Carmelo Vazquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmelo Vazquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmelo |
| FAMILY NAME | Vazquez |
| SIGNATURE | VAZQUEZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1796-2161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Quantifying the negative impact of gambling
Gambling-related harm (GRH) extends beyond addiction, affecting multiple life domains, yet validated tools for its assessment are currently lacking for the Spanish population. This study adapted and validated a Spanish version of the Gambling-Related Harm Checklist (GRH-CL) and developed a short form (S-SGHS) to quantify GRH and facilitate population-level metrics. A Spanish survey of 800 individuals, with gambling experience in the past year, as…
Acceptance or distraction first while suffering acute pain? Order effects on visual attention to external painful stimuli
Trauma and well-being in terrorism survivors in Spain
Long after terrorist attacks, victims may experience both trauma-related symptoms and levels of psychological well-being. This paper aimed to examine: (1) the relationship between overall PTSD and well-being; and (2) the associations among different PTSD symptom clusters, well-being, and daily functioning in 87 adult victims of jihadist and nationalist separatist terrorism in Madrid and Andalusia. The Posttraumatic Stress Questionnaire and the Ps…
Unlocking the past
Positive reappraisal strategies have been found to reduce negative affect following the recall of negative personal events. This study examined the restorative effect of two mood-repair instructions (self-compassion vs benefit-focused reappraisal) and a control condition with no instructions following a negative Mood Induction Procedure by using the guided recall of a negative autobiographical event. A total of 112 university students participate…
An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression
Decreased levels of positive affect (PA) are a hallmark of depression. Current models propose as potential main mechanisms a dysfunctional use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies (i.e. dampening, positive rumination), and a maladaptive activation of pro-hedonic goals. However, the role of these mechanisms in PA in daily life remains understudied. We used a 10-day ESM design to assess how these mechanisms influence each other and contribute to d…
Attentional biases towards emotional information in chronic pain
Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress-Related Responses During the Covid-19 Pandemic in a National Representative Sample
Integrative Well-Being Leads Our Attentional System
Attentional patterns as emotion regulation strategies during the anticipation of repetitive emotional scenes
Emotional SNARC
The Study of Psychopathology from the Network Analysis Perspective
Background: Network analysis (NA) is an analytical tool that allows one to explore the map of connections and eventual dynamic influences among symptoms and other elements of mental disorders. In recent years, the use of NA in psychopathology has rapidly grown, which calls for a systematic and critical analysis of its clinical utility. Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, a systematic review of published empirical studies applying NA in psychopa…
Don’t look at my teeth when I smile
Research on facial emotion processing has offered inconclusive results on whether certain emotional expressions, like happiness, are detected faster over others. A source of discrepancy among studies could stem from differences in physically salient features (e.g., teeth visibility), which are often left uncontrolled in this field of research. In Study 1, happy faces from the Karolinska Database Emotional Databse with visible, normal teeth unexpe…
Positive interventions in seriously-ill children
We examined whether a positive intervention (i.e. granting a wish) could promote positive psychological and physical changes (e.g. reduced nausea and pain) in seriously-ill children. Children and their parent were randomly assigned to a wish group (completed measures 2-3 days before the wish and 3 weeks later) or to a waiting-list control group (with an equivalent time-lag and receiving the wish after the assessment). Wish intervention significan…
Granting wishes of seriously ill children
We investigated whether a positive intervention (i.e. granting a wish) in children with a chronic illness could promote positive psychological responses in their parents. Hospitalized children were randomly assigned to either the wish group or to a waiting-list control group. Mothers and fathers' responses ( N = 86 and 38, respectively) were studied. Parents from the wish group showed higher levels of positive emotions and beliefs in a benevolent…
Satisfaction with Life Scale in a Representative Sample of Spanish Adults
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is a measure widely used to assess life satisfaction. This paper aims to test its psychometric properties, factor structure, and distribution scores across age, gender, education, and employment status. For this purpose, a representative sample of the Spanish population ( N = 2,964) was used. Although analyses showed no significant differences across age or gender, participants with higher education level a…
Gaze-fixation to happy faces predicts mood repair after a negative mood induction
