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Belén López-pérez

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Prosociality and life satisfaction: A daily-diary investigation among Spanish university students

2018

Abstract With a diary study, we tested the positive effect of prosociality on life satisfaction. Fifty-six Spanish undergraduate students (45 females; Mage = 21.08 years) rated their life satisfaction, prosociality, self-esteem, and physical appearance for 5 consecutive days. Multilevel results indicated that within-individual positive deviations in prosociality (i.e., behaving more prosocial than usual) were uniquely and significantly associated with higher life satisfaction on that specific day. Students' self-esteem, physical appearance, and positive daily events were also predictive of life satisfaction. Exploratory analyses revealed that the positive effect of prosociality on life sati…

self-esteemlife satisfaction; multilevel modeling; physical appearance; prosociality; self-esteemphysical appearancemedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesMultilevel modelprosocialitySelf-esteemLife satisfaction050109 social psychologyDaily eventsHuman physical appearanceDaily diary050105 experimental psychologyDevelopmental psychologyProsocial behaviorEarly adulthood0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychologylife satisfactionmultilevel modelingGeneral Psychologymedia_commonPersonality and Individual Differences
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The Positivity Scale: Concurrent and Factorial Validity Across Late Childhood and Early Adolescence

2019

Despite the well-established protective functions of positivity (i.e., a dispositional selfevaluative tendency to view oneself, life, and future under a positive outlook) from middle adolescence to old age, its reliable assessment and contribution to a proper psychological functioning have received little attention during previous developmental phases. In this article, we aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and construct validity of the eight-item Positivity Scale (P Scale; Caprara et al., 2012) during late childhood and early adolescence in a sample of British students (N = 742; 48% boys) from both primary (M age = 10.75, SD = 0.52) and secondary schools (M age = 13.38 years, SD …

early adolescencepositivity; p scale; late childhood; early adolescence; measurement invariance; developmental sensitivitydevelopmental sensitivityEarly adolescencelcsh:BF1-990Concurrent validitylate childhoodPositivityDevelopmental sensitivity Early adolescence Late childhood Measurement invariance P scale Positivity050105 experimental psychologyDevelopmental psychologyCorrelationSettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'Educazione03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinePsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesMeasurement invariancep scaleGeneral PsychologyOriginal Research05 social sciencesConstruct validityLate childhoodConfirmatory factor analysismeasurement invariancelcsh:PsychologyProsocial behaviorPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryFrontiers in Psychology
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