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Unveiling the Secrets of Female Sexual Satisfaction: Exploring Multidimensional Patterns of Sexual Behavior in Young and Middle-Aged Women through Cluster Analysis. 揭示女性性满足的秘密：通过聚类分析探索中青年女性性行为的多维模式。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.10

Adelaida I Ogallar-Blanco, Raquel Lara-Moreno, Débora Godoy-Izquierdo

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Transformational and Abusive Leaders and Their Influence on Employee Physical Ill-being: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study Exploring Negative Motivational-Affective Mechanisms. 变革型领导和虐待型领导及其对员工身体不适的影响：一项探索消极动机-情感机制的多层次纵向研究。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.5

Erasmus K Swanzy, David Leiva, Rita G Berger

{"title":"Transformational and Abusive Leaders and Their Influence on Employee Physical Ill-being: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study Exploring Negative Motivational-Affective Mechanisms.","authors":"Erasmus K Swanzy, David Leiva, Rita G Berger","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2025.5","url":null,"abstract":"While research on leadership and employee physical ill-being is burgeoning, the short- and long-term mechanisms through which leadership influences employee physical ill-being remain underexplored. This research, grounded in leadership theories and the Job Demand-Resource (JD-R) theory, examines how transformational and abusive leadership behaviors influence employee physical ill-being through two conflict-related negative motivational mechanisms (negative work-home interactions and job role conflict) and two negative affective mechanisms representing short-term (negative affect) and long-term (burnout) mechanisms. Employing a three-wave longitudinal design over 6 months (N = 234), our findings from a multilevel path analysis revealed that transformational and abusive leadership had respectful, negative and positive effects on employee physical ill-being via conflict-related negative motivational mechanisms and short- and long-term affective mechanisms. Notably, the influence of leadership behaviors on employee physical ill-being was more pronounced through the short-term affective mechanism (negative affect) than the long-term affective mechanism (burnout). Our findings provide a nuanced understanding of how leadership behaviors affect employee physical ill-being over time, shedding light on the dynamic interplay of motivational and affective pathways in this relationship.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052909","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}

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Subclinically Depressed Individuals Showed Less Trust after a Night of Sleep Deprivation. 亚临床抑郁症患者在一夜睡眠不足后表现出更少的信任。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.11

Cheng Li, Yeuk Ching Lam, Janet Hui-Wen Hsiao, Lydia Ting Sum Yee, Jinxiao Zhang, Esther Yuet Ying Lau

{"title":"Subclinically Depressed Individuals Showed Less Trust after a Night of Sleep Deprivation.","authors":"Cheng Li, Yeuk Ching Lam, Janet Hui-Wen Hsiao, Lydia Ting Sum Yee, Jinxiao Zhang, Esther Yuet Ying Lau","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2025.11","url":null,"abstract":"Insufficient sleep's impact on cognitive and emotional function is well-documented, but its effects on social functioning remain understudied. This research investigates the influence of depressive symptoms on the relationship between sleep deprivation (SD) and social decision-making. Forty-two young adults were randomly assigned to either the SD or sleep control (SC) group. The SD group stayed awake in the laboratory, while the SC group had a normal night's sleep at home. During the subsequent morning, participants completed a Trust Game (TG) in which a higher monetary offer distributed by them indicated more trust toward their partners. They also completed an Ultimatum Game (UG) in which a higher acceptance rate indicated more rational decision-making. The results revealed that depressive symptoms significantly moderated the effect of SD on trust in the TG. However, there was no interaction between group and depressive symptoms found in predicting acceptance rates in the UG. This study demonstrates that individuals with higher levels of depressive symptoms display less trust after SD, highlighting the role of depressive symptoms in modulating the impact of SD on social decision-making. Future research should explore sleep-related interventions targeting the psychosocial dysfunctions of individuals with depression.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144034323","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}

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Three Years after the Pandemic: How has the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Evolved? A Longitudinal Study in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. 大流行三年后：儿童和青少年的心理健康如何演变？意大利、西班牙和葡萄牙的纵向研究。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.8

