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- Dyadic coping in Portuguese couplesPublication . Costa-Ramalho, Susana; Vedes, Ana; Pedro, Marta; Patrão, Ivone; Albuquerque, Sara Magalhães; Pereira, Marco Daniel; Davide, Isabel Narciso; Marques-Pinto, Alexandra; Ribeiro, Maria Teresa
- Effects of service-learning as opposed to traditional teaching-learning contexts: a pilot study with three different coursesPublication . Pinto, J. C.; Costa-Ramalho, SusanaIntroduction: Service-Learning (SL) is an innovative teaching-learning proposal with an increasingly wide application in higher education. Previous studies show its potential to generate positive personal, academic, social and citizenship outcomes among students who participate in it. But studies that help understand in depth its real impact, particularly in comparison with more traditional teaching-learning contexts, are still scarce. Method: This study explores the effects of Service-Learning on 122 university students, who were attending Psychology (n = 80), Social Work (SW; n = 19) and Applied Foreign Languages (AFL; n = 23) degree courses. These participants were organized into service-learning and traditional teaching-learning groups and assessed on expectations and impact of the service-experience, development of social and civic skills, and life goals. Results: Results show significant differences between pre- and post-tests in life goals, namely an increase in hedonistic and wellbeing goals for Psychology students, political, hedonistic, religious, personal development, and wellbeing goals for SW students, and social and wellbeing goals for AFL students. Students in Psychology and AFL increased their expectations with the service and students in the AFL developed more pro-social behaviors. Discussion: These results are encouraging for the expansion of this transformative teaching-learning practice to courses of different scientific areas, although with some specificities, with the purpose of contributing to a more responsible, critical and participatory society in the creation of the common good.
- Escala de generatividade do casal: tradução, adaptação e estudo das propriedades psicométricas da versão portuguesaPublication . Costa-Ramalho, Susana; Marques-Pinto, Alexandra; Ribeiro, Maria Teresa; Pedro, MartaA importância da conjugalidade na vida adulta justifica o estudo de fatores que possam contribuir para a sua qualidade. Este artigo apresenta o desenvolvimento da Escala de Generatividade do Casal, versão portuguesa da Couple Generativity Scale de Bertoni, Parise e Iafrate (2012), bem como dados relativos à sua precisão e validade. Este questionário pretende avaliar a capacidade de o casal ultrapassar as fronteiras conjugais e cuidar também dos seus laços familiares e sociais. Com uma amostra de 406 adultos de ambos os sexos que se encontravam numa relação conjugal, foram identificadas qualidades psicométricas que encorajam a utilização da versão portuguesa. Os dados mostram que a estrutura unifatorial original se adequa à presente amostra, que a escala revela elevados níveis de precisão por consistência interna e que se evidenciam relações significativas da generatividade com outras variáveis importantes da conjugalidade, como ter filhos, a conceção da relação e a satisfação conjugal.
- Expectations of emerging adults about conjugality and parenthoodPublication . Ferreira, Margarida Amaro; Costa-Ramalho, SusanaIn modern societies the life course up to the point of marriage and having children is not as linear as it was in the past. For this reason, this study aimed to analyse the factors that may influence the expectations of emerging adults on conjugality and parenthood, such as academic ambition, family typology, and religion. This is an exploratory research, with qualitative design, in which 18 emerging adults living in Portugal participated in individual semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis suggests that emerging adults perceive personal over external factors as having greater impact on what they expect of conjugality and parenthood. The current study also highlights a general preference for marriage as opposed to cohabitation, and points to a tendency, on the part of religious emerging adults, to prefer to marry through the church. The findings of this study may contribute to better interventions in different contexts with emerging adults, and may have expanded the knowledge about what their main concerns are, regarding the constitution of a family.
