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Presentation in Spanish
MARÍA DEL CARMEN GARCÍA MENDOZA
UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLA. SPAIN
María del Carmen García Mendoza is accredited as a PhD Associate Professor (Aneca) and works as an interim substitute professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Seville (US). She is currently participating in the TAE III project (PROYEXCEL_00766), funded through a public R&D&I call, and is a member of the PAIDI research group “Developmental and Educational Processes in Family and School Contexts (SEJ54)” within the same Department at the US. She holds a PhD in Psychology with her thesis Family Relationships during Emerging Adulthood, which earned her Cum Laude distinction and the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the US. She has participated as a researcher in several competitive publicly funded R&D&I projects, TAE I (EDU2013-45687-R) and TAE II (RTI2018-097405-B-I00), and in the cross-cultural project “Transition to Adulthood and Family Relationships in Portugal and Psychological Adjustment: Intercultural Research between Spain and Portugal.” She has also held a SECTI Access contract thanks to a Margarita Salas (USE) postdoctoral fellowship at the US.
Regarding her scientific output, she has several publications in JCR journals, with an H index of 6 in WoS and 5 in Scopus, with 83 and 96 citations respectively. Furthermore, 40% of her scientific output is produced through international collaborations, with special mention to J. J. Arnett (Clark University, USA), the driving force and main proponent of the study of Emerging Adulthood. She has won three awards for the best scientific publication in Psychology from young researchers, one of which was a First Annual Prize. She has also presented at major international conferences in the field, such as the SSEA, EARA, and ESFR. Her research interests include family diversity, family relationships during the transition to adulthood for young people, and positive development during emerging adulthood.
Advancing in Emerging Adulthood Research in Spanish Context
Emerging adulthood is an evolutionary period that takes place in industrialized countries and represents a time for young people to focus on themselves and their relationships, to explore different options in education, work, or romantic matters, and ultimately to make vital decisions that will shape their path toward adult life. It is a culturally constructed period. Because of this, and coupled with the fact that this stage has been scarcely studied in Spain, it becomes essential to analyze how young people in our context experience it and what factors contribute to their psychosocial well-being during these years.
This symposium gathers cutting-edge research lines in Spain that aim to advance knowledge about young people transitioning through emerging adulthood in our country. The first presentation will focus on exploring the relevance of parental availability and its relationship with psychological distress in sons and daughters from a longitudinal perspective. The second presentation will analyze flourishing (a conception of well-being that integrates hedonic and eudaimonic well-being) in young people and the variables related to this measure of positive development. The third presentation, due to the low representation of women in many fields of science and technology, will focus on analyzing the impact of the STEM Talent Girl program (STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) on the interest and aspirations of a group of young women toward studies and professions linked to these fields. Finally, the fourth presentation will explore cyber-violence in adolescent and emerging adult populations using a mixed-method research methodology that includes the analysis of focus groups.
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