Anabela Pereira

University of Aveiro | UA · Department of Education

This study aims to develop and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention program designed to foster soft skills among primary-school students. Conducted in Portugal, the program employed face-to-face sessions and involved 2958 fourth-grade students from nine municipalities. The program “Players of Dreams” (PD) [“Brincadores de S...

Music performance anxiety (MPA) affects health, wellbeing, and performance quality. The characteristics of MPA are multifaceted and mainly caused by psychophysiological factors that generate a sense of loss of control. The aims of the present study were to understand MPA in the context of higher music education in Portugal through the individual an...

Vulnerability has become a key concept in modern society, relating to all dimensions of human existence, and the main determinants of health. Vulnerability is subject-dependent and so a subjective condition deeply rooted in selfhood. Addressing vulnerability means talking about resistance, resilience, and strength, essential characteristics of adap...

The COVID-19 pandemic had significant impacts on working conditions of teachers and researchers, jeopardizing their mental health and increasing the risk of burnout and technostress. The purpose of this study was to assess the experiences of burnout and technostress among higher education teachers and researchers during the pandemic. A total of 333...

Background: Studying lifestyles has always been important; quantifying them has become more complex. However, a questionnaire produced in 1983 has shown that its simple form of evaluation can be an added value in understanding lifestyles. Our aim is a systematic review of the scientific literature about the use of the FANTASTIC Lifestyle questionn...

This study aimed to adapt the Compassion Fatigue-Short Scale to Portugal and examine the reliability and validity of the Portuguese version of the scale (Pt-CF-Short Scale) among Portuguese firefighters. The factor structure of the Pt-CF-Short Scale was compared to the one-factor model fit and a two-factor model and second-order factor model in a s...

O presente trabalho investigou o treinamento em biofeedback para o controle da Ansiedade na Performance Musical (APM) pela ótica de um músico, com o objetivo de estudar processos de autorregulação fisiológica inerentes à atividade. A metodologia teve como ponto de partida o programa de treinamento em biofeedback estabelecido e testado por Chaló (20...

Firefighters have high exposure to traumatic events and have an increased risk of developing symptoms related to trauma. The current study assessed the psychological morbidity, empathy and alexithymia of volunteer firefighters compared to career firefighters and to non-firefighter comparators from the general population. Group differences were asse...

The aim of the current study was to conduct a reliability generalisation (RG) meta‐analysis of Cronbachʼs alpha for the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). A systematic search of three databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) from inception to 12 March 2021 was performed. Publications that reported Cronbachʼs alpha for the total ISI score were inc...

A psicofarmacologia representa, cada vez mais, uma área de conhecimento com importantes implicações na atuação profissional dos psicólogos. Em vários países, tem-se assistido, ao longo dos últimos anos, a uma crescente importância dada à formação em psicofarmacologia para psicólogos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar um levantamento dos planos...

Background: Mindfulness practices might become an important intervention strategy, but also a prevention approach, with regular practice helping people to cope with adverse daily situations, adopting more conscious attitudes and behaviors, responding, instead of reacting. This exploratory study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of two of the main...

Studying citizens’ lifestyles is extremely important for understanding society and the social conditions of the personal lifestyle. Understanding the lifestyles of university students is especially important because they will be the future citizens and professionals who will shape society’s future. The aim of this study was a systematic review of t...

Aim Cognitive concerns are one of the most frequently reported symptoms by breast cancer survivors. This study aimed to evaluate perceived cognitive functioning in Portuguese women with breast cancer treated with chemotherapy. Methods A cross‐sectional study enrolling 146 women (73 with breast cancer and 73 healthy) was conducted from August to Oc...

The Emotion Regulation of Others and Self Scale (EROS) is commonly used to measure individual differences in the use of strategies to regulate one’s own and other people’s emotions. This study aimed to examine its psychometric properties and measurement invariance across sex in a Portuguese clinical sample. For this purpose, we tested the factorial...

We live in a world of stories, within a multiplicity of multidimensional narratives. We look upon stories for example, inspiration, guidance, or assurance. It is through stories that we learn as they are a universal source of knowledge, insight, and awareness. In a world made of change and challenges, finding meaning in the apparently random, chaot...

