“WHAT can men do, what do they do, and what do they want to do ?”—these are the uestions that Prof. Thorndike seeks to answer in a very comprehensive and elaborate treatise. His undertaking is inspired by the belief that man has the possibility of almost complete control of his fate if only he will be guided by science, and that his failures are attributable to ignorance or folly. The main approach is through biological psychology, but all the social sciences are appealed to and utilized in an effort to deal with the human problem as a whole. The relative immaturity of the sciences dealing with man is continually stressed, but it is claimed that they provide a body of facts and principles which are “far above zero knowledge”, and that even now they are capable of affording valuable guidance in the shaping of public policy. Human Nature and the Social Order By E. L. Thorndike. Pp. xx + 1020. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.) 18s. net.

Human Nature and the Social Order

The presence of mobile technologies and Internet among children and young people is generating new frames of understanding, interaction and consumption of media and content. YouTube has become one of the platforms most used by these, which requires investigating the repercussions exerted by these influencers on children. In the present work, an analysis of the main YouTubers followed by children of Primary Education in Spain is carried out. It has used a quantitative methodology to know the main YouTubers, and qualitative, to analyze the profiles of these influencers. The results indicate the predilection Spanish YouTubers and that most use videogames or jokes associated with their channels. Finally, a reflection is offered on the content consumed by children on the Internet through these channels, providing pedagogical proposals to develop an adequate media education for psychosocial child development.

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YouTube e influencers en la infancia. Análisis de contenidos y propuestas educativas

This article deals with the development of a new model for measuring job quality based on the intrinsic components of work, an European Intrinsic Job Quality Index. The objective is measure job quality on the basis of the characteristics inherent to the labour activity itself, and not from its financial rewards. First, we review the existing literature on current measurement models and justify the need for an index of this nature. Secondly, we explain the fundamental methodological decisions adopted for the construction of the index, and present the descriptive model, the indicators that make up each dimension, and the empirical model. Finally, we present the index scores by European Union countries within the framework of institutional theories. In this work, we have used a quantitative methodology, based on social indicator systems, and it has been carried out mainly with data from the European Working Conditions Survey (2015). The fundamental contribution of this article is the construction of a new model for measuring the quality of work, robust, valid and reliable, which will allow us to monitor the intrinsic job quality of the member countries, and thus provide relevant information that contributes to the framework of public policies.

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New Model for Measuring Job Quality: Developing an European Intrinsic Job Quality Index (EIJQI)

https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Anuario-psicologia/article/view/9931/12739

Construcción de la identidad a través de las redes sociales "online": una mirada desde el construccionismo social

The emergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) has generated a number of research questions, related to their use and potential risk, but also potentials for prevention or health promotion. Online social networks have become an important source of information for users as well as a tool for social relations. As traditional social networks, they can act as vehicles to improve the health of adolescents and youth, as well as play a key role in an educational context. The aim of this work is then to explore the theoretical relevance of ICT, particularly on online social networks, on disease prevention and health promotion of communicable diseases. Literature review points out the role of online social networks, particularly in the field of sexual health, body image, especially eating habits and overweight, as well as smoking and alcohol dependence. Data allow us to understand how online social network behavior and interaction is related to their burden and interventions developed in sexual health and addiction show positive results. More efforts in body image are needed in order to use these tools for prevention and promotion of health from early age.

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Social networks as tools for the prevention and promotion of health among youth

En este articulo se presenta un analisis de las autodefiniciones que se realizan en 405 paginas webs personales extraidas de portales de identidad, en concreto, de redes sociales y bitacoras. Para este analisis se parte, por un lado, de una concepcion interaccionista simbolica del si mismo, que concibe una doble faceta de la persona: una activa y especifica, denominada el yo, y otra reflexiva y social -el me- que emerge a partir de los roles que desempenan los individuos en la sociedad. Por otro lado, tambien se contempla la perspectiva de los teoricos de la modernidad, que plantean que el proceso de individualizacion es tan intenso que los sujetos se enfrentan a la dificil tarea de construir una identidad estable y solida en un marco social repleto de oportunidades, pero inestable y cargado de riesgos. Se llega a la conclusion de que los aspectos situacionales son los que marcan mayores diferencias en la estructura de la autodefinicion, asi como en la objetividad y el anclaje de los sujetos.

