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- Title
Systematic Review about Personal Growth Initiative.
- Authors
de Freitas, Clarissa Pinto Pizarro; Figueiredo Damásio, Bruno; Renovato Tobo, Patricia; Hiroki Kamei, Helder; Helena Koller, Sílvia
- Abstract
The present study aimed to realize a systematic review of publications about personal growth initiative. A literature review was realized in Bireme, Index Psi, LILACS, PePSIC, Pubmed Publisher's Medline, Wiley Online Library, PsycINFO, OneFile, SciVerse ScienceDirect, F1RIC, Emerald Journals, PsycARTICLES - American Psychological Association, Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ, SAGE Journals, SpringerLink, PLoS, IngentaConnect, IEEE Journals & Magazines and SciELO databases. The literature review was performed from December of 2014 to January of 2015, without stipulating date limits for the publication of the articles. It was found 53 studies, excluded seven, and analyzed 46 researches. The studies aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of personal growth initiative scale and personal growth initiative scale II. The relations of personal initiative growth and others constructs were also evaluated. Furthermore the studies investigated the impact of interventions to promote personal growth initiative. Results of these studies showed that personal growth initiative was positively related to levels of well-being, selfesteem and others positive dimensions, and negatively to anxiety, depression and others negative factors.
- Subjects
MATURATION (Psychology); ANXIETY disorders; MENTAL depression; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL literature; AMERICAN Psychological Association
- Publication
Anales de Psicología, 2016, Vol 32, Issue 3, p770
- ISSN
0212-9728
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6018/analesps.32.3.219101