{"title":"The Price of Happiness in Modernity: a Question of the State or Individuals. . . ?","authors":"Mauricio Cuartas-Arias","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5924","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial.","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"6-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/af/dc/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-6.PMC9529282.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33506540","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}
José L Hernández-Torres, Raquel A Benavides-Torres, María G Moreno-Monsiváis, Nancy Rodríguez-Vázquez, Roxana Martínez-Cervantes, Adriana M Cárdenas-Cortés
{"title":"Use of Smartphones to Increase Safe Sexual Behavior in Youths at Risk for HIV.","authors":"José L Hernández-Torres, Raquel A Benavides-Torres, María G Moreno-Monsiváis, Nancy Rodríguez-Vázquez, Roxana Martínez-Cervantes, Adriana M Cárdenas-Cortés","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5329","DOIUrl":"10.21500/20112084.5329","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Mexico, young people continue to experience problems due to a lack of correct and consistent condom use during sexual intercourse.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>to evaluate the effect of a randomized controlled clinical trial with the use of smartphones to increase safe sex intentions and safe sexual behavior.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>experimental design with two treatment groups with 177 young people who requested the rapid HIV test in a non-governmental organization in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. The experimental group was given Respect M-Health with the use of mobile devices; the control group was given similar counseling without the use of mobile technology and 8 pencil and paper instruments were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>the effect of the experimental group was greater in safe sexual behavior reflected in the means at pre-test M=64.80 (SD=1.86), post-test M=85.33 (SD=1.54), and at 30 days M=87.40 (SD=1.52), and in the safe sex intentions factor at pre-test M=78.50 (SD=3.07), post-test M=94.70 (SD=2.46), and at 30 days M=95.74 (SD=2.29).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Smartphone use was an effective tool as a support to increase safe sexual behavior in youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"30-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c5/d6/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-30.PMC9529286.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33489315","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}
Andreia Valquaresma, Joaquim Luís Coimbra, Patrício Costa
{"title":"Creative Self-Efficacy Scale for Children and Adolescents (CASES): A Development and Validation Study.","authors":"Andreia Valquaresma, Joaquim Luís Coimbra, Patrício Costa","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5410","DOIUrl":"10.21500/20112084.5410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Creative self-efficacy has emerged as one of the most striking constructs in education. Yet, instruments to assess it in children and adolescents are scant. This article introduces the CASES, a new creative self-efficacy scale designed to address this concern. The process of development and initial validation of the scale are presented herein. Following the items' conception, exploratory, and confirmatory factorial analysis was performed. The final structure comprises nine items, evenly distributed by three factors: fluency, elaboration, and personality. Preliminary reliability and validity analysis display good psychometric properties, highlighting CASES as a potentially relevant addition to the creative self-efficacy assessment instruments array. Designed for children and adolescents (ages 3 to 16), it can uphold a developmental approach of creative self-efficacy, with potential implications within educational settings. Thus, it might be of interest for parents, educators, educational psychologists, researchers, and policymakers involved in designing curricula and interventions to nurture and enhance creative potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"55-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/68/57/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-55.PMC9529283.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33489314","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}
Ana María Arias-Monsalve, Samuel Arias-Valencia, Diana Carolina Rubio-León, Daniel-Camilo Aguirre-Acevedo, Lisbeth Re Tifo Re Tifo, Jesús Andrés Estrada Cortes, Yenny Vicky Paredes Arturo
{"title":"Factors Associated with Happiness in Rural Older Adults: An Exploratory Study.","authors":"Ana María Arias-Monsalve, Samuel Arias-Valencia, Diana Carolina Rubio-León, Daniel-Camilo Aguirre-Acevedo, Lisbeth Re Tifo Re Tifo, Jesús Andrés Estrada Cortes, Yenny Vicky Paredes Arturo","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5910","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Aging is a phenomenon that has increased worldwide as a result of a higher life expectancy, evidencing situations typical of this stage, which can impact the happiness of individuals, who deserve attention and approach from mental health and public health.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>to explore the association between sociodemographic characteristics, medical history and symptoms, emotional state, social support, cognitive performance, and functional dependence, in relation to happiness in older adults in a rural area of Túquerres, Nariño.