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April 2013 - August 2017
October 2008 - present
Education
September 2008 - July 2012
September 2007 - June 2008
January 2006 - March 2007
Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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- Sport and Exercise Psychology
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The topic of life skills has been widely studied in recent years, particularly with application of the Positive Youth Development perspective to the sports context. The present study was carried out to explore the role that coaches play in the process of acquiring life skills among a sample of student-athletes. A qualitative methodology was followe...
En este artículo se aborda la temática de la carrera dual en España. El Real Decreto 971/2007, se describe en detalle dado que supuso el poder identificar, definir, nombrar y estudiar la población de Deportistas de Alto Nivel (DAN) en España. Se describen buenas prácticas de apoyo de a los deportistas en su carrera dual lideradas por diferentes niv...
Dual careers (DCs) are challenging trajectories followed by athletes willing to develop their academic/professional career with their athletic careers. These trajectories usually entail additional stressors, which can decrease athletes' mental health or even increase their risk of mental ill‐health. While existing research has recognized the import...
Introducción: El colectivo LGTBIQA+ sufre discriminación en el contexto deportivo, lo que les hace sentirse inseguros para salir del armario. En este estudio exploramos esta transición, centrándonos en las minorías sexuales masculinas en el contexto deportivo español. Método: Realizamos entrevistas semiestructuradas a seis deportistas perteneciente...
El objetivo consistió en identificar el uso del TEIQue en la investigación en los contextos del deporte, ejercicio y actividad física; describir cronológicamente el uso del cuestionario, el idioma utilizado, el país en donde se ha investigado y las citaciones. A partir de un análisis cienciométrico, siguiendo las fases de recuperación, migración, a...
Objectives. To evaluate the effect of a psychological intervention program for exercise adherence on participants’ satisfaction of basic psychological needs (BPN). Method. The PsicoFit psychological intervention program is grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), involving psychoeducational talks, modelling, and group dynamics. It consisted of...
Las revisiones existentes sobre carrera dual (CD) ofrecen conclusiones para deportistas en general, sin mencionar el género y perpetuando la infrarrepresentación de las mujeres. Por ello, en esta revisión de alcance nos centramos únicamente en deportistas mujeres con el objetivo de conocer el panorama actual de los estudios sobre CD en deporte feme...
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is defined as the ability to recognise and regulate own emotions as well as detecting these emotions in others. This intra and interpersonal ability is related to psychological well-being and self- esteem as it facilitates self-evaluation and self-appreciation. However, EI is mediated by social (i.e., culture and gender)...
Lower economic status (ES) is associated with a less adaptive experience of school and physical activity. However, empirical evidence supporting the detrimental association of lower ES on the affective and motivational experience in Physical Education (PE) remains scarce. Using a large sample (n = 10392) of adolescents from six countries (i.e., Gre...
This study examined whether the perceived motivational climate was associated with students’ achievement goals and intrinsic motivation, from a multilevel (i.e., individual- and school-level) perspective within the Physical Education context. The sample was composed of 9855 students aged 10–18 (Mage = 13.96 years; SDage =1.97 years) who belong to 2...
This study aimed to longitudinally evaluate talented athletes’ levels of perfectionism, irrational beliefs, and motivations with regard to their athletic careers. A total of 390 athletes from U14, U16, and junior categories (MageT1 = 15.42) answered shortened versions of the Sport-MPS2, iPBI, and BRSQ during two consecutive seasons, along with ques...
Framed in the Ecological-Intersectional Model and the Stages of Career Progression Model, the objective of this study was to explore how women coaching in high-performance settings advanced through the ‘bottle-neck’ path. In total 13 women coaches from Southern Europe between the age of 28 and 46 years working in high-performance contexts were inte...
About 80% of adolescents report insufficient physical activity (PA) worldwide. Beyond the association of attitudes, family and friends’ support, and perceived behavioural control (PBC) with intention, self-regulation strategies are expected to underlie the association between intention and action. Particularly, action planning and self-monitoring,...
El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar de manera retrospectiva el proceso de transición y las trayectorias de futbolistas semiprofesionales hacia el rol de entrenador/a. Se realizaron nueve entrevistas semiestructuradas con entrenadores/as de fútbol. Con el propósito de dar una visión global del proceso de transición, el guion de entrevista y el p...
The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance (across five languages, two time points, and two experimental conditions) of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire-coach (EDMCQ-C; Appleton et al., 2016) when completed by 9256 young sport participants (M age = 11.53 years, SD = 1.39 years; 13.5% female)....
Since Junior-to-Senior Transition (JST) is only considered successful when soccer players become professionals, many junior athletes must cope with failure, and their sporting careers and mental health may be at risk. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to (a) identify different career expectancies of male soccer academy players, and (b) de...
