El presente estudio explora el síndrome de desgaste psíquico (burnout) en una muestra de 264 profesores de educación primaria de Lima metropolitana. Se analizan las tres dimensiones que comprende el síndrome: agotamiento emocional, despersonalización y falta de realización personal. Los resultados indican que un 43% de profesores alcanzan niveles altos en el síndrome del desgaste psíquico. Se discuten las diferencias encontradas en cada una de las dimensiones del síndrome en relación con una serie de variables sociodemográficas en las que se encuentra inmerso el maestro.

El propósito de esta investigación es describir la relación entre conocimientos y conductas sexuales en universitarios y su vinculación con asertividad, autoestima, control interno afectivo, conducta de riesgo, planificación, organización, toma de decisiones y obediencia. Para ello, 980 estudiantes de ambos sexos, algunos de los cuales cursaban estudios en una universidad nacional y otros en una privada, respondieron una encuesta sobre sexualidad. Se discute la influencia de la familia y el medio ambiente como proveedores de los aspectos afectivos e información sobre la sexualidad y la conducta sexual de los adolescentes y jóvenes universitarios.

Liberabit, Revista Peruana de Psicología is pleased to share with the national and international academic community, seven research articles corresponding to the first issue of volume 27 of this year. We begin this presentation with the work of Nelson Castro, Ximena Suárez and Enrique Barra, who examine the relationship of emotional regulation difficulties and personality variables with life satisfaction in Chilean university students, finding that they are significantly associated; also, that responsibility and neuroticism are predictors of life satisfaction, highlighting the importance of the ability to deal with emotions and accept them in the educational process. Alejandro Emilio Pagano and Nicolás Alejandro Vizioli evaluated the temporal stability and discriminant validity of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in Argentine participants, reporting evidence of good temporal stability, sinc...

We are pleased to share with the national and international academic community the second issue of volume 27 of Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology. This issue consists of six articles, which we will briefly describe hereinbelow. First, we present the study conducted by David Pascual Olivo Chang, Cecilia Chau Pérez-Aranibar, Fiorella Otiniano Campos and Silvana Melissa Romero Saletti. They report that the adaptation of the marijuana subscale of the Drug Use Resistance Self-Efficacy (DURSE) scale among Peruvian adolescents has adequate internal validity properties based on its internal structure, as well as high reliability, to measure the self-efficacy for marijuana use resistance in future research. Concerning the participants’ sex, scalar but not metric invariance was found. Likewise, higher levels of self-efficacy were shown among those who had not used marijuana, had no inte...

Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology shares with the national and international academic community the present volume made up of six research articles: four empirical and two theoretical. First, Gutemberg de Sousa Lima Filho, Jéssica Gomes de Alcântara, Mateus Egilson da Silva Alves, Ludgleydson Fernandes de Araújo, Evair Mendes da Silva Sousa, Igor Eduardo de Lima Bezerra and Maria Fernanda Lima Silva carried out a study on the social representations of LGTB old age, considering the social understanding of old age, stigma of genders and sexual orientations, as well as physical transformations and obstacles. They reported that social representations are associated with difficulties people have with aging in society and debating LGTB old age, being such difficulties greater in female sex workers. Second, we present the study conducted by Alfonso Elías-Risco and Gina Chávez-Ventu...

It is a pleasure to introduce volume 28, issue 2 (July - December) of Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology, which is made up of seven research articles described below. First, we present the work of María Gabriela Ramírez Jiménez, Norma Ivonne González-Arratia López-Fuentes, Ana Olivia Ruíz Martínez, Hans Oudhof van Barneveld and Blanca Estela Barcelata Eguiarte on religious coping and spirituality as mediators between perceived stress and resilience in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. They report that the lower the level of perceived stress, the higher the indexes of spirituality, religious coping, and resilience, as well as the effect of religious coping as a mediator between perceived stress and resilience.

This issue of Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology offers the academic community new contributions in empirical and theoretical psychology research from authors whose articles are mentioned hereinbelow.

The original articles section begins with the study conducted by Joel Seminario-Quiñones, Juan Walter Pomahuacre Carhuayal, Yuri Chávez, Heber Gómez, Roxana Portocarrero, Giuliana Gamero-Vega, Ada Calderón-Giraldo, Elizabeth López, Martín Castro and Juan Carlos Bazo-Álvarez on the psychometric properties of the Inventory of Study Habits CASM-85 in high school students from four Peruvian cities. It concludes that the CASM-85 short form (45 items) has shown better psychometric properties than its original full form. Second, Gina Pamela Pancorbo Valdivia, Mathias Schmitz, Ian Nightingale Ferrer, Andrés Manuel Palacios Agurto and Agustín Espinosa report on a study that examines stereotypical representations and prejudice towards different Peruvian social groups by high-socioeconomic-status group members from Lima, who identify and value White Peruvians as a high-status group, compet...

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume No. 29 of Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology. This volume features seven articles, as described in what follows. First, Ricardo Jorquera-Gutiérrez and Felipe Guerra-Diaz report on a psychometric analysis of the Perceived Stress Scale in its two versions, 14- and 10-item (PPS-14 and PSS-10), carried out with Chilean teachers. Through a robust maximum likelihood (MLR) method, the evidence supports a model of two related factors, shows good reliability of the factors in both versions of the instrument, and demonstrates invariance of the two-factor structure for men and women in the two versions. Florencia Stelzer, Yésica Aydmune, Ana García-Coni, Santiago Vernucci, and Isabel Introzzi analyze cognitive and attitudinal factors involved in the prediction of mathematics performance in Argentine high school students. Their article r...

