Alfonso Osorio
Biographic Data
| ID | 5223128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfonso Osorio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfonso |
| FAMILY NAME | Osorio |
| SIGNATURE | OSORIO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Navarra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4337-5382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the Links Between Parenting Styles, Differentiation of Self and Substance use in Spanish-Speaking Adolescents
Research shows that parenting, specifically, parental warmth and demandingness, are associated with lower substance use. However, little is known about the psychological phenomena that underlie this association. This study aims to explore the relationship between parenting (warmth and demandingness) and substance use, considering the moderating role of the dimensions of differentiation of self (emotional reactivity and emotional cutoff), a key ps…
Questioning the Challenge to Screen Use Guidelines
In September 2023, “An umbrella review of the benefits and risks associated with youths’ interactions with electronic screens” was published in Nature. This review aimed at understanding the influence of electronic screens on the health and educational outcome of children and adolescents from 0-18 years old. The authors concluded that current screen use guidelines may be too simplistic, that they mischaracterize the strength of the evidence or do…
Relationship Beliefs and Relationship Satisfaction
This study investigated the role of relationship beliefs in relationship satisfaction among Spanish-speaking heterosexual couples and explored the mediating role of perceived relationship power imbalance (RPI). Before their wedding, 111 couples from Spanish-speaking countries completed a questionnaire that included questions about relationship beliefs and RPI. About 2 years after the wedding, they completed a new questionnaire measuring relations…
Longitudinal associations of spousal support and strain with health and well‐being
In the present study, we examined the prospective associations of both spousal support and spousal strain with a wide range of health and well‐being outcomes in married older adults. Applying the analytic template for outcome‐wide designs, three waves of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study ( n = 7788, M age = 64.2 years) were analyzed using linear regression, logistic regression, and generalized linear models. A set of models w…
Parenting Style, Differentiation of Self, and Pornography Use Among Adolescents
Parenting style and differentiation of self (DoS), understood as an ability associated with emotional regulation, are two factors that may be linked with pornography use in adolescents. The main aim was to explore the association between parenting style (specifically warmth and demandingness), DoS (specifically emotional cutoff and emotional reactivity) and pornography use in a sample of 7161 hispanic adolescents aged 12 to 17. Frequency of porno…
Differentiation of self in adolescents
This article examines the measurement equivalence of the Spanish Differentiation of Self Inventory for Adolescents (S-DSI-A) in adolescent populations across Spanish-speaking countries ( N = 5,552), including Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Within the Bowen family system theory, Differentiation of self is one of the most recognized constructs to systemic researchers and couple and family therapy practitioners, with implication…
Structural empirical model of personal positive youth development, parenting, and school climate
This study tested an empirical model of the relationship between Personal Positive Youth Development (PPYD) and two contextual factors: Positive Parenting (PP), and Perception of the Climate and Functioning of the School (PcfS). The hypothesis tested was that a positive relationship with parents and a positive perception of the school will contribute to the prediction of PPYD. The sample was composed of 1507 adolescents recruited in 10 Spanish sc…
Matched and Fully Private? A New Self-Generated Identification Code for School-Based Cohort Studies to Increase Perceived Anonymity
Anonymous questionnaires are frequently used in research with adolescents in order to obtain sincere answers about sensitive topics. Most longitudinal studies include self-generated identification codes (SGICs) to match information. Typical elements include a combination of letters and digits from personal data. However, these data may make the participant feel that their answers are not truly anonymous, and some studies using these types of SGIC…
Activities and relationships with parents as key ecological assets that encourage personal positive youth development
Scientific literature has shown contextual factors that predict youth development, and family variables are the most important ones. In this study, we propose a model that explains the relation between family variables (relationship with parents and family activities) and Personal Positive Youth Development (assessed through Life satisfaction, Interiority, and Self‐control), across different cultures. We recruited 2867 adolescents aged 12–18 year…
Assessing Adolescent Dating Violence in the YourLife Project
This instrument seems to be adequate to assess suffered and perpetrated adolescent dating violence within a multipurpose questionnaire among schooled adolescents
Connections between Family Assets and Positive Youth Development
