Jorge Castella Sarriera

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | UFRGS · Institute of Psychology

Las expectativas futuras de los adolescentes que dejan los centros de acogida con 18 años tienen una influencia determinante en los resultados que alcanzarán a corto y largo plazo. En Brasil, la mayoría de jóvenes que salen de los centros de acogida con 18 años transitan a la edad adulta sin ningún tipo de apoyo. Por ello, en este artículo apuntamo...

This article analyzes the relationships between the material conditions and the subjective well-being of 3,716 children (50.5% girls) between 10 and 12 years of age (M = 11.4) in Chile and Brazil. These are the two Latin American countries that took part in the third wave of the Children’s Worlds research. The material conditions of the children we...

This Special Issue was compiled to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexity of conceptualizations, determinants, consequences, and measurement of child well-being of children and adolescents fully devoted to Latin-American. It seeks to enhance by contributing with studies on socioeconomic determinants and access to material good...

This study aims to verify differences in the subjective well-being of 10 and 12 years old Brazilian boys and girls over time using data from the First (2012) and the Third (2019) Wave of Brazilian data collection on Children's Worlds research. Participants of the first wave were 2,338 children (M = 11.08 years old, 55.3% girls) and of the third wav...

This study is part of the third wave of data collection of the international project “Children’s Worlds” (Children’s Worlds, the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being – ISCWeB). The objective was to check the psychometric properties of three child subjective well-being scales—the Children’s Worlds Subjective Well-Being Scale (CW-SWBS), the...

Safety is considered an important aspect of life and well‐being. However, few studies have examined the relationship between safety and well‐being among children, especially in Latin American. This study aims at analyzing the relationship between perceptions of safety and children's subjective well‐being, considering children's school, city context...

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a vergonha e a humilhação como consequências da estigmatização da pobreza em indivíduos residentes de uma capital no Sul e no Nordeste do Brasil. Este estudo de natureza qualitativa realizou dez Entrevistas Episódicas com pessoas em situações de pobreza nas duas cidades mencionadas que vivenciaram sentimento d...

The evaluation of well-being can be conducted according to distinct traditions, among which the hedonic and eudemonic traditions stand out. The hedonic focuses on happiness, emphasizing the presence of positive affects and the absence of negative affects. The eudemonic emphasizes living well and fully, and the realization of human potential. This s...

Discriminatory practices may lead to feelings of shame as the individual is recognized in a particular stigmatized social identity. Depending on the markers of race and gender, this process of stigmatization and violence acquires unique characteristics. Thus, the study aims is to analyze, in a intersectional way, the discrimination practices direct...

Este estudo teve por objetivo identificar os fatores de proteção e de risco envolvidos no processo de transição entre o acolhimento institucional e a vida adulta. Participaram 13 jovens entre 18 e 24 anos, de ambos os sexos, egressos do sistema de proteção da cidade de Curitiba, no sul do Brasil. Cinco cuidadores também participaram, representando...

Este estudo teve como objetivo o desenvolvimento de uma escala de presença nas tecnologias ubíquas. O processo de desenvolvimento do instrumento teve como etapas a escolha dos atributos comportamentais referentes ao objeto de estudo e à operacionalização do construto, a apresentação a três juízes, dois grupos focais e a uma aplicação piloto em uma...

Discriminatory practices may lead to feelings of shame as the individual is recognized in a particular stigmatized social identity. Depending on the markers of race and gender, this process of stigmatization and violence acquires unique characteristics. Thus, the study aims is to analyze, in a intersectional way, the discrimination practices direct...

A number of studies point to the relationship between spirituality and religiosity with health and well-being. However, there are few instruments to evaluate these aspects among adolescents. The objective of this study was to verify the psychometric properties of the Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs module, part of the World Health...

The Brazilian care system is marked by a predominance of residential care institutions rather than foster care placements. This and other characteristics of our care system make it especially important to investigate education in care in this very specific context. In that direction this chapter aims to (1) provide an overview of educational backgr...

The objective of this chapter is to analyze practices of resistance developed by people in situation of poverty against the processes of stigmatization. A qualitative research was conducted using episodic interviews. An alarming panorama of the processes of stigmatization of poverty present in Brazilian society is presented. As a consequence, pract...

