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Nuria Codina

University of Barcelona, Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, Faculty Member

Universitat de Barcelona, Social Psychology, Faculty Member

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My research is focused on the study of leisure, self and identity, and time management. Specifically, I'm working in the fields of physical activity, cultural practices, new forms of leisure, procrastination and time perspective and gender differences. With a research background in social psychology, my research projects aim to empower people in order to be autonomous and self-regulated.

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Informe final del proyecto elaboración y análisis de casos psicosociales por parte del alumnado

A continuación se presenta el informe final del proyecto Elaboración y análisis de casos por part... more A continuación se presenta el informe final del proyecto Elaboración y análisis de casos por parte del alumnado (2014PID-UB/048). Mediante este proyecto de dos años de duración se pretendió desarrollar estrategias docentes para fomentar la adquisición de la competencia específica conocer, comprender y analizar el comportamiento por parte de los alumnos de la asignatura Psicología Social del Grado de Psicología de la Universidad de Barcelona. En esta dirección, a lo largo del primer año se planificaron, desarrollaron e implementaron actividades de aprendizaje y de evaluación basadas en la metodología de estudio de casos. A lo largo del segundo año se han realizado modificaciones en las actividades inicialmente planteadas con el fin de mejorar los procesos de aprendizaje del alumnado. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que la elaboración y el análisis de casos por parte de los estudiantes favorecen su capacidad para comprender y analizar el comportamiento humano. Asimismo, tiene efec...

De la percepción a los usos del tiempo: perspectiva temporal y procrastinación de adultos en España

Revista Española de Pedagogía, 2020

De la percepción a los usos del tiempo: perspectiva temporal y procrastinación de adultos en Espa... more

En el teatro del ocio de los jóvenes: de lo simbólico a lo empírico en la intervención

La gestió del temps dels universitaris, una qüestió d’autoregulació a potenciar

Gestió del temps i activitat física: Fent front a la irrupció de la Covid-19 en el benestar de l’alumnat universitari

Gestió del temps, Activitat Física (AF), Benestar en universitaris Objectius específics 1. Identi... more

El debate virtual como experiencia de aprendizaje: Aplicación y evaluación

Se describe la experiencia del uso del debate virtual como espacio de análisis, discusión y refle... more Se describe la experiencia del uso del debate virtual como espacio de análisis, discusión y reflexión complementaria a las clases presenciales. Se aplica la técnica y se evalúa teniendo en cuenta los siguientes criterios: recepción y valoración CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk

Is student procrastination related to controlling teacher behaviours

Headache, 2017

Even motivated students procrastinate, because procrastination is triggered by a volitional (rath... more Even motivated students procrastinate, because procrastination is triggered by a volitional (rather than by a motivational) problem. However, many factors, such as learning context, teacher interpersonal style, and also type of motivation may influence the occurrence of procrastination. The aim of the present study was to assess the relations between first-year university students’ procrastination and controlling teacher behaviour. Four types of controlling teacher behaviour and three distinct measures of procrastination were evaluated and their correlations assessed. Findings revealed small but significant associations between (a) conditional use of rewards and decisional procrastination, and between (b) excessive personal control and task-avoiding procrastination. Results suggest that controlling teacher behaviour can negatively influence students’ learning experiences. By using conditional rewards too often, teachers may deffer their students’ autonomous decision processes to eng...

Imbalances in the Study of the Relationship between Leisure and Self-Esteem: A Systematic Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020

This systematic review offers a comprehensive examination of the relationship between leisure and... more This systematic review offers a comprehensive examination of the relationship between leisure and self-esteem. The different perspectives were analyzed according to a framework that includes the different approaches for defining and measuring leisure, and a similar one was proposed for self-esteem. Articles indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) up to the end of 2018 were reviewed, specifically those that contained the keywords “leisure”, “self-esteem” or “self esteem” anywhere in the manuscript. Articles that did not present the qualitative or quantitative instruments needed to evaluate leisure or self-esteem were excluded. A total of 49 articles included the final quantitative synthesis. The overall findings showed that the prevailing methodology was objective (external). As regards content, the following combinations predominated: the behavioral approach to leisure with the unidimensional approach to self-esteem and the experiential approach to leisure with the unidimensional approa...

Actividad físico-deportiva como experiencia de ocio y Perspectiva Temporal en los jóvenes

Se analizan las relaciones entre la practica de actividades fisico-deportivas, la experiencia de ... more Se analizan las relaciones entre la practica de actividades fisico-deportivas, la experiencia de ocio y la Perspectiva Temporal, en una muestra de 134 jovenes —84 chicos y 54 chicas— entre 18 y 24 anos. La informacion se obtuvo mediante un cuestionario online que incluia: (1) un Presupuesto de Tiempo para registrar las actividades realizadas en la cotidianidad y valorar las caracteristicas de estas actividades como ocio (tiempo dedicado a las mismas, frecuencia semanal y percepciones de eleccion propia, satisfaccion y apropiacion); y (2) el Inventario de Perspectiva Temporal de Zimbardo, para conocer la incidencia de sus dimensiones (presente, pasada y futura). Los resultados obtenidos muestran que: los jovenes que practican actividad fisica como actividad de ocio presentan una Perspectiva Temporal Balanceada; que quienes invierten mas tiempo en esta practica tienen a una mayor Perspectiva Temporal Futura; asimismo, se demuestra que las variables de la experiencia de ocio correlacio...

Fitness training as a body-centered hobby: The serious leisure perspective for explaining exercise practice

Physical exercise is an activity whose health-related benefits have been promoted by health profe... more Physical exercise is an activity whose health-related benefits have been promoted by health professionals and social institutions. However, given that the levels of practice are not ideal, the subjective variables – that give meaning, provide continuity and may increase exercise adherence – need to be studied in depth. In this sense, fitness training is analyzed as a form of serious leisure, a body-centered hobby – a way to practice and relate to the activity that leads its practitioners to adhere more to it, orienting them towards a career in acquiring and expressing skills, knowledge and experience. In total, 1,134 people (588 men, 546 women) doing fitness training, aged between 18 and 70 years old (M = 34.7, SD = 13.06), answered a questionnaire about time dedicated to exercise as serious leisure and its derived and complementary benefits. Student’s t Coefficient and ANOVA were used to show the significance of the differences among the scores obtained for the rewards related to e...

University Students’ Motives-for-Physical-Activity Profiles: Why They Practise and What They Get in Terms of Psychological Need Satisfaction

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

Physical activity (PA) is an important habit for overall health and quality of life, but it tends... more Physical activity (PA) is an important habit for overall health and quality of life, but it tends to recede as young adults transition from high school into university. The present study sought to understand, in the case of university students that still practice PA, their motives for PA and their relationships with psychological need satisfaction (PNS) and characteristics of practice regularity (frequency, duration, team, competitive, coach, league, federation, and type of day of the week for PA). Participants were 423 university students who reported to practice PA (203 identified as men, 191 as women, 29 did not report gender), with ages ranging from 18 to 30 years old (M = 19.91, SD = 1.97). Measures assessing motives for PA, PNS, and PA characteristics were completed. Hierarchical, followed by iterative, cluster analysis was used and four naturally occurring groupings of university students were identified based on their motives for PA: one extrinsic-motives cluster (with both ...

