Psicothema was founded in Asturias (northern Spain) in 1989, and is published jointly by the Psychology Faculty of the University of Oviedo and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias).
We currently publish four issues per year, which accounts for some 100 articles annually. We admit work from both the basic and applied research fields, and from all areas of Psychology, all manuscripts being anonymously reviewed prior to publication.
Psicothema, 2008. Vol. Vol. 20 (nº 4). 610-615
Miguel A. Vallejo Pareja, Carlos M. Jordán Cristóbal, Marta I. Díaz García, María I. Comeche Moreno,José Ortega Pardo, Pedro J. Amor Andrés e Ihab Zubeidat
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Aunque son cada vez más los servicios de psicología online y las investigaciones que se dedican a analizar sus resultados, no es tan fácil encontrar trabajos que describan el tipo de personas que los usan. El conocer el perfil de estas personas puede ayudar a mejorar los servicios de psicología online que se les ofrecen. Para llevarlo a cabo, hemos analizado las características socioeconómicas de 1.052 participantes, los cuales utilizaron nuestro servicio de consejo psicológico online. Las relaciones entre variables sociodemográficas y las relativas al motivo de la consulta constituyen el cuerpo de resultados de este artículo. La distribución de la edad en la muestra y un alto grado de cronicidad, la gran cantidad de consultas procedentes de Latinoamérica o la escasa presencia de personas con bajo nivel socioeconómico o educativo pueden conllevar implicaciones clínicas, sociales y legales que comentamos en este trabajo.
The users of an online psychological advice service: A sociodemographic analysis. Although online psychological services and research based on them are increasing rapidly, it is not that easy to find investigations that focus on the kind of people that demand them. To know their profile could help to improve the online psychological services that are offered to them. For this purpose, we analysed the sociodemographic characteristics of 1052 participants, all of them having posed a psychological question to our online advice service. The relations between sociodemographics and variables related to the psychological consultation are analysed herein. Features such as age distribution, a high proportion of long-term problems, the large quantity of questions from Latin America, or the under representation of the lowest socioeconomic and educational levels could lead to clinical, social and legal implications that we comment on in this work.
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