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Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - PostDoc Grant - SFRH/BPD/110695/2015
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January 2016 - December 2020
September 2015 - present
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Bystander apathy in cyberbullying: when moral engagement disconnects. This study explored how adolescents' moral beliefs and moral disengagement explain bystander apathy in cyberbullying. Semi-structured interviews with adolescents aged 13 to 20 (n = 100, m age = 15.74, sd = 1.52, 52% boys) were conducted. Results from a thematic analysis indicated...
Offense and hate speech are a source of online conflicts which have become common in social media and, as such, their study is a growing topic of research in machine learning and natural language processing. This article presents two Portuguese language offense-related datasets that deepen the study of the subject: an Aggressiveness dataset and a C...
O e-book Com@Viver Sem (Cyber)Bullying: referencial de formação tem um enfoque nos fenómenos da violência entre pares em meio educativo numa perspetiva essencialmente educativa e preventiva. Constitui-se como guia para a gestão da convivência escolar no dia a dia, que fornece fundamen- tos teóricos, sugestões e procedimentos aos formadores para pre...
As interações interpessoais, sobretudo na adolescência, incluem frequen- temente dinâmicas de experimentação de papéis de poder e agressividade. Deste quadro, podem surgir fenómenos de violência entre pares, entre os quais, o bullying. Além disso, com o uso massivo de tecnologias de infor- mação e comunicação (doravante designadas TIC), este fenóme...
The closure of higher education institutions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a sudden and unexpected transition from face-to-face to online teaching and learning. This paper draws on data from a broader study focusing on higher education students’ perceptions and experiences of online learning during the first lockdown in 2020...
The search for greater popularity and acceptance by peers increases the use of social networks that may cause cyberbullying. The high number of adolescents who observe this phenomenon may help reduce the negative impact on the victims. Emotion regulation is an important predictor of adolescents' psychological adjustment and social competence to ado...
Cyberbullying is a complex phenomenon with multiple factors involved, both contextual and individual factors, such as moral disengagement and empathy. This study investigated how moral disengagement and empathy could be related, longitudinally in cyberbullying events. Specifically, two gamified tasks (one for empathy and other for moral disengageme...
Self-regulated learning is a transversal competency which plays a central role in acquiring autonomy. This investigation aimed to support approaches that foster self-regulated learning in preschool. We proposed to improve preschoolers’ self-regulated learning strategies (i.e., forethought, performance, and self-reflection) through the educational i...
This article draws on data from a broader research study focusing on Portuguese teachers’ perceptions and experiences of remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2638 teachers participated in the study. Data were collected through an online survey which included both closed- and open-ended questions. Findings suggest that, overall, t...
In this study, a mixed method and prospective design was followed to achieve two objectives: code student responses to an open-ended question about their teachers' teaching and examine how this classification relates with the associations among students' self-reports on teachers' message framing (gains or losses), their self-efficacy, academic achi...
This study proposes to present the design and face validity of a serious game prototype, Pro(f)Social, as part of a blended learning teacher training program based on social-emotional ethical learning to promote pro-social behavior and well-being among children, through changes in teachers’ emotion regulation and moral involvement with cyberbullyin...
Children with neurodevelopmental disorders have executive function deficits that can interfere with their academic performance and school adaptation. The use of computerized training programs has proven to be useful to improve executive functions, as well as reading and math performance. We developed a digital game for assessing and improving susta...
Os intervenientes no cyberbullying incluem os agressores, as vítimas e os observadores. Os agressores utilizam meios digitais para intimidar, humilhar ou prejudicar outros, muitas vezes escondendo-se atrás do anonimato. As vítimas são as pessoas alvo dessas ações, sofrendo impactos emocionais e psicológicos significativos. Os observadores, por sua...
A profissão docente é considerada de alto risco para a saúde ocupacional devido às múltiplas fontes de stress que os professores enfrentam diariamente, como desafios sociais e emocionais que superam os recursos disponíveis. Esse desequilíbrio afeta negativamente a saúde e o desempenho dos professores, impactando a qualidade do ensino e o clima de e...
A agenda social e política do século XXI destaca a promoção da saúde mental e da educação, exigindo que escolas e professores promovam não apenas competências académicas, mas também sociais e emocionais (CSE) nas crianças e jovens. Essas competências são essenciais para a adaptação e bem-estar dos alunos, mas em Portugal, a falta de instrução explí...
