Jesús María Alvarado-Izquierdo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2350454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesús María Alvarado-Izquierdo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesús María |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvarado-Izquierdo |
| SIGNATURE | ALVARADO-IZQUIERDO J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4780-0147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Competencia comunicativa oral y metodologías activas en la universidad: percepciones del profesorado
Oral communicative competence (OCC) is a key skill for students’ academic and professional development; however, its effective integration into higher education teaching practices remains uneven. This study examines university teachers’ perspectives on student participation, their readiness to adopt active learning methodologies, and the strategies used to promote OCC in the classroom. A survey was administered to 867 teachers across different di…
Juicios metacognitivos en los procesos de aprendizaje en la educación superior
Introduction: Metacognitive judgments have become an object of study in the field of metacognition in recent decades, since they analyze the beliefs that students have regarding their academic performance, to contribute to the adaptation of strategies for the improvement of the autonomy and judgment of learners. Objective: To identify the metacognitive judgments that are most frequently used in university students based on a systematic review bet…
Estrategias metacognitivas en relación con la metacomprensión lectoescritora y la motivación del estudiante universitario
La evaluación de estrategias metacognitivas y la motivación son de gran interés para los procesos de enseñanza universitaria. No obstante, la mayor parte de la investigación se ha centrado en niños, niñas y adolescentes. El objetivo de este artículo es explorar las relaciones que hay en estudiantes universitarios/as entre estrategias cognitivas, estrategias metacognitivas aplicadas a la lectura y a la escritura y varios aspectos de la motivación,…
The Role of Emotional Intelligence, Meta-Comprehension Knowledge and Oral Communication on Reading Self-Concept and Reading Comprehension
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is considered a fundamental variable for a person’s adequate psychosocial adjustment. In education, its importance transcends the level of interpersonal relationships, and has been proposed as a variable that somehow influences academic performance, although there is controversy about whether its effect is direct or, rather, an intermediate variable. The present research analyses, from a sample of 327 students (52.6% f…
Music and facial emotion recognition and its relationship with alexithymia
The objective of this study was to determine the influence of alexithymia on the ability to identify emotions through visual and auditory stimuli. We assessed Alexithymia using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). As visual stimuli, we employed the images of faces from the Ekman 60 Faces Test, while the auditory stimuli consisted of fragments of instrumental music. A total of 303 students participated, 139 in secondary education and 164 in the…
Range Restriction Affects Factor Analysis
A sample suffers range restriction (RR) when its variance is reduced comparing with its population variance and, in turn, it fails representing such population. If the RR occurs over the latent factor, not directly over the observed variable, the researcher deals with an indirect RR, common when using convenience samples. This work explores how this problem affects different outputs of the factor analysis: multivariate normality (MVN), estimation…
Internal Structure of Beck Hopelessness Scale
ABTRACTThe construct validity in relation to the dimensionality or factor structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has long been debated in psychometrics. Irrelevant variance due to item wording (method effects) can distort the factor structure, and recent studies have examined the method factor's role in the factor structure of the BHS. However, the models used to control the method effects have severe limitations, and new models are neede…
Incidence of Leader–Member Exchange Quality, Communication Satisfaction, and Employee Work Engagement on Self-Evaluated Work Performance
Within the scope of the Theory of Demands and Labor Resources, the Healthy & Resilient Organizations (HERO) Model, and the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory, this research contrasts a mediation model in which evidence on the factors that affect work performance is integrated, thus establishing the direct and indirect relationships between LMX quality, communication satisfaction, employee work engagement, and self-rated work performance. A total…
Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Body–Self Relations Questionnaire—Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS) in Chilean Youth
The aim of this study is to analyze the factorial structure of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS) to determine the adjustment of the study structure proposed in the Spanish short version in a young, non-clinical Chilean population and to evaluate the possible influence of sex, age, and BMI on body image measurement. The sample consisted of 614 Chilean youth (259 male and 355 female) between 15 and …
Assessment of Oral Skills in Adolescents
