Marina Begoña Martinez-González

• PhD en Ciencias Sociales
• Head of Department at University of the Coast

La investigación buscó demostrar dependencia entre las variables afrontamiento de conflicto y desconexión moral con los hechos victimizantes, edad y genero de las víctimas del conflicto armado interno de Colombia, en especial las comunidades afrodescendientes: Libertad y Rincón del Mar. Para lo anterior, se plantea un estudio ex post facto de compa...

This study delves into the concepts of forgiveness, reconciliation, and nonviolence through the experiences of victims, social leaders, and academics involved in Colombia's peacebuilding initiatives. Using focus groups, audio/video recordings, and thematic analysis, the research developed comprehensive categories situated within Bronfenbrenner's bi...

In many cases, adolescents' violent practices are due to consequences caused by problems such as forced displacement and sociocultural factors that make violence a daily practice. This study aims to determine how Afro-descendant adolescents in school in the municipality of San Onofre, victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, face conflicts in the...

The aim of the present research was to analyze the effect of anxiety levels during the COVID-19 pandemic in the use of social media and compliance with lockdown measures during the confinement. A total of 1723 participants (32.1% males and 77.9% females; 32.6 ± 9.2 years) were interviewed by a Spanish version of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety...

As of 2021, over 5.4 million Venezuelans have fled their home country in search of safety, food, medicine and access to essential services. This is the most substantial exodus in the recent history of Latin America. Colombia has received 2 million of these refugees, making it the nation host to the greatest number of Venezuelan refugees. The presen...

COVID-19 has seriously affected urban populations worldwide. It comprises a disaster category that accompanies more recurrent or familiar expressions associated with earthquakes, flooding, landslides, subsidence and tsunamis. Despite the differences in these hazard types, the expressions of vulnerability and exposure and their causes are often simi...

This work aims to reconstruct the historical memory of the armed conflict in the Montes de María coastline, province of Sucre, Colombia, in a moment of military confrontations and responses of defenseless civilians to the repertoire of violence caused by armed groups—specifically against the Unión Camilista–Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), th...

Introduction The most widely accepted theoretical and measurement model in personality study is the Big Five Personality Test, designed to measure five traits: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. One of the most commonly used instruments for evaluating personality in children and adolescents is the BFQ-C. Howe...

The present research aims to understand the challenges faced by a Colombian city in the context of multidimensional risk scenarios, given the existing demographic and socio-economic conditions and local perspectives and perceptions regarding socio-environmental risks. The research was undertaken in the city of Barranquilla, northern Colombia. A sur...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of the worldwide population. Citizens suffer the social, economic, physiological, and psychological effects of this pandemic. Primary sources, scientific articles, and secondary bibliographic indexes, databases, and web pages were used for a consensus critical review. The method was a narrative review of...

This study aims to find causal factors of aggression in a group of Latino adolescents to achieve a greater understanding of human nature, taking into account personal and contextual variables. The fundamental hypothesis is that moral disengagement, personality traits, self-esteem, values, parenting, sex, and socioeconomic situation can function as...

This study aimed to analyze gender, anxiety, and psychological inflexibility differences of high school students’ behaviors in a simulated situation of peer coercion into academic cheating. Method: A total of 1147 volunteer adolescents participated, (Men: N = 479; Mage = 16.3; Women: N = 668; Mage = 16.2). The participants saw 15 s animated online...

This research analyzes the decisions made by women facing simulated situations of psychological abuse. Seventy-three women (36.9 ± 13.6 years) who had been victims of domestic violence participated. The analysis was based on their coping strategies, early maladaptive schemes, and their decisions in response to vignettes describing the following dom...

The implementation of actions to achieve the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals assumed by each nation represents a challenge that, to date, many have failed to advance. Such is the case of the fishing communities of Colombia, that despite having conditions for the implementation of sustainable fishing and achieving the comprehensive qualit...

Introducción: En Colombia se realizan programas de intervención psicosocial en comunidades con desventaja socioeconómica para mejorar su calidad de vida, sin embargo, no se realizan evaluaciones de impacto para medir su efectividad. Objetivo: Determinar la relación que existe entre el tiempo de exposición a procesos de intervención psicosocial en...

Psychosocial intervention programs are carried out in Latin American communities with socioeconomic disadvantage to improve their quality of life; few evaluations are carried out to measure their effectiveness. The study aimed to determine if intervention processes in vulnerable communities might favor the children's development. An analysis of var...

We analyzed gender and anxiety differences in middle school students facing a physical peer aggression situation. The participants were 1147 adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years (male: n = 479; female: n = 668) who watched a 12 s animation representing the situation and filled out a questionnaire to analyze the legitimation of violent behaviors...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has surprised health authorities around the world producing a global health crisis. This research discusses the main psychosocial stressors associated with COVID-19 in the literature, and the responses of global public mental health services to these events. Thus, a consensus and critical review were...

The Barranquilla Metropolitan Area is exposed and often vulnerable to various natural and anthropogenic hazards. The paper’s main objective is to identify the level of understanding that local and regional institutions have of such a multi-hazard scenario, as well as the effectiveness of governance arrangements in minimizing impacts. Research emplo...

Life expectancy has increased in many countries throughout the world over recent years, leading to new challenges related to aging. A large part of the population is over 60 years old, and therefore studies that focus on financial autonomy and active aging are necessary. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between cognitive functioning and l...

Se reflexiona acerca del concepto de desconexión moral. Se realiza una búsqueda en bases de datos, utilizando los términos “Desconexión Moral” y “Moral Disengagement”. Ésta es entendida como la capacidad del sujeto de desvincularse de sus marcos conceptuales éticos, permitiéndose ejercer el mal, al evitar la culpa y la vergüenza. Se exponen las man...

La ola invernal que experimentó Colombia entre los años 2010 y 2011 produjo una inundación sin precedentes en el municipio de Campo de la Cruz, Atlántico. A partir de un trabajo etnográfico que comprendió entrevistas, grupos focales y observación participante, se aborda la movilización humana originada por este desastre desde las nociones de despla...

Este artículo analiza los satisfactores del desarrollo infantil presentes en las prácticas de cuidado que padres y cuidadores implementan con sus niños entre los 0 y 8 años de edad, desde la perspectiva del desarrollo a escala humana. Los participantes, principalmente mujeres, fueron entrevistadas en grupos focales y la información recolectada se p...

Este artículo analiza los satisfactores del desarrollo infantil presentes en las prácticas de cuidado que padres y cuidadores implementan con sus niños entre los 0 y 8 años de edad, desde la perspectiva del desarrollo a escala humana. Los participantes, principalmente mujeres, fueron entrevistadas en grupos focales y la información recolectada se p...

RESUMEN: Se exploró la relación entre factores psicosociales del contexto y el afrontamiento de conflictos en edad escolar. Una muestra de 378 niños (158 niños y 220 niñas) residentes en Barranquilla (Colombia), respondieron a un videojuego que simula situaciones de conflicto. El sexo fue determinante en el afrontamiento y en la expectativa sobre l...

Climate displacement may be challenging to child development, since strategies adopted by families and communities, as well as those public initiatives and measures in order to ensure survival in this new order, are not always oriented to infants’ full development. Care practices are affected by the dramatic changes faced by displaced families, res...

As mudanças climáticas podem constituir um agravamento para o desenvolvimento infantil, dado que as estratégias adotadas pelas famílias e comunidade, assim como as iniciativas e medidas institucionais para garantir a sobrevivência nesta nova ordem, nem sempre são adequadas ao desenvolvimento integral das crianças. As práticas de cuidados são afetad...

Since 2015 when social, political and economical situation of Venezuela got worse, inmigration of its citizens to Colombia had been increased. The number of inmigrants is not clear because many of them are coming illegally. Official registration reports 550 thousand people while humanitarian organizations reports more than 2 million. Violence and r...

Esta obra, presenta un conjunto de elementos de orden jurídico, social y educativo, que al paso de los años se ha venido ajustando y perfeccionando en Colombia. Las experiencias asociadas con la violencia en Colombia, han derivado en un conjunto constructivo de leyes, decretos, reglamentos, que permiten a los ciudadanos y especialmente a los docent...

Esta obra, presenta un conjunto de elementos de orden jurídico, social y educativo, que al paso de los años se ha venido ajustando y perfeccionando en Colombia. Las experiencias asociadas con la violencia en Colombia, han derivado en un conjunto constructivo de leyes, decretos, reglamentos, que permiten a los ciudadanos y especialmente a los docent...

Este libro de investigación, auspiciado por la línea estratégica Infancia y Juventud de la Universidad del Norte, explora la forma en que los niños víctimas de violencia estructural asociada a migraciones afrontan los conflictos. Se estudian en particular los casos de la niñez en Francia, Chile y Colombia con el propósito de evidenciar cómo los dis...

Las prácticas de crianza delimitan relaciones de influencia que pueden representar un riesgo para el desarrollo de conductas problemáticas en los infantes. Se realizó una investigación que correlacionó las prácticas de crianza de familias en una comunidad vulnerable de la ciudad de Barranquilla, con los mecanismos de desconexión moral que emplean s...

Debido a la preocupante situación dela primera infancia en el departamento del Atlántico, la Gobernación del Atlántico, el Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar y el Centro de Investigaciones en Desarrollo Humano (CIDHUM) de la Universidad del Norte unieron esfuerzos para generar conocimiento científico que sirva de base para el diseño e imple...

Resumo: O presente artigo propõe uma abordagem integral do desenvolvimento humano, entendido a partir da primeira infância, bem como nas etapas subsequênctes do desenvolvimento do ser humano. Propõe-se uma visão holística que ultrapasse o biológico e que integre as relações do indivíduo com o ambiente. Esta concepção tem em conta uma série de dimen...

The aim of this study was to determine whether the social categorization of poverty during childhood is based on essentialist beliefs. The study included 121 children, aged 5 to 7, from different socioeconomic backgrounds living in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. The children stated that the nature of this social category is based on situations...

