Promoción del bienestar psicológico en la secundaria: una experiencia piloto

With the purpose of promoting psychological well-being in educational centers, a psychoeducational experience based on the cultivation of character strengths was designed for secondary school students. The research had the following objectives: to determine the level of psychological well-being in high school adolescents; To analyze the relationships between psychological well-being and character strengths; To establish if there are differences of gender and according to the educational center with respect to the psychological well-being - its dimensions - and the character strengths in the secondary school adolescents. Methodologically, it conforms to descriptive research with cross-sectional and correlational design through the collection of data through psychometric measures with adequate consistent and validity indexes. The results reveal adequate levels of psychological well-being in adolescents students, significant correlations between well-being and character strengths namely courage, perseverance, gratitude, social intelligence and self-control, in addition to some significant differences in the acceptability dimension of psychological well- being and in the strength of emotional intelligence, according to gender in students.