There is broad consensus on the need to foster oral skills in middle school due to their inherent importance and because they serve as a tool for learning and acquiring other competences. In order to facilitate the assessment of communicative competence, we hereby propose a model which establishes five key dimensions for effective oral communication: interaction management; multimodality and prosody; textual coherence and cohesion; argumentative …
Application of S-1 Bifactor Model to Evaluate the Structural Validity of TMMS-24
(1) Background: Recent studies have shown that the internal structure of TMMS-24 can be conceptualized as a bifactor. However, these studies, based exclusively on the evaluation of the fit of the model, fail to show the existence of a general factor of strong emotional intelligence and have neglected the evaluation of the specific factors of attention, clarity and repair. The main goal of this work is to evaluate the degree of determination and r…
Un modelo estructural para la detección temprana del abandono en la universidad
Introducción. La presente investigación analiza el problema del abandono de los estudios universitarios, centrándose en el primer año de la titulación de Trabajo Social con el objetivo de elaborar un modelo explicativo que permita intervenir en las variables que pronostican el abandono temprano y en consecuencia aumentar las tasas de graduación. Se presenta una revisión teórica que concluye que el interés por la titulación, los procesos de autorr…
Emotional Intelligence and the Different Manifestations of Bullying in Children
The main objective of this research was to help clarify the relationship between ability emotional intelligence (AEI) and bullying in children. Bullying is a maladaptive behaviour that generates severe adverse consequences in the school environment and is a matter of growing concern in the educational community. To investigate the relationship between AEI and bullying, we administered two tests to a sample of 329 students (52.9% girls) aged betwe…
Social Intelligence and Psychological Distress
The strength named "social intelligence" in the Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues represents emotional, personal, and social intelligences, which are considered "hot intelligences". This work contributed to the study of the mechanisms of influence of social intelligence on mental health. A multiple mediation model was proposed to quantify the direct effect of social intelligence on psychopathological symptom…
Rethinking the Exploration of Dichotomous Data
The need to determine the correct dimensionality of theoretical constructs and generate valid measurement instruments when underlying items are categorical has generated a significant volume of research in the social sciences. This article presents two studies contrasting different categorical exploratory techniques. The first study compares Mokken scale analysis (MSA) and two-factor-based exploratory techniques for noncontinuous variables: item …
The sirens’ call in psychometrics
The idea that item response theory (IRT) models yield invariant parameter estimates is widely accepted among scholars interested in achieving truly scientific measurements in social and behavioral sciences. Starting from a conceptual and mathematical definition of invariance, this article presents a critical examination of the theoretical and empirical support for the property of invariance with regard to populations and samples of items and subj…
Best Alternatives to Cronbach's Alpha Reliability in Realistic Conditions
The Cronbach's alpha is the most widely used method for estimating internal consistency reliability. This procedure has proved very resistant to the passage of time, even if its limitations are well documented and although there are better options as omega coefficient or the different versions of glb, with obvious advantages especially for applied research in which the ítems differ in quality or have skewed distributions. In this paper, using Mon…
Developing Multidimensional Likert Scales Using Item Factor Analysis
This study compares the performance of two approaches in analysing four-point Likert rating scales with a factorial model: the classical factor analysis (FA) and the item factor analysis (IFA). For FA, maximum likelihood and weighted least squares estimations using Pearson correlation matrices among items are compared. For IFA, diagonally weighted least squares and unweighted least squares estimations using items polychoric correlation matrices a…
Reexamining Nonlinear Structural Equation Modeling Procedures
The current study examines the performance of the extended unconstrained approach (EXUC) and the latent moderated structural equation modeling procedure (LMS) in situations where quadratic and interaction terms are tested simultaneously and investigates their limitations with regard to the employment of parallel and congeneric measures, relatively low indicator reliabilities, and relatively large numbers of indicators. By means of a Monte Carlo s…
Developing Multidimensional Likert Scales Using Item Factor Analysis
This study compares the performance of two approaches in analysing four-point Likert rating scales with a factorial model: the classical factor analysis (FA) and the item factor analysis (IFA). For FA, maximum likelihood and weighted least squares estimations using Pearson correlation matrices among items are compared. For IFA, diagonally weighted least squares and unweighted least squares estimations using items polychoric correlation matrices a…
Un modelo estructural para la detección temprana del abandono en la universidad
