Gender, Vulnerability, and Subjective Wellbeing in Educational and Social Contexts

Subjective wellbeing has become a central construct in psychological and social sciences, serving as a key indicator of quality of life, mental health, and human development. However, wellbeing experiences are not uniformly distributed across individuals and social groups; they are deeply shaped by structural inequalities related to gender, socioeconomic vulnerability, educational exclusion, precarious employment, migration, and discrimination. Contemporary social, economic, and cultural transformations, further intensified by the post COVID-19 pandemic context, have increased levels of psychological distress and psychosocial vulnerability across diverse populations. Women, students, teachers, migrants, caregivers, and workers in precarious conditions face complex challenges that directly affect their emotional wellbeing, educational trajectories, and opportunities for social participation. Understanding the individual, community, and institutional factors that promote wellbeing, and resilience has thus become an urgent scientific and policy priority, particularly in Latin American and other emerging regional contexts.This Research Topic aims to advance a multidimensional understanding of the relationships between gender, vulnerability, and subjective wellbeing across diverse educational and social contexts. Despite growing theoretical and empirical interest in wellbeing research, significant gaps remain regarding how structural conditions, including gender inequalities, institutional mistrust, emotional labor, and social exclusion, interact with psychological and socioemotional processes to shape individual and collective flourishing. Recent advances in socioemotional competence research and equity-oriented wellbeing frameworks offer promising avenues to address these gaps, particularly when combined with intersectional and community-level perspectives. This collection seeks to bring together empirical, theoretical, and applied contributions that critically examine how psychological, educational, institutional, cultural, and socioeconomic factors influence wellbeing among historically marginalized or structurally vulnerable groups. Special attention will be given to studies focusing on women and gender-diverse populations, university students, teachers, migrants, and social and educational workers. The Research Topic also prioritizes scientific evidence produced in Latin America and other underrepresented regions, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and international collaboration around wellbeing, equity, and social justice.This Research Topic welcomes original research articles, systematic reviews, meta analyses, theoretical studies, and qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods investigations exploring the intersections of gender, vulnerability, and subjective wellbeing in educational, organizational, clinical, family, and community settings. Contributions from psychology, education, sociology, public health, social work, gender studies, and related disciplines are encouraged, with particular value placed on interdisciplinary, comparative, and international approaches. Specific themes of interest include: subjective and socioemotional wellbeing; gender and mental health; educational inclusion and exclusion; teacher and student wellbeing; emotional labor and caregiving; migration, interculturality, and psychosocial adaptation; violence, discrimination, and social vulnerability; institutional trust and social cohesion; precarious employment and labor informality; resilience and coping strategies; community interventions and public policy; and post-pandemic psychosocial challenges. Studies centered on underrepresented populations and those conducted in Latin America and other emerging regional contexts are especially welcomed. Topic editors: Cristian R. Céspedes, Juan Carlos Echeverri-Alvarez Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/81848/gender-vulnerability-and-subjective-wellbeing-in-educational-and-social-contexts