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Happiness in life domains and its relation with life satisfaction and positive/negative emotions

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2013

Loisir et société, Sep 2, 2017

Silversides, 'Fostering Self-determination and Sense of Belonging through Leisure Education: Refl... more Silversides, 'Fostering Self-determination and Sense of Belonging through Leisure Education: Reflections on the Steps to Connect Program,' explores the role of a leisure education program for isolated and vulnerable people to keep in touch with their communities in Canada. In a different perspective, Robert Stebbins leads the last article, entitled 'Self-directed Learning as a Basis for Complex Leisure,' where he discusses the role of self-directed learning as a form of serious leisure in the positive development of individuals, in general, and at various stages of their lives. Through these articles, this special issue contributes to the discussion of leisure experience in life, and its actual and recognized international role in achieving optimal development, by articulating research and intervention issues on the quality of leisure experience, health, and positive development. Together, these various articles invite the reader to take into account the necessary but diverse conditions to achieve leisure experience in daily life and throughout life in order to fully contribute to an individual's optimal development.

Revista de Investigação & Inovação em Saúde, 2021

Enquadramento: as experiências pedagógicas que envolvem tutoria por pares têm sido cada vez mais ... more Enquadramento: as experiências pedagógicas que envolvem tutoria por pares têm sido cada vez mais diversificadas. No caso do ensino de enfermagem, a tutoria tem registado um aumento significativo. O presente estudo insere-se num Projeto de Inovação e Desenvolvimento do Ensino e da Aprendizagem - Tutorias por pares em contexto académico de Enfermagem (TutorParE). Tem como finalidade a promoção de estratégias pedagógicas inovadoras e promotoras do desenvolvimento de competências académicas e transversais nos estudantes do ensino superior. Objetivos: analisar a experiência dos tutores sobre a tutoria académica no ensino de enfermagem. Metodologia: o estudo desenvolvido, qualitativo, exploratório e descritivo, envolveu onze estudantes tutores do 4.º ano do curso de licenciatura em enfermagem, numa Unidade Curricular do 1.º ano do curso. Resultados: emergiram duas categorias: (1) desenvolvimento pessoal e; (2) aprendizagem colaborativa. A estratégia de tutoria por pares foi considerada út...

Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the exp... more Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associations between affect and alcohol use. We included individual participant data from 69 studies (N = 12,394), which used daily and momentary surveys to assess affect and the number of alcoholic drinks consumed. Results indicate that people are not more likely to drink on days they experience high negative affect, but are more likely to drink and drink heavily on days high in positive affect. People self-reporting a motivational tendency to drink-to-cope and drink-to-enhance consumed more alcohol, but not on days they experienced higher negative a...

Psicologia, saúde & doenças, Mar 31, 2021

This study aims to analyse: i) the relationship between sociodemographic, clinical and psychologi... more This study aims to analyse: i) the relationship between sociodemographic, clinical and psychological variables, and feeling happy during hospitalization; ii) the differences on feeling happy during hospitalization according to clinical variables; iii) and the contribution of socio-demographic, clinical and psychological variables, to feeling happy during hospitalization. The participants were 101 children and adolescents hospitalized (51.5% are girls) in the Pediatric Unit of a Hospital in the northern region of Portugal. Ages ranged between 10 and 17 years (M = 14, SD = 2.35). Participants answered the following questionnaires: Hope Scale for Children; Positive and Negative Affect Scale; and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale -Children. Feeling happy during hospitalization was assessed by a single item asking how they feel since they are hospitalized, using the "faces" scale from 1 (extremely unhappy) to 7 (extremely happy). The assessment took place in a single moment and fulfilled all the ethical and deontological requisites. Feeling happy during hospitalization was not significantly associated with sociodemographic (e.g. gender, age) and clinical variables (e.g. chronic disease, type of hospitalization), except with the scheduling of hospitalization. It was found that a scheduled hospitalization, higher levels of positive affect, and greater hope in general contributed to higher feelings of happiness during hospitalization, explaining 30% of the variance. The knowledge of the individual variables that contribute to children and adolescents' feelings of happiness during hospitalization may bring clinical implications for individual intervention, out or inside the hospital setting.

