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Pathological jealousy is a complex emotion and has been considered a potentially violent universal experience. They bring with them negative consequences for the person, the couple, or the rival, even to death. They are associated with anger, sadness, depression, anxiety, doubt, and infidelity. However, in recent reviews, not enough pathological jealousy measurement instruments have been developed to allow the development of new cross-cultural research. This study aimed to collect evidence of the validity of the internal structure both in terms of dimensionality and concurrence, as well as invariance between Mexico (n=257, 70.4% women) and Colombia (n=244, 59.4% women), and reliability of the CECLA scale. Confirmatory Factor Analysis corroborated the internal structure of the three original factors (passionate, obsessive, and delusional jealousy), including evidence of favorable invariance between the Mexican and Colombian samples. In addition, evidence of convergent validity was obtained, and satisfactory internal consistency indices. The results obtained indicated that the CECLA is a useful and recommendable instrument to evaluate pathological jealousy in the Mexican population.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the social skills of 37 children and adolescents in residential care, participants in the Collaborating Families program, from their own perspective and that of their 37 educators. Children perceived themselves to have greater social skills compared to the assessment of their educators, although the mean scores of both informants were at the community average. A better self-perception of social skills was related to greater social support from the collaborating families, as well as to greater life satisfaction. Based on these results, some practical implications for intervention in residential care and for the development of the family collaboration resource are discussed.

Objective: This study examined, through structural equation modeling, whether cognitive schemas influence health anxiety and whether it has an effect on mental health, particularly symptoms of anxiety and depression, in college students. Design: A study with a quantitative, ex post facto, non-experimental, explanatory level, and cross-sectional approach was carried out. Through a non-probabilistic sampling for convenience, 1004 undergraduate students from three universities were included. Results: It was possible to demonstrate, through a path analysis, that maladaptive schemes influence health anxiety and health anxiety affects the mental health of college students (CMIN/DF = 2.411; RMR = 0.036; GFI = 0.936; AGFI = 0.925; NFI = 0.918; CFI = 0.95; RMSEA = 0.038 [LO 90 = 0.036; HI 90 = 0.042]). The model showed that the insufficient self-control scheme has a strong effect on the fear of disease and fear of disease predicts the psychological symptoms of anxiety and depression. Conclusion: The model developed in the present study showed that health anxiety explains part of the psychological symptomatology in university students. Moreover, we were able to explain some of the health anxiety by appealing to two maladaptive schemes.

The quality of maternal care is one of the variables most related to child attachment and is, therefore, the target of many family interventions. The purpose of this study was to validate the Parental Responsiveness Quality (PRQ), a new observational measure that evaluates this variable. The analyses were performed on a sample of 50 participants. The internal structure was evaluated through an exploratory analysis (cluster analysis), which yielded five clusters. Four of them provided good reliability rates. Interjudge reliability was higher than .90 and the relationship with other variables, such as adult attachment style and parental stress, support the validity of their criteria. The PRQ measure promises to be a useful tool in the evaluation of the quality of parental responsiveness for parents with children between 1 and 6 years of age.

Self-determination is a necessary skill in the lives of people, with and without disabilities, that allows them to be the causal agent of their lives, thus contributing to improve their quality of life. Research on self-determination in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is still incipient. This paper aims to review the latest empirical studies that have carried out an intervention with the purpose of improving self-determination in young people with ASD. The search yielded six studies whose information was analyzed considering different variables. This review suggests promising results, despite the small number of studies. On the other hand, it is necessary to increase the number of studies in this field to obtain conclusive results.

This study aims to examine the suppression exerted by optimism on intolerance to uncertainty when it is related to purpose in life. To establish this possible suppression relationship, the well-known protecting role of optimism on mental health is taken as an initial reference. To approach this proposal, a cross-sectional study was conducted on college population to analyze the association between these variables. The study was done on a sample of 650 tertiary education students from different universities. Results show the suppressive effect of optimism on intolerance to uncertainty when its influence on purpose in life is examined. This variable is highly interesting for this population since it directs its efforts to the development of a well-defined life project. 

This article aims to analyze legal-international obligations, as well as their nature, for the parties to the armed conflict, international and non-international, in relation to the prohibition of food poisoning as a method and means of warfare. Armed conflicts lead to the most severe forms of famine of the civilian population, however, throughout the law of armed conflicts, an explicit prohibition of poisoning food as a method of warfare has not been found, which is why we have proposed to choose this research topic. The work is complemented with the analysis of the prohibition of food poisoning as a means of war and the possible attribution of international criminal responsibility for violation of the obligation that proscribes this practice that, although not being explicit or specific, is deduced from the conventional norms, customary and the principles of international humanitarian law.

The debate on the relationship between business and human rights has gradually grown in institutional and doctrinal terms, as well as the recognition that mechanisms to promote the social responsibility of these private actors are lacking. In this context, this study investigates the limits and possibilities of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of transnational pharmaceutical companies for the unequal access to essential medicines in the global South, a reality aggravated in pandemic contexts such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. To this end, it discusses the actors, factors and processes of global health governance and debates some CSR strategies in the light of those elements. Methodologically, the study makes a review of the specialized literature, document and primary data analysis and conducts a normative approach of the topic.

In 2022 the world has entered into a phase of geopolitical and geo-economic reconfiguration with the emergence of multipolar elements. The armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine is a military phase of a geopolitical standoff between the collective West, embodied mainly by the United States and NATO, and those for whom Western domination is not acceptable, epitomized in that case by Russia. But how did the world, after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and justified expectations of a peaceful future, find itself in a situation where the use of military force has become almost normal, at least until it is used against those Europeans who had chosen the “right side of history”? How and why, towards the end of history, the most important principles of international law became twisted and reinterpreted to such an extent that soon there may not be a last man left to contemplate this end? As history gives some hints about right as well as wrong ways of ending military confrontations, I will try to show in this essay how it all went wrong and what could be done about it.

This essay aims to discuss how international law can make sense, based on the current state of the art, in the face of future developments. What characteristics does it have to have to face the challenges posed by the emergence of the current postmodern, interdependent, multipolar and increasingly complex world context? What is new in the current international context is that, in addition to the individual level of action by States, be it unilateral, bilateral and multilateral, there is a growing area for the formation and development of common consensus. In this context, the opinio juris should no longer be understood as an individual opinion of one or certain States, but today as collective declarations, issued by the international community, as a whole or a substantial part of them.