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

During 2020, the federal government promoted a policy of containment of economic activity, with the purpose of containing the spread of COVID-19 in the Mexican Republic. This measure of economic containment caused levels of unemployment rarely seen. During the months of March to July 2020 (period of greatest economic mitigation), in a national scale 1 million 117 thousand 584 unemployed women and men were registered in the formal labor market, who had a “permanent” or temporary employment contract. registered with the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). In this national environment, the objective of this work is to analyze the formal employment losses registered in Mexico, during the period from March to July 2020, highlighting the total number of unemployment generated by type of employment contract and by sex. To achieve this purpose, in methodological terms, the statistical information provided monthly by the IMSS was processed and analyzed based on the socio-demographic conception of job instability (defined as the lack of continuity in work relationships or suppression of the employment contract). According to the analysis of said information, among the main results, it is observed that job losses are different on a national scale, by type of employment contract, as well as by period and intra-period and, according to sex. Greater labor instability is observed as a result of the massive dismissal of workers who mainly had permanent contracts and to a lesser extent temporary contracts, mainly affecting men.

People experience biological, psychological, and social changes in a relatively short period of time in their lives called adolescence. Among the most significant events that can occur at this stage of life is pregnancy, which is considered by the world organizations as a health problem with various psychological, economic, social, and cultural implications. Another frequent problem with serious con1sequences is sexually transmitted infections, all of which conditions the risk of early mortality or permanent disea2ses of great importance. In the present work, we will basically try to answer the question about the motivations and implications of adolescent pregnancy with the aim of reaching a wider knowledge about the mentioned problem, to increase the possibilities of improving the health and the well-being of the important segment of the population that constitutes adolescents.

This article starts by briefly recalling the essential features of the biographical approach, the associated paradigm of the life course, and the origins of the Ageven form, a tool developed in the 1980s as part of the retrospective studies and demographic analysis of biographies. Next, we present a new version of this tool for its use in qualitative analysis, involving the individual, family, and contextual levels of observation, and including the identification of sequences in the life stories, based on the biographical turning points. In this way, the Ageven form can be converted into a tool for simultaneously representing and analyzing a wide range of qualitative biographical data. It is illustrated with the example of adolescent maternity in Mexico.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of El Salvador carried out its educational activities in virtual mode. This article aims to learn about the experience of fourth-year students of the Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, who during cycle II of the year 2021, studied the subject Diagnosis and Psychotherapy of Minor Psychological Alterations II, through a virtual modality. The methodology used was qualitative of an exploratory type with a phenomenological approach. The narrative technique was used. An open questionnaire was developed that explores the dimensions of the students’ experience, advantages and disadvantages related to the virtual, as well as professional goals. The data collection method was the online survey. For the analysis, the information was coded taking into consideration the dimensions of interest. The result obtained shows that in the experience of the subject positive aspects predominate in general, considering it in general as: satisfactory, good, excellent, extensive, interesting, enriching, gratifying, profitable, and enjoyable. Among the advantages that were identified, the following stands out: promotion of autonomy, responsibility, self-taught training together with saving money and time, development of new skills for managing platforms; as disadvantages are, failures in the internet connection, interference from family members, housework, lack of interest and isolation. Career goals are to graduate and earn a graduate degree.

Each activity that is carried out in daily life, requires in most cases, a reflection of the possible consequences that will have to be faced. Of course, when comparing these results with the phenomena that is observed on a day-to-day basis, it will be necessary to have a large amount of data to help us generate information, which will ultimately serve to make the best decisions. Making these interpretations requires being in permanent contact with world events: economic, social, and cultural. In addition, it will be necessary to know about the different technological elements (for example, software and hardware) that are freely available to the majority of our population; It is of vital importance that the National Autonomous University of Honduras assumes the leadership in terms of the management of statistics and all those technological elements that allow the visualization of data, especially at this time when the country, after the pandemic, needs to return to the path of development.

Possibilities that arise with social change, are reproduced in an adjacent manner, with the necessity to find scena1rios that make life possible in a dignified way. Specially, in vulnerable communities; in situations of high risk and objective and subjective conditions, which are produced by adversities and contradictions in contexts. There are many academic efforts, to generalize and/or systematize the experiences, through theoretical and methodological frameworks, which emerge from the conceptions con2tained on the investigation paradigms, which are set on the purpose of understanding and comprehending reality. The objective of this article is to briefly expose the Theory of Change, as an alternative way of thinking, but at the same time as a praxis to establish transformations. The content of this proposal is developed from an analysis of the dimensions of social change, through transformation scenarios that led women of rural communities Langue, Valle, Honduras, to achieve autonomy and management. Achieving a better world is again an utopia, but it is also an assumption that, through social transformations, revolts reality so that a possible, inclusive world is born, with equi3ty and new social relationships; in a socio-historical mo4ment, where the current development model, is putting the sustainability of life at risk.

This study aims to analyze the effects of perceived discrimination on the mental health of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGTB+) population of the Central District (M.D.C.) of Honduras. Mental health dimensions include indicators of depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. This was done through a quantitative, cross-sectional, non-experimental approach. The study involved 437 people who identified themselves as members of the LGBT+ population living in the Central District of Honduras. The results indicate a high prevalence of symptoms of depression and anxiety among study participants. Perceived discrimination significantly increases symptoms of depression and anxiety while decreasing the life satisfaction and self-esteem of the surveyed population. People who openly express their sexual orientation and/or gender identity tend to report increased discrimination and anxiety. However, symptoms of depression, life satisfaction, and self-esteem show no significant variation between the two groups. On the other hand, according to self-reported social class, there are statistically significant differences in all mental health indicators. So, participants who consider themselves to be of low social class have the highest scores for discrimination, depression, and anxiety. At the same time, this group reports the lowest life satisfaction and self-esteem levels. It is concluded that discrimination significantly harms the mental health of the LGBT+ population.

The effects of economic restructuring policies, as a consequence of the current development model, oriented to the free market, have a greater impact on certain sectors of the population, so, the access and use of human capital, social capital, and physical assets, is related to demographic aspects of the population; therefore, there are limitations in managing external situations caused by the economic environment. This article aims to characterize the differences in the sociodemographic vulnerability condition for household heads in the Central Region of Mexico, 2015; it is intended to integrate into the analysis of the heterogeneities present in this condition demographic traits such as: female heads of household, adolescents and the elderly; through an Analysis of Latent Classes. After the selection of the model with the optimum of latent classes, three patterns of vulnerability present in the heads of households of the Central Region of Mexico, 2015 were generated; one associated with high vulnerability characterized by deficiencies in the dimensions of social and physical assets; another pattern related to medium vulnerability, which was distinguished by deficiencies in human assets; and one more, associated with non-vulnerability. In this way, it was possible to evidence the divergences present in this condition, through the differences in the probabilities of belonging to the vulnerability patterns of the household heads.