
Vicenta Mestre- University of Valencia
Vicenta Mestre
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The feeling of emotional self-efficacy helps people understand how to handle positive and negative emotions. Emotion regulation indicates the process that helps modulate emotions, to adapt suitably to the demands of the environment. This study has a two-fold aim. Firstly, it analyses the relationships among emotion regulation; the personality trait...
Extensive research considers the hypothesis that gender differences in aggression and violence are due, in part, to the influence of the culturally defined concept of traditional or hegemonic masculinity. Traditional masculinity is considered as the negative and socially aversive traits and behaviors related to idealized societal masculine norms an...
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Although prior research shows supportive evidence that parental practices are associated with adolescents' prosocial behaviors, limited evidence exists on the effects of parents' use of social and material rewards on distinct forms of prosocial behaviors, and the mediating effects of sociocognitive and socioemotive traits in these rela...
The world's population is currently overcoming one of the worst pandemics, and the psychological and social effects of this are becoming more apparent. We will present an analysis of the psychosocial effects of COVID-19: first, a cross-sectional study in an Ecuadorian sample (n = 301) and second, a comparative study between two samples from the Ecu...
Traditional masculinity includes norms that encourage many of the aggressive behaviors whereas traditional femininity emphasizes aggression very little. In addition, the lack of emotional regulation as well as a poor impulse control have been related to aggression and, in particular, with reactive and proactive aggression. The objective of this stu...
In the context of inclusive schools, social-emotional learning encourages student involvement in classroom life and is related to a decrease in maladaptive behaviour. The objective of this study is to analyse the impact of a social -emotional education program on aggressiveness and emotional instability in childhood. Participants were 555 children...
La adopción no es un fenómeno nuevo, pero sí su creciente incremento en los últimos años. Los procesos emocionales y cognitivos que desarrollan los padres y el menor, así como los estilos de crianza influyen en el proceso de adaptación familiar. Un estudio empírico realizado en nuestra Comunidad Valenciana constata una serie de factores de riesgo d...
Research on young offenders has primarily focused on identifying predictors of the maladaptive, aggressive behavior; there is a scarcity of evidence on factors that relate to prosocial behavior in these adolescents. The current study examined the link from parenting, emotional instability, and prosocial reasoning to prosocial behavior, while also e...
Studies of the Spanish adolescent population has concluded that victimization is related to lack of emotional regulation and impulse control. Therefore, if a victim is unable to recognize, understand and regulate their emotions, this can result in rejection by their peers. A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine regulatory emotional self-e...
Resumen En el marco de la escuela inclusiva, el aprendizaje socioemocional y personalizado fomenta la implicación del alumnado en la vida del aula y se relaciona con la disminución de la conducta desadaptativa. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar el impacto de un programa de educación socioemocional en la agresividad y la inestabilidad emociona...
Without a doubt, parents play a critical role in socializing moral development in their children. This handbook provides a collection of state-of-the-art theories and research on the important role that parents play in moral development. The contributors take a comprehensive, yet nuanced approach to considering the links between parenting and diffe...
The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine the associations among peer attachment, warmth from the mother and father, strict control by the mother and father, prosocial behavior, and physical and verbal aggression in adolescence. Few longitudinal studies have examined how peer attachment and parenting styles of the mother and father relate...
Examined the longitudinal links among empathic concern, perspective taking, prosocial moral reasoning and prosocial behaviors. Four hundred and seventeen adolescents (225 girls; Mage = 14.70 years) from public schools in Spain completed measures of those constructs in three successive years. Path analyses showed support for the notion that empathic...
Resumen El monografico que presentamos se centra en la ultima etapa de la infancia y la adolescencia. Pretende abordar desde diferentes estudios empiricos el importante rol de las emociones y la competencia emocional en la conducta adaptada y desadaptada de ninos y adolescentes, asi como los contextos mas representativos en el proceso de socializac...
