title: [Mental health through management of personal projects: an intervention with young retired people].
abstract: A personal goal-based intervention was offered to retired people aged 50 to 65 years with the objective of increasing their subjective well-being and their mental health. More specifically, the program presented here was aimed to promote the setting, planning, and realization of personal projects through a learning process based on a cognitive approach. At the end of the program, the experimental group (n = 117) had improved significantly more than the control group (n = 177) on all the goal and subjective well-being indicators, and this gain was maintained six months later. Some ideas to make the program more effective are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de gérontologie, Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
authors.forename: Micheline
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dubé
authors.forename: Léandre
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bouffard
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lapierre
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alain
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome