vol. 11 núm. 1 (2015)

This paper focuses on fears experienced by the dwellers of the city and the conceptual structure shared on the situations that currently are feared. The results of 130 semi-structured interviews aimed at identifying the most common fears of men and women associated with the city and the conceptual structure underlying these fears are analyzed. The results were analyzed trough a Multidimensional Scaling, which identified the conceptual fear structure of participants to different situations. Actions in an attempt to reduce the perception of insecurity in the city are proposed.

This qualitative research addressed the processes of integral attention to the problems of family life, in the Family Commissioner in Cali, taking into account the perspective of alternative conflict resolution models. The Commissioner has a defined protocol for the attention of cases, in addition to a route of attention. According to annual reports of work, in the period between 2007 and 2011, the care of 39.189 people registered, being most frequent complaints it by family violence; in addition, cases of food, custody and visits by minors are received. The Commissioner prescribes conciliatory and interim protective measures which seeks to ensure the family life.

The following article aims to present the psychological meanings that are built around legal psychology, by psychologists, lawyers and students of psychology. Natural Semantic Networks were used to collect and process data. It was found that the words associated to the expression “Legal Psychology” are consistent with the traditional definitions; that the definers used by each group are close together, that the hierarchical organization each group assigns to the definer is different, and that the predominance is to relate legal psychology to the practice of forensic psychology.

This article results from the reflection on experience as coordinators in developing the “Familias con Bienestar” (Families with Well-being) program, sponsored by the Colombian Institute of Family Well-being, where the home visit is used as a device for the construction of change and as an intervention tool oriented to an inclusive discursive, reflective and mobilizing practice that leads to transformations in the family system, in itself as a possibility for social development, for promoting behavioral solidarity, empowerment and selfmanagement as a requirement for mental and emotional health, including a systemic constructionist approach on the stage of psychosocial care for purposes of prevention of domestic violence, sexual and community.

College students are a risk group for anxiety for their psychological, social and academic demands, and high stress. In order to determine the prevalence of anxiety in students from a private university in Medellin and its association with socio-demographic and academics, a prevalence study with 200 students selected using stratified probability sampling was carried out. The anxiety screening was performed with the Zung scale. We assessed the reliability of the scale with Cronbach’s α, the analysis was performed using summary measures, frequencies, Mann Whitney’s U and chi square in SPSS 21®. The prevalence of anxiety was 58 %. The Zung scale showed excellent reliability with Cronbach’s α of 0.8. The prevalence of anxiety presented a statistically equal distribution by sex and age group, no association was found with the training cycle, academic program, age, credits or occupation. Anxiety was statistically lower in middle-class students. We found a high prevalence of anxiety, which highlights the need to develop educational strategies, identify high-risk students and initiate health interventions opportunely.

This article aims to identify the perceptions of undergraduates about the social relationships established in the academic community. Focus Group and Content Analysis were used for data collection and analysis. Two difficulty levels related to the situations experienced by students were listed. It is noteworthy that the subcategories of integration among the students, the good relationship between students and professors, staff and managers were considered easy situations; and subcategories of intolerance and lack of time for the relationship between the students, the lack of commitment of professors, the arrogance and indifference of the staff, and the appreciation of post-graduation over graduation were classified as difficult situations. We suggest the development of training programs in social skills with participants from the academic community, a rich environment of social interactions, highlighting in particular the shortage of work in this regard with the segment of administrative staff.

Verbalizations of six undergraduate students that collaboratively solved an ill-structured problem were described. It was assumed that verbalizations provided information about metacognitive regulation and problem solving. The verbalizations were categorized into levels to identify verbal expressions that demonstrate both metacognitive regulation and ill-structured problem solving processes. State space grids were used to represent and interpret verbalization levels and illstructured problem solving processes. Results showed predominance of unregulated verbalizations, absence of utterances related to justification generation and superficial monitoring and evaluation. The evidence supports the idea that peer interaction itself does not improve problem solving. The results invite to design problem-solving situations that effectively promote metacognitive regulation.

This work sought to reflect on the news coverage that is offered, to episodes of violation of law committed by teenagers in Valdivia. Therefore, we proceeded to discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 1990), from a logical interpretative, emphasizing the semantic macro that is built and describes the news. This analysis allowed us to observe that the news linked to young express a sensationalistic and stigmatizing discourse that promotes and perpetuates the reproduction of stereotypes associated with adolescence, characterized by aggression and violence, ongoing breach of the rules and use weapons to intimidate others, as explanatory factors for criminal behavior. Finally, the work reflects the impact caused by mass media and the fragmenting to the person constructed around the adolescence prejudices.

