Open AccessRelationship between lifestyle and positive psychological functioning in university administrative staff
Author(s) -
Joel Omar González-Cantero,
Víctor Hugo González-Becerra,
Carmen Elvira Hernández-Magaña,
Fabiola Macías-Espinoza,
José Ángel Morón-Vera,
Alicia Abundis-Gutiérrez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista ces psicología
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.13
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2011-3080
DOI - 10.21615/cesp.5473
Subject(s) - snowball sampling , psychological intervention , population , clinical psychology , gerontology , psychology , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , chemistry , physics , pathology , chromatography , quantum mechanics
In Mexico, healthy lifestyle has a low prevalence. The importance of a healthy lifestyle lies in avoiding the emergence of a chronic non-communicable disease. Thus, university administrative personnel are a vulnerable population due to working conditions that prevent them from having a healthy lifestyle, so it is necessary to analyze psychological variables that can explain how to promote and develop a healthy lifestyle. The purposes of this study were to identify relationships among lifestyle (LS) and positive psychological functioning (PPF) and their differences by gender in the administrative staff; a cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted. University administrative staff (n = 102), were recruited using the snowball sampling method, forming a non-probabilistic sample, completed the Fantastic Lifestyle Questionnaire and the Positive Psychological Functioning Scale. LS has a statistically significant correlation with PPF (r = .355, p = .001); in addition, it is worth pointing out that showing a low level of PPF implies a lower probability of having a healthy LS (Ψ = 28.333, 4.965 – 161.675). Results suggest the relevance of interventions to develop psychological resources in people seeking the adoption of a healthy LS.