• Characterizing Normotypical Developmental Patterns in Early Childhood: An Exploratory Unsupervised Learning Study 

  Fernández-Merchán, Alberto; Alcalde-Llergo, José M.; Zingoni, Andrea; Sánchez-Raya, Araceli; Pérez-Dueñas, Carolina; Yeguas-Bolívar, Enrique (IEEE, 2026)

  This exploratory study investigates normative developmental patterns in early childhood using unsupervised learning techniques. Using data from 639 normotypically developing Spanish children (aged 1–84 months), we segment ...

• Cyberbullying and social, emotional, and moral competencies 

  Marín López, Inmaculada Concepción; Zych, Izabela (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  In the current digital society, children and adolescents have expanded the scenarios of their social, emotional, and moral life. They use many virtual social networks where they communicate, make friends, and get involved ...

• A longitudinal study on within-person developmental relations between bullying and cyberbullying with substance use in adolescents 

  Zych, Izabela; Rodríguez Ruiz, Joaquín; Louise Murray, Aja; Llorent García, Vicente J.; Marín López, Inmaculada Concepción; Nasaescu, Elena (Elsevier, 2025)

  Bullying, cyberbullying and substance use are prevalent problem behaviors in adolescents, with adverse consequences. Although previous research has provided important insights into their connections, it remains to be ...

• Development and Validation of Schadenfreude in Bullying and Cyberbullying Scale (SBCS) 

  Cabrera Vázquez, Antonio; Falla, Daniel; Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario; Romera, Eva M. (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias, 2025)

  Background: Schadenfreude is a moral emotion consisting of enjoyment when seeing other people suffer, and whose activation has been related to transgressive behaviour in adulthood. Despite this, the study of this emotion ...

• The effect of cyberbullying perpetration on empathy and moral disengagement: Testing a mediation model in a three-wave longitudinal study 

  Falla, Daniel; Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario; Ferreira, P.C.; Viega-Simao, Ana Margarida; Romera, Eva M. (American Psychological Association, 2023)

  Objective: Numerous studies have found that socioemotional and moral variables such as empathy and moral disengagement strategies are related to cyberbullying perpetration. However, it is necessary to explore whether an ...

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