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The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective. Its outstanding features are the focus on vast geographical regions (e.g., Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America), and on strengths and resources for optimal well-being. The international and multidisciplinary contributions address the complexities of young people’s life in a variety of cultural settings to explore how key developmental processes such as identity, religiosity and optimism, social networks, and social interaction in families and society at large promote optimal and successful adaptation. The volume draws on core theoretical models of human development to highlight the applicability of these frameworks to culturally diverse youth and emerging adults as well as universalities and cultural specifics in optimal outcomes. With its innovative and cutting-edge approaches to cultural, theoretical and methodological issues, the book offers up-to-date evidence and insights for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of cross-cultural psychology, developmental science, human development, sociology, and social work.
This handbook examines positive youth development (PYD) in youth and emerging adults from an international perspective. It focuses on large and underrepresented cultural groups across six continents within a strengths-based conception of adolescence that considers all youth as having assets. The volume explores the ways in which developmental assets, when effectively harnessed, empower youth to transition into a productive and resourceful adulthood. The book focuses on PYD across vast geographical regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Latin America as well as on strengths and resources for optimal well-being. The handbook addresses the positive development of young people across various cultural contexts to advance research, policy, and practice and inform interventions that foster continued thriving and reduce the chances of compromised youth development. It presents theoretical perspectives and supporting empirical findings to promote a more comprehensive understanding of PYD from an integrated, multidisciplinary, and multinational perspective.
Cross-cultural studies require sound methodology and psychometrics. This book outlines advances in assessment from many expert perspectives.
La presente obra tiene la función primordial de poner al alcance de alumnos, profesores y profesionales de la psicología un acervo literario que compila diferentes estudios científicos rigurosos desde la psicología social y de la personalidad.
Una obra como la que el lector tiene en sus manos, elaborada con un profundo conocimiento de las fuentes, consultadas en numerosas jornadas de trabajo, surge de la motivación de difundir de manera eficaz y contundente los trabajos de investigación que hablan sobre el mexicano y su contexto psicosocial. Se trata de una compilación de investigaciones, en su mayoría de psicólogos sociales, que muestra la inteligencia y sensibilidad de los autores, así como su vasta comprensión de los efectos que la cultura tiene sobre la psicología de los individuos. En el libro hay una docta utilización de documentos hábilmente integrados en el discurso, desde donde se apunta hacia un compromiso social y a que el lector encuentre ideas nuevas y formas diferentes de ver la investigación social.
Desde perspectivas como el concepto de integración, estudios de caso, psicología, movilidad…, ocho investigadores ofrecen un acercamiento multidisciplinario de ideas pertinentes para un análisis de la integración de las personas migrantes.
Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it. Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some about social conventions, others about individual preferences and still others about information and data processing. As a result, ‘privacy’ has become the focus of competing definitions, leading some to denounce the ‘disarray’ in the field. But as this book shows, disagreements about the role and value of privacy obscure a large amount of agreement on the topic. Privacy is not a technical term of law, cybersecurity or sociology, but a word in common use that adequately expresses a few simple and related ideas.
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.