María Luisa Marván
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 185622 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | María Luisa Marván |
| NOMBRES | María Luisa |
| APELLIDO | Marván |
| FIRMA | MARVÁN M L |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Veracruzana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0670-2260 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Attitudes toward abortion and conscientious objection among medical students in Mexico
We conducted a survey on attitudes toward abortion and conscientious objection (CO) among Mexican medical students from Mexico City, where abortion was decriminalized in 2007, and Xalapa, a city where it was decriminalized in 2021. Fewer than half of them were aware of CO before participating. Men expressed greater support for CO than women. Agreement with CO was positively correlated with opposition to performing abortions for fear of stigma, an…
Should people be able to have access to medical assistance in dying to avoid living with Alzheimer's? Opinions from Mexico and Colombia
Growing population aging is accompanied by a growing fear of suffering dementia. Four hundred and thirty‐six Mexican and Colombian adults completed a survey about their opinion on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for patients with dementia, both in the early stage of the disease and in the advanced stage through an advance directive. In Colombia, MAID is allowed while in Mexico it is banned. The main reasons given by those who agreed with MAID …
Menarcheal experience, beliefs about and attitudes toward menstruation in Mexico
We explored how menarcheal experiences and attitudes toward menstruation of Mexican adolescents have changed in the last 20 years. Two questionnaires were applied to female adolescent students, and the results were compared with those obtained in 2002-3 when adolescents of the same ages were surveyed using the same questionnaires. Although some aspects of menstrual education have not changed, the secrecy surrounding menstruation has diminished. I…
Meaning in life, goals, and adherence to antiretroviral treatment in people living with HIV
Patients living with HIV who do not adhere to antiretroviral treatment (ART) have a high viral load, increasing the risk of developing AIDS, as well as new treatment-resistant strains. There are several psychological factors that must be studied to understand the reasons for non-adherence to ART. We studied whether the goals reported by patients with HIV, as well as their sense of meaning in life, influence ART adherence in a sample of adult pati…
Menopause-related symptoms, meaninglessness, and life satisfaction in Mexican women
We studied the influence of meaninglessness and life satisfaction on menopause-related symptoms in 342 middle-aged Mexican women. They completed the Greene Climacteric Scale, the Dimensional Scale of the Meaning of Life, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Psychological symptoms were predicted by meaninglessness and life satisfaction; somatic symptoms only by meaninglessness; and the sexual symptom by meaninglessness and by the menopausal statu…
Secular trends in age at menarche in 20th century Mexico
Objectives This study aims to assess the secular trend in age at menarche (AAM) in Mexico over the 20th century, and compare the patterns according to area of residence (rural/urban), socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity (indigenous/nonindigenous). Methods Data on AAM from 24 380 women aged ≥20 years born between 1906 and 1986 were obtained from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006. Birth cohorts were compared to test for a …
Perceived Consequences of First Intercourse Among Mexican Adolescents and Associated Psychosocial Variables
Actitudes hacia la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en jóvenes mexicanos, y su opinión acerca del aborto inseguro como problema de salud pública
El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar las actitudes hacia el aborto inducido en jóvenes mexicanos, y su relación con el hecho de considerar o no al aborto inseguro un problema de salud pública. Los resultados se compararon de acuerdo al sexo, edad, religión y disciplina de los participantes. La muestra estuvo integrada por 411 estudiantes universitarios, quienes contestaron el cuestionario sobre actitudes hacia el aborto y un cuestionario sobr…
The meaning of menarche
The psychological meaning of menarche was explored in 102 college students from Mexico and the United States. The Natural Semantic Networks Technique was used and participants were asked to respond to the prompt "My first period was ..." The strongest components of the Mexican women's semantic network were scary, confusing, and unexpected; the strongest components of the American women's semantic network were unexpected, annoying, and painful. On…
Facing Death in Medical Training
This study explores how medical students feel about caring for terminally ill patients as well as how their medical courses prepare them for addressing end-of-life (EOL) issues with patients. Four hundred and five Mexican medical students were surveyed through the Student Views on Death questionnaire. The vast majority of students (94%) felt that physicians should inform patients of their impending death. Most students said they felt comfortable …
Beliefs about and attitudes toward vasectomy in Mexico
Vasectomy is a contraceptive method safer less invasive and easier to practice than bilateral tubal ligation. However it is less commonly used especially in developing countries like Mexico. In the present study we sought to determine whether some demographic and gender ideology variables are related to beliefs and attitudes toward vasectomy. Three hundred eighty-nine Mexican adults were surveyed; neither male participants nor the partners of fem…
On Abortion
