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Identity is personal elaboration built based on interaction within sociocultural historical context. The masculinity identity has its foundation in gender roles, which influence and determine the behavior of men. The main aim is analyze the psychological meaning of masculine identity in men of different generations. The mixed methodology, applied semantic network technique to 268 men, from three generational cohorts and of sexual diversity. The results show that the concept of "being a man" is well defined in the three populations, being the young and those of diversity who, with the transition from modernity to postmodernity, are forced to transform their masculine identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the findings of an investigation on the ideological processes of environmental conscience in undergraduate students of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. The objective of this research was to know, to explain and analyze environmental conscience (also called "ecological") in its political and social issues. It is considered that the concept of "sustainability" is an obligatory reference in contemporary societies to think and act with respect to the different environmental problems on global and local levels. The technique of natural semantic networks was applied to obtain information on the psychosocial meaning of sustainability among students from six different academic units. Although the results and their interpretation are typical of the delimited social group, there are some inferences that would be worth reflecting on more broadly. In this way, it is concluded that sustainability serves as a macrocultural device to promote a new model of economic development that seeks to resolve the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we analyze the social representations about disability in a group of high school students, from two Mexican cities: Oaxaca and Estado de México. The research was based on an associative method. For that purpose, we designed a questionnaire in which students were asked to write the three words that came into mind when they thought about «person with disability», and then to briefly explain the reason for each one. For the analysis of information, we used the natural semantic network technique. The complete network included 107 words, with a semantic weight of 587. Based on this diversity of expressions, we characterized four representations: Social, Medical-rehabilitative, Tragic-charity, and Optimistic. The first two representations had the highest semantic weight in the complete network, 223 and 184 respectively, meanwhile, the last two reached scores of 103 and 73 each. These outcomes may be seen as a contradiction; however, they show that social representations are not monolithic entities, on the contrary, they are the result of scientific knowledge and common sense; nor belong to a certain group, but they are the product of the information disseminated by the different socializing agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The authors analyzes the metalanguage of academic writing of six academic communities of different educational cycles was studied through natural semantic networks. The application was carried out with a sample of 180 students: Secondary (n=30), Baccalaureate (n=30), Mechatronics Engineering (n=30), Design and Visual Communication (n=30), Psychology (n=30) and Hispanic Language and Literature (n=30). The application of semantic networks was carried out individually on three target concepts "academic writing", "skills to write well" and "write in your career". The results showed differences in educational cycles: secondary and high school students focused their concepts on aspects of writing and basic psychological processes. At the university level, the careers of Hispanic Language and Literature and Psychology used a metalanguage more focused on complex processual aspects compared to Engineering and Design students who did so on concepts focused on basic aspects of writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our aim is to present -in the frame of Lexical Availability-the studies dedicated to early ages, 6-year-old children, examining the scope that this kind of works give to the development of programming and planning the teaching of languages. For this purpose, a short exploration on the bases of discipline is offered; quantitative results obtained in Spain (Gran Canaria and Valencia) and in Chile (Talca) are compared; and the associative relationships generated in the available lexical inventories are analysed. We conclude that the available lexical corpus of children provide accurate bases to programme the vocabulary that schoolchildren in the first years of Primary School must learn, both in terms of richness and accuracy as well as in terms of lexicon formation using associative networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a way of characterizing the social representations held by students in the undergraduate degree (Licienciatura) in Communication at the University of Colima, focusing on the meaning, importance and usefulness of research in the process of their profesional formation. The research was conducted with a qualitative and phenomenological approach based on the use of two techniques: natural semantic networks and discussion groups. The implementation allowed analyzing the meanings and social representations constructed by students in relation to their career of study, and research as part of their profesional training. The results show that students possess great semantic richness and a strong personal involvement that give an important role to research as a component of the curriculum, even though simultaneously having low recognition as a profesional option for those pursuing the career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Obesity is currently considered a global epidemic in children, adolescents and adults. Clinical studies have shown obese children having various associated diseases such as psychological diseases, orthopedic problems due to overload on the musculoskeletal system, dyspnea during exercise, cardiovascular risk factors, endocrine disorders and liver disorders. The prevention of obesity in childhood and adolescence is very relevant, and knowing the information shared by these groups on obesity, is a way to better approach the issue. This cross sectional