Isabel Benítez
Biographic Data
| ID | 113529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel Benítez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Benítez |
| SIGNATURE | BENÍTEZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Granada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0141-0816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contextual factors of writing initiatives at Spanish universities: A qualitative study / Factores contextuales de iniciativas de escritura en universidades españolas: un estudio cualitativo
Writing programmes are institutional initiatives designed to teach writing across the disciplines or in the disciplines. In this sense, writing is scarcely fostered in Spain, where initiatives are rather isolated and not institutional. This paper aims to gather experiences from professionals in the field of academic writing at Spanish universities, with the aim of identifying the key elements in the development of institutional programmes. An ad …
Perceived Detention Environment and Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain
The increase in migratory flows worldwide has led to the creation of detention centers as a form of control of irregular migration. Recipient countries are responsible for protecting detainees' right to mental health, but the literature suggests that immigration detention centers are environments associated with complex mental health needs among the detainees. This study aims to approach the mental health of people detained in the immigration det…
Is the Self-Categorization of Social Network Consumption Related to Subjective Well-Being? A Longitudinal Study of Spanish Adolescents
The impact of social network consumption on adolescents’ subjective well-being (SWB) has remained a subject of debate in cross-sectional studies, and the understanding of how changing social network consumption patterns affect SWB over time is even more limited. This study adopts an innovative approach, utilizing various measurement scales to assess adolescents’ SWB alongside the evolution of their SSNC patterns. A four-wave longitudinal study wa…
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the psychological well-being of migrants and refugees settled in Spain
Based on these findings, we outline priority areas of psychosocial interventions aimed at guaranteeing the mental health of migrants and refugees in the face of the pandemic in Spain
A Mixed Methods Approach to the Analysis of Bias in Cross-cultural Studies
The aim of the study is to illustrate a comprehensive approach to item bias in cross-cultural research by integrating quantitative and qualitative data in a mixed methods design. We studied responses and response processes of Dutch and Spanish participants to quality of life items from five international studies. Item bias was evaluated by analyzing differential item functioning (DIF) with several statistical procedures. Statistical results were …
The role of contextual factors in the electoral resurgence of extreme right-wing forces in Spain: The case of Andalusia
Predicting Student Well-Being: Network Analysis Based on Pisa 2018
The latest trends in research extend the focus of school effectiveness beyond students' acquisition of knowledge and skills, looking at aspects such as well-being in the academic context. Although the concept of well-being itself has been defined and measured in various ways, neither its dimensions nor the relationships between the components have been clearly described. The aim of the present study was to analyse how the elements of well-being i…
Assessing the Importance of Internal and External Self-Esteem and Their Relationship to Honor Concerns in Six Countries
We assessed empirical support for (a) the widely held notion that across so-called “honor, dignity, and face cultures,” internal and external components of self-esteem are differentially important for overall self-esteem; and (b) the idea that concerns for honor are related to internal and external components of self-esteem in honor cultures but not in dignity and face cultures. Most importantly, we also set out to (c) investigate whether measure…
Rediscovering the roots and wonder of qualitative psychology in Spain: A cartographic exercise
After providing a short introduction to qualitative research in psychology in Spain, we report and interpret the results of an online survey in which 47 qualitative psychologists answered questions about their location, research topic, research group, and the strengths, limitations, and challenges of being a qualitative researcher in Spain. The participants enthusiastically endorsed the use of qualitative methodologies, which were especially prai…
What Cognitive Interviews Tell Us about Bias in Cross-cultural Research: An Illustration Using Quality-of-life Items
This study illustrates how the cognitive interviewing (CI) method can provide qualitative evidence of item, construct, and method bias in cross-cultural research. CI was conducted with participants from the Netherlands and Spain, who responded to quality-of-life (QoL) items included in international survey research projects. Qualitative findings indicate that, at the construct level, Spanish participants were more affected by the particular wordi…
How Does Polytomous Item Bias Affect Total-group Survey Score Comparisons?
