THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN WELL-BEING THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

PB004

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PSYCHOLOGY OF WELL-BEING AND PERFORMANCE

Disciplinary Sector:

Psychology of Development and Psychology of Education

Language:

English

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SPINELLI MARIA

LIONETTI FRANCESCA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

none

Objectives

The course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of Psychology of well-being and performance course by providing students with the tools for knowledge and understanding of the main theories on the promotion of well-being and performance throughout the lifespan; the theories related to the tools for assessing cognitive and emotional development in different contexts; the theories related to the ontogeny of cognitive and emotional processes; the theories related to intervention and training activities for different types of interlocutors.
The student should demonstrate the ability to collect and analyze data related to the promotion of well-being and performance across the life span; collect and analyze data on well-being and performance through objective and subjective measures in childhood;
Finally, the student knows how to refer to specific explanatory theories within developmental psychology to prevent individual situations; knows how to set up action-research interventions to address needs posed by clients

Contents

Basis of emotion regulation; emotions and attachment relationships in the life span; individual and temperamental features related to emotions; interventions for promoting emotional well-being

Extended Syllabus

Conceptual and empirical foundations of emotion regulation competences and implications for wellbeing; development of emotion regulation competences in the life span, starting from the early parent-infant interaction up to the role of internalized attachment relationships on emotional wellbeing; emotions and adolescence; emotions and aging; measures for evaluating emotion regulation competences across the development; the role of emotions in interpersonal contexts including the romantic couple; the biological basis of emotion regulation including temperament; interventions to promote a positive emotional development based on Mindfulness, modification of attention and affect regulation training.

Recommended Bibliography

Handouts provided on the e-learning platform

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal teaching and group activities. Attendance is not compuslory but recomended

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The test will be carried out by oral questions and interview, possibly supplemented by a multimedia teaching demonstration.

Evaluation grid:

30 cum laude: in-depth knowledge of the contents of the bibliography and lessons combined with a critical language not only precise and congruous but already inclined to the best teaching effectiveness

28-30: in-depth knowledge of the bibliography and of the content of the lessons expressed through an exact and congruous critical language and of appreciable argumentative clarity.

24-27: Good knowledge of the bibliography and the content of the lessons. Critical language with some inaccuracies and not always congruous to the object, presence of excessive simplifications in the exposure.

18-23: Sometimes uncertain knowledge of the contents of the bibliography and lessons. Critical language in which generalizations and inconsistencies are present. Presence of simplifications partially inadequate to the content of the exhibition.

Invitation to repeat the test:
Serious gaps in the preparation both concerning the texts in the bibliography and the subject of the lessons.

Contacts/More Information

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Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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