Hedonic happiness and Eudaimónica: A study of Portuguese adolescents

Concurrent and Lagged Relations between Emotion Regulation and Affect in Adolescents’ Daily Life

Spanish Journal of Psychology, 2018

A better understanding of emotion regulation (ER) within daily life is a growing focus of researc... more A better understanding of emotion regulation (ER) within daily life is a growing focus of research. This study evaluated the average use of two ER strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and concurrent and lagged relationships between these two ER strategies and affect (positive and negative affect) in the daily lives of adolescents. We also investigated the role of the same strategies at the trait level on these within-person relationships. Thirty-three adolescents provided 1,258 reports of their daily life by using the Experience Sampling Method for one week. Regarding the relative use of ER strategies, cognitive reappraisal (M = 2.87, SD = 1.58) was used more often than expressive suppression (M = 2.42, SD = 1.21). While the use of both strategies was positively correlated when evaluated in daily life (p = .01), the same did not occur at the trait level (p = .37). Multilevel analysis found that ER strategies were concurrently related to affect (p < .01), with the exception of cognitive reappraisal-positive affect relationship (p = .11). However, cognitive reappraisal predicted higher positive affect at the subsequent sampling moment ( β = 0.07, p = .03). The concurrent associations between cognitive reappraisal and negative affect vary as function of the use of this strategy at the trait level (β = 0.05, p = .02). Our findings highlighted the complex associations between daily ER strategies and affect of a normative sample of adolescents.

Flow Experience in Human Development: Understanding Optimal Functioning Along the Lifespan

Springer eBooks, 2021

Affect, emotion regulation and flow experience in school and leisure: Contributions for a positive education

Nova Science Publishers, Inc. eBooks, 2016

[Excerpt] Adolescents spend a great amount of their daily life engaged in either school or leisur... more [Excerpt] Adolescents spend a great amount of their daily life engaged in either school or leisure activities, making these ideal contexts to foster engagement and involvement to achieve personal and social goals. School and leisure tend to be perceived by adolescents from different perspectives according to the role each plays in their present and future lives (Freire, 2011; Freire, Tavares, Silva & Teixeira, in press). In general, subjective school experiences have been shown to be boring and meaningless for adolescents (Shernoff, Csikszentmihalyi, Schneider & Shernoff, 2003), although they (the adolescents) recognize the importance of these experiences in their future life goals. With respect to leisure experiences, studies have systematically shown that leisure activities are associated with higher levels of positive subjective experiences when compared with school activities in their present life but less important when considering future goals (Freire, Lima & Fonte, 2009; Shernoff et al., 2003; Shernoff, Knauth & Makris, 2000). Thus, and for different reasons, both school and leisure appear to be main life contexts for adolescents to learn about themselves, others and environments as well as how to become proactive individuals who act and engage within the contexts of the life cycle. Transforming life contexts into ones that provide enjoyment and achievement by creating conditions that facilitate the emergence of optimal states of subjective experience and functioning is a main concern for many researchers and professionals in the field (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; Shernoff & Csikszentmihalyi, 2009). [...](undefined)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Frontiers in Psychology, Nov 23, 2021

Climate change has been acknowledged as one of the most significant current threats for younger g... more Climate change has been acknowledged as one of the most significant current threats for younger generations. However, few studies have focused on climate change impacts on youth and how they can be supported. The purpose of this systematic review is to emphasize that a developmental perspective is fundamental within the interdisciplinary studies concerning climate change. Specifically, we focus our research on how the Positive Youth Development framework may inform future approaches to promote adolescents' and young adults' well-being and engagement in the context of climate change. A systematic review was conducted following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. The search comprised two databases, and a total of 13 articles were finally considered eligible for review. Data were analyzed using a narrative method. The results show that the Positive Youth Development theory is not yet directly embedded in existing studies concerning adolescents and young adults in the context of climate change, but some of its principles were identified. Examples are provided of how Positive Youth Development characteristics and constructs can enhance future research, practice, and policies. We highlight this framework as an innovative and promising approach in the context of climate change.

Internal and External Factors Underlying Variations in Adolescents’ Daily Optimal Experiences

Journal of Research on Adolescence, Jun 27, 2019

This study investigated how the internal psychological states (i.e., challenge-skill perception, ... more This study investigated how the internal psychological states (i.e., challenge-skill perception, positive and negative affect, and effortless attention) and contextual features (i.e., activity and company) of momentary experiences relate to optimal experience in adolescents' lives. Data were collected from 245 Portuguese adolescents (14-19 years old, 63% female) by using the experience sampling method. Multilevel modeling revealed that challenge-skill and positive affect were positively associated with optimal experience, while negative affect was negatively associated with optimal experience. Effortless attention mediated the associations between internal states and optimal experience, while activity and company only moderated some of these associations. These findings will inform practitioners about the factors that should be addressed in interventions with adolescents to promote optimal experiences in their lives.

Análise psicológica, Jan 6, 2014

do Bom Jesus O presente estudo pretendeu explorar as conceções de felicidade de adolescentes port... more do Bom Jesus O presente estudo pretendeu explorar as conceções de felicidade de adolescentes portugueses, os aspetos mais significativos das suas vidas e os fatores que os justificam; perceber os níveis de significado em vários domínios de vida e o impacto destes na felicidade e significado em geral. Foi utilizado o Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness Investigation (EHHI; Delle Fave, Brdar, Freire, Vella-Brodrick, & Wissing, 2011) que permite aceder, qualitativa e quantitativamente, aos componentes hedónicos e eudaimónicos da Felicidade. Participaram no estudo 216 adolescentes, com média de idade de 16.6 anos (DP=1.2), sendo 68,5% do sexo feminino e 31,5% do sexo masculino. Os resultados qualitativos mostraram que as definições de felicidade, de significado, bem como os motivos subjacentes à atribuição de significado englobam quer dimensões psicológicas quer aspetos relacionados com domínios de vida, integrando componentes hedónicos e eudaimónicos. Já os resultados quantitativos permitiram perceber que a felicidade e o significado contribuem de forma diferenciada mas complementar para o bem-estar. Estes resultados são discutidos à luz das perspetivas hedónica e eudaimónica, vigentes no estudo do bem-estar, contribuindo para uma compreensão holística dos vários componentes que contribuem e que estão envolvidos na Felicidade de adolescentes.

Portuguese validation of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA): relations with self-esteem and life satisfaction

Child Indicators Research, Aug 17, 2014

Despite the growing study of adolescents' emotion regulation (ER) and its importance for deve... more Despite the growing study of adolescents' emotion regulation (ER) and its importance for developmental trajectories, research has focused mainly on psychopathology by contrast with positive functioning. The lack of adequate age measures on emotion regulation has been also largely recognized. The present study aims to explore psychometric properties and construct validity of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA) (Gullone and Taffe, 2012) in a sample of 809 Portuguese adolescents. The Portuguese version (QRE-CA) showed adequate reliability and the Confirmatory Factorial Analysis presented a good fit confirming the two-factor model found by Gullone and Taffe (2012). Measurement invariance tests showed intergroup invariance for gender and school grade. Additionally, convergent validity showed positive associations between the reappraisal strategy and measures of positive psychological functioning (self-esteem and satisfaction with life). The suppression strategy presented negative associations with those same variables.Findings suggest that the QRE-CA is a valid and reliable measure for evaluating strategies of ER. Final considerations highlight the importance of extending research on adolescents' emotion regulation and positive functioning.

From Vulnerability to Skillfulness: Leisure and Positive Intervention in Therapy with Adolescents

Positive Leisure Science

Springer eBooks, 2013

Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development

European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Jun 27, 2023

From Flow to Optimal Experience: (Re)Searching the Quality of Subjective Experience Throughout Daily Life

Springer eBooks, 2011

In recent decades, flow and optimal experience has been a significant focus of research and theor... more In recent decades, flow and optimal experience has been a significant focus of research and theoretical development within the psychological field. But, the understanding of flow is still fragmented, and it remains far from being well understood in all its affective, motivational, cognitive, and physiological dimensions. The main purpose of this chapter is to present a synthesis of a series

Journal of Child and Family Studies, Feb 13, 2018

Parents are the main socialization agents in the development of emotion regulation (ER). In this ... more Parents are the main socialization agents in the development of emotion regulation (ER). In this study, we evaluated adolescents' and their respective parents' perspectives about their use of two ER strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) in daily life. In addition, we evaluated the within-family associations between adolescents' and their parents' use of strategies. We controlled for adolescents' gender and age and the perceived quality of their relationships with their parents (mothers and fathers). The sample consisted of 33 12-to 18-year-old adolescent-father-mother triads, totaling 99 participants. Parents and adolescents reported their use of ER strategies in response to eight random prompts throughout the day, by means of the experience sampling method for 1 week. Participants provided 4082 reports on their momentary experiences. The data were analyzed using multilevel modeling to account for the hierarchical structure of the repeated daily assessments. The significant association between parents' and adolescents' use of ER strategies was specific to mother-adolescent dyads. The significant association between adolescents' and their mothers' ER strategies varied as a function of the adolescents' age and the quality of their relationship with their mothers according to adolescents' reports, but not as a function of adolescent gender. These findings suggest that mothers have a role in their adolescents' emotion regulation in a developmental period characterized by autonomy from parental guidance.