Diferencias en felicidad general entre las personas sin hogar en Madrid (España)

  1. Panadero, Sonia 1
  2. Vázquez, José Juan 2
  3. Guillén, Ana Isabel 1
  4. Martín, Rosa María 2
  5. Cabrera, Héctor 2
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    info

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  2. 2 Universidad de Alcalá
    info

    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

Revista:
Revista de psicología (Santiago)

ISSN: 0719-0581

Ano de publicación: 2013

Volume: 22

Número: 2

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5354/0719-0581.2013.30853 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Revista de psicología (Santiago)

Obxectivos de Desenvolvemento Sustentable

Resumo

This paper analyzes various aspects of overall happiness expressed by a representative sample of homeless people in Madrid (Spain). This group is difficult to access, heavily stigmatized, and lives in extreme poverty. The sample was composed of 235 homeless people, all adults, who had spent the night before the interview in a shelter for homeless people, on the street or in other places not initially designed for sleeping, or who were in supervised accommodation for homeless people at the time of the interview. Information was gathered using a heteroapplied structured interview. The results obtained show that around half of the homeless people in Madrid said that they were happy, while the factors that help to predict happiness to the greatest extent among homeless people were not feeling alone or abandoned, not suffering from any disability or handicap, not having any serious or chronic illness, having good expectations for the future, identifying with some sort of religious belief and having a positive perception of their state of health.