Burned Out, Engaged, Both, or Neither? Exploring Engagement and Burnout Profiles among Social Workers in Spain.

Few studies have analyzed the existence of homogeneous groups (profiles) in burnout and engagement among professionals, and none in social workers. This study with 448 social workers from Spain mainly examined their profiles in burnout and engagement and the characteristics of each profile in relevant job-related variables. Cluster analyses yielded four distinct profiles: the first, Burned Out, showed high burnout and low engagement; the second, Engaged, exhibited the inverse pattern with low burnout and high engagement; the third, Both, displayed simultaneously high burnout and high engagement; the fourth, Neither, showed low burnout and low engagement. The profiles also differed greatly in work-related variables: job demands (i.e., workload and work--family conflict), job resources (i.e., support from supervisor and coworkers), personal resources (i.e., psychological detachment and relaxation), and outcomes (i.e., intrinsic job satisfaction and intent to leave). The findings support interventions, individual and organizational, tailored to the characteristics of different groups to boost engagement and decrease burnout and turnover.

Vicarious Trauma Scale: Psychometric Properties in a Sample of Social Workers from Spain.

As a result of secondary exposure to traumatic material, social workers may experience vicarious trauma. However, the analysis of this variable among social workers is scarce. The Vicarious Trauma Scale (VTS) is a brief instrument designed to measure the stress consequence of shared trauma. This study aims to examine the psychometrics of the VTS in a sample of 448 social workers from Spain. The results from the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) indicated that the VTS has satisfactory psychometric properties. Different indices of internal consistency supported the reliability of the VTS. Both EFA and CFA revealed the existence of two factors, corresponding to the cognitive and affective consequences of secondary exposure to trauma. Finally, the correlations of the VTS with other relevant and well-known job variables (workload, work-family conflict, detachment, supervisor support, burnout, and engagement) followed the expected pattern, and the VTS differentiated the social workers by their trauma caseload. Therefore, the VTS can be considered an adequate screening method of social workers' vicarious trauma, and its application recommended to examine the possible risk and protective factors and consequences.

Social Workers' Self-Care Practices: Buffering the Influence of Work-Family Interferences on Burnout and Engagement.

As a reaction to specific job stressors, social workers can experience job burnout. The job demands-resources theory posits that personal characteristics would mediate the influence of job stressors on either burnout or engagement. Within this framework, this cross-sectional research aimed to analyze the relationships between work-family interferences (as predictors), self-care practices (as mediators), and burnout and engagement (as outcomes). The sample included 437 graduate social workers from Spain. Structural equation modeling showed that family-work and work-family conflicts negatively predicted self-care practices and positively predicted burnout. Professional and personal self-care practices positively predicted engagement, negatively predicted burnout, and attenuated the impact of work-family interferences on burnout and engagement. To the authors' knowledge, the present article is the first to test the job demands-resources theory with these variables on social workers. The findings support interventions for social work students and professionals enhancing self-care practices to promote engagement and to reduce burnout, and highlight the need to decrease job stressors and enhance job resources for social workers.

Troubling Secondary Victimization of Bullying Victims: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity.

Bullying is a severe public health problem, and bystanders' reactions are a key variable in its perpetration and maintenance. This study aimed to assess the level of secondary victimization of bullying victims as a function of the student's sex and the victim's category (nonnormative vs. normative) in three experimental conditions (feminine, masculine, and ethnicity) from a socioecological perspective. Specifically, two dimensions of secondary victimization were evaluated: avoidance and devaluation/blaming of the victim. A sequence of mixed-design ANOVAs was performed with a sample of 553 Spanish (53.3%) and Portuguese (46.7%) students, aged between 14 and 19 years. Results show that nonnormative victims, those who transgress feminine and masculine gender stereotypes, and those who belong to a minority ethnic group (gypsies) are avoided more than normative victims; and that boys perpetrate more secondary victimization than girls. These results reveal the situation of vulnerability suffered by adolescents who transgress the gender norm as well as those who belong to minority ethnic groups, and highlight that the motivations concealed by the secondary victimization of bullying victims originate in the group processes of identity construction and categorization that configure the boundaries of "legitimacy" and are strongly influenced by social beliefs about normative and nonnormative identities. This socioecological approach could guide prevention strategies, so generic antibullying policies that do not explicitly address biases about gender, sexual, and cultural identity can be overcome to reduce the high levels of stigma occurring in the schools through critical and culturally responsive pedagogy.

Professional preference for mental illness: The role of contact, empathy, and stigma in Spanish Social Work undergraduates.

