The resilience of Peruvian immigrants through participation in community-based organizations in urban Chile.

This study explores the situational elements related to the resilience of Peruvian immigrants in Santiago, Chile. Through extensive fieldwork with Santiago community-based organizations, in-depth semistructured interviews (N = 18) completed with Peruvian leaders, and an innovative grounded theory situational analysis, a critical psychopolitical framework of community participation of Peruvian immigrants was generated. More specifically, three main themes emerged from data analysis and describe resilience processes, including, negotiating historical narratives and multiple identities; navigating to resources; and resisting racism and dehumanization. Results describe how community participation plays a role in promoting resilience by transforming immigrants' conditions and contexts while increasing their sense of mattering, and their access to resources and human rights.

¿Es la participación política convencional un indicador del compromiso cívico de los jóvenes? / Is conventional Political Participation An Indicator of Youth Civic Engagement?

Aunque el compromiso cívico es un concepto multidimensional, con frecuencia la baja participación de los jóvenes en política convencional se interpreta como un indicador de menor compromiso cívico. Este estudio cuestiona la centralidad de la participación política convencional como principal indicador del compromiso cívico, y evalúa si la mayor atención hacia la política convencional es un indicador del compromiso cívico en jóvenes. Los hallazgos de un análisis de regresión logística en una muestra de jóvenes chilenos (N = 390) clasificados como: (a) políticos (N = 279) y (b) apolíticos (N = 111) indican que la participación política convencional predice la pertenencia al grupo político, y la participación local al apolítico. Los niveles de tolerancia, competencias cívicas, y participación política no convencional no resultaron predictores de la pertenencia a alguno de los dos grupos. Los hallazgos confirman que la participación política convencional no es indicador principal del compromiso cívico y señalan la importancia de avanzar en formular modelos multidimensionales del compromiso cívico más allá de la política convencional.

Although civic engagement is a multidimensional concept, the low participation of youth in conventional politics is often interpreted as an indicator of low civic engagement. This study questions the centrality of conventional political participation as the main indicator of civic engagement, and assesses whether attention to conventional politics is an indicator of civic engagement among young people. Findings of a logistic regression analysis on a sample of young Chileans (N = 390) classified as: (a) political (N = 279) and (b) apolitical (N = 111) indicated that conventional political participation predicts membership to the political and local participation to the apolitical group. Levels of tolerance, civic competencies, participation in nonconventional politics did not predict group membership. Findings indicate that conventional political participation is not the main indicator of civic engagement, and suggest the need to advance multidimensional models civic engagement beyond conventional politics.

Heterogeneity and change in the patterning of adolescents' perceptions of the legitimacy of parental authority: a latent transition model.

Changes in the patterning of adolescents' beliefs about the legitimate domains of parental authority were modeled in 2,611 Chilean adolescents, 11-16 years old. Transitions in adolescents' belief patterns were studied over 3 years. Latent transition analysis (LTA) revealed 3 distinct patterns of beliefs-parent control, shared control, and personal control-that differed in the extent to which adolescents believed that parents had legitimate authority over personal, prudential, and multidomain issues. Younger adolescents with fewer problem behaviors, higher self-efficacy, and more parental rules were more likely to espouse the parent control belief pattern. Adolescents' patterning of beliefs was relatively stable over time. Older adolescents with more problem behaviors and fewer parental rules were most likely to move away from the parental control status.