OBJECTIVE To analyze the scientific literature about the effects of exposure to psychosocial risk factors in work contexts. METHODS A systematic review was performed using the terms "psychosocial factors" AND "COPSOQ" in the databases PubMed, Medline, and Scopus. The period analyzed was from January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2012. We have included articles that used the Copenhagen Psychosocial Ques...

This paper describes the use of a mixed methods design to develop the Sri Lankan Children’s Daily Stressor Scale (CDSS). It brie£y describes its use in a study assessing the relative contribution of daily stressors on the one hand, and war and disaster exposure on the other, to young people’s mental health and psychosocial wellbeing.The authors discuss the neglect of daily stressors; the stress...

The paper discusses the issue of how to use games effectively with older learners. It approaches the problem from a theoretical and a practical perspective, introducing the rationale and the methodology adopted in the Game-Based Learning for Older Adults (gambaloa) project, which aims to create a thematic network and to share good practice in the field. This paper first introduces and discusses...

The practise of theoretical design has not traditionally been one of those areas of applied mathematics where well-posed questions lead directly to well-de ned answers. Instead, combinatorial arrangements are typically rst proposed as designs on more or less obscure and intuitive grounds; various precisely de ned notions of design optimality might be employed, but almost exclusively to con rm t...

Aiming at the limitations of traditional mental health model, the dual-factor model of mental health (DFM) was proposed as a new idea under the background of positive psychology trend. According to the DFM, mental health is a complete state; subjective well-being should be included into the mental health evaluation system as a positive indictor; in terms of prevention and intervention, the DFM ...

The focus of the research project presented in this article is on the structure of the life stories of elderly people living in old age homes and its relationship to wellbeing or quality of life and the quality of the caring relationship. In an experimental design, we are testing the hypothesis that intervention with narrative methods has a positive effect on existential well-being and quality ...

The Cowan’s central theme is that a healthy couple relationship is a significant factor in appropriate parenting behavior, which, in turn, influences children’s well-being. Consequently, when the couple relationship is troubled, parenting tends to be less effective. The results of two independent studies on couples-based interventions and their subsequent effect on parenting behavior and child ...

The purpose of this advocacy paper is to make a case for the development of a pedagogical model for Health-Based Physical Education (HBPE) drawing on Jewett, Bain and Ennis’s (1995) and Metzler’s (2005) ground-breaking work on models-based practice in physical education. A selective review of what has been learnt about HBPE was made to be able to define the central theme for the model as ‘pupil...

Positive design leads to positive change in our society. In most cases, discussions focus on those who receive the design. However, positive design may also have a positive, but often overlooked, effect on the designers themselves. Learning about difficulties others face and developing solutions is a benefit that can contribute to individual designers’ education and general sense of well-being....

Determining whether well-being has improved is an important multidisciplinary task. It is important therefore to develop a multidimensional measure of well-being that reflects a wide spectrum of human needs. A new approach is presented in this paper based on multidimensional hierarchical human needs and motivation. Improving well-being within this multidimensional approach requires progressive ...