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From the perspective of positive psychology, the study and measurement of subjective well-being has popularized a growing interest towards variables such as affective perception. In an attempt to explain and evaluate the affective structure in positive terms (PA) and negative terms (NA), PANASN affect scale (Sandín, 2003) constitutes the version adapted for children and teenagers of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988). Opposite to the confirmatory study made in teenagers by Sandín (2003), this paper proceeds to analyse the internal structure and reliability of the above-mentioned questionnaire after being administered to 636 students aged between 6 and 14 years. An instrumental type of research methodology was carried out. The instrument used was the Positive and Negative Affect Scale for Children and Adolescents (PANASN). While confirmatory and exploratory analysis show an appropriate adjustment, these properties tend to fade when three or four factors are considered. In response to this, we reflect on the need to consider certain aspects of improvement in content and form, which are essential if we want to use said instrument with primary education students.

Road safety training programs are commonly used to raise awareness of risky attitudes and behaviors. The evaluation of road safety education courses aimed at children is carried out with some assiduity. However, this does not usually occur in courses aimed at young people and adults. The present systematic review aims to identify studies that evaluate the effectiveness of road safety training programs in this population group. This systematic review followed the PRISMA methodology, by which the relevant articles based on the research term were identified. A total number of 1,336 indexed articles were filtered, and a final selection of 22 articles directly addressing the issue was obtained. Search strategies were developed and conducted in WOS, Scopus, NCBI, Google Scholar and APA databases. The selected articles indicate that the effects of road safety training programs in adults are mild to moderate. Their effectiveness is substantially increased when they are aimed at improving risk perception and decision making rather than training in driving skills. In any case, more evaluations of these courses are needed to identify which tools are effective and which should be replaced by new behavior modification methods in the design of future driver education programs.

Students’ identification with schools or universities predicts many positive aspects such as cooperation and completion of studies. Two hundred and eleven Italian students and 226 U.S. students wrote responses to open-ended questions about a time that they either felt connected (identified) or disconnected to (not identified) with their university. In Italy, students prompted to identify with the university mainly focused their descriptions on didactical aspects such as academic training experiences. Italian students prompted not to identify with the university mainly described their experiences with the university’s organizational and administrative aspects. U.S. students prompted to identify or not with the university mainly focused on the social aspects of their university experience such as their involvement with fraternities and sororities. In both nations, students rarely mentioned instrumental aspects of their university experience such as the evaluation of how much the university matters for professional training. These qualitative results help to fully understand the contents of the experience of university students. Understanding students’ identification can be vital in order to improve the quality of university teaching and to support professors in developing their roles.

The Pampa Blanca hacienda in the Tambo valley arose in the mid-19th century, when the farm of the same name was acquired by Juan Guillermo Lira, beginning the history of this hacienda, later passing the property to his son Víctor F. Lira, the philanthropist, who will modify its position in one of the most important in Arequipa. The Pampa Blanca farm was part of the old Chucarapi hacienda, whose origins date back to the 17th century. This study aims to make known the geographical aspect of the Tambo river and valley, the presence of the Lira family in this valley and in the city of Arequipa, the historical process of the formation of the Pampa Blanca hacienda and the extension owned by the He mentioned family, production and relations with workers, and the agro-industrial economic enclave that was established in this part of the Tambo Valley until its decline with the agrarian reform of the government of General Velazco Alvarado.

This article describes the inka army, through the analysis of weapons, tactical organization, and command; thus, the objective of finding interrelations between inka warfare, social organization, and power. So, this is how through an explanation about the use and importance of the armament, we go to determine the order of the tactical formations based on the society configuration in ayllus and their space ideal distribution, so we can finally interpret the leadership of this organization, so that way establish a tight relation with the power structure, not only about the warfare but also about the religion and the administration. This allow us to understand social tension and conflict for the power, that were produced into the inka society at the beginning and at the end of a conquest campaign, and approximated to the use of the inka’s llaqtas as military centers related to the panakas or linages and their importance inside the power and succession conflicts. This analysis allows us to rethink some premises of the actual historiography about a supposed decimal and dual organization of the army, nevertheless that both the military and social structure conditioned a unique command that inside the Andean world possibly constituted a unique and decisive advantage and characteristic of the inka army.

The main objective of this work is to rescue the figure of Ramiro Perez Reinoso (1901-1994), Peruvian intellectual born in the “captive Arica”, but tacneño of roots, very little studied in spite of his relevance as historical figure as much for Peru as for Chile. For this case his first writings will be studied (1918 - 1928), where his initial ideological and theoretical influences will be analyzed, which will mutate as the decade of the twenties advances and with it all the historical evolution that awaited Peru, Tacna, Arica and his own life full of comings and goings between Chile and his native country. Specifically, we seek to analyze his first appreciations on the American thinkers of his time, his philosophical and political conceptions, and his epochal interpretation of the events occurring in post-war Peru.

Sebastián Sors es una de las figuras eclesiásticas más importantes de la historia de Tacna. Según consta la copia de su partida de bautismo, Sors tuvo su admisión al cristianismo el 24 de septiembre de 1811, rito que fue celebrado en Centellas, en lo que hoy es la actual Cataluña, en España (AOTM, Libro de entierros de Tacna 1874-1879, inserto).

The Philosophy of History has raised the study of the final end of time as a recurring theme. Humanity has considered various ways of understanding this end, however, no category of study has generated greater interest than the analysis of decadence, since everything tends to fall sooner or later, including humanity itself.

ADORO   Adoro cuando hablas dulce melodía adoro si es que callas me prendo en tu mirada adoro si caminas mi mundo se acelera adoro si estas quieta como mar en calma ...