https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/2556 2026-05-04T04:32:11Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/7218 Grandparent Affection and Emotional Wellbeing of Adolescents with Different Family Types Ramos, Pilar; Moreno, Carmen; Luna, Sara; Rivera, Francisco Despite the increasing importance of grandparents in raising their grandchildren, few studies analyze the impact that these intergenerational relationships have on the grandchildren, especially during adolescence. With a sample of 3432 adolescents between 11 years and 16 years old, we analyze to what degree grandparent affection explains adolescent emotional well-being. The results reveal interesting findings according to family type: traditional two-parent families, families with joint custody, or families with only one biological parent (specifying between father or mother). Lastly, we analyze and discuss the implications of the relevant results related to the grandparents’ sex, lineage, and state of health, the adolescent’s age, as well as finding a higher impact of grandparent affection has on adolescents from families with only the father as a reference figure. This study advocates for reinforcing the role of the grandparents during adolescence, becoming especially relevant for boys and girls living in father-only families. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/7217 Dual caregiving by grandmothers with older relatives: Personal factors influencing health and stress Luna, Sara; Rivera, Francisco; Ramos, Pilar Grandmothers in the “sandwich generation” are considered as those women who are potential caregivers for two generations: older relatives and grandchildren. With the goal of understanding the factors that affect their stress and health, 149 women from southwestern Spain were interviewed using an ad hoc questionnaire that included standardized scales and subscales. The results showed that age, coping strategies based on emotional support and acceptance, as well as optimism and social support improved the health of these women by reducing their perceived stress. Although caring for older relatives is related to family conflicts and worse health, conversely, caring for grandchildren is related to slightly better health. The results are useful for planning psychological interventions with these women and highlight the need to include family interventions. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/7214 Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy: An analysis of mediators. Martinez-Damia, Sara; Paloma, Virginia; Luesia, Juan Fernando; Marta, Elena; Marzana, Daniela Community participation can be a potential strategy to increase the degree of the subjective wellbeing of immigrants within receiving societies. This study aims to analyze the relationship between immigrants' community participation and their subjective wellbeing, testing the two dimensions of sense of mattering (feeling valued and adding value) and psychological sense of community as potential mediators of this relationship. A total of 308 first-generation immigrants living in Northern Italy filled out a questionnaire (45.1% were members of a migrant community-based organization). We found that immigrants who are members of a migrant organization show a higher level of subjective wellbeing, sense of mattering, and psychological sense of community than those who are not members. We also found that the sense of adding value and the psychological sense of community serve as mediators of the relationship between community participation and subjective wellbeing. The findings suggest that active participation is positively related to immigrants' feeling useful and capable of contributing to society and their feeling of belonging, which, in turn, are positively related to their subjective wellbeing. Practical implications are presented, focusing on the need for generative social policies to move beyond the welfarist perspective in which immigrants only "receive" to embrace an active perspective in which immigrants can also "give."; Es la versión preprint del artículo. Se puede consultar la versión final en https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12652 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/7213 The effect of personal values on academic achievement Luesia, Juan Fernando; Sánchez Martín, Milagrosa; Benítez Baena, Isabel Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of individual and contextual variables in explaining academic performance. Among the individual variables, personal characteristics such as sociodemographic variables have been investigated. Regarding the contextual variables, the influences of parental and school styles have been studied. However, personal values could also contribute to understanding students’ achievement. The present study aims to analyse the relationship between personal values and academic performance. To do so, we first adapted two scales that aimed to measure the meaning of life and intellectual humility by following a committee approach. The Spanish version was administered to 54 students to evaluate the psychometric properties of the scales. The results and information provided by the experts were used to create revised versions of the scales, which were administered to 154 students together with other instruments focused on evaluating academic performance. The correlations between personal values and academic performance were computed, and the academic performance of students with different scores in personal values was compared. Intellectual humility was related to cognitive skills, and differences were identified in the academic performance between participants with high and medium scores in personal values. The implications and the utility of the adapted versions of the instruments are discussed. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z