The present study tested the interplay between mood and attentional deployment by examining attention to positive (i.e., happy faces) and negative (i.e., angry and sad faces) stimuli in response to experimental inductions of sad and happy mood. Participants underwent a negative, neutral, or positive mood induction procedure (MIP) which was followed by an assessment of their attentional deployment to emotional faces using eye-tracking technology. …
Aproximaciones cognitivas a la investigación sobre el delirio persecutorio
El delirio persecutorio es un síntoma que se encuentra presente en diferentes condiciones clínicas. En los últimos años, son numerosas las investigaciones que se han centrado en el estudio del delírio persecutorio, desde una aproximación al síntoma, analizando los procesos psicológicos (cognitivos, emocionales, etc) asociados a este tipo de creencia delirante. En el presente trabajo se realiza una revisión de las investigaciones dirigidas a anali…
What else do you feel when you feel sad? Emotional overproduction, neuroticism and rumination
Numerous experimental and naturalistic studies have shown the relevant role of ruminative styles in the onset, duration and severity of depressive episodes. Recent research has increasingly focused on the precursors of these ruminative responses. Neuroticism has been found to be closely related to ruminative styles, but the nature of this relationship is unknown. Across three studies, we explored the role of emotional overproduction, conceptualiz…
Post-traumatic factors and resilience
A participatory research action was undertaken in the two largest shelters established after the earthquakes in El Salvador (2001). One hundred fifteen semi-structured interviews were carried out among refugees, which later formed the basis for a self-managed community plan. Comparisons between the two shelters—which differed primarily in whether the grouping of tents was made to reflect the community of origin of the survivors (shelter Santa Ger…
A Comparison Between Homeless, Domiciled and Vulnerable Populations in Madrid
Populations sans abri et vulnérables à Madrid
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Procedimientos de muestreo representativo de las personas sin hogar (PSH)
El presente trabajo se enmarca en el Proyecto Sin Hogar (Muñoz y Vázquez, 1996). Se exponen las estrategias de muestreo utilizadas que pueden servir para ofrecer datos no sesgados sobre las Personas Sin Hogar (PSH) o sobre otros grupos de difícil localización. Junto a las estrategias de muestreo utilizadas para conseguir la máxima representatividad de la muestra, se incluyen los principales datos descriptivos sociodemográficos obtenidos con este …
Stressful life events among homeless people
This article describes the stressful life events suffered by a multicenter, randomized sample of 262 homeless adults in Madrid, Spain. Subjects were interviewed with the List of Threatening Experiences (Brugha and Cragg, 1990), supplemented by nine additional items specifically related to homelessness. Participants then rated each life event in regard to its causal contribution to their homeless situation. Findings showed that homeless people hav…
Automatic and effortful processing in depression
Automatic processes require few attentional resources, but effortful processes use attentional capacity. Research on cognitive processing by depressed individuals is reviewed and the following is concluded: (a) Depression interferes with effortful processing. The degree of interference is determined by the degree of effortfulness of the task, the severity of depression, and the valence of the stimulus material to be processed. (b) Depression inte…
Mood-congruent recall of affectively toned stimuli
Automatic and effortful processing in depression
Automatic processes require few attentional resources, but effortful processes use attentional capacity. Research on cognitive processing by depressed individuals is reviewed and the following is concluded: (a) Depression interferes with effortful processing. The degree of interference is determined by the degree of effortfulness of the task, the severity of depression, and the valence of the stimulus material to be processed. (b) Depression inte…
Post-traumatic factors and resilience
A participatory research action was undertaken in the two largest shelters established after the earthquakes in El Salvador (2001). One hundred fifteen semi-structured interviews were carried out among refugees, which later formed the basis for a self-managed community plan. Comparisons between the two shelters—which differed primarily in whether the grouping of tents was made to reflect the community of origin of the survivors (shelter Santa Ger…
Judgment of contingency
In this research I investigated whether the use of relevant affective outcomes influences depressed and nondepressed subjects' judgment of contingency. Similar to previous studies (Alloy & Abramson, 1979, Experiments 1 and 2), Experiments 1 and 2 confirmed that when the outcome is affectively neutral (i.e., the onset of a light) depressed subjects make accurate judgments of contingency, whereas nondepressed subjects show (in noncontingent situati…
A Comparison Between Homeless, Domiciled and Vulnerable Populations in Madrid
Positive interventions in seriously-ill children
We examined whether a positive intervention (i.e. granting a wish) could promote positive psychological and physical changes (e.g. reduced nausea and pain) in seriously-ill children. Children and their parent were randomly assigned to a wish group (completed measures 2-3 days before the wish and 3 weeks later) or to a waiting-list control group (with an equivalent time-lag and receiving the wish after the assessment). Wish intervention significan…
Granting wishes of seriously ill children
We investigated whether a positive intervention (i.e. granting a wish) in children with a chronic illness could promote positive psychological responses in their parents. Hospitalized children were randomly assigned to either the wish group or to a waiting-list control group. Mothers and fathers' responses ( N = 86 and 38, respectively) were studied. Parents from the wish group showed higher levels of positive emotions and beliefs in a benevolent…
Populations sans abri et vulnérables à Madrid
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Procedimientos de muestreo representativo de las personas sin hogar (PSH)
El presente trabajo se enmarca en el Proyecto Sin Hogar (Muñoz y Vázquez, 1996). Se exponen las estrategias de muestreo utilizadas que pueden servir para ofrecer datos no sesgados sobre las Personas Sin Hogar (PSH) o sobre otros grupos de difícil localización. Junto a las estrategias de muestreo utilizadas para conseguir la máxima representatividad de la muestra, se incluyen los principales datos descriptivos sociodemográficos obtenidos con este …
Judgment of contingency
In this research I investigated whether the use of relevant affective outcomes influences depressed and nondepressed subjects' judgment of contingency. Similar to previous studies (Alloy & Abramson, 1979, Experiments 1 and 2), Experiments 1 and 2 confirmed that when the outcome is affectively neutral (i.e., the onset of a light) depressed subjects make accurate judgments of contingency, whereas nondepressed subjects show (in noncontingent situati…
Mood-congruent recall of affectively toned stimuli
Automatic and effortful processing in depression
Automatic processes require few attentional resources, but effortful processes use attentional capacity. Research on cognitive processing by depressed individuals is reviewed and the following is concluded: (a) Depression interferes with effortful processing. The degree of interference is determined by the degree of effortfulness of the task, the severity of depression, and the valence of the stimulus material to be processed. (b) Depression inte…
Stressful life events among homeless people
This article describes the stressful life events suffered by a multicenter, randomized sample of 262 homeless adults in Madrid, Spain. Subjects were interviewed with the List of Threatening Experiences (Brugha and Cragg, 1990), supplemented by nine additional items specifically related to homelessness. Participants then rated each life event in regard to its causal contribution to their homeless situation. Findings showed that homeless people hav…
Procedimientos de muestreo representativo de las personas sin hogar (PSH)
El presente trabajo se enmarca en el Proyecto Sin Hogar (Muñoz y Vázquez, 1996). Se exponen las estrategias de muestreo utilizadas que pueden servir para ofrecer datos no sesgados sobre las Personas Sin Hogar (PSH) o sobre otros grupos de difícil localización. Junto a las estrategias de muestreo utilizadas para conseguir la máxima representatividad de la muestra, se incluyen los principales datos descriptivos sociodemográficos obtenidos con este …
A Comparison Between Homeless, Domiciled and Vulnerable Populations in Madrid
Populations sans abri et vulnérables à Madrid
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Post-traumatic factors and resilience
A participatory research action was undertaken in the two largest shelters established after the earthquakes in El Salvador (2001). One hundred fifteen semi-structured interviews were carried out among refugees, which later formed the basis for a self-managed community plan. Comparisons between the two shelters—which differed primarily in whether the grouping of tents was made to reflect the community of origin of the survivors (shelter Santa Ger…
What else do you feel when you feel sad? Emotional overproduction, neuroticism and rumination
Numerous experimental and naturalistic studies have shown the relevant role of ruminative styles in the onset, duration and severity of depressive episodes. Recent research has increasingly focused on the precursors of these ruminative responses. Neuroticism has been found to be closely related to ruminative styles, but the nature of this relationship is unknown. Across three studies, we explored the role of emotional overproduction, conceptualiz…
Aproximaciones cognitivas a la investigación sobre el delirio persecutorio
El delirio persecutorio es un síntoma que se encuentra presente en diferentes condiciones clínicas. En los últimos años, son numerosas las investigaciones que se han centrado en el estudio del delírio persecutorio, desde una aproximación al síntoma, analizando los procesos psicológicos (cognitivos, emocionales, etc) asociados a este tipo de creencia delirante. En el presente trabajo se realiza una revisión de las investigaciones dirigidas a anali…
Satisfaction with Life Scale in a Representative Sample of Spanish Adults
