Browsing by Author "Arancibia, Hector"

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    A Generation 1.5 Palestinian Diaspora Child Refugee in Chile
    (2021) Arancibia, Hector; Leihy, Pete; Samari, Davood
    This study follows a former child refugee's experience of family resettlement in Chile. Born into the Palestinian Iraqi community further imperiled by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, his family fled first to the Al-Tanf refugee camp before placement in Chile. While most of the world's refugees dwell in marginal conditions in areas neighboring conflicts, another strain of permanent settlement has been highly developed amongst some of the wealthiest countries. For countries such as Chile-by strict definition now high-income, but only newly considering a role as a haven for refugees-tentative steps toward resettlement protocols mean that case data are limited. By carefully studying a family's resettlement and subsequent experience from a child refugee's reflections, it is possible to sketch out and understand a range of challenges at the human scale of supporting refugees.
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    A Social Psychological Index for Transitional Political Reconciliation (SPITPR-5F)
    (2021) Cardenas Castro, Manuel; Arancibia, Hector; Leihy, Pete; Obreque Oviedo, Patricia
    Societal reconciliation and the transition from trauma to peace are increasingly prominent themes in psychosocial studies. In Chile, 3 decades after a transition from a long dictatorship (1973-1990) to restored democratic rule, the measurement of progress in reconciliation remains imprecise, despite a large body of testimony and other empirical evidence. This study explores the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Social Psychological Index for Transitional Political Reconciliation (SPITPR-5F) in a sample of 559 participants from Valparaiso, Chile. Exploratory factor analysis and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the invariance of the correlated 5-factor structure with respect to sex and age variables. The reconciliation index shows good levels of reliability (w = .91), and results support a correlated 5-factor model of political reconciliation. Similarly, the fit index indicates the validity of the model and supports its strict invariance by gender but not by age. These results suggest that the SPITPR-5F is an evaluative five-factor measure of political reconciliation across the Chilean population.