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GABRIELA ELBA TOPA CANTISANO

GABRIELA ELBA TOPA CANTISANO

CATEDRÁTICA DE UNIVERSIDAD

PSICOLOGÍA SOCIAL Y DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES

FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA

gtopa@psi.uned.es

(+34) 91398-8911

Academic Information

Ph.D. in Psychology from the National Distance Education University (UNED) with a "European Mention". Received a unanimously awarded "Cum Laude" distinction. Additionally, was honored with the extraordinary award from the Faculty of Psychology at UNED for the academic year 2003-2004.

Also holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from UNED in 2002, and a Bachelor's degree in Education Sciences from UNED in 1999.

Academic positions held

Deputy Secretary for the Implementation of Undergraduate Studies from 1/4/2009 to 23/4/2009.

Deputy Faculty Secretary from 24/4/2009 to 30/11/200.

Coordinator of the Master's Program in Teacher Training, specializing in FOL, from 1/10/2013 to 5/5/2021.

Coordinator of the Master's Program in Research in Psychology from 1/2/2014 to 31/4/2015.

Coordinator of the Master's Program in Occupational Risk Prevention: Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and Ergonomics, and Psychosociology (Current Design and Coordination) from 30/9/2017 to 25/09/2018.

Secretary of the Doctoral Program in Psychology from 25/09/2018 to 05/05/2021.

Research activity

Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development. 

Vulnerable workers and decent work for all. 

Retirement and early retirement. Late career development and financial planning, with special reference to women and migrant workers.

Psychological contract breach and its relationship with other individual and psychosocial variables.

Professional experience

Teaching in Primary Education, between the years 1981-1983 and 1993-1997.

Educational management experience

Secretary of the UNED Associated Center of Madrid from 1/12/2009 to 31/09/201.

Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Research at the Menéndez Pelayo International University from April to October 2021.

Research

INVESTIGATION GROUPS

  • Psychosocial processes Intergroup relations +info
  • GID2020-7 Innovative digital methodologies based on web 3.0 tools for implementing the renewal of learning outcomes and specific competencies (GIDMID3.0). Coordinator: Cristina García Ael. +info

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • COST Action: A European Network to Leverage the Multi-Age Workforce Beginning in October 2023, the COST Action LeverAge will build a pan-European and global network of scientists and professionals focused on Age Management at Work (WOP/HRM) that will advance, share, and promote evidence-based knowledge and implementation of practices to fully leverage the multi-age workforce and enhance well-being, productivity, and prosperity for individuals, organizations, and societies facing profound demographic and technological changes. It includes 24 COST member countries and 8 international partner countries.
  • Return to work after an illness. Personal and psychosocial antecedents and consequences. Thematic Subarea: Feminist, Women's, and Gender Studies (PID2020-119337RB-I00). Ministry of Science and Innovation. Grant awarded in 2021. Funding: 36,130 Euros. Duration: Sept. 2021-Sept. 2024.
  • Financial planning for retirement: Antecedents and psychosocial correlates of saving behavior, with special reference to women and migrant workers. Call for Europe Research Grants MINECCO Duration: 01/01/2018-30/12/2019. €24,995.

N.º of recognized sections of research activity

3

Number of credits recognized by transfer activity

1

Publications

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  • PUBLICATIONS AT CONFERENCES Since 2001, the individual has participated in 78 International and National Congresses.

    Among the most recent conferences are:

    Llorente-Alonso, Marta; Tirado, Gumersindo; García-Ael, Cristina. A descriptive study of the differences in the type of admissions of the hospital stays in a Psychiatric Hospitalization Unit between 2019 and 2020. Presented at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health — Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Section: Occupational Safety and Health. Organized by MDPI_ECERPH-3. Conducted online from 11/01/2021 to 25/01/2021. Published as a Conference Paper. doi: 10.3390/ECERPH309052Open this document using ReadSpeaker docReader.