This study has two objectives. On the one hand, to analyze the relationships between empathy, prosocial behavior and prosocial moral reasoning, as well as the differences between them in terms of gender. On the other hand, to analyze the predictive value of these variables on empathy, taken as a criterion variable. The sample comprised 1,557 partic...
Since the university education of psychologists began in Spain in 1954, the history of psychology course has been included in the curriculum. In the first few years, only half of the curricula offered the course. From 1973 to 2007, the universities' organization and regulation underwent successive reforms that involved changes in the curricula, dec...
This study has the aim to analyze the different role of parental styles (affect and communication versus control), of functional developmental variables (empathy and adaptative coping styles) and dysfunctional variables (emotional instability and inefficient coping styles) in school victimization, or conversely with peer attachment. Participants we...
Prior theories and scholars rarely distinguished between distinct forms of prosocial behaviors (i.e., actions intended to benefit others) and most scholars operationalize prosocial behaviors as a global construct. Furthermore, stringent tests of psychometric properties of prosocial behavior measures are rare, especially in countries other than the...
The aim of this research is to analyze cognitive, emotional, and socio-family variables to determine which of these factors have the greatest predictive power to predict effective coping mechanisms among adolescents forced to resolve problems. The sample is made up of 532 students in the third stage of compulsory secondary education (mean = 14.45 y...
Parenting styles set the pace and quality of parent-child relationships and parenting practices. This empirical research consisted of three studies based on the Child Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory (CRPBI; Schaefer, 1965) and was conducted in Spain. The analysis checks the typology and styles of parenting, bearing in mind both parents in a...
Las conductas prosociales se definen como acciones que prioritariamente están orientadas a beneficiar a otras personas (Eisenberg, Fabes, & Spinrad, 2006). Compartir y dar recursos a los demás, confortar emocionalmente a otros, realizar actividades benéficas y ayudar ante las necesidades de otras personas son formas típicas de conductas prosociales...
El objetivo del estudio es analizar las variables cognitivas, emocionales y socio familiares que alcanzan un mayor poder predictor del afrontamiento eficaz en la adolescencia. Han participado 532 estudiantes de 3º curso de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, (edad media: 14.45 años y SD= .763). Los ANOVA realizados muestran diferencias de género en l...
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Recientes revisiones confirman la efectividad de los programas educativos, cuyo objetivo es facilitar la evolución del juicio moral. En este caso nos centramos en un programa de intervención para el desarrollo del juicio moral y en un programa de intervención en el autoconcepto-autoestima.
En el programa de intervención para el desarrollo...
Prosocial behaviors, actions intended to help others, may serve a protective function against association with deviant peers and subsequent delinquent and antisocial behaviors. The present study examined the relations among specific types of prosocial behaviors, deviant peer affiliation, and delinquent and aggressive behaviors. Six hundred and sixt...
El objetivo de esta investigación es presentar una adaptación y validación en población española de la Escala de Expectativa de los hijos adolescentes so- bre la reacción de sus padres frente al comportamiento prosocial y antisocial, desarrollada por Wyatt y Carlo (2002). La muestra estuvo compuesta por 632 adolescentes españoles de entre 15 a 18 a...
The aim of this study is to carry out an adaptation and validation of Adolescents' Expected Parental Reactions Scale in Spanish sample. This original scale was developed by Wyatt and Carlo (2002). The sample was composed by 631 adolescents, between 15 and 18 years, middle-class and both sexes. A confirmatory factor analysis was carried out to study...
The objectives of this study are: (a) to analyze if the relationship between parenting dimensions and children adjustment regarding coping strategies are similar in Argentinian and Spanish samples within poverty contexts; (b) to compare parental dimensions in the two groups studied, and (c) to determine the efficiency of parenting through the study...
Los objetivos del presente trabajo son: (a) analizar si las relaciones entre las dimensiones de la parentalidad y el ajuste de los niños en lo que se refiere a estrategias de afrontamiento, se mantienen constantes en una muestra argentina y otra española en contextos de pobreza; (b) comparar las dimensiones de la parentalidad en los dos grupos en e...
El presente trabajo supone una aproximación a la psicología contemporanea sobre género y procesos psicológicos. Se analizan las publicaciones aparecidas sobre el tema en el periodo comprendido entre 1.974 y 1.995, con especial interés en los procesos emocionales. Los datos obtenidos muestran la presencia de áreas de conocimiento diferentes: Medicin...
The study was designed to examine the structure and correlates of a measure of prosocial moral reasoning in a sample of young and middle-aged adolescents. Participants were 1,556 students (53% male, M age = 13.12 years, SD = 0.87) from Valencia, Spain, who completed paper-and-pencil measures of prosocial moral reasoning (PROM), empathy, prosocial b...
This study assesses the relation between coping strategies and emotions to know to what extend these are processes related to aggressive behavior. We assume that the aggression influence coping mechanisms in solving problems and handling of emotions: emotional instability (lack of self-control in stressful situations) or empathy (feelings faced to...
Mediating and moderating effects of socioemotive traits and coping styles on aggression and prosocial behaviors were examined. A sample of 1557 students from Spain (53% male, M age = 13.12) completed self-report instruments of coping, empathy, emotional instability, physical aggression, and prosocial behaviors. Structural equation analysis showed s...
Este estudio analiza la relación entre las estrategias de afrontamiento y las emociones para determinar en qué medida son procesos relacionados con la conducta agresiva. Se parte del supuesto de que en la agresividad influyen los mecanismos de afrontamiento en la resolución de problemas y el manejo de las emociones: inestabilidad emocional (falta d...
Child rearing provides messages and rules that mediate the children's personality. These messages have a positive or negative influence on their behaviour. The objective of this empirical study was to analyse the relationship between physical and verbal aggression of sons and daughters and parenting style practiced by the father and the mother. The...
Prosocial moral reasoning and behavior of young people in early and middle adolescence were examined in relation to the association among the variable of cultural group, age, and gender. Adolescents from Valencia, Spain (673 boys, 579 girls) and Ankara, Turkey (185 boys, 145 girls) participated in this study. Results showed significant cultural gro...
Developmental scholars assert that parents are important in fostering prosocial behaviors in adolescents, but longitudinal investigations on this topic are limited. Participants consisted of 372 boys and 358 girls with a mean age of 10.84 years (SD = 1.57) at Wave 1 from a mostly middle class community in Spain. Across three successive years, parti...
There is debate regarding the roles of sociomoral cognitions and emotions in understanding moral development. The short-term longitudinal relations among perspective taking, sympathy, prosocial moral reasoning, prosocial behaviors and aggression in adolescents were examined. Participants were 489 students (M age = 12.28 years, SD = .48; 232 boys) i...
This article pursues a double aim: to analyse parent-child relationships and how it affects child development, as well as the association between aggression and emotional instability. Sample consisted of 2,747 students, aged 10 to 15 years old, from 36 education centres of the Valencian Community (50.6% boys and 49.4% girls). Results show a strong...
Since the 1970s there has been a growing interest in analysing sex differences in psychological variables. Empirical studies and meta-analyses have contributed evidence on the differences between male and female individuals. More recently, the gender similarities hypothesis has supported the similarity of men and women in most psychological variabl...
Since the 1970s there has been a growing interest in analysing sex differences in psychological variables. Empirical studies and meta-analyses have contributed evidence on the differences between male and female individuals. More recently, the gender similarities hypothesis has supported the similarity of men and women in most psychological variabl...
The infantile and juvenile aggressiveness is considered to be a complex phenomenon, with multiple factors that contribute to different aggressive manifestations. This phenomenon has been an object of many investigations, which have the aim to understand the basic mechanisms that cause and regulate this behaviour and it is important to consider that...
