Claudia Zuniga

Claudia Zuniga
University of Chile · Departamento de Psicología

Doctor in Psychology

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This work addresses collective action in the context of a social movement facing police repression in a democratic country. The movement studied was carried out in a region of southern Chile, had a very high citizen participation and deployed normative and non-normative actions. We aim to understand why people decided to participate and how they ca...
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Objective This article seeks to better understand the differences between radical and moderate activists who come from the same mobilization process. Methods Using an original survey data of participants in a regionalist movement in Chile, we employed latent class analysis on 15 different tactics. We found support for a radical, a moderate, and a...
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Coastal zones are complex systems where sustainability needs local participative governance, whose absence may result in conflicts between social actors. In its absence, the first step should be a diagnosis of the current situation based on integrative conceptual frameworks such as the DPSIR. However, in conflicting situations, the generated model...
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This chapter provides insight into the achievements and weaknesses of the Chilean transition and its relationship with recent social mobilizations and the present and future of its democracy. We begin by describing the main achievements of the transition, followed by its major shortcomings and how the social unrest (generated by the unresolved issu...
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Se presenta el diseño y validación inicial de un test de intereses profesionales con fines de orientación vocacional para estudiantes secundarios chilenos de colegios públicos científico-humanistas. Se revisan antecedentes sobre intereses profesionales, la perspectiva de la teoría sociocognitiva de carrera y consideraciones acerca de los instrument...
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Nowadays it is customary to incorporate emotions as explanatory variables of protest participation, since numerous studies have provided evidence for their relevance. However, the incorporation of emotions in quantitative research continues to emphasise the effect of a limited set of emotions (normally one or two with negative valence, such as ange...
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El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo identificar el rol de la clase social en la participación o no participación de las personas en acciones de protesta, en el marco de las movilizaciones socioambientalistas, llevadas a cabo el año 2016 en la Isla de Chiloé, en el sur de Chile. Para esto, se realizó un estudio cuantitativo transversal, aplicándo...
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La psicología en tanto práctica profesional y de investigación científica no puede ni debe permanecer aislada de los contextos en los que se desarrolla. Frente a los profundos sentimientos de malestar expresados por el pueblo chileno en movilizaciones sociales desde el 18 de octubre de 2019, que responden directamente a la implementación de un mode...
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Psychology as a professional and scientific practice should and must not remain isolated from the contexts in which it develops. Considering the deep feelings of discomfort expressed by the Chilean people during social mobilizations since October 18th, 2019, in response to the implementation for decades of a neoliberal model devoid of social justic...
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The recent literature on social movements has highlighted the fundamental role of leaders in their emergency and development. One of the most important discussions in this regard has focused on understanding the relationship between agency and structure in the context of collective protests. Using conceptual tools proposed by Bourdieu (1986), it ha...
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El presente artículo indaga en las dinámicas emocionales asociadas a la participación en movimientos sociales en una fase de declive o de baja movilización en un ciclo de protesta. A partir del estudio del caso del movimiento estudiantil chileno en los años 2016-2017, en su fase más baja de movilización desde el año 2011, se analizan las respuestas...
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The Chiloé Island, located in Southern Chile, is worldwide known for its culture, originated in the syncretism between ancestral groups and colonizers, and molded through the interactions with the isolated ecosystems and extreme weather conditions. In this chapter, we analyze the state of the island’s social-ecological systems, the drivers (direct...
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Se presentan los principales indicadores bibliométricos de la Revista de Psicología de la Universidad de Chile, con el fin de caracterizar su devenir histórico desde su fundación en 1990. Con este objetivo se desarrolló una base de datos con la totalidad de los artículos publicados por la revista en el período 1990-2016, los cuales se encuentran di...
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This article presents the main bibliometric indexes of the Revista de Psicología of the University of Chile, in order to characterize its historical evolution since its foundation in 1990. With this goal, a database was developed with all the articles published by the journal in the 1990-2016 period, which are distributed in 25 volumes and 42 numbe...
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El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar el nivel de coincidencia existente entre las demandas pedagógicas que el Modelo de Formación por Competencias (MFC) hace a los docentes universitarios y las que expresan los estudiantes. Se ha construido un modelo de lo que constituiría un «Docente Universitario Competente» según el MFC, para compara...
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La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar y describir, de manera comprensiva, aquellos factores asociados a la elección de carrera en estudiantes de nivel socioeconómico bajo, que cursan primer año en universidades altamente selectivas de la Región Metropolitana, y detectar potenciales semejanzas y diferencias entre quienes acceden p...
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With the objective of theoretically and psychometrically updating the Regional Identity Scale (RIS) proposed by Zúñiga and Asún in 2004 and expanding the population for which it shows evidence of validity, a revision and revalidation of this instrument was performed via two studies. The first study included 1,113 university students from four regio...
