
Gabriela GonçalvesUniversity of Algarve | UALG · Departamento de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação
Gabriela Gonçalves
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This cross-sectional, cross-cultural study aimed to investigate the relationships between death anxiety and work passion, focusing on the dimensions of harmonious and obsessive passion, as well as the moderating roles of work centrality and connection to work. Participants included Portuguese (n = 301) and Saudi Arabian (n = 181) employees. Structu...
This research delved into the intricate landscape of death anxiety, a profound psychological phenomenon that deeply influences individuals' perceptions and responses to mortality. Through a meticulous examination of key psychological factors-flourishing, cinematic self, and sense of self-we aimed to unravel the complexities surrounding this existen...
Introduction: In recent years, telecommuting has emerged as a crucial tool for organizing and improving working conditions, both for companies and employees. However, the conflict between work and family and its implications for employees' well-being have been a growing concern. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of the conflict...
Effective leaders employ a blend of transformational and transactional leadership styles to collaborate with their employees, working towards achieving organizational objectives. While the significance of enthusiasm in leadership is acknowledged, its specific role remains largely unexplored within the realm of leadership studies. We contend that en...
The study aims to contribute to characterizing the environmental literacy profile of students entering higher education in Portugal and to explore associations between sociodemographic variables and environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. A questionnaire survey was conducted with a stratified sample of 451 first-year undergraduate student...
Fear of death is an emotional manifestation of the instinct for self-preservation. Any threat to our existence induces an anxiety response. Death anxiety can trigger obsessive-compulsive behaviours, such as an obsessive passion for work. Using a sample of 314 participants (68.2% female), with a mean age of 38.97 years (SD = 10.36), this study sough...
Risk perception is a phenomenon that has been studied by researchers from different areas of scientific knowledge, as it assumes a crucial role in risk management and intervention and accident prevention. The aim of this investigation was to observe the effect of individual factors (self-efficacy, internal locus of control and mental toughness) on...
The work environment plays a crucial role in the health and performance of employees. The growing interest in workers’ well-being has driven the inclusion of nature in workplaces, despite many employees spending most of their time indoors, away from nature. Studies show that biophilic design in offices can have positive effects and promote workers’...
De acordo com a teoria da ignorância racional, os eleitores são racionalmente ignorantes (Downs, 1957), ou seja, são racionais na análise da informação disponível para a decisão de voto. Entre as várias informações que analisam estão as informações relativas às contas públicas. Mas, em que medida têm conhecimentos para as analisar? Procuram ativame...
Death is something inevitable and common to all human beings. However, cultures vary in how they define and manage living with the inevitability of death and what happens when a person dies. Among the possible responses to this inescapable reality, there is death anxiety. Several instruments have proliferated in the literature to assess death anxie...
The passion for work can be a predictor of positive behaviors and attitudes, but can also be negative and harmful to the well-being of employees. The aim of this chapter is to test a model in which workaholism presents itself as the main variable and seeks to analyze antecedents (passion for work) and consequences (burnout and psychological well-be...
Supported by the Intergroup Threat Theory (ITT), this study analyzes the effect of multicultural ideology on attitudes towards immigrants mediated by realistic, symbolic, and zero-sum threats. With a sample of Portuguese participants ( N = 404)), polynomial regression analysis with response surface methodology was used to test the effects of multic...
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the concept of family, its standards and the demands placed on it, it has become difficult to balance professional and family roles. The incompatibility of these roles and the difficulties felt when trying to balance these spheres can lead to work-family and family-work confli...
Given the complexity associated with intercultural mediation, it is expected that certain intercultural skills will promote the effectiveness of mediation processes in these contexts. Cultural intelligence has emerged as a construct that focuses specifically on interactions characterized by cultural diversity, playing an extremely important role in...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Civic Engagement Scale (Doolittle & Faul, 2013) in a Portuguese sample. A translation-back translation process of the items was carried out, with the psychometric characteristics analyzed using a sample of 539 participants. The data were subjected to confirmatory factor ana...
Several studies have shown the positive effects of the presence of animals on humans at work, especially pets. It is increasingly common to find workplaces all over the world that provide this benefit, allowing employees to work with their pet beside them. These workplaces are called “pet friendly.” These practices, in addition to the direct effect...
Introdução:
Os estereótipos de género dizem respeito a crenças partilhadas sobre os atributos físicos, psicológicos e comportamentais de homens e mulheres. De acordo com a literatura, observa-se alguma variabilidade nos estereótipos para a categoria mulher, em função de serem associadas a uma de três subcategorias: mulher tradicional, mulher indepe...
