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Record W4416069015 · doi:10.1080/17439760.2025.2582004

Pioneering paths to positive mental health: an in-depth scoping review of multicomponent positive psychology group interventions for youth

2025· article· en· W4416069015 on OpenAlex
J. H. Martow, G. Barlow, S. Bryn Austin, Stanley K. Henshaw, Margaret N. Lumley

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Positive Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersCanadian Psychological Association
KeywordsPositive psychologyPsychological interventionWell-beingMental healthGroup (periodic table)Intervention (counseling)

Abstract

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Interventions supporting youth mental health are crucial and multicomponent positive psychology interventions (MPPIs) show promise by targeting several promotive factors at a population-level. This scoping review provides synthesized recommendations based on existing knowledge and programs (n = 56) to bolster evidence-based practice. Findings revealed the most common MPPI components: cultivating strengths (65.38%), relationships (59.62%), and positive emotions (53.85%). Many studies measured outcomes pre- and/or post-intervention (both 92.00%), but follow-up assessments at or beyond one month were comparatively rare (38.00%). Further analysis explored participant information (age, gender, ethnicity, sample size), intervention delivery (sessions number/length, delivery location, activities, facilitator type), and additional aspects of evaluation (outcomes, control group, qualitative component). Notably, many sources provided insufficient data for key variables of interest (missing data for at least one variable in category ranged from 42.86% to 75.93%). Findings informed guidelines for PPI reporting and further offer valuable insights for educators, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.797
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.475
Teacher spread0.396 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it