Aggressiveness and coping in adolescence. An intercultural perspective . The infantile and juvenile aggressiveness is considered to be a complex phenomenon, with multiple factors that contribute to different aggressive manifestations. This phenomenon has been an object of many investigations, which have the aim to understand the basic mechanisms th...
The work shows two studies carried out with Spanish adolescents. The objective was to evaluate the relation between rearing styles, prosocial behaviour and empathy, aggressiveness, emotional instability and anger, from a double perspective. In one of these studies (N = 531), the rearing styles were evaluated by the mother and in the other one (N =...
El trabajo muestra dos estudios realizados con adolescentes españoles cuyo objetivo es
estudiar la relación entre los estilos de crianza, el comportamiento prosocial y la empatía, la
agresividad, la inestabilidad emocional y la ira desde un doble planteamiento: en uno de los
estudios (N = 531) la evaluación de los estilos de crianza la realiza la m...
The present longitudinal study examined psychological processes involved in prosocial behavior. A sample of 499 Spanish adolescents were evaluated (12-14 years old; 240 boys and 259 girls) for 3 consecutive years with 6 instruments: Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM), Physical and Verbal Aggression Scale (AFV), Emotional Instability Scale...
ResumenLa agresividad infantil y juvenil es considerada un fenómeno complejo, con múltiples factores que contribuyen a diferentes manifestaciones agresivas. Por todo ello, este fenómeno ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones, que persiguen el objetivo de comprender los mecanismos básicos que causan y regulan dichas conductas (Eron y Huesmann,...
This study presented an adaptation in Spanish of the Child's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory (CRPBI) . The CRPBI is an instrument that allows us to assess family discipline perceived by children in the relation with their mothers and with their fathers. It's considered a good instrument to assess the perceptions that children have of parent...
A review of personal and family variables that regulate prosocial behavior is based on a sample of 1,433 Spanish adolescents (ages 9 to 13; 743 boys and 690 girls) who were assessed on the Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure, the Physical and Verbal Aggression Scale, the Emotional Instability Scale, the State-Trait Anger Inventory, the Child's Re...
The present longitudinal study examined psycho-logical processes involved in prosocial behavior. A sample of499 Spanish adolescents were evaluated (12-14 years old; 240boys and 259 girls) for 3 consecutive years with 6 instruments:Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM), Physical andVerbal Aggression Scale (AFV), Emotional Instability Scale (I...
La agresividad infantil y juvenil es considerada un fenómeno complejo, con múltiples factores que contribuyen a diferentes manifestaciones agresivas. Por todo ello, este fenómeno ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones, que persiguen el objetivo de comprender los mecanismos básicos que causan y regulan dichas conductas (Eron y Huesmann, 1984; C...
Desde hace unos años es patente en España la preocupación por una nueva expresión de ocio juvenil que popularmente se conoce como ¿botellón¿, consistente en la reunión de multitud de jóvenes en espacios abiertos para beber, escuchar música y hablar entre ellos. La preocupación se centra en dos aspectos clave: las molestias ocasionadas por las reuni...
Measuring empathy: The Interpersonal Reactivity Index. The main aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) (Davis, 1980, 1983) in its Spanish adaptation. It is one of the questionnaires but used to evaluate the empathy from a multidimensional perspective that includes two cognitive facto...
Resumen La investigación se ha realizado sobre la base de una muestra aleatoria de 531 adoles-centes de edades comprendidas entre los 12 y 16 años, que representan a la población general. El objetivo que pretende es analizar la relación entre los problemas de conducta del adolescen-te y algunas variables del entorno sociofamiliar como la estructura...
The main aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) (Davis, 1980, 1983) in its Spanish adaptation. It is one of the questionnaires but used to evaluate the empathy from a multidimensional perspective that includes two cognitive factors and two emotional. The Spanish adaptation has been c...
