Boletim informativo NEPS
Universidade do Minho. Instituto de Ciências Sociais. Núcleo de Estudos de População e Sociedade
2001-11-01
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Foram encontrados 75 registos.
Contexto: A Psicologia da Aparência tem merecido pouca atenção dos investigadores portugueses. As representações contemporâneas do corpo ideal (magro, atlético e com formas), muito avolumadas pelos meios de comunicação social e redes sociais, criam frequentemente a insatisfação com a aparência. Estudos recentes referem que os estudantes universitários se encontram insatisfeitos com a imagem corporal. Objetivo: Avaliar possíveis relações entre as preocupações com aparência, nomeadamente a autoconsciência da aparência, e a adaptação ao Ensino Superior por parte de estudantes portugueses.Método: Exploratório e quantitativo. Participaram 206 estudantes do Ensino Superior, tendo respondido a um Questionário Sociodemográfico, à versão portuguesa reduzida da Escala de Avaliação da Aparência de Derriford (DAS-14) e ao Questionário de Adaptação...
Contexto: A revisão da literatura sobre potenciais fatores preditores dos sintomas depressivos em adolescentes tem mostrado que asexperiências traumáticas durante a infância, as experiências de vergonha e o género têm um contributo relevante.Objetivo: Pretende-se com o presente estudoobservar a variabilidade intraindividual da vergonha, acontecimentos traumáticos e género e testar o poder preditivo destas variáveis a 6 meses na evolução de sintomas depressivos (variável dependente) em adolescentes.Método: A amostra foi constituída por 325 adolescentes, com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e os 18 anos, distribuídos pela zona centro de Portugal e a frequentar o 3.º ciclo do ensino básico e ensino secundário. Foram utilizados o Inventário de Depressão para Crianças, a Escala Breve de vergonha e o Questionário de Trauma na Infância para a...
Aims: The main goal was to develop and validate the Anxiety and Avoidance of Situations due to Weight and Physical Appearance Scale (AASWPAS) in a sample of adolescents.Methods: The sample comprised 357 adolescents, 195 males and 162 females, with ages between 12 and 18 years old, attending secondary schools. Besides the AASWPAS participants also completed a sociodemographic data sheet and a set of self-reported measures that evaluate anxiety, stress and depressive symptoms, bullying experiences, and body-image shame feelings.Results: Both AASWPAS subscales (anxiety / discomfort and avoidance) revealed a two-factor structure and showed good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α= 0.91), good item quality and excellent temporal stability. The subscales of the AASWPAS were significantly and positively associated with feelings of shame, victi...
Aims: Social networks play a central role in the quality of the life of persons with additive behaviors, being determinant both in the maintenance, compensation or rehabilitation of these behaviors. This study aims to characterize the social personal networks of people with additive behavior and dependencies at risk of social exclusion or excluded.Method: Participated in this study 30 individuals with psychoactive substances use, aged between 24 and 65 years (M ± DP = 43,03 ± 10,10), most of them male (80,0%), with no source of income (46.7%) or supported by social policy measures (53.3%). The main substance of use is heroin (63.3%). We assessed the structural, functional and contextual-relational dimensions of their networks with the Social Personal Networks Analysis Tool.Results: The social networks of the participants are composed b...
Introduction: Parenting is a highly valued social role. However, for couples dealing with infertility this role can involve fertility treatments, and for some of them donor-assisted reproduction. For couples who use third party reproduction, another concern can emerge: tell the child about the donor conception, or preserve secrecy. Although arguments for decision-making have been studied, in Portugal research on this topic is scanty. Objectives: The current study sought out to develop the Motivations for Disclosing/Not Disclosing Non-genetic Parenthood through Gamete Donation (QMRDG), which is designed to assess motivations that influence the decision-making process of parents who use gamete donation regarding disclosure to his/her son/daughter his/her conception.Methods: This exploratory study was conducted in sample of 21 participant...
Aims: In Portugal, we did not find studies and instruments that evaluate tolerance to infidelity for the Portuguese population. Therefore, the aim of this preliminary study was to adapt and validate the Tolerance for Infidelity Scale (TIS) for the Portuguese population and to explore the associations between the tolerance for infidelity and different sociodemographic, relational and regarding infidelity (and its forgiveness) variables, self-criticism and self-compassion.Methods: 223 individuals (women, n = 155; 69,5%), with ages between 18 and 67 years old, answered a protocol consisting of a questionnaire with sociodemographic, relational and infidelity questions, the Tolerance for Infidelity Scale, the Self-compassion Scale and the Forms of Self-criticizing/Attacking and Self-Reassuring Scale.Results: The adapted version for the Port...
Aim: The current study sought out to conduct an exploratory factor analysis in order to examine behavioral dimensions associated with adherence in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. Additionally, our goal was to test a theoretical model consisting of internal and relational factors.Methods: Three hundred and forty-seven patients attending consultations at the Serviço de Endocrinologia, Diabetes e Metabolismo of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra and at the Associação Portuguesa de Diabéticos de Portugal. The self-report instruments were Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, WHOQOL-Bref, Escala de Satisfação com o Suporte Social, Medida de Adesão aos Tratamentos, Attitudes Towards Doctors and Medicine, Beck Depression Inventory, Diabetes Health Profile e Questionário de Autocuidados da Diabetes. Exploratory factor analysis was used to ...
In the first issue of the Portuguese Journal of Behavioral and Social Research, it was described the importance of calculating, indicating and interpreting the effect sizes for the differences between means of two groups. The PJBSR intends to continue to remind of the importance of reporting effect sizes for other statistical tests. The magnitude of the strength of the relationships was not indicated in the previous paper, and it may not be known that correlation is an effect size. Thus, this paper intends to provide some guidelines to the authors on the procedures for calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient and some correlation coefficients for special data (Spearman Rho, Kendall’s Tau, Point-biserial and biserial, Phi, Cramér’s V, and Eta).For this purpose, the formulas, steps in the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social S...
Face ao número crescente de artigos sobre a validação e usos de instrumentos de avaliação que chegam à RPICS, talvez seja o momento para refletir sobre a questão da validade dos mesmos. A RPICS espera que os autores nos seus artigos discutam explicitamente sobre a validade dos instrumentos na secção dos Métodos. Caso os autores utilizem um instrumento estudado previamente com o mesmo formato, com as mesmas características de sujeitos e para o mesmo objetivo, então é suficiente citar a referência prévia. Caso o instrumento seja modificado, o número de itens alterado, o objetivo diferente ou o ponto de corte se modifique, então é necessário apresentar informação suplementar sobre a adaptação. No caso de novos instrumentos criados pelos autores, é essencial explicitar o decurso da elaboração, as medidas de confiabilidade, os resulta...
Objectives: The psychosocial factors as characteristics related to the conditions and organization of work, interfere with the health of employees, and the psychosocial risk situations emerge from the interactions between the employees and their life and work conditions.The objective of the study was to evaluate the psychosocial risk in higher education teachers in order to perceive the teaching profession as a risk profession in terms of physical and mental exhaustion, given their continued exposure to psychosocial risk situations.Method: The study consisted of the administration of two instruments, one for the characterization of the sample and the other for assessing psychosocial risk factors — the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire — consisting of 76 items (5-point Likert scale), distributed in five dimensions, which measure ind...
