Walter L Arias Gallegos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3778191 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Walter L Arias Gallegos |
| NOMBRES | Walter L Arias |
| APELLIDO | Gallegos |
| FIRMA | GALLEGOS W L A |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Católica San Pablo |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3471-7797 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Voices in Dialogue
Correspondence between two people reveals their subjectivity and promotes knowledge acquisition beyond the academic realm. Abraham Maslow is a well‐known figure in the academic world, and much has been written about his life, but little is known about his epistolary relationship with Walter Blumenfeld, a German psychologist who settled in Peru in 1935 and is considered the founder of scientific psychology in that country. This article analyzes th…
Reynaldo Alarcón Napurí
This brief communication commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Reynaldo Alarcón Napurí and briefly reviews his contributions to the history of psychology in Peru and Latin America. Alarcón academic career spanned over seven decades and encompassed multiple research interests, one of which was the history of psychology. It is concluded that his historiographical work, as a whole, marked a significant milestone that has served as a ref…
Network Analysis of Posttraumatic Growth Dimensions
The present study aimed to apply a network analysis model to provide an exploratory empirical conceptualization of dynamic networks of posttraumatic growth (PTG) symptoms in 7,434 people who experienced the death of a loved one from COVID-19 in 16 Latin American countries. The Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory: Short Form of Eight Items was used. A non-regularized network with partial correlation coefficients was estimated through the ggmModSelect …
Cinco hitos fundacionales en el desarrollo académico y profesional de la psicología en el Perú
La psicología peruana ha pasado por un largo proceso de maduración que está ligado a su desarrollo académico y profesional. En este artículo se analizan cinco hitos cinco hitos fundacionales en el desarrollo académico y profesional de la psicología en el Perú que tienen como punto de partida y eje nuclear a la Sociedad Peruana de Psicología que se funda en 1954, y de la cual se desprenden directa o indirectamente, la creación de la primera carrer…
Network analysis of the relationships between conspiracy beliefs towards Covid-19 vaccine and symptoms of fear of Covid-19 in a sample of latin american countries
The present study examined how conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines specifically relate to symptoms of fear of COVID-19 in a sample of four South American countries. A total of 1785 people from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru participated, responding to a sociodemographic survey, the Fear of COVID-19 scale (FCV-19 S) and the Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale-COVID-19 (VCBS-COVID-19). Network analysis identified the most important sympto…
Estrategias metacognitivas y motivación de logro académico en estudiantes universitarios de Arequipa (Perú)
En el presente artículo de investigación se analizan las relaciones entre la metacognición y la motivación de logro académico en estudiantes universitarios, tomando como base reportes previos que señalan la existencia de correlaciones positivas entre ambos constructos. Para ello se tomó una muestra no probabilística de 157 estudiantes de Psicología de una universidad privada de Arequipa, ciudad ubicada en el sur de Perú, de los cuales 72,6% fuero…
Análisis Psicométrico de la Escala del Perdón en las Relaciones de Pareja en Mujeres de la Ciudad de Arequipa
El perdón es un constructo que tiene importantes implicancias clínicas para la salud y el bienestar de las personas. En ese sentido, se han creado varios instrumentos para evaluar el perdón con diversos fines, enfoques y modelos teóricos. El presente estudio tiene por objetivo el análisis de las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala del Perdón en las Relaciones de Pareja, en una muestra de 1977 mujeres de la ciudad de Arequipa (en Perú), que fue…
Assessment of Obsessive Thoughts About Covid-19 in 7 Latin American Countries
The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (OCS) among seven Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Although the OCS has been used in several countries and languages, there is a need for approaches that better integrate the cross-cultural equivalence of the scale. A total of 3185 people participated in the study. The results indicated…
Ten years of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology
This article briefly reviews the development of the history of psychology as a specialized discipline in Peru, in order to learn about the emergence, organization and productivity of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology (SPHP), which was founded in 2012. Previously, by way of introduction, the advances in the institutionalization of the history of psychology in Latin America and the development of the historiography of psychology in …
Impact of Covid-19 on quality of life in Peruvian older adults
The aim of the present study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric evidence of the Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) applied to a sample of Peruvian older adults ( N = 298; 58.1% women, 41.9% men, mean age 65.34 years [SD = 11.33]). The study used techniques from the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). The findings confirmed the single factor structure of the COV19-QoL, high internal consistency r…
Cross-cultural invariance of the Spanish version of the Covid-19 Assessment Scorecard to measure the perception of government actions against Covid-19 in Latin America
OBJECTIVES: The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of a general measure of the perception of governmental responses to COVID-|19 (COVID-SCORE-10) in the general population of 13 Latin American countries. METHODS: A total of 5780 individuals from 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries selected by non-probabilistic snowball sampling participated. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed and the alignment method was us…
