Mar Durán

Identidad colectiva movilizada

Resumen En este artículo se analiza la relación entre la identidad y la acción política. Frente a los conceptos de identidad colectiva e identidad colectiva politizada que han sido utilizados habitualmente para explicar ese tipo de comportamiento, se plantea un nuevo tipo de identidad, la colectiva movilizada, que está asociada a la acción política. En la construcción de esta identidad, la identificación grupal desempeña en muchos casos un papel más significativo que la instrumentalidad de la acción. Esto lleva a plantear un tipo de racionalidad política que se sitúa más allá de la lógica consecuencialista y que se fundamenta en los principios morales del sujeto y en su compromiso con el grupo.

La estructura del bienestar: el encuentro empírico de tres tradiciones

Resumen El estudio del bienestar constituye hoy en día uno de los capítulos de mayor relevancia y futuro más prometedor en el campo de la Psicología. Con la ayuda de dos estudios hemos analizado las relaciones existentes entre los constructos más empleados para su medición: el bienestar subjetivo (BS), el bienestar psicológico (BP), y el bienestar social (BSo). Los resultados de los análisis factoriales exploratorios indicaron una estrecha relación entre el BS y el BP, mientras que los confirmatorios nos señalaron que un modelo compuesto por dos factores oblicuos denominados bienestar personal (que incluye el BS y el BP) y bienestar social fue el que mejor se ajusta a los datos. Los resultados del segundo estudio, empleando análisis de ecuaciones estructurales, confirmaron la naturaleza relacionada pero distinta del bienestar social y la necesidad de emplear modelos que lo incluyan para aumentar su capacidad predictiva sobre variables sociales relevantes como la acción social o la anomia.

The role of anticipated emotions in recycling intention: an extension of the Theory of Planned Behaviour / Emociones anticipadas en la intención de reciclar: una extensión de la Teoría de la Conducta Planificada

Abstract Based on Ajzen’s previous research, the primary aim of this paper is to explore the importance of anticipated emotions in household waste recycling intention beyond the explanation provided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). A questionnaire was constructed and given to a sample of 276 students aged 18 to 24 at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Anticipated emotions were measured in relation to the intention, or lack thereof, to separate out household waste for the purposes of recycling. Findings show that negative emotions, in the same (NAE_sd) and the opposite direction (NAE_od) as the action, make the highest contribution to increasing explained variance (R2 = 6.0%). Furthermore, these variables are also directly and significantly related to intention (NAE_sd (β = −.19); NAE_od (β = .23)), making them more relevant in terms of better explaining this environmentally responsible intention.

Antecedents of the attitude towards inter-group reconciliation in a setting of armed conflict

BACKGROUND The concept of Reconciliation as applied to inter-group conflict has come into use only recently. Throughout the history of Psychology, Reconciliation was mostly understood at the individual and inter-personal level. METHOD In the present study we shall analyse the roles played by trust, negotiating attitude, legitimacy and ethnocentric attitude over the attitude towards social reconciliation. To this end we studied a group of 188 Colombian civilians living under conditions of real socio-political conflict. RESULTS A path analysis was performed using the statistical program AMOS whose fit indexes indicate a good fit of the model and a variance of .36. The results show that the variables of trust, negotiating attitude and legitimacy have a significant and positive effect on the reconciliation variable, and significant negative effect on the ethnocentric attitude variable. CONCLUSIONS This study contributes to the integration of a number of variables that facilitate process of social reconciliation, as it explicitly deals with some of the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs which could change the course of a confrontation.

Eight Cultures of Peace Indicators Applied to Colombian Conflict During 2002–2006

This chapter presents an analysis of the eight large action areas proposed by the United Nations for the development of a culture of peace and their corresponding indicators applied to Colombia, during the first term of President Alvaro Uribe (20022006), whose government was characterised by a “Democratic Security Policy”. Based on the description of the social situation, an explanation of how it affects the psychological situation of the Colombian population is developed. An example shows that the context is related with psychosocial elements that would explain the tendency towards social political conflict. From this analysis it can be concluded that there are indirect sources of violence which have been institutionalised and that must be transformed if the substrate is to be removed from the conflict. A number of the psychosocial strategies which could contribute to the construction of a peace culture are presented.