Liliana Fontes

University of Minho · Centro de Investigação em Psicologia (CIPsi)

This study analysed the differences in athletes’ perception of parental behaviours, considering the importance of athletes’ age category. It was also verified if different parental involvement profiles, according to athletes’ evaluation of their parents’ behaviours, corresponded to differences in motivational orientation and in performance percepti...

This study explored the experience of students' burnout across time, aiming to analyze the possible differential impact of stress and cognitive appraisal on burnout. In addition, it investigated the possible mediation effect of cognitive appraisal on the relationship between stress and burnout. The study included 175 university students aged betwee...

This study sought to understand whether different stress and cognitive appraisal profiles corresponded to differences in students’ coping and burnout. The sample included 547 students from four university courses aged 17–52 years (M = 20.6; SD = 4.4). The assessment protocol included: the Stress Questionnaire for Students, the Primary and Secondary...

This study analysed the intensity and direction of referee’s emotions 24 to 48 hours before a game, looking into the relation between stress, cognitive appraisal, and performance perception. Participants were 708 football referees, 91.2% male and 8.8% female. The results indicate a higher prevalence of positive rather than negative emotions before...

This study examined the direct and indirect effects of communication patterns and forgiveness on physical and psychological morbidity, among young adults involved in a romantic relationship. Participants were 298 students, currently involved in a heterosexual romantic relationship, from a large university in the United States, who completed the Ten...

The tasks referees must perform are both complex and very important, and are usually associated with high levels of stress. In this study, we aimed to understand the role of stress and cognitive appraisal on referees' emotions and sports performance perception before the realization of a game. We adopted a critical incident methodology to understan...

La tarea de un árbitro es compleja y muy importante y, por lo general, se asocia con un alto estrés. En este estudio buscamos comprender el papel del estrés y la evaluación cognitiva en las emociones y en la percepción del rendimiento deportivo de los árbitros antes de que se juegue un partido. Adoptamos una metodología de incidentes críticos para...

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) experience chronic symptoms that negatively impact their quality of life (QoL). This study analyzed the variables that contributed to QoL in patients with SLE, including the mediating role of psychological morbidity and disease activity. This study used a transversal design and included 104 women wit...

Sports context is a well-known potentially fomenter of stress. However, it is much less known how this process of adaptation takes place and how the different factors involved in this adaptation interact and influence mutually. Based on Cognitive, Motivational and Relational Theory (Lazarus, 1991, 1999) and Interactive Model of Adaption to stress (...

Occupational stress and burnout are a global epidemic that can cause severe negative effects on workers’ physical and emotional health. Health professionals working in a hospital setting are especially at risk, due to the inherent characteristics of their work. Consequently, this study aimed to analyse the relationships between stress and burnout i...

Occupational stress can produce negative consequences on workers’ mental and physical health, which affect them and their organization. Work engagement, on the other hand, is linked with positive affective-motivational states of realization related to work, and negatively correlates with fatigue, anxiety, and depression. Thus, this study aimed to a...

Garments used in hospitals play an important role in user’s comfort and health. This paper presents the developments of a patented design technology for medical garments aimed at users, caregivers, and health care providers. Traditional gowns lacking comfort and protection affect the patient’s dignity. Similarly, patients often use their own garmen...

The work garments’ fit is one factor that highly impacts on workers’ productivity and on their feeling of comfort. Work-wear may have some limitation, e.g. mobility, protection, temperature, aesthetics, comfort and fit. Moreover, as the variation of the human size and shape is so large it is extremely difficult to design clothes that can accommodat...

Physical and physiological comfort, at work and during leisure time, is important to human health and motivation. A growing number of jobs require workers to sit. Most clothes, except those intended for wheelchair users, were designed for walking or the standing position. Clothing designs should be user-oriented and meet users’ needs. Garment desig...

This study aimed to develop appropriate changes in a pair of shoes in order to improve the gait of an individual selected for this case study. This analysis took into account ergonomic aspects, namely those relating to the individual's anthropometrics. Gait analysis was done with the adapted footwear both before and after intervention. A convention...

Walking to a pacing stimulus has proven useful in motor rehabilitation, and it has been suggested that spontaneous synchronization could be preferable to intentional synchronization. But it is still unclear if the paced walking effect can occur spontaneously, or if intentionality plays a role. The aim of this work is to analyze the effect of sound...

OBJECTIVE Our goal is to compare the thermal properties of six mattress protectors by testing with a thermal manikin and with the equipment Alambeta.