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Background: According to the Chilean National Health Survey (20092010), 17% of people aged 15 years or more have depressive symptoms. Thus, freely-available, easily-administered, and highly sensitive screening tests for depression are needed in clinical and research settings. Aim: To evaluate the...

Background:The use of virtual reality or three-dimensional (3D) simulation programs has been explored in different mental health problems and contexts. One of the applications that showed evidence of a suitable assessment for behavioral and emotional problems in adolescents is the 3D questionnair...

Aim. The present study is a comparative case study as part of research on the psychotherapeutic process. This research describes the perception of subjective time in two psychotherapeutic processes, one successful and one unsuccessful. Methods. We studied two psychotherapeutic processes of cognit...

Using a cross-sectional non-experimental design, the mediating role of (positive and negative) affects was assessed in the relation between optimism and well-being (subjective and psychological). A total of 421 people aged between 18 and 60 years with no diagnosed mental pathology participated in...

This article presents the psychometric properties analysis of the Self-Regulated Learning Inventory, in Chilean university students. To achieve this aim, the instrument was applied to 780 subjects, in their first year of studies, which belong to different undergraduate programs. Data analysis was...

The aim of this research was to present a pedagogical competencies model in Higher Education. In addition, to analyze how this theoretical construction was related with the perception of students, teachers and academic authorities about the competencies that characterize a teacher of excellence. ...

The present study examined toddler temperament across Chilean, South Korean, Polish, and U.S. samples, providing an opportunity to examine both collectivist-individualist and East-West contrasts. The effect of culture on the three factor and 18 dimension scores provided by the Early Childhood Beh...

Contemporary Latin American societies have been pressured by conflicts between multiple views about the articulation between economic growth and social policies. This article presents the analysis of interpretive frameworks that, from the constructivist perspective, permit to deepen the symbolic ...

This article presents the results of a predictive – transversal study where the variables working memory, reading comprehension and academic performance in 80 Chilean students of seventh grade, rst and the third year of high school were measured. In LECTUM, standardized reading comprehension ...