Georgina Guilera

Georgina Guilera is a full Professor in the Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in psychometrics, meta-analysis, and survey methods while maintaining active research affiliations with GEIMAC and GReVIA research groups. Her academic profile is documented through ORCID 0000-0002-4941-2511 and Scopus Author ID 15051961600.

Her research focuses on:

• Development and adaptation of psychological measurement instruments
• Advanced meta-analytic techniques
• Mental health applications including severe disorders
• Victimology across developmental stages
• Schizophrenia functioning assessment
• Mathematical anxiety and academic performance

Recent publications (2018-2021) demonstrate methodological rigor in victimology and severe mental disorders. She employs Mokken scaling, item response theory, and Delphi consensus methods across diverse contexts including poly-victimization assessment, disability measurement in bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia instrument validation. Her work consistently bridges statistical methodology with clinical applications.

Guilera has supervised doctoral research on:

• Marcel Cortada Esteve (2017): Sequelae in premature infants
• Elizabeth Suárez Soto (2020): Poly-victimization and suicidal behavior in adolescents

She leads the PSICOINVEST teaching innovation project and serves as Principal Investigator for Estudi AMERRA (mathematical anxiety) and the STEPS project (child sexual abuse prevention).

She actively contributes to the Group on Measurement Invariance and Analysis of Change (GEIMAC) focusing on psychometric methodology, and the Child and Adolescent Victim Research Group (GReVIA) addressing victimization prevention and secondary trauma reduction in child protection systems.