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Although many former elite athletes maintain healthy levels of physical activity after retirement, those who do not, put their health at greater risk than the general population as previous studies have shown. The purpose of this study was to design and implement a Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy intervention consisting of three 45-minute sessi...
Aunque buena parte de las personas exdeportistas de elite mantienen niveles de actividad física saludable después de la retirada, aquellas que no lo hacen exponen su salud a un riesgo mayor que la población general según han mostrado estudios anteriores. El propósito de este trabajo fue diseñar e implementar una intervención en Terapia Racional Emo...
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 during 2020 caused the Spanish population to go on lockdown for almost 100 days. The unexpected lockdown forced an abrupt stop to all the sport practices and competitions, which impacted negatively on elite athletes’ mental health (MH). Specifically, evidence suggests that female athletes reported a higher negative...
Spain is one of the many countries highly affected by the COVID-19 crisis, establishing very restrictive measures with a complete lockdown for more than 3 months. This situation forced the complete closure of sport practice and national or international competitions, leading to a negative impact on physical and psychological health of high-performa...
This study describes three phases to investigate athletes' competencies (i.e., skills, attitudes, knowledge) required and used for optimizing their employability in, and across three specific career phases (i.e., active, retirement and new career phase; B-WISER, 2018). Phase 1 describes the development of an instrument, the Athlete Competency Quest...
Objective
Despite a growing body of literature on cultural transitions, little is known regarding how emigrant elite athletes experience and intra-act with the non-human environment in the host country, and how this affects their sense of home. This study explores the relationships between the material world and the embodied narratives, both person...
This paper describes two studies aimed at developing and initially validating an instrument that measures athletes’ competencies required to optimize their employability across three career phases (i.e., active, retirement and new career phase; B-WISER, 2018). Study 1 describes the development of the Athlete Competency Questionnaire for Employabili...
Aim
Dual career development environments (DCDEs) support athletes' effort in combining their competitive sporting careers with education or work. The characteristics of the environments may differ across cultures. The aim was to identify essential features of DCDEs based on a cross-case analysis of seven European DCDEs in Belgium, Denmark, Finland,...
Este trabajo tiene por objetivo proponer una taxonomía nacional a través de la identificación y clasificación de los entornos desarrolladores de carrera dual en España. A partir de los resultados del proyecto Erasmus+ Ecology of Dual Careers se ha realizado un análisis documental de los entornos que promueven la carrera dual a nivel nacional, así c...
En este capítulo…
– Se expone la evidencia científica sobre la influencia de los grupos y los entornos en las transiciones deportivas.
– Se explican los modelos teóricos en el ámbito de las transiciones de carrera: ecológico, holístico y de trayectorias.
– Se analiza el papel del entorno y los grupos en las transiciones normativas (transición de jú...
Recientemente, la psicología del deporte ha centrado su atención en la carrera de deportistas mi-grantes transnacionales, quienes transitan entre diversos contextos culturales y experimentan transi-ciones culturales. Sin embargo, son pocos los estudios sobre esta transición con mujeres deportistas. Por ello, mediante la metodología de historias de...
Objetivo. Explorar las experiencias de entrenadores y profesionales de la salud, al asesorar la transición cultural y la carrera deportiva de esgrimistas colombianos migrantes. Método. Se conformaron dos grupos focales en los que participaron nueve personas (seis hombres y tres mujeres), de unequipo multidisciplinario de alto rendimiento en esgrima...
Objetivo. Explorar las similitudes y diferencias de los tipos de motivación hacia la práctica de actividad física (AF) de adolescentes, adultos mayores y exdeportistas de élite, desde la Teoría de la Autodeterminación, para la creación de programas de AF. Método. La recolección de los datos se llevó a cabo mediante grupos focales: tres con adolesce...
During the 2020, the pandemic caused by the massive spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) resulted in a global crisis. In Spain, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a lockdown for almost 100 days and forced the sudden stop of sport practices and competitions. This interruption had a negative impact on high-level athletes’ mental health. However,...
Background:
Measuring complex constructs, such as those from self-determination theory models, is challenging in the elderly due to the response process, particularly in collective data gathering. In order to examine this construct in physical activity settings we aimed at determining whether single-item measures were as good as pre-existing multi...
The expansion of evidence-based practices in the sports context, shows a promising growth in the use of REBT interventions with athletes. This evolution places us at the moment of gathering the research to identify where evidence is rich or wanting. We carried out a systematic mapping review to (a) classify the type of literature, (b) categorize cu...
