All about the Promoting Adolescent Physical Activity (PAPA)
22 july 2016
As we already advanced in the posts “Promotion of Wellbeing and Healthy Lifestyles” and “Research Unit in Psychology of Sports (UIPD) and Motivational Climate”, the PAPA is a programme focused on the training of football coaches for promoting the psychosocial development and the adoption of healthy life styles among the European young people.
Research Unit in Psychology of Sports (UIPD) and motivational climate
20 july 2016
Despite the general belief regarding the fact that participating in some sport improves the wellbeing, according to Isabel Balaguer, researchers who have studied the effect of such participation have found both positive and negative effects. Therefore, the sports participation is not positive or negative in itself, but it depends on the way in which it is experienced.
Promotion of wellbeing and healthy lifestyles
19 july 2016
In the new common policy framework of the World Health Organisation, in their Regional Committee for Europe, is included the objective for 2020 of “significantly improving population’s health and wellbeing”. According to Isabel Balaguer and Isabel Castillo, both teachers of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universitat de València, the interest of promoting human wellbeing, ultimate aim of Psychology, was reflected in numerous public acts, such as important speeches, deontological codes or scientific works.