Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being Editorial

Editorial: Psychosocial Job Dimensions and Distress/Well-Being: Issues and Challenges in Occupational Health Psychology

Psychology of Health and Well-Being: Some Emerging Perspectives

Recent years have evinced growing concern about the psychological factors that improve and impair the health status of a person. This has led to the emergence of health psychology which is practically an interdisciplinary venture involving mind-body interaction. This paper tries to offer an overview of the salient developments in this area by critically examining the concepts and research evide...

Psychological well-being and health. Contributions of positive psychology

Positive Psychology is contributing to a more precise definition of the outline of human well-being and is fully incorporating studies on positive elements (strengths and positive emotions) that are without doubt amplifying the framework of research and conduct of psychology, in particular that of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology. Over the last few years, academic debate has, from a sc...

environmental psychology effects on mental health job satisfaction and personal well being of nurses

objective: environmental psychology as a science could be useful in understanding the dissociation between the man and the environment. the aim of this study was to compare mental health, job satisfaction and well-being of nurses who work in hospital environments with different designs. material: this was a quasi-experimental study, in which 250 nurses filled out the mental health, well-being a...

Health, Wealth, and Well-Being

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