En los últimos días hemos visto intensos debates sobre el acceso abierto debido a declaraciones, en muchas ocasiones sin fundamento, por esta razón es necesario que destaquemos la traducción al español del libro de Suber (2015) editado por la UAEM que ha sido la entidad casa y soporte del sistema Redalyc que hoy cuenta con más de mil revistas en acceso abierto de Iberoamérica. Banerjee, Babini y López en el primer capítulo del libro destacan que lo que está en juego ante las múltiples discusiones del acceso abierto es la democratización del acceso al conocimiento en Iberoamérica y como este es la “mejor opción para un desarrollo democrático, participativo e incluyente para la actualización del conocimiento”; en primer lugar porque elimina los costes para los usuarios y rompe la perversa dinámica que generan las publicaciones de pago en las que un investigador realiza una proyecto con fondos de su institución o su país y luego no puede acceder al conocimiento publicado pues no puede pagar por la publicación donde este conocimiento fue financiado de origen y, por tanto, la tasa de retorno de acceso al conocimiento no se da fácilmente pues las comunidades de origen no pueden acceder a este conocimiento y tampoco permite enriquecer a sus comunidades, con lo que suele incrementar la brecha de conocimiento, la inequidad y las asimetrías entre las comunidades de investigadores y profesionales.Es claro hoy más que nunca que la inequidad y la fragilidad de nuestras democracias depende de un conjunto de variables asociadas a la información, el conocimiento y la educación. Es evidente que sociedades sin educación no pueden fortalecer las democracias y todos los estudios muestran como sin esta no es posible disminuir la violencia y la corrupción; por esta razón debemos contribuir a democratizar el acceso al conocimiento por medio del apoyo a las iniciativas regionales de acceso abierto como Redalyc y Scielo.Por otro lado, debemos dejar en claro que estos dos sistemas de información tienen políticas de evaluación de las revistas a sus repositorios y entre las que evalúa es que estas presenten declaraciones de evaluación de pares como requisito para el ingreso a las mismas. Esto es, no se puede confundir acceso abierto con mala calidad, los sistemas mencionados han sido impulsores del mejoramiento continuo de las revistas.Por último, el acceso abierto no implica el desprecio de las métricas de medición de las revistas esta actitud reflejada en algunas declaraciones hechas recientemente no traen sino confusión y reflejan un profundo desconocimiento de las dinámicas de medición de la comunicación y la circulación de conocimiento las cuales promueven que la tasa de retorno mínima de los esfuerzos económicos de nuestras instituciones por poner en acceso abierto el conocimiento terminen siendo invisibles e incentiven prácticas de no uso del conocimiento expresado en descargas, colaboraciones y citaciones. En este punto toda Iberoamérica tiene mucho camino por recorrer y estas declaraciones que rechazan las mediciones solo contribuyen a invisibilizarnos y a sepultar el conocimiento que producimos en la región y los esfuerzos de acceso abierto.

The aim of this study was to describe the scientific production published on psychosocial risk at work in the ProQuest and PsycArticles databases between 2000 and 2010. Data collection was assisted by a grid with bibliometric indicators in three different categories: bibliometric, methodological, and theoretical features of published articles. We identified and analyzed 133 scientific articles on psychosocial risk at work, with the most productive years being 2000 and 2005, with 20 and 19 articles respectively. 30.8 % of the studies were conducted in the United States, the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, reported the highest number of articles (18 %), 90.6 % of the authors belong to the category of pedestrians, 91.7 % of the items are of an empirical nature with a transactional design (65,4 %), questionnaires are most commonly used to assess risk (52.6 %), and the theoretical model of demand-control is the most referenced in publications (39.8 %).

The main goal of this paper is to describe the main theoretical framework and findings from the relational analysis of social skills, attitudes to ICT and academic performance reports from a sample made up of teachers (n=9), parents (n=60) and students (n=60) in two elementary schools in the cities of Malambo and Barranquilla, Colombia, who have experienced forced displacement. To this end, a protocol consisting of an informed consent form, the Attitudes towards ICT Questionnaire, the School Conflict Settlement Scales, the MESSY scale for Students and Teachers, a School Behavior Observation Inventory, a Sociodemographic Characterization Questionnaire and a Perception on the use of ICT for parents scale. Results reflect a positive attitude towards the use of ICT on students and teachers, the use of conflict resolution strategies related to exposure to bullying, a higher level of recognition of prosocial behaviors compared with the report on aggressive behavior on the part of teachers and the establishment of statistically significant associations between social skills and prosocial conflict resolution in direct proportion, unlike the inverse relationship between aggressive behavior and prosocial behavior, as well as a directly relationship proportional between prosocial behavior and academic performance and a statistically significant association between the use of ICT and academic performance .