The European Commission has highlighted the development of entrepreneurship competence in lifelong learning skills. In this way, the present study aims to contribute towards fostering the intrapreneurial mindset in healthcare settings. The focus of attention is on the relationship between organizational structures and processes (work-related conten...

Occupational Stress (OS) can seriously impair the physical and mental health of workers. This theme became particularly relevant during the pandemic crisis caused by COVID-19, with healthcare professionals standing out, as the ones who were in the frontline of the response and in the pressures suffered for the necessary adaptations in the workplace...

The present study aimed to examine the attitudes of teachers and school professionals towards the inclusion of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Jordanian schools. Specifically, the study investigates whether the variables of knowledge and training in ASD, educational role, experience in ASD, academic qualification, gender, age, and s...

This research explored a taxonomy combining social anxiety and assertiveness and further applied a cognitive approach for predicting those constructs in adolescents. Participants were 679 adolescents (mean age = 16.68; 61.3% female) who self-reported on interpersonal assertive schemas, negative automatic social thoughts, social anxiety, and asserti...

Virtual Reality (VR) has been identified as one of the most promising resources for developing empathy towards stigmatized groups as it allows individuals to experience a situation close to reality from another person's perspective. This quasi-experimental study aimed to examine the impact on empathy, knowledge, and attitudes towards people with sc...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, leading to changes in one's personal and working life. Researchers have undergone extensive changes in their roles, mainly in the area of health care, with research into the virus now the priority. Aim To assess the anxiety, depression, stress, fears, and coping strategies of Portuguese r...

The prevention and management of chronic disease primarily requires risk reduction measures, through strategic coordination across various government areas. Recognizing that health workers and the public health workforce are integral to building strong and resilient health, the present study analyses the relation between Psychosocial Risk Factors (...

Social communication difficulties are one of the most common issues among individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as ASD affects their social and academic lives and isolates them from their environment. Several studies that utilized video modeling, video self-modeling, or social stories (or social stories combined with video modeling) have...

This study presents a systematic review of the sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors associated with distress in elderly cancer patients. Relevant studies were identified using four electronic databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and ProQuest. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies exploring factors associated with distress in...

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is described as a persistent apprehension that compromises performative skills both in solo and group performances. The aim of this systematic review was to discuss an overview of research articles addressing the characteristics of MPA as experienced by undergraduate music students. The search was undertaken in the d...

A third version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ III) was developed internationally aiming to respond to new trends in working conditions, theoretical concepts, and international experience. This article aims to present the preliminary validation studies for the Portuguese middle version of COPSOQ III. This is an exploratory cro...

Fear is a powerful emotion that can influence future behavior. This study investigates how fear influences the relationship between vicarious violence at work and employees' work ability. This is a quantitative cross-sectional study. Self-report data were collected from 154 Portuguese nurses who completed an online survey. Statistical significance...

The kindergarten teacher, as a curriculum manager, should develop an educational praxis that prevents early childhood stress and promotes children's mental health. We aimed to identify stress-inducing situations yet pedagogical skills and educational practices that act in terms of preventing childhood stress, through the perception of educators. Th...

Nos últimos 30 anos a religiosidade e a espiritualidade têm sido conceptualizados em psicologia como constructos convergentes e indissociáveis, repercutindo esta conceção nos domínios clínico e educacional. Porém, a literatura psicológica tem identificado problemas neste modelo conceptual que compromete uma maior inclusão de posturas espirituais e...

Social anxiety is significantly prevalent among college students and frequently leads to school dropout and academic underachievement. Since university counseling services are often overburdened, a mobile-based cognitive behavioral intervention was designed to support students attending therapy for social anxiety and therapists. Our main goals are...

Anxiety is a condition that students experience during their academic path. Several studies highlight the importance of anxiety (state and trait) in school with the problem of failure and dropout rates being central concerns for Higher Education Institutions. Various indicators show that Mathematics is often seen as difficult and stressful, leading...

O livro “Temáticas contemporâneas das ciências sociais aplicadas vol. 1”, editado e publicado pela Latin American Publicações Ltda., reúne sete capítulos que tratam sobre temas de relevância no contexto das ciências sociais aplicadas. Assim, os trabalhos deste livro abordam o cuidador familiar na relação familiar e a satisfação/insatisfação na gest...

