Environmental psychology is a particular area or subfield of psychology, especially involved in the delimitation of the causes and solutions of environmental problems. This area deals with the study of the interactions between human behavior and the socio-physical components of the environment. The emphasis on the interrelationship of environment and behavior is important; not only physical settings affect people’s behavior, individuals actively influence the environment. Thus, several studies have proposed the existence of a series of predispositions which allow the appreciation of diversity and the interdependence of person–environment relationships, making it possible to adopt lifestyles that can guarantee the sustainability of socio-ecological systems for present and future generations. Therefore, in order to work towards the goals of sustainability, it is necessary to know which are the inclinations or dispositions that people present when caring for the environment. The objective of this research was to identify the association between the variables of psychosocial predispositions towards sustainability with environmental identity in a sample of higher education students from southern Sonora. Nine different scales to measure these predispositions were applied to 417 students, considering emotions towards the environment, environmental and socio-environmental actions, as well as a scale to measure environmental identity. Results revealed, on the one hand, that first-order factors emerged consistently, indicating the presence of a higher-order factor (psychosocial predispositions towards sustainability). On the other hand, we found this construct is related in a bidirectional way with environmental identity, that is, that both the emotions and actions carried out by the students in favor of the environment are related to the degree of identification they have with it, and vice versa, thereby demonstrating an interdependence relationship between these two variables. These findings suggest that the presence of certain psychological characteristics in people would promote a closer relationship with nature, which could encourage participation in caring for the environment.

Positive psychology is vital in increasing prosocial behavior and reducing bullying. However, limited studies have analyzed the influence of positive personal characteristics on the prosocial behaviors of bystanders in bullying. The present study examined direct and indirect relationships between spirituality, happiness, altruism, and prosocial bystander behavior in bullying. Participants in this study were 685 students from Northwestern Mexico; 51% were male and 49% female, between 12 and 18 years old (M = 14.3 years, SD = 1.68). A structural equation model (SEM) was calculated. The results indicate that happiness and altruism were related to prosocial bystander behavior. Spirituality and happiness have an indirect relationship by increasing prosocial bystander behavior through the positive effects of altruism. The SEM explained 48% of the variance of the prosocial bystander. The implications for improving defensive behavior in bullying and reducing school violence are discussed.

En este artículo se analizan las diferencias en las prácticas educativas de profesores de secundaria que trabajan en escuelas que se sitúan en distintos contextos socioeconómicos y se identifican sus creencias sobre el aprendizaje y la influencia que ejerce el nivel socioeconómico bajo en este proceso. Para la obtención de los datos se realizaron observaciones de las clases y se aplicó una entrevista a los profesores. Los resultados indican diferencias en algunos aspectos de las prácticas educativas, según el contexto socioeconómico de las escuelas: los profesores que enseñan a alumnos de niveles socioeconómicos bajos dedicaron menos tiempo de sus clases a actividades de reestructuración de conocimientos y habilidades, expresaron en menos ocasiones una valoración positiva del trabajo académico de sus alumnos y en sus grupos se observó una frecuencia menor de estructuras comunicativas simétricas. La mayoría de los maestros sostuvo la idea de que las condiciones que entraña la pobreza influyen en la presencia de problemas de aprendizaje.This article deals with the differences in the educational practices of secondary education teachers who work in schools that are located in different socio-economic contexts and identifies their beliefs about learning and the influence that the lower socio-economic level has on this process. The data gathering was made by means of classrooms observations and an interview to the teachers. The results show that there are differences in some aspects of the educational practice according to the socio-economic contexts in which the schools are inscribed: the teachers who teach to students who belong to lower socio-economic contexts spent less time to knowledge and ability restructuring, expressed less frequently a positive appraisal of their students' academic work and within their classrooms a lower frequency of symmetric communicational structures could be observed. Most of the teachers believe that the conditions created by poverty have an impact on learning problems

Background: Most research on the relationship between well-being and sexual satisfaction has focused on hedonic or eudaimonic well-being. In contrast, the PERMA model integrates both axes of this phenomenon. In addition, Latin American samples are underrepresented in sexuality research. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the direct relation between PERMA well-being and subjective sexual satisfaction in a Mexican sample. Participants and procedure: This research was a quantitative, non-experimental cross-sectional study and included 237 people from a northwest state in Mexico. The scales implemented were Subjective Sexual Satisfaction and PERMA-Profiler. The database was downloaded and adapted for analysis through SPSS and AMOS. Five analyses were performed: a) confirmatory factor analysis, b) Cronbach’s alpha, c) descriptive and data distribution statistics, d) correlation matrix, and e) structural equation model. Results: According to the correlation matrix, subjective sexual satisfaction presents significant associations with PERMA well-being (.21, p < .01). In addition, the structural equation model (SEM) indicated that PERMA well-being presents a positive and direct relation with sexual satisfaction (.31, p < .01). Conclusions: As expected, well-being was directly associated with sexual satisfaction, suggesting that higher perceived well-being may contribute to increased sexual satisfaction. These results provide evidence of the close relationship between these two constructs.