Employees who overvalue work over other dimensions of their lives have always been appreciated by organizations. Thus, this study aims to present the analyses of work passions, workaholism and burnout in a Portuguese sample of health and non-health professionals. 437 employees from different professionals’ areas (health institutions and others), co...
O aumento da esperança média de vida, a prevalência de doenças crónicas e a falta de serviçose infraestruturas de apoio à saúde, têm conduzido à necessidade cada vez mais premente de cuida-dores informais. A prestação de cuidados informais afeta a vida dos cuidadores, pelo que determi-nar as suas principais dificuldades pode melhorar tanto a qualid...
This study aimed to contribute to the adaptation of the Self-Monitoring Scale for a Portuguese sample and the examination of the possibility of reducing the scale's length. Considering the psychometric inconsistency of the scale reported in the literature, several analysis criteria to identify the number of factors to be retained were considered. T...
The objective of this research is to develop a scale of post-vacation work adjustment and test its factorial structure and psychometric properties. By carrying out two studies (n = 232 and n = 332), the results allow to obtain a scale composed of 19 items and two dimensions (Organizational adjustment and Work-life balance). The scale showed
good va...
The growing need for internationalization of organizations and the consequent mobility of the workforce, obliges many workers to acquire certain skills to deal with foreign cultures. In this context, several specific personality characteristics determine the sensitivity in intercultural interaction. Several studies have dealt with the analysis of a...
Widely and slowly, discrimination against women based upon gender has become socially unacceptable. However, less is known about how sexist beliefs have progressed in the last years and if we are responding to this social antagonizing of a sexist discourse. Our goal was to verify the existence of differences in ambivalent sexism and neosexism over...
The boundary between work and family life is now almost invisible, making the search for a balance between both spheres a dilemma and challenge. These concerns have led to a growing increase in studies on work-family and family-work conflict, their predictors, and their effects. This study aims to: 1) observe the predictive effect of work-family co...
This study aims to present the psychometric properties of the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale in a Portuguese sample. Three studies were performed: the first study provides psychometric evidence pertaining to its reliability and factor structure, an analysis of the measurement invariance of the BSSS across gender and age, and an examination of the di...
The work-family interface is a subject that raises numerous challenges, so this study aims to: 1) observe the effect of job and home demands on the work-family conflict; 2) what are the consequences of these variables on burnout and job satisfaction; and 3) observe if there are gender differences in these variables. Through a quantitative study wit...
This study aimed to analyze the main adjustment difficulties encountered by temporary immigrants and to identify the ways in which organizations received them and implemented integration strategies. Using a sample of three human resource managers, six supervisors and 50 immigrants of varying nationalities, the results revealed that although immigra...
This article explores the psychometric validation of an Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) scale. Three studies were performed: (1) psychometric evidence pertaining to the scale’s reliability and factor structure and an analysis of the measurement invariance; (2) assessment of convergent and predictive validity; and (3) analyzes the assoc...
This article explores the psychometric validation of an Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) scale. Three studies were performed: (1) psychometric evidence pertaining to the scale’s reliability and factor structure and an analysis of the measurement invariance; (2) assessment of convergent and predictive validity; and (3) analyzes the assoc...
Most environmental problems are caused and/or enhanced by human behaviour; thus, it is crucial to understand environmental attitudes that underlie individual’s behaviour towards the environment. In Portugal, a highly vulnerable region to environmental change and serious local-scale natural hazards, environmental attitudes have never been systematic...
Accident prevention is one of the key rules for workplace safety, and the safety climate has been linked to the possibility of influencing not only the safety behavior of workers but also the occurrence of accidents. Thus, this study aims to present the psychometric evidence of the physical and psychosocial safety climate scales in a Portuguese sam...
The everyday contact with people from different nationalities is nowadays a reality. Cultural Intelligence and Multicultural Personality are individual competencies that are becoming important to deal with this reality. In this study, with 313 Portuguese participants, of both genders, with different types of intercultural contact, our purpose is to...
Within the workplace, promoting positive feelings in regard to work well-being and work passion has become essential to an increase in health, motivation, and consequently to an increase in productivity. This study aims to assess cultural values, cultural intelligence and multicultural personality as predictors of work well-being and work passion....