Víctor Amorós-Reche, Alexandra Morales, Rita Francisco, Elisa Delvecchio, Claudia Mazzeschi, Cristina Godinho, Marta Pedro, Jonatan Molina, Jose P Espada, Mireia Orgilés

{"title":"Three Years after the Pandemic: How has the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Evolved? A Longitudinal Study in Italy, Spain, and Portugal.","authors":"Víctor Amorós-Reche, Alexandra Morales, Rita Francisco, Elisa Delvecchio, Claudia Mazzeschi, Cristina Godinho, Marta Pedro, Jonatan Molina, Jose P Espada, Mireia Orgilés","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2025.8","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic significantly challenged the mental health of children and adolescents, with existing research highlighting the negative effects of restrictive measures to control the virus's spread. However, in the specific context of this pandemic, there is limited understanding of how these difficulties have persisted over time after the situation was fully restored. This study sought to evaluate the pandemic's impact on psychological symptoms in children from Italy, Spain, and Portugal across five-time points (2, 5, and 8 weeks, 6 months, and three and a half years after the pandemic's onset). A total of 1613 parents completed the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 and Confinement on Children and Adolescents Scale, reporting symptoms in their children aged 3-17 years (39.2% female). The findings reveal an initial surge in psychological difficulties-anxiety, mood, sleep, behavioral, eating, and cognitive disturbances-followed by improvements in these domains three and a half years later. By September 2023, Spanish children experienced more significant reductions in symptoms compared to their Italian and Portuguese peers. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a prolonged crisis, with varying impacts over time and across regions depending on the strictness of restrictions, the trends suggest a gradual improvement in the psychological well-being of children and adolescents.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143995728","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}

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Self-perceptions of Aging and Distress in Middle-aged and Older Adults. The Role of Perceived Control and Pleasant Activities. 中老年人对衰老和痛苦的自我认知。知觉控制与愉快活动的作用。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.9

Laura García-García, José Adrián Fernandes-Pires, María Márquez-González, María Del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Claudia Benito-Rincón, Luis Manuel Pérez-Cardona, Andrés Losada-Baltar

{"title":"Self-perceptions of Aging and Distress in Middle-aged and Older Adults. The Role of Perceived Control and Pleasant Activities.","authors":"Laura García-García, José Adrián Fernandes-Pires, María Márquez-González, María Del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Claudia Benito-Rincón, Luis Manuel Pérez-Cardona, Andrés Losada-Baltar","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.9","DOIUrl":"10.1017/SJP.2025.9","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have shown the importance of self-perceptions of aging in predicting psychological distress throughout the life cycle. However, little is known about the processes through which self-perceptions of aging influence distress. The aim of the present study is to analyze the potential indirect effects of perceived control and pleasant activities in the association between self-perceptions of aging and depression and anxiety symptoms in middle-aged and older adults. A total of 315 people over 40 years of age (Mage = 58.8; SD = 10.8; 67.9% women) participated. Two indirect effects analysis models were conducted in serial with the aim of analyzing the role of perceived control and pleasant activities in the relationship between the self-perceptions of aging and depressive (model 1) and anxiety (model 2) symptomatology. A direct effect was observed between self-perceptions of aging and depressive, and anxious symptomatology. In addition, indirect associations through the variables perceived control and pleasant activities were significant. The tested models explained 46.1% of the variance in depressive symptomatology and 34.8% of the variance in anxiety. The results of this study confirm the association between self-perceptions of aging and psychological distress. This association is exerted through lower perception of control and fewer pleasant activities. Interventions aimed at promoting effective coping strategies that favor perceived control, activity and emotional well-being should include a module on identifying and modifying of negative self-perceptions of aging in middle-aged and older adults.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804721","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}

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Prevalence and Differential Profiles of People with Adverse Childhood Experiences in Treatment for Substance use Disorder. 儿童不良经历人群在药物使用障碍治疗中的患病率和差异概况。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.6

