Abstract:The article addresses the issue of generic competences across different cultural contexts in the world. Using the Tuning projects data collected in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Russia, and focusing on graduates´ perspective, the authors aim to classify and compare the list of generic competences throughout all geographic regions covered by Tuning, analyse the importance and achievement given to the generic competences throughout different contexts, and also contrast the latent constructs obtained from the exploratory factor analysis, in order to observe how competences are classified and clustered across regions. The article shows and explains the main differences observed and stresses the relevance of taking into account the cultural context and the traditions of education systems, in order to properly understand the importance of generic competences in different regions, and also how, even though the competences are equivalent, they may articulate distinctive dimensions in each region.
In the short to medium term, ethnic diversity tends to reduce trust. This negative relationship can be explained by social identity theory and integrated threat theory. The latter theory distinguishes realistic (socio-economic) threat perceptions from symbolic (cultural) ones. Huntington believes that with the end of the Cold War, conflicts shifted from being primarily economic to cultural, mainly religious ones. The goal of this article is to disentangle for the first time the impact of different sources of perceived threat as well as of in-group/out-group–based differences on trust by using a factorial survey conducted in Bilbao (Spain) and Cologne (Germany). Our main findings are that although both towns differ in religious and socio-economic composition, their citizens possess a similar level of generalised trust and perceive socio-economic threat as being much stronger than cultural threat. Weak evidence is also found for in-group/out-group–based differences in particularised trust.
Recibido: 03 February 2021Aceptado: 10 March 2021
Objective: To assess whether to have a steady loving relationship changes sexual desire, level of depression and subjective need for sexual counselling to those patients who have suffered an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) episode within the last year Design and Method: The sample consisted of males under 76, with a diagnosis of ACS episode, from September 1st 2014 to August 31st 2015, within the area of The University Health Care Hospital Complex of Palencia. They were appointed by a telephone call at the local Health Center to hold a personal interview in which they answered an inquiry ad hoc and the validated Beck´s Depression Questionnaire and Sexual Desire and Aversion to Sex (DESEA) Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the statistical program SPSS Statistics 20.0. Results: 73% of patients in our sample had a partner. When applied non-parametric U-Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis as statistical contrast, it shows that loving relationships do not have any influence neither on patients’ sexual desire, nor on their demand for greater sexual counselling. It was also found that there is a direct correlation between the parameters of DESEA Questionnaire and de score reached on Beck’s Depression Questionnaire. And finally, that a decreased sexual desire will not influence their request for sexual advice. Conclusions: Sexual desire is a characteristic part of each person and that is confirmed in the participants of our research. Patients continued keeping interest for their sexuality after having suffer an ACS within the last year, regardless of the stability of their sexual relationships.
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