Editorial

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/2612-4033/0110-2444

Abstract

In this historical moment, the challenge facing psychology is to guarantee people’s psychological well-being and to promote resilience. In line with this scientific purpose, the contributions published in this issue of the JCDP have as their common focus the role that the quality of life plays for the individual’s mental and physical well-being, both in the presence and absence of pathology.

This issue provides the opportunity to reflect on the need to implement methods and techniques aimed at promoting the individual adjustment in different contexts during the course of his life.

Author Biography

  • Luana Sorrenti, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina

    Her main research interests concern the Educational Psychology. Specifically, she conducts studies on the cognitive, emotional and motivational factors and contextual variables involved in academic achievement and student well-being. She has deepened the constructs of frustration intolerance, maladaptive perfectionism, learned helplessness, and school refusal in adolescents and young adults. A further area of research concerns Specific Learning Disorders, in particular the cognitive and metacognitive processes underlying the reading and writing skills. Her researches also aim to provide operational implications of prevention and intervention.

    Research interest: individual and contextual variables involved in academic achievement; student well-being; learning and behavioral problems.

References

Keyes, C. L. M., Shmotkin, D., & Ryff, C. D. (2002). Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 1007-1022. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.1007

Ryan, R. M., Weinstein, N., Bernstein, J., Brown, K. W., Mistretta, L., & Gagne, M. (2010). Vitalizing effects of being outdoors and in nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.10.009

Seligman, M. (2011). Flourish. New York: Simon & Schuster.

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Published

2020-05-01

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)

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