Claudia Andrade

• PhD Psychology
• Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra

Observar a pessoa idosa, a sua família, as pessoas ao seu redor, e o contexto social onde estão inseridos é fundamental na análise do envelhecimento e da escolha do cuidador informal. O presente estudo, de natureza exploratória e descritiva, pretende contribuir para uma melhor compreensão da influência das relações familiares na escolha do cuidador...

Introduction Organizational Citizenship Behavior has evolved as a pivotal concept in organizational behavior because of its importance on fostering the success of organizations. Despite its recognized benefits, OCB’s dimensions are not consensual in literature. The goal of this paper was to adapt and validated to be used in a broader work context a...

Background Citizenship fatigue has been identified as a negative consequence of performing organizational citizenship behaviors and has been studied due to its undesirable effects on employees and organizations. This article aims to present the results of adapting the citizenship fatigue scale to Portuguese language and to provide evidence of its v...

Managing multiple roles is considered a major challenge that mature working student parents face when they embrace the educational pursuit of enrolling in higher education. Limited research exists on mature working student parents that identify the strategies that concur for a successful journey through their educational paths. The aim of this stud...

Background Citizenship fatigue has been identified as a negative consequence of performing organizational citizenship behaviors and has been studied due to its undesirable effects on employees and organizations. This article aims to present the results of adapting the citizenship fatigue scale to Portuguese language and to provide evidence of its v...

O presente estudo procura compreender a importância da responsabilidade social das empresas (RSE) enquanto fator influenciador da intenção de compra dos Millennials portugueses no setor da indústria cosmética, com recurso à Teoria do Comportamento Planeado. O estudo foi desenvolvido com base numa metodologia quantitativa, administrada com recurso a...

Objective and overview The literature on flexibility idiosyncratic deals (i‐deals for short) has taken issue with the impact of some structural factors on the complex dynamic of flexibility in boundary management, such as national culture (Wasti et al., 2022), the organizational context (Las Heras et al., 2017), job resources (Rofcanin et al., 202...

Organizational restructuring and technological developments have been associated with working for longer hours, assuming more responsibilities, and feeling more pressure to reach demanding work targets leading to work intensification. Guided by the framework of the JD Resources and stress-as-offense-to-self theory, the aim of the present study was...

In recent decades, research on work and family relations has rapidly progressed, offering valuable insights into how disparities in managing both paid and unpaid domestic work are shaped. This research illuminates how individual attributes; dynamics within couples, organizational policies, and broader contextual influences contribute to inequalitie...

In recent years, higher education institutions have progressively undertaken efforts to attract more diversified populations to their programs, both in the first and second cycles. These new groups include students who work professionally and who are parents. The literature that aims to address the management of multiple roles of higher education s...

Despite evidence suggesting that care work involves the performance of emotional labor an experience of work-family conflict, the relation of these two work experiences remain under-examined. The present study aims to fill this gap by exploring the experiences of performing emotional labor and work-family conflict and their links among caregivers w...

O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar os fatores que contribuem para a intenção de ageing in place, em pessoas com idade igual ou superior a 50 anos, que residam nas suas casas, em Portugal. Os dados foram recolhidos através do questionário de Ahn, Kang e Kwon (2020) adaptado para Portugal. A amostra foi constituída por 256 indivíduos, com id...

Background A new element for job stress called Illegitimate Tasks has been investigated in recent years, along with stress as an offense to self-theory. Illegitimate tasks are those that are either needless or unrelated to the employee's role and can be categorized as unreasonable tasks and unnecessary tasks. Methods This study aimed to adapt the...

Presence of meaning in life has been found to be adaptive during the pandemic (Humphrey & Vari, 2021; Samios et al., 2021), however, no studies were conducted to understand whether meaning in life is related to future perspectives in young adulthood. In the current study both the objective impact and the subjective impact of the COVID-19 pandemic w...

A pandemia exacerbou os desafios enfrentados pelos estudantes que ingressam no ensino superior. Este estudo, de natureza qualitativa e cariz exploratório, teve como objetivo contribuir para o conhecimento das expectativas e dos receios de dois grupos de estudantes (n=90) que ingressaram no ensino superior durante a pandemia. Os dados foram recolhid...

