VIA Institute – Values in action

Author: VIA Institute on Character

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“This website offers information about type of Character strengths and resources professionals in positive psychology field. Special interesting are topic about mindfulness and stress. Different resources are used to show the application of character strengths in different field, such as in education context.”

Body image in children and adolescents

Author: Solano-Pinto, N.

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“These slides show a preliminary result of a study by the “Mirada Crítica” research group from UCLM. This slideshow was presented in Schools for health in Europe, in Sain-Etienne (France, Lyon University) on the 6th November of 2019”

Using Smartphones as Experimental Tools, a Follow-up: Cognitive Effects by Video Analysis and Reduction of Cognitive Load by Multiple Representations

Author: Hochberg, K., Becker, S., Louis, M. et al.

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“The principal aim in this paper is research about the cognitive effects of mobile devices (smartphones or tablets) among students at secondary schools. This research use a quasi- experimental study through treatment- control group comparison in relationship affective variables such as interest, self- concept and curiosity.”

The Relationship Between Theory of Mind and Social Interest: A Literature Review

Author: Lam, B.

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“In this paper you can find information about different level in theory of mind and their relations with social factors. The most interest in this article are the explication about different level of the theory of mind across the lifespan. Likewise, the author included the relationship between mental disorder with impaired cognitive functioning.”

Competitive children, cooperative mothers? Effect of various social factors on the retrospective and prospective use of theory of mind

Author: Castellano-Navarro, A., Guillén-Salazar, F. & Albiach-Serrano, A.

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“This paper shows experimental research in the evolutive psychology field, in three experimental trials and different contexts: competitive and cooperative contexts. The results has been suggested that the cooperative attitude between children and their mother could be linked to the positive development of the theory of mind.”

Body size attitudes and body image perception among preschool children and their parents: a preliminary study

Author: Kościcka, K., Czepczor, K., & Brytek-Matera, A.

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“In this paper you can find information about body image development among children and their parents. Besides, it’s a quantitative research with contrast between parents and their children in relationship between thin and muscular ideal internalization and, on the other hand, family, media and peer pressure.”

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Risk and Resilience on Behaviour in Children Followed from Birth to Age 12

Author: Agnafors, S., Svedin, C.G., Oreland, L. et al.

Recommended by: Natalia Solano Pinto

“In this paper contains information about resilience concept and quantitative research about a model to explication about relationship child temperament, social functioning, and maternal sense of coherence. This evolutive components would be an important factor in order to understand the mental health in children.”