A regulação adaptativa das emoções é essencial para o bem-estar, saúde mental e qualidade dos relacionamentos, envolvendo o reconhecimento e aceitação das próprias emoções e das emoções de outros, o controlo de comportamentos impulsivos e a adaptação das estratégias emocionais ao contexto. No entanto, o uso inflexível de estratégias, por exemplo at...
Diferentes estratégias podem ser utilizadas para regular as emoções e o comportamento. Algumas podem ser usadas antes de existir uma reação emocional, antecipando-a. Outras estratégias podem ajudar a regular o comportamento perante ou depois de ocorrer uma determinada reação emocional. Neste documento apresenta-se um conjunto de estratégias de regu...
Os estilos de comunicação variam ao longo de um continuum baseado no nível de envolvimento do indivíduo, sem serem inerentemente "certos" ou "errados". No contexto do cyberbullying, a comunicação agressiva é frequentemente utilizada e pode levar os adolescentes a perceberem o bullying como justo, reduzindo o seu bem-estar emocional e aumentando a p...
O apoio percebido pelos alunos, o sentimento de pertença à escola e a qualidade dos relacionamentos são fundamentais para um clima escolar positivo. A empatia, que envolve compreender as emoções dos outros (empatia cognitiva) e sentir compaixão por eles (empatia afetiva), desempenha um papel crucial nesse contexto. Ela promove comportamentos pró-so...
Para enfrentar o (cyber)bullying, é necessário intervir tanto com a vítima quanto com os agressores, inicialmente de forma separada. As vítimas devem ser apoiadas para se tornarem mais assertivas e confiantes, enquanto os agressores precisam aprender a resolver conflitos de maneira não violenta. O (cyber)bullying é um fenómeno de grupo, onde o pape...
Os professores desempenham um papel fundamental na resolução da agressão entre pares, pois podem testemunhar o desenvolvimento de muitas relações interpessoais entre adolescentes na sala de aula e mesmo mobilizar esforços para prevenir este fenómeno. Contudo, a observação de incidentes de cyberbullying está associada à perda de produtividade e ao b...
Embora o conflito tenha tradicionalmente uma conotação negativa, ele é essencial para a adaptação, aprendizagem e evolução dos indivíduos. O conflito surge de diferenças em critérios, valores ou interesses, e a exposição a essas diferenças permite o crescimento e a mudança. No entanto, conflitos constantes ou mal resolvidos podem limitar o desenvol...
A prevenção e a intervenção psicopedagógica devem orientar a atuação de professores e outros profissionais escolares face ao bullying e ao cyberbullying. Esses fenómenos incluem uma variedade de comportamentos, alguns dos quais são considerados crimes pela lei. Para orientar as suas ações, os profissionais podem recorrer a diferentes diplomas legai...
A capacidade empática contribui para relações positivas e para comportamentos pró-sociais no meio escolar. Diferentes estratégias podem ajudar os professores a desenvolver e a modelar a empatia junto dos alunos.
Objective: Numerous studies have found that socioemotional and moral variables such as empathy and moral disengagement (MD) strategies are related to cyberbullying perpetration. However, it is necessary to explore whether an inverse association exists, as well as to identify possible variables that may mediate this relationship. The purpose of this...
This investigation intends to explore how adolescents report empathy in online contexts and moral disengagement in cyberbullying incidents, and how these two constructs are related. To accomplish this goal, three studies were conducted considering the need to develop new instruments to uncover this new approach of measuring empathy and moral diseng...
Teachers can contribute to preventing and solving cyberbullying situations. Therefore, it is relevant to investigate what may influence their involvement and actions concerning this phenomenon. A first study analyze teachers' definitions of cyberbullying, how they would intervene and feel morally implicated with the phenomenon. A second study aimed...
This study aims to investigate the role of emotions and beliefs of perceived severity about cyberbullying behavior in the relationship between bystanders’ personal moral beliefs and their behavioral intentions in cyberbullying. A group of 402 fifth to twelfth graders (Mage = 13.12; SD = 2.19; 55.7% were girls) participated and we ran exploratory fa...