Locus of Control and Religiosity in Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the Covid-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (Covid-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries
Aims: Over the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the a…
Propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Integración Familiar para parejas con hijos y sin hijos de Arequipa
Con el objetivo de describir las propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Integración Familiar, se presentan dos versiones de este instrumento, creado de forma original en Perú: la versión de 17 ítems para parejas sin hijos y la versión de 51 ítems para parejas con dos o más hijos. Se siguió una metodología instrumental: la muestra para la versión de 17 ítems fue de 82 personas y de 420 personas para la versión de 52 ítems de la prueba. Los pa…
La enseñanza de la investigación en las Facultades de Educación e Institutos de Formación Pedagógica en el Perú
Este estudio cualitativo (documental y empírico) se aboca a la enseñanza de la investigación educativa en las instituciones que forman maestros o profesores de educación básica en el Perú. Específicamente, y en el marco de los cursos de metodología de la investigación (CMI) se estudiaron: los sílabos (programas); los perfiles profesionales de los profesores (hojas de vida); y, los manuales o textos que se emplean. Asimismo, se analizaron las revi…
Carlos Alberto Seguín Escobedo (1907-1995)
En este artículo revisamos la vida y obra de Carlos Alberto Seguín (1907-1995), uno de los psiquiatras más representativos del Perú, que contribuyó a difundir los saberes psicológicos y promovió el desarrollo de la medicina psicosomática en América Latina y planteó ideas originales en campos como la psiquiatría social y la psicoterapia, desde perspectivas psicoanalíticas y existencialistas. Presentamos primero un recorrido de sus primeros años y …
Covid-19 Bereavement in Ten Latin American Countries
The present study aimed to evaluate the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) in ten Latin American countries. A total of 2,321 people who had lost a family member or other loved one due to COVID-19 participated, with a mean age of 34.22 years old (SD = 11.99). In addition to the PGS, a single item of suicidal ideation was applied. The unidimensional model of the PGS had adequate fit in most countries and good re…
Measurement Invariance of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) in Peruvian and Spanish Older Adults
Although the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) has been validated in some European and American countries, there are no studies that evaluate its factorial invariance among different nations. In this sense, the objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial invariance of the BRCS in samples of older adults in Peru and Spain, using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 236 older adults from Peru participated (Mean age = 72.8, SD = 6.90) …
Modified and Validated Version of the System of Beliefs Inventory (SBI-15R) in a Sample of Inhabitants from Arequipa City (Peru)
Historia Mínima de Arequipa
Evidencias Psicométricas de una Medida Breve de Resiliencia en Adultos Mayores Peruanos no Institucionalizados
Resilience is understood as the domain of personal resources and contextual factors that allow for a successful coping and enhance positive adaptation to the different stressors during the lifespan, thereby being important for a healthy and successful aging. Nowadays, several brief instruments have been developed to measure resilience, such as the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), an instrument that measures the ability of people to confront s…
Actitudes hacia la política en Arequipa
In the following research, we present a descriptive analysis of the application of an Attitudes towards Politics Questionnaire to a sample of 875 people who live in Arequipa City. The sample consists of 416 men and 459 women, whose average age is 38 years old. The questionnaire has 11 items and two dimensions: (Governability and Political participation) with proper levels of validity and reliability (α= 0.730). The results indicate that attitudes…
Estilos de enseñanza e involucramiento en el trabajo en docentes de una universidad privada de Arequipa (Perú)
In this article, the relationships between teaching styles and job involvement in lecturers, from a private university of Arequipa City, are valued. For that purpose, 120 university lecturers were tested with Grasha’s Teaching Styles Questionnaire and Lodahl and Kejner’s Job Involvement Scale. The data was compared according to sex, educational level and the profession of the lecturers, correlations and a regression analysis were made in order to…
Construcción de un inventario de integración familiar
The present article describes the process of construction of a Family Integration Inventory which contents 52 items distributed in a Likert scale, and has optimum criteria of validity and reliability (α = .739). We obtain a KMO value of .922 which admits the factorization of the instrument As result of the factorial analysis applied in two moments we finally have a unidimensional inventory. Moreover, we settle the percentiles in three levels of f…
La escala de sexismo ambivalente en estudiantes de dos universidades de Arequipa
In this study we analyze the psychometric properties of Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, so then value its results after the application in a simple of 434 students from two universities at Arequipa City. The psychometric values indicate that the items are homogeneous and the test count with construct validity and reliability (α= 0.742). The results, also note significant differences between men and women, being the males who are more sexist than fem…
Modified and Validated Version of the System of Beliefs Inventory (SBI-15R) in a Sample of Inhabitants from Arequipa City (Peru)
La escala de sexismo ambivalente en estudiantes de dos universidades de Arequipa
