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Samara Barrera was supported by a FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

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Pedroso-Chaparro, MdAuthorCabrera, IAuthorMarquez-Gonzalez, MAuthorOlmos, RAuthorGallego-Alberto, LAuthor

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April 19, 2021
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Validation of the Guilt associated with Self-Perception as a Burden Scale (G-SPBS)

Publicated to:BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY. 49 (2): 185-196 - 2021-03-01 49(2), DOI: 10.1017/S1352465820000557

Authors: Pedroso-Chaparro, Maria del Sequeros; Cabrera, Isabel; Marquez-Gonzalez, Maria; Olmos, Ricardo; Romero-Moreno, Rosa; Vara-Garcia, Carlos; Gallego-Alberto, Laura; Barrera-Caballero, Samara; Losada-Baltar, Andres

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‎ Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Biol & Hlth Psychol, Madrid, Spain - Author
‎ Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Psychol, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Background: One of the main health-related worries for older adults is becoming dependent. Even healthy older adults may worry about becoming dependent, generating guilt feelings due to the anticipation of future needs that others must solve. The guilt associated with self-perception as a burden has not been studied in older adults, and there is no instrument available to measure these feelings. Aims: To adapt the Self-Perceived Burden Scale (SPBS; Cousineau et al., 2003) for the assessment of feelings of guilt for perceiving oneself as a burden for the family in older adults without explicit functional or cognitive impairment. Method: Participants were 298 older adults living independently in the community. Participants completed the assessment protocol, which included measures of guilt associated with self-perception as a burden, depressive and anxious symptomatology, self-perceived burden, and sociodemographic information. Results: Results from exploratory, parallel and confirmatory factor analyses suggest that the scale, named Guilt associated with Self-Perception as a Burden Scale (G-SPBS), has a unidimensional structure, explaining 57.04% of the variance of guilt. Good reliability was found (Cronbach's alpha = .94). The results revealed significant (p < .01) positive associations with depressive and anxious symptomatology. Discussion: These findings suggest that the G-SPBS shows good psychometric properties which endorse its use with healthy community older adults. Also, guilt associated with perceiving oneself as a burden seems to be a relevant variable that can contribute to improving our understanding of psychological distress in older adults.

Keywords

ageingburdenAgedAgeingBurdenFactor analysis, statisticalGuiltHumansPsychometricsReproducibility of resultsSelf conceptSurveys and questionnaires

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Clinical Psychology. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q3 for the agency WoS (JCR) in the category Psychology, Clinical.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.12. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 2.39 (source consulted: Dimensions Sep 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-09-11, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 7
  • Scopus: 7
  • Europe PMC: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-09-11:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 14.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 14 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (PEDROSO CHAPARRO, MARIA DEL SEQUEROS) .