RT Journal Article T1 Analysis of the Beliefs About Critical Competence in a Sample of Psychosocial and Socio-Educational Intervention Professionals in Master’s Degree Training A1 García Moro, Francisco José A1 Gómez Baya, Diego AB Critical thinking is a skill of great importance in our current and future society.Its value goes beyond all theoretical doubt although it requires more practical development,especially in terms of coordinated and evidence-based approaches. In addition, the ethicalfoundation must permeate the entire critical process, indicating what to criticize, forwhat, why, how, and when, elements that should not be left to improvisation or whatis traditionally done. The aim of this research was to describe the ethical connotationsthat come together in the critical process. To this end, we focused on a group case studyof undergraduate and graduate students of Psychosocial and Socio-educational studiesin Spain, collecting information with instruments built ad hoc. The results show littlepractical awareness of the weight of ethics in critical decisions, producing a change inorientation regarding educational training to improve decision-making based on criticalthinking and ethics. PB MDPI SN 2079-3200 (electrónico) YR 2025 FD 2025-03 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25217 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25217 LA eng NO García-Moro, F. J., & Gómez-Baya, D. (2025). Analysis of the Beliefs About Critical Competence in a Sample of Psychosocial and Socio-Educational Intervention Professionals in Master’s Degree Training. In Journal of Intelligence (Vol. 13, Issue 3, p. 39). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence13030039 NO This research and the APC were funded by Excellence Project of the Consejeria de Universidad,Investigacion e Innovacion of Junta de Andalucia (Spain), entitled Positive Youth Developmentin Andalusian University Students: Longitudinal Analysis of Gender Differences in Well-BeingTrajectories, Health-Related Lifestyles and Social and Environmental Contribution, grant numberPROYEXCEL_00303, awarded to the second author. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 1 jun 2026