The PRF-1 scale was developed to analyze the personal factors of resilience in a group of 113 women displaced by violence in Colombia. For this we conducted a psychometric cutting, quantitative and explanatory study. Factor analysis of the scale indicates the presence of 13 latent factors around which the information is organized. We found out that...

r e s u m e n La escala FPR-1 se desarrolló con el fin de analizar los factores personales de resiliencia en un grupo de 113 mujeres desplazadas por la violencia en Colombia. Para esto, se llevó a cabo un estudio cuantitativo, explicativo, de corte psicométrico. El análisis factorial de la Escala señala la presencia de 13 factores latentes en torno...

Estudiar el desarrollo infantil exclusivamente desde la biología tiene el inmenso riesgo de ampliar la brecha entre quienes logran acceder a las mieles de la ciencia y la tecnología, y los millones de niños que hay en el mundo que no tienen acceso a los bienes públicos necesarios para una vida digna. Hoy el gran problema de los niños y las niñas es...

Este trabajo analiza desde el enfoque ecológico del desarrollo humano los diversos contextos en los cuales se presenta la violencia y cómo en ellos se llevan a cabo procesos de legitimación que la perpetúan a lo largo del tiempo, lo cual afecta especialmente a la niñez y las nuevas generaciones. En primer lugar, se dilucida las diferencias entre ag...

The following is a reflection article about of the concept of health, its evolution and current considerations based in the positive psychology model, with particular emphasis on the concept of resilience, defined as the human capacity to face, overcome and be strengthened or transformed by experiences of adversity. Resilience studies point to give...

Se presentan los resultados del desarrollo e implementación de un software como apoyo a un modelo de atención para la promoción de la resiliencia en familias desplazadas por el clima en el departamento del Atlántico, Colombia. La plataforma se utilizó para la administración de la información, apoyo comunicacional, promoción de la resiliencia a part...

Psychological welfare has been widely approached; however, it has hardly been studied from a disaster and emergency stance. The objective of the research that sprung this paper was to describe life conditions and psychological welfare of the adolescents affected by the rain season in Campo de la Cruz, Municipality of Atlantico Department, as the fi...

RESUMEN El Bienestar Psicológico ha sido ampliamente abor-dado en la Psicología; sin embargo, poco estudiado desde la Psicología de las emergencias y desastres. El objetivo de la investigación que dio origen a este artículo fue caracterizar las condiciones de vida y el bienestar psicológico de los adolescentes damnifica-dos por las altas lluvias en...

This article derives from a research that aimed to de- scribe the positive mental health and quality of life of adolescent workers and non-workers of Toluvi- ejo's municipality, Sucre. The research method used a quantitative approach of a descriptive type with a cross-sectional design. teenagers aged 11 to 17 par- ticipated. They answered Lluch’s P...

This paper comes as a result of a study aimed to know the needs of people in the Bajo Magdalena (Colombia) seeking for human-scale development. In the study, 2,845 representatives from 556 social, corporate, and public organizations of 34 municipalities participated. A quantitative methodology derived from Max Neef’s needs and satisfiers’ matrix an...

El siguiente es un artículo de reflexión producto de la revisión del estado del arte sobre el desarrollo de la comprensión del mundo socioeconómico en la infancia. La vida cotidiana es una valiosa fuente de aprendizajes que le facilitan al niño el desarrollo de habilidades para desempeñarse social y económicamente desde temprana edad, y esto a la v...

The following article is the product of a reflection about the state of the art on the development of the understanding of socio-economic world during the childhood. Everyday life is a valuable source of learning that will facilitate the child's developing skills for social and economic performance since an early age, and this in turn contributes t...

This study searches for the presence of an essentialist theory as a basis for social categorization of poverty, in a purposive sample of twelve children between 4 and 7 years old, from high and low socioeconomic levels in the city of Barranquilla. We present the results of the exploratory stage of research, which used qualitative techniques. The an...

We present preliminary results of a study about the early presence of essentialism as the basis for social categorization of poverty, in a purposive sample of 121 children's body five to seven years, from the high and low socioeconomic levels in Barranquilla, Colombia. After application of the scales, there was no evidence of essentialist thinking,...

El presente artículo surge de la reflexión de las estudiantes que con orientación de la docente a cargo de la asignatura, revisan la postura de diversos autores sobre el impacto que ha tenido la llegada de las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación sobre la dinámica familiar, cómo éstas transforman las prácticas de crianza, así como los riesgos y de...

Resumen Durante años, las variables económicas y demográ-ficas, fueron los principales indicadores a la hora de medir la calidad de vida de una Nación. Sin embargo , los actuales estudios sobre el desarrollo humano, partiendo de un modelo más integrador, resaltan los elementos subjetivos en la forma en que el individuo se relaciona con el entorno,...

This study studied Subjective and Objective Psychological Well-being, and Fatalism, Trauma and Irrational Posttraumatic Cognitions, in adults displaced by socio-political violence, living in Barranquilla, Colombia. Outcomes suggest that people who have been victims of forced displacement exhibit undeniable symptoms of psychosocial trauma, and that...