According to UNESCO, critical thinking (CT) is a strategic skill for the 21st century, as it is associated with attitudes of personal and social change and improvement. Based on this, the objectives of this study were (1) to find out the possible relationships between CT and effective personality (EP) and (2) to determine the extent to which EP predicts the development of CT in children and adolescents. The research approach was quantitative, correlational and predictive. The sample consisted of 562 Spanish students. The measurement instruments were: (1) the Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and (2) the Efficacy Personality Questionnaire. The main findings showed that there is a positive relationship between EP and CT, with the traits “being enthusiastic”, “developing positive self-esteem” and “having self-confidence” correlating most strongly with CT. The regression analysis shows that EP influences the development of students’ CT. There were no significant differences according to sex, and Primary Education students obtained higher CT scores. It is concluded that the better the promotion of EP, the greater the CT development will be. This suggests the need to design educational programmes for the improvement of EP, especially in adolescents.

Women’s empowerment is one of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 5, gender equality. However, little research has highlighted the contributions of sustainable female leadership in academic governance. In order to fill this gap, this study identifies and analyses the satisfactions, opportunities, and contributions of women academics to university governance and their perceptions of the potential impact of gender in this process. Forty-eight women leaders participated in the study. A purposive sampling technique was used because the research involved leaders who had held a management position in the university. The research methodology was qualitative, the instrument used for the collection of information was a semi-structured interview, and the analysis of the narratives was carried out with Aquad v. 7 software (Günter Huber, Tübingen, Alemania). The study revealed that the leadership style of the female academics is framed within the sustainable leadership approach. Beyond personal satisfactions, the main reward derived from the performance of the position lies in becoming transformative and catalysing agents of the institution, who try to find a balance between the economic and social interests of the organisation. The functions these female academics perform, within the framework of sustainable development, have a technical and, at the same time, humanised vision, as they focus on people and on personal and social values. Gender issues have not been a determinant in the satisfactions, opportunities, and contributions that the leaders make to the institution; however, participants emphasise that this was a strength for leadership.

Purpose: Education for Sustainable Development (EDS) has highlighted the need to generate instruments to assess the sustainability competencies of different populations. In this regard, Physical Education (PE) has been recognized as a subject with unique characteristics that allow students to develop competencies that favor sustainability. However, in previous literature, there are no specific instruments to assess the competencies of future Physical Education teachers (PETs). Therefore, this research aims to design and validate an instrument to assess sustainable competencies in future PETs.Design/methodology/approach: This paper shows the validation process of a questionnaire designed ad hoc to measure the future teacher's sustainable competencies. In total, 341 students completed the Physical Education Scale for Sustainable Development in Future Teachers (PESD-FT) questionnaire consisting of 20 items and an eight-point Likert scale. To ensure the relationship of the instrument's items with the sustainable development, the specific targets that compose the 17 Sustainable Development Goals were considered.Findings: The results showed that the instrument had very high reliability (0.949), excellently fulfilling the validity criteria (0.929). Furthermore, the principal component factor analysis results showed that the PESD-FT comprises three factors, which coincide with the three dimensions of sustainability.Originality/value: It is concluded that PESD-FT is an instrument that reliably assesses the sustainable competencies of prospective PET and expands the possibilities of PE as a valuable instrument to promote sustainable competencies in an integrated way with PE learning objectives. As such, it can be a robust and valuable measurement tool for proposing effective education for sustainable development policies and programs in initial teacher education for PET.

One of the pending challenges facing Education for Sustainable Development is to change students' behavior in favor of sustainability so that these are lasting and even transferable to other people. This study analyzes how various psychological factors, including motivation, attitudes, beliefs and emotions, can be channeled to enhance social and ecological awareness through education. This paper presents an innovative approach to Sustainable Development (SD) in education, focusing on Physical Education. It highlights the intersection of Psychology, education and sustainability, showing how the first two can contribute significantly to lasting changes in students' behavior. Based on this, the Intervention Model for Sustainable Development in Physical Education (PESDIM), which combines psychological theories with specific educational strategies, is presented. In this model, which can be replicated in other educational disciplines, psychological theories are based on social interaction and norms, identity construction, motivation, beliefs and individual efficacy to improve awareness of sustainable development. The paper highlights the need for a holistic and practical approach to sustainability education in general and Physical Education in particular, stresses the importance of psychology and advocates for an educational transformation that holistically integrates sustainability into teaching methods and objectives.

El deporte se considera un medio esencial para favorecer la salud y el desarrollo de los ciudadanos. A su vez, es el camino para alcanzar otras metas como la paz, la tolerancia, el respeto, la democracia o la inclusión de los grupos marginados, que es el caso de las mujeres y niñas. Sin embargo, existe muy poco reconocimiento de la marginación de género en el mundo del deporte. Este estudio, a través de informes y datos estadísticos, analiza cómo la mujer es relegada de los cargos directivos y de los espacios de toma de decisiones y, asimismo, cómo es excluida del cuerpo de entrenadores, asesores y jurados deportivos, lo cual le quita toda visibilidad. Si la mayoría de los estudios vinculados con el deporte es ocupado por los varones y su índice de especialización en masters y doctorados es consecuentemente más alto en la mayoría de países, debemos prever que, desafortunadamente, la brecha no se está cerrando y la proyección de los varones en las ocupaciones laborales vinculadas al mundo deportivo continuará perpetuando espacios deportivos masculinizados, en los que el capital humano y la valiosa aportación de las mujeres se seguirá perdiendo. El análisis realizado muestra, a diversos niveles, la permanencia de la brecha de género en el deporte.

INTRODUCCIÓN. El sexismo y la violencia de género son problemáticas sociales graves. Los objetivos del estudio son: 1) analizar los estereotipos y roles de género, en los comportamientos de los adolescentes, que permean en las actitudes sexistas e 2) identificar posibles relaciones entre la auto-atribución de roles de género y las actitudes sexistas. MÉTODO. Se diseñó un estudio de corte transversal. Participaron 1508 adolescentes. La media de distribución de edades fue de M=14.83. Se utilizaron dos instrumentos: la Traditional Masculinity-Femininity Scale y el cuestionario Gender Role Attitude Scale. RESULTADOS. 1) Los y las adolescentes adoptan roles típicamente masculinos y femeninos, y prevalece la autoidentificación masculina y hegemónica, 2) hay una concentración de roles más estereotipados masculinos y femeninos en la adolescencia temprana, 3) existen diferencias en la autoatribución de los roles de género en función de los estudios de los progenitores, 4) El análisis de la dispersión muestra que los hombres son más sexistas y el análisis de regresión confirma que los roles de género tradicionales incrementan el riesgo de actitudes sexistas. DISCUSIÓN. Se concluye que hay un nivel medio de sexismo, siendo los adolescentes más sexistas que las adolescentes. La masculinidad, tradicionalmente entendida, es más sexista en sus actitudes hacia la igualdad de roles que la feminidad. La influencia de las madres en el desarrollo de la identidad de género es menor y los padres son un factor predictivo de los roles de género de los adolescentes. Hay una correlación positiva entre la autoatribución de roles de género tradicionales y las actitudes sexistas, por lo que dichos roles aumentan el riesgo de estas actitudes. Para prevenir estas actitudes, se propone una escuela virtual de padres y madres que fomente la educación igualitaria y sin estereotipos de género en el hogar.