Editorial: Variables involved in promoting psychological wellbeing and positive development during the life cycle

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profoundly severe impact on the public's psychological wellbeing. 9The high rate of infection and death, collapse of hospitals, high initial uncertainty, the many days of 10 confinement, business closings, sudden adaptation to home working and online education, are only a 11 few of the things that arose from the pandemic, and which in one way or another reached the public of 12 all ages around the world (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). Life suddenly changed, involving a huge effort to adapt and 13 compromising mental health (6, 7). 14 Although the pandemic caused an enormous worldwide public psychological impact, it also led to a 15 change in viewpoint of health and mental wellbeing (8). Thus, the need for attention to and taking 16 advantage of the human being's positive inner qualities was accentuated. That is, it was understood 17 that it was absolutely necessary for our society to promote mental health with strategies concentrating 18 on individual capabilities and strengths, thereby favoring those psychological resources and strategies 19 that enable us to cope with adverse situations threatening psychological wellbeing and prevent the 20 appearance of psychological symptoms. 21 Therefore, there is no doubt that a special issue in Frontiers in Public Health devoted to the exploration 22 of variables promoting psychological wellbeing and positive adjustment is more than justified. In the 23 special issue, "Variables involved in promoting psychological wellbeing and positive development 24 during the Life Cycle," we explore important subjects concerning the positive factors that orient 25 individuals toward wellbeing and integral development in any stage of life. The articles published are 26 contributions examining those abilities, skills, aptitudes and experiences positively directed toward 27 achievement of individual wellbeing and integral development in different populations and stages of 28 the life cycle. Some of the most important contributions presented in this special issue are mentioned 29 below: 30 Chene et al. estimated a moderated mediation model to find out whether sense of life mediates the 31 relationship between core self-evaluation and subjective wellbeing, and whether this mediation in turn 32 is moderated by self-esteem. In a sample of 1185 adolescents, they found that core self-evaluation 33 contributed to subjective wellbeing of youths, and that sense of life mediated in the relationship 34 between these variables. Furthermore, self-esteem had a moderating effect, where adolescents with 35 medium and low self-esteem were those who experienced the indirect effect of core self-evaluation in 36 This is a provisional file, not the final typeset article subjective well-being through sense of life. Based on these findings, the authors suggested the 37 possibility of promoting subjective wellbeing through intervention focusing on improving core self-38 evaluation or working on understanding sense of life, especially with young people with low self-39 esteem (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1036071/full). 40In a cross-sectional study, Schnettler et al. examined the effects of job satisfaction, with family life and 41 satisfaction related to feeding a parent, on satisfaction with one's own life, that of one's partner, and 42 of adolescent children. The authors found that satisfaction with the life of their parents (both fathers 43 and mothers) was positively associated with satisfaction with their own job, family and food, and 44 negatively with satisfaction with adolescent children's eating habits. Furthermore, mothers' 45 satisfaction with life was positively associated with fathers' and adolescents' family satisfaction. They 46 also studied the influence of satisfaction with family life and satisfaction related to adolescent eating, 47 and how these variables influence satisfaction with their own lives and those of their parents. The 48 findings showed that satisfaction with their children's lives was positively related to their own family 49 satisfaction and eating habits, as well as with their parents' job satisfaction, and negatively in the case 50 of satisfaction with life related to parents' eating habits.

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