Papers by Victor Corral-Verdugo
Nova Science Publishers eBooks, 2010
Aggression, risk-taking & alternative life-history strategies: The behavioral ecology of soci... more Aggression, risk-taking & alternative life-history strategies: The behavioral ecology of social deviance Executive functions, attention & juvenile delinquency A study of personality traits in undergraduates: alexythymial & its relationship to the psychological deviate Self-control, self-regulation, & juvenile delinquency Child maltreatment, self-regulation, & parenting Environmental factors in housing habitability as determinants of family violence The role of family communication & school adjustment in adolescents' violent behavior Violent offenders: a qualitative study of murderous violence in Venezuela Environmental & personal variables predicting school bullying: a study of Mexican adolescents Violence in prison: institutional constraints & inmates aggressiveness Media effects on antisocial behavior in children & adolescents Witnesses to bullying: voices for prevention & intervention in schools Methods in Psychology & Law & Criminology Research: The assessment of interventions for prevention of crime The impact of PPS-VCJ on attitudes & behavior of juveniles placed in centers as a result of judicial measures Juvenile offenders recidivism in Spain. A quantitative revision Index.
Psyecology, Jan 2, 2022
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess expectation surrounding other people’s pro- and ... more ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess expectation surrounding other people’s pro- and anti-environmental behaviour to see whether it bears any relation to a person’s own pro-environmental behaviours. Two studies were conducted using an Expectation of Others’ Environmental Behaviour scale. The samples comprised Mexican respondents living in Mexico City and its conurbation with average ages of 35.19 and 35.05. Both studies showed that participants believe others are unlikely to act in a pro-environmental way but are instead likely to engage in anti-environmental behaviour. Both expectations (pro- and anti-environmental behaviour) had a positive effect on the participants’ own pro-environmental behaviour. The results are discussed from the perspective of social dilemmas, as well as the possibility of a uniqueness bias.
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Oct 1, 2018
This study tested a structural model explaining Sustainable Behavior from an evolutionary psychol... more This study tested a structural model explaining Sustainable Behavior from an evolutionary psychological perspective. Responses of 460 Mexicans to a research instrument were analyzed. This model specified that a K-Factor, indicating a slow life-history strategy, positively influenced a second-order factor (positive time perspective) composed of positive past and future orientations. This, in turn, affected Sustainable Behavior, a higher-order factor indicated by proecological, frugal, altruistic and equitable actions. A three-phase strategy was implemented for the data analysis: obtaining construct validity and reliability indicators of the used measures, conducting invariance tests of constructs by sex and city of location, and testing a structural model of relations between the studied factors. The results support the plausibility of the hypothesized relationships. These results indicate that evolutionary tendencies may play an indirect role in the promotion of Sustainable Behaviors.
Frontiers in Psychology, Nov 23, 2020
The transition toward sustainability and the adjustment to climate change should involve the redu... more The transition toward sustainability and the adjustment to climate change should involve the reduction of consumption behavior and the need to maintain social practices of frugality. This paper investigates the influences of consciousness for sustainable consumption (CSC), materialism, and the consideration of future consequences (CFC) on frugal behaviors. Four-hundred-and-forty-four individuals responded to an instrument investigating these variables. Results of a structural model revealed that materialism significantly and negatively influenced the three dimensions of CSC: economic, environmental, and social. The consideration of distant future consequences positively and significantly affected the economic dimension of CSC. Frugal behavior received significant and positive influences from the three CSC dimensions and from consideration of distant future consequences. The model explained 46% of variance in frugal behavior, revealing the importance of awareness of the consequences of resource consumption and the CFC has on promoting a moderate consumption of resources.
Psyecology, Mar 30, 2016
Abstract The aim of this study was to test a self-reported structural model of water conservation... more Abstract The aim of this study was to test a self-reported structural model of water conservation, estimating its relationships with measures of gratitude, eudaimonia, costs as environmental conservation requirements and water scarcity/shortage. Responses were analysed from a purposive sample of 107 participants, mainly university students from Hermosillo, Mexico. Univariate statistics were obtained along with the internal consistency of the measures in order to test the model, which adequately fit the data and explained 11% of variance in water conservation. Eudaimonia had a positive and direct effect on this behaviour, with no other direct effects found. Furthermore, eudaimonia was significantly affected by gratitude and water scarcity/shortage. Costs as requirements of environmental conservation were not associated with the rest of the variables. These results suggest that eudaimonia operates as a promoter of water conservation.
