Recent literature provides alarming data on the increase in university academic stress. The role of personality in understanding and addressing this problem is well established. However, this evidence could be improved by adopting a person-centred approach (e.g., types), as opposed to the usual variable-centred approach (e.g., traits), and considering the role of gender. Our aim was to explore how personality types and gender relate to coping strategies and perceived coping efficacy for academic stress. A total of 810 university psychology students completed the NEO-FFI Inventory and the Coping Strategies Inventory. Post hoc tests for MANOVA and ANOVA were performed. Types and gender were used as predictors and coping strategies, and perceived coping efficacy as criteria. There was no type-gender interaction. Types combining low neuroticism-high conscientiousness (e.g., entrepreneur) chose the most adaptive coping strategies and showed the highest levels of perceived coping efficacy, while high neuroticism-low conscientiousness types (e.g., insecure) opted for maladaptive coping strategies and presented the lowest perceived coping efficacy. Gender was not associated with perceived coping efficacy but with use (e.g., women prefer emotional expression). The personality typology provided useful information on individual differences in coping with academic stress, which can help guide specific strategies to manage it.

This article studies the relationship between a set of variables related to the legal process and women’s disengagement from legal proceedings against their (ex)partners in Southern Spain. A total of 345 women answered a questionnaire. Results evidenced that request for a protection order (PO), granting such PO, imprisonment of the offender, and women’s perception of who decided during the process were significantly related to disengagement (medium effect size). In addition, a logistic regression model was developed to predict disengagement with two variables: granting a PO and women’s perception of who decided. Results are interpreted in terms of the necessity that the judicial system gives support, protects, and provides women with opportunities to participate in the recovery process.

A menudo el feminismo es definido en función de una imagen desfigurada del mismo, reforzada por mitos y estereotipos acompañados de sentimientos de rechazo de las personas a autodefinirse como feministas. La ruptura de este falso conocimiento y la formación de actitudes positivas hacia él contribuyen a la lucha contra el sistema patriarcal, lo que significaría un avance importante a nivel social. Este trabajo ha estudiado cómo la variable conocimiento sobre feminismo y la variable actitudes hacia el feminismo podrían ser predichas en función del sexo, el nivel de estudios, el sexismo y la edad. Para ello se elaboró un instrumento ad hoc que medía el conocimiento y las actitudes hacia el feminismo y se empleó una escala de sexismo. Los resultados mostraron que a medida que el conocimiento aumenta, la actitud hacia el feminismo es más positiva. Asimismo, la variable que predice significativamente la actitud hacia el feminismo, aunque no el conocimiento, es el nivel de estudios, comparando los estudios primarios con estudios no obligatorios universitarios o no universitarios. Estos resultados permiten destacar la importancia de una educación de base rica en contenidos actitudinales y de valores igualitarios donde se contrarresten las connotaciones negativas que continúan asociándose con los pensamientos feministas. Palabras clave: actitudes, conocimiento, feminismos, nivel educativo, sexismo. Abstract: Feminism is often defined in terms of a distorted image that is emphasized by myths and stereotypes which are accompanied by feelings of rejection from people to define themselves as feminists. The breakdown of this false knowledge and the formation of positive attitudes will contribute to the fight against the patriarchal system, and it would mean an important progress in our society. This work has studied how gender, educational level, sexism and age predict or not the knowledge about feminism and attitudes toward it. We used an ad hoc instrument about knowledge and attitudes toward feminism and a scale about sexism. Findings have shown that the more increase in knowledge, the more positive were the attitudes toward feminism. Furthermore, educational level was the only factor that predicted attitudes toward feminism, although not knowledge, comparing the lowest educational level with the others not compulsory educational levels. This highlights the importance of a primary education with egalitarian values and with a true image about feminism thoughts. Keywords: attitudes, knowledge, feminism, educational level, sexism. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/femeris.2016.3229

In order to end and “liberate” themselves from an abusive relationship, female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) usually face a complex process. Although women may decide to seek help through the criminal justice system, some refuse to participate in legal proceedings against their abusers. While many studies have focused on exploring variables explaining disengagement from legal proceedings, the aim of this article is to study the impact of the process of liberation from an abusive relationship on the likelihood of disengagement (LoD) from legal proceedings. Liberation was measured through the psychosocial separation overall score and the LoD was predicted by a logistic regression model developed in a previous study in Spain. A sample of 80 women involved in legal proceedings for IPV against their ex-partners in Andalusia (Spain) participated in this study. Exploratory analyses were conducted using ANOVA and Chi-square; multiple linear regression analyses were used to study the relationship between psychosocial separation and LoD. Results showed that victims who had higher psychosocial separation from their abusers were less likely to disengage from legal proceedings against the abuser. We discuss the results in terms of practical implications like detection of women’s need for specific psychological support to ease a comprehensive recovery. Training programs for legal professionals and judges in the judicial arena should use the results of this study to increase professionals’ understanding of IPV and survivors’ decision-making processes. This would lead to a decrease in survivors’ secondary victimization, as well as decrease the frustration of legal professionals when victims disengage from legal proceedings.

This article examines which variables predict disengagement from legal proceedings by victims of intimate partner violence in the first steps of the Spanish judicial process. We replicated a previous retrospective study with a prospective sample of 393 women. The relationships of sociodemographic, emotional, motivational, and psychological variables with procedural withdrawals were analyzed. We developed a binary logistic regression model that predicts disengagement with two variables: the contact with the abuser and the interaction between this contact and the thought of going back with him. Interesting differences between the current and the retrospective study were found. Results are discussed extensively in the conclusions.

Objetivo: diseñar y validar un instrumento específico para valorar los mitos, estereotipos, tabúes y conocimientos sobre la menstruación. Diseño: estudio instrumental en el que se diseñó y validó un cuestionario. Emplazamiento: Facultad de Enfermería, Fisioterapia y Podología de la Universidad de Sevilla. Participantes: 182 estudiantes. Intervenciones: índice de Osterlind, alfa de Cronbach, prueba KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin), test de esfericidad de Bartlett y método Varimax con normalización Kaiser. Mediciones principales: mitos, estereotipos, tabúes y conocimientos sobre la menstruación. Resultados: Se han realizado tres análisis factoriales, obteniendo un valor de convergencia general que explica el 67.978 % de la varianza total y fiabilidad global de .72422 ítems con 22 ítems y una validez de constructo que demuestra la existencia de 4 dimensiones con .653 en la prueba KMO y 777.53 en el índice de esfericidad de Barlett (p .50). Conclusiones: se ha obtenido una herramienta útil y válida para evaluar los mitos, estereotipos, tabúes y conocimientos sobre la menstruación que permita un manejo adecuado de la misma en consultas de Atención Primaria y/o en el entorno escolar.