33 results match your criteria: "Evaluation and Clinical Psychology[Affiliation]"

Background: Good subjective wellbeing (SWB) is a key societal aspiration. The study of SWB determinants is of increasing interest. The present study aimed to examine national inequalities in SWB, and trends in these inequalities, for England across five demographic (sex and age) and socio-economic (educational level, household income and living alone) characteristics.

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  • The study investigates the psychological effects of risk-reducing mastectomy in women at high risk for breast cancer, revealing significant anxiety and depression levels along with body image issues post-surgery.
  • 88 participants, either BRCA1/2 mutation carriers or previous cancer patients, filled out various scales assessing anxiety, depression, body image, and quality of life both before and after surgery.
  • Results indicate deterioration in mental health and quality of life immediately after the procedure, despite an improved outlook on future health, highlighting the need for psychological support during the surgical process.
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Background: Despite the availability of effective antidepressant strategies, numerous people with depressive disorders remain untreated. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected healthcare services, especially the mental health sector. This study aims to explore the coverage of depression treatments in the general Spanish population and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Increasing evidence points out that Executive Functions (i.e., EFs) may be core mechanisms for the generation of resilient responses to adversity.

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Protective factors against the emotional impact of the pandemic in adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID).

Sci Rep

February 2024

Department of Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Rector Royo Villanova s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain.

The pandemic has had very negative effects on the mental health of the population, especially in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID). We analyzed whether social communication, quality of life, and anxiety explain changes in the emotional impact of the pandemic in 60 adults with ASD and ID. Correlations between the study variables were analyzed and subsequently a multiple regression analysis was performed.

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Sex differences in the symptom network structure of depression: Findings from a nationwide sample of the Spanish adult population.

J Affect Disord

November 2023

Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS Princesa, Spain; Department of Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Background: Sex differences in the prevalence and clinical features of depression have been widely described. However, some authors argue that categorical diagnostic systems do not adequately capture the complexity of depression. The aim of this study was to examine sex differences in the symptom network structure of depressive symptoms among individuals with a major depressive episode.

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Correlates and trajectories of loneliness among community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Canadian longitudinal study.

Arch Gerontol Geriatr

December 2023

Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM), CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address:

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity to examine the contributions of social interaction and other non-social factors to loneliness among older adults in the context of confinement measures constraining opportunities for in-person social interactions. This study aims to identify groups of individuals with heterogeneous trajectories of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore the sociodemographic, health, psychological and social interaction-related factors associated with these trajectories. In this 12-month longitudinal study, 614 community-dwelling individuals aged 60+ years completed telephone-based interviews on four occasions between May 2020 and May 2021.

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Background: Individuals experiencing homelessness (IEHs) suffer from severe health inequities. Place of origin is linked to health and mortality of IEHs. In the general population the "healthy immigrant effect" provides a health advantage to foreign-born people.

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We aimed to explore the distribution of positive and negative emotions across nine low-, middle- and high-income countries; and the association between social factors and these emotions. Data were drawn from the SAGE and the COURAGE studies, with 52,553 participants. Emotions were assessed through the day reconstruction method.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Quarantine on Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Disability: A Longitudinal Study.

J Autism Dev Disord

January 2024

Department of Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Rector Royo Villanova s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain.

The impact of the pandemic is being very significant psychologically, especially for people who were already vulnerable in these aspects, such as adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Intellectual Disability (ID). A longitudinal analysis of motor aspects such as balance and gait, executive functions in daily life, severity of symptoms characteristic of autism, and degree of subjective well-being was performed in 53 adults with ASD and ID. A repeated measures ANOVA was performed and three measures were taken, the first in December 2019, the second in March 2020, and the last in July 2020.

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The mediating role of controllability appraisals and coping strategies on adaptive functioning after job loss: a path model.

Sci Rep

September 2022

Department of Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Somosaguas Campus, 28223, Madrid, Spain.

Article Synopsis
  • Job loss significantly increases the risk of depression and anxiety, especially in the first few months of unemployment.
  • A study found that recently unemployed individuals feel less in control and resilient, leading to higher depression and anxiety compared to those who are employed.
  • The research highlights that perceptions of controllability and coping strategies are crucial for maintaining psychological well-being after losing a job.
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People over 65 Years Old in Social Isolation: Description of an Effective Community Intervention in the City of Madrid (Spain).

Int J Environ Res Public Health

February 2022

School of Psychology, Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Ctra. de Húmera, s/n, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain.

