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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a terrible type of maltreatment that occurs in all countries and social statuses, but due to the shame and taboo that it creates, it is still riddled with myths and false beliefs that make it difficult for the population and the authorities to adequately determine its prevalence. The objective of this work was to explore what Mexican women know about CSA. The participants were Mexican women (N = 499) who filled out a questionnaire comprising ten items referring to truths and myths about CSA, indicating their degree of agreement with them on a Likert scale. The results showed that although Mexican women have quite adequate knowledge about CSA, they still hold wrong beliefs about the child's feelings toward the abuser or the child victim becoming an adult abuser. Likewise, differences were found in the myths and truths about CSA held by women under 40 and over 40 years of age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an innovative methodology for the prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA): animated cartoons. CSA is a political, social, educational, and psychological problem that affects many children according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That is why prevention becomes an essential tool for the protection of children. Children are increasingly accustomed to the use of digital media, both for learning and for entertainment. In response to this evolution on how information is transmitted and according to the tradition that cartoons have always had of transmitting values such as friendship, ecology, or solidarity, a 15-minute long video was developed. This video is an animated cartoon, presenting a story. It is composed of music, six friends, and three fantasy characters, and it was designed for children to learn resources to ask for help in case they are suffering CSA. The video is accompanied by a workbook through which both children and adults reinforce what they have learned in the cartoons and learn additional keys for their protection. Data from the first pilot studies carried out to test the effectiveness of this methodology are also presented, with promising results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bullying is a problem within the school context and with important consequences for the victim. The scientific literature has shown that emotional intelligence (EI) enhances the role of cohabitation within the school context. This systematic review aims to analyze the evidence of the role of EI in bullying. Results show greater levels of emotional perception in students involved in bullying and lower levels of emotional understanding and regulation compared to students not involved in these behaviors. In addition, gender differences in their levels of EI were found among students involved in bullying. The results reveal the importance of designing and implementing programs of EI in the school context as prevention and action against bullying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a terrible type of maltreatment that can have serious physical and psychological consequences for victims. These consequences include shame and are often taboo in conversation, which makes CSA very difficult to see. Therefore, multiple myths exist about CSA that can lead to misperceptions regarding issues such as its context, prevalence, and consequences. What is unknown cannot be addressed; therefore, the aim of this work was to investigate Spanish participants' knowledge about CSA as well as examine gender and educational level differences. A 10-item questionnaire comprising myths and truths about CSA was developed, taking into account existing literature. Participants (N = 1,540) had to rate their level of agreement with the statements. Some important aspects of CSA remain unclear, particularly in terms of the background of the victims (e.g., gender, educational level, CSA prevalence). Significant differences in the perception of CSA between men and women and among those with various educational levels were found: Men and people with lower levels of education held more myths about CSA. In conclusion, better knowledge about CSA is needed to get people involved in its prevention. We must consider the myths and truths about CSA when designing prevention programs and tailor educational programs to the target population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We introduce and discuss several ways of extending the inner measure arisen from the closed injective hull of an ideal of linear operators to the multilinear case. In particular, we consider new measures that allow to characterize the operators that belong to a closed injective ideal of multilinear operators as those having measure equal to zero. Some interpolation formulas for these measures, and consequently interpolation results involving ideals of multilinear operators, are established. Examples and applications related to summing multilinear operators are also shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study explored the mediating role of cognitive and affective components of empathy in the relationship between happiness and positive and negative affect in adolescents with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and their non-AS peers. For that purpose, we measured empathy, subjective happiness, and affect experienced by a group of 42 adolescents with AS compared to 44 of their non-AS peers. Adolescents in both groups were matched on age, sex, and IQ, and were administered a battery of measures assessing their self-reports of empathy, perspective-taking, subjective happiness, and positive and negative affect. Findings revealed that adolescents with AS, in contrast to their peers without AS, reported less subjective happiness, less positive affect, and lower affective balance. No differences were found between the two groups on negative affect. A mediating role of both cognitive and affective components of empathy was found between happiness, positive affect, and affective balance experienced in relation to AS. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We prove that for a large class of Banach function spaces continuity and holomorphy of superposition operators are equivalent and that bounded superposition operators are continuous. We also use techniques from infinite dimensional holomorphy to establish the boundedness of certain superposition operators. Finally, we apply our results to the study of superposition operators on weighted spaces of holomorphic functions and the $F(p, \alpha , \beta )$ spaces of Zhao. Some independent properties on these spaces are also obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Eyes Test-Child version (Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Spong, Scahill, & Lawson, 2001) is a test that measures advanced theory of mind (ToM) skills through an emotional recognition task. The test was designed for the diagnosis of emotional recognition and mentalization, and it has been widely used across different cultures as a tool for the diagnosis of disorders associated with a deficit in ToM skills, such as autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia or behavioral disorders. This study reports the preliminary validation of the Spanish "Eyes Test-Child Version" in an adolescent nonclinical population. We examined distribution of response, item difficulty, and scores on the Spanish version with a sample of 354 adolescents aged 14 to 16 years. Additionally, we analyzed whether the right responses were associated with age and gender. Results showed that distribution of response, item difficulty, and scores on the Spanish sample coincided with the original version. Eyes Test scores were not related to the age of adolescents. Females scored higher than males, which replicates earlier studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study projections and injections between projective tensor products spaces or spaces of polynomials and we show that the example of a polynomial constructed in [4], that is neither p-dominated nor compact, can be identified with the projection map of the symmetric tensor product onto the space. Also we give a characterization of the weak and quasi approximation properties on symmetric tensor products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the class of p 1 , … , p m , σ , q , ν -nuclear m-linear operators between Banach spaces, as an intermediate space between the class of nuclear multilinear operators and the whole class of all bounded multilinear operators. The connection with the theory of summing m-linear operators is established. Moreover, we identify this space with a dual space by means of a reasonable crossnorm inspired by the Chevet–Saphar norm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is the study of surjective ideals of homogeneous polynomials between Banach spaces. To do so we define the surjective hull of a polynomial ideal and prove the main properties of this hull procedure. For a more comprehensive theory, new lifting properties of homogeneous polynomials are proved and applied to the description of the surjective hulls of the ideals of [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letbe the canonical map, whereis a regular Borel probability measure on the closed unit ballof the dualof a Banach spaceendowed with the weak* topology. This paper has a twofold purpose: (i) to study when-summing linear operators/-dominated homogeneous polynomials onhave a Pietsch measure for which the canonical map is injective; (ii) to show how these results can be used to correct the proofs of some results of the authors concerning Pietsch-type factorization of dominated polynomials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Given a regular probability measure μ on a compact Hausdorff space, we explicitly describe the predual of the Banach space of continuous n-homogeneous polynomials on L p (μ) as the completion of a (explicit constructed) subspace of L p/n (μ) with respect to a (explicitly constructed) norm π p/n . An application to the factorization of dominated polynomials is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In this paper we prove an abstract version of Pietsch''s domination theorem which unify a number of known Pietsch-type domination theorems for classes of mappings that generalize the ideal of absolutely p-summing linear operators. A final result shows that Pietsch-type dominations are totally free from algebraic conditions, such as linearity, multilinearity, etc. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The aim of this paper is to prove a stronger version of a conjecture posed earlier on the existence of nondominated scalar-valued $m$-homogeneous polynomials, $m geq 3$, on arbitrary infinite dimensional Banach spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We prove that, like in the linear case, there is a canonical prototype of a p-dominated homogeneous polynomial through which every p-dominated polynomial between Banach spaces factors. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This article has two clear motivations, one technical and one practical. The technical motivation unifies in a single formulation a huge family of inequalities that have been produced separately over the last ninety years in different contexts. But we do not just join inequalities; our method also creates a family of inequalities that were invisible by previous approaches. The practical motivation is to show that our new approach has the strength to attack various problems. We provide new applications of our family of inequalities, continuing recent work by Maia, Nogueira, and Pellegrino. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study norm attaining properties of the Arens extensions of multilinear forms defined on Banach spaces. Among other related results, we construct a multilinear form on ℓ1 with the property that only some fixed Arens extensions determined a priori attain their norms. We also study when multilinear forms can be approximated by ones with the property that only some of their Arens extensions attain their norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]