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Vanesa C. Góngora

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Assessing the measurement invariance of a Latin-American Spanish translation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 in Mexican, Argentinean, and Colombian …

2020

In order to advance in the study of positive body image among different cultures, it is important to create culturally appropriate measures. We examined the psychometric properties of a Latin-American Spanish translation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2; Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015a), specifically assessing measurement invariance using a large sample of 3845 male and female adolescents from Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia. Participants completed the BAS-2, Eating Disorder Inventory-2, Male Body Attitude Scale and the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-3. The BAS-2 had a unidimensional factor structure in each of the three samples. We confirmed the structural, met…

Cross-Cultural ComparisonMale050103 clinical psychologyPositive body imageLatin AmericansSocial PsychologyAdolescentPsychometricsArgentinaValidity050109 social psychologySample (statistics)Attitude scaleColombiaDevelopmental psychologySex Factorsparasitic diseasesBody ImageHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesMeasurement invarianceSociocultural evolutionMexicoGeneral PsychologyApplied Psychology05 social sciencesReproducibility of ResultsC800 PsychologyScale (social sciences)FemalePsychologyBody image
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Validación del SCL-27 en población general y en población clínica argentina

2021

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar la adecuación del uso de la escala SCL-27 (Sympton Checklist-27) en población general y población clínica argentina y su comparación con el SCL-90R. Se utilizaron una muestra intencional de 400 personas de población general y una muestra de 85 pacientes en tratamiento psicológico ambulatorio. Se administraron el SCL-27, la escala Mental Health Continuum- Short Form, la escala de depresión CES-D, la escala de síntomas somáticos de Schaffer y la escala de Satisfacción con la vida. Los resultados indicaron que el SCL-27 muestra una altísima correlación en todas sus dimensiones con la escala original SCL-90-R. Presentó una alta validez convergente con med…

Correlationeducation.field_of_studyConvergent validityScale (ratio)Depression scaleGeneral Chemical EngineeringPopulationPsychologyeducationMental healthDepression (differential diagnoses)Psychological treatmentClinical psychologyPsicodebate
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Valores personales y autoestima en población general y clínica

2008

The aim of this study is to investigate the association between personal values and self-esteem in general population and clinical population. The sample was composed of a group of patients with a diagnosis of anxiety disorders and/or depression (n = 60) and a comparison group, paired by sex and age, of general population (n = 60). The Portrait Values Questionnaire of Schwartz (PVQ) and the Autoe Self-esteem Scale were used. T-tests were performed to compare the scores of both instruments between the two groups. The clinical sample scored significantly lower in Self-esteem, Self- direction, Hedonism, and Openness to Change. For this reason, Pearson correlations were calculated in differenti…

education.field_of_studyGeneral Chemical EngineeringPopulationmedicineAnxietymedicine.symptomeducationPsychologyhumanitiesClinical psychologyDevelopmental psychologyPsicodebate
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Validation of an index of well-being for adolescent and adult population of the city of Buenos Aires

2015

El objetivo de este estudio es la construccion y validacion de un cuestionario breve y de facil administracion para evaluar en forma conjunta el bienestar hedonico y el bienestar eudaemonico en pobla-cion adulta y adolescente de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. La muestra estuvo conformada por 299 adultos y 250 adolescentes de ambos sexos. Se utilizaron el Indice de Bienestar, el Cuestionario de Significadode la Vida, la Escala de Satisfaccion con la Vida, el Indice de Bienestar Personal de Cummins y la Escala de Tres Rutas de Acceso al Bienestar. Los analisis factoriales -exploratorio y confirmatorio-indicaron un buen ajuste de todos los items en un unico factor para ambas muestras. La fiabilida…

General MedicinePSIENCIA. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencia Psicológica
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