Santiago Yubero

University of Castilla-La Mancha · Departamento de Psicología

Drawing on social cognitive theory, three main research objectives have been addressed. In the first instance, we examined the relationship between parental proviolence attitudes and aggressive behaviour in preschool children. Secondly, we analysed the relationship between parental moral disengagement and aggressive behaviour in preschool children....

Introduction Preschool aggression, a significant concern, requires an in-depth examination beyond individual factors. This study explored the link between individual characteristics, immediate social environment variables, and the likelihood of preschoolers being nominated as aggressors or victims. The novelty of the study lies in its comprehensive...

Background: A growing body of research has shown that children behave aggressively from an early age. In recent decades, such behaviour has become a focus of scientific interest, not only because of the adverse consequences of these interactions, but also because high levels of aggression, especially at an early age, may be a risk factor for the u...

The aim of the study us to analyze the difference of bullying (traditional bullying and cyberbullying) in rural and urban contexts. A total of 1094 junior and senior high school students (62.5% from urban areas, 37.6% from rural areas) from the region of Castile-La Mancha (Spain) took part herein. The results showed a similar proportion of interven...

El acoso escolar es un grave problema social y para la salud de los menores, por lo que las escuelas deben implicarse desde el inicio de la escolarización en su prevención e intervención. Los álbumes ofrecen narrativas textuales y visuales que reflejan los comportamientos de acoso. La literatura infantil es un medio adecuado para conocer y reflexio...

Cyberbullying is a serious social and health problem for children. Cyberbullying behaviours occur among peers at school, affecting day-to-day life in the classroom, and are reported among students in the final years of primary education. This study analyses the relationships between social support from friends, socio-emotional competencies and cybe...

Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a common pathway to risky behaviour , violence or re-victimisation, disability, illness, and premature mortality and, as such, may be associated with victimisation and perpetration of dating violence not only in adolescence but also in adulthood. Method: A scoping review was performed in accordan...

Cyberbullying behaviours begin at primary school, so the actions taken by pre-teachers will play a key role in achieving the goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More specifically, active coping strategies are essential in reducing victimisation. The aim of this study was to identify the coping strategies considered effective by pr...

Numerous studies have analyzed the reading habits of university students, demonstrating the benefits of voluntary reading for academic performance. It is thus paradoxical that a large fraction of university students only read instrumentally and are far from adopting stable reading habits. This general situation is repeated among future professional...

Las experiencias de ocio son espacios de integración social. La investigación ha mostrado que el aislamiento es un factor relevante en los procesos de bullying. Si entendemos el bullying como un proceso interpersonal se han de ampliar los contextos de análisis más allá de las relaciones de aula, ampliándolo al estudio de las relaciones en los espac...

The young people of the 21st century have grown up in a sociocultural context marked by ICT, which has led to a transformation in both reading materials and ways of reading. This study aimed to analyze university students’ ways of reading when using both printed and digital support, and to establish a typology of readers based on the support they u...

Digital life forms part of daily reality for young people. For this reason, traditional bullying in school has been reproduced in the online environment, resulting in an overlap of off- and online bullying. Research on socio-emotional competencies and bullying is revealing interesting results among students in secondary schools. However, studies in...

El objetivo del estudio ha sido analizar las diferencias de bullying (tradicional y cyberbullying) en contextos rurales y urbanos. Ha participado un total de 2,162 estudiantes de 5º (52.7%) y 6º (47.3%) de Educación Primaria, un 49.3% en contexto urbano y 50.7% en contexto rural. Los resultados indican un porcentaje de intervención similar en coleg...

Los jóvenes del siglo XXI han crecido en un contexto sociocultural marcado por las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, en el que se ha producido una transformación en los materiales de lectura y en los modos de leer. El objetivo del estudio que aquí se presenta fue establecer una tipología de lectores basada en el soporte en el que rea...

