Background: Currently, anxiety disorders are the most prevalent worldwide, reaching a rate of 5% in Argentina in 2017. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is one of the instruments most used in research and clinic today. In its construction, one of the objectives was to evaluate anxiety symptoms that are not usually evident in depressive disorders, which is why it is a relevant test to make a differential diagnosis. The objective of this study was to adapt the BAI to the adult population of Buenos Aires. Methods: A direct translation of the inventory and then an expert judgment to assess the content validity were carried out. The discrimination capacity of the items was analyzed and the structural validity of the test was evaluated according to different models found in the literature. Also, the internal consistency of the instrument was analyzed. Results: The adapt...

[Letter to the Editor]

El crecimiento en el estudio de la regulación emocional (RE) (Fernández Álvarez et al., 2018) ha promovido el desarrollo de modelos e investigaciones que la vinculan con la sintomatología psicológica, desde una perspectiva transdiagnóstica. La presente investigación sintetizó los resultados de revisiones sistemáticas y meta análisis acerca de la relación entre la RE y la sintomatología psicológica. Para ello se realizó una búsqueda en las bases de datos y buscadores ScienceDirect, PubMed, Dialnet, SciELO, Redalyc y Google Scholar. Se hallaron 13 artículos que cumplían los criterios de inclusión y exclusión: revisiones sistemáticas y meta análisis, publicadas en español o inglés, en revistas científicas con referato, entre 2010 y diciembre de 2020. El área de estudio debía ser la psicología o la sintomatología psicológica. Entre los principales resultados, se ...

Introducción: La teoría de metas de logro en el deporte intenta explicar la motivación del individuo a partir de conocer qué valor y expectativas les otorga a las actividades deportivas que realiza y las metas que se propone, para definirlas o sentirse exitoso en las mismas, partiendo del supuesto de que el deporte es un contexto de logro y es por esto que los individuos se esforzaran para demostrar competencia y habilidad. El Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire es uno de los instrumentos de medición más utilizados para abordar esta teoría. Sin embargo, no existen estudios locales que permitan medir el constructo en deportistas argentinos adultos. Por esta razón, el objetivo de este estudio fue realizar la adaptación lingüística, conceptual y métrica del TEOSQ en deportistas adultos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Método: El estudio fue instrument...

The relationship between coping responses and test anxiety was addressed by different investigations. However, no studies have been found about coping profiles and their relationship to test anxiety. The objective of this research was to study the coping profiles of 100 psychology students and their relationship with test anxiety. A solution of 3 well differentiated clusters was found regarding the mean scores of coping responses. It was found that the participants belonging to the cluster with the lowest scores in all the coping responses experienced a lower level of concern, emotionality and global test anxiety. The implications of these results are discussed.

The relationship between coping responses and test anxiety was addressed by different investigations. However, no studies have been found about coping profiles and their relationship to test anxiety. The objective of this research was to study the coping profiles of 100 psychology students and their relationship with test anxiety. A solution of 3 well differentiated clusters was found regarding the mean scores of coping responses. It was found that the participants belonging to the cluster with the lowest scores in all the coping responses experienced a lower level of concern, emotionality and global test anxiety. The implications of these results are discussed.

The relationship between coping responses and test anxiety was addressed by different investigations. However, no studies have been found about coping profiles and their relationship to test anxiety. The objective of this research was to study the coping profiles of 100 psychology students and their relationship with test anxiety. A solution of 3 well differentiated clusters was found regarding the mean scores of coping responses. It was found that the participants belonging to the cluster with the lowest scores in all the coping responses experienced a lower level of concern, emotionality and global test anxiety. The implications of these results are discussed.

Background: Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent worldwide, followed by depressive disorders. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; Beck et al., 1988) has been developed to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms and perform a differential diagnosis between anxiety and depression disorders. Objective: To examine the temporal stability of the BAI in its version adapted to Argentina and obtain evidence of discriminant validity. Method: In a sample of 52 people, the intraclass correlation coefficient was analyzed. Then, in a sample of 225 people, a correlation analysis between BAI scores and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck et al., 2006) was performed; subsequently, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with reagents from both instruments was conducted and the heterotrait-monotrait ratio of correlations (HTMT) was calculated. Results: The intraclass correlation coefficient was ....

La ciencia se basa en el aporte e integración de conocimientos en la comunidad científica a través de la comunicación. Para lograr diseminar estas contribuciones, la vía predilecta son las revistas científicas (Dadkhah et al., 2018; Castellanos & González, 2019). Sin embargo, la proliferación de revistas y artículos científicos de los últimos años ha provocado que exista una brecha entre la cantidad de publicaciones y su utilidad (Bornmann & Tekles, 2019). En el ámbito de la salud, es habitual consultar bibliografía actualizada a fin de incorporar nuevas herramientas a la práctica con pacientes (Fernández-Sánchez et al., 2020), de manera que resulte fundamental el desarrollo de habilidades que permitan acceder a información científica de utilidad y de calidad. El presente trabajo se propone proveer herramientas que permita realizar una búsqueda eficaz de artí...

La ciencia se basa en el aporte e integración de conocimientos en la comunidad científica a través de la comunicación. Para lograr diseminar estas contribuciones, la vía predilecta son las revistas científicas (Dadkhah et al., 2018; Castellanos & González, 2019). Sin embargo, la proliferación de revistas y artículos científicos de los últimos años ha provocado que exista una brecha entre la cantidad de publicaciones y su utilidad (Bornmann & Tekles, 2019). En el ámbito de la salud, es habitual consultar bibliografía actualizada a fin de incorporar nuevas herramientas a la práctica con pacientes (Fernández-Sánchez et al., 2020), de manera que resulte fundamental el desarrollo de habilidades que permitan acceder a información científica de utilidad y de calidad. El presente trabajo se propone proveer herramientas que permita realizar una búsqueda eficaz de artí...

Symptoms of anxiety and depression represent a problem for health systems. Different sociodemographic variables affect the risk of suffering from them, among which is life stage. Given that the research literature is not clear about which age groups are at risk, the present research aimed to evaluate the symptoms of anxiety and depression in different age groups (18 to 24 years, 25 to 55 years and 56 to 65 years) of adults from CABA (35 %) and Greater Buenos Aires (65 %), considering interactions with gender and educational level. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered. The results show that the 18- to 24-year-old group reported higher levels of anxiety symptoms than the others. The 25- to 55-year-old group reported higher levels of depressive symptoms than the 56- to 65-year-old group. Regarding gender, those who...

Symptoms of anxiety and depression represent a problem for health systems. Different sociodemographic variables affect the risk of suffering from them, among which is life stage. Given that the research literature is not clear about which age groups are at risk, the present research aimed to evaluate the symptoms of anxiety and depression in different age groups (18 to 24 years, 25 to 55 years and 56 to 65 years) of adults from CABA (35 %) and Greater Buenos Aires (65 %), considering interactions with gender and educational level. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, and the Beck Depression Inventory were administered. The results show that the 18- to 24-year-old group reported higher levels of anxiety symptoms than the others. The 25- to 55-year-old group reported higher levels of depressive symptoms than the 56- to 65-year-old group. Regarding gender, those who...