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The social cognitive model of well-being was tested in a sample of 373 college students in Spain. Participants completed measures of academic self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, academic satisfaction and stress, trait positive affect, and overall life satisfaction. A path analysis indicated that the model fit the data well and accounted for substantial portions of the variance in academic domain satisfaction, academic stress, and life satisfaction, though a few path coefficients (e.g., from positive affect and environmental support to academic stress) were nonsignificant. We consider the findings in relation to prior tests of the well-being model and discuss implications for practice and future research.

Career intervention can be designed to enhance constructive attitudes, emotions and behaviours that will improve clients' career attainment. In this sense, mobilisation of career exploration constitutes one of the most important tasks of career counsellors, particularly with emphasis in developmental career guidance models, first developed in the 1950s. The authors present a brief review of career exploration conceptualisation and empirical research lines. The implications for career guidance and counseling are addressed.

A four-year qualitative study of working-class students, conducted at a large research university in Canada, found that these students had transformed their habitus through immersion in the social life of the university. They moved away from their old selves, families, and peers. The students reported drifting away from their old friends as a part of growing older and also as a result of growing intellectually. Although the students transformed their habitus, they still experienced uncertainty between their new and former selves. (44 ref)-

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Portugal is one of the European countries that implemented early protective measures in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Portugal declared a state of emergency on 18 March, and a set of regional and national preventive public health measures was progressively implemented. Studies on the psychological impact of pandemics show evidence of the negative impact on mental health. Of particular concern are individuals with previous fragility (e.g. personal, family or occupational) and those undergoing life transitions. In this paper, we present a telephone-based psychological crisis intervention that was implemented to provide brief, appropriate, and timely psychological help. This intervention follows standard models of crisis intervention and is structured in five phases and five different intervention modules to take into account the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of specific risk groups. With these support services, we hope to help our community better cope with the immediate impact of the pandemic and to contribute to preventing serious mental health problems in the medium and long term.

The effectJ of gender, age and school grade on several career exploration dimensions measured by the Career Exploration Survey were investigated Subjects were high school students facing an imminent career decinbn. Regression analyses indicated that sex and grd-level were the most significant and prevailing individual charactmiria related w the adolescents' career exphation behavioun, reactions and beliefs. Implications fm career exploration inmventions are dricussed.