Much research have outlined that traditional bullying and cyberbullying is linked to family characteristics, such as poor parent-children relationships, lack of parental emotional support, infrequent and poor parental monitoring, sibling warmth and family cohesion. Studies around the world has also highlight the important role that parents can play...

The present study is part of a large study analyzing the prevalence of ghosting and breadcrumbing in sample of Spanish adults aged between 18 and 40 years. The study was split into different papers to better organize and understand the data obtained. The present paper investigated the prevalence of ghosting and breadcrumbing and associations betwee...

Bullying is a frequently occurring problem behavior among youths. Some youth are persistently victimized across different school contexts. However, the impact of bullying experiences before and in university on well-being is relatively underexplored. Students who experienced victimization at both time points (before and at university) were classifi...

Purpose Previous research has documented a negative association between subjective well-being and different forms of victimization. The present study aims to examine differences in well-being among university student victims of cyber dating abuse and bullying after controlling for acceptance of dating violence. Design/methodology This a cross-sec...

Ghosting is a relationship dissolution strategy in which the ghoster elects to cease all forms of communication with their partner without explanation. The partner tends to be unaware that they are being ghosted. As a result, the ghosted partner is left to manage and understand what lack of his/her partner’s communication means. The present study w...

Previous research shows that classmates supporting victims' defence is fundamental to combat bullying. To find a suitable response for the bullying problem, we must bear in mind how all the victim's classmates respond and what variables can determine their helping behaviour. Moral disengagement has been demonstrated to be a factor that explains beh...

El bullying es un problema presente en la escuela, ampliándose a formas más novedosas como el cyberbullying. El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar la prevalencia de ambos fenómenos en los futuros maestros, identificando las variables género y titulación (infantil y primaria), y analizar la relación del comportamiento actual con la participaci...

Gender research on the role of technology use in dating abuse during adolescence has been focused in analyzing which gender is more involved in digital victimization and perpetration. Results from international research have shown mixed results and it is difficult to conclude that digital abuse is a gender-specific behavior in adolescents’ romantic...

The present study aimed to examine differences in three psychological constructs (satisfaction with life, loneliness, and helplessness) among adults experiencing ghosting and breadcrumbing. A sample of 626 adults (303 males and 323 females), aged from 18 to 40 years, completed an online survey asking to indicate whether someone they considered a da...

The present study examined the relations among poly-bullying victimization (experiencing multiple forms of peer bullying), resilience and subjective well-being. This study specifically examined late adolescents′ resilience as a moderator of the relation between poly-bullying victimization and subjective well-being. In a region of central Spain, 143...

La sociedad actual está definida por una profunda, acelerada y constante transformación. Las transformaciones metodológicas en el contexto universitario también han supuesto nuevas estrategias y planteamientos, en los que han tomado preponderancia las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (Gutiérrez et al., 2010). En España, la construcci...

Objectives Previous research has shown that children and youths in residential childcare are exposed to different aggressive behaviors, including peer violence. However, research that has analyzed prevalence of bullying and its relation with psychological distress in this vulnerable group is scarce. Our study was designed to extend previous resear...

The present study aimed to analyze the prevalence, and the differences in the fre quency and chronicity of cyber dating abuse according to different sociodemographic variables. Additionally, the relationship of cyber dating abuse with the myths of romantic love, mobile abuse and acceptance of violence was analyzed. Using a sample of 1,657 universit...

The present study examined the relationship linking social-interpersonal factors (interpersonal dependency, social support, social skills), cognitive-individual factors (planning behavior and goal efficacy), and different victimization and perpetration forms of cyber dating abuse (direct abuse, control abuse, and the combination of both abuse types...

Gender norms and the co-occurrence of perpetration and victimization behaviors have been examined as key factors of female dating violence in offline contexts. However, these relationships have not been analyzed in digital environments. This is why the present study had a twofold objective: (1) exploring the co-occurrence nature of cyber dating abu...

Gender role norms have been widely studied in the offline partner violence context. Different studies have indicated that internalizing these norms was associated with dating violence. However, very few research works have analyzed this relation in forms of aggression against partners and former partners using information and communication technolo...

INTRODUCCIÓN. El interés de este trabajo es reflexionar, concretamente, sobre la calidad de la formación de los futuros maestros en el ámbito específico competencial como mediadores de lectura. Los últimos informes de los hábitos lectores de los alumnos españoles ponen en duda que haya existido evolución en esa materia, por lo que parece preciso ha...

The aim of this study was to determine well-being and its relationship to social support from friends and family communication in university students. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1679 university students aged 18-25 years from four universities in Spain. Logistical regression models were tested (p < 0.05). The students in the last yea...

Los procesos metacognitivos constituyen un importante foco de atención para la comprensión lectora. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las estrategias metacognitivas de comprensión de los textos narrativos en futuros educadores y conocer su comportamiento lector, dado que serán los responsables de la formación lectora de niños y niñas y los fu...

Introducción: En los últimos años se ha potenciado el interés de la investigación en torno a las variables que determinan el éxito académico dentro del ámbito universitario. Diferentes estudios han analizado el papel de la lectura en el rendimiento, pero, sin embargo, no se ha considerado la posible contribución conjunta respecto al ocio en el éxit...

Según Prensky, los nativos digitales son aquellos que nacieron entre 1995 y 2015. Son jóvenes que están más habituados a usar los avances tecnológicos en sus actividades de estudio y aprendizaje, navegando con fluidez, accediendo mayoritariamente a Internet para realizar sus trabajos. Los alumnos nativos digitales han llegado a la universidad tran...

Una de las áreas educativas de mayor preocupación en la actualidad es la comprensión lectora. La conceptualización del proceso de comprensión se ha enriquecido en los últimos años incluyendo los aspectos metacognitivos como una estrategia esencial para la optimización de su desarrollo. Muchos estudios han identificado la relación entre las estrateg...

Los estudiantes universitarios están sometidos a presiones psicosociales, teniendo que responder a elevadas exigencias académicas y sociales, lo que les hace una población diferenciada con unas características particulares. La OMS a través del programa Universidades Saludables, insta a las universidades a promover la participación de la misma en ac...

Bullying has been recognized as an important risk factor for mental health. A growing number of researchers have encouraged parents to work collaboratively with schools to prevent and intervene in bullying situations. This study explores the relationship between parents’ awareness of bullying involvement, adolescents’ self-reported victimization, a...

Las investigaciones sobre los ciberagresores son escasas. El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido conocer las variables que predicen la agresión de ciberacoso. El presente estudio examinó la relación entre las variables socio-cognitivas y emocionales con la agresión de ciberacoso. Se examinó la desconexión moral hacia el ciberacoso. Se midió tamb...

Estudios previos muestran resultados dispares en relación con la efectividad de la mediación parental en el uso de Internet. El objetivo fue analizar la influencia de los padres sobre el empleo de la red que llevan a cabo los hijos. Participaron en el estudio 938 familias con hijos entre 12 y 17 años. El análisis de regresión destaca la importancia...

Bullying is an aggressive behavior among school-aged children. Bullying is repeated over time and includes behaviors such as hitting, breaking someone's things, name-calling, spreading rumors, or posting someone's private photos online. Researchers all over the world have found that children who are bullied may have serious health problems, includi...

While preliminary research supports the association of interpersonal difficulties with cyberbullying victimization in adolescence, it remains unclear how cyber-relationship motives and strategies for coping with stressful peer situations in "real settings" differ between victims and non-victims of cyberbullying. The purpose of this study was to ver...

The present study used quantitative data to address two gaps in cyberbullying research. First, to examine the relationship between fatalism and cyberbullying victimization in an adolescent sample not previously explored. Second, despite investigating these relationships from a main effects perspective, the present study extended research by examini...

INTRODUCCIÓN. El bullying es una conducta de violencia entre iguales caracterizada por la persistencia, la intencionalidad y el desequilibrio de poder entre agresores y víctimas. Cuando los ataques se producen a través de las TIC hablamos de ciberbullying. El rol del padre y de la madre en el bullying podría trasladarse al ciberbullying, aunque tod...

