QUALITY OF LIFE: AN ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGISTS' PRODUCTIONS BETWEEN 2018-2022

Abstract

Researchers from different areas study Quality of Life (QoL) in various contexts, offering theoretical and scientific subsidies to promote and protect individual and collective health. This study aims to analyze the production on QoL published by psychologists in Brazil between 2018 and 2022. Thus, a systematic bibliographic review was carried out in the Scielo indexer of articles in Portuguese published between 2018 and 2022, with at least one psychologist among the authors. Literature review studies, research from other countries, and other forms of publication were excluded. The 28 articles selected were with information on authorship, research data and quality of life assessment. Of the articles identified, nine were written only by psychologists, most of them published in psychology journals. Half of the articles did not present a structured concept of quality of life recognized by the literature, but most incorporated theoretical foundations of Psychology, with emphasis on Social Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral, Developmental and Positive Psychology. Eight studies did not include contributions from Psychological Science in the discussion on QoL. When psychologists were the first authors, there was a 5% increase in the use of theoretical foundations of Psychology. These results indicate that the role of psychologists in authorship seems to stimulate theoretical considerations of Psychology in research on QoL. The understanding of QoL can be significantly enriched by the theoretical contributions of Psychology, exploring aspects that go beyond direct observations and addressing phenomena that often escape capture by specific methods, requiring creativity and diverse skills from the researcher in the face of human complexity.