Leire Leza, José J López-Goñi, Alfonso Arteaga, Javier Fernández-Montalvo

{"title":"Prevalence and Differential Profiles of People with Adverse Childhood Experiences in Treatment for Substance use Disorder.","authors":"Leire Leza, José J López-Goñi, Alfonso Arteaga, Javier Fernández-Montalvo","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.6","DOIUrl":"10.1017/SJP.2025.6","url":null,"abstract":"Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are prevalent in people with substance use disorder (SUD). The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of ACEs in a specific sample of people with SUD and to analyze the specific characteristics of these patients according to gender. The studied sample consisted of 215 people seeking treatment for SUD in two clinical centers in Spain. Descriptive and comparison analyses were carried out, and a logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify the main variables related to ACEs. The prevalence of at least one ACE was 82.3%. Women reported a higher prevalence of family mental health problems (p = .045; d = 0.14) and sexual abuse (p < .001; d = 0.43) than men. The group with ≥3 ACEs showed a higher severity profile for the addiction severity and psychopathological variables than the groups with 0 ACEs and 1-2 ACEs. Logistic regression showed that problems related to the group with ≥3 ACEs in the total sample were psychiatric and legal problems and lifetime suicidal ideation (in men, family/social problems and lifetime suicidal ideation; in women, employment/support problems). This study supports the high prevalence of ACEs in people with SUD and the cumulative effect of ACEs. In addition, gender is a relevant factor. The implementation of assessments and treatment for ACEs is necessary in SUD treatment programs.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797019","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}

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Behaviour Problems in Preschoolers with and without Prematurity. A Multi-Informant Longitudinal Study. 学龄前儿童与非早产儿的行为问题。一项多信息纵向研究。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.7

Eva María Padilla-Muñoz, Alejandra Pereira-Cerro, María Merced Barbancho-Morant, María Dolores Lanzarote-Fernández

{"title":"Behaviour Problems in Preschoolers with and without Prematurity. A Multi-Informant Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Eva María Padilla-Muñoz, Alejandra Pereira-Cerro, María Merced Barbancho-Morant, María Dolores Lanzarote-Fernández","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.7","DOIUrl":"10.1017/SJP.2025.7","url":null,"abstract":"Data on the behavioral development of preterm infants are inconclusive. The aim of this study was to explore behavioral development during preschool years, considering prematurity, measurement time, gender, and informant. This is a prospective longitudinal analytical observational study, with a sample of 98 parents and 98 teachers of children aged 4, 5, and 6 years with and without a history of prematurity, who were evaluated by the Child Behavior Checklist and Teacher's Report Form. Parents and teachers of the preschoolers report average scores on all behavioral scales. We observed variability according to degree of prematurity, age, and informant. Teachers detected more attention difficulties in the very preterm group (VPTG) than in the born-at-term group at 4 years. Parents and teachers coincided in detecting greater withdrawal in the moderate and late preterm group (MTPG) compared to the born-at-term group and an increase in difficulties with increasing age. The General Linear Model revealed that moderate prematurity, the age of 6 years, and parental report have a greater risk of behavioral difficulties. The need for follow-up also in moderate preterm infants is emphasized, especially at 6 years of age and with multi-informants.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797016","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}

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Goodness-of-fit Tests for Categorical Models of Psychological Processes: Fixing the Occasional Failures of Asymptotic Theory. 心理过程分类模型的拟合优度检验：修正渐近理论的偶尔失败。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.1

Miguel A García-Pérez, Rocío Alcalá-Quintana

{"title":"Goodness-of-fit Tests for Categorical Models of Psychological Processes: Fixing the Occasional Failures of Asymptotic Theory.","authors":"Miguel A García-Pérez, Rocío Alcalá-Quintana","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.1","DOIUrl":"10.1017/SJP.2025.1","url":null,"abstract":"The goodness of fit of categorical models of psychological processes is often assessed with the log-likelihood ratio statistic (G2), but its underlying asymptotic theory is known to have limited empirical validity. We use examples from the scenario of fitting psychometric functions to psychophysical discrimination data to show that two factors are responsible for occasional discrepancies between actual and asymptotic distributions of G2. One of them is the eventuality of very small expected counts, by which the number of degrees of freedom should be computed as (J-1) × I-P-K0.06, where J is the number of response categories in the task, I is the number of comparison levels, P is the number of free parameters in the fitted model, and K0.06 is the number of cells in the implied I × J table in which expected counts do not exceed 0.06. The second factor is the administration of small numbers ni of trials at each comparison level xi (1 ≤ i ≤ I). These numbers should not be ridiculously small (i.e., lower than 10) but they need not be identical across comparison levels. In practice, when ni varies across levels, it suffices that the overall number N of trials exceeds 40 × I if J = 2 or 50 × I if J = 3, with no ni lower than 10. Correcting the degrees of freedom and using large ni are easy to implement in practice. These precautions ensure the validity of goodness-of-fit tests based on G2.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544427","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}