Los modelos de lectura destacan la dimensión social, centrada en la interacción en actividades de lectura con familiares y amigos, sin olvidar los componentes cognitivos y emocionales (Guthrie et al. 2004, Ryan y Deci, 2000). Diversas investigaciones han destacado el rol del contexto lector parental sobre la motivación y el éxito lector de los hijo...

. En este artículo se presenta una revisión sobre el bullying y el cyberbullying y la relación entre ellos, desde una perspectiva psico-socio-educativa. Con el objetivo de estudiar la continuidad de los procesos de cyberbullying, presentamos los resultados iniciales de tres estudios descriptivos. En el primero, se analiza el origen del cyberbullyin...

La competencia lectora es una competencia trasversal de carácter instrumental básico en todos los estudios universitarios que, además, correlaciona en gran medida con el nivel de consecución de las competencias que configuran el mapa de competencias genéricas que deben alcanzar los titulados universitarios. La competencia lectora incluye la capacid...

En los últimos años se ha producido un incremento espectacular del uso Internet, principalmente entre la población más joven. Los estudios muestran tasas superiores al 90% de los jóvenes conectados a Internet, con un empleo vinculado principalmente a las relaciones sociales. Para los estudiantes universitarios, además, es un recurso de estudio impr...

The present study examines the relationship between different roles in cyberbullying behaviors (cyberbullies, cybervictims, cyberbullies-victims, and uninvolved) and self-reported digital piracy. In a region of central Spain, 643 (49.3% females, 50.7% males) students (grades 7–10) completed a number of self-reported measures, including cyberbullyin...

Few studies have analyzed cyberbullying victimization among university students in comparison to research conducted in other educational levels. The main purpose was to analyze the associations between the cyberbullying victimization and social and emotional factors such as involvement in traditional bullying victimization and perpetration, lonelin...

La comprensión lectora se ha convertido en una prioridad para los sistemas educativos de todo el mundo. Existen muchas experiencias previas relativas a los textos expositivos y académicos en diferentes niveles educativos, pero no se ha prestado la misma atención a la comprensión de textos literarios. Las características del texto marcan diferencias...

La preocupación ante el potencial de Internet como un espacio donde se puede producir distintas formas de victimización está creciendo entre los investigadores, padres y educadores a tenor de las consecuencias de estas interacciones negativas para el funcionamiento psicológico de los jóvenes. La investigación sobre el cyberbullying trata ahora de c...

En el siglo XXI se han generado nuevos espacios educativos que requieren incrementar las oportunidades educativas y sociales que facilitan los procesos de inserción social. Una de las realidades de nuestro entorno educativo es la violencia entre iguales. Ni la escuela, ni las políticas sociales, pueden complementar independientemente el apoyo que p...

El acoso escolar ha salido de las aulas a través de las nuevas tecnologías de la información. En la actualidad para hablar de acoso entre iguales debemos referirnos simultáneamente al bullying y al cyberbullying. Las investigaciones señalan una continuidad entre ambos fenómenos, por lo que es importante un tratamiento conjunto. Desde el inicio del...

Cyberbullying has been recognized as an important risk factor for mental health. Few studies have analyzed relationships between family variables and cyberbullying victimization. This ex post facto study analyze the relationships between loneliness, parent-child communication and different groups of cyberbullying victims (non-involved, occasional a...

Studies analyzing experiences of cyberbullying among college students have been scarcer than those analyzing cyberbullying among preadolescents and adolescents. However, research has shown that college students face similar problems in their online interactions as students in primary and secondary schools. The prevalence of cyberbullying among coll...

Books offer materials suitable for reflection and analysis, allowing readers to exercise decision-making and problem-solving. The power of literary texts to make readers experience emotions, to present different situations and behaviors to them and even to get them to face their fears and concerns, makes reading a privileged instrument for bullying...