The Project entitled Methodology for Recruitment Capacitor: a case study (Fusion Resourcing-A case study) emerged from a need of the firm Innovagency SA that operates in the technological field and in the digital communication field. This need is associated with the difficulty of recruiting programmers with specific technical knowledge and skills r...
With the aim of observing to what extent intercultural contact is a predictor of cultural intelligence, and the relationship between cultural intelligence, type of intercultural contact, gender and education, descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted using the ANOVA and t-test. With a sample of 661 individuals, results show th...
With the aim of observing to what extent intercultural contact is a predictor of cultural intelligence, and the relationship between cultural intelligence, type of intercultural contact, gender and education, descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted using the ANOVA and t-test. With a sample of 661 individuals, results show th...
This study examines the influence of authentic leadership on employees from public organizations analyzed through self-determination theory. Over the years, researchers analyzed different particularities of authentic leadership and its importance in nowadays' society. However, fewer researchers were interested in analyzing the influence of authenti...
In our day-to-day lives, we are all confronted with situations that we have to adapt and adjust to. When we return to work after a vacation, we also go through an adjustment process. The aim of this study is to identify the difficulties of adjusting to work after the vacation, the emotions and feelings associated with this transition period and wha...
Occupational safety research has made it possible to observe the safety climate as an organizational valence associated with workers' safety behaviors. Considering that the safety climate concerns the workers' shared perception of the safety culture of the organization, it was in the interest of this study to assess to what extent the safety climat...
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This paper aimed to assess the structural validity of the Portuguese version (EAI-PT) of the Environmental Attitudes Inventory using exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). EFA showed that all 12 EAI-PT scales have adequate reliabilities. Ten scales loaded heavily on one higher-order factor, whilst scales 5 (confidence in science...
This study has as main objective to observe the difference in job satisfaction, psychological well-being and perceived confinement of commercial workers due to solar exposure in the work space. For this purpose, a quasi-experimental design of non-equivalent groups with a unifactorial design of three conditions was carried out: null exposure (intern...
Sexism is understood as a set of cognitive, affective and attitudinal stereotypes evaluation about the appropriate role in society directed towards individuals according to sex. This construct has been used in different countries seeking to evaluate the prejudice against women in both direct (hostile) and indirect (benevolent) forms; However, recen...
Sexism is understood as a set of cognitive, affective and attitudinal stereotypes
evaluation about the appropriate role in society directed towards individuals according
to sex. This construct has been used in different countries seeking to evaluate the
prejudice against women in both direct (hostile) and indirect (benevolent) forms;
However, recen...
The current organizational environment, characterized by uncertainty, requires the need for comprehending a complex set of variables and relations. Understanding, decision-making, and judging of information are daily processes that managers perform; these processes are often influenced by individual characteristics in terms of information processin...
Job satisfaction is one of the most widely studied variables in the field of organizational behavior. The touristic sector has been an increasingly economically relevant sector in Portugal. An empirical study was developed in a tourist Resort in Algarve, in order to analyse the level of the employees' job satisfaction. A specifically questionnaire...
Balancing family and professional roles has become one of the challenges of the twenty-first century. This exploratory study aims to analyse the guilt, losses, aspirations and difficulties associated with work-family interaction and the career centrality of men and women, as well as their strategies to cope with work-family conflict. Using question...
A informação contabilística tem como função fornecer dados necessários à tomada de decisão dos gestores. As perspetivas de género defendem existir diferenças nos valores e atitudes de risco. Neste estudo definiram-se dois objetivos: avaliar as diferenças de género no recurso à informação contabilística e observar a utilidade atribuída à informação...
Workaholism, defined as an addiction or dependence on work, is a subject that has become prominent in the literature, although its investigation is still at an early stage. The present study aims to adapt the Spence and Robbins' Workaholism Battery-WorkBat (1992) to the Portuguese reality. The sample of the present study consists of 407 participant...
The accounting information has the function of providing data and information necessary for the manager´s decision-making. Among the factors pointed out in the literature to explain the use of accounting information, the biographical variables, namely gender, appear. Gender perspectives suggest that there are differences in risk values and attitude...
Changes imposed on public higher education institutions try to adopt some management practices in public organizations. In this study, we intend to understand how organizational culture (support, innovation, goals, rules) and internal marketing can contribute to the organizational support of employees of higher education institutions. The study was...
