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- ‘The integration of Laudato Si’ in management education: forming students with a deeper awareness of the implications of integral ecologyPublication . Varela, José António L.; Remond, JacquelinePope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home (2015), is a disruptive teaching document. It challenges contemporary paradigms and human social systems including education, economy and business to transform. Laudato Si’s proposal of “Integral Ecology” bears significant implications for the business world, especially business management and business education. The importance of educating through the lens of Laudato Si’ and Integral Ecology has been affirmed by several global initiatives and is an emerging focus for universities and academic research. However, higher education institutions and management programs seem to be slow to institute standards of sustainability, global responsibility, and social innovation (Wilp et al. 2022). Therefore, exploring how Laudato Si’ can guide and accelerate the transformation of business education to be of service to the common good is of vital importance. We have conducted a literature review investigating the relationship and impact of Laudato Si’ on educational programs provided by Business Schools. Furthermore, we developed a proposed survey tool intended to gather insights into whether graduate students after attending University Business Schools have developed attitudes that cohere with Laudato Si’ and Integral Ecology. This tool might be particularly useful for universities that foster a Humanistic Management approach and Catholic institutions with a commitment to the pursuit of the common good. Results from the implementation of a survey tool of this kind will help to inform strategies to further embed the principles of Integral Ecology into programs offered by Business Schools.
- EU tourism and student identities in a pre-BREXIT UKPublication . Anastasiadou, Constantia; Pilcher, Nick; Gutu, Mavis; Panyik, Emese
The EU has long advocated cultural tourism to construct a shared, supranational European identity. Drawing on data collected prior to the UK Brexit referendum, the paper compares EU discourse in selected tourism policy documents, and the travel experiences of young European university students attending a UK university. Findings illustrate how the EU's proclivity towards top-down policies that harness heritage tourism to construct a supranational identity, risks alienating large sections of the European population. Instead, stressing citizenship and the civic elements of identity through a range of tourism-related activities, enables the creation of bottom-up, contemporary, and co-created supranational identities. Moreover, there is scope to consider heritage tourism's expedience within contemporary debates which acknowledge the complexities of European and other supranational identities.
- Anchored in capital: a bourdieusian analysis of journalistic identity and resilience in the Portuguese fieldPublication . Novais, Rui AlexandreThis repeated cross‑sectional study (2013-2023) examines the resilience of professional values in Portuguese journalism amid economic precarity and digital disruption. Integrating Bourdieu's field theory with Raemy's multi-level identity model, we show how journalists reinforce symbolic capital—intensifying watchdog roles and ethical norms—to preserve field autonomy. Using data from two waves of the Worlds of Journalism Study-Portugal, we analyze how this defensive consolidation operates through capital conversion across macro, meso, and micro levels. The findings reframe value stability not as inertia but as active identity work, offering insights into how peripheral media systems sustain professional coherence under duress.
- Revisiting normativity for a post-cognitivist view of linguistic feelingPublication . Batisti, Filippo; Vidal, Marcos G.; Silva, Augusto Soares daThis article reconsiders the role of affectivity in defining normativity in a situated sense. Traditional approaches have often construed language solely as a rule-governed system and cognition as a disembodied, mechanistic process. By contrast, we advance a view of language as a contextual and dynamical activity and situate cognition within affective life. Central to this reframing is the notion of linguistic feeling, understood as the affective attunement through which speakers experience and navigate norms. Rather than conceiving norms as only pertaining to convention and public criteria, we defend their function as conditions for rational experience: norms become intelligible through felt sensibilities of rightness, appropriateness, and variation. This approach overcomes internalist accounts that isolate linguistic intuitions from social and embodied contexts, showing instead how linguistic feeling is an affective manifestation of the same conceptual capacities that render us responsive to reasons. By integrating the affective and linguistic sciences, the philosophy of the space of reasons, and post-cognitivism, the paper offers a reconceptualization of normativity as rooted in sensibility. The conclusion highlights implications for linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science, urging a shift from formalist and conventionalist models toward approaches that acknowledge the constitutive role of affect in language and rationality.
- Assessing mobile phone attachment: a psychometric study in the Portuguese young adult populationPublication . Leite, Ângela; Marôco, JoãoBackground: The Young Adult Attachment to Phone Scale (YAPS) is a 6-item self-report measure assessing emotional attachment to smartphones across two dimensions: using the phone as a source of comfort (Refuge) and experiencing it as burdensome (Burden). This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the YAPS in a Portuguese young adult sample. Methods: Participants were 648 Portuguese young adults (aged 18–35). We examined factorial structure via confirmatory factor analysis, reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, and measurement invariance across gender and education level. Given the ordinal nature of the items, analyses employed the DWLS estimator. Results: The two-factor structure was confirmed with excellent model fit (CFI = 0.990, RMSEA = 0.069). Internal consistency was good for Refuge (ω = 0.83) and acceptable for Burden (ω = 0.74). Both factors demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity. Full measurement invariance was established across gender, and partial invariance across education levels. Latent mean differences emerged by education but not by gender. Conclusion: The Portuguese YAPS is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing phone-specific attachment in young adults. Findings support its use in research and practice, while highlighting the need for further refinement of the Burden dimension. The scale offers a culturally appropriate tool for understanding technology engagement in Portugal's highly connected youth population.