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is a measure widely used to assess life satisfaction. This paper aims to test its psychometric properties, factor structure, and distribution scores across age, gender, education, and employment status. For this purpose, a representative sample of the Spanish population ( N = 2,964) was used. Although analyses showed no significant differences across age or gender, participants with higher education level a…
Gaze-fixation to happy faces predicts mood repair after a negative mood induction
The present study tested the interplay between mood and attentional deployment by examining attention to positive (i.e., happy faces) and negative (i.e., angry and sad faces) stimuli in response to experimental inductions of sad and happy mood. Participants underwent a negative, neutral, or positive mood induction procedure (MIP) which was followed by an assessment of their attentional deployment to emotional faces using eye-tracking technology. …
Don’t look at my teeth when I smile
Research on facial emotion processing has offered inconclusive results on whether certain emotional expressions, like happiness, are detected faster over others. A source of discrepancy among studies could stem from differences in physically salient features (e.g., teeth visibility), which are often left uncontrolled in this field of research. In Study 1, happy faces from the Karolinska Database Emotional Databse with visible, normal teeth unexpe…
Positive interventions in seriously-ill children
We examined whether a positive intervention (i.e. granting a wish) could promote positive psychological and physical changes (e.g. reduced nausea and pain) in seriously-ill children. Children and their parent were randomly assigned to a wish group (completed measures 2-3 days before the wish and 3 weeks later) or to a waiting-list control group (with an equivalent time-lag and receiving the wish after the assessment). Wish intervention significan…
Granting wishes of seriously ill children
We investigated whether a positive intervention (i.e. granting a wish) in children with a chronic illness could promote positive psychological responses in their parents. Hospitalized children were randomly assigned to either the wish group or to a waiting-list control group. Mothers and fathers' responses ( N = 86 and 38, respectively) were studied. Parents from the wish group showed higher levels of positive emotions and beliefs in a benevolent…
The Study of Psychopathology from the Network Analysis Perspective
Background: Network analysis (NA) is an analytical tool that allows one to explore the map of connections and eventual dynamic influences among symptoms and other elements of mental disorders. In recent years, the use of NA in psychopathology has rapidly grown, which calls for a systematic and critical analysis of its clinical utility. Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, a systematic review of published empirical studies applying NA in psychopa…
Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress-Related Responses During the Covid-19 Pandemic in a National Representative Sample
Integrative Well-Being Leads Our Attentional System
Attentional patterns as emotion regulation strategies during the anticipation of repetitive emotional scenes
Emotional SNARC
Unlocking the past
Positive reappraisal strategies have been found to reduce negative affect following the recall of negative personal events. This study examined the restorative effect of two mood-repair instructions (self-compassion vs benefit-focused reappraisal) and a control condition with no instructions following a negative Mood Induction Procedure by using the guided recall of a negative autobiographical event. A total of 112 university students participate…
An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression
Decreased levels of positive affect (PA) are a hallmark of depression. Current models propose as potential main mechanisms a dysfunctional use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies (i.e. dampening, positive rumination), and a maladaptive activation of pro-hedonic goals. However, the role of these mechanisms in PA in daily life remains understudied. We used a 10-day ESM design to assess how these mechanisms influence each other and contribute to d…
Attentional biases towards emotional information in chronic pain
Trauma and well-being in terrorism survivors in Spain
Long after terrorist attacks, victims may experience both trauma-related symptoms and levels of psychological well-being. This paper aimed to examine: (1) the relationship between overall PTSD and well-being; and (2) the associations among different PTSD symptom clusters, well-being, and daily functioning in 87 adult victims of jihadist and nationalist separatist terrorism in Madrid and Andalusia. The Posttraumatic Stress Questionnaire and the Ps…
Quantifying the negative impact of gambling
Gambling-related harm (GRH) extends beyond addiction, affecting multiple life domains, yet validated tools for its assessment are currently lacking for the Spanish population. This study adapted and validated a Spanish version of the Gambling-Related Harm Checklist (GRH-CL) and developed a short form (S-SGHS) to quantify GRH and facilitate population-level metrics. A Spanish survey of 800 individuals, with gambling experience in the past year, as…
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (7 works) · Medicine (6 works)