A centralidade dos estados psicológicos críticos na resposta a mudanças nas características do trabalho: estudo em organizações geriátricas The centrality of critical psychological states in responding to changing job characteristics: a study in geriatric organizations RESUMO O objetivo do presente trabalho é identificar a presença de estados psico...

The current study aims to analyze the emotional exhaustion of female health care workers working in elderly care facilities. Using structural equation modelling we tested the effects of organizational support, coworkers' support, supervisor support and work-family conflict in predicting emotional exhaustion with a sample of 171 female health suppor...

A growing body of research demonstrates that COVID-19 has had a profound impact on family functioning and well-being in a range of countries. The fear and uncertainty of the health risks, in addition to the stress from ensuing restrictions and constraints on everyday life caused major disruptions, impacting the financial, emotional, and physical we...

The current study aims to analyze the emotional exhaustion of female health care workers working in elderly care facilities. Using structural equation modelling we tested the effects of organizational support, coworkers' support, supervisor support and work-family conflict in predicting emotional exhaustion with a sample of 171 female health suppor...

RESUMO A pandemia de Covid-19 que o mundo enfrenta tem provocado inúmeras vítimas, maioritariamente idosos, muito dos quais residiam em instituições de apoio gerontológico. Durante os primeiros meses de evolução da pandemia em Portugal, os lares de idosos foram sujeitos a grande pressão sanitária e social uma vez que eram os seus residentes as prin...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the extent to which perceived organizational support and coworkers’ conflict and work-family conflict play a role in the performance of three types of organizational citizenship behaviors. A cross-sectional design was used comprising a sample of 164 health support workers working in Portuguese elderly...

The COVID-19 pandemic made the experience of being a first-year freshman college student unique. This study aims to analyze the hopes and fears of these students concerning their current life and future goals. Participating students completed the Hopes & Fears questionnaire. Results showed that students’ hopes and fears were mainly connected with d...

The COVID-19 pandemic made the experience of being a first-year freshman college student unique. This study aims to analyze the hopes and fears of these students concerning their current life and future goals. Participating students completed the Hopes & Fears questionnaire. Results showed that students’ hopes and fears were mainly connected with d...

Framed by the conservation of resources theory, we investigated the mediating role of citizenship fatigue in the relationship between compulsory citizenship behavior and work-family conflict. Using a sample of 171 women (M = 41.16, SD = 10.18) working in facilities for the elderly in Portugal, we examined the direct and indirect relationship betwee...

Even though research has been showing that telework, under regular circumstances, could benefit the integration of work and family life, mandatory telework during the COVID-19 lockdown brought additional challenges, with potential to create conflicts between work and family spheres. Using regression analysis, this study examined the contribution of...

Even though research has been showing that telework, under regular circumstances, could benefit the integration of work and family life, mandatory telework during the COVID-19 lockdown brought additional challenges, with potential to create conflicts between work and family spheres. Using regression analysis, this study examined the contribution of...

Estudo qualitativo sobre a perceção de jovens do ensino superior em relação ao uso dos espaços naturais ao ar livre face à pandemia COVID-19 Resumo A pandemia provocada pelo novo coronavírus SARs-CoV-2 alterou o comportamento em sociedade, impondo novas regras, como o distanciamento social e restrições na utilização de espaços fechados. A usabilida...

The widespread use of ICT, namely the use of smartphones, has dramatically altered the way organizations communicate with employees, leading to flexibility in work schedules that frequently encompass extending the workday. In the current workforce there are different generations, and this can affect the way that ICT use for work purposes during off...

This qualitative study explores the experiences of role boundary management of workingstudent mothers during COVID-19 pandemic shelter in place order. A thematic analysis was used to examine the experiences and consequences of role blurring due to remote work, school closures, and remote learning and the strategies used to cope with the demands of...

The current scenario of population aging in the professional class of teachers points to the importance of reflecting on how older teachers deal with the transition to retirement. The present study seeks to understand the importance of factors related to the individual, family and work in the planning of retirement, as a subjective experience. The...

This study tested factorial structure, reliability as well as gender, age, and cultural measurement invariance of the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). Data were collected from 981 Italian, Portuguese and Chinese emerging adults. Results showed that BIT scores were reliable, mono-dimensional, and suitable to assess thriving across different popula...