The treatment of the mentally ill people is a challenge across the world, and different professionals, such as doctors, social workers, psychologists, or nurses, take care of this group. Nonetheless, mental health is not a vocational sector preferred by students and professionals of many of these careers. Research has proposed that professional preference for a patient group would be positively influenced by intergroup contact (quantity and quality) and empathy (perspective-taking), and negatively associated with intergroup anxiety and social distance. However, the evidence testing this proposal was partial and mainly referring to other patient groups such as minorities or immigrants. The major aim of this cross-sectional study was to clarify two research questions referring to mentally ill persons: Do contact and empathy protect undergraduates from intergroup anxiety and social distance and promote professional preference? Do intergroup anxiety and social distance predict professional preference and mediate the influence of contact and empathy in professional preference? A convenience sample of 409 Social Work undergraduates (81% females) from three Spanish universities completed a questionnaire between February and June 2020. Concerning direct relationships, the structural equation model showed that the quantity of contact only predicted intergroup anxiety negatively; quality of contact and empathy negatively predicted intergroup anxiety and social distance; intergroup anxiety positively predicted social distance; intergroup anxiety and social distance negatively predicted professional preference. Concerning mediated relationships, the influence of quality of contact and empathy on social distance was mediated by intergroup anxiety; social distance mediated the relationship of intergroup anxiety with professional preference; both anxiety and distance mediated the influence of quality of contact and empathy in professional preference. These results encourage interventions aimed at enhancing professional preference for mental illness by improving contact, knowledge, and empathy and reducing stigma in students and workers from diverse mental health careers.

Gender-Bashing in Adolescents: Structural Relations with Heterosexual Matrix, Racism/Xenophobia and Attitudes Toward Bullying.

BACKGROUND: This study examined the combined influence of gender variables (specifically gender stereotypes, sexism, and genderism/transphobia) as well as racism/xenophobia and attitudes toward bullying roles on gender-bashing. METHODS: A trans-cultural sample of 2410 Spanish and Portuguese students participated in the study (mean age = 15.13). Structural equation modeling and multiple group analyses were used to examine the relationships among variables. RESULTS: The model revealed a good fit with the data for the whole sample. Results showed that instrumentality, hostile sexism, genderism/transphobia, racism/xenophobia, and positive attitudes toward the bully were positively correlated with gender-bashing. An inverse pattern was also observed: expressiveness, benevolent sexism, and positive attitudes toward the defender were negatively correlated with gender-bashing. Overall, the eight variables explained 48% of the variance of gender-bashing. Structural relationships among the assessed constructs were equivalent for girls and boys, and for Spain and Portugal. CONCLUSIONS: These results reveal the need to implement inclusive educational policies to improve school health, which promote expressiveness, egalitarian attitudes, and sexual and cultural diversity.

Objectifying Women's Bodies Is Acceptable from an Intimate Perpetrator, at Least for Female Sexists.

Objectification of the female body is generating much research. Nevertheless, this has revealed little about whether women's evaluations depend on the level of psychological intimacy with the perpetrator of that objectification. Intimacy theory predicts that objectifying comments would seem more acceptable coming from a close partner, especially for sexist women. The present study begins to fill these gaps by analyzing responses from 301 heterosexual/bisexual adult women in the United States (M age = 37.02, range = 18-72) to appearance and sexual body comments made by four different male perpetrators: strangers, colleagues, friends, or partners. Measures assessed women's perceptions of objectification, as well as reported enjoyment of these comments. As long as they were not negative, comments from heterosexual partners were perceived as the least objectifying and enjoyed the most; comments from colleagues, strangers, and friends were linked with greater objectification and less enjoyment. Additionally, sexist attitudes toward men and women-but more clearly toward men-linked with objectification and enjoyment. Future research directions and practical implications are discussed.

Interés situacional en clase de Lengua Española en secundaria: relaciones estructurales con el compromiso, el desapego y el rendimiento / Situational Interest in Spanish Language Class on Secondary Education: Structural Relations with Engagement, Disaffection, and Performance

El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar un modelo que relaciona interés, compromiso y rendimiento. El estudio evaluó tres modalidades de interés situacional (activado, mantenido-afecto y mantenido-valor), el compromiso conductual, el desapego conductual y el rendimiento en clase de Lengua Española. Estas variables se evaluaron en el aula a lo largo de un período de nueve meses en una muestra de 565 alumnos españoles de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO), con edades comprendidas entre 12 y 17 años (Media = 13.78 años; DE = 1.14). Una serie de modelos de ecuaciones estructurales reveló que las tres modalidades del interés situacional predijeron significativamente el compromiso, el desapego y el rendimiento; compromiso y desapego predijeron el rendimiento; como se había hipotetizado, compromiso y desapego mediaron los efectos del interés situacional sobre el rendimiento académico. Para concluir, se discuten los resultados y sus implicaciones para la teoría del interés y para los programas de intervención educativa.

