CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Salamanca
• Country: Spain (ES)

Research area

• Call theme: Enhancing well-being for the future
• Keywords:

  Motivation; Environmental Psychology; Emotions; Self-efficacy and collective efficacy;; Health and wellbeing

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  As a social psychologist I have developed my career working from a social cognitive model in which I have analyzed the dynamic interaction of sociodemographic variables (such as age, gender, urban/rural), environmental or situational variables (such as culture, social norms, overload), dispositional variables (such as positivity), self-regulatory variables (such as emotions, goals, or self-efficacy) in relation to the health or well-being of individuals, groups or collectives. Many of the articles and projects funded have focused on the field of environmental psychology (analyzing the residential satisfaction of neighbors from the quality of housing, overcrowding or noise; or recycling behaviors from a multilevel approach in populations of different population densities, or social conflicts created by the development of energy projects in nature). We have also received funding to investigate psychosocial factors (such as emotional state, positivity, self-efficacy to regulate emotions or to follow a diet or exercise) that influence the well-being and health of the population (exploring longitudinally predictors either of quality of life or of anxiety, depression, or stress). In short, the aim is to analyze the motivational variables that influence the health and well-being of the population considering the context in which they develop.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  I would like to participate in the project entitled "Urban density, neighborhood noise and well-being" -or some similar project, as I believe it fits perfectly with the research experience I have developed over the years and with my current research interest. In 2010 we published an article analyzing the factors influencing residential satisfaction, among which noise was included; but also, a comparison of residents\' place attachment and identity (Tabernero et al. (2010). Changes in residential satisfaction and place attachment over time). Years later we published another article focusing especially on neighborhood physical care as a predictor of residential satisfaction (Tabernero et al. (2013). Influence of neighborhood environmental perception on place attachment: The impact of physical neighborhood care). We have also incorporated a multilevel perspective in research on pro-environmental behavior among 55 populations (Tabernero et al. (2015). A multilevel perspective to explain recycling behavior in communities. Journal of Environmental Management). The latest publications relate to connectedness to nature (Cuadrado ... & Tabernero (2023). The ABC connectedness to nature scale: development and validation of a scale with an approach to affective, behavioural, and cognitive aspects. Environmental Education Research, 29(2), 308-329) or the social conflicts generated between groups over environmental issues (Sánchez-Tabernero ... & Tabernero (2023). Explanatory model of the psychosocial variables related to the social acceptance of a uranium mine project in northwest Spain. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1134499). We also work from a health, well-being, or quality of life approach, so we believe that we could contribute an enriching perspective by joining the project as partners from Spain. Perhaps using psychophysiological recordings (Hidalgo-Muñoz ... & Tabernero (2022). Spontaneous Breathing Rate Variations Linked to Social Exclusion and Emotion Self-assessment. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 47(3), 231-237) or neuroimaging (Molina-Rodríguez ... & Tabernero (2023). Stress estimation by the prefrontal cortex asymmetry: Study on fNIRS signals. Journal of Affective Disorders, 325, 151-157) to the assessment of noise stress.

Carmen Tabernero

• Organisation: University of Salamanca
• Position: Full Professor Of Social Psychology; Head of Department
• E-mail: carmen.tabernero@usal.es
• Phone: 34 670880589
• Web: scholar.google.es/citations?user=qWh97iIAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao