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  Introduction:  A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study was carried out with a non-equivalent control group with the objective of verifying that after the application of the programme the students improve their socioemotional competence.   Method:  The work was carried out on a sample of 346 subjects, 173 students and 173 families from four schools in the Region of Murcia participated. The annual Emotional Intelligence Programme "EMOTI "1 (Hurtado and Salas, 2019) was applied, as well as a questionnaire for students on social competence and another for families on school coexistence. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS statistical package (version 25.0).   Results: The results show that students in the experimental group showed less aggressive behaviour, greater social competence and better ability to express and regulate their emotions, which led to an improvement in school coexistence.   Discussion or Conclusion:. With these findings, our research could provide an innovative vision in the field of emotional intelligence in terms of improving social competence and school coexistence in Early Childhood Education students.

El uso problemático del smartphone se ha convertido en un problema a nivel global con amplias repercusiones en el ámbito educativo. El presente meta-análisis estudia la relación entre el uso problemático del smartphone y la procrastinación en estudiantes. La búsqueda bibliográfica se realizó en las bases de datos Web of Science, PsycInfo y Scopus, obteniendo un total de 18 artículos que cumplían los criterios de inclusión con una muestra total de 8,679 participantes. Los resultados confirman una relación positiva de intensidad moderada entre el uso problemático del smartphone y la procrastinación en estudiantes (Zr = 0.40). Los posibles efectos moderadores del sexo, la edad y el nivel educativo de los participantes fueron analizados. Se indica la necesidad de implantar programas para prevenir el uso problemático del smartphone en estudiantes y de continuar investigando la relación entre las dos variables, especialmente mediante estudios de tipo longitudinal.

Introduction.  Numerous studies prove the importance of emotional intelligence in promoting emotional regulation, self-knowledge, empathy and the ability to develop strong social relationships.  Some of them highlight the fundamental role of emotional vocabulary, being the good development of this a key factor to name, interpret and regulate our emotions correctly.  Method.  This study focused on knowing the differences in written expression of short-term emotional vocabulary according to age and gender, in a sample of high school students between 12 and 16 years old, with a total of 442 participants, belonging to the region of Lleida, Spain.    Results. The results showed that there was a significant increase in the number of negative words as age increased, as well as a significant decrease in ambiguous words.  Differences were also detected in the expression of emotions according to gender, with girls reporting a greater number of both positive and negative words.    Discussion and Conclusion.  In conclusion, this study proves that there are differences in the expression of emotional vocabulary according to the age and gender of students.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the epistemological bases of the Juche ideology as the axis of the foreign policy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to achieve international autonomy. This theoretical-practical proposal has unique characteristics and emerges as an alternative to the knowledge produced from the West. It was established in a period dominated by the Cold War bipolar logic and gave support to the regime of Kim Il Sung, becoming today the main axis of foreign policy. We will approach how the idea of international autonomy is stressed by the notion of power and domination in the terms of Michel Foucault, addressing the development of this ideology, the main aspects of Juche and its implications for international studies.

Japan has been a proactive contributor to development cooperation, ranking among the top five OECD donors worldwide. Latin America and the Caribbean have been traditional recipients of Japan’s ODA due to their long-standing relationship. However, the U.S. interests, and recently, the rise of China, have influenced Japan’s aid to the region. This paper aims to study how the influence of foreign interests, especially those of the U.S., and the rise of China as a nontraditional donor has challenged Japan’s ODA to Latin America and the Caribbean during the 21st century. Since this is hermeneutical research, the analyzed documents were selected based on impact criteria, and the contents were grouped following a chronological evolution. The findings unveil that even though Japan’s ODA has been influenced, at some periods, by pre-established U.S. guidelines, in other cases, it has relied on different reinterpretations to those suggested by the U.S. This dynamic turns into a set of ideas and concepts that, despite seeming unrelated, have Japan’s national interests as the fundamental principle and translate into diverse strategies of Japan’s ODA to the region. Japan’s approaches to global and regional contexts bring a strategic debate on how the elements that characterize its ODA were adapted to the needs in the period under study. This debate is still unfolding and allows Japan’s ODA not to lose its identity. Thus, even though China has taken the lead in some developmental initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, the core elements of Japan’s ODA remain valid.