Emerging adulthood is critical developmental phase for planning the future adult roles, such as the professional and familial role. Current research concerning plans to combine work and family roles of emerging adult’s enrolled in higher education focused mainly on gender differences with few studies devoting to cross-cultural comparisons. This stu...

Reconciling work and personal life is a complex topic due to the needs of dealing with demands from professional and family spheres. With a sample of 111 assembly line workers from an industrial company, based on the Job Demands-Resources JD-R model, the importance of work context demands and resources in predicting work-family conflict were assess...

RESUMO Num mercado laboral em constante transformação e evolução, ser-se diferente e marcar a diferença é fundamental na procura por um emprego e por um percurso profissional. É neste âmbito que surge o conceito de Personal Branding, como gestão contínua de uma marca pessoal de inserção no mercado laboral. O presente estudo tem como objetivo prime...

Su, Tay, & Diener (2014) proposed the 10-item Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT) to measure well-being overcoming the classic distinction between psychological and subjective well-being. Specifically, authors conceive the subjective well-being as a sub-dimension of the psychological well-being that, in this wider view, is considered as synonymous of...

In recent years there Portuguese higher education institutions have been aiming to attract more people to the educational system that are either in the labor market by offering evening and weekend graduate academic programs. Blending work and school is a demanding task and, so far, at the country level this phenomenon has received relatively little...

Purpose: The article aims to test, using structural equations, a work-study relationship conflict and enrichment background model. Method: 87 students-workers of a bachelor’s degree, of both sexes (24 men and 63 women), participated. Results: The number of working hours and academic self-efficacy are related to the work-study conflict. Peer support...

Este estudo analisou junto de 70 estudantes de licenciatura as perceções sobre a responsabilidade social organizacional e o modo como as organizações podem atuar recorrendo às novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação. A análise correlacional permitiu identificar uma correlação positiva e significativa entre a responsabilidade social e sucesso...

Mature and reentry female students enrolled in post-secondary education, in most cases, combine school with other life roles. Despite the growing trend to study how multiple roles may conflict with each other, evidence suggests that multiple roles can be enriching and that female non-traditional students are particularly prone to experience these b...

Mature and reentry female students enrolled in post-secondary education, in most cases, combine school with other life roles. Despite the growing trend to study how multiple roles may conflict with each other, evidence suggests that multiple roles can be enriching and that female non-traditional students are particularly prone to experience these b...

Emerging adults from southern European societies, where familistic values are shared among generations, more than ever rely on parents support for their financial and emotional well-being. As such, it is expected that, in the future, the current generation of emerging adults will reciprocate the support received to their aging parents. Despite the...

This qualitative study examines the work, family and study experiences of Portuguese professional women in two different career stages: early-career and mid-career. Using semi-structured interviews with a sample of twenty two working mothers enrolled in a master’s degree, this study explores their experiences of combining the three roles and the ro...

Working life is currently characterized by increased possibilities for employees to work in flexible work environments by using new communication technologies. The use of communication technologies can create difficulties in managing the boundaries between work and personal life. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether work dimensions...

RESUMO A crescente atenção que a literatura tem dado aos fatores de natureza organizacional que promovem a conciliação trabalho-família denota não somente a importância dos mesmos como as disparidades que surgem na sua aplicação. O modo como estas políticas se traduzem em medidas de apoio efetivo à conciliação de papéis nem sempre as torna úteis pa...

In recent years, higher education institutions have made efforts to attract people who are either in the labor market or unemployed to the educational system. Accordingly, the participation of nontraditional students in post-secondary education has been increasing over the years in Portugal, including working students and working student parents. T...

The growing attention that literature has given to how organizations can develop and implement policies and measures to support the reconciliation of work and family life demonstrates the importance that they may have to the employees. This article is based on a qualitative study, using interviews with managers/directors of human resources of six c...

The way organizations develop and implement measures that contribute to the reduction of work-family conflict has been attracting the attention of several studies. These studies focus not only the importance of these role reconciliation measures for employees but also highlight the importance of analyzing the nature of organizational dimensions tha...

Resumo Introdução: o conflito entre o trabalho e a família tem sido estudado em diferentes contextos. Os estudos para o contexto português iden-tificam a existência desse conflito e denotam que este é sentido com maior frequência pelas mulheres. Objetivo: este estudo tem como ob-jetivo contribuir para a compreensão dessa realidade, junto de famí-li...

