Organizational justice refers to employees’ perceptions of the fairness of decision-making rules and policies in the workplace. Lack of justice is suggested to be a significant psychosocial risk factor that affects employees’ attitudes and health. The aim of this narrative review was to compile the evidence available about the effects of organizational justice on health. To this end, a literature search was carried out using the Web of Science, PubMed, and PsycINFO databases. The final sample consisted of 103 articles that studied the effects of justice on mental health (40 results), job stress (26), sickness absence (15), physical health (14), absenteeism/presenteeism (3), safety at work (3), and health of third parties (2). The results show that perceptions of workplace justice predict employees’ mental health, stress-related health problems, and lower levels of sickness absence were relatively compelling. Future studies should focus on less-researched outcomes and on how these associations are modified by other variables for a better understanding of how justice affects health, with a view to being able to carry out preventive measures more efficiently.
Introducción. La Educación Positiva ha llegado a las escuelas españolas reclamando un cambio de enfoque sobre las prioridades y objetivos educativos e impulsando prácticas novedosas, como las que contiene el Programa Aulas Felices. La Educación Positiva establece como objetivo prioritario de la educación la mejora del bienestar en el aula por medio del uso de técnicas de la tradición de la Psicología Positiva. El objetivo de este estudio ha sido analizar la evidencia empírica que sustenta a este modelo en España. Método. Se identificaron y revisaron todos los estudios empíricos realizados en el contexto escolar español sobre los efectos de la implementación de programas de Educación Positiva. Resultados. De los 17 estudios analizados, a menudo con serias limitaciones metodológicas, ninguno aporta evidencia firme de mejoras en el desempeño escolar, y sólo algunos aportan evidencias parciales de mejora en aspectos de bienestar. Discusión. Actualmente, los estudios disponibles no parecen suficientes para justificar la implementación de los programas de Educación Positiva en las escuelas españolas.
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