María Luisa Vecina Jiménez
Biographic Data
| ID | 6530004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Luisa Vecina Jiménez |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Luisa Vecina |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiménez |
| SIGNATURE | JIMÉNEZ M L V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7605-3067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How bad do you feel about it? The parallel mediation role of guilt and shame in promoting prisoners’ intention to change
Considering that the moral emotions of guilt and shame play both a preventive role in helping people avoid breaking moral norms, as well as a restorative role after transgressing them, in this study we examine a sample of incarcerated women (N = 115) and men (N = 235) regarding very relevant variables for their reintegration into society, that is, (1) personal responsibility for their crimes, (2) the associated emotional reactions of shame and gu…
Moral self-assessment after committing a crime
Moral self-assessment is vital to one's identity, but how does it change after committing immoral behavior like crime? We compared a sample of N = 382 men and women in prison sentenced for violent and non-violent crimes with a matched control group ( N = 382). We measured their self-importance of moral identity, moral self-concept, and moral self-image. We found prisoners had lower moral self-concept and internalization but higher symbolization a…
Guilty or Self-Affirmed
Do individualizing moral foundations protect from higher moral disengagement in imprisoned men and women
We aimed to analyze whether the individualizing moral foundations play a protective role against moral disengagement in a sample of 367 women and men in prison, and whether, in addition, moral foundations promote the intention to change the behaviors that led them to prison. Controlling for gender differences, we found support for the hypothesized connection between the individualizing moral foundations, as proposed by the Moral Foundations Theor…
The Role of the Quiet Ego in Promoting Benefits from Social Participation
In this paper, we argue that the quiet ego, defined as an inclusive identity oriented toward long-term growth in desirable and adaptive ways for oneself and others, can be expressed and developed by participating in the social sphere. The objectives of this study are: 1) to analyze the measurement quality of the Quiet Ego Scale (QES) in a sample of Spanish individuals with different levels of prosocial participation (Study 1; N = 238); and 2) to …
The subjective index of benefits in volunteering (SIBiV)
The Mediating Role of Moral Absolutism Between the “Binding Moral Foundations” and Sexist Attitudes
The binding foundations (loyalty, authority, and purity) constitute adaptive mechanisms for preserving groups' interests. However, they have also been related to intergroup prejudice and violence. We show that the known relationship between the binding foundations and sexist attitudes is mediated by moral absolutism, a variable that reflects the degree to which people believe that their own definition of morality is objectively correct. Two diffe…
Moral Absolutism, Self-Deception, and Moral Self-Concept in Men Who Commit Intimate Partner Violence
The objective of this study is to show compatible data with the idea that men who commit intimate partner violence are uninhibited about the moral consequences of their behaviors, probably because they feel certainty about the rightness of their moral values and they strongly deceive themselves to maintain a good moral self-concept, and thus a good level of well-being. To do that, we compare their scores with those obtained by an opposite sample …
Memory of the Quality of Group Experiences During Childhood and Adolescence in Predicting Volunteerism in Young Adults
The link between extracurricular activities during childhood and adolescence and civic engagement in the subsequent stage of life is theoretically strong but empirically weak. This is due to the lack of longitudinal studies that account for this relationship and the absence of retrospective studies to confirm it. In this article, we investigate, through the participants’ memory, the essential aspects of the quality of group experiences by which c…
Volunteer Engagement and Organizational Commitment in Nonprofit Organizations
This study was conducted in order to determine whether commitment to organizations and work engagement are distinguishable constructs among volunteers from 18 nonprofit organizations. The strategy used addresses their distinctiveness, demonstrating that they relate differently to outcomes of interest. It is expected that organizational commitment will predict intention to remain and work engagement will predict psychological well‐being. Results i…
Motivos del Voluntariado
Most studies of volunteers’ motivations use standardized questionnaires with one of the most commonly-used being the Volunteer Function Inventory. Open-ended questions about what drives individuals to be volunteers are seldom used. We hypothesize that questionnaires tend to overestimate the number of motivations and to underestimate their variety. Therefore, in this paper we analyze the answers of 1515 volunteers to an open-ended question and cat…
The Three-Stage Model of Volunteers' Duration of Service
The main objective of this paper was to describe the latest results of a longitudinal study carried out by our research team with a sample of social work volunteers, whose one-year follow-up has just been completed, allowing us to draw up what we have called the “Three-stage model of volunteers' duration”. Use of this model overcomes some of the apparent contradictions between the different models of volunteerism. For example, for the Functional …
Volunteer Engagement and Organizational Commitment in Nonprofit Organizations
This study was conducted in order to determine whether commitment to organizations and work engagement are distinguishable constructs among volunteers from 18 nonprofit organizations. The strategy used addresses their distinctiveness, demonstrating that they relate differently to outcomes of interest. It is expected that organizational commitment will predict intention to remain and work engagement will predict psychological well‐being. Results i…
Memory of the Quality of Group Experiences During Childhood and Adolescence in Predicting Volunteerism in Young Adults
The link between extracurricular activities during childhood and adolescence and civic engagement in the subsequent stage of life is theoretically strong but empirically weak. This is due to the lack of longitudinal studies that account for this relationship and the absence of retrospective studies to confirm it. In this article, we investigate, through the participants’ memory, the essential aspects of the quality of group experiences by which c…