Elective abortion has become an issue of ethical and political debate in many countries including M exico. As gynecologists are directly involved in the practice of abortion, it is important to know the psychological meaning that the term ‘elective abortion’ has for them. This study explores the psychological meaning and attitudes toward elective abortion of one hundred and twenty‐three M exican gynecologists. We used the semantic networks techni…
Fatalistic Beliefs and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Mexican Women
Fatalistic beliefs about cervical cancer were studied in 464 Mexican women, and how such beliefs relate to participation in cervical cancer screening was evaluated. Rural women were less likely than urban women to have had a Pap test and more likely to believe that the illness is due to bad luck or fate. These were also the beliefs most associated with nonscreening among rural women, whereas for urban women the belief most associated with nonscre…
Ambivalent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Women in Different Stages of Reproductive Life
College students in southeastern Mexico (n = 185) and the northeastern United States (n = 96) utilized a semantic differential scale to rate subtypes of women: a menstruating woman, a menopausal woman, a pregnant woman, a premenstrual woman, a woman with a hysterectomy, a teenage girl, a woman in love, and a woman with a young baby. Americans reported significantly more negative attitudes than Mexicans did toward a menstruating woman, a premenstr…
Mexican Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Hysterectomy and Gender-Role Ideology in Marriage
One hundred and sixty-one Mexican respondents completed a questionnaire that measured beliefs and attitudes toward hysterectomy and another that measured gender-role ideology in marriage (GRIMQ). The participants were divided into two groups according to the GRIMQ: "high machismo/marianismo" and "low machismo/marianismo" groups. The participants belonging to the first group showed the most negative attitudes toward hysterectomy. In this group, me…
On Euthanasia
Euthanasia has become the subject of ethical and political debate in many countries including Mexico. Since many physicians are deeply concerned about euthanasia, due to their crucial participation in its decision and implementation, it is important to know the psychological meaning that the term ‘euthanasia’ has for them, as well as their attitudes toward this practice. This study explores psychological meaning and attitudes toward euthanasia in…
Menstrual Socialization, Beliefs, and Attitudes Concerning Menstruation in Rural and Urban Mexican Women
Women living in rural and urban areas of Mexico answered a questionnaire about what they were told at home about menstruation before their menarche (first menstruation), and answered the Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Menstruation Questionnaire. Around half of both urban and rural women were told that they were going to experience negative perimenstrual changes. There were fewer urban than rural women who were advised to do or not to do certa…
Hysterectomy as Viewed by Mexican Women and Men
Stereotypes of Women in Different Stages of Their Reproductive Life
College students from Mexico and the United States (n = 349) were surveyed to explore stereotypes regarding women in different menstrual cycle phases and other stages of reproductive life. Participants from both countries defined a premenstrual or menstrual woman as irritable and moody and a menopausal woman as old and irritable. A woman with a hysterectomy was defined as sad, and only Americans used other words that did not have any negative con…
Development of a New Scale to Measure Beliefs about and Attitudes Toward Menstruation (Batm)
This article introduces the Beliefs about and Attitudes toward Menstruation Questionnaire (BATM). It is a 5-point Likert scale that was normed on 1,090 Mexican people of different ages and educational levels. In a second study data from 274 undergraduate students from Mexico and the United States were compared. Four factors emerged in both samples: secrecy, annoyance, proscriptions and prescriptions, and pleasant. Mexican students scored signific…
Emotional Reactions to Menarche Among Mexican Women of Different Generations
Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Menstruation Among Young and Middle-Aged Mexicans
Risk Perception, Stress and Coping Strategies in Two Catastrophe Risk Situations
This study examined the influence of risk perception on stress reactions and coping strategies in 191 Mexican people who had experienced a catastrophe either natural (SR group) or industrial (IR group), and who are still exposed to the same kind of risks. Results showed that for the IR group and for people who rank industrial risks as the highest priority, from among a list of risks, the stress levels were higher and coping strategies were passiv…
Menstrual-related changes expected by premenarcheal girls living in rural and urban areas of Mexico
Premenstrual Symptomatology
OBJECTIVE: Most women have some premenstrual symptoms that may be influenced by diverse environmental factors. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of knowledge about premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in the reports of women and their symptoms. METHOD: We studied 86 healthy Mexican women whose highest level of education was sixth grade. Participants were assigned to one of two groups. The experimental group watched a videotape describin…
Perceived Consequences of First Intercourse Among Mexican Adolescents and Associated Psychosocial Variables
Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Menstruation Among Young and Middle-Aged Mexicans
Actitudes hacia la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en jóvenes mexicanos, y su opinión acerca del aborto inseguro como problema de salud pública
El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar las actitudes hacia el aborto inducido en jóvenes mexicanos, y su relación con el hecho de considerar o no al aborto inseguro un problema de salud pública. Los resultados se compararon de acuerdo al sexo, edad, religión y disciplina de los participantes. La muestra estuvo integrada por 411 estudiantes universitarios, quienes contestaron el cuestionario sobre actitudes hacia el aborto y un cuestionario sobr…
