María José Baeza-Rivera
Biographic Data
| ID | 4813041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María José Baeza-Rivera |
| GIVEN NAMES | María José |
| FAMILY NAME | Baeza-Rivera |
| SIGNATURE | BAEZA-RIVERA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Católica de Temuco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7763-0148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dispositional Optimism, Pessimism, and Psychological Distress Among Venezuelan Migrants in Chile
Introduction: Migrants often experience mental health challenges associated with acculturative stress. Dispositional traits, such as optimism and pessimism, may shape how individuals appraise and cope with these challenges, influencing their psychological distress. Objective: This study aimed to analyse the role of three dimensions of acculturative stress: integration difficulties, nostalgia, and structural barriers, in the relationship between o…
Discrimination, Satisfaction, and use of Public Healthcare Services by South American Migrants in Southern Chile
Creencias sobre el sistema de salud público y privado en Chile
Evaluar las creencias de usuarios respecto del sistema de salud pú- blico versus privado en Chile, considerando etnia, nivel socioeconómico y afi- liación sanitaria. Usando un diseño no experimental y transversal, una muestra no probabilística de 337 usuarios respondió un cuestionario sobre creencias asociadas a ambos sistemas. Se evaluaron diferencias de medias según etnia, nivel socioeconómico y afiliación. Se encontró que la muestra en general…
Should we take care of each other? Enhancing Covid-19 protective behaviors, a study in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia
The literature has suggested that social norms and perceptions of risk and severity are critical variables in predicting protective health behaviors. Using an integrative conceptual framework, this study evaluates educational level, socioeconomic status, injunctive pro-care norms, perception of risk, and severity of COVID-19 as predictors of hygiene behaviors, mask use, and physical distancing. Participants included 2,075 adults from Chile, Mexic…
Analysis of the Mental and Physical Health Symptomatology Scale in a Sample of Emerging and Migrant Adults in Chile
Health inequities exist in groups of greater psychosocial vulnerability such as emerging adults and migrants. The study aimed to generate evidence of the validity of the mental and physical health symptomatology scale in two samples of vulnerable groups: emerging university adults, who report high levels of mental health problems, and migrants, who report high levels of physical and mental health problems. Using non-probability sampling, in the f…
Model to Predict Healthcare Behaviors
(1) Background: Adherence to treatment and medical check-ups are important for health outcomes, but low adherence to treatment is a common phenomenon. Thus, we aimed to examine the role of cultural beliefs about physicians, perceived mistreatment, and emotions associated with the experience of mistreatment as an antecedent of healthcare behavior among Chilean and Mexican primary care patients using Betancourt's model for the study of health behav…
Acculturative Stress, Perceived Social Support, and Mental Health
The role of perceived social support in the acculturation process of immigrants remains unclear. In this study, we jointly evaluated the associations between acculturative stress and negative emotions associated with discrimination as antecedents of anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in 283 immigrants living in Chile. Three competing models were tested via structural equation modelling to assess (1) the association among these variables and…
To get vaccinated or not? Social psychological factors associated with vaccination intent for Covid-19
Pandemic control not only requires effective COVID-19 vaccines but also that they are accepted by at least 80% of the population. For this reason, understanding the social psychological variables associated with vaccination intent is essential to achieve herd immunity. Drawing on the theory of reasoned action, this study seeks to analyze vaccination intent using the beliefs about vaccine effectiveness, conspiracy theories, and injunctive norms as…
Assumption of the Myths of Romantic Love
Romantic love promotes and lays the foundation for the development of hegemonic affective sex relationships, guiding the normative ways of feeling and experiencing love. This way of conceiving love is an intrinsic part of women's subordination, and it entails a greater tolerance for situations of violence in sex-affective relationships in which the exercise of asymmetric power relations between men and women is legitimized. With the current adven…
Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile
PURPOSE: Negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients represent one of the barriers in the psychological help-seeking and treatment adherence. In Chile today, there is little research about specific beliefs towards this group, and therefore measuring them represents a challenge. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate an instrument to measure cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients. METHODS: A mixed method design …
Predictores culturales y psicológicos de la búsqueda de ayuda psicológica en estudiantes universitarios
La prevalencia de problemas de salud mental en estudiantes universitarios chilenos, junto con el bajo porcentaje de búsqueda de ayuda psicológica, son preocupantes. Al respecto, se han señalado obstaculizadores culturales, psicológicos y clínicos que inciden en el proceso de búsqueda de ayuda psicológica, sin que exista claridad de cómo impactan en este grupo particular. En la presente investigación se identificaron los factores predictores de la…
Materialism in Pedagogy Students in Chile
The Effect of a Therapist's Pregnancy on a Therapeutic Relationship with an Inmate Charged with Infanticide
This paper describes the impact of pregnancy on a therapeutic relationship. It is a personal account, told from the therapist's perspective. Specifically, it discusses the effects of the interaction between the increasingly noticeable pregnancy of the clinician, and the circumstances of the patient: an incarcerated woman charged with the death of a toddler. It explores the psychodynamic changes during the course of therapy due to the clinician's …
Acculturative Stress, Perceived Social Support, and Mental Health
The role of perceived social support in the acculturation process of immigrants remains unclear. In this study, we jointly evaluated the associations between acculturative stress and negative emotions associated with discrimination as antecedents of anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in 283 immigrants living in Chile. Three competing models were tested via structural equation modelling to assess (1) the association among these variables and…
