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Resumen El uso de la tecnología se ha incrementado alrededor del mundo, en México hay 71.3 millones de usuarios, siendo niños y adolescentes, el segundo grupo que más accede a Internet, a su vez se originan diversos peligros y riesgos. Por lo tanto, la familia es un factor protector que permite regular, supervisar y guiar el contenido virtual. El objetivo del presente estudio fue confirmar la estructura factorial psicométrica de la escala de conductas parentales ante el uso de tecnología en adolescentes. Participaron 594 adolescentes de la Ciudad de México. Los resultados indicaron que el modelo pertinente a las prácticas de la mamá mostró índices de ajuste aceptables: CFI = .930; IFI = .931; NFI = .897 y RMSA = .056; al igual que el del papá: CFI = .961; IFI = .961; NFI = .943 y RMSA = .059. Se cumplieron criterios de normalidad, asimismo, los reactivos tuvieron estimaciones paramétricas arriba de .50, y presentaron índices de consistencia interna Alpha de Cronbach arriba de .70. Se concluye que la escala cumple con las propiedades psicométricas aceptables y permite evaluar la percepción de los adolescentes, sobre el comportamiento de sus padres frente al uso de internet.
Abstract The use of technology has increased around the world, in Mexico there are 71.3 million Internet users, with children and adolescents being the second group who access the Internet the most. With the growth of virtual users, the dangers and risks also enlarge, therefore, the family is a protective factor that allows to regulate, supervise and guide adolescents about virtual content. The objective of the present study was to confirm the psychometric factorial structure of the scale of parental behaviors to the use of technology. 594 adolescents from Mexico City participated. The research question was: How is the statistical correspondence of the proposed items of the scale of parental behaviors to the internet use in adolescents? and the hypothesis to be tested was whether the adjustment of the confirmatory factor model that represents the structure of two subscales (one divided into four factors and other in three) of parental behaviors to the use of technology has adequate adjustment indices. The results confirmed the factorial structure of the scale oriented towards mother's practices, obtaining the next index, CFI = .930; IFI = .931; NFI = .897 and RMSA = .056, with five factors: monitoring, supervision, conflict, support and protection. Also, the factorial structure of the parent's scale was confirmed, finding appropriate adjustment indices: CFI = .961; IFI = .961; NFI = .943 and RMSA = .059, with four factors: protection, conflict, control and support. Likewise, normality criteria were met, the items had parametric estimates above .50, and presented Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency indexes above .70. Finally, it is concluded that the scale complies with the acceptable psychometric properties and allows evaluating the adolescents 'perception of their parents' behavior regarding the use of technology. The findings can be used to carry out studies on attitudes associated with the perception of parental behaviors in the virtual media.
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OBJECTIVES: To determine the influence of parental behaviors on the onset and severity of eating disorders, this study compared aspects of perceived parental styles, according to eating disorder subtypes and age at onset in Korean women with eating disorders. METHODS: One hundred and sixty-seven patients with eating disorders[Anorexia Nervosa (AN), N=49; Bulimia Nervosa(BN), N=118] were recruited for this study. Perceived parent behaviors were assessed with Parental Behavior Inventory(PBI) self-rating scale. The study subjects also completed the Eating Disorder Inventory -2 (EDI-2) to assess the severity of eating disorder symptoms. RESULTS: In anorexia nervosa, early onset group(<16 years) reported low paternal affection and high paternal rational expression, low maternal interference than group with age at onset over 16 years. The severity of eating disorder symptoms was negatively associated with mother affection and rational expression in two subtypes of eating disorder(AN and BN). On stepwise regression analysis, paternal affection and maternal over-protection were associated with age of onset only in AN group and maternal affection was associated with the severity of symptoms in both groups of eating disorder. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the role of family function and perceived parental styles could help improve the management of eating disorders. These results emphasize the importance of fathers' role in the eating disorder on the age of onset, a relatively unexplored area of eating disorder research. Also, we investigated the importance of mothers' affection on the severity of symptoms.
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Female , Humans , Age of Onset , Anorexia Nervosa , Bulimia , Bulimia Nervosa , Eating , Feeding and Eating Disorders , Mothers , ParentsABSTRACT
En este artículo, enmarcado en la psicología de la salud, se pretende identificar la relación que existe entre la conducta parental y la adherencia al tratamiento a partir de un diseño no-experimental de tipo transversal descriptivo correlacional, en una muestra de niños con diabetes tipo I, entre 8 y 11 años de edad, con un tiempo desde el diagnóstico de entre uno y tres años. Los resultados analizados señalan la relación que existe entre los comportamientos que engloba la variable de conducta parental y adherencia al tratamiento, pudiendo incluso diferenciar aquellos comportamientos más representativos para cada categoría; así por ejemplo, se encontró que la comunicación afectiva es el comportamiento parental que más está correlacionado con las conductas de adhesión. Con respecto a las conductas de adhesión al tratamiento, la dieta fue la conducta de este tipo que más se correlacionó con comportamientos parentales.
In this article, framed in the context of health psychology, we aim to identify the relationship between parental behavior and adherence to treatment using a non-experimental descriptive cross correlational design. It was used a sample of children with diabetes type I, between 8 and 11 years old, with a time from diagnosis of between one and three years. The results indicate the relationship between behaviors that include parental behavior and adherence to treatment, and may even differentiate those behaviors most representative for each category. For example, it was found that emotional communication is the parental behavior most correlated with adherence behaviors. Regarding the behavior of adherence to treatment, diet was the behavior with the highest correlation with parental behavior.