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Action control bridges the planning-behavior gap: A longitudinal study on physical exercise in young adults
(2015)
Objectives: Maintaining physical exercise levels may not only require motivation and planning but also action control which is supposed to mediate between planning and exercise.
Design: Behavioural intention, action ...
Association between Fathers´ and Mothers´ Parenting Styles and the Risk of Overweight/Obesity among Adolescents in San José Province, Costa Rica.
(2022-12)
Parenting styles are a risk factor for adolescents overweight/obesity worldwide, but this association is not well understood in the context of Latin America. This study examines the association between the parenting styles ...
Influence of Parenting Styles on Willingness to Use Marijuana among Rural and Urban Costa Rican Adolescents
(2022-09-29)
Marijuana use during adolescence may result in altered neurocognitive functioning; therefore, preventing or delaying the onset of marijuana use is a public health concern. Parenting styles have been consistently identified ...
Acute stress and fear scales during the COVID-19 pandemic: development and evaluation in a Costa Rican sample
(2023-12-11)
Objective: In the context of the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, concerns were raised about how to adequately assess its impact on the wellbeing of the population. The main reason of this paper is to present the preliminary ...
Intersectionality between parenting styles, area of residence and gender on food group consumption among Costa Rican adolescents
(2021)
Little is known about how parenting styles can influence the adolescent’s consumption of sugar-sweetened
beverages (SSB), fruits and vegetables (FV), and beans in Latin America. This study uses hierarchical moderated ...
Promoción de un parentaje positivo con madres de menores de edad en condición social vulnerable a través de la aplicación de principios y técnicas de la entrevista motivacional y el enfoque centrado en la persona
(2021-09)
Como parte del proceso de formación de la Maestría en Psicología Clínica y Salud se llevó a cabo un Trabajo Final de Investigación Aplicada cuyo objetivo fue promover un parentaje positivo con madres de menores de edad ...
¿Cuál es el aporte de la Psicología dentro de la Atención de la Salud en Costa Rica?
(2011)
La Psicología de la Salud está apenas empezando en el contexto costarricense. El presente artículo expone conceptos y teorías de la Psicología que pueden contribuir a la atención de la salud en Costa Rica ...
Social-cognitive Antecedents of Hand Washing: Action Control Bridges the Planning-Behavior Gap
(2016-04)
Objectives. To examine motivational and volitional factors for hand washing in young adults, using the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) as a theoretical framework.
Design. In a longitudinal design with two measurement ...
Introducción al modelo transteórico: rol del apoyo social y de variables sociodemográficas
Introduction to the transtheoretical model: role of social support and socioeconomic variables
(2019)
El ajuste de muchos modelos psicológicos se encuentra alterados por variables psicosociales. Entre los modelos de cambios de conducta en salud, destaca el de James Prochaska pues compila una variedad de teorías psicológicas ...
Modelling Longitudinal Directional Associations Between Self-regulation, Physical Activity, and Habit: Results from a Cross-lagged Panel Model
(2020-11-23)
Background
The directionality of associations between self-regulatory variables, behavior, and automaticity is seldomly tested. In this study, we aimed to examine a volitional, self-regulatory sequence of variables proposed ...