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Introduction: Water is a healthy alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) consumption. Objective: Identify psychosocial factors associated with water consumption among adolescents from Quebec (Canada). Method: Data collection took place in 12 regions of Quebec (March-July 2023). A total of 218 French-speaking adolescents (82.1% between 14 and 16 years; 55.5% girls) completed an online questionnaire based on the Reasoned Action Approach. Water and SSB consumption was measured using a validated French version of the Beverage Questionnaire. Results: Adolescents reported consuming an average of 1591.4 ml of water and 283.3 ml of SSB per day. The intention to make water the drink of choice every day was significantly associated with the behavior of consuming more than 1000 ml of water per day (OR: 1.96; 95% CI: 1.17-3.25). Self-identity (β = 0.43; p <0.0001), perceived behavioral control (β = 0.30; p <0.0001), affective attitude (β = 0.16; p = 0.0033) and descriptive norm (β = 0.15; p = 0.0007) explained 73% of the variance in intention. Discussion and Conclusion: This study highlights avenues for interventions aimed at promoting water as the drink of choice to replace SSB intake among young Quebecers. The results will be useful for nurses and other stakeholders in public health, schools, and clinical settings to better understand what influences adolescents to drink water to promote healthy hydration habits and, consequently, favor health.

Keywords: water intake, consommation d’eau, adolescents, adolescents et adolescentes, facteurs associés, associated factors, sugar-sweetened beverages, boissons sucrées, Reasoned Action Approach, Approche de l’action raisonnée

Over recent years, the labour shortage in various economic sectors in New Brunswick has led many businesses in the province, as in the rest of Canada, to seek international workers. However, given New Brunswick's demographic data regarding its aging population, the low proportion of immigrants relative to the province's total population, and its low five-year immigrant retention rate, it is important to examine the factors that may lead these newcomers to leave New Brunswick. If nothing is done in this regard, there is a significant risk that New Brunswick will become merely a transit point for many immigrants. It is in this context that this article is fundamentally intended to understand these factors from the perspectives of managers and employees working in immigrant settlement agencies in the francophone part of New Brunswick. This study reveals three main factors that may explain the low retention rate of newcomers in this province. It highlights the need to focus not only on their economic integration but also on their social integration, particularly through the acquisition of cultural skills, within a broader perspective.

Keywords: New Brunswick, Nouveau-Brunswick, nouveaux arrivants, newcomers, integration, intégration, taux de rétention, retention rate, compétences interculturelles, intercultural skills

This article lays out two unconventional and markedly sensuous modes of encountering the forest: the aesthetic asceticism of the iconic naturalist/settler Henry David Thoreau and the militant botanical/ zoological/ecological and gastronomical approach to the wilderness of the mestizo artist and writer Domingo Cisneros. The latter migrated from Mexico to Quebec in 1968 and, among other pursuits, between 1974 and 1976 directed the Département d’art autochthone et communication at Collège Manitou in La Macaza in the Laurentides region. In 2018 he was awarded an honourary doctorate by the Université du Quebec à Montreal in recognition of his contribution to contemporary art. This article, or “étude sensorielle,” seeks to articulate an aesthetic forestry in response to an invitation from the Chaire de recherche du Canada en arts, écotechnologies de pratique et changements climatiques (ou MÉDIANE), Gisèle Trudel, to bring a sensory ethnographic approach to bear on the interpretation of la pensée arborescent, and advancement of a “science of the concrete”.

Keywords: Henry David Thoreau/Domingo Cisneros, Henry David Thoreau/Domingo Cisneros, Yankee/mestizo, Yankee/mestizo, Walden Pond/Sainte-Émélie-de-l’Énergie, Walden Pond/Sainte Émélie-de-l’Énergie, New England/Lanaudière, Nouvelle-Angleterre/Lanaudière, Aesthetic forestry, Foresterie esthétique, Sensory ethnography, Ethnographie sensorielle

This article analyses the series Severance (Dan Erickson, Apple TV+, 2022–2025) as an aesthetic and critical representation of psychological dissociation and neoliberal alienation in the workplace. Building on the fictional device of "severance" between professional memory (Inter) and personal memory (Exter), the series does not merely represent a managerial dystopia: it converts dissociation into a scenographic, narrative, and sensory principle. By drawing on concepts from psychoanalysis (Freud, Winnicott, Green, Lacan) and critical philosophy (Deleuze, Guattari), the article shows how the sanitised architecture of Lumon Industries, temporal fragmentation, sound breaks, and absurd rituals materialise psychic mechanisms such as splitting, repression, disbinding and the capture of desire. Space is analysed as a transitional anti-space that prevents any symbolisation, while the editing and unstable temporality produce an experience of alienation shared by the viewer. The study also highlights an "aesthetic of alertness," based on silent but revealing visual and auditory signs that denounce the symbolic violence of contemporary organisations without resorting to explicit discourse. Finally, the article identifies lines of flight—gestures of rebellion, returns of the repressed, bodily resistance—which show that dissociation, although radical, leaves traces of subjectivity. Severance thus appears as an aesthetic and political laboratory of contemporary subjectivation.