In this study we analyze the psychometric properties of Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, so then value its results after the application in a simple of 434 students from two universities at Arequipa City. The psychometric values indicate that the items are homogeneous and the test count with construct validity and reliability (α= 0.742). The results, also note significant differences between men and women, being the males who are more sexist than fem…
Happiness, depression and human benevolence beliefs in institutionalized and non institutionalized major adults
In this study we analyze the relations between happiness, depression and human benevolence beliefs in a group of major people who live in asylums (24) and others who live with their families (38). We use Lima’s happiness scale, Yesavage’s Geriatric depression scale and Belief in human scale. We found that there were no significant differences between two groups of major adults in depression levels, but in happiness, positive sense of life and sat…
Happiness, depression and human benevolence beliefs in institutionalized and non institutionalized major adults
In this study we analyze the relations between happiness, depression and human benevolence beliefs in a group of major people who live in asylums (24) and others who live with their families (38). We use Lima’s happiness scale, Yesavage’s Geriatric depression scale and Belief in human scale. We found that there were no significant differences between two groups of major adults in depression levels, but in happiness, positive sense of life and sat…
Agresión y violencia en la adolescencia
In the present article, we made a review about the role of family in the aggression showed by adolescents, taking as founds the research published in Peru and foreign countries. We began by the context of adolescence into the course of psychological development and the explanations of the aggression through its causes, to finish focusing us in the role of family such as causal and determinant agent
Felicidad, Síndrome de Burnout y estilos de afrontamiento en una empresa privada
In this paper the relationship between happiness, burnout and coping styles in 74 workers (44 men and 30 women) from a private company Arequipa are analyzed. This Happiness Scale Lima was used, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Coping Behaviors Questionnaire in situations of stress. The results suggest that there are significant relationships (p <0.001, p <0.005) between burnout and happiness, and burnout and coping, but not between happiness and…
Carl R. Rogers y la terapia centrada en el cliente
In the present article, we make a review about the life of Carl Rogers and the theoretical development of the Client-Centered Therapy, such as a therapeutic and humanistic proposal that remarks the role of the unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruency. We comment the aspects related to the academic formation and professional influences that Rogers received
In Memoriam Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)
El 5 de junio último, Jerome Bruner falleció en New York, de manera imprevista, pero a la vez indolora y apacible. Bruner ha sido uno de los psicólogos más influyentes del siglo XX a través de su labor académica en los campos de la psicología educativa y la psicología narrativa, donde ha alcanzado notoriedad, pero también se ha dedicado a la psicología militar, a la psicología culturalista y, más recientemente, a la psicología forense (Arias, 201…
Personalidad y uso de la computadora en estudiantes de Ingeniería de Sistemas
In the present study we analyze relations among personality and the computer time of using among university students of computing engineering. We work with a sample of 67 students from a private university located in Arequipa City, who fill a brief survey and the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The results show 44.7% of students are sanguine personality type the most of students dedicate more time using computers to get fun. Although, we did not f…
Construcción de un inventario de integración familiar
The present article describes the process of construction of a Family Integration Inventory which contents 52 items distributed in a Likert scale, and has optimum criteria of validity and reliability (α = .739). We obtain a KMO value of .922 which admits the factorization of the instrument As result of the factorial analysis applied in two moments we finally have a unidimensional inventory. Moreover, we settle the percentiles in three levels of f…
La escala de sexismo ambivalente en estudiantes de dos universidades de Arequipa
In this study we analyze the psychometric properties of Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, so then value its results after the application in a simple of 434 students from two universities at Arequipa City. The psychometric values indicate that the items are homogeneous and the test count with construct validity and reliability (α= 0.742). The results, also note significant differences between men and women, being the males who are more sexist than fem…
Evidencias Psicométricas de una Medida Breve de Resiliencia en Adultos Mayores Peruanos no Institucionalizados
Resilience is understood as the domain of personal resources and contextual factors that allow for a successful coping and enhance positive adaptation to the different stressors during the lifespan, thereby being important for a healthy and successful aging. Nowadays, several brief instruments have been developed to measure resilience, such as the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), an instrument that measures the ability of people to confront s…
Actitudes hacia la política en Arequipa
In the following research, we present a descriptive analysis of the application of an Attitudes towards Politics Questionnaire to a sample of 875 people who live in Arequipa City. The sample consists of 416 men and 459 women, whose average age is 38 years old. The questionnaire has 11 items and two dimensions: (Governability and Political participation) with proper levels of validity and reliability (α= 0.730). The results indicate that attitudes…
Estilos de enseñanza e involucramiento en el trabajo en docentes de una universidad privada de Arequipa (Perú)
