Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Archaeological and Investigations works in The Plaza Mayor in Guadalajara were initiated by the underground car park project in 2008 with the following impact of the Historical and Archaeological Heritage located in the town. During this period we had significant Archaeological finding related to Medieval, Modern and Contemporary historical period. The following article is related to Andalusi human remains and, specifically, in the analysis of the form, type and decoration of the pottery exhumed in the hole number 2/14 and the hole number 30.

En este trabajo presentamos el hallazgo de un alfar en el área suburbana de la ciudad romana, retirado del barrio alfarero y localizado en las inmediaciones de una vía que llevaba hasta las explotaciones mineras de la sierra. Se analizará el contexto arqueológico del entorno para tratar de determinar el motivo de su emplazamiento, y nos detendremos en el horno mejor conservado del conjunto, que posee unas características muy interesantes en relación con este tipo de estructuras productivas.

El autor estudia las fuentes clásicas y llega a la conclusión de que diversas actuaciones de Adriano al comienzo de su reinado: la retirada de Mesopotamia y Armenia, la muerte de los cuatro consulares, la demolición del puente en Dobreta, etc. pueden ser consideradas como actos premeditados para minimizar algunos de los logros más gloriosos del Optimus Princeps.

Aim: To present a youth participatory action-research program developed in Portugal - Dream Teens project, focused on promoting social participation and active citizenship, alongside with its impacts. Methodology: In total, Dream Teens brought together 147 participants (girls=66.66%; boys=33.33%). Five studies were conducted to assess its impact: (i) pre and post test assessment of action-research skills among participants (feelings and action-oriented competencies, interpesonal skills, problem solving skills, humanitarianism and feelings towards life); (ii) analysis of the most and least prioritized themes of the program, organized in 4 different levels (cognitive, emotional, behavioral and relational); (iii) interpretation of the project’s results by core group of participants (iv) interpretation of the project's results by stakeholders; (v) action-research projects implemented by core group within their community. A multi-method and multiparticipant approach was used, using quantitative analysis software (SPSS) and qualitative analysis (NVIVO), depending on the nature of the data. Results: Although in the pre and post-test there are no statistically significant differences in any action-research skill, there is a perception of overall improvement by young people. The most prioritized themes are associated to the cognitive and relational levels (in what society and friends are concerned, respectively); and the least prioritized is the cognitive level but only for school-related topics. When interpreting the results, participants report positive impacts on personal development, actions, feelings of social support and relationships. In turn, stakeholders clarify that the absence of statistically significant impacts is common in programs that aim to promote competencies, that school is not the main concern of this generation, and that bureaucracies in accessing institutions are due to their difficulty in self-reforming. Two main projects and a conference emerged from the core group's work. Conclusions: results suggest that participatory research programs with young people can constitute important resources to promote the positive development of this population.

Humans are social animals, and crave feeling supported, valued and connected. Research shows that social connection provides important benefits to mental health and positive human development. The aim of this study was to explore how social connection helps promote mental health and positive human development and report the associations with the PYD construct of connection with different dimensions of mental health (e.g. self-regulation, resilience, anxiety, aggressiveness and worries), life satisfaction and academic performance in a large sample of Portuguese students. The HBSC/JUnP data base comprises a representative sample of 2991 college students (n=2203; 73.7% women) and their age ranged from 18 to 35 years old (22.43±3.83). Participants’ socio-demographic characteristics included sex, age and academic degree; besides participants were inquired about the PYD construct of connection and its subdimensions (family, university, neighbourhood, peers), mental health (namely self-regulation, resilience, anxiety, aggressiveness, worries), life satisfaction and academic performance. Results showed that all variables had mostly significantly correlational associations. Specifically, the linear regression model evidenced that the promotion of self-regulation and resilience, along with the reduction of anxiety and worries, can be relevant for improving social connections (PYD Connection).

This article aims to understand and characterize the impact of factors of mental health and interpersonal relationships on physical and psychological symptoms in adolescents. It includes 8215 students, of which 4327 are girls (52.7%), with an average age of 14.36 years (SD=2.28) that participate in the study Health Behavior in School aged Children/HBSC. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA analysis and logistic regressions were performed for two dependent variables in study – psychological symptoms and physical symptoms. In general, girls show values in relation to physical and psychological symptoms, anxiety/stress and depression that are less positive when compared to boys. Older adolescents show values that are less positive in the same variables, except for anxiety/stress, which presents higher values in younger adolescents. Girls and older adolescents have lower positive values with regard to relationships with family, teachers and colleagues, than boys and younger adolescents. The female gender, higher values of depression followed by less support from the family contribute strongly to the explanation of psychological and physical symptoms. It is possible to verify that the variance explained by gender and by depression is higher in the case of psychological symptoms when compared to physical symptoms, and that the variance explained by family relationship is higher in the case of physical symptoms when compared with psychological symptoms. This study identifies a positive relationship between mental health (less physical and psychological symptoms, lower depression and lower anxiety) and more positive relationships with family, colleagues and teachers, as well as gender and age specificities. These results have important implications in terms of public policies for the family and the school contexts.

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La reflexión elaborada en este libro se apoya en una tesis doctoral que analizó la política territorial ejercida en Andalucía en las últimas dos décadas, integrando tanto el último periodo alcista inmobiliario como los años de la crisis sistémica ocasionada por su imprevisto derrumbe en 2008.

Bullying and victimization pose a serious risk for youth optimal development due to numerous negative short- and long-term consequences. One of the models with a focus on adolescents that can serve as a theoretical framework in designing prevention and intervention programmes targeting bullying and victimization is Positive Youth Development Perspective. The Positive Youth Development perspective assumes that with the positive interplay between developmental assets (internal and external youth resources) and the 5Cs (competence, confidence, character, caring, connection) the probability of bullying and victimization lowers. In the present study, we have investigated the predictive power of developmental assets and the 5Cs for bullying (verbal and social bullying) and victimization (verbal and social victimization) on a sample of older adolescents and emerging adults (N = 434, 80.9% girls, Mage = 21.65). We used The Developmental Assets Profile (Benson, 2003), PYD questionnaire (Geldhof et al., 2014) and Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument: Bully/Target (APRI-BT, Marsh et al., 2011). The findings show that gender, age, and Caring are significant predictors of verbal bullying while age, Empowerment, and Caring are significant predictors of social bullying. Furthermore, gender, age, Constructive use of time, Confidence and Connection are significant predictors of verbal victimization and age, Empowerment, Constructive use of time, Confidence, and Connection are significant predictors of social victimization. The implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Youth risk behaviors have both personal and societal consequences and can also have grave economic cost if not addressed effectively. Positive Youth Development (PYD) as a theoretical framework proposes that facilitating developmental assets (i.e., internal and external assets, such as positive values and social support) among young people would lead to positive outcomes as well as a possible reduction in negative outcomes. The empirical evidence supporting these assertions mostly come from studies involving American samples. In the present study, we examine whether the experience of more developmental assets is associated with less engagement in three risk behaviors: drunkenness, violence and crime among 591 Norwegian students (55% girls), mean age 16.70 (SD = .90). Our results indicate that while several significant correlations were observed between developmental assets and risk behaviors, only two internal assets: positive values and social competence, and two external assets: support and boundaries and expectations were significant predictors of a risk behavior in multivariate regression analysis. Although these positive findings have some implications for intervention and youth policy, more research is needed to ascertain the short- and long-term protective effects of the developmental assets on risk behaviors among Norwegian youth.