- The predictive value of dyadic coping in the explanation of PTSD symptoms and subjective well-being of work accident victimsPublication . Lameiras, Susana; Marques-Pinto, Alexandra; Francisco, Rita; Costa-Ramalho, Susana; Ribeiro, Maria TeresaObjective: Work accidents may be considered dyadic stressors in so far as they not only affect the worker, but also the couple's relationship. Dyadic coping, as the process by which couples manage the stress experienced by each partner, can strengthen individual health and well-being as well as couple relationship functioning. Accidents at work have progressively been studied from a perspective that focuses on their negative effects on PTSS, anxiety, and depression. However, to a large extent, the dyadic coping processes and results following a work accident are still to be identified and clarified. In this study, we examined the predictive value of dyadic coping in the explanation of PTSS and subjective well-being of work accident victims. Method: This study comprised a sample of 62 individuals involved in work accidents within the last 24 months (61.3% males) and their partners (N = 124; M = 46.25 years, SD = 11.18). All participants responded to the Dyadic Coping Inventory and the work accident victims also answered the PTSD Checklist - Civilian (PCL-C) and the Mental Health Continuum - Short Form (MHC-SF). Two hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed using two different variable set models: Model 1 comprised the control variables gender and age, and Model 2 included the workers' and the partners' dyadic coping variables. Results: Results showed that dyadic coping reported by both workers and their respective partners (Model 2) was a significant predictor of workers' PTSS (p < 0.01) and subjective well-being (p < 0.001), explaining 31.2% of the variance in PCL-C and 68.7% in MHC-SF results. More specifically, the partners' supportive dyadic coping (by the self) and delegated dyadic coping (by the partner) were significant predictors of the workers' lower PTSS and virtually all the dyadic copying strategies of both the workers' and their partners' were significant predictors of the workers' higher subjective well-being. Conclusion: Dyadic coping of both the workers and their partners predicts the workers' PTSS and subjective well-being. These findings point to the need to work with couples who have experienced a work accident, with a view to improving the workers' mental health outcomes.
- A utilização de tecnologias touchscreen por crianças até aos 6 anos: breve olhar da psicologia do desenvolvimentoPublication . Costa-Ramalho, SusanaVivemos tempos globalmente dominados por moderna tecnologia, com profundo impacto na vida de cada um. O debate relativo ao seu impacto sobre o desenvolvimento infantil tem sido amplificado, particularmente por pais e educadores que receiam as ameaças que possam trazer à sua segurança e ao bem-estar físico e psicológico, assim como os prejuízos na dimensão relacional. Muito embora se observem mundialmente clivagens digitais, as tecnologias touchscreen misturam-se no nosso quotidiano de modo muito discreto e a grande maioria das crianças usa-as diariamente. Sob o pano de fundo da teoria ecológica de Bronfenbreener, procuramos olhar os resultados de estudos científicos nesta área, entendendo o desenvolvimento humano na interação da Pessoa com os seus contextos, dos quais fazem hoje parte – de modo inalienável – as tecnologias digitais. Ao invés duma perspetiva que entendemos como mais “cinzenta” – afirmando as nossas vidas como sendo globalmente controladas pelas tecnologias - situamos a escrita deste capítulo numa visão da criança como um sujeito em constante desenvolvimento, que se reestrutura e também recria o meio em que se encontra, caracterizando-se a interação entre o sujeito e o mundo pela reciprocidade e mútua interação. Pesando custos e benefícios, os investigadores da área, partilham – de modo geral – uma perspetiva: se formos capazes de proteger as crianças do pior que as tecnologias digitais podem fazer acontecer, ampliamos o seu acesso ao melhor e às vastas possibilidades que elas têm para oferecer. Sugere-se a adoção de uma visão menos tecnocêntrica em que, ao invés de considerar a tecnologia como uma característica definidora da vida das crianças do nosso tempo, pensemos sobre ela como uma das várias atividades em que as crianças se envolvem e que, tal como de todas as outras “partes” que preenchem o quotidiano e constroem o seu desenvolvimento, cabe aos pais/educadores escolher olhares e gestos atentos, responsáveis e sempre promotores de bem-estar.