Efficacy of a Contextualized Measurement of Life Satisfaction
A Pilot Study on the Assessment of Progress in Eating Disorder Therapy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15464132 |
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| Authors | Maria Aymerich (0000-0002-5808-7757, Universitat de Girona), Antoni Castelló (0000-0003-1974-5339, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Ramón Cladellas (0000-0002-0801-8462, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 14452-14452 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph192114452 |
| PMID | 36361328 |
| OpenAlex | W4308195840 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Eating disorders strongly affect psychological distress and its perception. However, most of the existing instruments for assessing life satisfaction rely on a point-estimation method that is biased due to the circumstantial conditions around the time of assessment. The main goal of this study was to apply a different kind of instrument-the Life Satisfaction Chart-that situates the current state of life satisfaction in the context of personal history and describes the life stages through a graph. The assessment was applied to a sample of 29 adolescent women (average age of 17.88) who were enrolled in a clinical program to treat their eating disorders. The results showed that their estimation of their current life satisfaction was almost identical to the estimation provided by a therapist for those who were in therapy phases 1, 2, and 3 (of four), while patients' point-estimation satisfaction showed statistically significant differences when compared with the situated estimations. In therapy phase 4, significant discrepancies were observed between the therapist's perception and the patients' perception, because the therapist focused only on eating disorder recovery, whilst the patients evaluated their lives under almost-normal conditions, taking into account further dimensions. The Life Satisfaction Chart is a new approach to life-satisfaction measurement that showed promising measurement and therapeutical properties
Life satisfaction · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology
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