In addition to being a well-liked form of recreation, escape rooms have drawn the attention of educators due to their ability to foster teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, and communication in a way that is engaging for students. As a consequence, educational escape rooms are emerging as a new type of learning activity under the promise of enhancing students' learning through highly engaging experiences. These activities consist of escape rooms that incorporate course materials within their puzzles in such a way that students are required to master these materials in order to succeed. Although several studies have reported on the use of escape rooms in a wide range of disciplines, prior research falls short of addressing the use of educational escape rooms for teaching programming, one of the most valuable skills of the twentyfirst century that students often have difficulties grasping. This paper reports on the use of an educational escape room in a programming course at a higher education institution and provide, for the first time, insights on the instructional effectiveness of using educational escape rooms for teaching programming. The results of this paper show that appropriate use of educational escape rooms can have significant positive impacts on student engagement and learning in programming courses. These results also suggest that students prefer these activities over traditional computer laboratory sessions. Finally, another novel contribution of this paper is a set of recommendations and proposals for educators in order to help them create effective educational escape rooms for teaching programming.

ResumenEste estudio tuvo como objetivo examinar las relaciones entre el bienestar psicológico, el apoyo social percibido y la percepción de salud en adultos mayores. La muestra estuvo constituida por 250 personas, 146 mujeres y 104 hombres, con edades entre 60 y 87 años (promedio de 70,8 años) de la ciudad de Concepción (Chile). Los resultados mostraron que el bienestar psicológico presentaba mayores relaciones con el apoyo social percibido que con la percepción de salud, que los hombres informaron mayor bienestar psicológico y mejor percepción de salud que las mujeres y que las personas casadas o con pareja estable informaron mayor bienestar psicológico y mayor apoyo social percibido que aquellas sin pareja estable. Se proponen diversos factores explicativos para los resultados obtenidos.Palabras clave: Bienestar psicológico, apoyo social, adultos mayores AbstractThis study examined the relationship between psychological well-being, perceived social support and health perception in older adults. The participants were 250 males and females with mean age of 71 years, from Concepción (Chile). The results showed that psychological well-being had a higher relationship with perceived social support than with health perception, that males reported higher psychological well-being and better health perception than females, and that married participants reported higher psychological wellbeing and higher perceived social support than participants without a partner. Diverse explanatory factors for obtained results are proposed. Keywords: Psychological well-being, social support, older adults Correspondencia: La correspondencia relacionada con este artículo debe ser enviada a

This work was supported by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) for Propuesta y validación de una metodología para el uso de escape rooms educativas mediante una plataforma web under Grant IE1819.0905.

ResumenEste estudio tuvo como objetivo examinar la relación de las variables autoeficacia y apoyo social percibido con la satisfacción vital en adolescentes. La muestra estuvo conformada por 358 adolescentes de ambos sexos con edades comprendidas entre los 14 y 19 años. Los resultados mostraron altos niveles de autoeficacia y apoyo social percibido, así como un nivel relativamente alto de satisfacción vital. La satisfacción vital mostró relaciones significativas tanto con la autoeficacia como con el apoyo social, siendo algo mayor la relación con la autoeficacia. Se proponen posibles explicaciones para los resultados encontrados. Palabras clave: satisfacción vital, autoeficacia, apoyo social percibido, adolescentes. AbstractThis study examined the relationship of life satisfaction with self-efficacy and perceived social support in 358 male and female adolescents from concepcion (chile), 15 to 19 years old. Results showed high levels of self-efficacy, perceived social support and life satisfaction in this sample. Both self-efficacy and social support had significant positive relationships with life satisfaction, with self-efficacy having more relationship with life satisfaction than perceived social support. Diverse explanatory factors for obtained results are proposed.