Grups d'Investigació

GIUV2017-359

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• La investigacion en promocion de calidad de vida, por su caracter aplicado, al trabajar con diferentes colectivos afrontando nuevos retos, problematicas es una constante fuente de conocimiento para el objetivo cientifico-tecnico de identificar nuevas dificultades y como darles solucion. Dado que hay mayor complejidad en los datos e hipotesis, es necesario avanzar con los metodos, muchos procedimientos se han visto insuficientes o han sido superados. Todo este aprendizaje "hands on", esta experiencia como grupo nos permite ofrecer a otros grupos de investigacion apoyo tecnico en diseño y analisis de datos, asi como formacion a la carta en competencias concretas en su ambito de trabajo/investigacion aplicada.Investigar ofreciendo soluciones desde metodologia cuantitativa y cualitativa en ambitos necesarios para la transferencia del conocimiento en area de calidad de vida.
• Aportar evidencia sobre la idoneidad de diferentes planteamientos teoricos explicativos de la calidad de vida a partir de datos de nuestro propio contexto.
• Ofrecer informacion, apoyo, consultoria y actualizacion constante especialmente en metodos estadisticos de investigacion complejos, usualmente tecnicas multivariadas con modelos de ecuaciones estructurales.
• Validar escalas o cuestionarios, intervenciones y protocolos orientados todos ellos a conseguir mejoras en distintos ambitos de calidad de vida tomando como inicio un buen diagnostico.
• Trabajamos diseñando y llevando a cabo muestreo, pase de pruebas, gestion y depuracion de datos, seleccion, ejecucion e interpretacion de analisis, y preparacion de informe. Todo ello en diferentes entornos como el sanitario, el organizacional en general o el educativo. Por ejemplo en el ambito educativo (infantil, secundaria, bachillerato, universidad, formacion en adultos mayores) la investigacion se orienta tanto al colectivo de estudiantes (variables relacionadas con capacidades, actitudes, compromiso, rendimiento y calidad del aprendizaje..) como al de docentes (compromiso organizacional, burnout, emprendimiento,..) y puede realizarse en una comunidad autonoma, en un pais o en varios con comparacion transcultural. Este tipo de investigaciones en ocasiones son promovidos por agencias de calidad, por organismos internacionales de cooperacion o administraciones publicas con competencias en evaluacion de calidad educativa.
• Otro objetivo en tanto que universidad publica, es impulsar acciones con compromiso social, apoyandonos en instrumentos como convenios marcos, contratos OTRI, diseño y supervision de aprendizajes de servicio, presencia en foros o grupos de trabajo relevantes en la toma de decisiones. Para esta toma de decisiones desde la administracion, es indispensable contar con informacion rigurosa basada en la evidencia que pueden ofrecer estos estudios cientificos sobre la ciudadania.
• Algunas de las competencias de nuestro arsenal como grupo para afrontar estos objetivos son: a) Base teorica en constante actualizacion por busquedas sistematicas y presencia en foros; b) Diseño y realizacion de encuestas en papel y online; c) Uso de programas como SPSS, JASP, EQS, Mplus, R.. con un gran rango de metodos de estimacion acordes a la tipologia de datos y necesidades de investigacion. En algunos casos enfoque frecuentista y bayesiano. d) Estimacion, interpretacion e informe de modelos multimuestra, modelos multinivel, modelos multirrasgo-multimetodo y modelos longitudinales, latent growth curve modeling; e) Investigaciones por meta-analisis.

