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Across three studies, we explored the link between an abstract mindset and subjective well-being (SWB) in participants with real and/or perceived financial scarcity. In Studies 1 and 2, samples presented real objective financial vulnerability: Adolescents from lower-middle income districts (Study 1; N = 256), and adults without higher education and with very low incomes (Study 2; N = 210). In Studies 1 and 2 participants completed a survey including measures of thinking style and SWB. In Studies 2 and 3 perception of financial difficulty and SWB were also measured. Study 3 (N = 161) used a sample of university students and employed an experimental design manipulating participants’ thinking style (i.e., concrete versus abstract mindset conditions); additionally, all participants were induced to perceive financial scarcity. Correlations revealed a significant and positive relationship between an abstract thinking style and SWB (Studies 1 and 2). Thus, these results showed that a relatively more abstract thinking style was associated with greater life satisfaction. In Studies 2 and 3 mediation analyses indicated that adults who presented a more abstract thinking style, perceived lower financial difficulties and then reported greater SWB. Overall, given that an abstract thinking style can be induced, these results offer a new intervention approach for improving the SWB of people living in situations of financial scarcity.

In current society, immigration is a reality that poses important challenges. Identifying factors that favor a more positive evaluation of immigrants could lead to new avenues of intervention to achieve more positive intergroup relationships and greater social well-being. Given that a more abstract thinking style promotes less focus on obstacles and difficulties, the aim of the present study was to examine the link between construal level and stereotype, focusing on people with a more conservative ideology, a population that tends to have a higher level of prejudice towards immigrants. We hypothesized that conservative people with a more abstract thinking style would report less negative stereotypes than those with a more concrete thinking style. In a sample of Spanish adults (N = 1,208, 60.1% women), we applied a questionnaire measuring thinking style, ideology, the degree to which immigrants are perceived as competitors, and the dimension of warmth (morality and sociability) of the stereotype content of that group. We found that more conservative people perceived, to a greater extent, immigrants as competitors and considered them less moral and sociable. However, the warmth (morality and sociability) attributed to immigrants was significantly higher for those conservative individuals who presented more abstract thinking style, with perceived competition as the mediating variable. As it is possible to induce a more abstract thinking style, the results of this study open a new avenue for intervention in promoting more positive attitudes toward immigrants, especially in more conservative people who tend to present more negative stereotypes towards this collective.

The Spanish State is among the countries with high standards of compliance with its international obligations on human rights. Regardless of the reasons that explain the respect for such commitments, it is surprising to note that the degree of compliance differs depending on the international guarantee mechanism. Compliance with treaties whose oversights is attributed to a court, such as the European Court of Human Rights, is stricter than compliance with covenants under the United Nations, whose supervision is recognised to the committee established by each treaty or by their annexed protocols. Even though the Committees also respond to individual complaints raised by persons subject to the Spanish State jurisdiction, the binding nature of their resolutions is questioned by some State institutions. Both members of the executive and the judiciary. This paper analyses the grounds that justify this two-speed compliance and questions the institutional arguments that support such reality. Our reflection insists that the obligations derived from all human rights treaties ratified by Spain are identical and demand an equal response from the State institutions. The international human rights law and the Spanish Constitution itself so require it.

La teoría constitucional desarrolla por Rudolf Smend, en el contexto de la crisis de la república de Weimar, pretendía ofrecer soluciones a dicha crisis. La idea de integración que formula en su teoría presupone la cohesión de la comunidad política en torno a una serie de valores comunes, que cada individuo asimila como propios, desde la convicción de su validez. La intención subyacente en este planteamiento era encontrar una vía de salida de las confrontaciones políticas que impedían estabilizarse al Estado alemán, pero su teoría trascendió a ese intento inicial y ha dejado algunos elementos de reflexión interesantes, que podemos utilizar como herramienta de exégesis de la realidad contemporánea. El artículo pretende identificar en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional Español algunas de las ideas de Smend en torno al proceso de integración material al que sirven los símbolos patrios, la lengua, los derechos y la idea de una comunidad de valores. El objetivo último es valorar la fortaleza de dicha jurisprudencia y considerar si la misma nos permite hablar de su cualidad como herramienta de integración.

This study presents a modular and adaptable approach for the automated extraction of morphological features from meibography images, focusing on Meibomian gland (MG) analysis. The proposed method leverages piecewise linear modeling to derive clinically interpretable metrics that capture key structural characteristics of MGs. The workflow consists of three main stages: (1) semi-automated region of interest (ROI) selection, (2) MG identification and segmentation, and (3) extraction of gland- and image-level metrics. The approach was validated using 616 meibography images from two different imaging systems, demonstrating robustness, adaptability, and high classification accuracy for Meiboscale grading. Key metrics such as the shortening ratio and dropout area proved effective in distinguishing different stages of Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). By balancing automation, interpretability, and computational efficiency, this method provides a practical and scalable tool for the objective assessment of MG morphology, with potential applications in clinical practice and large-scale ophthalmic research.

