Introduction: Anxiety is considered fairly common in young people, with high prevalence rates and the tendency to worsen over time. The associations between emotional intelligence, perceived parenting styles and anxiety in adolescence have already been established, but research has yet to test wh...
This thesis critically discusses the current status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as practice. It maintains that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. It has become a discipline that has neglected its original ethos – designing good cities – in order to align its t...
La investigación presentada trata sobre el trabajo social comunitario, realizando una
revisión crítica del mismo, incorporando miradas cuestionadoras y analíticas respecto de
las bases que sustentan la intervención social con las comunidades. El estudio plantea
comprender los enfoques teóricos, m...
The current study results from an exploratory design with a descriptive scope wich, through lifestories and participative observation, it pretends to stand out 10 voices of subjects who identified themselves as transformistas, travestis or drag queens (trans/trave/drag) and to describe their soci...
La siguiente tesis es producto de un diseño exploratorio con alcance descriptivo que, a través de los relatos de vida y las observaciones participantes, pretende relevar 10 voces de sujetos que se identifican como transformistas, travestis o drag queens (trans/trave/drag) para lograr describir su...
Processes of ‘Neo-liberalisation’ of nature are increasingly defining our relationship with the physical world. This is manifested in mining, linked with global markets of natural resources and a key component of the recent Extractivism ‘boom’ in Latin America. This redefined territorial lectur...
In the context of locative media and geographic information systems (GIS), this dissertation focuses on how location-based neighbourhood mobile applications represent the social inequalities of a place, and it presents findings from a study conducted about the location of reports made within the ...
The experiments presented in this thesis examined the role of opioids in sexual pleasure, particularly during early formative sexual experiences, on the ability of male rats to associate an olfactory or somatosensory cue with their ejaculation-induced sexual reward state. The results show that op...
Este estudio aporta una mirada reflexiva a aquellos docentes que no tienen formación pedagógica, pero que están interesados en desarrollar una visión crítica de los procesos de formación académica. Para esto, se profundiza en el conocimiento pedagógico del contenido manifestado en las prácticas d...
This research analyses policy responses to disasters in Chile. The main objective is to explore linkages between temporally and spatially distant processes of policy, governance and decision-making, and the materialisation of disaster vulnerability in the form of ‘unsafe conditions’. The study fo...
Research on the effects that interest may have on learning has been thoroughly analyzed and discussed in learning theory and L1 Research. Many of its features and sources have been identified and discussed in light of the educational and psychological theories that underpin its conceptualization ...