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La investigación realizada persigue un doble objetivo. El primero se dirige a estudiar la relación que se establece entre la estructura de la personalidad del adolescente y la manifestación de la agresión, de la inestabilidad emocional y de la conducta prosocial. El segundo objetivo pretende analizar del peso que muestran los hábit...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse personality and family variables related to adolescent aggressiveness and prosocial behaviour; emphasis has been placed on emotional processes linked to a lack of control or emotional regulation and child-rearing styles perceived by adolescents in their parents. An empirical analysis was carried out including...
La investigación realizada persigue un doble objetivo. El primero se dirige a estudiar la relación que se establece entre la estructura de la personalidad del adolescente y la manifestación de la agresión, de la inestabilidad emocional y de la conducta prosocial. El segundo objetivo pretende analizar del peso que muestran los hábitos de crianza en...
La investigación se ha realizado sobre la base de una muestra aleatoria de 531 adolescentes de edades comprendidas entre los 12 y 16 años, que representan a la población general. El objetivo que pretende es analizar la relación entre los problemas de conducta del adolescente y algunas variables del entorno sociofamiliar como la estructura familiar,...
We examined the journal Cognitive Psychology, as representative of the evolution of cognitive psychology during the last three decades (1979-1999). Analysis of changes in the impact factor defined according to the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) is an indication of the ranking of this journal both in the general classification of archival rese...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze personality and family variables related to adolescent aggressiveness, emphasis being placed on emotional processes linked to a lack of control or emotional regulation and child-rearing styles perceived in their parents by adolescents. An empirical analysis was carried out including 1,285 randomly selected yo...
Los manuales introductorios pueden ser considerados como testimonios del nivel de ciencia de un momento dado. La Introducción a la Psicología de Hilgard ha sido publicada en 13 ediciones, la primera en 1953 y la última en el año 2000. El análisis de las sucesivas ediciones de este texto proporciona información en relación a los cambios que han teni...
Resumen La evaluacion del razonamiento moral prosocial a traves de medidas objetivas se considera desarrollo prosocial en las ultimas decadas. El PROM (Carlo, et al., 1992) constituye una medida objetiva de los procesos cognitivos de razonamiento relacionados con la conducta prosocial, construido a partir de la teoria de N. Eisenberg. En este estud...
The objective of this research is to review some cognitive and emotional processes that regulate pro-social behaviour and aggressive conduct in adolescence, emphasis being placed on empathic processes. An empirical study has been carried out including 1,285 randomly selected adolescents (aged 13-18, 698 male / 597 female). The discriminating analys...
El objetivo de esta investigación es revisar algunos procesos cognitivos y emocionales que regulan la conducta prosocial y la conducta agresiva en la adolescencia, con especial interés en los procesos empáticos. Se trata de un estudio empírico con 1.285 adolescentes (13-18 años de edad, 698 varones y 597 mujeres) seleccionados aleatoriamente. Los a...
La evaluación del razonamiento moral prosocial a través de medidas objetivas se considera desarrollo prosocial en las últimas décadas. El PROM (Carlo, et al., 1992) constituye una medida objetiva de los procesos cognitivos de razonamiento relacionados con la conducta prosocial, construido a partir de la teoría de N. Eisenberg. En este estudio se pr...
El desarrollo del autoconcepto constituye un tema central en la adolescencia. El estudio longitudinal que
aquí se presenta constituye una aproximación a los cambios que se producen en los componentes cognitivos,
afectivos y comportamentales de este constructo, así como las dimensiones de la vida familiar que aparecen
relacionadas con el concepto y...
Resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar si hay relación los niveles del DIT y las categorías del PROM. La muestra esta compuesta por 209 adolescentes (91 hombres y 118 mujeres). Los resultados del análisis correlational muestran que el razonamiento interiorizado y el razonamiento estereotipado correlaciona significativa y positivamente con...
Resumen: El objetivo de este trabajo intenta evaluar la jerarquía de valores que una muestra de adolescentes ha interiorizado y trata de constatar la permanencia y los cambios que se producen en dicha jerarquía a lo largo de la adolescencia. Se les administró la Escala de Valores de Rokeach (Forma A) a los mismos adolescentes de dos momentos de un...