Latin American countries bear the brunt of social inequality and historical oppression, challenging those who deal with scientific and academic knowledge to find alternatives and strategies for the development of social technologies, public policies, and psychosocial strengthening actions especially for the most vulnerable populations. Community Ps...

Resumo O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o impacto de diferentes formas de mensuração da pobreza nas variações do Índice de Bem-Estar Pessoal (BEP) de indivíduos pobres e não pobres. Foram realizadas análises comparativas com o teste t de Student e Análise Multivariada de Variância (MANOVA), em uma perspectiva comparativa de diferentes formas de...

The general objective of this study is to verify the relationship between spirituality and religiosity and the well-being of healthy adolescents in recent studies. Through a systematic review, 26 empirical articles, published from 2012 to 2016, were selected in six databases (Scielo, Lilacs, Medline, PsycInfo, Scopus and Web of Science). The repres...

This study aimed to review and analyze the pathways from care to education and employment, using meta-analysis. Ten meta-analyses were conducted, five to examine the association of placement stability, race, mentoring, gender and education with employment outcomes; and five to examine the association of placement stability, race, mentoring, gender...

The objective of this study was to map the scientific production of the last decade on intervention programs to favor the emancipation of youth leaving the protection system after turning 18 years old. Twenty articles were selected through a systematic review of literature. These articles were indexed in the following databases: Scientific Electron...

The objective of this study was to map the scientific production of the last decade on intervention programs to favor the emancipation of youth leaving the protection system after turning 18 years old. Twenty articles were selected through a systematic review of literature. These articles were indexed in the following databases: Scientific Electron...

This study aims to compare personal relationships satisfaction and subjective well-being of Brazilian and Spanish children and to verify if personal relationships are associated with subjective well-being for the sample. Participants are 6,747 children aged from 11 to 14 years old (M = 12.07, DP = 0.731), 1,020 being Brazilian and the others Spanis...

The purpose of this study was to verify psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Duke Religion Index (P-DUREL) among adolescents. Through an online platform, 1,248 Brazilian adolescents of both genders, between 12 and 18 years of age (M = 15.09, SD = 1.77) participated, 57.3% of whom were female. The factorial structure was verified...

RESUMO: O objetivo deste estudo é avaliar as propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Atitudes Ambientais para Crianças (EAAC) e da Escala Infantil de Satisfação com o Ambiente (EISA) por meio de análises de componentes principais, consistência interna e análises fatoriais confirmatórias. Participaram 1.746 crianças (53,5% meninas) com idades entre...

This study aims associating children’s satisfaction to their interpersonal relationships within their main contexts of interaction (family, friends and school) and their satisfaction regarding their subjective well-being, considering the variables age, gender, type of school (public or private) and city of living (capital or not). There were 2.280...

Subjective well-being concerns an evaluation of one’s life, considering cognitive and affective aspects. Contextual factors, such as family, may influence this process. One of the main development contexts of children is family and aspects of these relationships, such as different settings, might contribute to children’s subjective well-being. The...

The aim is to analyze the relations between poverty and well-being in scientific papers. The search descriptors were poverty, poor, low income, and well-being. Articles produced from 2010 until 2016 were selected. The inclusion criteria were: be an empirical survey of people in poverty; use the well-being concept; be a complete article; and have ad...

Resumo O objetivo é analisar as relações entre pobreza e do bem-estar em artigos científicos. Os descritores da busca foram: pobreza, pobre, baixa renda e bem-estar. Foram selecionados os artigos produzidos entre 2010 até 2016. Os critérios de inclusão foram: ser uma pesquisa empírica com pessoas em situação de pobreza; utilizar a conceituação de b...

O objetivo é analisar as relações entre pobreza e do bem-estar em artigos científicos. Os descritores da busca foram: pobreza, pobre, baixa renda e bem-estar. Foram selecionados os artigos produzidos entre 2010 até 2016. Os critérios de inclusão foram: ser uma pesquisa empírica com pessoas em situação de pobreza; utilizar a conceituação de bem-esta...

Resumo Este estudo objetivou investigar e refletir sobre o papel da equipe psicossocial do Judiciário na fase de inserção, ou em termos legais colocação, nos processos de adoção. Foram entrevistados sete psicólogos e 11 assistentes sociais judiciários de sete cidades do Rio Grande do Sul. A partir da análise de conteúdo foi possível constatar que a...