El objetivo de este libro es analizar aspectos relevantes de las conductas violentas de niños y adolescentes en diferentes con-textos, y hacerlo buscando y reforzando cuáles son los entornos que protegen a los menores de este tipo de conductas. Puede que solo lo hayamos conseguido en parte, porque se trata de un tema complejo que requiere un anális...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la imagen de la mujer durante el franquismo y cómo sus preceptos influyeron sobre las decisiones de la censura en la literatura infantil y juvenil. Por otra parte, partiendo de las estrategias metacognitivas de comprensión de los textos narrativos, analizaremos el trabajo de los censores. Finalmente, ana...

Janosch es uno de los ilustradores y escritores más relevantes de la literatura infantil. Sus historias de animales humanizados presentan situaciones de la vida cotidiana. En Qué bonito es Panamá, Tigre y Oso se lanzan a la búsqueda de un país hermoso que, en realidad, está más cerca de lo que ellos creen. Cada lectura es un viaje apasionante del l...

The public library of the 21st century is conceived of as a social center from and for the community, focused on the planning and development of educational intervention programs related to literacy, participation, and social integration. The library staff should promote actions aimed at reducing social inequalities, favoring access of all citizens...

We are now living in the Gutenberg Galaxy, which has completely changed our lives, especially in the case of youths. Adolescents increasingly use social networks, like Twitter or Facebook, where self-presentation plays an essential role (personal data, photos, etc.). However, some people use such information and photos to harm others, either as a j...

El objetivo es que los adolescentes reflexionen sobre los comportamientos de igualdad. Se realizó una intervención a partir de la identificación de conductas discriminatorias, dirigida a 55 adolescentes de entre 14 y 16 años. Se empleó un material interactivo, Miradas. Las actividades fueron de interés para los alumnos y despertaron su motivación h...

This book provides a much-needed analysis of the current research in the global epidemic of electronic bullying. Scholars and professionals from the Americas, Europe, and Asia offer data, insights, and solutions, acknowledging both the social psychology and technological contexts underlying cyberbullying phenomena. Contributors address questions th...

Aunque el proceso de adaptación al Plan de Bolonia en las universidades españolas sólo recoge, dentro del desarrollo de competencias genéricas, la competencia lectora como trasversal de carácter instrumental básico, la necesidad de conseguir la competencia lectora en la universidad es imprescindible y pasa necesariamente por adquirir y reforzar un...

Una de las áreas educativas de mayor preocupación en la actualidad es la comprensión lectora. La conceptualización del proceso de comprensión se ha enriquecido en los últimos años incluyendo los aspectos metacognitivos como una estrategia esencial para la optimización de su desarrollo. Existen diversos instrumentos para evaluar las estrategias meta...

This study explores whether risk factors on traditional social bullying are also risk factors for engaging in cyberbullying. The study examines the association among victimization, perpetration and different psychosocial factors (e.g., closeness to friends, social support, self-efficacy and social reputation) and explores differences and similariti...

En este estudio se analiza la asociación entre el conflicto de rol de género masculino y las conductas de acoso y victimización escolar. La muestra estuvo formada por 786 chicos estudiantes españoles, de edades comprendidas entre los 11 y los 17 años (M=14.5, DT=1.58). Se establecieron tres grupos de experimentación del conflicto de rol de género t...

The Three-Factor Model (Choi, Fuqua & Newman, 2008, 2009), which consists of a feminine factor and two masculine ones, seems especially appropriate for explaining the influence of gender-stereotypic traits on bullying, since it specifically differentiates between “social masculinity”, the first masculine factor, dealing with behaviors toward others...

Previous research has indicated that victims and perpetrators of bullying are vulnerable to poorer psychological well-being. In this study, we examined whether the roles of victim and perpetrator in cyberbullying and social bullying are related to guarded optimism, global and school-related happiness and specific domains of life satisfaction as ind...