Loneliness and social isolation in the elderly population can be shown to be a significant independent risk factor for several conditions, such as poor health behaviours, physical health problems and psychiatric conditions. Although, in the last 20 years, several interventions have been developed to reduce the impact of social isolation and loneliness on the health of older people. However, only a small proportion of these interventions are effective.

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Repetitive Negative Thinking Processes Account for Gender Differences in Depression and Anxiety During Adolescence.

Int J Cogn Ther

February 2022

Department of Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Somosaguas Campus 28223, Madrid, Spain.

Unlabelled: Rumination and worry are vulnerability factors involved in the early development of depression and anxiety during adolescence, particularly in girls. Current views conceptualize rumination and worry as transdiagnostic forms of repetitive negative thinking (RNT). However, most of research has analyzed them separately, without considering gender differences.

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Attachment theory is considered an important theoretical framework for understanding the ontogenesis of psychopathology. In this regard, insecure attachment styles have been associated with the development and maintenance of paranoid and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, different psychological processes (i.

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Psychopathology networks consist of aspects (e.g., symptoms) of mental disorders (nodes) and the connections between those aspects (edges).

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Late-life depression has multiple, heterogeneous clinical presentations. The aim of the study was to identify higher-order homogeneous clinical features (symptom complexes), while accounting for their potential causal interactions within the network approach to psychopathology. We analyzed cross-sectional data from community-dwelling adults aged 65-85 years recruited by the European MentDis_ICF65+ study (n = 2623, mean age 74, 49% females).

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The Role of the Sense of Belonging During the Alarm Situation and Return to the New Normality of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) in Spain.

Psychol Stud (Mysore)

July 2021

Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

In this study we intend to understand the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the subsequent stay-at-home orders, on the Spanish population's sense of belonging at three moments in time: at the beginning of the lockdown, after one month of lockdown and with the return to the "new normality". A cross-sectional study was conducted through an online survey (N = 3480; N = 1041; N = 569). The sense of belonging was evaluated by means of four Likert-type items.

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Does perceptual grouping improve visuospatial working memory? Optimized processing or encoding bias.

Psychol Res

June 2022

Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, C/Juan del Rosal, 10, 28040, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Visual working memory has been defined as a system of limited capacity that enables the maintenance and manipulation of visual information. However, some perceptual features like Gestalt grouping could improve visual working memory effectiveness. In two different experiments, we aimed to explore how the presence of elements grouped by color similarity affects the change detection performance of both, grouped and non-grouped items.

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COVID-19 disease control efforts and consequences are likely to be complicated by the impact of fear and stigmatization of the novel coronavirus. These complications may also worsen due to the potential compounding of COVID-19 related stigma with stigmatization associated with previously diagnosed conditions. This exploratory study analyzes the experiences of the stigma associated with COVID-19 lockdown in people with different previous diagnoses 2 and 5 weeks after the beginning of the state of emergency in Spain.

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Mental health consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain. A longitudinal study of the alarm situation and return to the new normality.

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry

April 2021

Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of Psychology, Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Aims: The objective is to conduct a longitudinal analysis of the effects of the pandemic and alarm situation on the mental health of the general population at three points in time: two weeks after beginning the confinement, after a month, and after two months, when the lockdown was lifted and the country returned to the new normality.

Methods: The evaluations were carried out by means of an online survey, with a sample of 3480 persons in the first data collection and 1041 and 569 persons in the successive evaluation periods. The presence of depressive symptoms, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was evaluated by means of screening tests.

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Evolution of intersectional perceived discrimination and internalized stigma during COVID-19 lockdown among the general population in Spain.

Int J Soc Psychiatry

February 2022

Chair Against Stigma Grupo 5-Complutense University of Madrid, School of Psychology, Personality, Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Background: Stigma and discrimination have been associated with different diseases and pandemics, with negative consequences for the people who suffered them and for their communities. Currently, COVID-19 has become a new source of stigmatization.

Aims: The aim of the present study is to analyze longitudinally the evolution of intersectional perceived discrimination and internalized stigma among the general population of Spain, at three points in time throughout the confinement.

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A Network Analysis of Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms and Age- and Gender-Related Differences in People over 65 in a Madrid Community Sample (Spain).

Int J Environ Res Public Health

December 2020

Evaluation and Clinical Psychology Department, Campus de Somosaguas, School of Psychology, Personality, Complutense University of Madrid, Ctra. de Húmera, s/n, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent conditions among mental disorders in individuals over 65 years. People over 65 who suffer from MDD are often functionally impaired, chronically physically ill, and express cognitive problems. The concordance between a clinician-assessed MDD diagnosis in a primary care setting and MDD assessed with a structured clinical interview in older adults is only approximately 18%.

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