O objetivo do estudo foi investigar a contribuição da satisfação com a família e com a escola para a predição da satisfação com a vida. Participaram 2105 crianças, com idades entre 10 e 12 anos matriculadas em escolas públicas e particulares do Rio Grande do Sul. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: âmbito satisfação com a escola do General Domain Sat...

This study was based on the cultural-ecological theory. The aim was to identify, in parents of children and adolescents, what values they consider more and less important, and to analyze their justifications. Twenty-two parents answered a scale to assess the importance of 27 values and a semi-structured interview, in which they listed the three mos...

This chapter begins by presenting paradigmatic changes in recent years, related to ecological and complexity theories. Within this context, on the one hand, the studies on Multidimensional Well-Being that were developed in recent years (2011–2016) in Europe and the United States are included, observing the evolution of theoretical and dimensional a...

This chapter presents the implementation and evaluation of an intervention program regarding adolescents’ well-being, based on theory and research. The intervention was carried out using a quasi-experimental design, with one pre and two post-tests (immediately after – post-test, and 1 month after – follow up). Participants are 100 adolescents from...

Religious coping refers to the use of strategies related to religious faith in coping with stressful situations. This study presents the adaptation of the Children's Religious Coping scale (CRC) for Brazilian children and verifies its psychometric properties. Participants are 1,612 children (54.71% girls) between 8 and 13 years old (M = 10.19, SD =...

Este estudo baseou-se na teoria ecológico-cultural. O objetivo foi identificar, em pais de crianças e adolescentes, quais valores eles consideram mais e menos importantes para seus filhos. Vinte e dois participantes responderam a uma escala que avalia a importância de 27 valores. Após, participaram de uma entrevista semiestruturada, elencando os tr...

O artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa-intervenção que teve por objetivo identificar riscos ambientais, além de sensibilizar e capacitar uma comunidade na busca de estratégias coletivas para lidar com os referidos riscos. Participaram 12 moradores de ambos os sexos, maiores de 18 anos, residentes em uma ilha do sul do Brasil, com registro...

Multidimensional poverty and its subjective aspects in rural and urban contexts in Northeast Brazil. The objective is to analyze the multidimensional poverty and its subjective aspects in rural and urban contexts in a State of Brazil. The total sample consisted of 417 participants. It was set up the Measurement Index of the Multidimensional Poverty...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between the subjective well-being of children and their environmental attitudes, as well as their environmental satisfaction. A total of 1,746 Brazilian children (53.5% girls) took part in this study, aged between eight and 13 (M = 10.17; SD = 1.49). Hierarchical regression analyses wer...

RESUMO O objetivo do estudo foi investigar a contribuição da satisfação com a família e com a escola para a predição da satisfação com a vida. Participaram 2105 crianças, com idades entre 10 e 12 anos matriculadas em escolas públicas e particulares do Rio Grande do Sul. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: âmbito satisfação com a escola do General Dom...

El presente trabajo busca desarrollar un modelo de bienestar sociocomunitario incorporando recursos materiales, sentimiento de pertenecimiento a la comunidad y satisfacción con el ambiente y verificar la relación entre la satisfacción global con la vida y el modelo de bienestar sociocomunitario. Participaron 1157 niños de 10 a 13 años, siendo 54.9%...

RESUMO Este artigo tem como objetivo identificar o impacto do sentido de comunidade na predição do bem estar pessoal em crianças brasileiras do Sul do país. Participaram do estudo 1635 crianças, entre 8 e 13 anos (M = 10,17; DP = 1,49). Foram utilizadas a Escala de Bem Estar Pessoal (BEP) e o Índice Adaptado de Sentido de Comunidade. Por meio de An...

The aim of this study was to analyze the consequences of poverty on expressions of fatalism, hope, and sense of community of two Brazilian States: Ceará and Rio Grande do Sul. Seven-hundred and thirty-one people, divided in four groups (extreme poverty, poverty, median income, and adequate income) answered a questionnaire. The variables sense of co...

This article aims to identify the impact of sense of community in predicting personal well-being in Brazilian children from the South Region of Brazil. The study included 1635 children between the ages of 8 and 13 years (M=10.17, SD=1.49). The Personal Well-Being Scale (PWB) and the adapted Sense of Community Index were used. Multiple Regression An...

The article presents the results of a research and intervention that aimed to identify environmental risks, as well as raise awareness and empower a community to seek collective ways to deal with them. Twelve residents of both sexes participated in the study, over the age of eighteen years old, living on an island in southern Brazil, with history o...