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>cross-sectional study of association. Results: There were 252 records in total, corresponding to the data of rural older adults. A multivariate linear regression was performed, finding an association with happiness in the variables of age (<i>β</i>a = <i>.</i>41; CI95% .09 - .73), socioeconomic level (<i>β</i>a = -.22; CI95% -.58 - .13), education level (<i>β</i>a = <i>.</i>41; CI95% <i>.</i>68 - 1.49), occupation (<i>β</i>a = <i>.</i>59; CI95% -.48 - 1.67), having chronic disease (<i>β</i>a = <i>.</i>42; CI95% .12 - .73), breathing difficulties (<i>β</i>a = -.25; CI95% -.51 - .02), joint pain (<i>β</i>a = <i>.</i>55; CI95% .26 - .83), depression symptoms (<i>β</i>a = -.21; CI95% -.48 - .06]) or anxiety (<i>β</i>a = <i>.</i>40; CI95% .72 - .07), and social support (<i>β</i>a = -.27; CI95% -.52 - -.02).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>this population has unfavorable socioeconomic and health conditions that impact their perception of happiness. Conclusion: happiness is a multicausal phenomenon that in older adults is part of the result of the interaction of variables and historical decisions at a political, economic, and social level.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"70-83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/8f/9d/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-70.PMC9529288.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33489313","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}
Carolina M Vecchio-Camargo, Sandra Rodríguez-A, Edith Aristizabal-Diazgranados
{"title":"Social Stigma: A Systematic Review of Cognitive Insights from Behavioral Economics (1940-2019).","authors":"Carolina M Vecchio-Camargo, Sandra Rodríguez-A, Edith Aristizabal-Diazgranados","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5434","DOIUrl":"10.21500/20112084.5434","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are minority and stigmatized groups who face particular challenges to their full participation in society. This study's objective was to conduct a systematic review to determine theoretical and methodological underpinnings in behavioral economics that explain how stigmatization emerges within the relationship processes and social structures of individuals. Data from 1940 to 2019 were sourced from 12 relevant electronic databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. Following PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews, 26 studies out of 3459 met the inclusion criteria. Most of the studies applied experimental economics and were published between 2002 and 2018. Overall, the articles focus their research on the experiences of discrimination based on stereotypes and test their hypotheses through economic games. The data synthesis seems to reveal weak conceptual clarity, circular reasoning, and a hint of the problem of infinite regress. Thus, these issues open new and exciting avenues for future research to explore via an array of experimental applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"98-125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/34/0f/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-98.PMC9529287.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33506541","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 Alejandra Manrique-Ruiz Tapia, Maria Paula Macías-López, Debby Zamara Murcia-Casas, Geraldine Lozada Ramírez, Karen Torres Barreto, Leidy Carolina Bohórquez Torres, Fernando Riveros Munevar, Paulo Sergio Dillon Soares-Filho
{"title":"Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Electronic Cigarette Dependence Index (ECDI) in a Colombian Sample.","authors":"Maria Alejandra Manrique-Ruiz Tapia, Maria Paula Macías-López, Debby Zamara Murcia-Casas, Geraldine Lozada Ramírez, Karen Torres Barreto, Leidy Carolina Bohórquez Torres, Fernando Riveros Munevar, Paulo Sergio Dillon Soares-Filho","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5297","DOIUrl":"10.21500/20112084.5297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Electronic cigarettes had become a public health concern, generating the need of having standardized instruments to evaluate the consequences of their use.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The goal of this study was to adapt and evaluate the validity and reliability of the Electronic Cigarette Dependence Index (ECDI) to a Colombian sample.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In this instrumental quantitative research, the instrument was adapted to the Spanish language, evaluated by expert judges and contested by 128 adult regular electronic cigarettes users.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results suggest a single factor structure with reliable goodness of fit measures and values of internal consistency between acceptable and adequate.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These results suggest the ECDI as a valid and reliable index to be used in Colombian samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"20-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/22/9d/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-20.PMC9529285.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33506542","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":"Assessment in Schizotypy: A Systematic Review Towards Clinical and Personality Models.","authors":"Cristhian Javier Rivera Tapia","doi":"10.21500/20112084.5292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>research carried out regarding the psychological concept of schizotypy responds to a field of extensive development since its conceptualization decades ago, which includes schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). However, controversies still persist marked by the difficulty of establishing definitive consensus.