Towards Youth Happiness and Mental Health in the United Arab Emirates: The Path of Character Strengths in a Multicultural Population

“Andrà tutto bene”: Associations Between Character Strengths, Psychological Distress and Self-efficacy During Covid-19 Lockdown

“…As for second-order character strength factors, transcendence was the only factor showing strong negative associations with the indicators of psychological distress (DASS-21 and GHQ-12), and a positive association with Covid-19-related self-efficacy, in terms of people's ability to manage their emotions, daily activities, and relations with others. These findings are in line with previous studies identifying transcendence strengths as the factor most associated with mental health in university students (Petkari and Ortiz-Tallo 2018), and young people living in stressful conditions (Shoshani and Slone 2016;Weber et al 2013). The same relationship was also found in non-stressful conditions (Petkari and Ortiz-Tallo 2018), and in studies investigating single character strengths (Martínez-Martí and Ruch 2014).…”

“…These findings are in line with previous studies identifying transcendence strengths as the factor most associated with mental health in university students (Petkari and Ortiz-Tallo 2018), and young people living in stressful conditions (Shoshani and Slone 2016;Weber et al 2013). The same relationship was also found in non-stressful conditions (Petkari and Ortiz-Tallo 2018), and in studies investigating single character strengths (Martínez-Martí and Ruch 2014). The same holds for general self-efficacy under stressful circumstances (Weber et al 2013) and in non-stressful conditions (Martínez-Martí and Ruch 2017), as well as at single strength level (Ruch et al 2014).…”

“…Analyzing single strengths will also enable us to see which of them has a specific relation with the dependent variables. We might expect strengths such as hope, love, gratitude and zest (usually part of the transcendence strengths factor) to have a detectable influence in a pandemic, as previously reported in non-pandemic settings, on both mental health (Huta and Hawley 2010;Petkari and Ortiz-Tallo 2018) and self-efficacy (Ruch et al 2014).…”

Programa Creciendo Fuertes: Evidencias De Su Eficacia Y Satisfacción

“…Gran parte de las pesquisas de las investigaciones en psicología positiva han estado orientadas a validar ese constructo mediante escalas de medición para distintas etapas del ciclo vital y determinar los beneficios o correlatos de las fortalezas del carácter. En ese sentido, la investigación ha puesto de manifiesto la confirmación de la teoría planteada, es decir, las fortalezas del carácter son posibilitadores del bienestar (Wagner et al, 2018;Goodman et al, 2017;Vela et al, 2017;Hazer, 2016), e incluso se presentan correlatos con otros indicadores de salud (Petkari & Ortiz-Tallo, 2018;Kumar, George y Sudhesh, 2018;Duan y Ho, 2018). De igual manera, en la adolescencia las fortalezas del carácter han mostrado estar asociadas a la salud mental e inversamente con psicopatología, (Blanca et al 2018;Shoshani y Slone, 2013;Proyer et al 2011;Park y Peterson, 2006;Giménez, Vázquez y Hervás, 2010;Giménez, 2010) y con desarrollo positivo adolescente (Park, 2004(Park, , 2009.…”

Relações entre Forças de Caráter e Autorregulação Emocional em Universitários Brasileiros

“…Algumas pesquisas têm destacado a relevância de incluir as forças de caráter em agendas de pesquisas, uma vez que elas estão associadas positivamente com fatores positivos da personalidade (agradabilidade e extroversão, por exemplo) e com maiores níveis de bem-estar, satisfação com a vida, autoestima e otimismo (Grinhauz, 2015;Noronha & Campos, 2018;Petkari & Ortiz-Tallo, 2016). Por serem socialmente aceitáveis e indicarem caraterísticas de uma pessoa boa (Noronha & Campos, 2018), faz-se importante destacar aquelas forças de caráter que se relacionam ao controle de excessos, sobretudo à autorregulação, foco do presente estudo.…”