This study aimed to determine the associations between parental monitoring and affection and three adolescent lifestyle aspects: constructive leisure, non-constructive leisure and substance use. A cross-sectional study was conducted in four countries (Chile, Mexico, Spain and Peru). Adolescents aged 12-15 self-completed a multi-purpose questionnaire. Multiple logistic regressions were performed to analyse the association between the parental moni…
Male condom use, multiple sexual partners and HIV
In the Democratic Republic of Congo no previous studies have assessed the factors associated with different patterns of condom use and with multiple sexual partners, and the association between condom use simultaneously taking into account multiple sexual partnerships, and HIV infection. We carried out a prospective case-control study. From December 2010 until June 2012, 1630 participants aged 15-49 getting HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in…
Factors that lead to changes in sexual behaviours after a negative HIV test
This is the first longitudinal study in the DRC that evaluates the factors associated with changes in sexual behaviours after a negative HIV test at the VCT. Participants attending the VCT services within a clinical setting are a good study population as they can be good transmitters of preventive information for other people with no access to health facilities
Familia, amigos y otras fuentes de información asociadas al inicio de las relaciones sexuales en adolescentes de El Salvador
Messages from family and friends are factors that seem to influence the initiation of sexual activity by young people. Sexual health promotion programs in El Salvador should take these factors into account
Mean Age of First Sex
Early age at first sexual intercourse is a particularly important variable for public health policy makers. It is associated with specific unhealthy behaviors, such as having unprotected sex on first sexual intercourse, condom misuse or having multiple (concurrent or lifetime) partners (Kaestle, Halpern, Miller, & Ford, 2005; Louie et al., 2009). These can lead to higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), teenage pregnancy, and adve…
Relationships, love and sexuality
There is room for further encouraging parents to talk more with their children about sexuality, specially aspects related to feelings and emotions in order to help them make better sexual choices. Indeed, teens wish to better communicate with their parents on these issues. Condoms are regarded as safer than what they really are by almost half of the participants of this study, and such incorrect knowledge seems to be associated with sexual initia…
Parenting Style, Differentiation of Self, and Pornography Use Among Adolescents
Parenting style and differentiation of self (DoS), understood as an ability associated with emotional regulation, are two factors that may be linked with pornography use in adolescents. The main aim was to explore the association between parenting style (specifically warmth and demandingness), DoS (specifically emotional cutoff and emotional reactivity) and pornography use in a sample of 7161 hispanic adolescents aged 12 to 17. Frequency of porno…
Mean Age of First Sex
Early age at first sexual intercourse is a particularly important variable for public health policy makers. It is associated with specific unhealthy behaviors, such as having unprotected sex on first sexual intercourse, condom misuse or having multiple (concurrent or lifetime) partners (Kaestle, Halpern, Miller, & Ford, 2005; Louie et al., 2009). These can lead to higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), teenage pregnancy, and adve…
Relationships, love and sexuality
There is room for further encouraging parents to talk more with their children about sexuality, specially aspects related to feelings and emotions in order to help them make better sexual choices. Indeed, teens wish to better communicate with their parents on these issues. Condoms are regarded as safer than what they really are by almost half of the participants of this study, and such incorrect knowledge seems to be associated with sexual initia…
Mean Age of First Sex
Early age at first sexual intercourse is a particularly important variable for public health policy makers. It is associated with specific unhealthy behaviors, such as having unprotected sex on first sexual intercourse, condom misuse or having multiple (concurrent or lifetime) partners (Kaestle, Halpern, Miller, & Ford, 2005; Louie et al., 2009). These can lead to higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), teenage pregnancy, and adve…
Familia, amigos y otras fuentes de información asociadas al inicio de las relaciones sexuales en adolescentes de El Salvador
Messages from family and friends are factors that seem to influence the initiation of sexual activity by young people. Sexual health promotion programs in El Salvador should take these factors into account
Factors that lead to changes in sexual behaviours after a negative HIV test
This is the first longitudinal study in the DRC that evaluates the factors associated with changes in sexual behaviours after a negative HIV test at the VCT. Participants attending the VCT services within a clinical setting are a good study population as they can be good transmitters of preventive information for other people with no access to health facilities
Male condom use, multiple sexual partners and HIV
In the Democratic Republic of Congo no previous studies have assessed the factors associated with different patterns of condom use and with multiple sexual partners, and the association between condom use simultaneously taking into account multiple sexual partnerships, and HIV infection. We carried out a prospective case-control study. From December 2010 until June 2012, 1630 participants aged 15-49 getting HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in…