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>the research purpose aimed to synthesize the empirical evidence involved in the use of various methodologies and tools for understanding schizotypy.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>A systematic review was carried out in the following databases: Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, Science Direct, Google Scholar, and PsycNet. By using the PRISMA guidelines, 65 studies published in the last decade (2010-2020) were discriminated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The synthesis of cumulative knowledge made it possible to define schizotypy as an integrating multidimensional construct and to identify valid assessment tools in use, in its psychometric, clinical, and personality characterizations.</p><p><strong>Discussion/conclusions: </strong>Clinical implications found in these reports are addressed, as well as notions of the continuum of psychoses, taxonomic, and multidimensional models.</p>","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"84-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/fd/20/2011-2084-ijpr-15-01-84.PMC9529290.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33506539","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":"Integrating Etic and Emic Approaches in Psychological Research","authors":"I. R. Edara","doi":"10.30564/jpr.v3i4.4082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jpr.v3i4.4082","url":null,"abstract":"Amid an ever-expanding embrace of globalization,there is also a growing emphasis on understanding humanpsychology in a specific local context. Moberg cautionedthat any attempts to ignore particularities while favoringglobalization or universalim in psychology might notonly be unrealistic but probably dangerous [1]. To conductrealistic psychology research, it is necessary to integrateboth etic and emic approaches. The etic approach refersto global and universal aspects, while the emic approachrefers to subjective and contextualized aspects of humanpsychological functioning [2].","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80013845","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":"Literature Review of Measurements of Personality Traits across Cultures","authors":"Kexin Jiang","doi":"10.30564/jpr.v3i4.3838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jpr.v3i4.3838","url":null,"abstract":"After more than one century’s exploration from academia, both researches and measurements related to human personality traits have been fully developed with the effort of many researchers. Big Five, as one of the most popular assessments for personality traits, was formed based on the etic approach assuming there should be a universal or generalizable measurement for personality traits across cultures. However, with the increasing impact from different cultures as well as in-depth understanding from researchers, more doubts of etic approach on measuring personality were proposed. Emic approach stressing the significance of specific-cultural method in anthropological research has been accordingly investigated. The following Big Six and Big Seven scales were constructed under this approach. These measurements were already examined to have higher validity and reliability on measuring personality traits when implementing in the relevant group of people. Therefore, this study was supposed to give a literature review summarizing the definition process towards personality traits, the specific content and development of the mentioned measurements using etic and emic approach, the measurement issues based on the relevant researches, and some further considerations for etic and emic approach in assessing personality traits","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83713705","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":"Strokes of Strength: An Expressive Arts-based Intervention with Adolescents","authors":"Khwaish Sharma, Priti S. Dhawan","doi":"10.30564/jpr.v3i4.3585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jpr.v3i4.3585","url":null,"abstract":"In order to explore how adolescents who have been affected by traumaticexperiences would respond to an expressive arts-based intervention, amodule was designed, implemented and its effect on certain behavioraland emotional constructs was evaluated. The sample included 10 femaleadolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 who underwent a 2-month longgroup expressive arts therapy in their institutional home, namely, PrayasJuveline Aid Centre, New Delhi, India. The tools which were used toassess the changes in the pre – post intervention scores in self – reportedbehavioral and emotional difficulties were: The Youth Self Report Form(YSR Form 11-18, CBCL; ASEBA, 2001) and the ‘Severity of Post –Traumatic Stress Scale’ (NSESSS; APA, 2013). The tools used to assessthe changes in the pre – post intervention ratings of the caregiver were,the ‘DSM – 5 Parent / Guardian Rated Level 1 Cross Cutting SymptomMeasure’ (APA, 2013) and the ‘Caregiver’s Observation Checklist:Children at – risk’ (WCCL, 2013). The results revealed that 4-weekexpressive arts -based intervention elicited a statistically significantdifference in the self – reported behavioural and emotional difficultiesby the participants. The verbatim reports, diary excerpts and paintings ofthe participants were qualitatively analysed. In future, there is room toinvestigate how an intervention with a longer duration and a representativesample would explain the effectiveness of expressive – arts-based therapywith such populations.","PeriodicalId":46542,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychological Research","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80997371","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}