Angélica Arteaga, Elizabeth Vélez, William Cornejo, Rodrigo Solarte, Angélica Lobo, Verónica Jaramillo, Julissa Otero
{"title":"Epilepsy and electroencephalographic abnormalities in patients with diagnosis of idiopathic autism spectrum disorder in Medellín.","authors":"Angélica Arteaga, Elizabeth Vélez, William Cornejo, Rodrigo Solarte, Angélica Lobo, Verónica Jaramillo, Julissa Otero","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of the present study was to make a clinical and electroencephalographic characterization of the electrical findings and types of seizures in patients with idiopathic autism. Pediatric patients of any age, with the diagnosis of idiopathic ASD, contained within the database of the research \"Genetic in autism\" were included. An electroencephalographic recording with epilepsy protocol was performed in all the patients. 20 pediatric patients were included with an age media of 10<i>.</i>5 years, SD 5<i>.</i>48 years. The median age for the diagnosis of ASD was 53 months, and epileptic seizures were documented in 45%. 66<i>.</i>6% of patients with epileptic events had anti-epileptic treatment, and only 33<i>.</i>3% had achieved seizure control with medication. Interictal abnormal EEG records were found in 8 patients (40%), with 6 of them having epileptic seizures. The abnormal EEG activity was multifocal in 62<i>.</i>5%, focal in 25% and generalized in 12<i>.</i>5% of the cases. The most frequently compromised location was the temporal lobe.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"115-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/b7/85/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-115.PMC8297578.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39220350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Del Carmen Perez-Fuentes, Maria Del Mar Molero Jurado, Africa Martos Martinez, Maria Del Mar Simon Marquez, Jose Jesus Gazquez Linares
{"title":"Mood and Affective Balance of Spaniards Confined by COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Maria Del Carmen Perez-Fuentes, Maria Del Mar Molero Jurado, Africa Martos Martinez, Maria Del Mar Simon Marquez, Jose Jesus Gazquez Linares","doi":"10.21500/20112084.4765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.4765","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to analyze the mood and affective balance of Spaniards in quarantine and determine the predictive role of sociodemographic variables and mood on the negative affective balance. This cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of 1014 Spanish adults, 67.2% were women and 32.8% men. The age ranged from 17 to 76. The instruments used were the Mood Assessment Scale and the Affective Balance Scale, which were implemented as a CAWI survey (Computer Aided Web Interviewing). Results showed that age correlated negatively with Sadness-Depression, Anxiety, and Happiness. Women had more Sadness-Depression, Anxiety, and negative affect, while men showed more Happiness and higher positive affect. Thus, the risk of a negative affective balance during confinement was greater for women and those who showed an emotional state marked by sadness-depression and anxiety, while older age and higher scores in happiness were associated with lower risk. In conclusion, knowing which groups are at risk of emotional and affective alteration can facilitate the detection and prevention of later disorders, such as severe stress and posttraumatic stress disorder, avoiding their generalized presence, and becoming a new public health problem derived from COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"55-65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/b3/f9/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-55.PMC8297570.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39219916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Multidimensional Questionnaire of Empathy for Early and Middle Adolescents in Spanish.","authors":"Viviana Lemos, María Cristina Richaud","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to develop a Multidimensional Questionnaire of Empathy for Adolescents, since a model of cognitive social neuroscience, operationalizing the dimensions of emotional contagion, self-awareness, perspective-taking, emotional regulation, and empathic attitude. For the psychometric study of the instrument, 320 young adolescents in school participated, from both genders (125 male, 195 female), aged 13 to 16 (M = 14.23; SD = .95). The discriminant power of the items was evaluated, as well as the underlying structure of the instrument, its internal consistency, and different evidences of external, convergent, discriminant, and group-comparison validity. The results indicated that all the items were discriminative. The adjustment indexes of confirmatory factorial analysis allowed confirming the pentafactorial structure of the scale, consisting of 15 items. The internal consistency indexes of the different dimensions were between moderate and adequate. Likewise, differences in empathy between men and women were analyzed, the results of which indicated differences in favor of women. The different collected evidences of validity were consistent with what was expected theoretically. In this way it is possible to conclude that this Multidimensional Empathy Questionnaire for Adolescents (CMEA) is a valid and reliable measure for the evaluation of empathy in adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"91-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ac/95/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-91.PMC8297572.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39220348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fernando Riveros-Munévar, Luis Enrique Prieto-Patiño, Laura Marroquín-Ortegón, Mariana Cardona-Rodríguez, Camilo Delgado-Zapata, Yuri Rodriguez-Nino