El estudio busca analizar la influencia del género y los aspectos culturales a través del país de procedencia en la superposición de roles que se da en el ciberacoso entre universitarios. Un total de 1340 estudiantes (34.1% hombres; 65.9% mujeres) de Brasil (44.2%) y Portugal (55.8%) participaron del estudio. Los análisis de moderación revelan una...
The present study aims to analyze the influence of gender and cultural issues on the role overlapping of cyberbullying. For this purpose, 1340 university students (34.1% men; 65.9% women) from Brazil (44.2%) and Portugal (55.8%) participated in the study. Moderation analyses reveal a significant gender interaction in the relationship between cyberv...
This study aims to understand the role of self-regulated learning (SRL) and its different processes in the relationship between working memory (WM) and problem-solving accuracy in math in primary school children. A sample of 269 primary school children ( M age = 8.84, SD = 0.81, 58% boys) participated in this study. Tasks were used as intervention...
The assessment of self-regulated learning is a relevant research topic in early childhood development. However, there are few ecologic measures to assess self-regulated learning in preschool as a dynamic and multidimensional process. This study aims to fill this gap by presenting the development and validation of the Dynamic Assessment of Self-regu...
The first study aims to examine cyberbullying roles and their relation to personal and normative beliefs. For this purpose, a total of 404 7th to 9th grade students answered the Inventory of Observed Cyberbullying Incidents. For the second study, semi-structured interviews to 34 9th grade students were analysed based on the Social Cognitive Theory...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a global crisis affecting all sectors of society. Higher education is no exception. The closure of higher education institutions has dictated a sudden and unexpected transition from face-to-face to remote teaching to mitigate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2. This paper draws upon a wider piece of research which aime...
Bystanders of cyberbullying play an important role in the resolution of such situations and therefore, it is beneficial to promote self-regulation strategies that enable them to engage in prosocial behavior in these contexts. We propose that serious game-based psychosocial interventions with profile-based social agents can encourage prosocial bysta...
The present study aimed to understand how middle school students report how they self-regulate learning whenusing the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) platform. Toachieve this goal, a sample of middle school students (N=438) responded to the Self-Regulated Learning with Moodle Inventory (SRL-MI). Exploratory factor anal...
El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo comprender cómo los estudiantes de secundaria informan sobre cómo se autorregulan el aprendizaje al usar la plataforma del Entorno de aprendizaje dinámico orientado a objetos modulares (Moodle). Para lograr este objetivo, una muestra de estudiantes de secundaria (N=438) respondió al Aprendizaje Autorregulado c...
The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV2 has had an impact on the education sector, and its stakeholders, such as teachers who had to do remote work from their home, despite many constraints. These professionals tried to perform their teaching functions, despite having to deal with adverse situations, such as cyberbullying among their students, as well as...
Purpose:
This study aimed to assess whether self-reported productivity despite presenteeism may be affected by biomarkers and hormones and how these physiological indicators can interact with each other to explain the presenteeism dimensions.
Methods:
This pilot study included 180 healthy participants with a mean age of 41.22 years (SD = 13.58),...
This study aims to understand whether the relationships adolescent bystanders of cyberbullying have with the victim and other bystanders and their self-efficacy beliefs may affect their use of aggressive language online. Students (676, Mage = 14.10, SD = 2.74, 55.5% male) answered questions about social media use, self-efficacy to solve cyberbullyi...
Different forms of verbal aggression are often presented in cyberbullying and are used to harm others in online communication. This study proposed to understand the influence of an aggressive communication style on adolescents’ intentions to engage in cyberbullying, their emotional well-being, and personal moral beliefs. A convenience sample of 218...
A pandemia da COVID-19 desencadeou mudanças e efeitos sem precedentes nas instituições educativas. Também no ensino superior se assistiu a um processo rápido de transição do ensino presencial para o ensino remoto. Este estudo teve como objetivo conhecer as perceções dos estudantes do Ensino Superior sobre o ensino e a aprendizagem à distância duran...
Resumo Este estudo analisa as trajetórias de insucesso e identifica motivos, estratégias e expectativas percebidas por 38 estudantes – 19 portugueses e 19 brasileiros – que elaboraram uma narrativa de autoformação e comentaram duas escalas para avaliar estratégias de autorregulação, de acordo com sua eficácia e utilização. Os estudantes mostram pad...
