Objective: Objective: To establish a preliminary psychometric analysis of a brief hospital anxiety scale. Method: Non-experimental study of instrumental design, with a unit of analysis of 60 participants, who were nurses and physicians from a hospital in Metropolitan Lima. Main results: The final version was reduced to 9 items, obtaining adequate evidence of content validity by the criterion of expert judges (V > .80). The evidence of construct validity showed a unidimensional model that explains 72.5% of the variance, with factor loadings greater than .30 (.773 to .939). The reliability found was for internal consistency with acceptable values (α=.958; ω=.959; θ=.957). General conclusion: The EAH-9 constitutes a preliminary alternative with evidence of validity and reliability for the analysis of anxiety in hospital professionals.

La investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación que existe entre la adicción al internet y los pensamientos automáticos en estudiantes de secundaria de una institución educativa pública de Villa El Salvador. La población del estudio fue de 758 estudiantes del nivel secundario, quedando una muestra de 313 estudiantes entre 12 y 18 años. Fue una investigación no experimental transversal de tipo correlacional. Se utilizó el Test de Adicción al internet de Young (TAI) y el Inventario de Pensamientos Automáticos de Ruiz y Lujan (IPA) para identificar los objetivos del estudio. Se evidencia que existe una correlación altamente significativa entre la adicción al internet y los pensamientos automáticos (p < .001), con una correlación de Spearman (rho) moderada y directa (r = .673), asimismo, existe una correlación directa altamente significativa (p< .001) entre dimens...

El objetivo del estudio fue realizar un análisis psicométrico del Inventario de Ansiedad de Beck (BAI) traducido por Vizioli y Pagano (2020) en 478 universitarios peruanos de Lima Sur, con edades de 17 a 33 años (M = 24.1; DE= 5.24). En los resultados se obtiene que el modelo bifactor presenta mejor ajuste (X2/ gl = 1.54, CFI = .975, NNFI = .968, RMSEA = .048, SRMR = .058) en comparación al modelo de dos factores. Se concluye que el mejor modelo factorial es el bifactor, asumiendo tanto una ansiedad general como dos factores: cognitivo y somático, considerándose como una evidencia sobre la que hay que continuar desarrollando investigación.

Addiction to social networks has increased throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, especially within the university context, due to its continuous use for socialization, entertainment, education, and work. The study aimed to carry out a systematic review and meta-analysis of the factors associated with addiction to social networks in university students. A search in the Scielo, Eric, PubMed, and Science Direct databases found 31 articles that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria and analyzed a total sample of 13 028 university students. The articles presented 91 variables associated with addiction to social networks; these were grouped into nine categories to perform the meta-analysis, which revealed six categories with a direct relationship (online factors = .41, cognitive factors = .41, negative symptomatology = .30, addiction and cell phone use = .29, network use = .21, social factors =...

El estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la influencia de la ansiedad y la evitación experiencial sobre la adicción a redes sociales en 318 estudiantes (52.2% mujeres y 47.8% varones), entre los 18 a 54 años de una universidad privada de Lima. El estudio fue no experimental-transeccional y de diseño explicativo. Se aplicó el Inventario de Ansiedad de Beck (BAI), el Cuestionario de Aceptación y Acción II (AAQ-II) y el Cuestionario de Adicción a las Redes Sociales (ARS). Se encontró que el modelo de regresión múltiple contó con diferencias significativas (F = 38, gl = 2, p < .001) y explicó un 19.4% la ocurrencia de la variable dependiente, pero sólo la evitación experiencial tuvo efectos significativos sobre la adicción a redes sociales (ß = .407, p < .001). Por otro lado, se halló un 35.2% de estudiantes con nivel moderado de ansiedad, el 50.0% de evitación experiencia...

 The study had the objective of analyzing the psychometric properties of the Brief Academic Procrastination Scale (EBPA-16). The sample was non-probabilistic and intentional, represented by 478 university students (59.8% women and 40.2% men) from Lima Sur, aged between 18 and 33 years. The study was of the instrumental type, where the EBPA-16 was constructed and applied, made up of 16 items distributed in two dimensions, with a Lickert-type response scale with 5 response options. The results demonstrated the presence of content validity due to Aiken’s V values greater than .80. Homogeneity indices were found in the items (ritc >.20) and multicollinearity was rejected (ritc <.95). For the analysis of the validity based on the internal structure, the existence of a two-dimensional model was demonstrated by means of the AFE with a Pearson correlation matrix and a dimensionality...

Background: University students often experience significant changes in their eating habits, which can increase the risk of developing eating disorders (ED). This situation calls for the creation of brief assessment tools to identify college students who may be most at risk. The aim of the study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Eating Attitudes Test-8 (EAT-8) in a Peruvian university population; additionally, the possible differences in the scores of the instrument according to sociodemographic variables, such as gender and age, were examined. Methods: A psychometric study was conducted on 610 participants (M =  24.3, SD  =  2.16, and 61.5% female), aged 19 to 31 years, belonging to four universities of different professional careers. Results: The unidimensional eight-item model was found to have fit indices that confirm acceptable factorial validity (X2 /df  =...

 The purpose of this paper is to build and review the psychometric properties of the Brief Work Climate Scale (EBCL), therefore, an instrument comprised of 15 items in its initial version was designed, which had a Likert-type response scale with 5 alternatives, of which only 13 items had content-based validity evidence due to an Aiken’s V greater than .80, with probability of statistical significance (p < .05). The final version was applied to two sample groups (n1 = 121; n2 = 126) of employees at the operational level of two companies related to the grocery sales sector in Metropolitan Lima. In the first sample, the exploratory factorial analysis was reviewed with a Pearson correlation matrix, demonstrating the existence of two well-defined models (two oblique factor model and one-dimensional model), the first factor explained 55.4% of the accumulated variance and the second 4...