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Cristina Botella

Cristina Botella

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Psychology
Spain
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
83
Citations
27222
World Ranking
1267
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Cristina Botella is affiliated with Jaume I University in Spain and specializes in the field of Psychology, with a research focus extending into several key subfields. The main areas of study for their work include Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research topics predominantly cover Digital Mental Health Interventions, Mental Health Research Topics, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, the Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Mental Health Treatment and Access.

The scientist has contributed scholarly articles to a variety of publication venues. Notable frequent venues include:

  • Internet Interventions
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • European Journal of Public Health

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Cristina Botella illustrate their scope of research:

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): psychometric properties of the online Spanish version in a clinical sample with emotional disorders, 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • Affect Recall Bias: Being Resilient by Distorting Reality, 2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • The need for change: Understanding emotion regulation antecedents and consequences using ecological momentary assessment, 2020, Emotion
  • Consensus statement on the problem of terminology in psychological interventions using the internet or digital components, 2020, Internet Interventions

Frequent coauthors with whom Cristina Botella collaborates include:

  • Azucena García-Palacios
  • Rosa Baños
  • Carlos Suso-Ribera
  • Soledad Quero
  • Javier Fernández-Álvarez

In addition to journal articles, Cristina Botella has contributed to book publications, notably a titled work published by Universitat Jaume I eBooks:

  • Prácticas de PS1034: Evaluación e Intervención Clínica, 2020

Best Publications

  • Affective Interactions Using Virtual Reality: The Link between Presence and Emotions

    Giuseppe Riva;Fabrizia Mantovani;Claret Samantha Capideville;Alessandra Preziosa

  • Immersion and emotion: their impact on the sense of presence.

    R.M. Baños;C. Botella;M. Alcañiz;V. Liaño

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis.

    Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Orestis Efthimiou;Orestis Efthimiou;Clara Miguel;Clara Miguel;Frederic Maas Genannt Bermpohl

  • Virtual reality exposure therapy in anxiety disorders: a quantitative meta-analysis.

    David Opriş;Sebastian Pintea;Azucena García-Palacios;Cristina Botella

  • Efficacy of self-guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of depressive symptoms a meta-analysis of individual participant data

    Eirini Karyotaki;Heleen Riper;Jos W. Twisk;Adriaan Hoogendoorn

  • Virtual reality in the treatment of spider phobia: a controlled study

    A Garcia-Palacios;H Hoffman;A Carlin;T.A Furness

  • Comparing Acceptance and Refusal Rates of Virtual Reality Exposure vs. In Vivo Exposure by Patients with Specific Phobias

    Azucena Garcia-Palacios;Cristina Botella;Hunter G. Hoffman;Sonia Fabregat

  • Positive technology: using interactive technologies to promote positive functioning.

    Giuseppe Riva;Rosa María Baños;Cristina Botella;Brenda K. Wiederhold

  • Recent Progress in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Phobias: A Systematic Review

    Cristina Botella;Cristina Botella;Javier Fernández-Álvarez;Verónica Guillén;Verónica Guillén;Azucena García-Palacios;Azucena García-Palacios

  • Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change

    Giuseppe Riva;Rosa M. Baños;Cristina Botella;Fabrizia Mantovani

  • Predictors of treatment dropout in self-guided web-based interventions for depression: an 'individual patient data' meta-analysis

    Eirini Karyotaki;Annet M. Kleiboer;Filip Smit;David Trevor Turner

  • Efficacy of Self-guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Depressive Symptoms

    Eirini Karyotaki;Heleen Riper;Jos Twisk;Adriaan Hoogendoorn

  • Virtual reality treatment of claustrophobia : a case report

    C. Botella;R.M. Baños;C. Perpiñá;H. Villa

  • Psychometric properties of the Spanish validation of the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)

    A. Cebolla;A. Cebolla;A. García-Palacios;A. García-Palacios;J. Soler;V. Guillen

  • Emotional eating and food intake after sadness and joy

    T. van Strien;A. Cebolla;E. Etchemendy;J. Gutierrez-Maldonado

  • Presence and Reality Judgment in Virtual Environments: A Unitary Construct?

    R.M. Baños;C. Botella;A. Garcia-Palacios;H. Villa

  • Cohort Profile: Design and methods of the PREDIMED-Plus randomized trial.

    Miguel A Martínez-González;Miguel A Martínez-González;Miguel A Martínez-González;Pilar Buil-Cosiales;Pilar Buil-Cosiales;Dolores Corella;Dolores Corella;Monica Bulló;Monica Bulló

  • Virtual reality exposure in the treatment of panic disorder and agoraphobia: A controlled study

    C. Botella;A. García-Palacios;H. Villa;R. M. Baños

  • Redefining therapeutic success with virtual reality exposure therapy.

    Azucena Garcia-Palacios;Hunter G. Hoffman;Sheree Kwong See;Amy Tsai

  • Why didn’t patients use it? Engagement is the real story in Gilbody et al. (2015), not effectiveness.

    M. Jones;D.D. Ebert;C. Jacobi;I. Beintner

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosa M. Baños
Rosa M. Baños University of Valencia
Azucena García-Palacios
Azucena García-Palacios Jaume I University
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Gema Frühbeck
Gema Frühbeck University of Navarra
Ausiàs Cebolla
Ausiàs Cebolla University of Valencia
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Giuseppe Riva
Giuseppe Riva Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Zaida Agüera
Zaida Agüera University of Barcelona
Heleen Riper
Heleen Riper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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