- The somatechnic hermeneutic: ‘embodying’ the worlds of journalism studyPublication . Novais, Rui Alexandre; Resende, FilipeThis study introduces a somatechnic hermeneutic to bridge the theoretical insights of the bodily turn in journalism studies with the empirical architecture of large-scale survey research, exemplified by the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS). We argue that indicators such as safety, autonomy, precarity, and role conceptions are not merely abstract variables but proxies for lived, embodied experience. Applying this hermeneutic to Portugal's paradoxical profile - marked by high physical safety alongside acute economic precarity - we identify a state of somatic dissonance, in which the journalistic body is caught between physical protection and systemic strain. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate how this dissonance fractures professional self-perception, revealing professional role commitments are not only cognitive ideals but also corporeal practices. This approach re-frames perceptual survey data into a narrative of embodied experience and provides a framework for addressing empirical paradoxes, offering a transferable methodology for understanding how the pressures of journalism are somatically registered and endured across diverse media systems.
- Beyond correlation: how attachment insecurities fuel social anxiety through perfectionism in young adultsPublication . Maia, Berta Rodrigues; Marques, Mariana; Moreira, Helena; Carvalho, Frederica; Leite, ÂngelaThis study examined how attachment anxiety and avoidance are indirectly associated with social anxiety and social avoidance through multidimensional perfectionism in young adults. A sample of 230 Portuguese university students (18– 25 years) completed validated measures of attachment (ECR-RS), perfectionism (MPCS), and social anxiety/avoidance (SIPAAS). Using parallel multiple mediation models (PROCESS Model 4) with 5,000 bias-corrected bootstrap samples, we tested indirect associations at both the dimension level (eight perfectionism subscales) and the composite factor level (Evaluative Concerns, Positive Striving). Controlling for age and sex, both attachment dimensions showed significant indirect associations with social distress/anxiety and social avoidance primarily through maladaptive perfectionism dimensions, including Doubts about Actions and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism. At the factor level, Evaluative Concerns was a significant mediator for both attachment dimensions, whereas Positive Striving was indirectly associated only with the link between attachment anxiety and social avoidance. Women reported higher levels of social anxiety and were more likely to exceed the SIPAAS screening cut-offs. These findings highlight specific perfectionism dimensions that may help explain how attachment insecurities relate to social anxiety symptoms in young adults, while acknowledging that the cross-sectional design precludes causal inference.
- Measuring compulsive texting: psychometric properties of the CTS in a Portuguese samplePublication . Leite, Ângela; Marôco, JoãoIntroduction: Compulsive texting refers to persistent and excessive texting behaviors that interfere with daily functioning and are often conceptualized within problematic mobile phone use. Valid instruments are needed to assess this construct in different cultural contexts. Aim: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Compulsive Texting Scale (CTS) in a Portuguese adult sample. Method: Factorial validity was tested through confirmatory factor analysis using the DWLS estimator. Reliability was assessed with Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega. Convergent and discriminant validity were evaluated using average variance extracted and inter-factor correlations. Measurement invariance across sex and schooling was examined through multi-group CFA with robust maximum likelihood estimation. Results: The CTS demonstrated a three-factor structure with good model fit and strong item loadings. Reliability indices were acceptable to strong across factors. Convergent validity was supported, although discriminant validity between Interference Tasks and Cognitive Preoccupation was limited. Measurement invariance was confirmed across sex and partially supported across schooling levels. Conclusion: The findings indicate that the CTS is a generally reliable and valid measure for assessing compulsive texting in Portuguese adults. Some subscales, particularly Concealment, may benefit from refinement. Future research should further strengthen discriminant validity and explore cultural considerations in compulsive texting assessment.
- Adaptabilidade de carreira: influência dos percursos educativos na infância e nível socioeconómicoPublication . Paiva, Inês; Oliveira, Íris M.Este estudo analisa a influência da Creche e/ou Educação Pré-Escolar na adaptabilidade de carreira de jovens do 9.º e 12.º anos de escolaridade de diferentes níveis socioeconómicos. Participaram 271 jovens (Midade = 15.46), que responderam a um Questionário de Caracterização Sociodemográfica e Académica e à Escala de Adaptabilidade de Carreira. Os resultados sugerem que jovens que frequentaram Creche e Educação Pré-Escolar apresentam maiores níveis de Preocupação e Curiosidade do que jovens que frequentaram Educação Pré-Escolar. Verificam-se ainda efeitos da interação entre percursos educativos na infância e níveis socioeconómicos nessas dimensões e na adaptabilidade de carreira total. Salienta-se a necessidade de prosseguir estudos prospetivos da infância à adolescência e investigações multidisciplinares e consultoria psicológica de carreira a agentes educativos.
- Decent work and psychological safety: the role of work modality and sector of activityPublication . Pereira, Susana Alves; Lopes, Sílvia; Rodrigues, Anabela; Carvalho, Vânia SofiaThis study examines the relationship between decent work and psychological safety, analysing whether work modality (onsite, remote, hybrid) and sector of activity (services versus industry) shape employees' experiences of both constructs. It aims to clarify how structural work conditions translate into relational climates of interpersonal safety. Data were collected from 423 employees across Portuguese organisations using a cross-sectional survey design. The Decent Work Questionnaire and the Psychological Safety Scale were employed. Results show a strong positive relationship between decent work and psychological safety. Employees in hybrid arrangements and in the services sector reported higher perceptions of both constructs. However, neither work modality nor sector moderated this relationship, suggesting that the positive association between decent work and psychological safety is stable across contexts. Organisations should prioritise decent work principles to enhance psychological safety across different work arrangements and sectors.