Diferències entre les dones i els homes de Terrassa en la pràctica d'activitat física: relacions amb la qualitat de vida i la procrastinació

This paper focuses on highly-efficient numerical methods for solving spacefractional diffusion eq... more This paper focuses on highly-efficient numerical methods for solving spacefractional diffusion equations. By combining the fourth-order quasi-compact difference scheme and boundary value methods, a class of quasi-compact boundary value methods are constructed. In order to accelerate the convergence rate of this class of methods, the Kronecker product splitting (KPS) iteration method and the preconditioned method with KPS preconditioner are proposed. A convergence criterion for the KPS iteration method is derived. A numerical experiment further illustrates the computational efficiency and accuracy of the proposed methods. Moreover, a numerical comparison with the preconditioned method with Strang-type preconditioner is given, which shows that the preconditioned method with KPS preconditioner is comparable in computational efficiency.

Recovery of women in situation of male chauvinist intimate partner violence. Description and instrumentation

Head of the municipal unit for women, children and adolescents in situations of male chauvinist p... more

Análisis de motivos y necesidades psicológicas para la promoción de la práctica físico-deportiva en estudiantes universitarios: El desafío “mente sana, pero en cuerpo sano también

Collective and Individual Sources of Women’s Creativity: Heroism and Psychological Types Involved in Enhancing the Talent of Emerging Leaders

Sustainability, 2020

In heroism, leadership research has a myth that provides the basis for a deeper exploration of th... more In heroism, leadership research has a myth that provides the basis for a deeper exploration of the characteristics of the unconscious (collective, personal) and consciousness of leaders—characteristics that can mobilize their followers. This contribution goes on to show that heroism can provide a foundation that foments the creativity of women leaders—from a sustainable standpoint—with the purpose of jointly analyzing aspects of the collective unconscious (heroism), the personal unconscious (psychological typology), and consciousness (self-descriptions, values) in a sample of women emerging as leaders. The participants in the study were 34 students following a Master’s program oriented towards training future CEOs as leaders, aged between 22 and 38 years old (M = 27.22 years old; SD = 3.77). The instruments consisted of a story that each participant wrote about herself as the main heroine; the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); the Twenty-Statement Test (TST); and a questionnaire o...

Serious and casual leisure activities in the construction of young adult identity: a study based on participants’ self-descriptions

OBETS. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2017

Leisure activities and identity interact and structure young people’s lives. Empirical research o... more Leisure activities and identity interact and structure young people’s lives. Empirical research on such interaction is scarce and contradictory. This paper explores the relationships between leisure activities with different levels of commitment (serious, casual) and identity traits. A total of 938 young people (476 men and 462 women) aged 18 to 24 (M = 21.13; DT = 1.98) completed a time budget (TB) and a self-description questionnaire about identity based on the Twenty-Statements Test, as well an association between the TB and the self-descriptions. The study shows the complementarity of serious and casual leisure in the formation of youth identities and gender differences.

Preventing Procrastination Behaviours: Teaching Styles and Competence in University Students

Sustainability, 2020

Based on the self-determination theory, this study examines the relationship between students’ pe... more Based on the self-determination theory, this study examines the relationship between students’ perceptions of their teachers’ teaching styles, satisfaction of the need for competence, and procrastination behaviours in university students. The sample was composed of 675 university students (442 men, 279 women; 4 did not indicate gender, Mage = 19.81 ± 2.26 years old), who completed the questionnaires assessing the variables of interest. The perception of an autonomy-supportive teaching style was positively associated with the satisfaction of the need for competence, in contrast to the perception of a controlling style. Satisfaction of the need for competence was also negatively related to procrastination behaviours. Likewise, the perception of a controlling teaching style was indirectly and positively associated—through competence need satisfaction—with procrastination; in addition, the perception of an autonomy supportive teaching style was negatively associated with procrastination...