Connections between Family Assets and Positive Youth Development
This study aimed to determine the associations between parental monitoring and affection and three adolescent lifestyle aspects: constructive leisure, non-constructive leisure and substance use. A cross-sectional study was conducted in four countries (Chile, Mexico, Spain and Peru). Adolescents aged 12-15 self-completed a multi-purpose questionnaire. Multiple logistic regressions were performed to analyse the association between the parental moni…
Assessing Adolescent Dating Violence in the YourLife Project
This instrument seems to be adequate to assess suffered and perpetrated adolescent dating violence within a multipurpose questionnaire among schooled adolescents
Structural empirical model of personal positive youth development, parenting, and school climate
This study tested an empirical model of the relationship between Personal Positive Youth Development (PPYD) and two contextual factors: Positive Parenting (PP), and Perception of the Climate and Functioning of the School (PcfS). The hypothesis tested was that a positive relationship with parents and a positive perception of the school will contribute to the prediction of PPYD. The sample was composed of 1507 adolescents recruited in 10 Spanish sc…
Matched and Fully Private? A New Self-Generated Identification Code for School-Based Cohort Studies to Increase Perceived Anonymity
Anonymous questionnaires are frequently used in research with adolescents in order to obtain sincere answers about sensitive topics. Most longitudinal studies include self-generated identification codes (SGICs) to match information. Typical elements include a combination of letters and digits from personal data. However, these data may make the participant feel that their answers are not truly anonymous, and some studies using these types of SGIC…
Activities and relationships with parents as key ecological assets that encourage personal positive youth development
Scientific literature has shown contextual factors that predict youth development, and family variables are the most important ones. In this study, we propose a model that explains the relation between family variables (relationship with parents and family activities) and Personal Positive Youth Development (assessed through Life satisfaction, Interiority, and Self‐control), across different cultures. We recruited 2867 adolescents aged 12–18 year…
Differentiation of self in adolescents
This article examines the measurement equivalence of the Spanish Differentiation of Self Inventory for Adolescents (S-DSI-A) in adolescent populations across Spanish-speaking countries ( N = 5,552), including Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Within the Bowen family system theory, Differentiation of self is one of the most recognized constructs to systemic researchers and couple and family therapy practitioners, with implication…
Questioning the Challenge to Screen Use Guidelines
In September 2023, “An umbrella review of the benefits and risks associated with youths’ interactions with electronic screens” was published in Nature. This review aimed at understanding the influence of electronic screens on the health and educational outcome of children and adolescents from 0-18 years old. The authors concluded that current screen use guidelines may be too simplistic, that they mischaracterize the strength of the evidence or do…
Relationship Beliefs and Relationship Satisfaction
This study investigated the role of relationship beliefs in relationship satisfaction among Spanish-speaking heterosexual couples and explored the mediating role of perceived relationship power imbalance (RPI). Before their wedding, 111 couples from Spanish-speaking countries completed a questionnaire that included questions about relationship beliefs and RPI. About 2 years after the wedding, they completed a new questionnaire measuring relations…
Longitudinal associations of spousal support and strain with health and well‐being
In the present study, we examined the prospective associations of both spousal support and spousal strain with a wide range of health and well‐being outcomes in married older adults. Applying the analytic template for outcome‐wide designs, three waves of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study ( n = 7788, M age = 64.2 years) were analyzed using linear regression, logistic regression, and generalized linear models. A set of models w…
Parenting Style, Differentiation of Self, and Pornography Use Among Adolescents
Parenting style and differentiation of self (DoS), understood as an ability associated with emotional regulation, are two factors that may be linked with pornography use in adolescents. The main aim was to explore the association between parenting style (specifically warmth and demandingness), DoS (specifically emotional cutoff and emotional reactivity) and pornography use in a sample of 7161 hispanic adolescents aged 12 to 17. Frequency of porno…
Exploring the Links Between Parenting Styles, Differentiation of Self and Substance use in Spanish-Speaking Adolescents
Research shows that parenting, specifically, parental warmth and demandingness, are associated with lower substance use. However, little is known about the psychological phenomena that underlie this association. This study aims to explore the relationship between parenting (warmth and demandingness) and substance use, considering the moderating role of the dimensions of differentiation of self (emotional reactivity and emotional cutoff), a key ps…
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (3 works)