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artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Identification performance during quarantine by COVID-19 pandemic: Influence of emotional variables and sleep quality(2021) Urreta Benítez, Facundo A.; León, Candela S.; Bonilla, Matías; Flores-Kanter, Pablo Ezequiel; Forcato, Cecilia"The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in people’s lives around the globe. Sleep habits and emotional balance have been disturbed in a way that could be comparable to the havoc caused by a deep personal crisis or a traumatic experience. This unfortunate situation provides a unique context in which to study the impact of these imbalances on cognitive processes. In particular, the field of eyewitness science could benefit from these conditions, since they are also often present in crime victims, but can only be generated in the laboratory up to a certain ethical and practical limit. For several decades, eyewitness studies have tried to discover what variables affect people’s ability to properly recognize faces. However, the disparity of experimental designs and the limitations of laboratory work could be contributing to the lack of consensus around several factors, such as sleep, anxiety, and depression. Therefore, the possibility of observing the influence of these agents in natural contexts could shed light on this discussion. Here, we perform simple and repeated lineups with witnesses of mock-crime, considering the conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which to some extent allow emulating the deterioration in general well-being that often afflicts crime victims. For this, 72 participants completed symptomatology scales, and watched a video portraying a staged violent episode. Subsequently, they gave testimony and participated in two lineups, in which we manipulated the presence/absence of the perpetrator, to recreate critical scenarios for the appearance of false recognitions. We found an increase in recognition errors in those individuals who did not have access to the perpetrator during the Initial lineup. Additionally, the conditions of the pandemic appear to have adversely affected the ability to witness and accurately perform lineups. These results reaffirm the need to move toward the standardization of research practices and methods for assessing testimonial evidence, especially in relation to the results of the lineups. Considering the degree of fallibility of these processes can lead to a reduction of wrongful convictions."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Internal Structure of Beck Hopelessness Scale: an analysis of method effects using the CT-C(M–1) model(2021) Flores-Kanter, Pablo Ezequiel; Toro, Ronald; Alvarado, Jesús M."He construct validity in relation to the dimensionality or factor structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has long been debated in psychometrics. Irrelevant variance due to item wording (method effects) can distort the factor structure, and recent studies have examined the method factor’s role in the factor structure of the BHS. However, the models used to control the method effects have severe limitations, and new models are needed. One such model is the correlated traitcorrelated method minus one (CT-C(M-1), which is a powerful approach that gives the trait factor an unambiguous meaning and prevents the anomalous results associated with fully symmetrical bifactor modeling. The present work compares the fit and factor structure of the CT-C(M-1) model to bifactor models proposed in previous literature and evaluates the convergent validity of the CT-C(M-1) model and its discriminatory capacity by taking suicidal ideation as the criterion variable. This study used a large and heterogeneous open mode online sample of Argentinian people (N = 2,164). The results indicated that the CT-C(M-1) model with positive words as referenced items achieves the most adequate factor structure. The factorial scores derived from this model demonstrate good predictive and discriminating capabilities."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Inventario de Ideación Suicida Positiva y Negativa (PANSI): propiedades psicométricas en universitarios peruanos(2021) Rodas-Vera, Nikolai Martin; Toro, Ronald; Flores-Kanter, Pablo Ezequiel"Es necesario contar con instrumentos que evalúen la ideación suicida, dado que es uno de los primeros factores que conllevan al suicidio. La presente investigación realizó un proceso de adaptación del Inventario de Ideación Suicida Positiva y Negativa (PANSI) para que pueda ser empleado en universitarios peruanos. Se estudiaron dos muestras, una antes y otra durante la pandemia por COVID-19. A nivel metodológico, se siguió un procedimiento racional con jueces expertos y con sujetos de la población para conseguir la equivalencia cultural y conceptual del instrumento; mientras que, en el nivel estadístico, se probaron tres modelos teóricos, unidimensional, ortogonal y oblicuo. El modelo de dos factores correlacionados reveló mejores índices de ajustes para ambas muestras, con niveles óptimos de confiabilidad. Se concluye en una nueva versión del PANSI y se discuten sus bases teóricas para mejorar las inferencias a partir de este instrumento."