Psychosocial Well-Being of Children and Adolescents: Intervention Effect and Impact Evaluation

Impact of a School-Based Multicomponent Positive Psychology Intervention on Adolescents’ Time Attitudes: A Latent Transition Analysis

“…These results contribute to the debate as to whether positive interventions are equally useful for everyone and gives rise to the question of whether multicomponent positive psychology interventions may have more detrimental than beneficial impacts in terms of promoting well-being when it comes to certain profiles. This trend has led applied researchers to allocate students with higher well-being to control groups and those with lower well-being to intervention groups (Sarriera et al, 2017). Determining how best to increase the well-being of students who already exhibit high well-being seems to be an outgoing challenge that will require further study.…”

Family and Conjugality: Perception of Happiness of Domestic Abusers

“…The explanatory models on well-being and happiness have been transformed since the 1960s, from new theories and epistemologies, with methodological, scientific, and academic developments. Sarriera and Bedin (2017) defend the importance of treating wellbeing as a multidimensional category. Their theory is based on human rights, considering the person as an integral being in its biopsychosocial, cultural, moral, and spiritual aspects.…”

“…For this author, optimal well-being (high level of subjective well-being and psychological well-being) increases with age, education, extroversion, and an increase of consciousness and decreases with neuroticism (characterized by sadness). This was evident when the interviewees mentioned that happiness also means relating well with others, with emphasis on family relationships and coexistence, and this is one of the dimensions highlighted in the definition of subjective well-being by Sarriera and Bedin (2017). Despite referring to others, the statements of the interviewees again reflect the concern to put into practice an acquired knowledge, that is, that each one should make an effort to create good relationships, each one should do their part; and this involves eliminating abuse and disagreement.…”

“…Consequently, Gross Domestic Happiness has received increasing attention, along with new metrics for progress that consider social, environmental, spiritual, and economic dimensions. Several researchers worldwide have become interested in the theme of happiness, to signal the development of public policies, aimed at increasing wellbeing (Brissos-Lino, 2015, Sarriera & Bedin, 2017).…”

Multicomponent positive psychology intervention for health promotion of Brazilian retirees: a quasi-experimental study

“…Systematic evaluations also allow decisions regarding the continuity, or not, and needs of adaptation according to the intervention's aims. The evaluation protocol may include: process evaluation to assess whether the implementation process is in line with the intervention proposal (procedures, resource allocation, and so on); effect evaluation to check the results and scope of changes in expected variables at the end of the intervention; and/or impact evaluation via the inclusion of a control group to infer whether changes may be attributed to the intervention (Sarriera, Bedin, Strelhow, & Sarriera, 2018).…”