It is a pleasure to share with the national and international academic community Volume 29, No. 2 of Liberabit, Revista Peruana de Psicología, which is comprised of seven empirical research articles and one theoretical research article.

In this second issue of volume 26 of Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology, we present eight reports to the national and international academic community. The first is by Mariano Scandar and Natalia Irrazabal and deals with emotion, memory and reading comprehension in high school students. The authors study whether the valence, activation, and dominance of the The study of the emotional impact on the comprehension and recovery of written texts in Argentinean adolescents concluded that the Positive validation allows for improvements in text comprehension, but not for delayed recovery, while the activation is linked to the memory and storage of information.

The editing of scientific journals is a process which is marked by high demands and utmost competitiveness, as evidenced by the rising rejection rates of the manuscripts submitted to arbitration. Today, more than ever, the scientific community has a very strong perception of the journals as the main platform for dissemination and exchange of original, accurate and honest information. That is why the publishing activity is carried out by a cohesive team; first of all, the associate editors are the first ones to assess the quality and originality of the manuscripts and, if approved, they are submitted in such a way that the compliance with the established international standards can be guaranteed; secondly, the scientific committee participates as the last specialized filter which, under the double-blind peer review system, ensures the objectivity in the evaluation process of the manuscrip...

This issue of Liberabit, Peruvian Journal of Psychology, comprises articles covering a range of topics mentioned below. The original articles section begins with a report by Pedro Gil-Monte, Sara Viotti and Daniela Coverso of the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire for Assessing Workplace Burnout Syndrome (CESQT) in Italian health professionals. This study contributes to demonstrate the psychometric validity of the questionnaire at international level, regardless of the gender, thus consolidating its cross-cultural nature...

Liberabit, Revista Peruana de Psicología presents a new issue consisting of the contributions mentioned hereinbelow. The original articles section begins with the study of Norma Alicia Ruvalcaba-Romero, Mercedes Gabriela Orozco-Solis, Julia Gallegos-Guajardo, and Juan Manuel Nava-Fuerte, professors at a Mexican university, who analyze school relationships, communication with parents, and prosocial behaviors as predictors of positive emotions. The results of this research allow us to conclude that prosocial behaviors and positive bonds with the mother are variables that predict positive emotions in adolescents. Secondly, Valeria E. Moran, Fabián O. Olaz, Edgardo R. Pérez, and Zilda AP Del Prette, authors from Argentina and Brazil, report the production of the Social Anxiety Test for University Students (SAT-U). They found adequate evidence of validity and reliability in the psychometri...

The measurement of burnout has evolved into the creation of various tools and models. The Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (MBI-GS) is one of these instruments used to measure three definitional constructs of burnout: (1) emotional exhaustion, (2) professional efficiency, and (3) indifference. It was created for a wide range of occupations, but its latent structure and invariance of measurement in Latin America has rarely been verified. The present study analyzes the latent structure and the invariance of measurement of MBI-GS in a sample of 940 Peruvian workers in various occupations. The methodology of structural equations was applied through the confirmatory factor analysis, as well as the invariance of measurement between men and women, imposing restrictions successively more strict. The results satisfactorily verified the structure of three-dimensional latent MBI-GS, and t...

The purpose of this research is to determine the value given by adolescents and young adults to a set of biological and social variables of their behaviors and attitudes towards sexuality. The following variables were considered: mother’s and father’s images, religion, fear of “what are they going to say”, sexual impulse, sexual education received in school, friends, sexual curiosity, risk of AIDS, self-control, and response to particular situations. The set of variables included the value given to men or women who had had sexual relations before marriage, sexual stereotypes of people of the Peruvian coast, the Andes and the Amazon. The results showed that men and women give different value to the sexual dimension in their lives.

Background: Academic burnout (AB) is an insidious process characterized by the feeling of emotional exhaustion due to the demands of academic life. Despite its impact on people's health, its prevalence has not yet been reported in Peru. The objective was to estimate the prevalence of AB, based on the emotional exhaustion experienced by university students, and the differences according to the student's year of study and sex. Method: Participants were 341 college students (76% women) from several institutions who were enrolled between the second and fourth year-of-studies. The Emotional Exhaustion Scale was used to measure students' AB. Results: The prevalence of AB was described by percentages and the comparison between groups was performed with effect size measures. The results reveal BA levels at a high level (31.4%) and risk (11.7%). On the other hand, wo...

OBJETIVO: Dado que aparentemente no hay estudios científicos peruanos que lo describan la experiencia del burnout en sacerdotes peruanos formalmente vinculados al clero, así como en religiosas consagradas pertenecientes a una congregación, los objetivos del presente estudio fueron evaluar la estructura interna del MBI (una medida conocida de burnout), y explorar sus correlatos demográficos y con estudios previos realizados en Perú. METODO: fueron evaluados 63 religiosos (33 mujeres) con una edad promedio de 26.83 años. Se usó el MBI en su versión original, con ligeras modificaciones en su fraseo, para estimar la experiencia de burnout desde una perspectiva dimensional y no categórica. RESULTADOS: El análisis verificó la estructura interna del instrumento, y examinó el impacto de las variables demográficas sobre el MBI. Se halló una estructura interna aceptable y correspondi...

Mediante una investigación cualitativa se estudiaron las características que definen las emociones de culpa y vergüenza en una población de estudiantes limeños. Se analizó la descripción de todas las situaciones dentro del marco de un enfoque componencial de la emoción. Se construyeron categorías que referían el tipo de situación antecedente, evaluaciones, experiencias subjetivas, reacciones psicofisiológicas, prontitud para actuar y reacciones emocionales, procesos de regulación y las consecuencias cognitivas. En el material cualitativo codificado surgió una clara diferenciación entre la culpa y la vergüenza.