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Juana Gómez-Benito

Juana Gómez-Benito

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Psychology

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8092
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7517
National Ranking
83

Overview

Juana Gómez-Benito is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and medicine. With a research focus spanning clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, general health professions, sociology and political science, and social psychology, their work addresses a wide range of topics relevant to mental health and psychosocial development.

The scientist's primary research interests include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental health and patient involvement
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Cerebral palsy and movement disorders
  • Delphi technique in research
  • Impact of technology on adolescents
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum

Gómez-Benito has published multiple recent papers covering diverse aspects of mental health, decision-making, and social support:

  • "Consensus in the delphi method: What makes a decision change?" (2020), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • "International Test Commission guidelines for test adaptation: A criterion checklist" (2020), published in Psicothema
  • "A Systematic Review of Executive Function and Information Processing Speed in Major Depression Disorder" (2021), published in Brain Sciences
  • "Is Social Media a New Type of Social Support? Social Media Use in Spain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study" (2022), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Lockdown in the Spanish Population: An Exploratory Sequential Design" (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Frequent collaboration is a significant aspect of Gómez-Benito's work. Key co-authors include:

  • Maite Barrios
  • Georgina Guilera
  • Emilio Rojo
  • Hernán María Sampietro
  • Susana Ochoa

Their publications appear regularly in specialist venues such as:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Psicothema
  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
  • Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Best Publications

  • The prevalence of child sexual abuse in community and student samples: A meta-analysis

    Noemí Pereda;Georgina Guilera;Maria Forns;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse: A continuation of Finkelhor (1994)

    Noemí Pereda;Georgina Guilera;Maria Forns;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Consensus in the delphi method: What makes a decision change?

    Maite Barrios;Georgina Guilera;Laura Nuño;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • International Test Commission guidelines for test adaptation: A criterion checklist.

    Ana Hernández;María D Hidalgo;Ronald K Hambleton;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Trait Version: Does It Really Measure Anxiety?

    Arturo Bados;Juana Gómez-Benito;Gemma Balaguer

  • Associations between emotional intelligence, depression and suicide risk in nursing students.

    Amor Aradilla-Herrero;Joaquín Tomás-Sábado;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Calidad de vida familiar en personas con discapacidad: un análisis comparativo

    Leonor Córdoba-Andrade;Juana Gómez-Benito;Miguel Ángel Verdugo-Alonso

  • Psychometric Properties of the Children's Depression Inventory in Community and Clinical Sample

    Anna Figueras Masip;Juan Antonio Amador-Campos;Juana Gómez-Benito;Victoria del Barrio Gándara

  • Non-normal Distributions Commonly Used in Health, Education, and Social Sciences: A Systematic Review

    Roser Bono;María J. Blanca;Jaume Arnau;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Construction and Validation of the Death Anxiety Inventory (DAI)

    Joaquín Tomás-Sábado;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Spanish version of the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP-S): Psychometric properties of a brief scale for cognitive evaluation in schizophrenia

    Oscar Pino;Georgina Guilera;J. Emilio Rojo;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Psychometric properties of the Spanish adaptation of the Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised (SPSI-R).

    Albert Maydeu-Olivares;Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells;Juana Gómez-Benito;Thomas J. D'Zurilla

  • Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing

    David Trafimow;Valentin Amrhein;Valentin Amrhein;Corson N. Areshenkoff;Carlos Barrera-Causil

  • Death Attitudes and Emotional Intelligence in Nursing Students

    Amor Aradilla-Herrero;Joaquín Tomás-Sábado;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • The World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale Brief Version: a validation study in patients with schizophrenia

    Laia Mas-Expósito;Juan Antonio Amador-Campos;Juana Gómez-Benito;Lluís Lalucat-Jo

  • A Systematic Review of Executive Function and Information Processing Speed in Major Depression Disorder.

    Laura Nuño;Juana Gómez-Benito;Viviana R. Carmona;Oscar Pino

  • Psychometric properties of the Spanish form of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale.

    Joaquín Tomás-Sábado;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Evidence for validity of the brief resilient coping scale in a young Spanish sample.

    Joaquín T. Limonero;Joaquín Tomás-Sábado;Maria José Gómez-Romero;Jorge Maté-Méndez

  • Neurocognitive diagnosis and cut-off scores of the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP-S).

    Emilio Rojo;Oscar Pino;Georgina Guilera;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Effects of Ability Scale Purification on the Identification of dif

    María J. Navas-Ara;Juana Gómez-Benito

  • Utility of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II in schizophrenia.

    Georgina Guilera;Juana Gómez-Benito;Oscar Pino;J. Emilio Rojo

  • Clinical usefulness of the screen for cognitive impairment in psychiatry (SCIP-S) scale in patients with type I bipolar disorder

    Georgina Guilera;Oscar Pino;Juana Gómez-Benito;J Emilio Rojo

Frequent Co-Authors

Anabel Martínez-Arán
Anabel Martínez-Arán University of Barcelona
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Miguel Bernardo
Miguel Bernardo University of Barcelona
Manuel J. Cuesta
Manuel J. Cuesta Hospital Universitario de Navarra
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek Alexandria University
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Fons J. R. van de Vijver Tilburg University
Gunther Meinlschmidt
Gunther Meinlschmidt University Hospital of Basel
Rens van de Schoot
Rens van de Schoot Utrecht University
Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga
Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga Autonomous University of Barcelona
Eva Penelo
Eva Penelo Autonomous University of Barcelona

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