The aim of the present study is to identify and synthesize the facilitators of the cultural transition of migrant athletes using a meta-synthesis. A meta-synthesis is a secondary analysis of primary qualitative research to reveal new knowledge concerning a specific phenomenon, the cultural transition in this case. A systematic research was performe...
El presente trabajo tiene el objetivo de desarrollar e implementar un programa de formación basado en la evidencia dirigido a entrenadores de un club de hockey sobre patines, con el fin de optimizar el desarrollo psicosocial de sus deportistas. Esta experiencia profesional explica cómo a partir de una demanda del club, el Grup d’Estudis en Psicolog...
Coping with emotions represents one of the most important demands of youth sport, yet existing important differences depending on the characteristics of each sport. Some of these characteristics (e.g., individual or team sport) have been comprehensively studied in previous literature. In contrast, other characteristics such as perceptive-motor skil...
Contestar a un gran número de ítems puede suponer una gran carga para las personas participantes, lo cual puede empeorar la calidad de los datos recogidos. Por este motivo, el propósito de nuestro estudio es presentar el método de Máxima Información, Mínima Molestia (MIMO) para el desarrollo de versiones cortas en psicología del deporte. Nuestro pr...
El GEPE (Grupo de Estudios en Psicología del Deporte y la Actividad Física) es un grupo de investigación que combina funciones de investigación, docencia y consultoría en el ámbito de la Psicología del Deporte. En cuanto a esta función de consultoría, y con la intención de integrar en su práctica aplicada la evidencia científica, este grupo ha desa...
El GEPE (Grupo de Estudios en Psicología del Deporte y la Actividad Física) es un grupo de investigación que combina funciones de investigación, docencia y consultoría en el ámbito de la Psicología del Deporte. En cuanto a esta función de consultoría, y con la intención de integrar en su práctica aplicada la evidencia científica, este grupo ha desa...
El objetivo de este trabajo es explicar cómo a partir de una demanda realizada por la Unió de Consells Esportius Catalans (UCEC), el Grup d’Estudis en Psicologia de l’Esport i de l’Activitat Física (GEPE) diseñó e implementó un taller de formación dirigido a árbitros y jueces de deporte escolar. Para abordar esta demanda, se utilizó como guía el Mo...
Following the CHIP tool (i.e., Context, How, Issues and Population), and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis method (PRISMA) we conducted a systematic review on interventions with athletes using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT; Ellis, 1957). A literature search was undertaken on the following databases: We...
RESUMEN El propósito de este trabajo es doble: (a) describir los aspectos motivacionales y beneficios que obtienen los exdeportistas de élite que se mantienen físicamente activos y las barreras que perciben los físicamente inactivos, y (b) probar un modelo motivacional que pueda predecir la práctica de actividad física en esta población. Se realizó...
El propósito de este trabajo es doble. Por un lado, pretende describir los aspectos motivacionales y beneficios que obtienen los exdeportistas de élite que se mantienen físicamente activos después de la retirada y las barreras que perciben los exdeportistas físicamente inactivos, comparando los niveles de actividad física que reportan ambos grupos....
This study examined how goal-directed self-talk may help basketball players to self-regulate in stereotypical competitive situations: seconds before a challenging game, while clearly winning or clearly losing, and at the close of a tight game. Participants were recruited in groups of three to four, until preliminary inspection of the data indicated...
Este estudio tiene como objetivo explorar la invariancia configural, métrica y escalar en función del sexo y de la práctica de actividad física colectiva del AUSO de Fernández-Zabala et al. (2016) y comparar las puntuaciones obtenidas por los subgrupos. La muestra fue de 278 estudiantes universitarios (M = 21.16 años; DT = 19.238) divididos de form...
The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to describe the motivational aspects and gains obtained by physically active former elite athletes and the barriers experienced by inactive former elite athletes comparing their reported exercise amount, and (b) to test whether the different motivations would predict their reported exercise amount. Using a...
This program had the goal to implement an individualized intervention based on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) to explore the beliefs, motivations and perceived barriers to re-engage in healthy PA years after retirement from elite sport.
After retiring from elite sports, maintaining healthy levels of physical activity (PA) might be chal...
El objetivo de este estudio es explorar las competencias percibidas como más importantespor deportistas-estudiantes y asesores de carrera dual para gestionar conéxito el solapamiento de competiciones y exámenes. Participaron 184 deportistasestudiantesagrupados de acuerdo al nivel académico (i.e., educación secundaria obligatoria,bachillerato y univ...
En la actualidad, disponemos de estudios en el área del autohabla que muestran que este juega un papel clave en el rendimiento y la auto-regulación y, durante las últimas décadas, este concepto ha recibido una creciente atención por parte de los investigadores en ciencias del deporte. Sin embargo, este término del autohabla se refiere a varios proc...