Introducción. La presente investigación analiza el problema del abandono de los estudios universitarios, centrándose en el primer año de la titulación de Trabajo Social con el objetivo de elaborar un modelo explicativo que permita intervenir en las variables que pronostican el abandono temprano y en consecuencia aumentar las tasas de graduación. Se presenta una revisión teórica que concluye que el interés por la titulación, los procesos de autorr…
Rethinking the Exploration of Dichotomous Data
The need to determine the correct dimensionality of theoretical constructs and generate valid measurement instruments when underlying items are categorical has generated a significant volume of research in the social sciences. This article presents two studies contrasting different categorical exploratory techniques. The first study compares Mokken scale analysis (MSA) and two-factor-based exploratory techniques for noncontinuous variables: item …
Reexamining Nonlinear Structural Equation Modeling Procedures
The current study examines the performance of the extended unconstrained approach (EXUC) and the latent moderated structural equation modeling procedure (LMS) in situations where quadratic and interaction terms are tested simultaneously and investigates their limitations with regard to the employment of parallel and congeneric measures, relatively low indicator reliabilities, and relatively large numbers of indicators. By means of a Monte Carlo s…
Best Alternatives to Cronbach's Alpha Reliability in Realistic Conditions
The Cronbach's alpha is the most widely used method for estimating internal consistency reliability. This procedure has proved very resistant to the passage of time, even if its limitations are well documented and although there are better options as omega coefficient or the different versions of glb, with obvious advantages especially for applied research in which the ítems differ in quality or have skewed distributions. In this paper, using Mon…
Developing Multidimensional Likert Scales Using Item Factor Analysis
This study compares the performance of two approaches in analysing four-point Likert rating scales with a factorial model: the classical factor analysis (FA) and the item factor analysis (IFA). For FA, maximum likelihood and weighted least squares estimations using Pearson correlation matrices among items are compared. For IFA, diagonally weighted least squares and unweighted least squares estimations using items polychoric correlation matrices a…
The sirens’ call in psychometrics
The idea that item response theory (IRT) models yield invariant parameter estimates is widely accepted among scholars interested in achieving truly scientific measurements in social and behavioral sciences. Starting from a conceptual and mathematical definition of invariance, this article presents a critical examination of the theoretical and empirical support for the property of invariance with regard to populations and samples of items and subj…
Emotional Intelligence and the Different Manifestations of Bullying in Children
The main objective of this research was to help clarify the relationship between ability emotional intelligence (AEI) and bullying in children. Bullying is a maladaptive behaviour that generates severe adverse consequences in the school environment and is a matter of growing concern in the educational community. To investigate the relationship between AEI and bullying, we administered two tests to a sample of 329 students (52.9% girls) aged betwe…
Social Intelligence and Psychological Distress
The strength named "social intelligence" in the Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues represents emotional, personal, and social intelligences, which are considered "hot intelligences". This work contributed to the study of the mechanisms of influence of social intelligence on mental health. A multiple mediation model was proposed to quantify the direct effect of social intelligence on psychopathological symptom…
Rethinking the Exploration of Dichotomous Data
The need to determine the correct dimensionality of theoretical constructs and generate valid measurement instruments when underlying items are categorical has generated a significant volume of research in the social sciences. This article presents two studies contrasting different categorical exploratory techniques. The first study compares Mokken scale analysis (MSA) and two-factor-based exploratory techniques for noncontinuous variables: item …
Assessment of Oral Skills in Adolescents
There is broad consensus on the need to foster oral skills in middle school due to their inherent importance and because they serve as a tool for learning and acquiring other competences. In order to facilitate the assessment of communicative competence, we hereby propose a model which establishes five key dimensions for effective oral communication: interaction management; multimodality and prosody; textual coherence and cohesion; argumentative …
Application of S-1 Bifactor Model to Evaluate the Structural Validity of TMMS-24
(1) Background: Recent studies have shown that the internal structure of TMMS-24 can be conceptualized as a bifactor. However, these studies, based exclusively on the evaluation of the fit of the model, fail to show the existence of a general factor of strong emotional intelligence and have neglected the evaluation of the specific factors of attention, clarity and repair. The main goal of this work is to evaluate the degree of determination and r…
Un modelo estructural para la detección temprana del abandono en la universidad