In this article, the relationships between teaching styles and job involvement in lecturers, from a private university of Arequipa City, are valued. For that purpose, 120 university lecturers were tested with Grasha’s Teaching Styles Questionnaire and Lodahl and Kejner’s Job Involvement Scale. The data was compared according to sex, educational level and the profession of the lecturers, correlations and a regression analysis were made in order to…
Historia Mínima de Arequipa
Carlos Alberto Seguín Escobedo (1907-1995)
En este artículo revisamos la vida y obra de Carlos Alberto Seguín (1907-1995), uno de los psiquiatras más representativos del Perú, que contribuyó a difundir los saberes psicológicos y promovió el desarrollo de la medicina psicosomática en América Latina y planteó ideas originales en campos como la psiquiatría social y la psicoterapia, desde perspectivas psicoanalíticas y existencialistas. Presentamos primero un recorrido de sus primeros años y …
Covid-19 Bereavement in Ten Latin American Countries
The present study aimed to evaluate the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) in ten Latin American countries. A total of 2,321 people who had lost a family member or other loved one due to COVID-19 participated, with a mean age of 34.22 years old (SD = 11.99). In addition to the PGS, a single item of suicidal ideation was applied. The unidimensional model of the PGS had adequate fit in most countries and good re…
Measurement Invariance of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) in Peruvian and Spanish Older Adults
Although the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) has been validated in some European and American countries, there are no studies that evaluate its factorial invariance among different nations. In this sense, the objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial invariance of the BRCS in samples of older adults in Peru and Spain, using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 236 older adults from Peru participated (Mean age = 72.8, SD = 6.90) …
Modified and Validated Version of the System of Beliefs Inventory (SBI-15R) in a Sample of Inhabitants from Arequipa City (Peru)
Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the Covid-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (Covid-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries
Aims: Over the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the a…
Propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Integración Familiar para parejas con hijos y sin hijos de Arequipa
Con el objetivo de describir las propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Integración Familiar, se presentan dos versiones de este instrumento, creado de forma original en Perú: la versión de 17 ítems para parejas sin hijos y la versión de 51 ítems para parejas con dos o más hijos. Se siguió una metodología instrumental: la muestra para la versión de 17 ítems fue de 82 personas y de 420 personas para la versión de 52 ítems de la prueba. Los pa…
La enseñanza de la investigación en las Facultades de Educación e Institutos de Formación Pedagógica en el Perú
Este estudio cualitativo (documental y empírico) se aboca a la enseñanza de la investigación educativa en las instituciones que forman maestros o profesores de educación básica en el Perú. Específicamente, y en el marco de los cursos de metodología de la investigación (CMI) se estudiaron: los sílabos (programas); los perfiles profesionales de los profesores (hojas de vida); y, los manuales o textos que se emplean. Asimismo, se analizaron las revi…
Análisis Psicométrico de la Escala del Perdón en las Relaciones de Pareja en Mujeres de la Ciudad de Arequipa
El perdón es un constructo que tiene importantes implicancias clínicas para la salud y el bienestar de las personas. En ese sentido, se han creado varios instrumentos para evaluar el perdón con diversos fines, enfoques y modelos teóricos. El presente estudio tiene por objetivo el análisis de las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala del Perdón en las Relaciones de Pareja, en una muestra de 1977 mujeres de la ciudad de Arequipa (en Perú), que fue…
Assessment of Obsessive Thoughts About Covid-19 in 7 Latin American Countries
The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (OCS) among seven Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Although the OCS has been used in several countries and languages, there is a need for approaches that better integrate the cross-cultural equivalence of the scale. A total of 3185 people participated in the study. The results indicated…
Ten years of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology
This article briefly reviews the development of the history of psychology as a specialized discipline in Peru, in order to learn about the emergence, organization and productivity of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology (SPHP), which was founded in 2012. Previously, by way of introduction, the advances in the institutionalization of the history of psychology in Latin America and the development of the historiography of psychology in …
Impact of Covid-19 on quality of life in Peruvian older adults
The aim of the present study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric evidence of the Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) applied to a sample of Peruvian older adults ( N = 298; 58.1% women, 41.9% men, mean age 65.34 years [SD = 11.33]). The study used techniques from the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). The findings confirmed the single factor structure of the COV19-QoL, high internal consistency r…
Cross-cultural invariance of the Spanish version of the Covid-19 Assessment Scorecard to measure the perception of government actions against Covid-19 in Latin America
OBJECTIVES: The present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of a general measure of the perception of governmental responses to COVID-|19 (COVID-SCORE-10) in the general population of 13 Latin American countries. METHODS: A total of 5780 individuals from 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries selected by non-probabilistic snowball sampling participated. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed and the alignment method was us…
Locus of Control and Religiosity in Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
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