators that could explain this empirical relationship. We departed from the evidence that relates ang...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockdowns on mental health is inadequately understood. On the one hand such drastic changes in daily routines could be detrimental to mental health. On the other hand, it might not be experienced negatively, especially because the entire population was affec...
The flipped classroom model consists on a re-arrangement of the traditional instructional model, in the sense that the lectures are placed out of the classroom whereas the classroom time is devoted to promote a more active and deeper learning in the students. This innovation was aimed to study the impact of viewing videos with questions embeded alo...
One of the most important challenges of Educational Psychology is further defining the predictors of a good academic achievement in that it prevents dropout rates and predicts better socio-economic and employment success. Some of these predictor variables are burnout, which has been extensively investigated in recent years, and academic psychologic...
Research on emotion regulation is now extensive and shows the benefits of the adaptive management of emotions for social functioning and psychological well-being. Our purpose was to test the psychometric properties of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents with a sample of nonclinical Spanish adolescents. A total of 462 s...
Objectives
This study sought to evaluate the efficacy of a brief version of the Happy Classrooms Programme in psychological well-being, school aggression, and positive classroom climate. Likewise, this study also aimed to identify which intervention effects could be attributed to the development of mindfulness. Finally, the last target of this stud...
The goal of the present study was to examine whether the relation commonly found between purpose in life and well-being occurs regardless of the population being assessed (community vs. inpatient) when the presence of somatic symptoms is used as a proxy for well-being. A total of 145 adults participated in the study (psychiatric patients, N = 28; h...
Pasados 20 años desde la publicación del primer manual de ACT por los autores originales, y más de 15 desde la publicación del primer manual de ACT en español, el concepto de aceptación que se maneja en la formación, la clínica y la divulgación en la actualidad dista del que se propuso en aquel entonces. En este tiempo, hemos observado cómo, en alg...
Virtual cues are a complement for improving quality of life in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) patients. In the last few years, the high incidence and high costs of this pathology have produced new technological methodologies that helps alleviate motor and cognitive disorders. The use of low-cost and portable systems together with Virtual Environments...
Virtual cues are a complement for improving quality of life in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) patients. In the last few years, the high incidence and high costs of this pathology have produced new technological methodologies that helps alleviate motor and cognitive disorders. The use of low-cost and portable systems together with Virtual Environments...
Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) have motor and cognitive disorders that make it difficult for them to perform activities of daily living (ADL). Virtual Rehabilitation (VR) is a relatively novel research line that tackles motor and cognitive abilities. Sensory feedback together with Virtual Environments (VE) enriches and improves motor control in...
El objetivo de la presente revisión sistemática fue examinar la eficacia de la terapia de aceptación y compromiso (ACT) en el tratamiento del trastorno de ansiedad social (TAS). Se realizó una búsqueda exhaustiva en distintas bases de datos, incluyendo, tras la aplicación de diversos criterios, un total de ocho estudios realizados entre los años 20...
Previous research has shown that long-term mindfulness training has beneficial effects on cognitive functioning and emotional regulation, but results are mixed regarding single mindfulness exercises, especially on attention and memory tasks. Thus, the present study aimed to analyse the effects of the Focused Breathing Exercise (FB) on cognitive per...
Falls are a common alteration in older community dwellers and represent a serious problem for these dwellers. With a high incidence in this type of population and high medical costs to treat them, the traditional sessions need to enrich with low-cost alternatives. Virtual Rehabilitation is a novel research area that provides playful, motivating and...
Falls are a common alteration in older community dwellers and represent a serious problem for these dwellers. With a high incidence in this type of population and high medical costs to treat them, the traditional sessions need to enrich with low-cost alternatives. Virtual Rehabilitation is a novel research area that provides playful, motivating and...
El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar si la inflexibilidad psicológica actúa como variable predictora de la agresividad en una muestra de adolescentes, considerando la perspectiva de género. Se trata de una investigación novedosa dado que no existe literatura sobre la relación entre ambas variables, y la inflexibilidad psicológica apenas...
Recent research is advancing in the analysis of the defusion and self-based exercises used in acceptance and com mitment therapy (ACT) through relational frame theory (RFT) terms. This study aimed to analyze the effect of two RFT-defined defusion protocols in promoting psychological flexibility by altering the discriminative functions of avoidance...
Psychological inflexibility (PI) refers to the overarching and nonadaptive avoidance of thoughts and feelings. PI is a transdiagnostic process that is present in numerous psychopathologies, such as anxiety and mood disorders, addictive behaviors, and chronic pain, as presented by American adults and adolescents. Despite the high rates of depression...
Research has shown that loneliness may impair mental health and psychosocial adjustment during adolescence. There is separate evidence of the role of relatedness and emotional repair as predictors of perceived loneliness during adulthood. The objective of the present study was to analyze the mediating role of relatedness between emotional repair an...
This study investigated the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between perceived emotional intelligence and depressive symptoms in adolescence. A total of 661 high school Spanish students participated in the study. The analyses indicated that the effects of each of the perceived emotional intelligence sub-scales (namely, Attenti...
Although research on treatment precipitators for problem gambling is scarce, telephone surveys have consistently shown that financial and emotional problems resulting from problem gambling are the factors which recovered or active gamblers most frequently report as treatment precipitators. The present study sought to build on previous evidence by a...
This study tests the effectiveness of an acceptance/defusion intervention in reducing experimentally induced generalized avoidance. After the formation of two 6-member equivalence classes, 23 participants underwent differential conditioning with two elements from each class: A1 and B1 were paired with mild electric shock, whereas A2 and B2 were pai...
