Dr. Jaime Eduardo Barrientos Delgado

  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  • Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

Professional Experience

– Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

– Visiting professor at the Depto de Antropología Social y Psicología Social, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Expertise and Research Interests

He is a pioneer in LGBT research in Chile. His research focuses on homophobic violence, the impact of prejudice, and discrimination on the mental health of gays men and lesbians. Also,
he has conducted research about MSM and MtF in Chile. He has adapted and validated different measures about homophobic violence in Chile. He belongs to the editorial boards of numerous Latin American research journals in Psychology and sexuality and is the author or co-author of numerous peer-review research articles in LGBT issues.

His last project are: Adult attachment, internalized homophobia and quality of the relationship in same-sex couples (associate researcher); Development of a Comprehensive Model of Psychotherapy with LGBT Patients: Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Patients and Psychotherapists (associate researcher); Psychological violence applied to subjection orexclusion: analysis, evaluation and explanatory models (associate researcher); Minority stress: Stigma and sexual prejudice effects on the subjective well-being and mental health of Chilean transgender population (main researcher) and, The problem of naming: curriculum, knowledge and construction of difference in Chilean schools (associate researcher).

Selected Publications

Longares, L., Escartín, J., Barrientos, J., & Rodríguez-Carballeira, A. (in press). Insecure Attachment and Perpetration of Psychological Abuse in Same-Sex Couples: A Relationship Moderated by Outness. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-018-0363-8
Barrientos, J.; Escartín, J.; Longares L., & Rodriguez-Carballeira, A. (in press). Sociodemographic characteristics of gay and lesbian victims of intimate partner psychological abuse in Spain and Latin America. Revista de psicología Social. 33:2, 240-274, DOI: 10.1080/02134748.2018.1446393
Cárdenas, M.; Barrientos, J.; Meyer, I.; Gómez, F.; Guzmán, M., Bahamondes, J. (2018). Direct and indirect effects of perceived stigma on posttraumatic growth in a sample of gay men and lesbians in Chile. Journal of Traumatic Stress, DOI: 10.1002/jts.22256.
Echagüe, C., & Barrientos, J. (2018). El Baile de las que sobran. El ocaso resplandor de la violencia homofóbica en un liceo público chileno. [“The dance of those who are left over”: In the Sunset of Homophobic Violence in a Chilean Public High School Interrogating Homophobic Violence in a Public High School in Northern Chile]. FQS. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 19, 13.
Barrientos, J., Gómez, F., Cárdenas, M., Gúzman, M., &, Bahamondes, J. (2017). Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile. [Health and wellbeing of sexual Minorities]. Revista Médica de Chile, 145, 9, 1115-1121. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0034-98872017000901115 .
Cárdenas, M.; Barrientos, J., & Gómez, F. (2017). Determinants of heterosexual men’s attitudes toward gay men and lesbians in Chile. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, DOI: 10.1080/19359705.2017.1418467

He recently wrote a book entitled: Violencia Homofóbica en América Latina y Chile [Homophobic Violence in Latin América and Chile]. El Buen Aire: Santiago (2015).