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La calidad de la docencia universitaria se evalúa principalmente a través de cuestionarios aplicados a los estudiantes, los que no siempre surgen de un enfoque teórico sólido. Con el fin de avanzar en la construcción de un modelo teórico que dé sustento a al desarrollo de instrumentos de evaluación, tres fuentes de demandas hacia la docencia univer...
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Causal attributions of homelessness may affect both the design and acceptance of public policies aimed at improving the situation of homeless people and the strategies that homeless people themselves decide to adopt in order to cope with their situation. This article analyzes the differences in causal attributions of homelessness based on gender, a...
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This study analyses the content and the uniformity of meta-stereotypes among homelessness people, and the stereotypes that domiciled people have of homeless people. The research took place in Madrid (Spain), based on data provided by a representative sample of homeless people (n = 188) and a sample of people at no risk of becoming homeless (n = 180...
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The study analyzes the differences in causal attributions of homelessness and attributions of responsibility among the members of 3 groups: homeless group, consisting of a representative sample of homeless people in Madrid, Spain (n = 188); domiciled service-users group, consisting of people at risk of homelessness (n = 164); and domiciled nonservi...
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El presente artículo realiza una revisión del desarrollo y estado actual de la Psicología Chilena. En 1946 se instaura formalmente la formación de Psicólogos en Chile, en 1959 se oficializa la Asociación de psicólogos de Chile y en 1968 se funda el Colegio de Psicólogos de Chile. Esto sitúa a Chile dentro de los primeros países de la región en el d...
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This research aimed to identify and describe the factors associated with career choice among low socioeconomic-status newcomers enrolled in highly selective universities at the Metropolitan Region of Chile. In addition, it sought to detect similarities and differences among students entering through regular admission (PSU) versus affirmative progra...
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El presente trabajo se propone estudiar la relación entre los procesos de identificación grupal y discriminación intergrupal, a través del estudio de un caso idiosincrático, como es la relación entre la identidad nacional y las identidades regionales en Chile, desde la perspectiva de la Teoría de la Identidad Social. Vara ello aplicó un cuestionari...
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The background of this investigation is the Chilean's decentralizing process from which the idea of describing Arica-Parinacota and O'Higgins's regional identity emerges by means of the evaluative meaning and the emotional meaning that university students give to their sense of regional belonging. It has a descriptive-interpretative qualitative app...
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RESUMEN El antecedente de esta investigación es el proceso descentralizador chileno, del cual surge la idea de describir las identidades regionales de Arica-Parinacota y O'Higgins a través de los significados valorativo y emocional que estudiantes universitarios otorgan a su pertenencia regional. El enfoque es cualitativo de tipo descriptivo-interp...
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The objective of present study was to assess the capability of the Social Identity Model (MISM) and of the Psychosocial Motives Model (MMP) to explain participation in regionalist social protests in Chile. We applied a survey in a representative sample of 1200 subjects over 18 years old living in four regions of the country. Results from multiple l...
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This research was aimed to determine the level of matching between the pedagogical demands the Competencies Formation Model (CFM) puts on university teachers and those expressed by university students. For this, we have constructed a model of what would constitute a "Competent University Teacher" according to CFM and compared it to discourses of st...
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A case study of social identity is analyzed, the Magallanic identity, to discover the elements that are important for the social identity theory in general, as well as the distinctive qualities and meanings of this particular regional identity. Research was conducted on a representative sample of the region's university student population, because...
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A case study of social identity is analyzed, the Magallanic identity, to discover the elements that are important for the social identity theory in general, as well as the distinctive qualities and meanings of this particular regional identity. Research was conducted on a representative sample of the region's university student population, because...
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Self-categorization theory explicitly recognizes the possibility that distinct identities have "nested" relationships among themselves, so that there is no incompatibility or conflict among them, as they are located at different levels of abstraction for the subjects. Our objective was to test this premise through the study of an idiosyncratic case...
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A pesar de sus ventajas en la investigación psicométrica, la Teoría de Respuesta al Ítem (TRI) no ha logrado imponerse en la práctica cotidiana de medición de constructos psicológicos o actitudes sociales. En esta investigación se muestra la utilidad de trabajar con modelos de TRI politómicos a través de su comparación con la Teoría Clásica, al est...
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Despite its advantages in psychometric research, Item Response Theory (IRT) has not been regularly used in the measurement of psychological constructs or social attitudes. This study used a scale of intolerance to demonstrate the usefulness of working with polytomous models of IRT in comparison with the Classical Test Theory to study attitudes. It...
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El objetivo de la presente investigación fue diseñar y validar una escala tipo Likert para medir identidad regional. Para esto se aplicó un instrumento de 38 ítems a 249 estudiantes seleccionados en forma aleatoria de las universidades de la Región de la Araucanía, Chile. Utilizando el análisis de ítems, el cálculo de la fiabilidad del instrumento...

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