Different forms of verbal aggression are often present in cyberbullying, which may impair executive function skills that enable the regulation of emotions and behavior. Emotion and behavioral regulation has been associated with better social adjustment and more positive interactions between peers. This study aimed to understand if fostering emotion...
This study examined whether experiencing a multiplayer serious game could foster cognitive empathy in adolescent bystanders of cyberbullying, empathic concern for these situations and affective empathy towards those involved during game play. We also explored the players’ self-reflections about cyberbullying scenarios in the game. A quasi-experimen...
O encerramento das escolas decorrente da necessidade de mitigar a disseminação do vírus SARS-CoV-2 ditou a adoção de um ensino remoto de emergência a que professores e alunos rapidamente tiveram de se adaptar. Neste artigo apresentam-se resultados de um estudo mais vasto que pretendeu analisar as condições em que os professores realizaram as suas t...
Resumo
Autorregulação da aprendizagem implica refletir sobre a utilização de recursos educativos para gerir o que, quando, como, com quem e por que aprender. Este artigo pretendeu investigar a relação entre a perceção dos alunos sobre o planeamento, execução e autoavaliação da aprendizagem e a seleção de recursos e atividades do Moodle. Respondera...
Problem-solving in math has great relevance in teaching children. To support learning in problem-solving in math, we created Festarola, a digital serious game where players are part of a team, which organizes a party for a group of guests. The game's main objective is to develop problem-solving strategies in students and foster self and shared regu...
This study aims to examine the consonant and dissonant effects that cyberloafing and physical exercise may have on individuals’ performance as activities of occupying rest breaks at work. Built upon an innovative perspective, a laboratory quasi-experimental study was developed where a total of 124 participants performed two different tasks—a cognit...
Introducción: Las experiencias de cyberbullying han sido objeto de una amplia gama de investigaciones en todo el mundo debido a su creciente incidencia. Aunque los problemas de género se han examinado en el bullying, hay una limitación de estudios dedicados al análisis de la influencia del género en los comportamientos de cyberbullying. Concomitant...
A automutilação digital é um comportamento agressivo auto-dirigido que consiste na publicação ou envio de mensagens hostis para os seus próprios perfis criados numa rede social. Deste modo, este estudo teve o objetivo de compreender o comportamento da automutilação digital em estudantes estudantes universitários. Através de um questionário online,...
School represents a central axis in the holistic development of children / youth and teachers are expected to respond actively to the academic, social and emotional needs of their students. However, socio-emotional learning (SEL) is still scarce in teacher training. The development of action research projects within the scope of SEL, which allows t...
The literature on campus climate has mainly focused on diversity and demographic variables within single or multiple university campuses from one country. There is a need to investigate campus climate further with regard to cultural issues and the role of teachers. This study thus proposed to examine perceived teacher support as a mediator of the r...
When performing problem solving tasks, teachers need to guide students' activities through the regulation of learning with meaningful resources that exemplify students' daily life. As a contribution to the learning and teaching processes in problem solving in math, we created Festarola, a digital game designed for young children, ages eight to ten,...
A escola é um espaço de convivência, devendo contribuir não só para a aprendizagem de conteúdos acadêmicos, mas também para o desenvolvimento de importantes competências socioemocionais (CSE) ao longo da infância e da adolescência, que conduzam a comportamentos pró-sociais. Em contextos educacionais, a convivência ocorre tanto entre pares, como ent...
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novas formas de foram surgindo, nomeadamente o .
Atualmente, já são muitos os estudos sobre esta recente forma
de agressão. No entanto, ainda não são suficientes para abranger
todas as suas vertentes. Assim sendo, este estudo pretende
focar-se nas repercussões emocionais do , mais especificamente
nas...
Bystander behaviour and self-efficacy beliefs play an important role in cyberbullying incidence. This study tested the relationship between the Bystander Intervention Model phases and the mediating role of adolescents’ self-efficacy beliefs. Children from the fifth to twelfth grade (N = 676) participated in this study by responding to questionnaire...
Automatic cyberbullying detection is a task of growing interest, particularly in the Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning communities. Not only is it challenging, but it is also a relevant need given how social networks have become a vital part of individuals' lives and how dire the consequences of cyberbullying can be, especially among...