La presentación del yo en el ciberespacio: un análisis de las autodefiniciones personales en blogs y redes socials

Este articulo presenta una serie de tecnicas para la construccion de graficos para la representacion de la coaparicion de conceptos o temas en un conjunto de textos. Con ello se pretende estudiar graficamente las conexiones tematicas o semanticas presentes en un determinado discurso, a fin de descubrir no solo los mas frecuentes sino como estan ligados entre si. La idea clave esta en la aplicacion del analisis de redes a las apariciones conjuntas significativas de ideas en un determinado fragmento de texto. Para la explicacion de estas tecnicas se presenta un analisis de los descriptores mas frecuentes correspondientes a la base de datos de la transicion a la democracia espanola recopilada por Linz, compuesta por 76.000 articulos publicados por los principales periodicos de este pais en el periodo comprendido entre 1958 y 1987. This paper shows a set of techniques designed purpose of graph construction aimed at the apparition of either concepts or issues in a collection of texts. The aim is to analyze graphically the semantic connections that can be found in a selected textual corpus as a complement to the study of the statistical frequency of the different elements. The key contribution of this proposal is the use of network analysis for those items that are statistically connected. The use and range of these techniques are shown through the analysis of a database compiled by J.J. Linz composed by more than 76.000 Spanish newspapers articles on the transition to the democracy, published between 1958 and 1987.

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Redes semánticas en textos periodísticos: propuestas técnicas para su representación

In this article, I introduce a new user-written command (coin) to study data structures. coin is founded on a combination of statistical and social network analyses. The purpose of this procedure is to ascertain the most frequent events in a given set of scenarios and to study the relationships between them. coin uses a variety of procedures, such as multidimensional scaling, principal components analysis, correspondence analysis, biplot representations, agglomeration techniques, and network analysis algorithms. Because of this, it works with dichotomous variables and can be applied to the exploratory analysis of questionnaires, the study of textual networks, the review of database contents, and the comparison of different statistical analyses of interdependence.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536867X1501500410

Studying coincidences with network analysis and other multivariate tools

The goal of this paper is the proposal of a new framework for the study of data structures based on the combination of several types of multivariate and social network analysis. By means of these techniques we obtain the most frequent events in a given set of scenarios as well as those events that tend to occur with them. In this respect we can define several coincidence gradients for the events under study. Ranging from zero to total coincidence and passing through statistically probable coincidences with predetermined confidence levels. The appearance structure of the set of events studied according to the selected coincidence gradient can be conveniently represented by a graph. In addition to its rationale, three free software programs are shown so that any user could apply this framework: coin, netcoin and webcoin. This type of procedure can be applied to the exploratory analysis of questionnaires, to the study of semantic networks, to the revision of databases and even to the comparison of different techniques of statistical analysis of interdependence. This is made posible by using factorial and classificatory methods and different methods for representing graphs based on attraction-repulsion forces, like those of Fruchterman-Reingold and Kamada-Kawai.

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El análisis reticular de coincidencias

This article introduces a scale for expert evaluation of the democratic quality of a political system. It is inspired by the democratic audit conducted by the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and consists of 57 items classifi ed into fi ve blocks: citizenship, laws and rights, representative system, accountable government, civil society, and international dimensions of democracy. It has been validated twice through a voluntary sample of more than one hundred experts in Sociology, Political Science and Economics in two consecutive years. Other latent dimensions have been discovered by means of exploratory and confi rmatory factorial analysis, and a reduced version of 14 items has been proposed in order to apply it to the general population. Finally, high coeffi cients of validity and reliability of the scales and subscales were obtained.

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/3397003.pdf

La calidad democrática. Una propuesta para su medición por expertos Democratic Quality. A Proposal for its Measurement by Experts

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