Assumption of the Myths of Romantic Love
Romantic love promotes and lays the foundation for the development of hegemonic affective sex relationships, guiding the normative ways of feeling and experiencing love. This way of conceiving love is an intrinsic part of women's subordination, and it entails a greater tolerance for situations of violence in sex-affective relationships in which the exercise of asymmetric power relations between men and women is legitimized. With the current adven…
The Effect of a Therapist's Pregnancy on a Therapeutic Relationship with an Inmate Charged with Infanticide
This paper describes the impact of pregnancy on a therapeutic relationship. It is a personal account, told from the therapist's perspective. Specifically, it discusses the effects of the interaction between the increasingly noticeable pregnancy of the clinician, and the circumstances of the patient: an incarcerated woman charged with the death of a toddler. It explores the psychodynamic changes during the course of therapy due to the clinician's …
Materialism in Pedagogy Students in Chile
Predictores culturales y psicológicos de la búsqueda de ayuda psicológica en estudiantes universitarios
La prevalencia de problemas de salud mental en estudiantes universitarios chilenos, junto con el bajo porcentaje de búsqueda de ayuda psicológica, son preocupantes. Al respecto, se han señalado obstaculizadores culturales, psicológicos y clínicos que inciden en el proceso de búsqueda de ayuda psicológica, sin que exista claridad de cómo impactan en este grupo particular. En la presente investigación se identificaron los factores predictores de la…
Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile
PURPOSE: Negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients represent one of the barriers in the psychological help-seeking and treatment adherence. In Chile today, there is little research about specific beliefs towards this group, and therefore measuring them represents a challenge. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate an instrument to measure cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients. METHODS: A mixed method design …
To get vaccinated or not? Social psychological factors associated with vaccination intent for Covid-19
Pandemic control not only requires effective COVID-19 vaccines but also that they are accepted by at least 80% of the population. For this reason, understanding the social psychological variables associated with vaccination intent is essential to achieve herd immunity. Drawing on the theory of reasoned action, this study seeks to analyze vaccination intent using the beliefs about vaccine effectiveness, conspiracy theories, and injunctive norms as…
Assumption of the Myths of Romantic Love
Romantic love promotes and lays the foundation for the development of hegemonic affective sex relationships, guiding the normative ways of feeling and experiencing love. This way of conceiving love is an intrinsic part of women's subordination, and it entails a greater tolerance for situations of violence in sex-affective relationships in which the exercise of asymmetric power relations between men and women is legitimized. With the current adven…
Model to Predict Healthcare Behaviors
(1) Background: Adherence to treatment and medical check-ups are important for health outcomes, but low adherence to treatment is a common phenomenon. Thus, we aimed to examine the role of cultural beliefs about physicians, perceived mistreatment, and emotions associated with the experience of mistreatment as an antecedent of healthcare behavior among Chilean and Mexican primary care patients using Betancourt's model for the study of health behav…
Acculturative Stress, Perceived Social Support, and Mental Health
The role of perceived social support in the acculturation process of immigrants remains unclear. In this study, we jointly evaluated the associations between acculturative stress and negative emotions associated with discrimination as antecedents of anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms in 283 immigrants living in Chile. Three competing models were tested via structural equation modelling to assess (1) the association among these variables and…
Should we take care of each other? Enhancing Covid-19 protective behaviors, a study in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia
The literature has suggested that social norms and perceptions of risk and severity are critical variables in predicting protective health behaviors. Using an integrative conceptual framework, this study evaluates educational level, socioeconomic status, injunctive pro-care norms, perception of risk, and severity of COVID-19 as predictors of hygiene behaviors, mask use, and physical distancing. Participants included 2,075 adults from Chile, Mexic…
Analysis of the Mental and Physical Health Symptomatology Scale in a Sample of Emerging and Migrant Adults in Chile
Health inequities exist in groups of greater psychosocial vulnerability such as emerging adults and migrants. The study aimed to generate evidence of the validity of the mental and physical health symptomatology scale in two samples of vulnerable groups: emerging university adults, who report high levels of mental health problems, and migrants, who report high levels of physical and mental health problems. Using non-probability sampling, in the f…
Creencias sobre el sistema de salud público y privado en Chile
Evaluar las creencias de usuarios respecto del sistema de salud pú- blico versus privado en Chile, considerando etnia, nivel socioeconómico y afi- liación sanitaria. Usando un diseño no experimental y transversal, una muestra no probabilística de 337 usuarios respondió un cuestionario sobre creencias asociadas a ambos sistemas. Se evaluaron diferencias de medias según etnia, nivel socioeconómico y afiliación. Se encontró que la muestra en general…
Dispositional Optimism, Pessimism, and Psychological Distress Among Venezuelan Migrants in Chile
Introduction: Migrants often experience mental health challenges associated with acculturative stress. Dispositional traits, such as optimism and pessimism, may shape how individuals appraise and cope with these challenges, influencing their psychological distress. Objective: This study aimed to analyse the role of three dimensions of acculturative stress: integration difficulties, nostalgia, and structural barriers, in the relationship between o…
Discrimination, Satisfaction, and use of Public Healthcare Services by South American Migrants in Southern Chile
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Structural equation modeling (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Anxiety (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)