Dietary restraint and subjective well-being in university students in Chile

Objective: To characterize university students typologies according to chronic food restriction, satisfaction with life and food consumption. Materials and method: A questionnaire was applied on a non-probability sample of 369 male and female students from five Chilean universities. The questionnaire included: Revised Restraint Scale (RRS), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Satisfaction with Food-related Life (SWFL) and the Health-related Quality of Life Index. The survey included food and drink consumption habits, weight and approximate height and sociodemographic variables. Results: Two factors in the RRS were detected by exploratory factor analysis: Preoccupation with Diet (PD) and Weight fluctuations (WF). A confirmatory factor analysis validated the bifactor structure of the RRS with an acceptable adjustment kindness. The cluster analysis allowed a distinction of four typologies with a significant variation in PD, WF, SWLS and SWFL scoring, number of days with mental health problems, frequency of alcoholic drinks consumption, restraint on the consumption of certain foods, drinks and spices, consumption frequency of fruit out of the main meals and types. Typologies did not differ on their body mass index. Conclusions: Both, students preoccupied with diet and those who are not, experience higher levels of satisfaction with life and with food. Lower levels of global life satisfaction and satisfaction with food are related with the fluctuations in weight.

Análisis de la efectividad de los Centros de Rehabilitación Psicosocial

Introducción: Los Centros de Rehabilitación Psicosocial para personas con trastorno mental grave son recursos de la red pública de atención social de la Comunidad de Madrid. A pesar de su larga tradición son pocos los estudios que intentan evaluar su efectividad. En el presente trabajo se analizan retrospectivamente los resultados obtenidos en tres dominios centrales en la recuperación: el funcionamiento psicosocial, la calidad de vida y la discapacidad. Material y método: Se analizan las 3173 puntuaciones de 1457 personas atendidas durante 5 años (2008-2012) en 10 Centros de Rehabilitación Psicosocial. Se utilizaron los siguientes instrumentos: cuestionario de datos sociodemográficos y clínicos de elaboración propia, Satisfaction with Life Domain Scale (SLDS), Escala de Evaluación del Funcionamiento Global (EEFG) y WHO Short Disability Assessment Schedule (WHO DAS-S). Resultados: Se observan correlaciones estadísticamente significativas entre todas las medidas de los diferentes instrumentos y la duración de la estancia en los centros, de tal forma que a más tiempo de intervención se obtienen mejores resultados, al menos durante los primeros 5 años. Desagregando los datos por sexo se constata que las mujeres mejoran más y más rápido que los hombres. Conclusiones: Las personas que son atendidas en los Centros de Rehabilitación Psicosocial mejoran en calidad de vida, funcionamientos psicosocial y discapacidad. Esa mejoría es más pronunciada en los primeros cinco a ocho años de intervención y es mayor en mujeres que en hombres.

Investigating the Mediator role of Social Safeness on the Relationship between Forgiveness and Life Satisfaction

The aim of the present study is to examine the mediating effect of social safeness on the relationship between forgiveness and life satisfaction. Participants were 311 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Trait Forgiveness Scale, the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale. According to the results, social safeness and life satisfaction were predicted positively by forgiveness. On the other hand, life satisfaction was predicted positively by social safeness. In addition, social safeness mediated on the relationship between forgiveness and life satisfaction. The results were discussed in the light of the related literature and dependent recommendations to the area were given.