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  1. Redes que sotienen

    Article • La Mecedora Divulga, September 2025, Asociación Mens et Corda

    Carlos Vara-García

  2. The measurement of role-conflict between family and personal leisure

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, September 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Carlos Vara-García

  3. Loneliness, Social Relationships and Family Communication: The Impact on the Mental Health of Severe COVID-19 Survivors in the Long Term

    Article • Behavioral Psychology/Psicología Conductual, August 2025, IMR Press

    Carlos Vara-García

  4. Parenting stress, emotion regulation, and social skills in adolescents

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  5. Bidirectional Relationship Between Insomnia and Depressive Symptoms in Family Caregivers of People with Dementia: A Longitudinal Study

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Carlos Vara-García

  6. To feel rewarded as a parent: be compassionate with yourself

    Article • Anales de Psicología, May 2025, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia

    Carlos Vara-García

  7. An integrated model of psychosocial correlates of insomnia severity in family caregivers of people with dementia

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Roland von Känel, Carlos Vara-García

  8. Associations Between Dysfunctional Thoughts, Leisure Activities, and IL-6 in Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia

    Article • Psychosomatic Medicine, December 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Roland von Känel, Carlos Vara-García

  9. Physical limitations and loneliness: The role of guilt related to self‐perception as a burden

    Article • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, November 2022, Wiley

    Carlos Vara-García

  10. Culpa por percibirse como una carga. Una variable relevante asociada al malestar psicológico de las personas mayores

    Article • Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología, November 2022, Elsevier

    Carlos Vara-García

  11. Cognitive fusion and treatment response to depression in caregivers of relatives with dementia.

    Article • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, October 2022, Elsevier

    Carlos Vara-García

  12. Cognitive fusion and distress in family caregivers: the role of satisfaction with personal values

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  13. Stress, Insomnia, and Leisure in Dementia Family Caregivers. Correlates with Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Clinical Gerontologist, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  14. Family caregivers of people with dementia in the context of the sociocultural stress and coping model: An examination of gender differences

    Article • Journal of Women & Aging, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  15. Guilt Focused Intervention for Family Caregivers. Preliminary Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial

    Article • Clinical Gerontologist, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  16. Longitudinal Correlates of Depressive Symptoms and Positive and Negative Affects in Family Caregivers of People With Dementia

    Article • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, February 2022, Elsevier

    Carlos Vara-García

  17. Stress, cognitive fusion and comorbid depressive and anxiety symptomatology in dementia caregivers.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, August 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Samara Barrera Caballero, Professor Andrés Losada, Carlos Vara-García

  18. Associations between pleasant events, activity restriction, stressors, and blood pressure in caregivers of persons with dementia

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, June 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Roland von Känel, Carlos Vara-García

  19. Caring for Relatives with Dementia in Times of COVID-19: Impact on Caregivers and Care-recipients

    Article • Clinical Gerontologist, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  20. Development and Validation of an Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to Measure Implicit Dysfunctional Beliefs about Caregiving in Dementia Family Caregivers

    Article • The Psychological Record, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carlos Vara-García

  21. Guilt for perceiving oneself as a burden in healthy older adults. Associated factors

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  22. Personal values profiles in dementia family caregivers: their association with ambivalent feelings and anxious and depressive symptoms

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  23. Validation of the Guilt associated with Self-Perception as a Burden Scale (G-SPBS)

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Carlos Vara-García

  24. The Relationship Between Circulating Interleukin-6 Levels and Future Health Service Use in Dementia Caregivers

    Article • Psychosomatic Medicine, May 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Carlos Vara-García

  25. Measuring familism in dementia family caregivers: the revised familism scale

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrés Losada, Samara Barrera Caballero, Carlos Vara-García

  26. Stress and Blood Pressure in Dementia Caregivers: The Moderator Role of Mindfulness

    Article • Clinical Gerontologist, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Andrés Losada, Roland von Känel, Carlos Vara-García

  27. Psychosocial Predictors of Anxiety in Nursing Home Staff

    Article • Clinical Gerontologist, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Carlos Vara-García

  28. Ambivalence and guilt feelings: Two relevant variables for understanding caregivers' depressive symptomatology

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, August 2017, Wiley

    Carlos Vara-García

  29. Commitment to personal values and guilt feelings in dementia caregivers

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, January 2017, Elsevier

    Carlos Vara-García

  30. Impacto psicológico de las demencias en las familias: propuesta de un modelo integrador

    Article • Clínica Contemporánea, January 2017, Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid

    Carlos Vara-García