Training intervention to promote motivation and well-being

Positive Psychology at School: A School-Based Intervention to Promote Adolescents’ Mental Health and Well-Being

The present study evaluated a positive psychology school-based intervention aimed at enhancing mental health and empowering the entire educational staff and students at a large middle school in the center of Israel. 537 seventhto ninth-grade students participated in a 1 year intervention program and were compared to 501 students in a demographically similar control school. In a 2-year longitudi...

An interactive individualized intervention to promote behavioral change to increase personal well-being in US surgeons.

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the utility of a computer-based, interactive, and individualized intervention for promoting well-being in US surgeons. BACKGROUND Distress and burnout are common among US surgeons. Surgeons experiencing distress are unlikely to seek help on their own initiative. A belief that distress and burnout are a normal part of being a physician and lack of awareness of distress level...

Lighten UP! A community-based group intervention to promote psychological well-being in older adults.

OBJECTIVES Aging is often characterized by declines in physical and mental health and increased risk for depression and social isolation. A protective factor that has been found to effectively moderate these phenomena is psychological well-being. The aim of his study was to pilot test a novel group intervention (Lighten UP! program) for the promotion of psychological well-being in older adults ...

Ethical imperatives of teaching stress control to promote well-being

Subjective well-being: Above neuroticism and extraversion, autonomy motivation matters

This study tested whether general causality orientations explained unique variance in subjective wellbeing (SWB). That is, whether autonomy and impersonal orientations predicted SWB above trait dispositions. Hypotheses were tested by structural equation modeling (SEM) of data from a large sample (N = 1181). Results showed that a higher autonomy orientation predicted increased SWB above neurotic...