Se ofrecen aquí los resultados obtenidos como consecuencia de la intervención en el desarrollo del juicio moral y la ernpatía en jóvenes universitarios españoles. Los instrumentos aplicados para evaluar la eficacia de la intervención han sido El Cuestionario de Problemas Sociomorales (DlT) de J. Rest, construido para evaluar el nivel de razonamient...
This paper offers the results obtained as a consequence of the intervention in the development of the moral judgment and empathy in undergraduate Spanish students. The instruments applied to evaluate the efficiency of the intervention have been the Defining Issues Test (DIT) of J. Rest and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (ml) of Davis. The resul...
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The chapter refers to a new way of doing in the area of the publications. The predecessor was Kohlberg when in 1958 he gathered Piaget's legacy showing a new way to the moral psychology from an orientation cognitive evolutionary.
The aim is to do a study on the current situation of the moral psychology in the last decade by means of the wo...
El objetivo del presente estudio es evaluar la relación entre componentes cognitivos y afectivos del desarrollo moral y la tendencia altruista. A partir de la literatura científica que señala diferencias de género importantes en la tendencia empática, se trata de comprobar si en nuestra población adolescente la variable género discrimina la respues...
El objetivo de este estudio, después de explicar lo que significa el termino empatía y enumerar los tipos existentes, pretende establecer en la población adolescente española las relaciones entre diferentes estilos educativos y la disposición empática de los hijos. Se tendrán en cuenta los siguientes estilos educativos: amor, control y hostilidad....
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Se ofrecen aquí los resultados obtenidos como consecuencia de la intervención en el desarrollo del juicio moral y autoconcepto de dos grupos universitarios. Los intrumentos aplicados para evaluar la eficacia de la intervención han sido El Cuestionario de Problemas sociomorales (DIT) de J. Rest y la Escala de Autoconcepto de Fitts. Los dat...
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En las última décadas se ha desarrollado un interés creciente por considerar la empatía como un constructo multidimensional.El presente estudio se sitúa en este marco teóricoy tiene como objeto evaluar las diferencias de género y edad en los factores cognitivos y emocionales de la empatía a lo largo de la adolescencia. El instrumento de e...
Resumen En este trabajo se plantea la cuestión sobre el lugar que debe ocupa la psicología del razona-miento moral dentro de los procesos psicológicos básicos. ¿Su lugar está en la psicología evolutiva? ¿ o en la psicología de la educación? , ¿o en la psicología social? ¿dónde la colocan los psicólogos actuales? Aquí se propone que el pensamiento m...
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En este trabajo se presenta un estudio exploratorio de las fuentes históricas de la psicología moral de J. Piaget, tomando como referente concreto su obra sobre El juicio moral del niño. En particular se estudian las fuentes religiosas, filosóficas y científicas de su obra. Para ello se emplea en parte la metodología bibliométrica y tambi...
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El presente trabajo es una aproximación al estudio de la presencia diferencias de los estudios de psicología, varones y mujeres, en el desarrollo de la psicología española a través de uno de los medios de comunicación científica más tradicional en nuestro país: La Revista de Psicología General y Aplicada. El periodo estudiado abarca aproxi...
Resumen: La investigación acentúa el impacto de métodos de disciplina paternales sobre internalization del niño de valores (Grusec y Goodnow, 1994). Este estudio evaluó las jerarquías de 151 chicos y 110 chicas adolescentes en dos niveles de edad (13-14 y 16-17 años), usando la Escala de Clima Familiar (FES) y el Rokeach (1973) el Estudio de Valor....
Resumen: Este estudio investigó dos hipótesis: (1) que religiosidad de adolescentes disminuiría a medida que ellos se hacen más mayores, y ( 2) que en la clasificación de la importancia de la jerarquía de los valores, los adolescentes asignarían a la religiosidad un valor relativamente bajo. La Escala Española de Actitudes religiosas, el Defining I...