Anales de psicología Vol. 39, Nº 3 (2023)

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    Trait emotional intelligence as buffer of mood of inservice and preservice teachers of preschool and elementary education during the impact of COVID-19
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Martínez Saura, Helena Fuensanta; Sánchez-López, María Cristina; Pérez-González, Juan Carlos
    Background: Trait Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a personal characteristic that can act as a buffer factor against vital challenging circumstances and be a predictor of mood in a variety of natural situations such as those derived from the social context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The general aim of this research was to study the relationship between trait EI and teacher moods during confinement. Method: The study included 478 participants, 316 Preschool teachers and Elementary teachers from public centers in the Region of Murcia and 162 university students of Preschool and Elementary education degrees. The instrument used to assess trait EI was the TEIQue-SF; to assess the moods experienced during the impact of COVID-19, a short version of the POMS was used.Results: Teachers with high trait EI were perceived to be more energized and kinder, as well as less nervous, moody, sad and tired, just the opposite pattern of teachers with a low trait EI profile. In addition, female teachers obtained higher scores in negative mood states. Conclusions: Although the study is correla-tional, the results support the idea of trait EI as a protective factor against stress, which reinforces its role as a promoter of teacher well-being.
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    Is it quality, is it redundancy, or is model inadequacy? Some strategies for judging the appropriateness of high discrimination items
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Ferrando, Pere J.; Morales-Vives, Fabia
    When developing new questionnaires, it is traditionally assumed that the items should be as discriminative as possible, as if this was always indicative of their quality. However, in some cases these high discriminations may be masking some problems such as redundancies, shared residuals, biased distributions, or model limitations which may contribute to inflate the discrimination estimates. Therefore, the inspection of these indices may lead to erroneous decisions about which items to keep or eliminate. Toillustrate this problem, two different scenarios with real data are described. The first focuses on a questionnaire that contains an item apparently highly discriminant, but redundant. The second focuses on a clinical questionnaire administered to a community sample, which gives place to highly right-skewed item response distributions and inflated discriminant indices, despite the items do not discriminate well among the majority of participants. We propose some strategies and checks to identify these situations, so that the items that are inappropriate may be identified and removed. Therefore, this article seeks to promote a critical attitude, which may involve going against routine stablished principles when they are not appropriate
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    A thematic study of creativity research in Spain within the social sciences and psychology
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) De-Marchis, Giorgio P.; Shchebetenko, Sergei
    Creativity is becoming one necessary human skill in a world where robots increasingly outperform people in daily routines. In order to efficiently develop creativity as a research field, scholars need to know where they are. We employed a bibliometric approach to study themes and characteristics of creativity research in Spain.The results indicated that publication production in the field has been growing during the last decades. Compared to psychology, creativity in the social sciences seemed to be an undercited, local,and endogamic area. For social sciences, motor themes in the last decade were a) creativity in children and students in the educational environment, b) innovation and knowledge creation in a work-ing environment, and c) cities and creativity. The motor themes in psychology were a) individual characteristics for generating insights (e.g., skills, improvisation, executive functions) and b) emotional intelligence. We suggest some themes for future research, such as creative collaboration in virtual environments, value co-creation, and how machines can help humans boost their creativity
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    Quality of life in adolescents. A longitudinal study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Morales-Ortiz, Javier; Muñoz-Martínez, Sandra; Martínez-Sánchez, Ainhoa; López-García, Juan José
    Several studies have reported that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescents has decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, HRQoL was analyzed in young people aged 13 to 17 years after the end of the pandemic. For this purpose, we followed up at three different points in time: before the pandemic (2019), during (2021) and after the pandemic restrictions (2022).A time-lag design in three phases was used, with a total of 2027 adolescents completing the Kidscreen-10 HRQoL questionnaire. ANOVA and logistic regression models were used to analyze the influence of gender, playing sports and mental health treatment.The results obtained showed a worsening of HRQoL in 2021, when young people returned to school on a blended learning basis.This worsen-ing occurred regardless of gender. In 2022, once all restrictions were removed, boys recovered health-related quality of life to pre-pandemic levels, but this did not occur in girls. The same happened with young people in mental health treatment. In all cases, doing sports was shown to be a protective factor for HRQo
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    A qualitative study on emotional labor and work-family conflictin caregivers working in nursing homes
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Andrade, Cláudia; Neves, Paula C.
    Despite evidence suggesting that care work involves the performance of emotional labor an experience of work-family conflict, the relation of these two work experiences remain under-examined. The present study aims to fill this gap by exploring the experiences of performing emotional labor and work-family conflict and their links among caregivers working in nursing homes. To address the research question, we used semi-structured interviews with a sample of 24 female caregivers working full-time in nursing homes in the center and north of Portugal. The results revealed the presence of emotional labor, work-family conflict, and an im-pact of emotional labor in strain-based work-family conflict. Overall, the results suggested that emotional labor has effects on work-family conflict, pointing to the need that directors of elderly care institutions should con-sider ways of reducing these harmful effects on workers