Estudios sobre identidad nacional en el Perú y sus correlatos psicológicos, sociales y culturales

322 p.

Avances metodológicos para el análisis y la comprensión de la desventaja social femenina

[ESP]En las siguientes páginas pretendemos profundizar en el tratamiento dado a la cuestión del género en los análisis empíricos y teóricos referentes a la pobreza y la exclusión social. Para ello, justificaremos la pertinencia de incorporar la perspectiva de género al análisis de la desventaja social, analizando después las potencialidades y limitaciones de los diferentes enfoques sobre pobreza y exclusión social para estudiar el origen y las dimensiones de la desventaja social femenina. Por último, examinaremos bajo la óptica de género algunas estadísticas sobre pobreza y exclusión social, con el objetivo de mostrar los avances metodológicos presentes en algunas de ellas, y también las posibles líneas de mejora.

Religious Coping, Social Support and Subjective Severity as Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth in People Affected by the Earthquake in Chile on 27/2/2010

The aim of this research is to study the impact of religious coping, social support and subjective severity on Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) in people who lost their homes after the earthquake in Chile in 2010 and who now live in transitional shelters. One hundred sixteen adult men and women were evaluated using a subjective severity scale, the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) scale of social support and the Brief RCOPE scale of religious coping. The multiple linear regression analysis shows that social support and positive religious coping have an impact on PTG. On using a bootstrap estimate, it was found that positive religious coping fully mediates the relationship between subjective severity and PTG.

"Heroes" and "Villains" of World History across Cultures

Emergent properties of global political culture were examined using data from the World History Survey (WHS) involving 6,902 university students in 37 countries evaluating 40 figures from world history. Multidimensional scaling and factor analysis techniques found only limited forms of universality in evaluations across Western, Catholic/Orthodox, Muslim, and Asian country clusters. The highest consensus across cultures involved scientific innovators, with Einstein having the most positive evaluation overall. Peaceful humanitarians like Mother Theresa and Gandhi followed. There was much less cross-cultural consistency in the evaluation of negative figures, led by Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein. After more traditional empirical methods (e.g., factor analysis) failed to identify meaningful cross-cultural patterns, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was used to identify four global representational profiles: Secular and Religious Idealists were overwhelmingly prevalent in Christian countries, and Political Realists were common in Muslim and Asian countries. We discuss possible consequences and interpretations of these different representational profiles.

`In Wellbeing we Trust'. Factores culturales estructurales y psicosociales del bienestar

245 p.