Dado o atual uso global do Eneagrama no estudo da personalidade, constata-se a necessidade premente de esclarecer a sua origem e evolução. A dispersão dos dados sobre quem protagonizou a propagação deste sistema origina muitas vezes dúvidas e equívocos. Nesse sentido, com este artigo pretende-se sistematizar a história das origens do Eneagrama e da...

Serious mental health disorders are increasing among college students and university counseling services are often overburdened. Mobile applications for mental health have been growing exponentially in the last decade and they are emerging in university settings as a promising tool to promote and intervene in college students' mental health. Additi...

As a recent field of study, design resorts to a perspective of methodological integration or mixed method research. Both as a discipline and a practice, design is driven by the endeavour to develop creative and innovative solutions for the most diverse issues outside its scope, through a particular way of thinking and knowing. Within this framework...

Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is affecting numerous dimensions of our society since the beginning of the outbreak. A significant increase in emotional distress was expected in the general population, particularly among the high-risk groups such as the oldest, chronic patients, healthcare professionals, and psychopathology vulnerable people....

Introduction Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is one of the most frequent and worrying side effects experienced by non-central nervous system (CNS) cancer survivors, generally related to cancer treatments. Considering its detrimental impact on quality of life, including work-related outcomes, it is necessary to identify effective interven...

Introduction: The COVID-19 epidemic has been causing serious physical, but also psychological effects in society. This systematic review sought to identify studies that describe COVID-19 related anxiety, and to understand the impact of anxiety assessment in defining strategies to be implemented in future studies. Methodology: This systematic rev...

Psychological aggression perpetrated by customers, coworkers, and supervisors is a behavior frequently experienced in the workplace with negative consequences for an individual’s health. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the personal outcomes of overt workplace psychological aggression and summarize empirical evidence on how to preve...

Higher education students lack skills to deal in a positive way with the crises inherent to the developmental phase in which they find themselves. However, the complexity of the current global context adds an urgent need for them to be resilient. For this purpose, it is necessary to evaluate their capacity for resilience, which requires the use of...

Over the last few decades, distance education and distance learning have assumed a relevant role in education paradigms. To evaluate the perception and preferences of the psychosocial online learning environment by Portuguese post-secondary higher education, the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) was applied in a Portuguese con...

When attending and participating in Higher Education, students face a multitude of personal, social, and work-related challenges, which may increase the risk of devel- oping psychopathological symptomatology. To date, there is no instrument that grasps the non-technical skills that may help prepare students to respond to these challenges. This pape...

Os estudantes do ensino superior carecem de suporte na superação das crises inerentes à fase desenvolvimental em que se encontram, bem como em lidar com as adversidades. No entanto, a complexidade do contexto global atual acrescenta-lhes uma necessidade premente de apoio psicológico. Este estudo tem como objetivo apresentar um instrumento que se re...

Background and Purpose A violence prevention climate is critical for nurses’ well-being but also for nursing practice and the quality of care. This study examined the reliability and factor validity of the European Portuguese version of the 12-item Violence Prevention Climate Scale (VPCS). Methods Data came from a sample of 120 nurses providing ca...

The present study aims to compare measures of spirituality and religiosity in the experience of the locus of control. For this purpose a scale of non-theistic spirituality (Spiritual Awareness Scale) was developed to better distinguish spirituality from religiosity. The sample included 279 participants, 86 males (30.8%) and 193 females (69.2%), age...

Through a particular way of thinking and a specific approach to knowledge, design contributes to an understanding of the most diverse issues that exist outside its scope [1]. It aims to develop creative and innovative solutions as both a discipline and a practice. Within this framework, the purpose of this study is to identify and understand the ro...

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No contexto de isolamento social em que a infância se insere, na atualidade, potenciamos cada vez mais os conhecimentos epistemológicos da psicologia da educação, como resposta ao stress que ela vivência. O presente estudo teve como objetivo identificar as situações indutoras de stress em crianças dos 3 aos 10 anos, junto de profissionais que traba...

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Policing is a stressful occupation, which impairs police officers' physical/mental health and elicits burnout, aggressive behaviors and suicide. Resilience and coping facilitate the management of job stress policing, which can be operational or organizational. All these constructs are associated, and they must be assessed by instruments sensitive t...