    Peña, Marta; García-Ael, Cristina; Topa, Gabriela. Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of the Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) in a Spanish Sample. Presented at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health — Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Section: Occupational Safety and Health. Organized by MDPI_ECERPH-3. Conducted online from 11/01/2021 to 25/01/2021. Published as a Conference Paper. doi: 10.3390/ECERPH309085Open this document using ReadSpeaker docReader.
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Other activities

Summer courses

Specific information about summer courses

 Permanent education

Formación para el desarrollo de la Función Directiva en Centros docentes, Programa de formación del Profesorado, 5 ECTS.

Curso de Actualización de Competencias Directivas, Programa de formación del Profesorado, 5 ECTS.

Acoso laboral y sexual en las organizaciones, Certificado de Enseñanza abierta, 6 ECTS.

Psicología Organizacional aplicada a los servicios sanitarios, diploma de Experto Universitario, 21 ECTS.
 

 Patents, intellectual property, knowledge transfer

Participation in knowledge transfer contracts with national or international companies and administrations.

Contracts under Article 83 of the University Law (LOU).

TECHNICAL REPORT ON PSYCHOSOCIAL VARIABLES RELATED TO CYBERBULLYING AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS. FUNDING COMPANY: INGENIERIA DE SISTEMAS NUMÉRICOS S.L From 08/06/2023 to 08/01/2024.

ACADEMIC CONSULTING FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS RELATED TO RETIREMENT, LATE CAREER OF MANAGERS, AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR THEIR MEMBERS. Funding companies: ANÁLISIS Y ASESORAMIENTO ORGANIZACIONAL (AYAO) S.L; ASOCIACION OBRAS CRISTIANAS DE GIBRALEÓN FROM: 3/04/2018 TO: 3/04/2019

DESIGN, EXECUTION, AND UTILIZATION OF CONCLUSIONS IN THE NEW 50 PLUS PROJECT. Funding organization: ASOCIACION IT WILL BE FROM: 14/12/2017 TO: 14/06/2019

FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT, PSYCHOSOCIAL ANTECEDENTS AND CORRELATES OF SAVING INTENTION AND BEHAVIOR. Funding company: LAUDO FORMACIÓN FROM: 2016 TO: 2018

Occupational risk prevention: management of quality of work life in the Civil Guard. Funding organization: INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON INTERNAL SECURITY DECEMBER 2008 TO: DECEMBER 2009

Quality of work life in the Civil Guard. Funding organization: INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON INTERNAL SECURITY OCTOBER 2006 TO: OCTOBER 2007

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF COMPANIES. Funding companies: AULA SOLIDARIDAD FROM: 16/11/2006 TO: 15/11/2007

 Training merits

Tudela. Associated Center UNED Tudela.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO MEC 2004 TO 2005 FPI SCHOLARSHIP UNED COMMUNITY OF MADRID 2001 TO 2004 RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP UNED GUTIÉRREZ MELLADO INSTITUTE 1999 TO 2001

AWARDS EXTRAORDINARY DOCTORAL AWARD UNED 2004 ACADEMIC YEAR AWARD (BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION SCIENCES) IN 1997-98; 1998-99. END OF DEGREE AWARD (BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION SCIENCES) CALL 1998-99. ACADEMIC YEAR AWARD (BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY) IN THE CALLS 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.

 Ph.D. Thesis

1. TITLE: "Retirement Preparation: Analysis of the Psychosocial Factors Influencing Personal Adjustment in a Longitudinal Study"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Encarnación Valero Ibáñez

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: December 2015

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude. European Doctorate

Extraordinary Doctoral Award

 

2. TITLE: "Organizational Tolerance towards Workplace Harassment: An Integrative Model with Workers over 40"

Ph.D. STUDENT: José Pérez Larrazábal

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: January 11, 2017

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

3. TITLE: "Volunteering: Motivations, Psychological Contract, and Socialization in Older Volunteers"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Mercedes Aranda Carmena

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: February 13, 2017

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

4. TITLE: "Retirement Financial Planning: Study of Psychosocial Predictors with Spanish Samples"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Irene Jiménez Alamo

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: March 6, 2017

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

5. TITLE: "Successful Aging at Work: Relationships with Social Identity and Job Characteristics in Workers over 40"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Adrián Segura Camacho

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: March 30, 2017

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

6. TITLE: "Health Planning for Retirement in Healthcare and Service Personnel"

Ph.D. STUDENT: María Dolores Hurtado Montiel

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: Approved reading date: March 6, 2018