Young University Students’ Academic Self-Regulation Profiles and Their Associated Procrastination: Autonomous Functioning Requires Self-Regulated Operations

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

Students' autonomous self-regulation requires not only self-motivation but also volition or trans... more Students' autonomous self-regulation requires not only self-motivation but also volition or transforming motivation into specific behavioral intentions and following through. Self-regulation includes self-motivation (i.e., goal setting, learning from mistakes) and volitional regulation (i.e., strategic decision making). Furthermore, individual differences, like trait-level perseverance, significantly influence both motivation and volition. Procrastination has been defined as a volitional self-regulation problem, which involves delaying what one had intended to do, in spite of being motivated, and regardless of anticipating adverse consequences. Thus, it is a tendency toward dysregulated behavior-which may stabilize with age-in which subpar selfregulation may lead to procrastination. As a form of dysregulation, procrastination adversely affects young people's autonomy and well-being by limiting their personal growth. Previous research has confirmed a negative relationship between selfregulation and procrastination. However, more precision is demanded in: (a) examining the intertwined roles of motivational and volitional aspects of self-regulation for procrastination, and (b) distinguishing between different medium, and between medium and high levels of self-regulation. Consequently, it has been suggested that this could be accomplished by means of person-centered analyses, aimed at identifying distinct naturally occurring students' self-regulation profiles. These profiles would inform differentiated pedagogical approaches to promote self-regulation strategies counteracting procrastination tendencies. We used cluster analysis to identify academic self-regulation profiles and analyze their relationships with procrastination. Participants were 994 young university students from one public and one private university in Catalonia (41.0% men, 58.4% women, and 0.5% non-binary gender). Their age ranged from 18 to 24 years (M = 19.69, SD = 1.41). Sampling method was intentional, with proportional quotas by sex, academic year, and area of knowledge. The instrument used for data collection incorporated the Short Spanish Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSSRQ), which includes four dimensions: perseverance, learning from mistakes,

Leisure and Procrastination, a Quest for Autonomy in Free Time Investments: Task Avoidance or Accomplishment?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

The purpose of the research was to analyze procrastination-a problem of time management that nega... more The purpose of the research was to analyze procrastination-a problem of time management that negatively affects the autonomy of people-in relation to leisure as a domain of everyday life. Specifically, the dynamics between leisure (activities and time invested-weekly frequency and duration of activity) and procrastination factors were studied. A sample of 185 university students (118 men and 67 women: M age = 20.77 years, SD age = 2.53) answered a procrastination scale-validated for the Spanish population-which refers to four factors of procrastination (dilatory behaviors, indecision, lack of punctuality, and lack of planning) and an adaptation of the Time Budget (TB) (a table where the participants were asked to specify "the three activities that you prefer to do when you are not studying or doing a paid job"). Results show that leisure activities are associated with factors of procrastination. As a matter of fact, the different factors of procrastination were related to specific types of leisure activities, depending on the weekly frequency of the activity or its duration. In this sense, there are cases in which the greater frequency of leisure activities (hobbies and computing, social life and entertainment) seems to contain-control, inhibit-procrastination (specifically, affecting its component of indecision) variations in the weekly frequency and duration of certain type of activities result in higher or lower scores on certain factors of procrastination. In sum, the time invested in leisure can protect from or inhibit delaying tasks-which implies enhancing the autonomy of people-a deduction that opens up new lines of research to identify optimal time investments for coping with procrastination.

Time Matters Differently in Leisure Experience for Men and Women: Leisure Dedication and Time Perspective

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019

There are inequalities with respect to the amount of time men and women spend on leisure. Therefo... more There are inequalities with respect to the amount of time men and women spend on leisure. Therefore, it can be assumed that these inequalities are also manifested in the experiences derived from leisure activities and in certain attitudes to life associated with the amount of time devoted to leisure, which emphasize time orientations towards the past, present and future. Based on these ideas, this study analyses the time spent on leisure activities, leisure experience (i.e., perceptions of freedom and satisfaction), and the five factors of the time perspective (hedonistic and fatalistic present; positive and negative past; and future orientation). Participants were 435 men and 434 women, ranging from 18 to 24 years (sample mean M = 21.14, standard deviation SD = 1.99). Two tools were used: a questionnaire about leisure experience, based on the time budget technique, and the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. The results show significant gender differences: men have more leisure ti...