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The Role of Organizational Justice in the Healthcare Context: How to Improve Job Performance through Horizontal Trust and the Resilience of Work Teams. 组织公正在医疗环境中的作用：如何通过横向信任和工作团队的弹性来提高工作绩效。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.2

Juana Olvera, Susana Llorens, Hedy Acosta-Antognoni, Marisa Salanova

{"title":"The Role of Organizational Justice in the Healthcare Context: How to Improve Job Performance through Horizontal Trust and the Resilience of Work Teams.","authors":"Juana Olvera, Susana Llorens, Hedy Acosta-Antognoni, Marisa Salanova","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.2","DOIUrl":"10.1017/SJP.2025.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the mediating role of horizontal trust and collective resilience in the relationship between organizational justice and job performance at the team level based on the HEalthy & Resilient Organizations Model (HERO) (Salanova et al., 2012). The sample consisted of 927 workers grouped into 100 work teams belonging to seven healthcare centers in Spain. The relationships among organizational justice, horizontal trust, collective resilience, and perceived job performance of work teams were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results revealed that the perceptions of justice and organizational trust positively impact job performance at the team level. Furthermore, the predictive role of horizontal trust in collective resilience was evidenced, with both variables mediating the relationship between the perception of justice and job performance of work teams. These findings underscore the significance of cultivating both horizontal trust and resilience in work teams, offering valuable insights for healthcare management and organizational psychology in highly complex environments such as healthcare organizations.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506125","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}

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The Dark Side of the Self: When Family is Highly Related to Mental Health Deterioration. 自我的阴暗面：当家庭与心理健康恶化高度相关。

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Spanish Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2025.3

Merjema Ertema, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Sosa, Oscar F Garcia, Maria Elena Villarreal-Gonzalez, Fernando Garcia

{"title":"The Dark Side of the Self: When Family is Highly Related to Mental Health Deterioration.","authors":"Merjema Ertema, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Sosa, Oscar F Garcia, Maria Elena Villarreal-Gonzalez, Fernando Garcia","doi":"10.1017/SJP.2025.3","DOIUrl":"10.1017/SJP.2025.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to empirically test whether family has a unique significance for the self that cannot be captured by the social self alone. Specifically, it examines whether family self-concept, compared to social self-concept, is more closely related to family-specific indicators (i.e., parent-child communication and family functioning) as well as to indicators of emotional maladjustment like mental health deterioration (i.e., psychological distress and depressive symptoms). The sample comprised 4,953 Mexican adolescents, including 2,551 men (51.5%) and 2,402 women, aged 14-17 years (M = 15.60, SD = 0.92). Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to evaluate the proposed big five-dimensional self-concept model. Cohen's d confidence intervals, derived from the shared variance of Pearson's r correlations, were analyzed to relate self-concept dimensions to parent-child communication, family functioning, and mental health deterioration. Results from factorial confirmatory analysis showed that the five-dimensional oblique model (i.e., academic, social, emotional, physical, and family, as different from social) provided a better fit than competing unidimensional and orthogonal models. Correlation analyses showed that family self-concept was significantly associated with both parent-child communication and family functioning, as well as with psychological distress (d = -1.10, confidence interval [CI] -1.21 to -1.02) and depressive symptoms (d = -1.24, CI -1.31 to -1.22). These findings add evidence that family is not accurately represented within the social self-concept. Furthermore, perceiving oneself as unloved and undervalued at home (i.e., low family self-concept) is strongly associated not only with dysfunctional family processes but also with mental health deterioration.","PeriodicalId":54309,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Psychology","volume":"28 ","pages":"e4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494839","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}

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