This study aims to analyze the predictive effect of perceived physical and psychosocial safety in safety behaviors. Using a sample of approximately 180 workers (Mage = 38.03; SD = 10.69), the results show that the physical and psychosocial safety climate is a strong predictor of safety behaviors, evidencing a positive relation, that is, the greater...
This study aims to assess cultural intelligence and multicultural personality as predictors of work well-being and work passion. Based on a sample of 240 workers aged 20 to 64 years (M = 36.78, SD = 10.22), multiple linear regression was carried out. The results show that emotional stability is the dimension with the highest predictive value for bo...
Transformations in family and work life have led to profound changes in the articulation of both spheres. The massive entry of women into the labor market, the decline of a family model based on the male provider, increasing job demands, and persistent gender inequality are factors that can generate work-family conflict and lead to feelings of guil...
This study aimed to analyze the explanatory contribution of social responsibility and organizational justice on commitment through the setting up of a theoretical model in order to better understand the relationships that are established between these constructs. The empirical study was developed in a public higher education institution with a samp...
Considerando a escassa investigação em que o objeto de análise são os futuros decisores (estudantes), avalia-se em que medida a intensidade moral, e as suas dimensões, está associada à tomada de decisão ética. Foram igualmente consideradas as variáveis ideologia ética, religiosidade e sociodemográficas (idade e género), como fatores potencialmente...
O Relational Interdependent Self-construal (RISC) pode ser descrito como o grau em que os indivíduos se definem em termos das suas relações íntimas. Devido à importância deste constructo e da sua medida, a escala RISC, em processos individuais e sociais, realizámos dois estudos de validação da escala para a população Portuguesa. A escala RISC, unid...
Um mapa mental ou cognitivo do espaço, que corresponde à imagem ou representação mental de
um espaço quotidiano, é uma componente básica da adaptação humana ao ambiente e determinante do
comportamento espacial. Foi objetivo desta investigação estudar os mapas mentais do Campus de
Gambelas (Universidade do Algarve) e aspetos percetivos do Campus. Pa...
In this study a theoretical model of five dimensions is explained - Rest (1986) ethical decision making process; Jones (1991) moral intensity; need for cognition; personal attributes and financial information - in order to understand the conditions that lead policymakers to manipulate information and to understand the ethical issues in decision-mak...
Abstract
Purpose – The globalization of work has contributed to a great increment in cross-cultural interactions,
contributing to a new impetus in the expatriates’ topic. The costs associated with the failed international
missions are high, and the identification of effective adjustment strategies is of extreme importance, both for
organizations an...
Apresenta um conjunto de 100 questões de escolha múltipla e de veracidade no âmbito da investigação em ciências sociais, em particular na psicologia. Todas as questões propostas apresentam a respetiva solução e justificação permitindo desta forma consolidar os conhecimentos exigidos nas unidades curriculares que abordam estas temáticas. Este livro...
In this study a theoretical model of five dimensions is explained – Rest
(1986) ethical decision making process; Jones (1991) moral intensity; need
for cognition; personal attributes and financial information - in order to
understand the conditions that lead policymakers to manipulate
information and to understand the ethical issues in decision-mak...
Based on the argument that emotions and cognitions are intertwined, this paper explores how different motivation to start up a business, identity and role centrality trigger certain negative emotions, and finally, how entrepreneurs cope with those emotions. This paper analyses the qualitative data a multi technique collection data from 19 Portugues...
O incumprimento de normas, definido como a tendência para violar as normas com vista ao alcance de objetivos individuais, é um traço de personalidade associado a um maior número de acidentes e de desmotivação para a adoção de comportamentos de segurança (Kohn & Schoolers, 1983). Para garantir ambientes de trabalho saudáveis as organizações devem co...
The objective of this study is to compare the levels of cultural intelligence (CQ) and multicultural personality (MP) of expatriates and non-expatriates, according to the degree of intercultural contact, and to observe the predictive effect of CQ and MP in passion for work and satisfaction with life. Through a sample of 97 participants, a study wit...
To match the professional and family spheres is currently a challenge for most workers. This imbalance becomes a source of conflict, which can generate feelings of physical, emotional and psychological guilt in the individuals who experience it. Thus, higher levels of work-family conflict are expected to lead to higher levels of guilt. This study a...
Among the various negative indicators of well-being are workaholism and burnout. Given that health professionals have been considered the professionals with higher levels of burnout, we defined for this study to analyze some of the antecedent variables of workaholism (work passion, professional satisfaction and engagement for life) and their effect...