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Character strengths and mental health as complex systems: a network analysis to identify bridge strengths

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العنوان: Character strengths and mental health as complex systems: a network analysis to identify bridge strengths
المؤلفون: Blasco-Belled, Ana
المصدر: Current Psychology, 2022, vol. undef, núm, undef, p. undef ; Articles publicats (D-PS)
بيانات النشر: Springer
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Universitat de Girona: DUGiDocs (UdG Digital Repository)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Salut mental, Mental health, Benestar psicològic, Psychological welfare, Psicometria, Psychometrics
الوصف: The network approach poses an alternative focus to understand psychological constructs as emerging from mutual interactions among indicators. Network psychometrics has been applied to psychopathology to unravel the connections between symptoms, but it can also be applied to the study of well-being. The role of character strengths in mental health is at the forefront of research attention. Previous findings suggest that heart character strengths are more predictive of mental health than mind character strengths. Nevertheless, researchers have rarely applied the network approach in this context. The present study examines, from the network approach, the connections between heart and mind character strengths and mental health. Building upon the dual-factor model of mental health, positive (i.e., happiness and life satisfaction) and negative indicators (i.e., depression) were included in the assessment of this construct. A sample of 597 Spanish undergraduates (M = 23.52; SD = 5.25; 75.6% females) completed cross-sectional self-report measures. Network analysis was used to estimate a network composed of two communities: character strengths and mental health. We used centrality analysis to calculate the importance of each node and bridge centrality to examine the interactions between the communities. The results indicated that the heart strengths of love, zest, hope, and gratitude reported the highest bridge strength centrality, suggesting that they played an intermediary role activating and deactivating components of mental health. Adopting the network approach to explore the connections between character strengths and mental health can help design focused intervention strategies in psychology ; Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1046-1310; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1936-4733; http://hdl.handle.net/10256/21645
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/21645
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.BB799B9A
قاعدة البيانات: BASE