Gisela Carrillo Bestagno

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of Social Psychology

This research studies the relationships that promote well-being in the school setting from the perspective of Chilean children’s understandings and how these vary with age by comparing 10- to 11- and 14- to 15-year-old students using a sample of 21 children. The material was collected using semi-structured interviews followed by a thematic content...

It is only recently that the sense of community in contexts other than the neighborhood has started to be studied, providing evidence on the associations between this variable in the school environment and various dimensions of integral development in childhood and adolescence. However, in the Latin American context, there are no validated scales t...

This article studies the perceptions that Chilean children and adolescents hold about the personal and distinctive qualities of their relationships in both the school and neighborhood contexts associated with the experience of well-being using a qualitative methodological framework. It takes as its foundation the relevance of studying well-being fr...

Understand the degree to which a Sense of Community at School can predict the Life Satisfaction of Chilean students in the fifth and seventh grades. The classroom and school components will be presented separately. The research was designed as a descriptive study using a survey with a probabilistic sample made up of 1959 students (52.6% male and 47...

Within the framework of the increasing academic valuation of the use of qualitative methodologies for the study of the well-being of children and adolescents, a systematic review of the available empirical production was developed through the “Qualitative Metasynthesis” methodology. The purpose of the study was to analyze and describe, jointly and...

Inequality is a major concern for governments and policymakers in poor’s and developing countries. High levels of inequity negatively affect the lives of children and adolescents and their subjective well-being (SWB). Moreover, bullying behavior also harm the SWB of its victims. Previous studies have examined the negative consequences of bullying,...

Pre print en español de capítulo traducido y publicado en portugués. Referencia de texto en portugués: Villarroel, A., Reyes, F., Carrillo, G., Ditzel, L. y Alfaro, J. (2019). Vida comunitária na escola: contribuição do sentido da comunidade escolar para a satisfação da vida em estudantes chilenos. En J. Castellá, K. Bones, J. Alfaro & R. Bianchi (...

A partir das orientações de diferentes organizações internacionais e do mundo acadêmico, nas últimas décadas, tem se destacado a relevância do desenvolvimento de estudos em bem-estar na infância e adolescência, e a necessidade de que essas dimensões sejam consideradas no desen-volvimento de políticas e programas dirigidos às crianças e adolescentes