The aim of this paper is to critically discuss Brazilian studies on child and adolescent maltreatment to better understand the characteristics of this violence and the challenges involved in its notification. Although legislation establishes the obligation of protection and guarantee of rights of this population, epidemiological data indicate high...

Alcohol and drug consumption among young soccer fans have been associated with violence in soccer context. This study aims to determine patterns of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine consumption in a sample of 1,130 soccer fans residents in the Rio Grande do Sul State, as well as to verify if there are differences regarding gender, age and if the parti...

Alcohol and drug consumption among young soccer fans have been associated with violence in soccer context. This study aims to determine patterns of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine consumption in a sample of 1,130 soccer fans residents in the Rio Grande do Sul State, as well as to verify if there are differences regarding gender, age and if the parti...

This study explores the subjective well-being, overall life satisfaction and perceived social support of Brazilian adolescents by analysing different models that explain the relationships among these three constructs. The sample is comprised of 1,588 adolescents (aged 12–16, 65.5% female), who answered the Personal Well-Being Index (PWI), a measure...

A dificuldade em aliar teoria à prática tem sido preocupação constante entre estudantes e profissionais que atuam em políticas sociais. Nesse trabalho serão abordados aspectos teórico-metodológicos da psicologia comunitária que subsidiaram o processo de capacitação de uma equipe gestores no âmbito do Programa de Prevenção da Violência do Estado do...

Considering the importance of self-concept in the well-being of adolescents, as well as the need for reliable scales that allow its evaluation, the objectives of the present study are to verify the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Self-Concept Scale-its structure and internal consistency - in a sample of Brazilian adolescents, and to...

Considering the importance of self-concept in the well-being of adolescents, as well as the need for reliable scales that allow its evaluation, the objectives of the present study are to verify the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Self-Concept Scale-its structure and internal consistency - in a sample of Brazilian adolescents, and to...

This study explores the subjective well-being, overall life satisfaction and per- ceived social support of Brazilian adolescents by analysing different models that explain the relationships among these three constructs. The sample is comprised of 1,588 adolescents (aged 12–16, 65.5% female), who answered the Personal Well-Being Index (PWI), a measu...

This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Eudemon Scale of Personal Well-being (EBP) in Brazilian adolescents. The participants were 1479 adolescents (64.7% girls) between 12 and 16 years old (M=14,12, SD=1,26). Participants answered the EBP and other instruments of well-being. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (n=712) indicated...

The sense of community is an important construct for assessing the individual’s relationship with his/her community context. This study aims to adapt the Sense of Community Index for Brazilian Children and verify its psychometric properties ts are 1,736 Brazilian children between 8 and 13 years old (53.3% girls). Exploratory factor analysis indicat...

The aim of this work was to translate and adapt to the Brazilian context the content of the software Supporting Tool for Social Risk Management in Childhood and Adolescence. This software aims to help professionals to identify and proceed when facing cases that involve suspicion of child and adolescent abuse. The first study concerns the translatio...

This paper reports on a comparative analysis of the subjective well-being of parents and their adolescent children regarding gender, age and social class. Participants were 543 adolescents aged between 12 and 16 years (68.3 % girls) and their respective parents with an average age of approximately 44 years (SD = 5.65). Results show significant diff...

Most of studies with children in residential care centers in Brazil emphasize the problems associated with being in care but few investigate the well-being of these children. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate and compare the subjective well-being of children in residential care centers versus those from the general population living wi...

RESUMEN En la actualidad, los investigadores así como los políticos están interesados en analizar las diferentes dimensiones que componen el bienestar subjetivo de los niños y los adolescentes, grupos a los cuales se les ha prestado escasa atención si se lo compara con la literatura sobre la población adulta. En esta investigación, se analiza la co...

ResumoO presente texto aborda o conceito de justiça social em diferentes posições teóricas e sua relevância dentro do âmbito da Psicologia Comunitária (OBJETIVO 1), cuja atenção vem crescendo através da conscientização dos direitos humanos e do resguardo ao empoderamento de indivíduos, grupos e comunidades. Além disso, problematiza-se, de forma crí...

Currently both, researchers and politicians, are interested in analyzing the many dimensions that are the components of subjective well-being of children and adolescents, since little attention has been paid by the literature to these groups, when compared with adults. In this research we analyze the cross-cultural comparability of three measures o...

