Dear authors;<br />
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We have received the reviews and we are in agreement with the evaluators -- please see the following comments and let me know if you are able and willing to make the corrections.<br />
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The work is well written and presents an orderly and interesting structure.<br />
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Nevertheless the design of the research can improve in the following points: 1.- They propose that the program of positive psychology and a program of positive psychology plus cognitive therapy, the problem is that in the argumentation, in the results and the discussion the authors Mention that cognitive behavioral therapy with the positive psychology program are equivalent, but cannot reach that conclusion.<br />
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The correct design would be to evaluate the program of positive psychology with a behavioral cognitive therapy alone, since in the present study both have the "treatment" 2 .- The authors mention a selection of a group of students at random but make two groups one of 19, and another 26, why the difference in the size of the groups? If it is random 3.- a possible bias is to choose students what relationship did they have with researchers? You are his teachers<br />
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Finally, there is a lack of 1.- a section of ethics, which mentions how they communicated with the students ?, 2.- missing the description of the program of positive psychology and that consisted of cognitive therapy, 3.- missing tables mentioned in The document but that I did not have access in the digital access of reviewer 4.- they do not explain why they propose the use of ANCOVA but the results they describe are of tests t.<br />
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Finally, I think that the work can be published but the conclusion should be changed to that the cognitive behavioral therapy does not contribute anything additional to the program of positive psychology, besides explaining or including the indicated points.<br />
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor<br />
Interamerican Journal of Psychology<br />
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP