Adaptation and psychometric properties of the school engagement and contextual factors questionnaires for Covid-19 and post Covid-19 context

School engagement has been demonstrated to be a relevant aspect in promoting students' successful trajectories, a commitment that in its turn is influenced by contextual factors (family, teachers, and peers). Having instruments to measure these constructs allows decisions to be made to improve student retention, especially relevant in the context of uncertainty caused by covid-19. The aim of the study was to adapt and analyze the psychometric properties of questionnaires used to measure school engagement and contextual factors in the context of the pandemic with elementary school students in Chile. After adaptation of the instruments, through expert evaluation and focus groups with students, they were administered to 579 students in seventh and eighth grade (mean age = 12.79, 52% were boys), and to 334 students in fifth and sixth grade (mean age = 11.35, 38% were boys) in Chile. Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the two versions of the school engagement measurement instrument had an adequate fit with the original model of three correlated factors, cognitive, affective, and behavioral commitment. Similarly, these two versions of the instrument measuring the contextual factors had a good fit with the original model of three correlated factors, family, teachers, and peers. In addition, both versions of both questionnaires presented appropriate levels of internal consistency

Responsabilización, obediencia y resistencia: perspectivas de docentes y padres sobre la colaboración familia-escuela

Internationally there is wide scientific and legislative agreement on the relevance of school-family collaboration in education. Following this premise, this study explores the notions of collaboration that sustain participation and involvement practices in five schools in Chile. Utilizing a questionnaire based on Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler´s scales of parental involvement and individual and group interviews with teachers and families, meanings about school-family collaboration, roles and teachers´ expectations for families are explored. Results show how notions of collaboration held by teachers and families privilege certain aspects while invisiblizing others. Further results indicate accountability and blame discourses for the failure of successful school-family collaborations attributed to non-participating families by teachers and those families who do participate in school-based activities. En un contexto de amplio acuerdo científico y legislativo sobre la importancia de la colaboración familia y escuela en los sistemas escolares, este estudio indaga en las nociones de colaboración que sustentan las prácticas de participación familiar en cinco establecimientos de Chile. Usando un cuestionario de involucramiento familiar y a través de entrevistas individuales y grupales, se identifican las nociones de colaboración familia-escuela, los roles, y las expectativas sobre las familias derivadas de éstas. El análisis muestra cómo las nociones de colaboración de docentes y familias privilegian cierto tipo de participación mientras invisibilizan otros. Se problematiza el hecho de que las familias, unilateralmente, sean construidas como las responsables últimas del éxito de la relación familia-escuela

Online Platform for the Evaluation of School Engagement, Version 3.0: Progress towards a system for the protection of educational trajectories

Este artículo presenta el Sistema Integrado de Evaluación, Seguimiento y Estrategias de Promoción de Compromiso Estudiantil y Factores Contextuales desarrollado en Chile para su uso potencial en escuelas Iberoamericanas. El sistema web ha tenido un desarrollo incremental basado en diversos proyectos de investigación I+D y busca aportar a uno de los retos de América Latina y el Caribe señalado por organismos internacionales, como es avanzar hacia la construcción de sistemas de protección de las trayectorias escolares. Para su realización se implementó una metodología de desarrollo ágil de software que facilita el trabajo colaborativo llamada SCRUM. Entre los principales resultados se encuentra una plataforma con seis pasos que guían su implementación con recursos de apoyo gráficos y audiovisuales, cuyo potencial de uso es de alto interés para las escuelas en términos de diagnóstico, monitoreo e intervención. Dado que el concepto de compromiso escolar ha adquirido mayor relevancia producto de las consecuencias que tuvo la pandemia del COVID 19, todo el sistema fue ajustado para un contexto de clases presenciales o remotas. El desafío pendiente es la consolidación de esta plataforma en la política educativa nacional para facilitar su uso y masificación.This article presents the results of the development and incremental validation of the Integrated System of Evaluation, Monitoring and Strategies for the Promotion of School Engagement and Contextual Factors developed in Chile for its potential use in Ibero-America. The web-based system has had an incremental development based on various R&D research projects and aims to contribute to one of the challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean indicated by international organizations, which is to advance towards the construction of protection systems for school paths. For its realization, an agile software development methodology called SCRUM was carried out that facilitates collaborative work between teams. The main results are a platform of high interest to schools with six steps that guides its implementation with audiovisual support resources. Given that the concept of school engagement has acquired greater relevance because of the consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic, the entire system was adjusted for a context of either face-to-face or remote classes. The current challenge is the consolidation of this platform in the national educational policy to facilitate its use and massification.FONDEF IT 19I0012ANID / FONDECYT 121017

Right of families to participate in the school context : analysis from the chilean and spanish constitutions.

Está comprobado que la participación colaborativa de las familias en el contexto escolar permite soluciones más eficientes y duraderas a problemas sociales como la deserción escolar o las vulneraciones de derechos; hecho que favorece el desarrollo integral de los niños, niñas y adolescentes. El objetivo del artículo es contrastar la regulación del derecho de las familias a participar en el contexto escolar consagrada en las constituciones chilena y española, a través del método de la dogmática jurídica, por medio de la cual se realizó un análisis comparado entre el inciso final del Artículo 19 Nº 10 de la Constitución chilena y los Artículos 27.5 y 27.7 de la Constitución española. Como principal resultado se halló que el deber contributivo de la comunidad al desarrollo de la educación conlleva implícitamente el derecho de participación de las familias en el contexto escolar. También se encontró que la Constitución chilena, a diferencia de la española, no contempla normas que garanticen explícitamente este derecho; de modo que el derecho/deber de educar a los hijos e hijas queda trunco al no asegurar su participación más allá de escoger el tipo de establecimiento educacional.It has been proven that collaborative participation of families in the school context allows for more efficient and lasting solutions to social problems such as dropping out of schools or rights violations which favors the comprehensive development of children and adolescents. The objective of this article is to contrast the regulation of the right of families to participate in the school context in Chilean and Spanish Constitutions using the method of legal dogmatic through which a comparative analysis between the final clause of Article 19 Nº 10 of the Chilean Constitution and Articles 27.5 and 27.7 of the Spanish Constitution was carried out. As a main result, it was found that the contributory duty of the community to the development and improvement of education, implicitly entails the right to participation of families in the school context. It was also found the Chilean Constitution, unlike the Spanish Constitution, does not include norms that explicitly guarantee this right so that the right/duty of parents to educate the children is truncated by not ensuring their participation beyond being able to choose the type of educational establishment

Self-Expressive Creativity in the Adolescent Digital Domain: Personality, Self-Esteem, and Emotions

Background: Although self-expressive creativity is related to cyberbullying, it can also reinforce strengths that contribute to positive adolescent development. Our study concentrated on the relationships between personality traits and self-expressive creativity in the digital domain in an adolescent population. For this, we analyzed the effect of self-esteem and emotional intelligence as assets for positive development related to personality traits and self-expressive creativity. Methods: The study population included a total of 742 adolescents that were high-school students in the province of Almería, Spain. The following instruments were used: Big Five Inventory (BFI) to evaluate the five broad personality factors, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE), Expression, Management, and Emotion Recognition Evaluation Scale (TMMS-24), and the Creative Behavior Questionnaire: Digital (CBQD). Results: The cluster analysis revealed the existence of two profiles of adolescents based on their personality traits. The analysis showed that the group with the highest levels of extraversion and openness to experience and lowest levels of neuroticism were those who showed the highest scores in self-esteem, clarity, and emotional repair, as well as in self-expressive creativity. Higher scores in neuroticism and lower scores in extraversion and openness to experience showed a direct negative effect on self-expressive creativity and indirect effect through self-esteem and emotional attention, which acted as mediators in series. Conclusions: To counteract certain characteristics that increase adolescents’ vulnerability to social network bullying, a plan must be developed for adequate positive use of the Internet from a creative model that enables digital self-expression for acquiring identity and self-efficacy through the positive influence of peers, which promotes feelings of empowerment and self-affirmation through constructive tasks that reinforce self-esteem and emotional intelligence

Sleep Quality and the Mediating Role of Stress Management on Eating by Nursing Personnel

Background: The work schedule of nursing personnel often involves double or continuous shifts and sources of stress derived from the work context, making it necessary to ensure their rest and eating habits contribute to a healthy lifestyle. The objective of this study was to analyze the mediating role of stress management on the effect that sleep quality has on uncontrolled and emotional eating by nursing professionals. The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 was applied to measure uncontrolled and emotional eating, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index as a measure of sleep quality, and the EQ-i-20M for the stress management component of emotional intelligence. (2) Methods: A sample of 1073 nurses aged 22 to 57 years was selected for this purpose. (3) Results: The main result of this study was that stress management was a mediator in the effect of sleep quality on uncontrolled and emotional eating. Furthermore, low scores for sleeping problems correlated with high scores for stress management. The results also revealed a strong negative association between stress management and uncontrolled and emotional eating. (4) Conclusions: The results are discussed from the perspective of promoting health at work as well as improving the psychosocial wellbeing of nursing professionals and increasing the quality of patient care