The growing use of scales in survey questionnaires warrants the need to address how does polytomous differential item functioning (DIF) affect observed scale score comparisons. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of DIF on the type I error and effect size of the independent samples t-test on the observed total scale scores. A simulation study was conducted, focusing on potential variables related to DIF in polytomous items, such as…
Integrating Scale Data and Patient Perspectives for Assessing Functionality in Schizophrenia
Analysis of Nonequivalent Assessments Across Different Linguistic Groups Using a Mixed Methods Approach: Understanding the Causes of Differential Item Functioning by Cognitive Interviewing
Differential item functioning (DIF) can undermine the validity of cross-lingual comparisons. While a lot of efficient statistics for detecting DIF are available, few general findings have been found to explain DIF results. The objective of the article was to study DIF sources by using a mixed method design. The design involves a quantitative phase in which DIF was analyzed followed by a qualitative phase conducting cognitive interviews. To illust…
Evaluating Structural Equivalence in Psychological Questionnaires Using Weighted Multidimensional Scaling
Cross-cultural scientists evaluate constructs across different cultural and linguistic groups. However, to make valid comparisons it is necessary to assure the equivalence of measurement instruments across populations. In this paper we use multidimensional scaling (MDS) to evaluate the structural equivalence of a measure of assertiveness developed originally for Mexican culture across Mexican and Spanish samples. 316 students from the Autonomous …
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the psychological well-being of migrants and refugees settled in Spain
Based on these findings, we outline priority areas of psychosocial interventions aimed at guaranteeing the mental health of migrants and refugees in the face of the pandemic in Spain
The role of contextual factors in the electoral resurgence of extreme right-wing forces in Spain: The case of Andalusia
Analysis of Nonequivalent Assessments Across Different Linguistic Groups Using a Mixed Methods Approach: Understanding the Causes of Differential Item Functioning by Cognitive Interviewing
Differential item functioning (DIF) can undermine the validity of cross-lingual comparisons. While a lot of efficient statistics for detecting DIF are available, few general findings have been found to explain DIF results. The objective of the article was to study DIF sources by using a mixed method design. The design involves a quantitative phase in which DIF was analyzed followed by a qualitative phase conducting cognitive interviews. To illust…
A Mixed Methods Approach to the Analysis of Bias in Cross-cultural Studies
The aim of the study is to illustrate a comprehensive approach to item bias in cross-cultural research by integrating quantitative and qualitative data in a mixed methods design. We studied responses and response processes of Dutch and Spanish participants to quality of life items from five international studies. Item bias was evaluated by analyzing differential item functioning (DIF) with several statistical procedures. Statistical results were …
Assessing the Importance of Internal and External Self-Esteem and Their Relationship to Honor Concerns in Six Countries
We assessed empirical support for (a) the widely held notion that across so-called “honor, dignity, and face cultures,” internal and external components of self-esteem are differentially important for overall self-esteem; and (b) the idea that concerns for honor are related to internal and external components of self-esteem in honor cultures but not in dignity and face cultures. Most importantly, we also set out to (c) investigate whether measure…
What Cognitive Interviews Tell Us about Bias in Cross-cultural Research: An Illustration Using Quality-of-life Items
This study illustrates how the cognitive interviewing (CI) method can provide qualitative evidence of item, construct, and method bias in cross-cultural research. CI was conducted with participants from the Netherlands and Spain, who responded to quality-of-life (QoL) items included in international survey research projects. Qualitative findings indicate that, at the construct level, Spanish participants were more affected by the particular wordi…
Rediscovering the roots and wonder of qualitative psychology in Spain: A cartographic exercise
After providing a short introduction to qualitative research in psychology in Spain, we report and interpret the results of an online survey in which 47 qualitative psychologists answered questions about their location, research topic, research group, and the strengths, limitations, and challenges of being a qualitative researcher in Spain. The participants enthusiastically endorsed the use of qualitative methodologies, which were especially prai…
Integrating Scale Data and Patient Perspectives for Assessing Functionality in Schizophrenia
Evaluating Structural Equivalence in Psychological Questionnaires Using Weighted Multidimensional Scaling
Cross-cultural scientists evaluate constructs across different cultural and linguistic groups. However, to make valid comparisons it is necessary to assure the equivalence of measurement instruments across populations. In this paper we use multidimensional scaling (MDS) to evaluate the structural equivalence of a measure of assertiveness developed originally for Mexican culture across Mexican and Spanish samples. 316 students from the Autonomous …
Analysis of Nonequivalent Assessments Across Different Linguistic Groups Using a Mixed Methods Approach: Understanding the Causes of Differential Item Functioning by Cognitive Interviewing
Differential item functioning (DIF) can undermine the validity of cross-lingual comparisons. While a lot of efficient statistics for detecting DIF are available, few general findings have been found to explain DIF results. The objective of the article was to study DIF sources by using a mixed method design. The design involves a quantitative phase in which DIF was analyzed followed by a qualitative phase conducting cognitive interviews. To illust…
Integrating Scale Data and Patient Perspectives for Assessing Functionality in Schizophrenia
How Does Polytomous Item Bias Affect Total-group Survey Score Comparisons?
