Research on perceptions of economic inequality focuses on estimations of the distribution of financial resources, such as perceived income gaps or wealth distribution. However, we argue that perceiving inequality is not limited to an economic idea but also includes other dimensions related to people’s daily life. We explored this idea by conducting an online survey (N = 601) in Colombia, where participants responded to an open-ended question regarding how they perceived economic inequality. We performed a content analysis of 1,624 responses to identify relevant topics and used network analysis tools to explore how such topics were interrelated. We found that perceived economic inequality is mainly represented by identifying social classes (e.g., the elites vs. the poor), intergroup relations based on discrimination and social exclusion, public spaces (e.g., beggars on streets, spatial segregation), and some dynamics about the distribution of economic resources and the quality of work (e.g., income inequality, precarious jobs). We discuss how different perceptions of economic inequality may frame how people understand and respond to inequality.

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In this article, we present a meta-analysis and a scientific mapping about the relationship between different types of well-being and job performance. We followed The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Moher et al., 2009), and conduct the search in Web of Science, SCOPUS, Ebscohost, Proquest, and Jstor databases. We identified 43 studies from 1994 to early 2020 that represent 45 independent samples, 34,221 participants, and 77 correlations between four types of well-being and six of job performance. Meta-analysis results show that are different forms of relations between types and there is not only one form to explain the happy-productive worker hypothesis. The scientific mapping shows that there are seven clusters of topics about well-being and job performance in the Web of Science base articles: (I) Burnout and axiety, (II) Stress and depression, (III) Individual resources, (IV) Work context, (V) Work engagement and commitment, (VI) Justice, and (VII) Human resources practices. We organize the topics from each cluster in the different groups of variables of the contextual model of individual work, well-being and performance (van Veldhoven & Peccei, 2015) to explain their impact in well-being and job performance. We included the observations of our analysis and identified the future key directions for the field.

La ludoevaluación es una práctica evaluativa que busca valorar los desempeños de los estudiantes a través de experiencias lúdicas, que permitan obtener información oportuna y pertinente sobre sus aprendizajes y reducir los niveles de ansiedad, propios de las experiencias de evaluación tradicional. El objetivo del estudio fue comprender las dinámicas que se generan al realizar experiencias de evaluación, mediadas por la lúdica, en el contexto de una comunidad de aprendizaje docente universitaria. Se trató de una investigación con diseño descriptivo, en la que se desarrollaron experiencias de ludoevaluación con 160 estudiantes de una Universidad privada colombiana. Estas experiencias se llevaron a cabo en 5 fases: fundamentación teórica, diagnóstico, diseño, aplicación y reflexión. Los resultados evidencian un cambio en la percepción de los estudiantes frente a los procesos evaluativos, sobresaliendo emociones positivas, como: el entusiasmo, la alegría y la seguridad. Se concluye que es posible valorar los aprendizajes en escenarios menos estresantes a los que habitualmente se realizan, propios de la evaluación tradicional de corte normativo y cuantitativo.

This article is the result of integration between a theoretical analysis and a qualitative approximation to the field about the experience of well-being. It presents the results of an investigation and its principal purpose was to examine the state and experience of well-being in the professionals who support victims of political or familiar conflicts during their social-integration processes. For this purpose, the researchers approached lived discourses, analyzed the context of the participants in the investigation in order to clarify direct and subjective experiences.