{"title":"Validation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Infidelity (IMIN) in Colombian Population.","authors":"Fernando Riveros-Munévar, Luis Enrique Prieto-Patiño, Laura Marroquín-Ortegón, Mariana Cardona-Rodríguez, Camilo Delgado-Zapata, Yuri Rodriguez-Nino","doi":"10.21500/20112084.4710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.4710","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infidelity is a problem that entails psychological and physical consequences in humankind (Buss, 2016; González et al., 2009; Shackelford et al., 2003); thus, indicating the importance of measuring infidelity construct. The objective of the study was to determine the validity and reliability of the Multidimensional Infidelity Inventory (IMIN) for Colombian samples. For this, the instrument was applied to 674 Colombian participants, 224 men (33.28%) and 449 women (66.71%), with ages between 18 and 81 years (M = 25.11; SD = 10.56), carrying out exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory, and internal consistency for each subscale. In general, in the Motives to infidelity scale, three factors were found that explained 66.74% of the total accumulated variance; three factors were found in the Trend to Infidelity scale, explaining 65.02% of the total variance; in the sub-scale of Beliefs to infidelity, five factors were obtained, explaining 58.33% of the accumulated variance; and in the sub-scale of Consequences of infidelity, two clearly constituted factors were found, which explain 57.58% of the accumulated variance. All of them had confirmatory models with adequate levels of goodness of fit, adequate Cronbach alpha indicators, item-item, and item-test correlations, in addition to concordance with the original proposal of the instrument.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"33-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/2f/ea/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-33.PMC8297579.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39219914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tania Yadira Martínez-Rodríguez, Samantha Josefina Bernal-Gómez, Ana Mora, Nelson Hun, Zyanya Reyes-Castillo, Elia Herminia Valdés-Miramontes, Ana Cristina Espinoza-Gallardo
{"title":"Dysfunctional Patterns of Food Intake by Anxiety during Isolation by COVID-19 in Chile, Colombia and Mexico.","authors":"Tania Yadira Martínez-Rodríguez, Samantha Josefina Bernal-Gómez, Ana Mora, Nelson Hun, Zyanya Reyes-Castillo, Elia Herminia Valdés-Miramontes, Ana Cristina Espinoza-Gallardo","doi":"10.21500/20112084.4721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.4721","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this research was to compare food intake dysfunctional patterns score with the subjective perception of anxiety and sociodemographic characteristics of the participants in isolation by COVID-19 from Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. A cross-sectional research was carried out, with a virtual questionnaire of subjective perception of anxiety and the questionnaire of three 18-item feeding factors. 958 people of both sexes participated (<i>F</i> = 83%<i>, M</i> = 17%), mainly in the 18 to 35 age range. Dysfunctional eating patterns presented high scores in people who perceived anxiety, as well as in participants from Chile. Additionally, it was found that women present greater cognitive restriction and emotional intake, and college students showed greater disinhibition. In conclusion, the scores of the three dysfunctional eating patterns were higher in people with subjective perception of anxiety during social isolation due to COVID-19, and there were also differences according to country, sex, and educational level.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"48-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/a9/2c/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-48.PMC8297571.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39219915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine Learning based Psychology: Advocating for A Data-Driven Approach.","authors":"Jorge I Vélez","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5365","url":null,"abstract":"How to Cite: Vélez, J. I. (2021). Machine Learning Psychology: Advocating for a Data-Driven Approach. International Journal of Psychological Research, 14 (1), 6–11. https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5365 Since its beginnings, Psychology has been prone to both data generation and understanding of human behavior through data analysis. Back in 1879, Dr. Wilheim Wundt opened the first experimental psychology lab at the University of Leipzig to study reaction times. To many, this is considered the start of Psychology as a separate scientific discipline and the use of data analysis for data-driven decision making in the field (Flis, 2019; Tweney, 2003). In this Editorial, we briefly discuss how Psychology students, clinicians, and researchers may take part of the data revolution and help transforming Psychology, as we know it, into Machine Learning Psychology.","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"6-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e0/3f/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-6.PMC8297577.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39219912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationship Between Gender and Performance on Emotion Perception Tasks in a Latino Population.","authors":"Alvaro Cavieres, Rocío Maldonado, Amy Bland, Rebecca Elliott","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Basic emotions are universally recognized, although differences across cultures and between genders have been described. We report results in two emotion recognition tasks, in a sample of healthy adults from Chile.