Resumo A regulação partilhada é um elemento essencial na aprendizagem colaborativa e os trabalhos de grupo representam boas oportunidades para que o indivíduo possa desenvolver competências autorregulatórias por meio de interações com os outros. O presente estudo procurou compreender de que forma os alunos percecionam a regulação partilhada em trab...
This study investigates the mediating effect of normative moral beliefs about cyberbullying behavior and self-efficacy beliefs to solve cyberbullying incidents in the relationship between adolescents’ personal moral beliefs and the use of the content from verbal aggressions they witnessed in situations of cyberbullying. A total of 1607 students res...
This study aims to understand the motives behind the most frequently reported online aggressions by university students in Brazil and Portugal who were victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying. Accordingly, it proposes to understand if there are differences considering the cultural context between the motives mentioned by the victims and the aggre...
This study aims to understand the motives behind the most frequently reported online aggressions by university students in Brazil and Portugal who were victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying. Accordingly, it proposes to understand if there are differences considering the cultural context between the motives mentioned by the victims and the aggre...
Este estudo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de esclarecer as motivações subjacentes ao fenómeno de sexting, bem como aquelas associadas à subsequente publicação das fotografias, e de deter- minar a frequência e prevalência de comportamentos relativos ao envio e publicação em ambos os sexos. Foram recolhidos casos reais, disponíveis na internet, dos...
Este estudo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de esclarecer as motivações subjacentes ao fenómeno de sexting, bem como aquelas associadas à subsequente publicação das fotografias, e de deter- minar a frequência e prevalência de comportamentos relativos ao envio e publicação em ambos os sexos. Foram recolhidos casos reais, disponíveis na internet, dos...
Exploring productivity loss due to presenteeism and how it can have an influence on employees’ productivity has been an important concern for human resource managers. Using the conservation of resources theory and the job demands-resources model, this study investigated how work engagement could mediate the relationship between both emotional exhau...
The advancement of technology and adolescents’ growing understanding and use of technological means poses risks for social interaction and online communication, such as cyberbullying which presents a negative impact on students' learning, safety and well-being. In Portugal, this is an emerging phenomenon with considerable prevalence, particularly a...
O presente estudo teve como objetivo compreender como os jovens reportam a utilização de meios tecnológicos e conhecer a perceção que encarregados de educação e professores têm acerca dessa utilização. Propôs-se ainda perceber se estes monitorizam a utilização que os jovens fazem dos meios tecnológicos e que práticas de sensibilização utilizam. For...
O cyberbullying tem um impacto substancial na vida dos estudantes cujas consequências são experienciadas dentro e fora da escola. Neste sentido, o presente estudo buscou compreender as experiências em termos de envolvimento, os comportamentos mais frequentes, como também as intervenções adotadas pelos estudantes após observarem uma situação de cybe...
The purpose of this study was to understand how adolescent cybervictims perceive their school climate and whether telling school community members, such as teachers, play a significant role in these perceptions. Another objective was to understand whether age and gender played a significant role in the relation between whom cybervictims told and th...
This study investigated the influence of campus climate dimensions, namely newcomer adjustment and feelings of well-being on the tendency for victims of cyberbullying to become aggressors, and how cultural issues could influence students’ involvement in situations of cyberbullying. Participants included 979 Portuguese and Brazilian university stude...
Objective:
Workplace bullying is an increasing phenomenon that concerns managers and employees. However, few studies have investigated how workplace bullying relates with work-related exhaustion and indicators of productivity loss due to presenteeism. Thus, the aim of the present study was to examine the intervening variables of emotional exhausti...
The present article searched to describe how the university students of
Portugal and Brazil they experienced the role of be victims in cyberbullying considering
some sociodemographic variables as well as depending on the context in relation to the
conduct of victimization, the emotions and the strategies used by victims of Brazil and
Portugal stude...
O cyberbullying tem um impacto substancial na vida dos estudantes visto que ocorre em praticamente todos os níveis de ensino com crescente frequência e severidade dentro e fora da escola. Embora haja uma preocupação crescente em relação a este fenómeno em Portugal, os profissionais têm pouca informação sobre a complexidade do problema e as medidas...