This paper studies the inter-linguistic and intercultural comparability of subjective well-being during adolescence, as well as school satisfaction as a component of this well-being, using samples of 12 to 16-year-old from Brazil (n=1588), Chile (n=843) and Spain (n=2900). As subjective well-being indicators, two versions of the PWI (Cummins, Ecker...

The social configuration of reality constitutes the human psyche. We aim to analyze the historical process of poverty in Brazilian culture and its consequences in the psyche, starting from a nonsystematic literature review. Thus, in Brazil, poverty bears a stigmatizing process of social and ideological construction of the poor person. We also ident...

The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between children’s perception of their available material resources and their subjective well-being. Participants (n = 13,953) resided in eight countries and were largely female (57 %), between the ages of 10–14 (M = 12.05; SD = 0.59). Each child completed a culturally appropriate countr...

This study compared the 7-item Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) with two other versions which include the domains “Spirituality” and “Religion”, separately, in a sample of Brazilian (n = 1.047) and Chilean (n = 1.053) adolescents. A comparison of psychometric properties between the PWI versions was carried out through multigroup confirmatory factor a...

The study aimed to analyze the degree of association between different levels of impact of drought and perception of psychological well-being in family farmers in Southern Brazil. Participated in the study 198 farmers (104 men and 88 women), aged 18-77 years (M = 44.38, SD = 10.04). As instruments we used the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) a...

The social configuration of reality constitutes the human psyche. We aim to analyze the historical process of poverty in Brazilian culture and its consequences in the psyche, starting from a nonsystematic literature review. Thus, in Brazil, poverty bears a stigmatizing process of social and ideological construction of the poor person. We also ident...

This paper studies the relation between perception of prejudice and self-esteem in a group of 556 adolescent students, living with their families, compared to a group of 96 adolescents living in out-of-home care. The Brazilian Youth Questionnaire was employed, in which questions about perception of prejudice and self-esteem were asked to both group...

This paper aims to verify the relation of the subjective well-being of parents and their adolescent children through dyadic analysis using different assessment measures. Participants are 543 adolescent-parent dyads. The age of the adolescents are from 12 to 16 years old (68.3 % girls) and their respective parents average age is of approximately 44...

This paper aims to examine the psychometric properties of the well-being instruments: Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI), Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) and Core Affects Scale (CAS). Participants were 543 adolescents aged between 12 and 16 years (68.3% girls) and their respective p...

This paper studies the inter-linguistic and intercultural comparability of subjective well- being during adolescence, as well as school satisfaction as a component of this well-being, using samples of 12 to 16-year-old from Brazil (n=1588), Chile (n=843) and Spain (n=2900). As subjective well-being indicators, two versions of the PWI (Cummins, Ecke...

Resumo Este artigo objetiva analisar as visões da unidimensionalidade e da multidimensionalidade da pobreza a fi m de incorporar dimensões psicossociais que contribuam para análise da complexidade desse fenôme-no. A pobreza, geralmente, está baseada na tendência unidimensional monetária de conceituação e men-suração, restringindo a análise a linhas...

O presente artigo tem por objetivo revisar e discutir conceitos de desastre na perspectiva de autores da Sociologia e da Psicologia, no sentido de contribuir com as discussões atuais sobre a abrangência do termo. Foi utilizada revisão de literatura incluindo-se os conceitos dos principais teóricos sobre o tema. No âmbito da Sociologia a palavra des...

En este estudio se analiza la comparabilidad interlingüística e intercultural del bienestar subjetivo y la satisfacción escolar como componente de dicho bienestar durante la adolescencia, a partir de tres muestras, una de Brasil (n = 1588), una de Chile (n = 843) y una de España (n = 2900), de 12‑16 años de edad. Se adoptan como indicadores de bien...

It aims to analyze the discriminatory practices and their consequences experienced by people in the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil. The research is qualitative, using participant observation and field diaries in situations that occur in searched social services of the Fortaleza’s Prefectural. It is also used Narratives Interviews with four people in...

Several theoretical models and testing procedures are presented with the aim of identifying the most relevant items and domains to include in a model for evaluating adolescents’ subjective well-being, above and beyond those usually included in adults’ scales. Data were collected in three countries based on a list of 30 items regarding ado- lescents...