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>192 volunteers (mean 31<i>.</i>58 years, s.d. 8<i>.</i>36; 106 women) completed the Emotional Recognition Task, in which they were asked to identify a briefly displayed emotion, and the Emotional Intensity Morphing Task, in which they viewed faces with increasing or decreasing emotional intensity and indicated when they either detected or no longer detected the emotion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All emotions were recognized at above chance levels. The only sex differences present showed men performed better at identifying anger (<i>p</i> = <i>.</i>0485), and responded more slowly to fear (<i>p</i> = <i>.</i>0057), than women.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings are consistent with some, though not all, prior literature on emotion perception. Crucially, we report data on emotional perception in a healthy adult Latino population for the first time, which contributes to emerging literature on cultural differences in affective processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"106-114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ed/c0/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-106.PMC8297575.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39220349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metacognitions on Pain, Functionality and Intensity of Pain in Women with Fibromyalgia.","authors":"Misleydis Ortega-González, Daniel-Camilo Aguirre-Acevedo, Mercedes Jiménez-Benítez","doi":"10.21500/20112084.4897","DOIUrl":"10.21500/20112084.4897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To determine the explanatory capacity of pain metacognitions and beliefs over the functionality, coping and pain intensity, following the Model of Self-Regulatory Executive Functions (S-REF) in a sample of women with fibromyalgia from Medellín and its Metropolitan Area. Method: Metacognitions Scale on Symptom Control, Pain Self-efficacy Questionnaire, Chronic Pain Catastrophizing Scale, Chronic Pain Coping Questionnaire, WHODAS 2.0 Scale, and Pain Intensity Numerical Scale. The sample was represented by 108 women between 24 and 60 years old with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. A modeling process was carried out through an analysis of structural equations. Results: The final model fails to fit. Despite this, the analysis suggests that negative metacognitions and pain self-efficacy have an effect over the tendency to catastrophizing. The latter and the pain self-efficacy are the main mediators in the effects of functionality. The intensity of pain is not determined by the metacognitions related to it.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"78-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c5/d9/2011-2084-ijpr-14-01-78.PMC8297576.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39220392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of Coping Strategies,Self-Concept and Educational Level on Marital Stress Among Married Working Women","authors":"Tonia Chigozie Nwatu","doi":"10.30564/jpr.v2i4.2545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jpr.v2i4.2545","url":null,"abstract":"In this 21st century a lot of women are experiencing martial challenges due to the various and important roles they perform in the home and in the society, which may require some psychological remedies. The study investigated the influence of coping strategies, self-concept and educational level on marital stress among married working women. The participants whose age ranged from 25 – 55 years with mean age of 40.63 and standard deviation of 7.59 were 377. They responded to three instruments. A 2 x 2 x 2 Analysis of Variance was used to analyze the data. Thus, the results showed that married working women who adopted emotion-focused strategies presented less marital stress symptoms F (1, 369) = 4.44, p<. 05; those with higher educational level presented less marital stress symptoms F (1, 369) = 6.33, p<.05. The results also showed that there were significant interaction effects of coping strategies and self-concept F (1, 369) = 5.88, p<. 05; and self-concept and educational level F (1, 369) = 4.18 p<. 05. Based on the outcome of this study, it was recommended that married working women should strive for higher education and also use emotion-focused coping strategies in the face of marital stress.","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73031459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Antecedents of Civic Engagement in the Age of Social Media: From the Perspective of Efficacy Beliefs","authors":"Siyoung Chung, K. Shim","doi":"10.30564/jpr.v2i3.1839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jpr.v2i3.1839","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines three efficacy beliefs— political self-efficacy, political collective efficacy, and knowledge sharing efficacy—as antecedents of social media use and civic engagement. Employing more than one thousand samples in Singapore, we empirically test (a) a conceptual framework that can provide an understanding of the relationship between the three types of efficacy and civic engagement and (b) the underlying mechanism through which the three types of efficacy beliefs affect civic engagement via social media. The findings suggest that knowledge sharing efficacy was found to play an important role in mediating the relationships between social media and political self-efficacy, political collective efficacy, respectively, which, in turn, influences the social media se.","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82779431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}