Previous research has indicated that gender identity is related to children’s adjustment and well-being. In the current study, involvement in school bullying was our indicator of well-being, and we tested how gender identity and gender typing measures are related to victims, bullies and bully-victims. The relations between these variables were exam...

One of the most worrying areas in education today is reading comprehension. The conceptualisation of the comprehension process has been enriched in recent years as metacognitive aspects have been included as an essential strategy to optimise its development. Certain instruments are used to evaluate metacognitive strategies for comprehending exposit...

Early acquisition of stereotypes that associate “blue” with boys and “pink” with girls can influence their preferences for these colors and also their choices in clothing, toys or objects in relation to gender stereotypes. In a Spanish sample (5–10-year olds, n = 614), this study reproduces the previous research conducted by Karniol (Sex Roles 65(1...

Gender role conflict scale for adolescents (GRCS-A) measures the gender role conflict experienced by adolescents. GRCS-A consists of four patterns, namely Restricted affection between men, Restricted emotionality, Conflict between work, school, and family, and Need for success and achievement. The objective of this study was to analyze the factoria...

Sexist beliefs from 3193 secondary school students (50.4% men) of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) are analyzed in the light of ambivalent sexism theory. This research aims to study the relationship between school bullying and adolescent's sexist beliefs, especially among male youths. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Instrument to assess the incid...

Sexist beliefs from 3193 secondary school students (50.4% men) of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) are analyzed in the light of ambivalent sexism theory. This research aims to study the relationship between school bullying and adolescent's sexist beliefs, especially among male youths. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Instrument to assess the incid...

Sexist beliefs from 3193 secondary school students (50.4% men) of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) are analyzed in the light of ambivalent sexism theory. This research aims to study the relationship between school bullying and adolescent's sexist beliefs, especially among male youths. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Instrument to assess the incid...

El presente estudio fue diseñado para conocer las conductas de comunicación online en una muestra de preadolescentes (10-12 años, n=812). Se analizó el efecto de la ansiedad social, las habilidades sociales y las experiencias de cibervictimización sobre la comunicación online. La comunicación online comprendía ítems relacionados con el tiempo emple...

We explore the relation between gender stereotyping in traits and roles and bullying. The sample is comprised by 1835 students (993 boys and 842 girls) from the 4th to 6th grade of Primary school from Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). In order to measure gender roles we have used Sex Role Scale for Children, whilst gender stereotypes have been measured w...

The present research examined online communication behaviour in a sample of preadolescents (10-12 years, n= 812). In addition, we examined the effect of social anxiety, social skills and experiences of cyberbullying on online communication behaviour. Online communication measures included items related to time online, platforms used, relationships...

Los jóvenes son un grupo de especial importancia en la prevención de la salud sexual, lo que lleva a que resulte de interés el análisis de los factores que determinan la conducta sexual. El propósito de este trabajo fue estudiar la relación entre el género y la sexualidad. Concretamente, el objetivo ha sido analizar la relación entre el machismo y...

Los jóvenes son un grupo de especial importancia en la prevención de la salud sexual, lo que lleva a que resulte de interés el análisis de los factores que determinan la conducta sexual. El propósito de este trabajo fue estudiar la relación entre el género y la sexualidad. Concretamente, el objetivo ha sido analizar la relación entre el machismo y...

The ESPA29 parental socialization scale allows for the measuring of four parental styles (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and negligent), considering the parents’ use of different socialization practices considered in this instrument, which are grouped into two factors or two independent dimensions of paternal conduct (acceptance/involvem...

The young people is a group of special importance for the prevention of health sexuality, reason why it turns out from interest to study the determinants of sexual behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine the link between gender and sexuality. The objective was to analyze the machism and romantic myths associated with sexual attitudes. Fo...

El Trabajo Social tiene por objeto incrementar el nivel de bienestar social de la población con necesidades. El perfil profesional del trabajador social del siglo XXI queda definido por unos rasgos propios que le caracterizan frente a otras profesiones, entre los que se encuentran una serie de valores necesarios para llevar a cabo su tarea profesio...