Moral Absolutism, Self-Deception, and Moral Self-Concept in Men Who Commit Intimate Partner Violence
The objective of this study is to show compatible data with the idea that men who commit intimate partner violence are uninhibited about the moral consequences of their behaviors, probably because they feel certainty about the rightness of their moral values and they strongly deceive themselves to maintain a good moral self-concept, and thus a good level of well-being. To do that, we compare their scores with those obtained by an opposite sample …
The Mediating Role of Moral Absolutism Between the “Binding Moral Foundations” and Sexist Attitudes
The binding foundations (loyalty, authority, and purity) constitute adaptive mechanisms for preserving groups' interests. However, they have also been related to intergroup prejudice and violence. We show that the known relationship between the binding foundations and sexist attitudes is mediated by moral absolutism, a variable that reflects the degree to which people believe that their own definition of morality is objectively correct. Two diffe…
The Three-Stage Model of Volunteers' Duration of Service
The main objective of this paper was to describe the latest results of a longitudinal study carried out by our research team with a sample of social work volunteers, whose one-year follow-up has just been completed, allowing us to draw up what we have called the “Three-stage model of volunteers' duration”. Use of this model overcomes some of the apparent contradictions between the different models of volunteerism. For example, for the Functional …
Motivos del Voluntariado
Most studies of volunteers’ motivations use standardized questionnaires with one of the most commonly-used being the Volunteer Function Inventory. Open-ended questions about what drives individuals to be volunteers are seldom used. We hypothesize that questionnaires tend to overestimate the number of motivations and to underestimate their variety. Therefore, in this paper we analyze the answers of 1515 volunteers to an open-ended question and cat…
Volunteer Engagement and Organizational Commitment in Nonprofit Organizations
This study was conducted in order to determine whether commitment to organizations and work engagement are distinguishable constructs among volunteers from 18 nonprofit organizations. The strategy used addresses their distinctiveness, demonstrating that they relate differently to outcomes of interest. It is expected that organizational commitment will predict intention to remain and work engagement will predict psychological well‐being. Results i…
Memory of the Quality of Group Experiences During Childhood and Adolescence in Predicting Volunteerism in Young Adults
The link between extracurricular activities during childhood and adolescence and civic engagement in the subsequent stage of life is theoretically strong but empirically weak. This is due to the lack of longitudinal studies that account for this relationship and the absence of retrospective studies to confirm it. In this article, we investigate, through the participants’ memory, the essential aspects of the quality of group experiences by which c…
Moral Absolutism, Self-Deception, and Moral Self-Concept in Men Who Commit Intimate Partner Violence
The objective of this study is to show compatible data with the idea that men who commit intimate partner violence are uninhibited about the moral consequences of their behaviors, probably because they feel certainty about the rightness of their moral values and they strongly deceive themselves to maintain a good moral self-concept, and thus a good level of well-being. To do that, we compare their scores with those obtained by an opposite sample …
The Mediating Role of Moral Absolutism Between the “Binding Moral Foundations” and Sexist Attitudes
The binding foundations (loyalty, authority, and purity) constitute adaptive mechanisms for preserving groups' interests. However, they have also been related to intergroup prejudice and violence. We show that the known relationship between the binding foundations and sexist attitudes is mediated by moral absolutism, a variable that reflects the degree to which people believe that their own definition of morality is objectively correct. Two diffe…
The subjective index of benefits in volunteering (SIBiV)
The Role of the Quiet Ego in Promoting Benefits from Social Participation
In this paper, we argue that the quiet ego, defined as an inclusive identity oriented toward long-term growth in desirable and adaptive ways for oneself and others, can be expressed and developed by participating in the social sphere. The objectives of this study are: 1) to analyze the measurement quality of the Quiet Ego Scale (QES) in a sample of Spanish individuals with different levels of prosocial participation (Study 1; N = 238); and 2) to …
Do individualizing moral foundations protect from higher moral disengagement in imprisoned men and women
We aimed to analyze whether the individualizing moral foundations play a protective role against moral disengagement in a sample of 367 women and men in prison, and whether, in addition, moral foundations promote the intention to change the behaviors that led them to prison. Controlling for gender differences, we found support for the hypothesized connection between the individualizing moral foundations, as proposed by the Moral Foundations Theor…
Guilty or Self-Affirmed
How bad do you feel about it? The parallel mediation role of guilt and shame in promoting prisoners’ intention to change
Considering that the moral emotions of guilt and shame play both a preventive role in helping people avoid breaking moral norms, as well as a restorative role after transgressing them, in this study we examine a sample of incarcerated women (N = 115) and men (N = 235) regarding very relevant variables for their reintegration into society, that is, (1) personal responsibility for their crimes, (2) the associated emotional reactions of shame and gu…
Moral self-assessment after committing a crime
Moral self-assessment is vital to one's identity, but how does it change after committing immoral behavior like crime? We compared a sample of N = 382 men and women in prison sentenced for violent and non-violent crimes with a matched control group ( N = 382). We measured their self-importance of moral identity, moral self-concept, and moral self-image. We found prisoners had lower moral self-concept and internalization but higher symbolization a…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)