Este artículo evalúa las relaciones entre el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas, la tipología del bebedor, las motivaciones para beber y los estilos de afrontamiento en un grupo de universitarios de uno y otro género, de los primeros años de estudios de una universidad privada en Lima. Los resultados confirman que el uso de bebidas alcohólicas es frecuente y moderado en la mayoría de estos jóvenes (55%), sobre todo en los hombres. Sin embargo, se encuentra un grupo de bebedores problemáticos importante (22%) que no debe dejarse de lado. Asimismo, los jóvenes que más beben reportan mayores problemas referidos a su consumo. Los motivos para beber se convierten en un elemento relevante respecto a la cantidad de alcohol consumido y los problemas relacionados.

The paper describes the adaptation of the Adolescent version of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ-A) for university students in Peru. 672 male and female university students enrolled in the first years at a private university in Peru completed the AEQ-A translated into Spanish. All 90 items were scored on 5-point rating scales. A principal component analysis with orthogonal Procrustes rotation towards the a priori 7 component structure yielded congruence measures (Tucker's phi) of .82 or less, implying that the original 7 dimensions of the AEQ-A could not be reproduced. A second, explorative principal component analysis produced a three-component solution explaining 27.8% of the variance: two unipolar components measuring positive and negative personal and social expectancies, and a bipolar component measuring expectancies regarding cognitive and motor capacities. A cross-validat...

The aim of the study was to analyze the psychological variables that predict problem gambling in 173 engineering students, men and women, from the first years of study at a private university in Lima, Perú. The age range was 16 to 23 years (M = 17.9, SD = 1.2).The measures were the Personality Inventory NEO FFI (NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Costa & McCrae, 1992), the Academic Stress Inventory (SISCO, Barraza, 2007a), the Time Management Behavior Questionnaire (TMBQ, Macan, 1994) version translated into Spanish by García-Ros and Pérez-González (2012), and the South Oaks Gambling Screen, Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA, Becoña, 1997). The results indicated that the management of free time is a moderate predictor of problem gambling (standardized coefficient = -.33), followed by the agreeableness personality´s factor (standardized coefficient = -.29), while academic stress showed l...

The aim of the study was to analyze the psychological variables that predict problem gambling in 173 engineering students, men and women, from the first years of study at a private university in Lima, Perú. The age range was 16 to 23 years (M = 17.9, SD = 1.2).The measures were the Personality Inventory NEO FFI (NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Costa & McCrae, 1992), the Academic Stress Inventory (SISCO, Barraza, 2007a), the Time Management Behavior Questionnaire (TMBQ, Macan, 1994) version translated into Spanish by García-Ros and Pérez-González (2012), and the South Oaks Gambling Screen, Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA, Becoña, 1997). The results indicated that the management of free time is a moderate predictor of problem gambling (standardized coefficient = -.33), followed by the agreeableness personality´s factor (standardized coefficient = -.29), while academic stress showed l...

The aim of the study was to analyze the psychological variables that predict problem gambling in 173 engineering students, men and women, from the first years of study at a private university in Lima, Perú. The age range was 16 to 23 years (M = 17.9, SD = 1.2).The measures were the Personality Inventory NEO FFI (NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Costa & McCrae, 1992), the Academic Stress Inventory (SISCO, Barraza, 2007a), the Time Management Behavior Questionnaire (TMBQ, Macan, 1994) version translated into Spanish by García-Ros and Pérez-González (2012), and the South Oaks Gambling Screen, Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA, Becoña, 1997). The results indicated that the management of free time is a moderate predictor of problem gambling (standardized coefficient = -.33), followed by the agreeableness personality´s factor (standardized coefficient = -.29), while academic stress showed l...

The aim of this paper is to describe and reflect on the sleep problem in the university population, even before the pandemic, as well as to present a review of the main interventions to promote sleep in universities. In this context, we describe how poor sleep quality is related to different psychological variables of interest for mental health, and we emphasize its consequences on the performance and wellbeing of students. Likewise, a review of the main intervention experiences from the Health Promoting Universities movement is made, discussing the achievements and proposing recommendations to face the challenges posed by the promotion of healthy sleep. Among the recommendations, the academy is asked to take on the challenge of systematically generating evidence to carry out sustainable interventions that have an impact on the university community.

Background: self-efficacy is an important factor in drug use and there is a need for adapting psychological measuring instruments to the Peruvian context. The Drug Use Resistance Self-Efficacy (DURSE) scale (Carpenter, 2006) is a useful instrument for measuring this construct across different social situations. Objectives: to assess the psychometric properties of validity and reliability of the DURSE marijuana subscale among public school students from Lima. Method: the scale was translated and subjected to a pilot study consisting of 83 adolescents. The final version was administered to a sample of 1015 high school students. Results: the confirmatory factor analysis showed a one-factor structure with good fit indices (CFI = .990, TLI = .986, RMSEA = .057, SRMR = .015) and a high reliability coefficient (.98). The invariance was analyzed considering the participants’ sex, thus finding ...