Análisis correlacional y predictivo del autoconcepto con otros factores conductuales,cognitivos y emocionales de la personalidad durante la adolescencia

Resumen

Este estudio analiza las relaciones del autoconcepto con una serie de factores de la personalidad. La muestra está constituidapor 174 sujetos adolescentes de 12 a 14 años. Para medir las variables (conductas sociales, problemas de conducta, empatía, relaciones intragrupo, creencias irracionales, ansiedad, impulsividad) se utilizan 12 instrumentos de evaluación. Los análisis correlacionales (Pearson) evidencian que los adolescentes con alto autoconcepto global, muestran muchas conductas de autocontrol, de liderazgo, prosociales, asertivas, autoasertividad, pocas conductas sociales de ansiedad-timidez, de retraimiento, buen nivel de adaptación social, pocos problemas (escolares, de retraimiento, psicopatológicos, psicosomáticos, de ansiedad), pocas creencias irracionales, bajo nivel de ansiedad estado-rasgo y de impulsividad, alta elección y poco rechazo como amigos y compañeros prosociales. El análisis de regresión múltiple permite identificar como variables predictoras de autoconcepto global muchas conductas sociales de autocontrol y prosociales, alto nivel de elección como amigo, buena adaptación social, pocas conductas sociales de ansiedad-timidez, baja ansiedadrasgo y pocos problemas de ansiedad y de retraimiento.     

Events,processes, and the time of a killing

The paper proposes a novel solution to the problem of the time of a killing (ToK), which persistently besets theories of act-individuation. The solution proposed claims to expose a crucial wrong-headed assumption in the debate, according to which ToK is essentially a problem of locating some event that corresponds to the killing. The alternative proposal put forward here turns on recognizing a separate category of dynamic occurrents, viz. processes. The paper does not aim to mount a comprehensive defence of process ontology, relying instead on extant defences. The primary aim is rather to put process ontology to work in diagnosing the current state of play over ToK, and indeed in solving it.     

UNDERSTANDING PARENTING STRESS AND CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS AMONG HOMELESS,SUBSTANCE‐ABUSING MOTHERS

This article tested a model of parenting stress as a mediator between maternal depressive symptoms, emotion regulation, and child behavior problems using a sample of homeless, substance‐abusing mothers. Participants were 119 homeless mothers (ages 18–24 years) and their young children (ages 0–6 years). Mothers responded to questions about their depressive symptoms, emotion regulation, parenting stress, and child behavior problems. A path analysis showed that maternal depressive symptoms were positively associated with child behavior problems through increased parenting stress whereas maternal cognitive reappraisal was negatively associated with child behavior problems through decreased parenting stress. Moreover, maternal expressive suppression was negatively related to child externalizing problems. Findings support the parenting stress theory and highlight maternal parenting stress as a mechanism associated with homeless children's mental health risk. This study has significant implications for understanding the parenting processes underlying child's resilience in the context of homelessness and maternal substance use.