This study is a step forward in the difficult task of analyzing the transformation of functions via hierarchical relations. Eight participants underwent a computer task with five phases. During Phase 1, four stimuli were trained to become the following relational cues: INCLUDES, BELONGS TO, SAME, and DIFFERENT. In Phase 2, three equivalence classes...
The aim of this preliminary research is to explore the effect of a brief protocol based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) applied to five adolescents (15-17 years old) with conduct disorder and impulsivity, who had received treatment for the last few years without positive results. Problematic behaviors were aggressive, impulsive, and oppo...
Exposure techniques rely on the assumption that the extinction of the classically
conditioned response (i.e., fear) will result in the disruption of limiting forms of
avoidance behavior, both directly trained and derived/indirectly established. This report
presents translational research that attempts to test this assumption in laboratory
condition...
Research has shown that teaching individuals to experience pain and anxiety as inevitable products of the actions they freely and responsibly undertake yields healthier reactions to suffering. This preliminary study assesses whether a brief acceptance-based psychological intervention along with the usual presurgical protocol for a laparoscopic chol...
The current study focuses on the experimental analysis of hierarchical responding, and aims at analyzing some of the transformation of functions that take place at different levels of hierarchical categories. Ten university students participated. During Phase 1, four arbitrary stimuli were established as INCLUDES, BELONGS TO, SAME, and DIFFERENT re...
This study aimed to isolate the conditions under which aversive stimulation is experienced as more or less discomforting/unpleasant. Discomfort was induced by playing loud noises through headphones while participants performed computer tasks. We employed 4 main conditions. Condition 1: the acceptance-based protocol (ACT), intended to integrate disc...
This article describes three brief acceptance-based protocols that were implemented with adolescents presenting psychological barriers to cope with different issues. The first was a values-acceptance protocol applied to adolescents to promote safe sex behaviours. The second protocol was applied to young chess promises to improve their chess perform...
The prevalence of panic disorder with and without agoraphobia as well as its personal and economic impact is encouraging researchers and clinicians to improve the available psychological treatments. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder has yielded large size effects, still the literature on treatment outcomes (efficacy, effectiveness, an...
The term rule-governed behavior (RGB) was first coined by Skinner (1966) to refer to behavior essential to complex human abilities. The traditional behavioral account of rulegoverned behavior presented some difficulties in describing how these abilities are formed and altered. With the advent of recent findings within the theoretical approach refer...
This study compares the effect of an acceptance-based protocol (ACT) and a cognitive control-based (CONT) protocol on three measures of pain coping: tolerance, self-report, and believability. Specific methodological controls were employed to further isolate the role of the value of participating in a pain task, compared to previous investigations o...
The purpose of the present study was twofold. First, to compare the effect of establishing a motivational context of values on pain tolerance, believability, and reported pain, with three experimental conditions: pain acceptance (ACT condition), pain control (CONT condition), or no values (untrained condition). Second, the study aimed to isolate th...
The Chambless Task Force criteria have become the standard for the research on outcomes of psychological treatments. However they present conceptual weaknesses and do not contemplate the vast complexity of the research and development of new psychological treatments. The current paper presents a critical review of such weaknesses to propose six set...
Positive Psychology promotes research on happiness, and the analysis of conditions that make the emergence of happiness possible. It also encourages the search of objective wellbeing-related indicators and the reinforcement of personal characteristics associated to wellbeing that involve a set of subjective experiences rated as positive. The accept...
La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT)1 ha sido expuesta en diferentes artículos en los últimos años. Bajo estos contenidos, el presente trabajo se adentra en la descripción de ACT como la terapia más completa de las denominadas de Tercera Generación o Contextuales (Hayes, 2004). Se articula en varios apartados que incluyen: (1) parte de las c...
Alteration of the consequential properties of the events in humans: A review. The alteration of the consequential properties of the events is one of the keys to understand behavioural fluctuation. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain the emergence, maintenance and change of the motivation to do something or to quit doing it, but not all...
ACT and the Importance of Personal Values in the Context of Psychological Therapy . The aims of the article are to show the importance of personal values in the context of psychological treatment. The advantages of an explicit approach to values during the therapeutic process are examined. We analyse the values involved in Clinical Psychology, and...
La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT)' ha sido expuesta en diferentes artículos en los últimos años. Bajo estos contenidos, el presente trabajo se adenIra en la descripción de ACT como la terapia más completo de las denominadas de Tercera Generación o Contextuales (Hayas, 2004). Se articulo en varios apartados que incluyen: (1) parte de las c...
The aims of the article are to show the importance of personal values in the context of psychological treatment. The advantages of an explicit approach to values during the therapeutic process are examined. We analyse the values involved in Clinical Psychology, and how different clinical perspectives address them. Besides the importance of client¿s...
En: Papeles del Psicólogo Madrid 2006, n. 27, mayo-agosto ; p. 79-91 La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) es la más completa de las incluidas en la Tercera Generación de Terapias de Conducta. Se enmarca en una posición filosófica funcional; se asienta en una nueva Teoría del Lenguaje y la Cognición; ofrece una alternativa a la psicopatología...
Cambio en verbalizaciones de autoeficacia y derivación de funciones. Se analiza la relación entre autoeficacia, rigidez y derivación de funciones a través de relaciones de equivalencia. Se seleccionan ocho sujetos con alta puntuación en autoeficacia, cuatro de ellos con alta puntuación en rigidez y cuatro con puntuación baja. Son entrenados para fo...
En este trabajo se presenta un ensayo analítico desde una perspectiva funcional-contextual bajo las aportaciones recientes en el ámbito de la conducta verbal, las relaciones arbitrarias entre eventos psicológicos y la derivación de funciones psicológicas. En este análisis, las aportaciones clásicas de la personalidad se resumen con cierto valor pre...
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Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Zaragoza, TERUEL
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