To prevent dangerous driving behaviors, the Spanish government has implemented public policies focused primarily on increasing the harshness of sanctions for violations of traffic laws. However, empirical evidence has demonstrated that other factors, such as social norms and one’s own value system, have an impact on people’s motivation to obey the law. A telephone survey was administered to a random sample of 570 Spanish drivers in order to determine the role played by each of these factors in compliance with two of the most flouted traffic rules. Logistic regression of the data allowed for the construction of models and arrive at the following conclusions: (1) social influence exerted by the reference group is a determining factor in compliance with both traffic laws; (2) legitimacy factors play an important role in complying with alcohol limits; and (3) variables from the deterrence approach only influenced compliance with speed limits, and then only moderately. The results of the present study suggest a need for a review of current public policy approaches for the prevention of dangerous driving behaviors.

The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the solution-Focused inventory (sFi) in a spanish population, replicating the original validation study of grant et al. (2012). the sFi, designed to evaluate solution-focused thinking, is a 12-item scale with three subscales: problem Disengagement, goal orientation and resource activation. the instrument was adapted and translated into spanish, then two studies were carried out to examine its psychometric properties. The first study confirmed the instrument´s structure, and its good internal consistency. The second study confirmed its convergent validity; SFI was positively correlated with measures of well-being, resilience, satisfaction with life and perspective taking, and negatively correlated with psychopathology. This second study confirmed the stability of the SFI scores across time. in sum, these two studies provide additional support for the reliability and validity of the sFi as a measure of solution-focused thinking, and open its use to spanish-speaking populations.

Instruments for the measurement of human sexuality include self-report measures used to assess sexual functioning, but many of them have not yet been validated. The Center of Applied Psychology Female Sexual Questionnaire (CAPFS-Q) is an original self-report instrument. It has been developed for the study of sexuality in specific non-clinical populations, such as female university students of Medicine and other Health Sciences. The CAPFS-Q includes 26 items, organized as follows: sociodemographic and relevant data (four items); aspects of sexual relations with partner (five items); sexual practices (12 from 13 items); and dysfunctional aspects of sexual relations (four items). CAPFS-Q validity and reliability were examined in a sample of Spanish female university students of Health Sciences. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (FA) showed a four-factor structure which explained 71.6% of the variance. This initial version of the CAPFS-Q is a reliable measure of women’s sexual behavior, with a dimensionality that replicates the initial theoretical content and with adequate indicators of internal consistency, validity, and test–retest reliability. It is easy to administer and to complete.

Cyberbullying has increased worryingly in the last decade, becoming a mental health problem in adolescence. Research usually focuses on cyber-bullies or cyber-victims, overlooking that these roles may overlap (e.g., cyber-victim-bystander). Aim: To identify possible common predictors to cyber-victimisation and bystanding. Sample: The study sample consisted in 560 students, 12–15 years old, 47.5% female. Method: Canonical correlation, examining linear relationship between a group of X variables, and a group of Y variables. Main results and conclusions: Two canonical varieties were built (Cor (U₁,V₁) = 0.442; Cor (U₂,V₂) = 0.270). Minors with high scores in cyber-victimisation (r = −0.888) and bystanding (r = −0.902) would have more favourable attitude towards violence, greater number of contacts on social networks/messaging and greater attention to emotions. The second variety discriminates minors with high cyber-victimisation score, but low observation and would relate to low attitudes towards violence and contacts on social networks/messaging, together with high scores in parental monitoring. Results suggest the possible overlapping of roles and how cyber-victimisation and bystanding share predictive factors.

Pain during the menopausal transition can be normalized, minimized or attributed prematurely, including to stress or psychological distress, raising questions of patient credibility and possible sex- and gender-related bias in clinical interpretation. This scoping review mapped pain recognition, attribution, assessment and care during the transition, interpreting the evidence primarily through a lens of patient credibility and gender bias, with mental-health-informed and interdisciplinary implications considered alongside. The protocol was deposited on the Open Science Framework. Following JBI guidance and PRISMA-ScR, two human reviewers independently screened records from eight databases searched from inception to 30 June 2026; final decisions were concordant. Data were charted and analysed using hybrid deductive–inductive descriptive qualitative content analysis. Of 8938 records, 4856 were screened, 43 reports assessed and 21 sources of evidence included, representing 23 studies. Most evidence was qualitative (n = 15), and pain was usually secondary or incidental. Musculoskeletal pain (n = 12), headache or migraine (n = 9), and sexual or genitourinary pain (n = 5) predominated. Six categories addressed recognition and attribution, normalization and legitimacy, clinical response, delay and misframing, inequality, and transferable implications for mental-health-informed interdisciplinary care. The evidence identifies the risks of both diagnostic omission and premature attribution but cannot show that all pain is menopause-related, quantify diagnostic bias or delay, or establish epistemic injustice as a mechanism. Assessment should include psychological wellbeing without allowing distress, a mental-health label, or an assumption about reduced credibility to substitute for physical differential diagnosis, referral and follow-up. No included study primarily examined mental-health services or tested a mental-health-specific intervention.

La psicología, como ciencia del comportamiento humano, se ha caracterizado a lo largo de su historia por la búsqueda de herramientas fiables y válidas para medir los constructos psicológicos, tarea nada sencilla dado el carácter no observable de muchos de los procesos psicológicos y el hecho de que las medidas de los síntomas no pueden asumirse como indicadores perfectos de los atributos que se están evaluando. En palabras de Edwards y Bagozzi (2000), “estos fenómenos no pueden conocerse de manera directa o con total precisión debido al error de medición y a la imperfecta lente epistemológica que proporciona un constructo”. Sea como fuere, la realidad es que el uso de instrumentos de evaluación es continuo tanto en la práctica profesional como de investigación en todos los ámbitos de actuación de la psicología.