Objectives: The chronic restrictions to mitigate the new SARS-CoV-2 virus may result in pandemic fatigue. This study set out to develop a short, reliable, valid, and gender-invariant instrument—the Pandemic Fatigue Scale (PFS).Methods: In the first phase, 300 students responded to a pilot questionnaire that allowed the reduction and refinement of the items. In the second phase, the validity, reliability, and invariance of the scale were explored among a sample of 596 participants.Results: Factor exploratory and confirmatory analyses confirmed a robust adjustment for the bifactorial structure that explained 79,36% of the variance. The two factors identified were 1) people’s demotivation in continuing to follow the recommended protective behaviors (neglect) and 2) people’s boredom regarding the pandemic-related information (boredom). The pattern of relations between the Pandemic Fatigue Scale and other variables—find through correlation, mediation, and path analyses—and the gender differences—find in the ANOVA analyses—provided strong evidence of the construct validity. Moreover, the PFS was shown to be invariant regarding gender in a multigroup factor confirmatory analysis.Conclusion: The instrument can be of utility for professionals and researchers to assess pandemic fatigue, a variable that can affect the adoption of protective measure to avoid catching and spreading the virus.

The effective teaching of language is an aspect of special relevance regarding the good adjustment of children in contexts such as school, family, or community. This article performs an experimental procedure to check which language teaching methodology is most effective in a sample of children. The objective was to analyze the influence of training, Condition 1 (pure tacts more intraverbal) or Condition 2 (pure tacts more impure tacts), on emergence of two tests involving impure tacts (AB-C, AB-D) and four new complex intraverbals (BC-D, BD-C) for each of two sets of stimuli (Set 1 and Set 2). The sample comprised 54 children aged between 6 and 12 years, divided into two groups of different experimental conditions. The results revealed statistically significant differences in performance on the tests of impure tacts and complex intraverbal, obtaining highly effective results in Condition 2. This teaching method using compound stimuli (impure tacts) clearly favors the expansion of language. The practical implications of this work can be more effective language teaching methodologies implemented that favor the good psychosocial adjustment of children in contexts such as family, school, or the community in general.

Introducción. La presencia de estudiantes con discapacidad en las universidades ha aumentado en los últimos años, sin embrago, aún son escasos los trabajos que estudian el bienestar psicológico en este colectivo. El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer el grado de bienestar psicológico en estudiantes universitarios con discapacidad y analizarlo de manera comparativa con una muestra de estudiantes sin discapacidad.  Método.  Se aplica un diseño ex post facto prospectivo con grupo control en una muestra de 182 estudiantes, 72 con discapacidad y 110 sin discapacidad. Se administró la adaptación española de la escala de Bienestar Psicológico de Ryff.Resultados. Ambos grupos presentan puntuaciones generales medias en la escala, sin embargo, se observan diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los grupos tanto en la puntuación global en Bienestar Psicológico como en cuatro dimensiones de la escala: Relaciones Positivas, Autonomía, Dominio del Entornoy Crecimiento Personal.Discusión y conclusiones.  Este estudio aporta nuevos datos en un ámbito poco explorado. Se discuten aspectos clave para el desarrollo de estrategias de abordaje de dimensiones psicológicas en este colectivo y con un enfoque inclusivo en el contexto universitario.

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Introduction The aim of this article is to determine whether there are differences in the coping strategies of parents of children with disabilities (autism spectrum disorder or other disabilities) and children without disabilities, in reference to the most stressful situation they have experienced with their child in the last year. Method To conduct the study, a purposive sample selection based on case‐control characteristics was carried out, in which a total sample of 170 participants was recruited. Participants were assigned, according to their characteristics, to the group of parents of children without disabilities, with ASD or with other disabilities. An ad hoc sociodemographic questionnaire and the Coping Responses Inventory for adults were administered. Results The results obtained indicate that there are differences in the use of coping strategies between parents of children without disabilities and with disabilities but not between the two disability groups. Parents of children with disabilities have significantly higher scores on the four subscales defined as avoidance strategies, and on one subscale identified as an approach strategy. Conclusions Parents of children with disabilities use avoidance strategies, to a greater extent, during the most stressful situations they have experienced in the last year with their child. In addition, they tend to use avoidance strategies regardless of the type of disability their child has.