Suicidal behaviors and constructs are putting at risk the accomplishment of Objective 3 of Agenda 2030 for sustainable development in Spanish-speaking countries. The current study’s principal objective is to explain the presence of suicidal ideation and deaths by suicide as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spanish-speaking countries based on a review of the scientific literature. The PRISMA model was used as the main method while considering the criteria of periodicity, language, typology, and country in order to choose the 28 articles that were analyzed from the following three databases: SCOPUS, Web of Science, and ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database. Suicidal ideation and death by suicide exhibited a growth trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, including post-pandemic, especially in kids, adolescents, and young women of university age belonging to lower socioeconomic strata and presenting risk factors like living in rural areas, poor mental health, unemployment, and family death due to COVID-19.

El objetivo del presente estudio fue describir las actitudes que manifiestan los estudiantes universitarios de la ciudad de Piura frente a personas en situación de discapacidad en función al sexo, edad y el contacto con familiares o amigos de personas con discapacidad. Se utilizó un diseño de investigación no experimental, con enfoque cuantitativo de tipo aplicado, transversal, descriptivo comparativo. Se empleó el cuestionario: Escala de actitudes hacia las personas con discapacidad de (Verdugo et al., 1994), conformado por 37 preguntas, la cual se aplicó a una muestra de 807 estudiantes universitarios piuranos de I ciclo de las 16 carreras profesionales, de los cuales 493 son mujeres y 314 varones. Los resultados encontrados indican que los estudiantes universitarios no presentan una actitud favorable frente a las personas con discapacidad. Sin embargo, el análisis comparativo señala que las mujeres muestran actitudes más favorables que los varones, así como también los estudiantes más jóvenes en comparación con los mayores. No se encontraron diferencias significativas según tuviesen contacto o no, con familiares o amigos con alguna discapacidad, salvo en el área de valoración de capacidades y limitaciones.

Ante la diversidad de problemas que han afectado el bienestar y salud mental de la población, especialmente el funcionamiento psicológico, y teniendo limitación para acceder a trabajos donde se explique qué papel desempeña la resiliencia en el funcionamiento psicológico positivo en mujeres, el estudio de estas variables es relevante. En tal sentido, esta investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar en qué medida la resiliencia explica el funcionamiento psicológico positivo, fue un estudio de tipo aplicado con un diseño correlacional causal, participaron 169 mujeres de la ciudad de Piura, Perú, seleccionadas mediante un muestreo no probabilístico por criterios, se administraron dos cuestionarios con escala tipo Likert. Mediante las correlaciones bivariadas se encontraron valores significativos de 0.69, y al realizar el proceso de regresión lineal se encontró un R cuadrado de 0.51 y en los coeficientes del modelo de regresión lineal entre resiliencia y funcionamiento psicológico se obtuvieron valores significativos de 0.000. Mediante estos hallazgos se concluye que la resiliencia predice y actúa como mediador en las características del funcionamiento psicológico positivo en este grupo de mujeres, por lo tanto, toda intervención que se realice tendrá resultados satisfactorios brindado adecuadas estrategias de afrontamiento.

In recent years, various studies have been developed regarding academic performance related to self-esteem, cognitive commitment, motivation, among others. However, there is still a limitation in works that analyze to what extent study habits function as mediating factors of academic performance in students. This work aimed to determine to what extent study habits explain academic performance in university students in northern Peru.

Background Anxiety and depression are two of the main psychological disorders that affect thousands of people in the world, including university students. This research is justified because it seeks to reevaluate, compare and confirm the psychometric properties and establish the sociodemographic profile of the Anxiety and Depression Disorders Symptom Scale in Peruvian university students. The main objective of this study was to determine the evidence of psychometric properties, and the sociodemographic profile, of the Symptom Scale for Anxiety and Depression Disorders in university students from the region of Piura, Peru. Methods The sample was determined using proportional, probabilistic sampling that included 6 universities in Piura, Peru, consisting of 1243 participants. The scale has 35 Items within 7 subscales. Results The results identified that the items fall within the range of +/- 1.5 for skewness and kurtosis, except for items 22 and 35. The construct validity, assessed through factor analysis, shows that 100% of the items achieve scores greater than 0.5, with a significance level of less than < 0.001. The goodness-of-fit index through confirmatory factor analysis aligns with the transdiagnostic theoretical model, with scores for CFI and TLI >= 0.90, and for RMSEA and SRMR <= 0.60. The scale demonstrates adequate composite reliability according to MacDonald's Omega Coefficient (0.959). Furthermore, there is a moderate significant association (p = 0.001; gamma = - 0.192) between age, the presence of anxiety and depression symptoms. A strong significant association (p = 0.001; gamma = 0.365) is observed between sex and the presence of core symptoms of anxiety and depression. Conclusion In conclusion, the scale evidence an adequate psychometric consistency, presenting itself as a valid and reliable instrument. Of the university students evaluated, it was generally identified that 24% reach a high level and 50% reach a moderate level of anxiety and depression symptoms. Additionally, being a woman and an adolescent increases the likelihood of presenting elevated levels of the symptoms evaluated by the scale.

This research study's principal objective is to explain the relationship between corruption and political attitudes regarding sustainable development, also from the perspective of Peruvian students. The sample consisted of 616 university students who were from the cities of Lima and Piura. They responded to two instruments: The Attitude Scale Toward Politics and the Attitude Scale Toward Corruption. Among the most representative results, it was found that institutional corruption has a highly significant and direct relationship with political attitudes from the perspective of university students (0.720. Sig.0.000). Nine out of ten dimensions of attitudes toward politics achieved highly significant correlations (p = 0.001) with attitudes toward corruption. Among the conclusions, it is observed that attitudes toward politics and attitudes toward corruption show a systematic interdependence of modification. It is necessary implement strategies for political participation without corruption is emphasized to improve the education that sustains the future governance of the country.