We endeavored to identify objective salivary biomarkers for pain, a subjective sensation with a biological basis, using molecules already described related to pain. The study aimed to analyze inter-individual differences and intersession variability in salivary potential ocular pain biomarkers on healthy subjects, in samples obtained under the influence of controlled environmental conditions. Thirty-four healthy subjects, 20 male, 14 female, median age 35.44 years (range 30-40) were exposed for 30 minutes under standard environmental conditions (T: 22°C, 50% relative humidity) in the Controlled Environmental Research Laboratory (CE-Lab, Vision R&D, Valladolid Spain) in two separate visits (V1, V2) at least 24 hours apart. Saliva was collected after the exposure in each of the visits, and cortisol, α-amylase (sAA), secretory IgA (sIgA), testosterone, and soluble fraction of TNFα receptor II (sTNFαRII) were analyzed by ELISA. Repeatability of inter-subject inter-session measurements was assayed by intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). There were no significant inter-session differences in testosterone (p = 0.2497), sTNFαRII (p = 0.6451) and sIgA (p = 0.9689) salivary levels. The reproducibility for salivary cortisol, sAA, testosterone, sTNFαRII and sIgA were 0.98 ng/ml, 20.58 U/ml, 21.07 μg/ml, 24.68 pg/ml and 0.19 pg/ml, respectively. Salivary cortisol, sAA, testosterone, sTNFαRII and sIgA yielded the following ICCs: 0.506, 0.569, 0.824, 0.870 and 0.4295, respectively; all these ICCs (except that for cortisol and sIgA) were found to be improved compared to those found previously by our group in a previous study in salivary samples obtained from healthy subjects under non-controlled environmental conditions; Cortisol´s ICC didn´t improve and was in both cases at the limit of acceptability. Environmental factors such as temperature and relative humidity affect the reproducibility of measurement of some salivary molecules which have been proposed as potential pain biomarkers. The exposure of subjects to standard controlled environmental conditions before salivary sample obtention would improve the reproducibility of these molecule measures' as potential biomarkers of chronic ocular pain.

We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 and 2, and participants reported their real income and completed the BIF scale to measure their construal level in Study 3. Studies 1–3 supported the link between perceived economic scarcity and the concrete construal level. Study 4 demonstrated the mediating role played by the concrete construal level in the influence of economic scarcity on risk behaviors using two opposite priming procedures (scarcity plus abstraction). Study 5, in a real context of economic vulnerability, supported the link between concrete mindset and risk behavioral intentions, while abstraction was associated with fewer risk intentions. Concrete thinking implies focusing on the immediate situation, which might facilitate adaptation to the demanding conditions that characterize scarcity contexts but leaves people without a broad perspective of the future to make safe decisions in situations that involve self-control, such as health-risk behaviors. Because an abstract construal level can be induced, these findings open up challenging ways to improve the conditions in which people in scarcity contexts make some behavioral decisions while we continue working to reduce situations of economic scarcity.

PurposeThis study aims to determine the probability of progression of myopic maculopathy according to age.MethodsThis is a longitudinal observational study of single-center retrospective cohort of Caucasian patients formed by 212 consecutive adults with high myopia. Main outcome measures were age, visual acuity (VA), refractive error (RE), follow-up time, and the macular status assessed at least 5 years apart according to the Meta-Analysis of Pathologic Myopia Study Group. The progression rate was calculated based on per 1000 eyes/year. Multistate models were fitted to identify the predictive factors and to calculate the most probable age of progression onset using the Aalen–Johansen estimator.ResultsWe studied 220 eyes of 122 Caucasian patients. Mean age was 48.18 ± 14.1, mean follow-up 12.73 ± 5.81 years. One-hundred and fifty-two (69.1%) eyes progressed of category, and 96 (44%) worsened a mean of 0.3 logMAR units during follow-up. The progression rate was 32.21/1000 eyes/year. The probability of progressing increased with age; it was higher in women if there was a family history of myopia, worse VA, higher RE, or wide macular staphyloma. The probability of progressing from category 1 was > 0.6 after 70 years of age; from category 2, it was 0.7 after 70 years; and 0.5 from category 3 after 75 years. If choroidal neovascularization (CNV) appeared, this probability exceeded 0.7 between ages 45 and 55 for all categories.ConclusionThe progression rate is lower than in a Japanese series. The vision worsened with disease progression, and the probability of both happening increased after the age of 70–75. If CNV appears, the risk of progression is very high at the age of 45–55.

Con el propósito de conocer cómo se relacionan los indicadores psicosociales, caracterizados por la empatía y los valores sociales, se realizó un estudio cuasiexperimental de Justicia Restaurativa (JR) en el que participaron 187 sujetos pertenecientes a la población general, con una media de edad de 40.27 (DE = 12.32) años. Éstos fueron asignados al azar a un supuesto sobre JR que contenía 3 condiciones (desafiante, arrepentimiento e impunidad) y cuestiones sobre la gestión del delito, como son: el castigo, el diálogo, la responsabilización y la reparación. Además, los participantes cumplimentaron escalas sobre emociones negativas (α = 0.81), empatía (α = 0.72) y valores sociales (α = 0.76). A través de análisis correlacionales (r de Pearson) y de comparación de medias (prueba t y ANOVA) se constató que la emoción que se siente con más intensidad, ante el delito que sufre otra persona, es el enfado, existiendo diferencias en función de las actitudes desafiante y de arrepentimiento mostradas por el agresor, para el conjunto de emociones negativas, así como para la posibilidad de aceptar el diálogo entre las partes. El hecho de poseer alta amabilidad empática hace que se faciliten los procesos de JR caracterizados por la responsabilización y la reparación, mientras que los valores de conservadurismo (tradición y seguridad) se vincularon con el castigo. Todos estos hallazgos permiten avanzar en el estudio de la JR, la empatía y los valores sociales.