Wenceslao Unanue

Adolfo Ibáñez University — Chile

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction(17), Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports(11), Behavioral Health and Interventions(9), Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior(5), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development(3)

Publications26 total

The (mis)measure of misbehavior: Cross-national invariance of the Youth Externalizing Problems Screener across 32 countries
Development and Psychopathology·2025· 2 cited
Understanding the transition from stress to depression: a longitudinal mediational analysis of anxiety in adults from the Metropolitan Region of Chile
Frontiers in Psychology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Positive and Negative Emotional Experiences in Adolescents across 32 Countries: Cross-National and Gender Differences
Applied Research in Quality of Life·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Adolescent self‐construal across cultures: Measurement invariance of the Aspects of Identity Questionnaire‐IV in 30 countries
Journal of Research on Adolescence·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Reciprocal Relations Between Meaning in Life, Beneficence, and Psychological Needs for Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness: Evidence from a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study
Journal of Happiness Studies·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Materialism predicts burnout through the basic needs: individual-level and within-person longitudinal evidence
Work & Stress·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
A new development paradigm based on happiness and well-being
2023
Measurement Invariance of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire Across 17 Countries
Applied Research in Quality of Life·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Clarifying the link between psychological need satisfaction and positive affect: Longitudinal within-person tests for bi-directional influence in two cultures
European Journal of Personality·2023· 9 cited
The longitudinal link between compassion toward others and subjective well-being: the role of beneficence as an underlying psychological process to explain this relationship
Current Psychology·2022· 6 cited
A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2022· 45 citedOpen Access
Basic psychological needs satisfaction and frustration prospectively mediates the link between dispositional gratitude and life satisfaction: Longitudinal evidence from a representative sample in Chile
Personality and Individual Differences·2022· 14 cited
What makes work meaningful? Longitudinal evidence for the importance of autonomy and beneficence for meaningful work
Journal of Vocational Behavior·2021· 95 citedOpen Access
The Longitudinal Link between Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Three Different Models of Happiness
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·2021· 22 citedOpen Access
Dispositional Gratitude as an Underlying Psychological Process Between Materialism and the Satisfaction and Frustration of Basic Psychological Needs: A Longitudinal Mediational Analysis
Journal of Happiness Studies·2021· 15 cited
Gratitude at Work Prospectively Predicts Lower Workplace Materialism: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Chile
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·2021· 19 citedOpen Access
The Effects of the 2016 Copa América Centenario Victory on Social Trust, Self-Transcendent Aspirations and Evaluated Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Identity With the National Team and Collective Pride in Major Sport Events
Frontiers in Psychology·2020· 15 citedOpen Access
Feel the Copa América final: Immediate and medium-term effects of major sport events and national football team identification on different components of subjective well-being
Current Psychology·2020· 11 cited
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Gratitude and Life Satisfaction: Evidence From Two Longitudinal Field Studies
Frontiers in Psychology·2019· 52 citedOpen Access
When and Why Does Materialism Relate to Employees’ Attitudes and Well-being: The Mediational Role of Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration
Frontiers in Psychology·2017· 45 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Marcos Gómez(11), Jesús Unanue(9), Vivian L. Vignoles(5), Diego Bravo(5), Xavier Oriol(5), Diego Cortez(4), Helga Dittmar(4), Piotr Sorokowski(4), Agnieszka Sorokowska(4), Teresa Freire(4), Juan Carlos Oyanedel(3), Frank Martela(3), Anja Van den Broeck(3), Veljko Jovanović(3), Sabirah Adams(3), Rebeca Aritio Solana(3), Andreja Avsec(3), Ali Bakhshi(3), Michael Bender(3), Sophie Berjot(3)