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Problemas emocionales en niños españoles: Estrategias de evaluación y eficacia del protocolo preventivo transdiagnóstico Super Skills for Life


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Title:
Problemas emocionales en niños españoles: Estrategias de evaluación y eficacia del protocolo preventivo transdiagnóstico Super Skills for Life
Authors:
Fernández Martínez, Iván
Tutor:
Orgilés, Mireia  
Department:
Departamentos de la UMH::Psicología de la Salud
Issue Date:
2019-09-24
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/11000/5801
Abstract:
Los trastornos de ansiedad tienen un inicio temprano y se encuentran entre los problemas psicológicos más comunes en la niñez, y más específicamente en niños en edad escolar (entre 6 y 12 años). Los trastornos de ansiedad pueden generar una considerable interferencia en la vida del niño en diferent...  Ver más
Anxiety disorders have an early onset and are among the most common psychological problems in childhood and, more specifically, in school-age children (between 6 and 12 years). Anxiety disorders can generate considerable interference in different areas of functioning of the child’s life and tend to co-occur with other disorders, with the frequent comorbidity between childhood anxiety and depression standing out. In this regard, the need to consider the cognitive emotion regulation strategies used by school-age children in the face of stressful life situations has been shown, as these strategies can play an important role in their emotional problems. Therefore, having instruments with adequate psychometric properties is a key to accurately evaluate and detect childhood anxiety problems and their associated interference, as well as to measure the cognitive emotion regulation strategies used by children. The literature also emphasizes the suitability of developing effective preventive interventions, based on a transdiagnostic approach, in order to address early emotional difficulties or problems (i.e., symptoms of anxiety and depression) that may begin and co-occur in childhood. The present doctoral thesis is a compilation of six studies, focusing on the field of psychological assessment and intervention in children, and addresses three specific objectives. Objective 1. The first objective of this doctoral thesis consisted of analyzing in depth the reliability and factorial structure of an instrument widely used at an international level for the evaluation of childhood anxiety: the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS). This objective was addressed through Publication 1 [A systematic review of the factor structure and reliability of the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale], in which a systematic review of the SCAS was conducted, including 29 and 32 international studies that examined the factor structure and internal consistency of the SCAS, respectively. The results of this study showed that the SCAS has a high mean reliability across the studies analyzed, and that it may be influenced by different moderators. Broad support was also found for the original six-factor model of this instrument. Objective 2. The second objective of the doctoral thesis was addressed through the three subsequent studies, that is, Publication 2 [Validation of the parent report version of the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS-P) for Spanish children], Publication 3 [Spanish validation of the Child Anxiety Life Interference Scale (CALIS-C): Psychometric properties, factorial structure and factorial invariance across gender], and Publication 4 [Spanish adaptation and psychometric properties of the child version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire]. Thus, this second objective consisted of validating in the Spanish population three instruments that have shown their usefulness in other countries for the assessment of child anxiety and related variables, such as the interference of anxiety in the child’s life or the cognitive emotion regulation strategies that children use after experiencing negative life events. Collectively, the results of these studies showed that the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of these instruments were satisfactory, supporting their use with Spanish school-age children. Objective 3. Th e third and last objective of the doctoral thesis was to evaluate the short- and long-term effi cacy of the transdiagnostic preventive protocol Super Skills for Life (SSL) to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression in Spanish school-age children between 6 and 12 years old. Th is objective was addressed through two studies that, in this thesis, comprise Publication 5 [Spanish version of Super Skills for Life: Short- and long-term impact of a transdiagnostic prevention protocol targeting childhood anxiety and depression] and Publication 6 [Eff ectiveness of the program Super Skills for Life in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression in young Spanish children]. Th e results of both studies showed that participants who received the Spanish-adapted version of the SSL program signifi cantly improved their symptoms of anxiety and depression, and other problems analyzed (e.g., anxiety-related interference). Th us, altogether, the research carried out in this doctoral thesis on the SSL transdiagnostic preventive protocol provided initial support for its use with Spanish children between 6 and 12 years of age, suggesting that the benefi ts of the SSL program occur in the short and long term, and that they can be long-lasting and greater over time, based on the results obtained in a one-year follow-up period.
Notes:
Programa de Doctorado en Deporte y Salud
Keywords/Subjects:
psicología del Niño
adolescente
Knowledge area:
CDU: Filosofía y psicología: Psicología
Type of document:
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Access rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Tesis doctorales - Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas



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