RESEARCH LINES

Evaluation of the effects of play on child development.

Design and evaluation of psychological intervention programs for children and adolescents, for preventive, developmental and therapeutic purposes: prosocial behavior, creativity, self-concept, psychomotricity, human rights, education for peace and the prevention of violence...

Design of psychological assessment instruments (for children, adolescents, adults), and psychometric analysis thereof, for variables such as: self-concept, group cooperation, group relations, psychomotor development, altruistic behavior, prejudiced cognitions, ability to analyze feelings, cognitive strategies for resolving social situations, creative personality traits, verbal associative thinking...

Prosocial behavior: Evaluation and intervention.

Creativity: Evaluation and intervention.

Bullying: School bullying in schools in the Basque Autonomous Community. Epidemiological and correlational studies.

Fibromyalgia: personality characteristics and psychopathological symptoms of people who suffer from this disease and evaluation of the efficacy of individual and group treatments.

Workplace Harassment: Personality traits, social skills, attachment and psychopathological symptoms in victims.

Correlational and predictive studies on behavioral and cognitive variables (social behavior with peers, creativity, psychomotor behaviors, prejudiced cognitions, self-concept-self-esteem, antisocial behavior, psychopathological symptoms, empathy and psychological well-being), in children, adolescents and adults.

Gender and sexism studies: epidemiological studies, relationships with personality traits and with cognitive-behavioral variables, modulating factors... In recent years, together with the transversality of gender studies present in the referenced research lines, a new research line has emerged focused on the study of sexism of a national and transcultural nature, and which is projected in the future with the design of new investigations.