ReviewPsicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS2021
Association between the dispositional optimism and depression in young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Dispositional Optimism, Mode of Delivery, and Perceived Labor Control among Recently Delivered Parturients.American journal of perinatology · 2023Observational
- Family and Individual Quality of Life in Parents of Children with Developmental Disorders and Diabetes Type 1.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of publications that reported the association between dispositional optimism and depression during youth, analyzing if the strength of this relationship varied according to potential factors. Systematic searches were carried out in APA PsycNet, Virtual Health Library, Embase, Web of Science, PubMed Central, and Scopus to collect English, Portuguese, or Spanish studies from 2009 onwards. Two reviewers selected the eligible articles, assessed the quality of each study, and extracted the data. For the synthesis of the results, a meta-analytic approach was used. We identified 4077 publications in the initial searches and 22 in the supplementary searches, from which 31 studies remained for analysis once the eligibility criteria were applied. The results showed a statistically significant negative association between dispositional optimism and depression in the young population, age being a factor that modifies the effect measure between these variables. This meta-analysis provides a consistent and robust synthesis on the interaction effect between dispositional optimism and depression in the young population. Based on these findings, early clinical admissions may effectively improve optimistic tendencies in young people, which could help them prevent depressive symptoms or episodes.
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