study was carried out in order to determine the concept preuniversity and undergraduate university students who are in the health care areas have. Furthermore, it is based on the fact that these students will be the professionals who will be active participants in health education. The students were selected by cluster sampling: 200 adolescents of both sexes between 18-20 years of age of pre-university students of the occupational therapy, nursing and nutrition, and dietetics degree programs. The main results indicate that students' concepts in terms with semantic value of obesity are as follows: disease, fatty foods, problems and a sedentary lifestyle. These results demonstrate that students acknowledge that obesity is an illness, in which sedentary lifestyle and nutrition have a high semantic value associated with obesity. Child education should encourage physical activity and healthy nutritional habits, while management of the problem should be all-inclusive and place special emphasis on the family and educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teen pregnancy has been understood like a negative life event that every year affects almost one quarter million youngsters between 12 and 17 years old in Mexico, impacting their health, scholar life and family dynamics. Using semantic networks, this research sought to identify the psychological meaning about fatherhood and motherhood roles from parents of youngsters between 12 and 17 years old, and boys and girls of the same age range. 894 persons from the municipalities of San Luis de la Paz, Manuel Doblado, Abasolo, Leon and Guanajuato in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, participated in the research. The results highlight a wide shared meaning to fatherhood and motherhood, composed of sixteen words, emphasizing "responsibility", "good", "love" and "work". Regarding the stimuli that evaluated the teen pregnancy, a small shared network, composed of five words: "responsibility", "irresponsibility", "bad", "work" and "ugly" was found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The technique for collecting available lexicon is based on surveys of open lists in which for two minutes informants recorded all the words that come to mind in relation to each center of interest, up to a total of 16 thematic stimuli. These stimuli were defined by Gougenheim et al. (1964) as the most universally representative semantic sectors. However, those centers of interest «are disparate semantic categories: its ontogeny, their internal organization, nor its reach are the same» (Hernández Muñoz, 2006: 134). This article characterizes the centers of interest of the available lexicon tests and examines the taxonomies of the centers of interest proposed by different authors. Finally, it analyzes the organization of the lexical repertoires of Spanish as a Foreign Language, produced by a sample of 120 students from 3rd year in bilingual high school with Spanish in Warsaw (XXXIV Lyceum), Krakow (VI Lyceum) and Lódz (XXXII Lyceum). Analysis gives attention to the type of partnerships that are prevalent in the bosom of the lexical sets, as well as describes in detail significant relationships that occur among the most frequent words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first objective of this research was to determine the psychological significance of the concept of quality of life among a sample of 300 Mexican adolescents aged from 12 to 16, using a technique of semantic networks. This technique enables close study of the collective significance of an object, word or expressions, with the emphasis on cognitive processes, in order to understand their interpretation and the repercussions of this on a subject's mental health. The second objective of the study was to determine the dimensions of the concept of quality of life in Mexican adolescents. The results, both generally and by gender, indicate that Mexican adolescents interpret the concept of quality of life as a general state of satisfaction primarily consisting of elements such as belonging to a family, love and health, which are spread across each of the ten dimensions found in the research. In conclusion it was found that quality of life in Mexican adolescents is defined based on the interaction of multiple psychosocial and personal factors with which the subject can realize their potential to achieve wellbeing and satisfaction in the context they live in. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Lexical availability has been widely used in the Spanish-speaking world for more than two decades. However, only in recent years has there been growing interest in its cognitive aspects. The present article deals with semantic relations of words in lexical availability tests. A group of advanced EFL students, native speakers of Spanish, and a similar group of native speakers of English were examined. These subjects were given a lexical availability test that required them to produce words from different semantic categories. The resulting semantic relations were then made explicit by means of several graphs or semantic networks which showed that EFL students distinguish only large semantic categories, while native speakers of English organise words into highly specific subcategories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently the quality of a University Professor is heavily influenced by the new roles to be undertaken according to focus educational process on the students. This study aims to explore the representation that students and teachers of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de La Frontera have in relation to the concept "good university professor". The study is based on qualitative research by allowing access to the conceptual world of individuals and networks of meanings using the technique of natural semantic networks. The survey was administered to 104 professors from various careers and 293 senior students. Each of them expressed in ten words their representation of the concept and ranked it according to the importance they assigned. The participants were asked for their consent, assuring anonymity and confidentiality of data. From the instructors emerged 228 words defining the concept, and 248 from the students. Instructors assign more semantic weight to "Responsibility" (100%), "Empathy" (97.6%), and "Knowledge" (60.3%). Students gave priority to "Responsible" (100%), "Respectful" (89.4%), and "Empathetic" (71%) as major attributes of the Good University Professor. On second level instructors include aspects of cognition and knowledge (60.3% knowledge, 49.4% committed 48.4 updated, 43.3% studious) and students include aspects of (intelligent 47%, punctual 42.7%, commitment 37.9%, motivating 36%). The importance that both teachers and students assign to responsibility and empathy (which are related to skills of knowing how to be and knowing how to relate) is highlighted. For professors a second area of importance is given to knowledge's competences, thus giving value to a continuous formation, unlike students for whom this aspect is of no major significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few studies have addressed the subject of romantic relationships in adolescence. In fact, it has been a little investigated in the Caribbean region. Considering this, the present study was carried out with the purpose of exploring the meaning of the word "love" within the context of adolescence, Dominican adolescence in particular. Thirty (30) high schools students participated and were subjected to the semantic networks technique proposed by Valdez (1998). The word stimulus used was "love". Results tend to show that "respect" is the word most closely associated with "love", and that differences by gender are also evident. Future studies that analyze the relation between love and adolescent sexuality are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The educational tendency to focus processes on the student, implies a change in teacher's role, as well as the development of new competences, so research on the subject becomes relevant. With this need in mind, a qualitative study was proposed, in order to know how the students of first year of health careers of Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Frontera represent the concept "Good university teacher" using the natural semantic networks technique. The sample were 277 students of careers of Nursing (43), Kinesiology (38), Medicine (53), Nutrition (30), Odontology (57), Midwifery (24) and Medical Technology (32). At analyzing data , the characteristic values of J, M, SAM set, and FMG were found. In the semantic network core three groups of word were identified, corresponding to concepts related to personal value attributes: interpersonal relationships, reliability, and how the teachers develop and face educational praxis. Students give a high value to the development of generic competences and personal attitudes related to how the teachers should be, how teachers should relate to others. For teachers, this means identify them, give them value, and develop them in order to face in a better way the changes in education, so contributing to the integral development of future health professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work intends to approach the study of public demonstration from the existent theoretical apparatuses with the aim to explain political participation and social movements. The concept of political demonstration is proposed in order to explain the collective behaviors that the inhabitants from the Valley of Mexico adopt against the different elements in the public sphere. We interpret the results from an exercise where three hundred and eighty semantic networks were applied, hence to learn the meaning of the political demonstration. Being indeed found that political demonstration is related to the behaviors which everyday the inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico carry out in the public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sample for this investigation consisted of 80 people: 37 were beginning their studies as superior technicians in policiology, 30 were finishing their studies in preventive policiology, and 13 were active elements of a police force who agreed to participate. All individuals were living in Aguascalientes, Mexico at the moment of the study, were 18 years old or older and were, mostly, men. The semantic networks method was used for the collection of data. Three words were give as stimuli: homosexual, transsexual, and transvestite. These future policemen refer to homosexual people using disrespectful words and associate immediately a transvestite or transsexual person with being gay. Participants associate homosexuality to an illness and transvestism to a job as well as to joy and fun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the group of approaches to text analysis that have been inspired by social network theory. These approaches are set in two main orientations: those that search basically the representation and analysis of words that are present in a text, leaving in a secondary place the type of relation that links them, and those that give the same importance both to words in the text and relations that bond words and provide semantic meaning. The first kind of approach, that has been called word-network analysis and it is the most extended one, presents some drawbacks that the second kind of approach which has been called network text analysis tries to solve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the present study was to obtain the component elements of the psychological meaning that men and women atribute to what various authors have defined as sexual satisfaction and to develop a scale that could mesure this variable. Using the technique of semantic networks, 204 people (77 women and 127 men, x= 33 years old, min. 19 max. 53) were asked to associate 10 words to the stimulus "a good sexual relationship". Afterwards, the 15 principal descriptors for the stimulus by gender of participants were obtained through various analyses related to semantic networks. Results show that love and comunication seem to be equally relevant for both genders, thus showing the importance that participants give to the emotional aspect of sex. It is relevant to see that both men and women give weight to various emotional aspects linked to afection, caring, and tenderness, and give less importance to physical aspects of erotic pleasure an orgasm. Participants with a higher level of formal education (college or postgraduate school) obtained higher scores of sexual satisfaction (moderate to high) than the rest of the sample. On the other hand, people who had lived with a partner between 6 and 9 years or between 24 and 30 years show lower scores of sexual satisfaction than the rest of the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]