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Positive Development and Optimal Functioning
Positive Development and Optimal Functioning
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This area of research is focused in the study of positive development and optimal functioning through the lens of developmental psychology and positive psychology. Our research projects have been aimed at studying the quality of subjective experience in daily life, crossing personal and contextual variables, in order to understand positive and negative patterns of human functioning (through cognitive, affective, motivational and behavioural dimensions). Studies include mixed-method approaches, using
traditional retrospective self-report
(e.g., scales and questionnaires) and
the innovative methodologies based in real time measures
(e.g., Experience Sampling Method-ESM).
Currently, projects aim at studying developmental trajectories of children, adolescents and young adults using an integrated and equally weighted focus on both positive and negative functioning. Research projects also include the elaboration and implementation of rigorous evaluated individual and/or group interventions to promote optimal functioning or to treat and prevent the onset of psychopathology.