Frecuentemente, personas migrantes llegan a un lugar y pasan años, incluso sus vidas enteras, viviendo allí. Trabajan, socializan y se arraigan sin necesariamente adquirir la nacionalidad del nuevo país. Algunos de ellos pueden ser incluso migrantes irregulares en cuanto a estatus legal refiere, pero comparten la vida cotidiana, la cultura y la mentalidad de con otros ciudadanos comunes. Aun así, podrían ser objeto de expulsión, encontrándose devueltos a un país que se ha convertido en tierra extraña para ellos, independientemente de lo que cuente su certificado de nacimiento.Recientemente, la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Argentina decidió expulsar a decenas de migrantes que no habían cometido ningún crimen grave sino por su condición migratoria irregular. Este trabajo se pregunta entonces si el derecho transnacional presenta una oportunidad para reformular el derecho migratorio argentino generando un “derecho al arraigo” que impida la expulsión de estos migrantes de larga trayectoria. Para tal efecto, el trabajo comienza delineando las principales fuentes jurídicas utilizadas en Argentina. La segunda sección continúa analizando fuentes secundarias del régimen internacional de derechos humanos. La tercera y última sección concluye que existen varios elementos que permiten afirmar la existencia de dicho criterio para el caso argentino.

The explanations on the determinants of democratic attitudes often assume that people have prior experiences with democratic regimes. Haiti has been historically characterized by political, social and economic instability, even after the process of demo­cratic transition that began in 1986 and despite the continuous foreign interventions and humanitarian aid. Based on LAPOP poll results between 2006 and 2017, we test three hypotheses that the evaluation of the regime performance, trust in government institutions and the economic assessment significantly affect the presence of democratic attitudes in three dimensions, preference for a democratic regime, justification of the closing of the legisla­ture by the executive and political tolerance, differently in Haiti than elsewhere in Latin America. With Ordinary Least Square (OLS) models, we find that the determinants of democratic atti­tudes show some particularities for the case of Haiti, but also for other countries in the region.

The article analyses the preference formation of Brazilian legislators in the deliberation of international agreements, through a case study about the Protocol of Accession of Venezuela to Mercosur. We hypothesize that the motivation of Brazilian congresspeople (and of the government itself) are based on immediate interests rather than long term ones. The aim is to contribute with the debate about the role of the National Congress in the decision-making process of foreign policy, verifying that the Legislative seeks to have larger participation in this topic, as an instrument to redistribute the powers at the domestic level.

The place that the Argentine sovereignty claim over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and their adjacent mari­time territories has in defense policy of Argentina has not been studied by defense studies of that country. This article takes up the main theoretical contributions of the literature on defense linked to the strategic and international dimension and establi­shes as a central argument that only since 2019 the "Malvinas Question" has been a factor that strongly influenced the planning and design of the country's national defense. After carrying out an empirical analysis on indicators linked to military doctrine, strategic planning, and military deployment; The work conclu­des that after the Malvinas War, only from 2019 it is possible to observe a concrete change in the Argentine defense policy regarding the inclusion of the concern for the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands.

Informed by qualitative evidence obtained from interviews with Moroccan farm workers in Italy, the article argues that the itineraries and the process of legalization of immigrants show that the agricultural sector can be conceived as a “Refuge Sector”. As it stands, the agricultural sector is where migrants can find a job and stabilize their situation in order to calculate their possibilities to obtain a legal status. Also, the results show that the type of permits owned by migrants do not reflect their legal situations but are the product of an opportunity they have been able to catch.