Influence of Family Involvement and Children’s Socioemotional Development on the Learning Outcomes of Chilean Students

There is an extensive body of evidence to support both family involvement and students’ socioemotional development as key factors in the promotion of learning outcomes. However, there is insufficient evidence to establish exactly what this impact is when both factors are considered simultaneously. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze the influence of family involvement and socioemotional development on learning outcomes of Chilean students, identifying the structure that most correctly identifies the influence of the predictor variables (family involvement and socioemotional development) on learning outcomes. We present the following three hypotheses that consider possible basic interrelation structures: (1) The influence of family involvement on learning outcomes is mediated by students’ socioemotional development (mediation hypothesis); (2) The influence of family involvement on learning outcomes is moderated by students’ socioemotional development (moderation hypothesis); (3) Family involvement and students’ socio emotional development directly affect learning outcomes (covariance hypothesis). The structures were evaluated by means of a structural equation model analysis. The study included 768 students who attended second and third elementary grades in Chilean schools. The children were between 7 and 11 years old (M = 8.29, SD = 0.86); 41.3% were girls and 58.7% were boys. The results show that family involvement and students’ emotional development directly affect learning outcomes (CFI = 0.995, TLI = 0.993, RMSEA = 0.016). From the results, we can conclude that the data support the hypothesis that both family involvement and socioemotional development are predictors of learning outcomes, thereby rejecting that the impact of family involvement on learning outcomes is mediated or moderated by socioemotional development

Parents’ Modeling During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Influences on Family Members’ Diet Quality and Satisfaction With-Food-Related Life in Dual-Earner Parents With Adolescent Children

Reciprocal family influences in the food domain have been little explored, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. To fill in this gap, this study explored actor and partner effects between parents’ food modeling and parents’ and their adolescent children’s diet quality and satisfaction with food-related life (SWFoL); and the mediating role of diet quality between modeling and SWFoL. This study used a cross-sectional design. A sample of 430 different-sex dual-earner parents and one adolescent child were recruited in Rancagua, Chile, between March and June 2020. Parents answered the modeling dimension of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire. Parents and adolescents answered the Adapted Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) and the SWFoL Scale. Analyses were conducted using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model and structural equation modeling. Results showed that one parent’s modeling enhanced diet quality for themselves, their partner, and the adolescents. Parents’ modeling was associated with their own SWFoL, directly and via their own diet quality. There were positive associations between mothers’ modeling and adolescents’ SWFoL; between mothers’ diet quality and fathers’ SWFoL; and between mothers’ modeling and fathers’ SWFoL via the fathers’ diet quality. Parents’ modeling can improve the three family members’ diet quality, while mothers’ modeling and diet quality showed to improve fathers’ and adolescents’ SWFoL.2022 Schnettler, Miranda-Zapata, Orellana, Saracostti, Poblete, Lobos, Adasme-Berríos, Lapo, Beroiza and Grunert. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Parenting Practices, Life Satisfaction, and the Role of Self-Esteem in Adolescents

Introduction: Studies have shown significant associations between parenting practices, life satisfaction, and self-esteem, and the role of parenting practices in adolescent adjustment, emphasizing its influence on wellbeing. Objectives: To analyze the relationships between parenting practices, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and test the mediating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between the different parenting practices and life satisfaction of adolescents. Method: The sample came to a total of 742 adolescents, with an average age of 15.63 (SD = 1.24; range 13–19). The Parenting Style Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale were used. Results: Perception by adolescents of high levels of affect and communication, self-disclosure, and a sense of humor related to their parents, as well as low levels of psychological control, explained the life satisfaction of the adolescents. Self-esteem exerted a partial mediating effect on the relationship between parenting practices and satisfaction with the life of the adolescent. Finally, self-esteem also appeared to be a moderator variable, specifically in the effect of self-disclosure on the life satisfaction of the adolescent. Conclusions: The results reinforce the role of personal variables, especially self-esteem, in parent-child interaction and in the improved subjective wellbeing of the adolescent