There are some doubts and scattered information about the history of the enneagram, namely in terms of data on those who have played a leading role in its development over time. Thus, given the current global use of this system, there is an urgent need to clarify the origins and evolution of the enneagram. In this sense, this article intends to sys...

Alcohol and tobacco consumption of the social network on university students’ polydrug consumption behaviors: The present study aims to evaluate the association between parents and friends’ consumption behaviours (alcohol and tobacco) with polydrug consumption behaviour of university students. A Cross-sectional study was developed, whose sample was...

O problema conceptual acerca da dependência entre religiosidade e espiritualidade tem suscitado inconsistência na investigação psicométrica. Pretende-se com este artigo determinar se uma separação métrica entre constructos é possível e traduz-se numa melhor compreensão destes enquanto objetos de estudo em psicologia. Uma amostra composta por 279 pa...

This study aimed to compare measures of religiosity and spirituality in the experience of positive and negative emotions. For this purpose, a measure of non-spiritual religiosity (Religious Sense Scale) was developed. Method: The study has been conducted on a sample of 279 participants aged between 19 and 69 (M=24.42, SD=9.463) who completed a ques...

Religious Sense Scale - A non-spiritual and non-theistic scale for measuring religious sense. It is based on the reinterpretation of William James work in order to admit the current conceptual demarcation between religiosity and spirituality, as also to assess religiosity as encompassing secular religious postures like the ones proposed by Auguste...

Research has demonstrated that policing is a stressful occupation and that this stress has a negative impact on police officers’ mental and physical health, performance, and interactions with citizens. Mental health at the workplace has become a concern due to the costs of depression, anxiety, burnout, and even suicide, which is high among police o...

The Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire (SWBQ) was widely studied as a psychological instrument; yet, there is a lack of its use in non-religious research. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the SWBQ in a sample of practising believers, non-practising believers, sceptics and atheists. A total number of 279 participants ag...

O presente trabalho é parte de uma investigaçao doutoral sobre a formaçao de professores em Portugal e Brasil e pretende apresentar alguns marcos históricos sobre a implementaçao da formaçao de professores nos dois países.

Aim This paper aims to describe alcohol, tobacco and type A polydrug consumption among university students. Method A cross-sectional study was performed. Through a convenience sampling, a total of 338 were included (51.8% male with a mean age of 20.6 years, SD = 3.4). Data was collected using a self-reported questionnaire. The questionnaire was co...

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between affectivity and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, quality of life, functioning, and social support satisfaction in schizophrenia. Method: Cross-sectional study of a sample of 282 schizophrenic patients. An interview was performed using a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire and...

There is some evidence that insomnia seems to constitute a heterogeneous sleep disorder in which different psychological and neurophysiological variables may have differential roles. Mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches suggest new constructs for psychopathology and health sciences which can be useful to investigate in insomnia. In this pape...

O conceito e a aplicabilidade de qualidade de vida têm evoluído no cenário mundial a partir da década de sessenta, através de diferentes instrumentos de medida. Destaca-se na área das ciências o maior impulso, que se deu na década de noventa, quando a qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde ganhou mais visibilidade, a começar pelos grandes estudos de...

O cuidador informal, na sua prática de cuidados, experimenta de igual forma sentimentos positivos e negativos. No entanto, é a interpretação pessoal sobre a tarefa que executa que determina o seu grau de satisfação ou insatisfação em relação à mesma. OBJETIVO: Verificar os principais motivos de satisfação e/ou insatisfação dos cuidadores informais...

Aim: To evaluate the accuracy properties of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire – Revised (DMQ-R) to identify alcohol involvement in college students and, consequently, describe its predictive validity. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed. Through a convenience sample of 302 undergraduate students was obtained, with an average age of 20.4...

Aim: Alcohol and tobacco consumption, common among college students, may lead to future health and social problems. We aim to identify the factors associated with those consumptions among college students. Method: A literature review was performed using PRISMA recommendations. Records were selected through PubMed and Scopus. Through inclusion and...

The purpose of this review was to clarify the adequacy of the existing measures of religiosity and spirituality at the Portuguese context. A systematic survey was conducted in December 2018 and updated in June 2019 through the electronic databases EBSCO (Fonte Académica, Psyc Artcles, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, e PsycINFO); SCOPUS; Web of...