The purpose of this study was to test a model linking interest, engagement, and performance. The study assessed three types of situational interest (triggered, maintained-feeling, and maintained-value), behavioral engagement, behavioral disaffection, and performance in Spanish language classes. These variables were assessed in the classroom over a nine-month period on a sample of 565 Spanish secondary students aged 12 to 17 years (Mean age = 13.78 years; SD = 1.14). A series of structural equation models revealed that the three types of situational interest significantly predicted engagement, disaffection, and performance; engagement and disaffection also predicted performance; as hypothesized, engagement and disaffection mediated the effects of situational interest on academic performance. To conclude, the implications of these findings are discussed in the light of current theory of interest and educational intervention programmes.

Reflexiones sobre salud pública internacional / Reflections on the international public health

El objetivo del presente trabajo es examinar los conceptos y fundamentos sobre Salud Pública Internacional de mayor aceptación universal, lo que puede aportar una dimensión utilitaria, pues su aplicación en un país determinado puede contribuir a que su sistema de salud se ajuste mejor a los problemas concretos de salud que afectan a su sociedad y a las influencias de la coyuntura internacional sobre estos problemas. Se encontró que es impreciso el inicio del uso del término y que no existe un concepto universalmente aceptado sobre salud pública internacional, de hecho, algunos autores usan el término Salud Global. Para su análisis la Salud Pública Internacional debe dividirse en dos polos: la dimensión internacional de la salud y la salud como asunto internacional, los que conforman una intrincada relación dialéctica, pero es la superposición de estos dos ámbitos lo que determina el resultado total. La salud pública internacional se fundamenta en determinada ideología y al aceptar que es un recorte de las relaciones internacionales, corresponderá a cada Estado determinar el alcance y la aplicación de este concepto en su territorio. Se apreció que los aspectos de la Salud Pública Internacionalno están incluidos de forma sistemática dentro de los campos de estudio de las escuelas de salud pública en la región, por lo que se sugiere desarrollar eventos de carácter regional que permitan lograr consenso en una definición coherente sobre el término salud pública internacionaly su marco conceptual.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the most universally accepted concepts and fundamentals on International Public Health. This can provide one utilitarian dimension since their application in a particular country could contribute to better adjust the public health system to the particularities of the health problems affecting its society and to the influence of the international situation over these problems. It was found that data about the use of this term for the first time was inaccurate and that there was not one universally accepted concept on International Public Health; as a matter of fact, some authors prefer the term Global Health. For the analysis, international health should be divided into two poles: international dimension of health on one hand and health as international issue on the other; both make up an intrincate dialectical relation but the overlapping of these two aspects determines the final result. international public health is based on certain ideology and once accepted as a part cut out from the international relations, it is up to every state to determine the scope and range of application of this concept in its territory. It was observed that the International Public Health aspects are not systematically included in the curricula of the schools of public health in the region; therefore, it is suggested that regional events be held in order to reach consensus with respect to a coherent definition on the term international public health and its conceptual framework.

Variation in styles of rifting in the Gulf of California.

Constraints on the structure of rifted continental margins and the magmatism resulting from such rifting can help refine our understanding of the strength of the lithosphere, the state of the underlying mantle and the transition from rifting to seafloor spreading. An important structural classification of rifts is by width, with narrow rifts thought to form as necking instabilities (where extension rates outpace thermal diffusion) and wide rifts thought to require a mechanism to inhibit localization, such as lower-crustal flow in high heat-flow settings. Observations of the magmatism that results from rifting range from volcanic margins with two to three times the magmatism predicted from melting models to non-volcanic margins with almost no rift or post-rift magmatism. Such variations in magmatic activity are commonly attributed to variations in mantle temperature. Here we describe results from the PESCADOR seismic experiment in the southern Gulf of California and present crustal-scale images across three rift segments. Over short lateral distances, we observe large differences in rifting style and magmatism--from wide rifting with minor synchronous magmatism to narrow rifting in magmatically robust segments. But many of the factors believed to control structural evolution and magmatism during rifting (extension rate, mantle potential temperature and heat flow) tend to vary over larger length scales. We conclude instead that mantle depletion, rather than low mantle temperature, accounts for the observed wide, magma-poor margins, and that mantle fertility and possibly sedimentary insulation, rather than high mantle temperature, account for the observed robust rift and post-rift magmatism.

Programa para la atención medica integral a niños expuestos a contaminación ambiental por sustancias radiactivas / Comprehensive medical care program for children exposed to radioactive pollution

Se elaboró un programa de atención médica integral masiva a niños procedentes de zonas afectadas por contaminación ambiental. Este incluyó, la selección de los niños, su clasificación según el grado de afectación, los niveles de atención médica brindada de acuerdo con la experiencia cubana del médico de la familia y el Programa Materno-Infantil, así como los objetivos que perseguía. Dicho programa contempló también la medición de radiaciones y estimación de pronósticos, chequeo clínico y de laboratorio general y especializado según los casos, acciones psicológicas para la limitación del daño de la salud mental, así como la atención estomatológica. Se estableció un subsistema novedoso y multidisciplinario de organización de atención médica integral, el cual se basó en la experiencia del Sistema Nacional de Salud de Cuba