Marcelino Cuesta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3883945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelino Cuesta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelino |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuesta |
| SIGNATURE | CUESTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Oviedo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1060-9536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconceptualization of Dark Personality: Towards a New Model Without Theoretical Overlap
Dark personality consists of an association of various socially aversive traits: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, etc. Although there are several models for its evaluation, the traits they encompass overlap in content. Thus, a comprehensive theoretical framework is needed, one that integrates the psychological characteristics described in the literature while avoiding overlap in their definitions. After a review of the literature and th…
General versus domain‐specific grit in the work context
Researchers have questioned whether grit should be conceptualized and measured as a global (i.e., domain‐general) or domain‐specific construct. Although evidence is beginning to appear that grit in educational and sport contexts may be measured as domain‐specific, it has not yet been explored in the organizational context. The objective of this research was to study the psychometric properties of grit as domain‐specific for subsequently analyzing…
Ítems tipo Likert vs. Ítems continuos: Qué opción es mejor
Los ítems tipo Likert son comúnmente utilizados en ciencias sociales. Este estudio comprueba si se pueden mejorar las propiedades psicométricas de los autoinformes variando los formatos de respuesta. Los formatos comparados han sido el tipo Likert de cinco alternativas y el VAS (Visual Analog Scale). Para ello, 584 personas (75.2 % mujeres) con una edad media de 32.9 años (DT = 13.4) respondieron a dos cuestionarios online de personalidad que fue…
Measurement invariance of entrepreneurial personality in relation to sex, age, and self-employment
Validation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II in the general Spanish population
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy states that Experiential Avoidance contributes to the development of psychological issues. The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II measures Experiential Avoidance. The objective of the current study is to perform a validation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II in the general Spanish population. A sample of 964 participants from all over Spain was used ( M = 43.43 years; SD = 15.27). The psychometric…
What's new in Entrepreneurial Personality Assessment
Entrepreneurship is one of the most important aspects for the growth of any country. On the one hand, because it is a source of innovation, employment, and wealth and, on the other, because of the negative consequences of entrepreneurial failure, economically, socially, and psychologically. The study of entrepreneurship is carried out through different approaches, such as social, economic, biological, and psychological. Although no one doubts the…
Effects of Risk Perception and Accessibility on Cannabis Use among Young Population in Spain: Findings from the 2016 National Survey (Estudes)
BackgroundCannabis use in the young population has undergone a significant increase in Europe. Empirical assessments of individual and contextual mediating variables in relation to cannabis use are informative for prevention actions and have yet to be conducted in Spain. Objectives: This study used the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use in Secondary Education in Spain (ESTUDES) to inform on potentially relevant cannabis prevention targets. We exami…
Resiliencia académica: La influencia del esfuerzo, las expectativas y el autoconcepto académico
Introduction: Academic resilience is defined as getting high marks despite being at a socioeconomic disadvantage. In the present study, it was observed whether Academic Effort, Expectations and Self-Concept are part of academic resilience or would be explaining a good academic performance in general. Method: The participants, a population of 7479 Spanish adolescents (M = 13.87; SD = 0.82), were divided into four groups according to academic perfo…
Grit Assessment: Is One Dimension Enough
Grit is one of the non-cognitive variables that has received the most attention in recent years given its relationship to and influence in various aspects of life. There are very few reliable, valid instruments to evaluate it in Spanish-speaking countries. Because of that, the aim of this study is the development and validation of a new scale to evaluate grit in Spanish-speaking contexts. We used a sample of 531 Spanish participants (60% women) f…
Concern about appearance on Instagram and Facebook: Measurement and links with eating disorders
