Well-being Processes: Insights into Personal Growth and Adolescent Mental Health

Mia Maurer

Well-being Processes: Insights into Personal Growth and Adolescent Mental Health

Bidragets översatta titel : Välbefinnande processer: Insikter i personligt växande och ungdomars psykiska hälsa

Mia Maurer

Institutionen för psykologi

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Sammanfattning

Denna avhandling belyser välbefinnandeprocesser utifrån två olika angreppssätt: 1)
dels teoretiska beskrivningar av personligt växande, där personligt växande
definieras som den gradvisa processen av förändring i välbefinnande, 2) dels
empiriska undersökningar av välbefinnande och mental hälsa med fokus på elevers
mentala hälsoprofiler och självuppfattning. Sammanlagt ingår fem studier i
avhandlingen, varav två är kopplade till det första angreppssättet (artiklarna I och
II), och tre till det andra angreppssättet (artiklarna III, IV och V). Det första
angreppssättet har det övergripande syftet att 1) integrera delar av områdena positiv
och humanistisk psykologi (artikel I) och 2) föreslå en modell för personligt växande
baserad på Carl Rogers (1961) personcentrerade humanistiska teori om terapeutisk
förändring med begrepp huvudsakligen från positiv psykologi (artikel II).
Anledningen till att vi föreslår en modell för personligt växande är att det skulle öka
möjligheterna att utifrån positiv psykologi och genom undervisning i positiv
psykologi kunna bedriva välbefinnandeinterventioner i skolor. För att främja
välbefinnande måste man veta genom vilka aspekter välbefinnande utvecklas och
förändras, och detta är en lucka i forskningen som denna avhandling syftar till att
fylla. Det andra angreppssättet har det övergripande syftet att utforska olika aspekter
av välbefinnandeprocesser genom ungdomars mentala hälsoprofiler (artikel IV),
såväl som ungdomars självuppfattningar och autenticiteten (artikel V). Utöver detta,
syftade Artikel III att validera den skala vi använde för att mäta ungdomars
välbefinnande. Ungdomars mentala hälsa bör förstås på ett nyanserat sätt genom
profiler där mentala hälsosymptom och välbefinnande ses som separata kontinuum
och därför kan uppstå samtidigt på komplexa sätt. Vi hittade fem olika mentala
hälsoprofiler bland ungdomar: fullständig mental hälsa, måttlig mental hälsa, sårbar
mental hälsa, symtomatisk men hanterbar mental hälsa och skör mental hälsa. Under
tonåren utvecklas självuppfattningen, där man upplever en motstridig
självuppfattning i tidiga tonår och i mitten av tonåren, medan många beskriver mer
koherens och autenticitet i senare delen av tonåren, vilket är aspekter av personligt
växande. Vi fann att processerna självkännedom och självmedkänsla bidrog till
ungdomars autenticitet vilket gick i linje med den teoretiska modellen. Denna
avhandling bidrar till nya teoretiska och empiriska forskningsbidrag kring personligt
växande med fokus på ungdomars välbefinnandeprocesser. Förslag till framtida
forskning är att vidare utvärdera den teoretiska modellen kring personligt växande,
skapa lämpliga mätskalor för modellens olika aspekter och skapa nya insatser för
hur personligt växande kan främjas.

Bidragets översatta titel	Välbefinnande processer: Insikter i personligt växande och ungdomars psykiska hälsa
Originalspråk	engelska
Kvalifikation	Doktor
Tilldelande institution	Lunds universitet
Handledare	Daukantaité, Daiva, handledare Hoff, Eva, handledare
Tilldelningsdatum	2023 juni 2
Utgivningsort	Lund
Förlag	Lund University
ISBN (tryckt)	978-91-8039-651-6
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-91-8039-652-3
Status	Published - 2023 apr. 14

Bibliografisk information

Defence details
Date: 2023-06-02
Time: 13:15
Place: LUX aula, Helgonavägen 3, 22362 Lund
External reviewer(s)
Name: Robitschek, Christine
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Texas Tech University
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personligt växande
välbefinnande
ungdomar
psykisk hälsa
Positiv psykologi
organismic valuing process

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What is the process of Personal Growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model
Maurer, M., Maurer, J., Hoff, E. & Daukantaité, D., 2023, I: New Ideas in Psychology. 70, 101024.
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Testing the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being
Maurer, M. M., Daukantaitė, D. & Hoff, E., 2021 okt., I: PLoS ONE. 16, 10 October, e0259191.
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Revisiting the Organismic Valuing Process Theory of personal growth: A theoretical review of Rogers and its connection to positive psychology
Maurer, M. M. & Daukantaité, D., 2020 juli 21, I: Frontiers in Psychology. 1706.
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Personal growth and mental health among high school students
Maurer, M., Daukantaité, D. & Hoff, E.
2019/01/01 → 2023/06/30
Projekt: Avhandling

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Well-being Processes: Insights into Personal Growth and Adolescent Mental Health

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Forskningsoutput

What is the process of Personal Growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model

Testing the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being

Revisiting the Organismic Valuing Process Theory of personal growth: A theoretical review of Rogers and its connection to positive psychology

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Personal growth and mental health among high school students

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