How social connection helps promote mental health and positive human development in college students in Portugal? - Data from the national HBSC/ JUnP

Marta Reis; Lúcia Ramiro; Gina Tomé; Cátia Branquinho; Diego Gómez-Baya; Tania Gaspar; Margarida Gaspar de Matos

doi:10.33776/erebea.v10i0.4956

Marta Reis Universidad de Huelva
Lúcia Ramiro Universidad de Lisboa
Gina Tomé Universidad de Lisboa
Cátia Branquinho Universidad de Lisboa
Diego Gómez-Baya Universidad de Huelva
Tania Gaspar Universidad de Lisboa
Margarida Gaspar de Matos Universidad de Lisboa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33776/erebea.v10i0.4956

Palabras clave:

desarrollo positivo, Conexión, Autorregulación, Salud mental, Rendimiento académico, Estudiantes universitarios, Portugal.

Resumen

Los seres humanos son animales socia- les y desean sentirse apoyados, valorados y conectados. La investigación muestra que la conexión social proporciona importan- tes beneficios para la salud mental y el de- sarrollo humano positivo. El objetivo de este estudio fue explorar cómo la conexión social ayuda a promover la salud mental y el desarrollo humano positivo e examinar las asociaciones con la dimensión de cone- xión dentro del constructo de desarrollo positivo juvenil con diferentes dimensiones de la salud mental (por ejemplo, autorre- gulación, resiliencia, ansiedad, agresividad y preocupaciones), satisfacción con la vida y rendimiento académico, en una amplia muestra de estudiantes portugueses. La base de datos HBSC / JUnP comprende una muestra representativa de 2991 estu- diantes universitarios (n = 2203; 73,7% mujeres) y con edades entre los 18 y los 35 años (22,43 ± 3,83). Las características so- ciodemográficas de los participantes estu- diadas fueron sexo, edad y grado académi- co; además, se preguntó a los participantes sobre el constructo de desarrollo positivo juvenil de conexión y sus diferentes sub- dimensiones (familia, universidad, barrio, e iguales), salud mental (es concreto, au- torregulación, resiliencia, ansiedad, agresi- vidad, y preocupaciones), satisfacción con la vida y rendimiento académico. Los re- sultados mostraron que todas las variables tenían asociaciones correlacionales mayori- tariamente significativas. Específicamente, el modelo de regresión lineal evidenció que la promoción de la autorregulación y la res- iliencia, junto con la reducción de la ansie- dad y las preocupaciones, pueden ser rele- vantes para mejorar las conexiones sociales (dentro del desarrollo positivo juvenil).

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Biografía del autor/a

Marta Reis, Universidad de Huelva

Assistant Professor Department of Social, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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