• Envejecimiento y calidad de vida.Biopsychosocial variables aimed at improving the quality of life in the life cycle. José Manuel Tomás' career in the field of his research line is well known. He has co-directed with Amparo Oliver competitive longitudinal projects in the field under the MICIN/AEI/FEDER Challenges call for proposals. Currently in 2021-2022, together with Laura Badenes, he is the Director of the Official Master's Degree in Social and Health Care in Dependency at the Universitat de València. The scientific and technical objectives focus on identifying the variables that most influence the quality of life of the elderly, how they relate to each other and how we can work on them according to theoretical reference models from different cultures. We research both in the field of so-called successful elderly (such as active and healthy people who attend educational programmes for older adults), as well as older people living in community or those who are institutionalised. The research with national and international impact of the team members in this line is reflected in impact journals and includes research collaborations in the field with researchers from our own university, or collaborations with universities such as UNCC Charlotte in the USA, Universidad Privada del Norte in Lima-Peru or the Universidad de Costa Rica.
• Comprehensive palliative care and humanisation of care.The end-of-life care line began with the participation of Enric Benito and Pilar Barreto in agreements between the UV and the SECPAL (Spanish Society of Palliative Care) to jointly design a measure of spirituality in patients that was clinically, psychometrically and culturally relevant to measure the resources to deal with symptomatology beyond the physical at the end of life. After a decade of productive collaboration, research in this field (EPIONE study) progressed towards intervention (KIBO protocol). On the other hand, always with the emphasis on methodology, the proposal and validation of new measurement tools, research was extended to other relevant topics such as dignity or demoralisation syndrome in patients. The efficiency of interventions on quality of life is designed and studied in patients and their environment as well as in professionals. In the case of professionals, research is carried out not only in the health field, whether in palliative care, intensive care or home care, but also in general in professional activities with high emotional demand, such as care for people with functional diversity, children with developmental disorders or police. There are several interventions based on positive psychology that show effectiveness in reducing stress in professionals with high emotional demand. From ARMAQoL, with an emphasis on methodology and in collaboration with clinical experts from the UV, we investigate the use of different mechanisms and formats of these interventions, making them more appealing, and trying to reduce dropout rates. In professionals, the multicentre YASO study, in collaboration with the UIB (Noemí Sansó, member of the team) was our first incursion into the inner curriculum of palliative care professionals. Nowadays, this research, with a strong theoretical basis, has been consolidated as a diagnostic approach in health systems in numerous countries, in different languages. Currently, in this line, we are developing the project Longitudinal study of compassion and other determinants of professional quality of life: A research on palliative care professionals at national level (CompPal), financed by the State Research Agency - 2018 Calls, R&D&I Projects Research Challenges.
• Predictive and explanatory models in quality of life.Statistical models usually of structural equation models that explain the interrelationship between key variables to understand the impact of each variable and predict one or more issues of interest with minimal error. Multi-sample models, multilevel models, multitrait-multimethod models and longitudinal models or models with latent growth curve trajectories. These models test invariance in its different phases of expression, they also allow us to approach AFC, path models, covariance structure models, hybrid EFA models, MIMIC models... in other words, they provide us with a great versatility to capture, to model the complex reality of trying to explain the quality of life in citizenship. In this line, researchers of the group based in the area of Methodology of Knowledge Sciences participate the most.
• Innovation and educational quality.Commitment, entrepreneurship and employability of graduates with functional diversity. In this line, among other subjects, research is being carried out on entrepreneurship, with three PhD theses, two of which have received grants from pre-doctoral training programmes from the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Valencian Department of Education, Valencian government (GVA). We also collaborate with EVAP (Association of Businesswomen and Professionals of València) on this subject and with the team of professor Lorenzo Revuelto, from the Research Group on Human Resources Strategy, Knowledge Management and Innovative and Entrepreneurial Behaviour - RRHHCIRO (UV). A very important part of this line are the collaborations with the Research Group on Social Studies, Intervention and Innovation - GESinn (UV), directed by professor Jose Javier Navarro-Pérez. This involves methodological support in the design, development and evaluation of protocols aimed at diagnosis and/or intervention in essentially vulnerable environments. Whether in contexts of gender-based violence or child abuse. Reyes, B., Georgieva, S., Martínez-Gregorio, S., De los Santos, S., Galiana, L. and Tomás, J.M. (2021). Assessment of learning strategies with the ACRA and the Brief-ACRA scales: Competitive models, measurement invariance, and prediction of academic achievement in secondary elementary students from the Dominican Republic. Psychodidactics, 26(10), 1-9. Martinez-Gregorio, S. and Oliver, A. (in press). Measuring Entrepreneurial Intention in Secondary Education: Validity evidence for the EIQ. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. Martínez-Gregorio, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., and Oliver, A. (2021). Effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship intention and related outcomes in educational contexts: a meta-analysis. The International Journal of Management Education, 19(3), 100545. Martínez-Gregorio, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., and Oliver, A. (2021). Effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship intention and related outcomes in educational contexts: a meta-analysis. The International Journal of Management Education, 19, 100545. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100545. Navarro-Pérez, JJ; Oliver, A.; Carbonell, A.; Schneider, BH. (2020). Effectiveness of a Mobile App Intervention to Prevent Dating Violence in Residential Child Care. Psychosocial Intervention doi.org/10.5093/pi2020a3 Q1. Fernandez, I.; Enrique, S.; De los Santos, S.; Tomás, J. M. (2020). Can engagement and burnout be distinguished? A study in a representative sample of teachers. TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 27, pp. 71 - 84 . ISSN: 1972-6325. Tomás, J. M., Gutiérrez, M., Hernández, M. and Georgieva, S. (2020). The effects of self-efficacy, hope, and engagement on the academic achievement of secondary education in the Dominican Republic. Psychology in The Schools, 57, pp. 191 - 203 . ISSN: 0033-3085. Navarro-Pérez, JJ.; Carbonell, A.; Oliver, A. (2019). The Effectiveness of a Psycho-educational App to Reduce Sexist Attitudes Among Adolescents. Psychodidactics, DOI: 10.1016/j.psicod.2018.07.002, Q1.
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses.A systematic review is an objective review of a clearly formulated question whose answer requires the integration of the empirical studies that have been carried out on it. Its aim is to systematically and objectively accumulate the evidence obtained in empirical studies on a given problem. Therefore, systematic reviews are secondary studies that synthesise the available scientific information through rigorous and explicit methods, which saves time for health and social care professionals and provides them with an overview of what the scientific evidence suggests about studies in promotion of the life quality. Martínez-Gregorio, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., and Oliver, A. (2021). Effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship intention and related outcomes in educational contexts: a meta-analysis. The International Journal of Management Education, 19, 100545. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100545. Badenes-Ribera, L., Molla-Esparza, C., Longobardi, C., Sánchez-Meca, J., and Fabris, M. A. (2021). Homicide as a Source of Posttraumatic Stress?: A Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Committing Homicide. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34, 345-356. Doi: 10.1002/jts.22630. Ventura, S., Badenes-Ribera, L., Herrero, R., Cebolla, A., Galiana, L., and Baños, R. M. (2020). Virtual Reality as a Medium to Elicit Empathy: A Meta-Analysis. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 23, 667-676. Doi: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0681. Rubio-Aparicio, M., Badenes-Ribera, L., Sánchez-Meca, J., Fabris, M., and Longobardi, C. (2020). A Reliability Generalization Meta-analysis of self-report measures of Muscle Dysmorphia. Clinical Psychology-Science and Practice, 27, e12303. 2020. Doi: 10.1111/cpsp.12303. Longobardi, C., Badenes-Ribera, L., Fabris, M. A., Martinez, A., and McMahon, S. (2019). Prevalence of Student Violence Against Teachers: A Meta-Analysis. Psychology Of Violence, 9, 596-610. Doi: 10.1037/vio0000202. Longobardi, C., and Badenes-Ribera, L. (2019). The relationship between animal cruelty in children and adolescent and interpersonal violence: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 46, 201-211. Doi: 10.1016/j.avb.2018.09.001. Badenes-Ribera, L., Sánchez-Meca, J., and Longobardi, C. (2019). The Relationship Between Internalized Homophobia and Intimate Partner Violence in Same-Sex Relationships: A Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 20, 331-343. Doi: 10.1177/1524838017708781 Badenes-Ribera, L., Rubio-Aparicio, M., Sánchez-Meca, J., Fabris, M. A., and Longobardi, C. (2019). The association between muscle dysmorphia and eating disorder symptomatology: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8, 351-371. Doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.44. Badenes-Ribera, L., Fabris, M. A., and Longobardi, C. (2018). The relationship between internalized homonegativity and body image concerns in sexual minority men: a meta-analysis. Psychology and Sexuality, 9, 251-268. Doi: 10.1080/19419899.2018.1476905. Longobardi, C., and Badenes-Ribera, L. (2017). Intimate Partner Violence in Same-Sex Relationships and The Role of Sexual Minority Stressors: A Systematic Review of the Past 10 Years. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2039-2049. Doi: 10.1007/s10826-017-0734-4. Badenes-Ribera, L., Bonilla-Campos, A., Frias-Navarro, D., Pons-Salvador, G., and Monterde-i-Bort, H. (2016). Intimate Partner Violence in Self-Identified Lesbians: A Systematic Review of Its Prevalence and Correlates. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 17, 284-297. Doi: 10.1177/1524838015584363. Badenes-Ribera, L., Frias-Navarro, D., Bonilla-Campos, A., Pons-Salvador, G., and Monterde-i-Bort, H. (2015). Intimate Partner Violence in Self-identified Lesbians: A Meta-analysis of its Prevalence. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 12, 47-59. Doi: 10.1007/s13178-014-0164-7.

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• Behavioral Sciences Methodology

• aging, quality of life
• Palliative care, spirituality, dignity, demoralization, quality of life, self-care, coping with death. Intervention, selfcompassion, selfcare, awareness/mindfulness, Intervención, autocompasión, autocuidado, atención plena
• Structural Equation Modeling, Quality of Life, Predictive models, Well-being, Life Satisfaction, Happyness.
• Engagement, Burnout, Entrepreneurship (compromiso organizacional, burnout, emprendimiento)
• Meta-análisis, tamaño del efecto, impacto de resultados, práctica basada en evidencia