The growing use of scales in survey questionnaires warrants the need to address how does polytomous differential item functioning (DIF) affect observed scale score comparisons. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of DIF on the type I error and effect size of the independent samples t-test on the observed total scale scores. A simulation study was conducted, focusing on potential variables related to DIF in polytomous items, such as…
What Cognitive Interviews Tell Us about Bias in Cross-cultural Research: An Illustration Using Quality-of-life Items
This study illustrates how the cognitive interviewing (CI) method can provide qualitative evidence of item, construct, and method bias in cross-cultural research. CI was conducted with participants from the Netherlands and Spain, who responded to quality-of-life (QoL) items included in international survey research projects. Qualitative findings indicate that, at the construct level, Spanish participants were more affected by the particular wordi…
Rediscovering the roots and wonder of qualitative psychology in Spain: A cartographic exercise
After providing a short introduction to qualitative research in psychology in Spain, we report and interpret the results of an online survey in which 47 qualitative psychologists answered questions about their location, research topic, research group, and the strengths, limitations, and challenges of being a qualitative researcher in Spain. The participants enthusiastically endorsed the use of qualitative methodologies, which were especially prai…
Predicting Student Well-Being: Network Analysis Based on Pisa 2018
The latest trends in research extend the focus of school effectiveness beyond students' acquisition of knowledge and skills, looking at aspects such as well-being in the academic context. Although the concept of well-being itself has been defined and measured in various ways, neither its dimensions nor the relationships between the components have been clearly described. The aim of the present study was to analyse how the elements of well-being i…
Assessing the Importance of Internal and External Self-Esteem and Their Relationship to Honor Concerns in Six Countries
We assessed empirical support for (a) the widely held notion that across so-called “honor, dignity, and face cultures,” internal and external components of self-esteem are differentially important for overall self-esteem; and (b) the idea that concerns for honor are related to internal and external components of self-esteem in honor cultures but not in dignity and face cultures. Most importantly, we also set out to (c) investigate whether measure…
The role of contextual factors in the electoral resurgence of extreme right-wing forces in Spain: The case of Andalusia
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the psychological well-being of migrants and refugees settled in Spain
Based on these findings, we outline priority areas of psychosocial interventions aimed at guaranteeing the mental health of migrants and refugees in the face of the pandemic in Spain
A Mixed Methods Approach to the Analysis of Bias in Cross-cultural Studies
The aim of the study is to illustrate a comprehensive approach to item bias in cross-cultural research by integrating quantitative and qualitative data in a mixed methods design. We studied responses and response processes of Dutch and Spanish participants to quality of life items from five international studies. Item bias was evaluated by analyzing differential item functioning (DIF) with several statistical procedures. Statistical results were …
Is the Self-Categorization of Social Network Consumption Related to Subjective Well-Being? A Longitudinal Study of Spanish Adolescents
The impact of social network consumption on adolescents’ subjective well-being (SWB) has remained a subject of debate in cross-sectional studies, and the understanding of how changing social network consumption patterns affect SWB over time is even more limited. This study adopts an innovative approach, utilizing various measurement scales to assess adolescents’ SWB alongside the evolution of their SSNC patterns. A four-wave longitudinal study wa…
Contextual factors of writing initiatives at Spanish universities: A qualitative study / Factores contextuales de iniciativas de escritura en universidades españolas: un estudio cualitativo
Writing programmes are institutional initiatives designed to teach writing across the disciplines or in the disciplines. In this sense, writing is scarcely fostered in Spain, where initiatives are rather isolated and not institutional. This paper aims to gather experiences from professionals in the field of academic writing at Spanish universities, with the aim of identifying the key elements in the development of institutional programmes. An ad …
Perceived Detention Environment and Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain
The increase in migratory flows worldwide has led to the creation of detention centers as a form of control of irregular migration. Recipient countries are responsible for protecting detainees' right to mental health, but the literature suggests that immigration detention centers are environments associated with complex mental health needs among the detainees. This study aims to approach the mental health of people detained in the immigration det…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Differential item functioning (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Item response theory (4 works)