In recent decades there has been a series of social changes that influence the ways in which the transition to adulthood is made, and the importance that is given to criteria to be considered an adult. This study explores the criteria associated with adulthood representation, with a sample of emerging adults enrolled in higher education. The qualit...

Nas ultimas decadas assistiu-se a um conjunto de alteracoes sociais que exercem influencia sobre os modos como a transicao para a idade adulta e efetuada, bem como a importância que e dada aos criterios para que se seja considerado adulto. O presente estudo explora os criterios associados a representacao de adulto, junto de uma amostra de adultos e...

O número de estudantes do ensino superior que concilia o estudo com uma atividade profissional foi identificado como uma tendência crescente em muitos países Europeus. Os efeitos da conciliação do trabalho com o estudo foram alvo de estudos, em diferentes contextos socioculturais, que permitiram identificar alguns aspetos negativos decorrentes dest...

As atitudes relativas aos papéis de gênero resultam de um processo de construção social com implicações no modo como se definem os papéis sociais considerados adequados para homens e mulheres. O objetivo deste estudo foi realizar a adaptação e a validação fatorial de uma escala que avalia as atitudes em relação aos papéis de gênero. No estudo parti...

Emerging adulthood involves the resolution of some classic developmental tasks in order to gradually build a personal project in a framework of psychological and social autonomy. The construction of identity and the development of self- concept will integrate personal experiences and it extends beyond this developmental stage, giving meaning to one...

O modo como as organizações desenvolvem e implementam políticas promotoras da conciliação da vida profissional e familiar tem sido alvo da atenção de diversos estudos que destacam a importância destas medidas, tanto para instituições do sector privado como do sector público. Estas medidas e as práticas facilitadoras da conciliação entre a vida prof...

This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices...

This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices...

1. Abstract This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, go...

This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices...

This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices...

1. Abstract This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, go...

This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices...

This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices...

1. Abstract This report intents to provide an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2015), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, go...

Attitudes toward gender roles result from a social construction process that has implications for the accepted gender role models for men and women. This study aims at the adaptation and factorial validation of a measurement scale for attitudes toward gender roles. The sample consisted of 746 college students and young professionals. Exploratory an...

employees or to organisational cultures that can prevent employees from accessing employer-driven work–life policies (WLP). Our study focuses on factors originating in the jobs themselves. We conducted 98 in-depth employee interviews in two multinational companies based in Europe and led feedback sessions with human resources executives. Three mech...

As alterações sociais, demográficas e económicas vividas nos últimos anos fazem-se acompanhar de um conjunto de exigências crescentes colocadas aos indivíduos, às famílias, às organizações e à sociedade, em geral, no que respeita ao modo como se articula o trabalho e a vida pessoal. Com este artigo pretende-se apresentar alguns dos modelos teórico-...

This report provides an overview about policy, research and publications (and data deriving from diverse institutions), that was produced in Portugal (in 2014), on the general framework of work and family relations. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and it aims to provide diverse types of information (research projects, good practices and insti...

Negative impacts of work–family conflicts and the imbalanced division of family work on women's relationship satisfaction and well-being have gained substantial attention from the literature over the last years. The current research adds to the literature by testing the experience of work–family conflicts and perceived justice in the division of fa...

Resumo O conceito subjacente de internacionalização das instituições de ensino superior no contexto europeu assenta no facto de se considerar que instituições de ensino superior se fundam em processos de promoção do desenvolvimento dos alunos num sentido holístico, que envolve o crescimento não apenas de natureza intelectual, mas também social e cu...

A presença feminina no campo prossional das relações públicas tem originado estudos que procuram analisar as implicações desse predomínio para as práticas profissionais, para o estatuto profissional e para as próprias organizações (Broom, 1982; Broom & Dozier, 1986; Creedon, 1991; Grunig et al, 2000; Toth, 2001; Aldory & Toth, 2001; Dozier et al,...

The underlying concept of internationalization of higher education institutions within the European context is premised on the idea that institutions of higher education are founded on processes of promoting development of students in a holistic sense, incorporating not just intellectual growth, but social and cultural development as well. Under th...