20 research outputs found
The protective effect of job satisfaction in health, happiness, well-being and self-esteem
The purpose of this article is to analyze the possible effects of job satisfaction on mental and physical health, happiness, subjective well-being and self-esteem. A total of 971 Portuguese-speaking adults participated in this study. Most participants reported high rates of satisfaction with their colleagues, the nature of their work and leadership, while reporting dissatisfaction with regard to salaries and promotions. Results indicated the existence of the protector effect of job satisfaction for health, happiness, subjective well-being and self-esteem, in addition to reinforcing the importance of maintaining a positive evaluation of one's work. As a practical implication, the results may suggest that the effects of personnel management policies which emphasize job satisfaction could potentially lead to improvements in levels of health, happiness, subjective well-being and workers' self-esteem, all of which are factors that can potentially improve organizational performance. The study also considered its limitations and the possibility for future investigation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
From therapy to daily life of a depressed adolescent: Crossing psychopathology and optimal functioning
First published online: 30 November 2017Recently, scientific literature has seen significant development and evaluation of several positive psychology interventions. However, there are still lacking studies that evaluate the efficacy of this type of interventions in clinically depressed adolescents. This paper aims to demonstrate the preliminary results of a new therapy implemented to a 14-year-old female adolescent diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder: the Optimal Functioning Therapy for Adolescent. This therapy seeks to promote adolescents’ optimal functioning by reducing depressive symptoms and increasing well-being. The innovation of this therapy lies in the integration of techniques from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Positive Psychology Interventions. The assessment of this therapy was made using retrospective and real-time or ecological measures (Experience Sampling Method – Csikszentmihalyi and Larson in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175, 526–536, 1987) in three moments: baseline; post-intervention; and 4-month follow-up. Retrospective results showed improvement in positive trait characteristics and elimination of depressive symptoms maintained until follow-up. Real-time results showed the benefits of the therapy on the participant’s daily life regarding external contexts (increased engagement and diversification of activities, places, and companies) and state characteristics (increase in positive mood and self-satisfaction, and a decrease in the negative mood), maintained until follow-up. The Optimal Functioning Therapy for Adolescents contributed to the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and optimal functioning enhancement.(undefined)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Family relationship and parenting practices: a pathway to adolesents’ collectivist and individualist values?
Adolescents’ perceptions of parenting and
family relationships are important variables for identifying
mechanisms involved in how children acquire values and
how these values are transmitted through families. In a
sample of 515 adolescents, we investigated whether perceptions
of the quality of parental practices would predict
adolescents’ collectivist and individualist values. We
hypothesized that perceived quality of family relations
would mediate the relationship between the quality of
parental practices and collectivist values but not of individualist
values. The results of structural equation modeling
suggested that perception of the quality of parental
practices predicted adolescents’ both collectivist and individualist
values. The predicted mediation effect was found
for collectivist values, but not for individualist values. The
results point to different functions of parenting and family
relations on value acquisition. Implications for practice,
such as the development and implementation of interventions
to improve the formation of adolescents’ values by
enhancing the quality of parenting and family relationships
are discussed.Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Ph.D. Grant of
the first author (SFRH/BD/62182/2009), financed by Technology and
Science Foundation (FCT)