Appearance-related use of Social Networks (SNs) exhibits a clear relationship with the risk of eating disorders (ED). To determine which components of appearance-related use are most important for the detection and prediction of ED, it is necessary to measure concern about appearance on SNs in detail. The two main objectives of this study are to develop and validate the Concern about appearance on SNs scale (CONAPP), and to analyze the relationsh…
Problematic Social Network Use: Structure and Assessment
Using social networks (SNs) inappropriately can lead to psychological problems. The objective of this study was to develop a new measuring instrument of problematic use of SNs. The sample comprised 1003 participants over 18 years old ( M = 42.33; SD = 14.32). Exploratory factor analysis was performed with a randomly selected 30% of the sample, and confirmatory factor analysis with the remaining 70%. The reliability of the instrument was estimated…
Development of a computerized adaptive test to assess entrepreneurial personality
Background/objective Entrepreneurial behavior is of great importance nowadays owing to its significance in the generation of economic, social, personal, and cultural wellbeing. This behavior is influenced by cognitive and personality characteristics, as well as by socioeconomic and contextual factors. Entrepreneurial personality is made up of a set of psychological traits including self-efficacy, autonomy, innovation, internal locus of control, a…
Using reversed items in Likert scales: A questionable practice
BACKGROUND: The use of positively worded items and reversed forms aims to reduce response bias and is a commonly used practice nowadays. The main goal of this research is to analyze the psychometric implications of the use of positive and reversed items in measurement instruments. METHOD: A sample of 374 participants was tested aged between 18 and 73 (M=33.98; SD=14.12), 62.60% were women. A repeated measures design was used, evaluating the parti…
Effects of Modeling the Heterogeneity on Inferences Drawn from Multilevel Designs
This article uses Monte Carlo techniques to examine the effect of heterogeneity of variance in multilevel analyses in terms of relative bias, coverage probability, and root mean square error (RMSE). For all simulated data sets, the parameters were estimated using the restricted maximum-likelihood (REML) method both assuming homogeneity and incorporating heterogeneity into multilevel models. We find that (a) the estimates for the fixed parameters …
Reconceptualization of Dark Personality: Towards a New Model Without Theoretical Overlap
Dark personality consists of an association of various socially aversive traits: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, etc. Although there are several models for its evaluation, the traits they encompass overlap in content. Thus, a comprehensive theoretical framework is needed, one that integrates the psychological characteristics described in the literature while avoiding overlap in their definitions. After a review of the literature and th…
Effects of Modeling the Heterogeneity on Inferences Drawn from Multilevel Designs
This article uses Monte Carlo techniques to examine the effect of heterogeneity of variance in multilevel analyses in terms of relative bias, coverage probability, and root mean square error (RMSE). For all simulated data sets, the parameters were estimated using the restricted maximum-likelihood (REML) method both assuming homogeneity and incorporating heterogeneity into multilevel models. We find that (a) the estimates for the fixed parameters …
Using reversed items in Likert scales: A questionable practice
BACKGROUND: The use of positively worded items and reversed forms aims to reduce response bias and is a commonly used practice nowadays. The main goal of this research is to analyze the psychometric implications of the use of positive and reversed items in measurement instruments. METHOD: A sample of 374 participants was tested aged between 18 and 73 (M=33.98; SD=14.12), 62.60% were women. A repeated measures design was used, evaluating the parti…
Development of a computerized adaptive test to assess entrepreneurial personality
Background/objective Entrepreneurial behavior is of great importance nowadays owing to its significance in the generation of economic, social, personal, and cultural wellbeing. This behavior is influenced by cognitive and personality characteristics, as well as by socioeconomic and contextual factors. Entrepreneurial personality is made up of a set of psychological traits including self-efficacy, autonomy, innovation, internal locus of control, a…
Resiliencia académica: La influencia del esfuerzo, las expectativas y el autoconcepto académico
Introduction: Academic resilience is defined as getting high marks despite being at a socioeconomic disadvantage. In the present study, it was observed whether Academic Effort, Expectations and Self-Concept are part of academic resilience or would be explaining a good academic performance in general. Method: The participants, a population of 7479 Spanish adolescents (M = 13.87; SD = 0.82), were divided into four groups according to academic perfo…
Grit Assessment: Is One Dimension Enough
Grit is one of the non-cognitive variables that has received the most attention in recent years given its relationship to and influence in various aspects of life. There are very few reliable, valid instruments to evaluate it in Spanish-speaking countries. Because of that, the aim of this study is the development and validation of a new scale to evaluate grit in Spanish-speaking contexts. We used a sample of 531 Spanish participants (60% women) f…
Concern about appearance on Instagram and Facebook: Measurement and links with eating disorders
Appearance-related use of Social Networks (SNs) exhibits a clear relationship with the risk of eating disorders (ED). To determine which components of appearance-related use are most important for the detection and prediction of ED, it is necessary to measure concern about appearance on SNs in detail. The two main objectives of this study are to develop and validate the Concern about appearance on SNs scale (CONAPP), and to analyze the relationsh…
Problematic Social Network Use: Structure and Assessment
Using social networks (SNs) inappropriately can lead to psychological problems. The objective of this study was to develop a new measuring instrument of problematic use of SNs. The sample comprised 1003 participants over 18 years old ( M = 42.33; SD = 14.32). Exploratory factor analysis was performed with a randomly selected 30% of the sample, and confirmatory factor analysis with the remaining 70%. The reliability of the instrument was estimated…
Effects of Risk Perception and Accessibility on Cannabis Use among Young Population in Spain: Findings from the 2016 National Survey (Estudes)
BackgroundCannabis use in the young population has undergone a significant increase in Europe. Empirical assessments of individual and contextual mediating variables in relation to cannabis use are informative for prevention actions and have yet to be conducted in Spain. Objectives: This study used the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use in Secondary Education in Spain (ESTUDES) to inform on potentially relevant cannabis prevention targets. We exami…
Measurement invariance of entrepreneurial personality in relation to sex, age, and self-employment
Validation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II in the general Spanish population
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy states that Experiential Avoidance contributes to the development of psychological issues. The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II measures Experiential Avoidance. The objective of the current study is to perform a validation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II in the general Spanish population. A sample of 964 participants from all over Spain was used ( M = 43.43 years; SD = 15.27). The psychometric…
What's new in Entrepreneurial Personality Assessment
Entrepreneurship is one of the most important aspects for the growth of any country. On the one hand, because it is a source of innovation, employment, and wealth and, on the other, because of the negative consequences of entrepreneurial failure, economically, socially, and psychologically. The study of entrepreneurship is carried out through different approaches, such as social, economic, biological, and psychological. Although no one doubts the…
General versus domain‐specific grit in the work context
Researchers have questioned whether grit should be conceptualized and measured as a global (i.e., domain‐general) or domain‐specific construct. Although evidence is beginning to appear that grit in educational and sport contexts may be measured as domain‐specific, it has not yet been explored in the organizational context. The objective of this research was to study the psychometric properties of grit as domain‐specific for subsequently analyzing…
Ítems tipo Likert vs. Ítems continuos: Qué opción es mejor
Los ítems tipo Likert son comúnmente utilizados en ciencias sociales. Este estudio comprueba si se pueden mejorar las propiedades psicométricas de los autoinformes variando los formatos de respuesta. Los formatos comparados han sido el tipo Likert de cinco alternativas y el VAS (Visual Analog Scale). Para ello, 584 personas (75.2 % mujeres) con una edad media de 32.9 años (DT = 13.4) respondieron a dos cuestionarios online de personalidad que fue…
Reconceptualization of Dark Personality: Towards a New Model Without Theoretical Overlap
Dark personality consists of an association of various socially aversive traits: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, etc. Although there are several models for its evaluation, the traits they encompass overlap in content. Thus, a comprehensive theoretical framework is needed, one that integrates the psychological characteristics described in the literature while avoiding overlap in their definitions. After a review of the literature and th…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Personality (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Statistics (6 works) · Big Five personality traits (4 works) · Personality Traits and Psychology (4 works) · Psychometrics (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works)