Transformational Leadership, Task-Involving Climate, and Their Implications in Male Junior Soccer Players: A Multilevel Approach

Despite the well-known positive consequences of transformational coaches in sport, there is still little research exploring the mechanisms through which coaches’ transformational leadership exerts its impact on athletes. Multilevel SEM was used to examine the relationship between coaches’ transformational leadership style, a task-involving climate, and leadership effectiveness outcome criteria (i.e., players’ extra effort, coach effectiveness, and satisfaction with their coach), separately estimating between and within effects. A representative sample of 625 Spanish male soccer players ranging from 16 to 18 years old and nested in 50 teams completed a questionnaire package tapping the variables of interest. Results confirmed that at the team level, team perceptions of transformational leadership positively predicted teams’ perceptions of task climate, which in turn positively predicted the three outcome criteria. At the individual level, players’ perceptions of transformational leadership positively predicted teams’ perceptions of task climate, which in turn positively predicted teams’ extra effort and coach effectiveness. Mediation effects appeared at the team level for all the outcome criteria, and at the individual only for extra effort. Transformational leadership is recommended to enhance task climate, in order to increase players’ extra effort, their perceptions of the effectiveness of their coach, and their satisfaction with his/her leadership style

La política científico tecnológica (PCyT) y las demandas de desarrollo local: el caso de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMDP) y el Plan Estratégico Municipal (PEM)

El Plan Estratégico Municipal (PEM) 2013-2030 es lanzado por la Municipalidad de General Pueyrredon (MGP) como una forma de planificación estratégica del desarrollo local. El mismo plantea una serie de propuestas que representan las principales demandas socio-productivas del medio, las cuales surgen de las visiones de los diferentes actores involucrados en el proceso, la UNMDP fue una de las instituciones que colaboró en la elaboración de dicho plan. La generación de conocimiento que responda a las demandas de desarrollo local y regional es uno de los propósitos de la UNMDP, en este sentido, una adecuada política de ciencia y tecnología (PCyT) es un elemento central para el cumplimiento del mismo. En este marco, el presente trabajo se propone analizar la posibilidad de vinculación entre la generación de conocimiento por parte de la UNMDP, y las demandas para el desarrollo local definidas en el PEM. Del análisis se desprende, que son bajas las posibilidades de vinculación entre los saberes científico-tecnológicos que se generan en la UNMDP respecto de los requerimientos para el desarrollo local expresados en el PEM. A partir de esto, detectamos una inadecuación de las herramientas normativas para la planificación y direccionamiento de la PCyT de la UNMDP.Fil: Carrozza, Tomás. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina.Fil: Hammond, Fernando. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.Fil: González Carella, María Inés. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina

Personal Employability and employment outcomes in a university sample: a study before and after COVID-19

[EN] Labour market uncertainty makes difficult to get (and keep) a high-quality job even for graduate students. Moreover, this situation has been worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study is to test the influence that personal employability has on maintaining (or being able to find a new) high-quality job in a sample of young university graduates that faced the job market crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the four personal employability dimensions of Fugate et al.’s (2004) model: career identity, personal adaptability, human capital, and social capital. Our hypotheses state that the four dimensions of employability are positively related with employment status and with job quality indicators (salary, horizontal fit, job satisfaction). The results obtained in a sample of 136 university graduates show that social capital contributes to being employed after several months of job market uncertainty caused by COVID-19. Moreover, career identity positively predicts horizontal fit and job satisfaction. The study shows the importance of social capital and career identity under uncertain job market situations to foster positive employment outcomes.This work was supported by research grants provided by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI), and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) [Ref. PSI2017-86882-R].Hernández, A.; Tomás, I.; Davcheva, M.; González-Romá, V. (2021). Personal Employability and employment outcomes in a university sample: a study before and after COVID-19. En 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'21). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1303-1311. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd21.2021.13131OCS1303131

Validación de la versión mexicana del CSAI-2R en sus escalas de intensidad y dirección

Dentro de la teoría multidimensional de la ansiedad se ha desarrollado el Inventario de Ansiedad Estado Competitiva-2Revisado (csai-2r) para evaluar la ansiedad somática, ansiedad cognitiva y autoconfi anza en el deporte. El propósito del presente estudio fue evaluar el modelo de medida trifactorial del csai-2r en sus escalas de intensidad y de dirección adaptadas al contexto mexicano, examinando su fi abilidad e invarianza factorial a través del género. Respondieron dichos instrumentos 454 deportistas universitarios (m = 21.15 años de edad; de = 2.02). Los resultados ofrecieron apoyo al modelo de tres factores para la escala de intensidad, y confi rmaron su invarianza total en función del género. Para la escala de dirección resultó más adecuado un modelo de dos factores, y se confi rmó su invarianza parcial en función del género. En conclusión, el csai-2r con ambas escalas de intensidad y dirección adaptadas al contexto mexicano puede ser utilizado para evaluar la ansiedad precompetitiva

Brief interventions in adolescents and young persons in Latin America: a scoping review

Evidence indicates that Brief Interventions (BIs) are an effective methodfor reducing alcohol consumption and related problems among adolescents andyoung adults. Most previous research has come from high-income countries withdifferent cultural backgrounds and drinking practices from those of Latin-America,while the extent of evidence for BI efficacy among the latter remains unexplored.Objective: In this scoping review, we describe Latin-American research on BIamong adolescents and young adults. Methods: Data was compiled for each LatinAmerican country in the Medline, Lilacs, and Cochrane databases, withouttemporal or language restrictions. Database searches were complemented by handsearches. After eliminating repeated and unrelated articles, 22 articles wereincluded and analyzed separately by two investigators. Results: The selectedarticles were published between 2004 and 2020, and were from Brazil, Colombia,Mexico, and Argentina. Most were empirical studies, and near half wereexperimental with adequate randomization. Most of the studies were carried out ineducational contexts, such as universities and schools. The Alcohol Use DisorderIdentification Test (AUDIT) was the most used screening tool, although a widevariety of measures were used. Discussion: The main limitations of these articleswere small sample sizes, as well as a lack of unified outcome criteria. Theeffectiveness and the mechanisms underlying efficacy are areas in need of furtherresearch. Since 2004, there has been steady but still scarce research on BI amongadolescents and young adults. Advancement of public health will requireprioritizing efforts to further our understanding of BI in Latin-American contextsFil: Gimenez, Paula Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología.; ArgentinaFil: Salomón, Tomás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología.; ArgentinaFil: Peltzer, Raquel Inés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología.; ArgentinaFil: Cremonte, Mariana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Psicología Básica, Aplicada y Tecnología.; Argentin

Coping Strategies against peer victimization: differences according to gender, grade, victimization status and perceived classroom social climate

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include 'Good Health andWell-being' (SDG3) and 'Quality Education' (SDG4). Nevertheless, many students cannot achieve these goals if they suffer peer victimization at their schools, and intervention programs to reduce it are necessary. These programs should consider the possible differences in the coping strategies preferred by students according to some personal (e.g., gender, grade, victimization status) and contextual (e.g., perceived classroom social climate) factors to be more effective. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the possible differences in the coping strategies preferred by students (ask a friend for help, ask a teacher for help, ask parents for help, not ask anyone for help, fighting back, avoid the aggressor and ask the aggressor why) to handle situations of relational, physical and verbal peer victimization according to their gender, school grade, victimization status and perceived classroom social climate. The sample comprised 479 students (52.2% boys, 47.8% girls) aged from 9 to 14 years (M = 11.21, SD = 1.52). The results showed that girls chose the strategies of asking friends or adults for help and asking the aggressor why more than boys, while boys chose the strategies of fighting back and not ask anyone for help more than girls. The coping strategy of asking a teacher for help was preferred more by students of lower school grades and by students with a positive perception of the classroom climate. Victimized students preferred the strategy of not asking anyone for help. These results may be useful for developing more effective intervention programs. These programs should aim to enhance the teacher-student relationship in upper school grades, help victimized students to inform about peer aggression situations and improve perceived classroom social climate

Situational and Dispositional Factors that Predict Motivation: a Multilevel Study

Abstract. This study aimed to test a multilevel mediation model which examined the relationship between the perceived motivational climate created by coaches at team level and motivational regulations towards sport at individual level, as mediated by individual goal orientations. 211 university athletes from 20 teams training in different types of sport completed a battery of instruments that measured the variables included in the model. The statistics significance level was .05. Results of the multilevel mediation model revealed that the task-involving climate at team level positively predicted individual task orientation (γ01 = .77, p .05). The results are in line with previous research that have focused in the study of motivational climate at individual level, but the present study make a novel contribution by providing the perspective of a multilevel mediation model and thereby clarifying the phenomenon at team level

Individualization and Electrical Characterization of SiGe Nanowires

SiGe nanowires of different Ge atomic fractions up to 15% were grown and ex-situ n-type doped by diffusion from a solid source in contact with the sample. The phenomenon of dielectrophoresis was used to locate single nanowires between pairs of electrodes in order to carry out electrical measurements. The measured resistance of the as-grown nanowires is very high, but it decreases more than three orders of magnitude upon doping, indicating that the doping procedure used has been effectiv

SiGe nanowires grown by LPCVD using Ga-Au catalysts

The use of Ga-Au alloys as metal catalysts for the growth of SiGe nanowires has been investigated. The grown nanowires are cylindrical and straight, with a defect-free crystalline structure, sharp nanowire-droplet interfaces and an almost constant Ge atomic fraction throughout all their length. These features represent significant improvements over the results obtained using pure A