Emotional Reactions to Menarche Among Mexican Women of Different Generations
Beliefs about and attitudes toward vasectomy in Mexico
Vasectomy is a contraceptive method safer less invasive and easier to practice than bilateral tubal ligation. However it is less commonly used especially in developing countries like Mexico. In the present study we sought to determine whether some demographic and gender ideology variables are related to beliefs and attitudes toward vasectomy. Three hundred eighty-nine Mexican adults were surveyed; neither male participants nor the partners of fem…
Premenstrual Symptomatology
OBJECTIVE: Most women have some premenstrual symptoms that may be influenced by diverse environmental factors. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of knowledge about premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in the reports of women and their symptoms. METHOD: We studied 86 healthy Mexican women whose highest level of education was sixth grade. Participants were assigned to one of two groups. The experimental group watched a videotape describin…
Risk Perception, Stress and Coping Strategies in Two Catastrophe Risk Situations
This study examined the influence of risk perception on stress reactions and coping strategies in 191 Mexican people who had experienced a catastrophe either natural (SR group) or industrial (IR group), and who are still exposed to the same kind of risks. Results showed that for the IR group and for people who rank industrial risks as the highest priority, from among a list of risks, the stress levels were higher and coping strategies were passiv…
Menstrual-related changes expected by premenarcheal girls living in rural and urban areas of Mexico
Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Menstruation Among Young and Middle-Aged Mexicans
Development of a New Scale to Measure Beliefs about and Attitudes Toward Menstruation (Batm)
This article introduces the Beliefs about and Attitudes toward Menstruation Questionnaire (BATM). It is a 5-point Likert scale that was normed on 1,090 Mexican people of different ages and educational levels. In a second study data from 274 undergraduate students from Mexico and the United States were compared. Four factors emerged in both samples: secrecy, annoyance, proscriptions and prescriptions, and pleasant. Mexican students scored signific…
Emotional Reactions to Menarche Among Mexican Women of Different Generations
Stereotypes of Women in Different Stages of Their Reproductive Life
College students from Mexico and the United States (n = 349) were surveyed to explore stereotypes regarding women in different menstrual cycle phases and other stages of reproductive life. Participants from both countries defined a premenstrual or menstrual woman as irritable and moody and a menopausal woman as old and irritable. A woman with a hysterectomy was defined as sad, and only Americans used other words that did not have any negative con…
Menstrual Socialization, Beliefs, and Attitudes Concerning Menstruation in Rural and Urban Mexican Women
Women living in rural and urban areas of Mexico answered a questionnaire about what they were told at home about menstruation before their menarche (first menstruation), and answered the Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Menstruation Questionnaire. Around half of both urban and rural women were told that they were going to experience negative perimenstrual changes. There were fewer urban than rural women who were advised to do or not to do certa…
Hysterectomy as Viewed by Mexican Women and Men
On Euthanasia
Euthanasia has become the subject of ethical and political debate in many countries including Mexico. Since many physicians are deeply concerned about euthanasia, due to their crucial participation in its decision and implementation, it is important to know the psychological meaning that the term ‘euthanasia’ has for them, as well as their attitudes toward this practice. This study explores psychological meaning and attitudes toward euthanasia in…
Mexican Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Hysterectomy and Gender-Role Ideology in Marriage
One hundred and sixty-one Mexican respondents completed a questionnaire that measured beliefs and attitudes toward hysterectomy and another that measured gender-role ideology in marriage (GRIMQ). The participants were divided into two groups according to the GRIMQ: "high machismo/marianismo" and "low machismo/marianismo" groups. The participants belonging to the first group showed the most negative attitudes toward hysterectomy. In this group, me…
Ambivalent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Women in Different Stages of Reproductive Life
College students in southeastern Mexico (n = 185) and the northeastern United States (n = 96) utilized a semantic differential scale to rate subtypes of women: a menstruating woman, a menopausal woman, a pregnant woman, a premenstrual woman, a woman with a hysterectomy, a teenage girl, a woman in love, and a woman with a young baby. Americans reported significantly more negative attitudes than Mexicans did toward a menstruating woman, a premenstr…
On Abortion
Elective abortion has become an issue of ethical and political debate in many countries including M exico. As gynecologists are directly involved in the practice of abortion, it is important to know the psychological meaning that the term ‘elective abortion’ has for them. This study explores the psychological meaning and attitudes toward elective abortion of one hundred and twenty‐three M exican gynecologists. We used the semantic networks techni…
Fatalistic Beliefs and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Mexican Women