Keywords: aliénation, alienation, scénographie, scenography, résistance, resistance, subjectivation, subjectivation, dissociation, dissociation

This article offers an interpretation of M. Night Shyamalan's films based on psychological defense mechanisms and their spatial representation. It analyzes how Shyamalan's direction serves to highlight pathology : it materializes the neuroses and defense mechanisms that structure the protagonists' experiences. In the filmmaker's work, the narrative almost always arises from an initial trauma — loss, accident, abuse — which shapes the characters and organizes their environment. Space plays a central role in this dynamic. Through a psychoanalytical approach to his characters, Shyamalan explores their neuroses. Often confined to closed and unstable spaces, they project their inner fragmentation onto spaces that are themselves divided. The staging visually conveys this dynamic : fragmentation of the frame, closed spaces, ambivalent domestic spaces. The house, a metonymy for the family unit, becomes the scene of an intimate threat where the disturbing emerges from the familiar. Closed spaces also reflect a defensive response to an unbearable reality, transforming survival into both a psychological and physical challenge. The study highlights how denial, repression, and dissociation drive the narrative progression, often revealed through flashbacks. Shyamalan's cinema thus appears as an exploration of the unconscious strategies that make trauma bearable, where the organization of space becomes the visible materialization of an inner struggle.

Keywords: M. Night Shyamalan, M. Night Shyamalan, traumatisme, trauma, survie, survival, space, espace

Studies examining personal attitudes, social norms, and behaviors surrounding violence against children are needed to accelerate progress toward preventing this harmful practice. This study aims to analyze the influence of children's personal attitudes and perceived community norms related to verbal and corporal punishment on violence against children in Burkina Faso. The analysis was based on a representative sample of 5,504 children aged 12 to 17 who participated in a national survey carried out in March and June 2018 by the Higher Institute of Population Sciences (ISSP) in the 13 regions of Burkina Faso. We showed that acceptance of parental verbal punishment and children’s perception that community norms were supportive of corporal punishment were found to be positively associated with violence against children during the past year. These findings highlight the need to implement programmatic and interventional approaches, including community mobilization, mass communication, diffusion of innovations and prevention strategies, in order to transform social norms related to childhood violence, either directly or indirectly by changing attitudes and behaviors.

Keywords: violence against children, Violences faites aux enfants, emotional violence, violence émotionnelle, physical violence, violence physique, sexual violence, violence sexuelle, personal attitudes, attitudes personnelles, perceived community norms, normes communautaires perçues, verbal punishment, punition verbale, punition corporelle, corporal punishment, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso

The transition from studies to professional practice is a complex process that is unique to each newly graduated nurse (NGN). When confronted with the realities of clinical practice, NGNs frequently experience negative emotions that contribute to transition shock, such as doubt, confusion, loss of confidence, and disorientation. Although this phenomenon varies in intensity and duration from one NGN to another, it is nonetheless possible to anticipate the sequence of the transition in order to prevent or mitigate the effects of this shock. The stages of transition theory thus appears to be an essential resource for guiding research on the attraction, integration, and retention of the next generation of nurses within health care organizations. This article presents the French translation and adaptation of Duchscher’s (2008) stages of transition theory to the Quebec francophone context. A four-step process was undertaken, inspired by the recommendations of Sousa and Rojjanasrirat (2011) and by the translation and adaptation work of Lavoie et al. (2021). Seven experts in nursing education and the original author contributed to the translation and adaptation. The theory conceptualizes transition as a transformation process that is nonlinear and not strictly progressive during which the NGN evolves both personally and professionally as they move through three stages: doing, being, and knowing/becoming. The article concludes with a discussion of four elements: the methodological considerations that guided the translation and adaptation process; the limits of the theory’s scope; the evolution of integration practices and their implications for the theory; and the application of the theory in practice.

Keywords: transition professionnelle, intégration, développement des compétences, traduction et adaptation