The UJI researchs how to improve mental health through positive psychology interventions, musical stimuli and new technologies



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## The UJI researchs how to improve mental health through positive psychology interventions, musical stimuli and new technologies

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Within the framework of the Spanish Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020, the Universitat Jaume I has obtained three projects linked to the field of psychology, specifically, one on positive psychological interventions with digital technologies in essential front-line workers linked to the context of COVID-19; a study that analyses individual differences in emotional induction and regulation with musical stimuli, and a research on the effectiveness of assessment and intervention methods based on apps to improve social communication skills in children with different neurodevelopmental disorders.

The first project, which is led by the professor of Social Psychology Marisa Salanova and has 84,700 euros funding, aims to design, implement and evaluate positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in pandemic and post-pandemic situations in essential front-line workers such as health professionals, state security personnel and food workers. These interventions will be based on the consolidation of healthy habits, i.e. physical exercise, healthy eating and strengths-based mindfulness, and will consider the multilevel nature of organisations, i.e. individual, group, leader and organisation level (following the multilevel IGLO model (individual, group, leader, organisation).

The project will compare the effectiveness of at least three multi-level PPIs based on healthy habits and test their positive effects. Furthermore, their adaptation and the sustainability of the effects of the interventions in the long term will be studied in order to support the development of healthier and more sustainable individuals, groups, leaders and organisations over time. It should be noted that the PPIs will be developed using digital technologies.

On the other hand, the second project, coordinated by the professor of Basic Psychology Mamen Pastor, aims to explore individual differences in emotional induction and regulation through music, due to the scarcity of studies that explore this area with sufficient methodological rigour and the high interest in using music for therapeutic purposes in a multitude of pathologies with associated emotional problems.

The research, which has 66,550 euros in funding, includes three studies: one in which standardised musical stimuli from the Film Music Stimulus Set (FMSS), adapted to the Spanish population by the UJI research team, are used to explore their capacity to induce emotions in laboratory contexts; another in which the capacity of cognitive reappraisal to modulate, through instructions, emotions induced by musical stimuli will be explored; and a third in which the aim is to explore the modulating role of music to increase or decrease emotional responses.

Finally, the third project, which has funding of 42,955 euros and is coordinated by Clara Andrés and Raquel Flores, lecturers and researchers in the Area of Developmental and Educational Psychology, seeks to advance in the search for evaluation methods in the area of social communication skills in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) to determine the factors that produce these problems and to study their comorbidity. In addition, it also aims to evaluate the effectiveness of app-based interventions as complementary tools to improve social communication skills.

To this end, the social communication skills of children aged 6 to 12 years with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental language disorder (DDD) will be measured through an app, to compare them with each other and also with typically developing boys and girls of the same age and gender. From this analysis, the aim is to contribute to improving the social communication skills of children with ASD, ADHD and ADHD through interventions with apps carried out by professionals, but also promoting the active inclusion of parents.

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