for their assistance in data collection, which made this project possible. I also thank Francisco... more for their assistance in data collection, which made this project possible. I also thank Francisco's suggestions for the development of my model. The University of sonora, Mexico, for encouraging and supporting my doctoral studies at the U of A. Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), for its economic support during most of my doctoral training. One-hundred housewives in Hermosillo; Mexico, for generously collaborating with this project. Their patience and cooperation is greatly acknowledged. My wife, Martha, and my children Nadia Sarai, Victor Omar and Martha Paola, who were a source of inspiration for this project, as well as an emotional support. My parents, Victor and Maria Trinidad, and my sisters and brothers, who, in spite of the distance, are always in my thinking and feelings.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 21, 2012
Water is one of the most valuable natural resources for humankind and other forms of life on eart... more Water is one of the most valuable natural resources for humankind and other forms of life on earth, and this chapter addresses the topic of its conservation. Environmental psychology (EP) investigates the dispositional and contextual factors that incite both water waste/contamination and conservation. It also studies the psychological positive consequences that result from engaging in water conservationist practices. The obtained information has let us know the individual characteristics that promote water conservation behaviors, the extrinsic and intrinsic consequences that maintain those behaviors, and the situations that make people use water in a sustainable way. EP also participates in the design of interventional strategies aimed at the instauration of conservationist uses of freshwater, including water conservation campaigns, environmental education programs, and experiments intended to shift wasteful and contaminating water uses toward more sustainable water-consuming behaviors. A model integrating the knowledge on freshwater conservation determinants and its consequences is presented and future directions for research and interventions are outlined.
International Journal of Psychology, Jul 1, 2016
Persona, Sociedad y Medio Ambiente. Perspectivas de la investigación social de la sostenibilidad, 2004
Psyecology, 2015
Abstract This special issue of Psyecology examines the interface between environmental psychology... more Abstract This special issue of Psyecology examines the interface between environmental psychology and positive psychology, by studying the way in which psychological positivity is attained through exposure to certain environmental conditions. It also investigates how psychological positivity is capable of stimulating care and conservation of the socio-physical environment. The papers included in this issue look at theoretical models of environmental positivity in the family, the positive effects of contact with nature on children, the relationship between psychological wellbeing and a frugal use of natural resources, the positive communication of issues related with global climate change, the factors of psychological positivity contained in a positive job environment, and the effects of preference for trees on human wellbeing. The contents reflect relationships of interdependency between environmental and psychological positivity, which become a hugely interesting research issue for studies in human behaviour.
Science Journal of Education, 2018
Restorative Justice (RJ) represents a holistic and humane alternative to punitive measures tradit... more Restorative Justice (RJ) represents a holistic and humane alternative to punitive measures traditionally used in schools. The goal of RJ is to bring affected parties together following a conflict in order to identify a shared solution for reparation of damages. RJ has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing recidivism and improving community relations. The objective of the present study was to identify elements of RJ in middle school programs and curricula in Mexico. A documentary study was developed and implemented using a checklist as the primary data-collecting instrument. Results indicate the presence of some RJ principles in the curriculum of middle schools in Mexico. The findings suggest that while the principles of RJ are taught, essential components of RJ and school democratization are lacking, such as active student participation in conflict resolution and rule elaboration and school organization.
Psychology, 2016
This paper explores the relationship between sustainable behavior, indicated by frugal and equita... more This paper explores the relationship between sustainable behavior, indicated by frugal and equitable actions, and three intrinsic motives: satisfaction, autonomy and self-efficacy. One-hundred and seventy-three undergraduates at a Mexican university responded to a questionnaire investigating their sustainable actions and the intrinsic repercussions derived from those actions. Using structural equations, a model is specified and tested, which reveals the presence of a higher-order factor (sustainable behavior) subjacent to a high and significant covariance between frugal and equitable behaviors. The resulting higher-order-factor, in turn, significantly predicts the report of feelings of satisfaction, autonomy, and self-efficacy. These findings are in line with the idea that sustainable behavior is to a good extent self-determined through the operation of intrinsic consequences, which instigate people's pro-social and pro-environmental actions.
Psyecology: Revista Biling??e de Psicolog??a Ambiental, 2013
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