Mercedes Mareque

Biographic Data

ID1162754
NAMEMercedes Mareque
GIVEN NAMESMercedes
FAMILY NAMEMareque
SIGNATUREMAREQUE M
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade de Vigo
ORCID0000-0001-8927-5323
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Self-Esteem among University Students: How It Can Be Improved through Teamwork Skills

    Open AccessElena De Prada, Elena de Prada Creo et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    Teamwork skills have been demonstrated to be excellent allies for the academic and professional sphere, and they can improve students’ psychological balance and self-esteem. For this reason, it is important to explore the relationship between teamwork skills and self-esteem. Considering the relevance of soft skills and self-esteem in university training, the main objective of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between team…

  • La comunicación como vía para el desarrollo de la creatividad en la educación superior: Análisis a través de las prácticas externas en gestión de empresas

    Open AccessElena De Prada, Elena de Prada Creo et al.ARTICLERevista Latina de Comunicación…2023

    Introducción: El objetivo principal de este estudio es analizar la percepción de los empleadores y la autopercepción del alumnado para dos de las competencias clave desarrolladas en las prácticas externas: la creatividad y destrezas comunicativas. También se indaga en la existencia de diferencias para ambas competencias en función del sexo del alumnado y de la duración de las prácticas. Metodología: La población objeto de estudio está formada por…

  • Deciphering the role of multilingualism in creativity at university: The influence of context

    Elena de Prada Creo, Mercedes Mareque et al.ARTICLEIRAL - International Review of…2023

    Despite the close connection between creativity, multilingualism and multiculturalism, limited research has focused on their specific features in contexts where English is a foreign language. In order to fill this gap, this paper examines this relationship in two different bilingual situations: Spanish–Galician (same cultural context) and Spanish–English (different cultural context). For this purpose, a survey was devised to elicit students’ mult…

  • Aspiring and inspiring: The role of women in educational leadership

    Open AccessMercedes Mareque, Elena de Prada Creo et al.ARTICLEGender in Management An…2022Cited by: 1References: 16

    Purpose This study aims to delve deep into the differences observed in leadership acquisition and development between men and women and analyse the impact of certain extra-curricular activities demonstrated to influence leadership acquisition. With this evidence, this study intends to detect areas that require deeper analysis and suggest actions to redress the balance and promote a more egalitarian leadership in education in both teaching and man…

  • Teamwork skills in higher education: Is University Training Contributing to Their Mastery

    Open AccessElena De Prada, Elena de Prada Creo et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2022Cited by: 1References: 41

    Teamwork skills are considered essential for personal, academic and professional achievement, so universities are increasingly integrating them into their syllabuses. However, little is known about how some specific features of students and their educational development can affect their acquisition. Accordingly, this study aims to fill this gap and describe higher education students' mastery of teamwork skills and its relation to certain socio-ac…

  • Exploring Creative Tourism Based on the Cultural and Creative Cities (C3) Index and Using Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

    Open AccessMercedes Mareque, Elena de Prada Creo et al.ARTICLESustainability2021

    Creative tourism is a novel segment of the tourism market that may turn into a great opportunity for small cities to attract visitors. Thus, it can be a possible economic and social driver for local development. Despite its potentiality, not much empirical research has been conducted to explore the specific strengths and weaknesses of developing creative tourism in small cities, probably due to the lack of reliable data. Our study aims to fill th…

  • Creativity Among Business and Tourism Management University Students: Determining Sociodemographic Factors

    Open AccessMercedes Mareque, Elena De Prada et al.ARTICLECreativity Studies2019

    There is a clear link between creativity levels, entrepreneurship and employability that implies the need for higher education students to acquire creative skills and abilities. For this reason, this study aims to analyse creativity levels among university students and verify whether certain sociodemographic factors have an impact on creativity. Two approaches were applied to measure creativity; on one hand, divergent thinking measured through th…

  • Do auditors make mistakes when they write audit reports? An empirical study applied to Spanish non-listed firms

    Open AccessMercedes Mareque, Francisco López-Corrales et al.ARTICLEEconomic Research-Ekonomska…2015

    The objective of this paper is to analyse whether auditors comply with the standards currently in force when writing audit reports in Spain. We try to obtain evidence for the relationship of the errors contained in the report with the type of opinion figuring in it, and with the auditor issuing it. This study is based on a sample of 1236 reports selected by the stratified random sampling method, for the period 2004–2007. Once we had defined the d…