The Self-Regulation vs. External-Regulation Theory (2017) has postulated a continuum of regulation/non-regulation/dys-regulation that is present both in the individual and in the individual’s context. This gives rise to a behavioral heuristic that can predict and explain other health-related variables, such as psychological reactance and student health. On a voluntary basis, 269 university students completed validated questionnaires on variables of regulation, reactance and health. Using an ex post facto design, we performed correlational analysis and structural linear regression to build a structural equations model (SEM) with acceptable statistical values. The results showed various predicted relationships: self-regulation was associated with and positively predicted self-regulated health behavior; external health-regulating contexts were associated with and positively predicted self-regulated health behavior; non-regulatory and dysregulatory contexts negatively predicted self-regulated health behavior and students’ health itself, as well as positively predicting psychological reactance behavior. Implications are established for explaining variability in general and health-related self-regulation, as well as for intervening in these variables in health programs.

The objective of this article is to analyse the potential of ComunicARTE, an innovative Spanish Language teaching/learning program that uses project-based learning to develop dialogic spaces which promote the communicative competence of Spanish students, together with social, emotional and motivational outcomes. Two schools have been observed with this in mind: an experimental one using this program and a control one. This is a longitudinal study with pre-and post-test data which analyses 170 children at the beginning of their fifth year and the end of their sixth year in primary school. Quantitative tests have been used to assess their communicative competence and motivational orientation in the classroom. The results obtained are discussed.

¿Se está enriqueciendo la educación moral con las actuales aportaciones del ámbito de las Ciencias Psicosociales? Este artículo se dedica a estudiar el fenómeno del por qué de la revitalización de la noción de carácter y su educación ocurrido en Estados Unidos en la década de 1990. El lector podrá apreciar que dicho fenómeno está aportando un verdadero fortalecimiento y nuevas perspectivas a la educación moral. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una recopilación de las principales cuestiones relativas a lo que hemos denominado Movimiento de Revitalización del Carácter (MRC), abordando sus conceptos fundamentales, modelos más punteros y autores principales. Además, se busca resaltar su estrecha relación con algunas nuevas aportaciones desde el campo de la Prevención y la Psicología Positiva. Se vislumbra que, con sus avances actuales, el MRC será un punto de referencia para aquellos interesados por este tipo de educación.