Recent studies have shown that secure attachment and the emotional climate of the place where infants develop can be predictive of their temperament. The present study evaluated the predictive role of parental empathy, emotional regulation and alexithymia in effortful control of 326 children. Results show that personal distress in mothers predicts inhibitory control and that fathers’ empathic concern predicts perceptual sensibility, however, effects are mild. Supplemental analyses are also reported, such as the relation between age and effortful control (the expected correlation is not replicated) and sex differences (in favor of girls); as well as psychometric evaluation of the tests used. Results suggest that certain parental emotional adjustment characteristics can have a role, although mild, in the development of effortful control. This is consistent with the fact that most effects...

Conspiratorial thinking is the tendency to attribute the causes of significant problems to secret plots schemed by people seeking to harm society. Although this trend has important consequences, there are no validated instruments that allow it to be measured in Spanish. The present study seeks to close this gap by translating and adapting the General Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) into Spanish and analyzing its validity and reliability. For this, 316 participants were recruited from social networks to analyze the psychometric adequacy of the test. The validity evidence for the factorial structure of the test was confirmed with a structure of three factors: political, scientific, and alien conspiracies. Evidence of validity from the content of the test was adequate according to Aiken’s V coefficient. People with higher levels of conspiratorial thinking also had consistent responses o...

Conspiratorial thinking is the tendency to attribute the causes of significant problems to secret plots schemed by people seeking to harm society. Although this trend has important consequences, there are no validated instruments that allow it to be measured in Spanish. The present study seeks to close this gap by translating and adapting the General Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS) into Spanish and analyzing its validity and reliability. For this, 316 participants were recruited from social networks to analyze the psychometric adequacy of the test. The validity evidence for the factorial structure of the test was confirmed with a structure of three factors: political, scientific, and alien conspiracies. Evidence of validity from the content of the test was adequate according to Aiken’s V coefficient. People with higher levels of conspiratorial thinking also had consistent responses o...