Introducción. La presente investigación analiza el problema del abandono de los estudios universitarios, centrándose en el primer año de la titulación de Trabajo Social con el objetivo de elaborar un modelo explicativo que permita intervenir en las variables que pronostican el abandono temprano y en consecuencia aumentar las tasas de graduación. Se presenta una revisión teórica que concluye que el interés por la titulación, los procesos de autorr…
Internal Structure of Beck Hopelessness Scale
ABTRACTThe construct validity in relation to the dimensionality or factor structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has long been debated in psychometrics. Irrelevant variance due to item wording (method effects) can distort the factor structure, and recent studies have examined the method factor's role in the factor structure of the BHS. However, the models used to control the method effects have severe limitations, and new models are neede…
Incidence of Leader–Member Exchange Quality, Communication Satisfaction, and Employee Work Engagement on Self-Evaluated Work Performance
Within the scope of the Theory of Demands and Labor Resources, the Healthy & Resilient Organizations (HERO) Model, and the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory, this research contrasts a mediation model in which evidence on the factors that affect work performance is integrated, thus establishing the direct and indirect relationships between LMX quality, communication satisfaction, employee work engagement, and self-rated work performance. A total…
Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Body–Self Relations Questionnaire—Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS) in Chilean Youth
The aim of this study is to analyze the factorial structure of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS) to determine the adjustment of the study structure proposed in the Spanish short version in a young, non-clinical Chilean population and to evaluate the possible influence of sex, age, and BMI on body image measurement. The sample consisted of 614 Chilean youth (259 male and 355 female) between 15 and …
The Role of Emotional Intelligence, Meta-Comprehension Knowledge and Oral Communication on Reading Self-Concept and Reading Comprehension
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is considered a fundamental variable for a person’s adequate psychosocial adjustment. In education, its importance transcends the level of interpersonal relationships, and has been proposed as a variable that somehow influences academic performance, although there is controversy about whether its effect is direct or, rather, an intermediate variable. The present research analyses, from a sample of 327 students (52.6% f…
Music and facial emotion recognition and its relationship with alexithymia
The objective of this study was to determine the influence of alexithymia on the ability to identify emotions through visual and auditory stimuli. We assessed Alexithymia using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). As visual stimuli, we employed the images of faces from the Ekman 60 Faces Test, while the auditory stimuli consisted of fragments of instrumental music. A total of 303 students participated, 139 in secondary education and 164 in the…
Range Restriction Affects Factor Analysis
A sample suffers range restriction (RR) when its variance is reduced comparing with its population variance and, in turn, it fails representing such population. If the RR occurs over the latent factor, not directly over the observed variable, the researcher deals with an indirect RR, common when using convenience samples. This work explores how this problem affects different outputs of the factor analysis: multivariate normality (MVN), estimation…
Juicios metacognitivos en los procesos de aprendizaje en la educación superior
Introduction: Metacognitive judgments have become an object of study in the field of metacognition in recent decades, since they analyze the beliefs that students have regarding their academic performance, to contribute to the adaptation of strategies for the improvement of the autonomy and judgment of learners. Objective: To identify the metacognitive judgments that are most frequently used in university students based on a systematic review bet…
Estrategias metacognitivas en relación con la metacomprensión lectoescritora y la motivación del estudiante universitario
La evaluación de estrategias metacognitivas y la motivación son de gran interés para los procesos de enseñanza universitaria. No obstante, la mayor parte de la investigación se ha centrado en niños, niñas y adolescentes. El objetivo de este artículo es explorar las relaciones que hay en estudiantes universitarios/as entre estrategias cognitivas, estrategias metacognitivas aplicadas a la lectura y a la escritura y varios aspectos de la motivación,…
Competencia comunicativa oral y metodologías activas en la universidad: percepciones del profesorado
Oral communicative competence (OCC) is a key skill for students’ academic and professional development; however, its effective integration into higher education teaching practices remains uneven. This study examines university teachers’ perspectives on student participation, their readiness to adopt active learning methodologies, and the strategies used to promote OCC in the classroom. A survey was administered to 867 teachers across different di…
Psychology (14 works) · Mathematics (10 works) · Statistics (10 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Structural equation modeling (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Advanced Statistical Modeling Techniques (4 works)