Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology Research

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Andrómeda Ivette Valencia Ortiz — 2024-01-05

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Andromeda Valencia Ortiz — 2024-01-05

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Andromeda Valencia Ortiz — 2024-01-05

Effectiveness of the Unified Protocol on symptoms of anxiety and depression in Mexican adults.

Horacio Balam Álvarez - García — 2024-01-05

Emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression, represent a public health problem worldwide due to the impact they have on the quality of life of the people who suffer from it. Clinical psychology began to develop various interventions for the specific treatment of each of them. However, research and clinical practice have shown the practical limitations that this entails. Due to this, various research groups began to develop transdiagnostic interventions such as the Unified Protocol (UP) to overcome these limitations. Objective: This article reports the effectiveness of the PU in face-to-face mode in users of a civil association (n=3) who presented symptoms of anxiety and depression. Method: An intrasubject design was carried out with pre and post treatment measurements and visual inspection. The instruments used were the PHQ-9, GAD-7, DERS-E, ODIS and OASIS. An analysis was performed through the objective clinical change (OCC). Results: a decrease in the scores was observed in the three participants in the PHQ-9, GAD-7, DERS-E, which was compared with the downward trend in the ODSIS and OASIS scores. Conclusion: the intervention was clinically significant for the participants and evidenced the flexibility in the application of the PU, however, the main limitations were the size of the sample, the lack of instruments that measure aspects of personality, a dimension that has been used in other research as an indicator of change and a follow-up evaluation.

Relationship between parenting styles and socio-emotional skills in childhood: Documented review

Vanessa Velasco-Rauda — 2024-01-05

Knowing which of the parenting styles favors the development of different socio-emotional skills was the objective of this document. A bibliographic research was carried out in order to identify the theoretical advances around the subject of parenting styles, socio-emotional skills and the relationship between these variables. Results: It was found that the democratic style is the one that allows greater development of socio-emotional skills due to the assertive communication that exists in the family, compliance with the rules and the expression of emotions. The permissive style allows the development of a good level of self-esteem but hinders the development of social skills. The authoritarian exhibits behaviors of low self-esteem, low affectivity, while the negligent shows unstable behaviors in their relationships and has been associated with depression and emotional immaturity.

Reflections on Domestic Violence in Times of Pandemic

Nora Adilene Bello-González — 2024-01-05

The study of this article focused on domestic violence experienced by women in times of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which had as a measure the confinement and with them brought serious consequences, the theoretical analysis of the statistics was carried out, the impact of violence, risk factors, characteristics, types of violence, myths, realizing that there is a lot of information but little effectiveness in interventions to achieve sustainable progress in favor of those who experience gender violence.

Third Generation Therapies in the treatment of Grief

Tania N. García-Lozano — 2024-01-05

In the face of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the number of deaths has grown considerably, the new conditions in which the declines are occurring have led to a complication and aggravation of the grief that requires the review of the most recent proposals before the intervention of the same . Third Generation Therapies (TTG) emerge as an alternative in the treatment of psychological problems that are based on the creation of evidence-based interventions, regarding the process of mourning, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness (My) have yielded better results in the face of this problem, by directing their objective to make the experiences of suffering more flexible and tolerate, thereby achieving the acceptance of pain and reduction of avoidance, and assuming the process of experiencing pain as a fundamental part of the life, focusing on the present and highlighting values despite the loss.

Validation of the health belief model scale for generalized anxiety in Mexican adult of general population

Samantha Bernal-Avila — 2024-01-05

According to the literature review, there are theoretical models that explain the presence of anxiety in people. These explanations agree that beliefs regarding control and the perception of vulnerability to worry seem to play an important role in the onset and maintenance of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Perceiving oneself capable of modifying these concerns facilitates change and taking action in the face of worrying situations in everyday life. The Health Belief Model (HBM) has been one of the most widely used conceptual frameworks to explain the change and maintenance of behaviors related to different health situations and to develop scales that allow identifying beliefs related to the problem in question, however , there are no scales based on this model for generalized anxiety, so the purpose of this research was the construction and validation of a scale with these characteristics. The construction of the items was carried out based on the dimensions that make up the HBM and subsequently validation by judges was carried out. Scales of anxiety, depression, life satisfaction, and self-efficacy were applied to establish the convergent and discriminant validity of the scale. Finally, an Exploratory Factor Analysis was carried out, from which 24 Likert-type scale items were obtained that were grouped into 5 dimensions, explaining 58.6% of the total variance and with a total Cronbach's alpha of .803.