Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

This research aims to identify the social representations of LGBT old age among the elderly population. A number of 100 people participated in the research; they were aged between 60 and 86 years (M = 66.9 years, SD = 6.8). Most participants were female (69%), married (40%), catholic (50%) and heterosexual (91.3%). Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Subsequently, the interviews were submitted to an analysis in the Iramuteq software by the Descending Hierarchical Classification method. It originated 4 classes of semantic approximation. Data obtained showed that the Social Representations of LGBT old age are mostly associated to negative stigma and prejudice. The purpose of this study is to contribute to a successful old age for this part of the population, based on a discussion that provides better understanding of what LGBT old age is, as well as encouraging other studies to guide professional practices for this group.  

The aim of this paper was to validate a scale to assess work engagement: a measure of a psychological aspect of the role that includes the attention, absorption and energy that the individual invests in his/her work tasks. Confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency estimation, and evidences of convergent and discriminant validity indicated that the Argentine Work Engagement Scale is a valid and reliable measure to be used in Argentinean population. Additionally, differences in work engagement levels were studied regarding individual and organizational variables. Higher levels of work engagement were found in younger individuals and in those who were in charge of personal. Lastly, some engagement profiles were found to be associated to higher performance and job satisfaction.  

Work passion is defined as a persistent state of desire based on both cognitive and affective appraisals of one´s job. According to Vallerand´s dualistic model there are two types of passion called as harmonious passion and obsessive passion. Given its novelty in the field of organizational psychology, the aim of the present study is to provide a systematic literature review of the work passion construct. Specialized bases were examined obtaining 61 scientific publications corresponding to the period 2003-2017. The analysis of the literature shows that both types of passion are associated with dissimilar results, as well as different contextual and dispositional antecedents. To date, there is only one scale available to measure the construct, which has been adapted to diverse cultural contexts. The article concludes with some suggestions for future research on the subject.  

This article discusses the behaviors of street children attending traffic lights in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The data collection consisted of 12 simple observations, each lasting 2 hours, aiming to collect information about the behavior of children at traffic lights. For material analysis, the Bardin Content Analysis strategy was used. From the results, the data were contrasted with theories that present analyzes about child development and the social vulnerability. It is noticed that, since intelligence is something that is also built, socially and economically, street children are at a disadvantage. Social vulnerability, coupled with an exclusion that is also affective, produces in children very specific ways of living linked to strategies for survival on the street.    

Systematic and naturalistic case studies offer an opportunity to understand processes that promote therapeutic change from the deep analysis of the therapist-patient interactions. Similarly, they provide help for understanding processes that do not achieved their therapeutic goals. The aim of this study is to integrate technical, therapeutic process variables and therapeutic alliance measures to understand a therapeutic process that resulted in premature discontinuation. Method: systematic and naturalistic case study conducted from a Tool for Evaluating Psychoanalytic Sessions (IASP), Therapeutic Cycles Model (TCM), Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (PQS) and Working Alliance Inventory - observational version (WAI-O). Results: It was found that the variables are not presented in a linear fashion, revealing the complexity of psychotherapy. It was found that the patient was unengaged with the therapeutic process and there was evidence of ruptures of the therapeutic alliance. Three sessions were not adhered to the psychoanalytic technique. Implications of the findings and limitations of the study are discussed.

Critical thinking is a relevant ability nowadays in higher education, but there is a lack of consensus on its definitions and assessment instruments. This article offers a conceptual and methodological review about the instruments used to measure critical thinking, in order to generate a discussion that allows a better understanding and appreciation of the aspects that are considered in this skill. The methodology consisted of a systematic review of studies in databases, selecting 31 studies out of 97 founded, and 8 of them for deep analysis; atopic content analysis in definitions and test characteristics is also used. Results show the existence of many differences in definitions and assessments of critical thinking, with a variety of tests and little consensus on the measured components. The need of an integrative model of Critical Thinking, considering cognitive, metacognitive and dispositional skills is discussed.

The objective of this work is to reflect the types of Fear, Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Academic Achievement (AA,) and the influence over each other, of students in the city of Ceuta. We focused on 1186 participants; 42.2% boys and 57.8% girls; of which 58.9% are Muslims and 41.1% Christians. The techniques used are the FSSC-II, adapted by Ascensio, et al. (2012), the Matesanz (2006) adaptation of FSS, a similar adaptation of Mayer et al. (2009) MSCEIT, as well as the student’s grades. The results show medium levels of Fear and AA and medium to high of EI. These are influenced by age, gender, customs/religion and socioeconomic and cultural status. We found a relationship between EI and AA, which increases when EI levels are higher. We have also found a negative relationship between Fear and EI and between Fear and AA.

Worldwide students from low socioeconomic status (SES) have been shown to present an academic disadvantage with respect to their mathematical abilities. In order to approach this problem, details of the characteristics in different school levels, students of different sex and different mathematical subskills are needed. To our knowledge, few studies have explored the interaction of these factors in the same sample of participants. Therefore, we aim to analyse the influence of SES and sex on the addition, subtraction and multiplication math facts (MF) skills of a sample of 619 primary school students from year 2 to 6. Besides confirming the socioeconomic disadvantage in all school years and in students of both sexes, our results reveal a higher performance of boys over girls only in medium to higher SES and in multiplication MF. Future research is needed to investigate this unexpected result.

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the social representations of the elderly about family. A qualitative research was conducted, guided by the Theory of Social Representations. Participants were 14 elderly retired people, aged 65-86 years and residents in the western region of São Paulo, Brazil. Data were collected using a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed by the Descending Hierarchical Classification, with support of IRAMUTEQ software, and posteriorly with the Content Analysis Technique. Two themes have been identified from the participants’ discourse: family education and losses (departure of sons, and changes and death). It was considered that the role of the elderly within the family context depends on the sense they have of the aging process itself. In active and autonomous old age the family needs to be protected and educated. In fragilized elderly the sense of family is related to losses.

This study aimed to investigate associations between vocational interests, personality traits and work values. 281 students participated, with a mean age of 23.97, from business administration, psychology, philosophy and theology, of the state of São Paulo. Three instruments (Scale Work Values Assessment, Search Quiz Self-Addressed and Battery Personality Factor) were use. The results indicated that the social responsibility and management factors explained the interests Realistic, Social, Conventional and Artistic, with an explained variance between 2% and 18%. With respect to personality traits as predictors of working values, results showed values between 9% and 33%, with ‘Competence’ as the most present facet in the models. The results are discussed according to the literature.