Fatalistic beliefs about cervical cancer were studied in 464 Mexican women, and how such beliefs relate to participation in cervical cancer screening was evaluated. Rural women were less likely than urban women to have had a Pap test and more likely to believe that the illness is due to bad luck or fate. These were also the beliefs most associated with nonscreening among rural women, whereas for urban women the belief most associated with nonscre…
Beliefs about and attitudes toward vasectomy in Mexico
Vasectomy is a contraceptive method safer less invasive and easier to practice than bilateral tubal ligation. However it is less commonly used especially in developing countries like Mexico. In the present study we sought to determine whether some demographic and gender ideology variables are related to beliefs and attitudes toward vasectomy. Three hundred eighty-nine Mexican adults were surveyed; neither male participants nor the partners of fem…
The meaning of menarche
The psychological meaning of menarche was explored in 102 college students from Mexico and the United States. The Natural Semantic Networks Technique was used and participants were asked to respond to the prompt "My first period was ..." The strongest components of the Mexican women's semantic network were scary, confusing, and unexpected; the strongest components of the American women's semantic network were unexpected, annoying, and painful. On…
Facing Death in Medical Training
This study explores how medical students feel about caring for terminally ill patients as well as how their medical courses prepare them for addressing end-of-life (EOL) issues with patients. Four hundred and five Mexican medical students were surveyed through the Student Views on Death questionnaire. The vast majority of students (94%) felt that physicians should inform patients of their impending death. Most students said they felt comfortable …
Perceived Consequences of First Intercourse Among Mexican Adolescents and Associated Psychosocial Variables
Actitudes hacia la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en jóvenes mexicanos, y su opinión acerca del aborto inseguro como problema de salud pública
El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar las actitudes hacia el aborto inducido en jóvenes mexicanos, y su relación con el hecho de considerar o no al aborto inseguro un problema de salud pública. Los resultados se compararon de acuerdo al sexo, edad, religión y disciplina de los participantes. La muestra estuvo integrada por 411 estudiantes universitarios, quienes contestaron el cuestionario sobre actitudes hacia el aborto y un cuestionario sobr…
Secular trends in age at menarche in 20th century Mexico
Objectives This study aims to assess the secular trend in age at menarche (AAM) in Mexico over the 20th century, and compare the patterns according to area of residence (rural/urban), socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity (indigenous/nonindigenous). Methods Data on AAM from 24 380 women aged ≥20 years born between 1906 and 1986 were obtained from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006. Birth cohorts were compared to test for a …
Menopause-related symptoms, meaninglessness, and life satisfaction in Mexican women
We studied the influence of meaninglessness and life satisfaction on menopause-related symptoms in 342 middle-aged Mexican women. They completed the Greene Climacteric Scale, the Dimensional Scale of the Meaning of Life, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Psychological symptoms were predicted by meaninglessness and life satisfaction; somatic symptoms only by meaninglessness; and the sexual symptom by meaninglessness and by the menopausal statu…
Meaning in life, goals, and adherence to antiretroviral treatment in people living with HIV
Patients living with HIV who do not adhere to antiretroviral treatment (ART) have a high viral load, increasing the risk of developing AIDS, as well as new treatment-resistant strains. There are several psychological factors that must be studied to understand the reasons for non-adherence to ART. We studied whether the goals reported by patients with HIV, as well as their sense of meaning in life, influence ART adherence in a sample of adult pati…
Menarcheal experience, beliefs about and attitudes toward menstruation in Mexico
We explored how menarcheal experiences and attitudes toward menstruation of Mexican adolescents have changed in the last 20 years. Two questionnaires were applied to female adolescent students, and the results were compared with those obtained in 2002-3 when adolescents of the same ages were surveyed using the same questionnaires. Although some aspects of menstrual education have not changed, the secrecy surrounding menstruation has diminished. I…
Should people be able to have access to medical assistance in dying to avoid living with Alzheimer's? Opinions from Mexico and Colombia
Growing population aging is accompanied by a growing fear of suffering dementia. Four hundred and thirty‐six Mexican and Colombian adults completed a survey about their opinion on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for patients with dementia, both in the early stage of the disease and in the advanced stage through an advance directive. In Colombia, MAID is allowed while in Mexico it is banned. The main reasons given by those who agreed with MAID …
Attitudes toward abortion and conscientious objection among medical students in Mexico
We conducted a survey on attitudes toward abortion and conscientious objection (CO) among Mexican medical students from Mexico City, where abortion was decriminalized in 2007, and Xalapa, a city where it was decriminalized in 2021. Fewer than half of them were aware of CO before participating. Men expressed greater support for CO than women. Agreement with CO was positively correlated with opposition to performing abortions for fear of stigma, an…
Psychology (23 obras) · Medicine (20 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Demography (11 obras) · Developmental psychology (11 obras) · Menstrual Health and Disorders (11 obras) · Demography (10 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras)