ABSTRACT
This chapter describes both nomothetic and ideographic approaches, as well as an ecological model based on cognitive and identity elements, with the aim of stimulating the study of the impact of sociocultural change on psychosocial well-being. It reviews various methodological challenges in addressing these phenomena. The chapter explains the creation of research networks on the impact of crises and major sociocultural changes on psychosocial well-being under these paradigms should be high on the agenda of academic and applied psychology. Psychosocial well-being is a concept that applies to both individual and collective levels of evaluation. There is a growing interest in the measurement of human well-being and its relation with sociocultural changes such as globalization, economic crises, new communications technologies, rapid political changes, and political polarization. The chapter suggests that an approach that connects the dynamics of sociocultural change with subjective, individual, and collective psychosocial well-being will facilitate, from a multidisciplinary perspective, and hence the management of social capital.