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

7. TITLE: "Relational and Competency Model for Optimizing Individual Productivity in Positions with High Decision-Making Capacity in Networked Environments"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Francisco José Fernández Ferreras

UNIVERSITY: UPM

FACULTY/SCHOOL: E.T.S. of Industrial Engineers, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Co-supervised with Dr. Ana Moreno Romero

YEAR: September 16, 2017

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

8. TITLE: "Organizational Socialization: Anticipatory Socialization and Job-related Socialization, an Empirical Study of Psychosocial Variables in the Spanish Police"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Alexandra Marcos Lorenzo

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: June 25, 2018

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

9. TITLE: "Psychosocial Study of Older Workers' Performance: The Role of Identification and Motivational Orientations"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Francisco Rodríguez Cifuentes

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: July 6, 2018

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

10. TITLE: "Organizational Justice and Emotions: Their Impact on Health and Behavior"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Vanesa Pérez Rodríguez

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: July 13, 2018

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

11. TITLE: "A Business Management Model: Corporate Social Responsibility of IBEX 35 Companies, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Employees and Customers"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Sergio Antonio Pérez Martínez

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: July 16, 2018

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

12. TITLE: "Work Performance and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Their Relationship with Psychosocial Factors in Samples of Civil Guards"

Ph.D. STUDENT: José Francisco Jurado Del Pozo

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: May 20, 2019

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

13. TITLE: "Application of the Effort-Reward Imbalance Model in Healthcare Professionals: The Role of Identification and Overcommitment in Occupational Health"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Gumersindo Tirado Cardenas

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: July 12, 2019

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

14. TITLE: "Organizational Identification and Perceived Discrimination in the Workplace"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Samuel Fernández-Salinero San Martín

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: June 19, 2019

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

15. TITLE: "Motivational Process of the Job Demands-Resources Model (JD-R)"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Enrique Robledo Martín

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: July 26, 2019

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

16. TITLE: "Relevance of Interpersonal Relationships in Organizational Health: Multiple Group Membership and Positive Relationship Management"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Marta Peña Ramos

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: November 27, 2020

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

17. TITLE: "Antecedents and Consequences of Psychological Empowerment in Organizations: Analysis of its Relationship with Job Crafting"

Ph.D. STUDENT: Marta Llorente Alonso

UNIVERSITY: UNED

FACULTY/SCHOOL: Psychology

YEAR: October 1, 2021

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

18. TITLE: WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MEDIATING ROLE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORKABILITY, PRESENTEEISM, AND JOB SATISFACTION.

SUPERVISORS: Gabriela Topa Cantisano, Ph.D., and Cristina García Ael, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY: UNED.

Ph.D. STUDENT: José María Figueredo Sánchez.

FACULTY/SCHOOL: International School of Doctoral Studies (EIDUNED). Doctoral Program in Psychology and Health.

DATE: July 23, 2021.

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

19. TITLE: IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH A CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAM.

SUPERVISORS: Gabriela Topa Cantisano, Ph.D., and Ana Laguía González, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY: UNED.

Ph.D. STUDENT: María José Ferreira Diaz.

FACULTY/SCHOOL: International School of Doctoral Studies (EIDUNED). Doctoral Program in Psychology and Health.

DEFENSE DATE: June 22, 2022.

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

20. TITLE: JOB DEMANDS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH BURNOUT: AN INVESTIGATION ON PERSONALITY.

SUPERVISORS: Gabriela Topa Cantisano, Ph.D., and Samuel Fernández-Salinero San Martín, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY: UNED.

Ph.D. STUDENT: Jesús Farfán Díaz.

FACULTY/SCHOOL: International School of Doctoral Studies (EIDUNED). Doctoral Program in Psychology and Health.

DATE: July 7, 2022.

GRADE: Outstanding cum Laude.

 

Representative Positions:

 

Member of the UNED Faculty Council representing Contracted PhD Professors.

Member of the Faculty of Psychology Board representing the category of Fellows and Assistant Professors.

Member of the Teaching and Research Staff Labor Committee.