La relazione tra valori personali e flourishing in adolescenza: il ruolo moderatore della religiosità

Titolo Rivista PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE
Autori/Curatori Gianmarco Quigesi, Claudia Russo, Ioana Zagrean, Francesca Danioni, Daniela Barni
Anno di pubblicazione 2021 Fascicolo 2021/2
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 17 P. 100-116 Dimensione file 323 KB
DOI 10.3280/PDS2021-002007
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Il flourishing è stato concettualizzato, nell’ambito della psicologia positiva, come uno stato di benessere dell’individuo in cui trovano realizzazione sia la componente edonica (piacere le-gato a emozioni e sensazioni positive) sia quella eudaimonica (sviluppo e realizzazione delle potenzialità) del benessere. Rappresenta dunque, per molti aspetti, il funzionamento psicologi-co ottimale ed è per questo un importante indice di adattamento, soprattutto per gli adolescenti, i quali, in questa finestra temporale critica, devono affrontare numerosi compiti di sviluppo. Il presente studio si focalizza su alcuni possibili predittori individuali del flourishing, in partico-lare sulla religiosità e i valori personali. Esso prende in esame la relazione diretta fra i valori, operazionalizzati in accordo con la Teoria dei valori universali di Schwartz e il flourishing in un gruppo di 240 adolescenti italiani (66.5% ragazze, età media = 17.22, deviazione standard = 1.47), con lo scopo di analizzare se e come questa relazione sia moderata dal grado di religiosi-tà. I risultati hanno mostrato una relazione significativa, di direzione positiva, fra i valori dell’apertura al cambiamento e della conservazione con il flourishing. Inoltre, è emerso un ef-fetto moderatore della religiosità: ad alti livelli di religiosità, risulta significativo anche il legame fra i valori dell’autotrascendenza e il flourishing. I valori, dunque, in interazione con la religio-sità nel caso dell’autotrascendenza, contribuiscono al benessere dell’adolescente. Vengono discusse le implicazioni teoriche ed operative dei risultati.;

Keywords:Adolescenza; flourishing; valori personali; religiosità; moderazione.

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Gianmarco Quigesi, Claudia Russo, Ioana Zagrean, Francesca Danioni, Daniela Barni, La relazione tra valori personali e flourishing in adolescenza: il ruolo moderatore della religiosità in "PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE" 2/2021, pp 100-116, DOI: 10.3280/PDS2021-002007