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- Adaptation and validation of the youth internalizing and externalizing problems screener in Portugal: a unified psychological health screening toolPublication . Serrão, Rosário; Dias, Pedro; Andrés, Ana; Bowe, Mhairi; Renshaw, TylerResearch points to the importance of school-based universal screening focused on psychological health and well-being dimensions to reach a baseline that allows for the allocation of pupils on adequate interventions and supports, and monitors their response to intervention. When screening for mental health problems, it is recommended to screen for internalizing and externalizing behaviors. This study conducted an adaptation and validation of the Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Screener (YIEPS) in the Portuguese context, following three main steps: translation, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Data was collected in 10 schools, with a final sample of 942 adolescents randomly split into two subsamples. Initially, EFA was conducted on one subsample and then CFA was conducted on the other. Results support a bifactor model with two specific factors (internalizing and conduct problems) and a general mental health problems factor, eliminating items pertaining to attention problems and hyperactivity-impulsivity. This adapted measurement model showed good internal consistency, reliability, concurrent and divergent validity with other measures of mental health problems, and psychosocial functioning. The YIEPS-Portuguese can be used in Portuguese schools to screen for psychological health difficulties, in addition to other measures to screen for the complete mental health of pupils.
- Relationship between leadership readiness and conflict management styles from the followers’ perspectivePublication . Silva, Inês; Morais, Catarina; Gomes, A. RuiLeaders have a critical role in promoting working conditions that actively consider the health and wellbeing of employees. Therefore, studying the impacts leadership produce at work is key. This study analyzes the relationship between leadership and conflict management styles, specifically examining how followers’ perception of managers’ leadership readiness relates to their perception of managers’ conflict management styles. The study included 185 participants (67.6% men; 28.1% women), all employees of a metalworking company, with ages between 19 and 67 years old (M = 38.14; SD =10.94). It was evaluated leadership (cycles, styles, and antecedent factors) and conflict management styles. The results showed that: (a) followers perceived that managers should turn clearer their leadership philosophy, practice, and criteria; and (b) positive perceptions of managers’ leadership were associated with higher levels of transformational conflict management style and lower levels of hesitant and competitive conflict management styles. Overall, this study indicates that there is a gap between followers’ and managers’ perceptions of leadership and that a more positive evaluation of leadership readiness relates to more positive management styles by the leaders.
- Parents and athletes’ relationship: “i’m the biggest fan!”.Publication . Pereira, Marco André Teixeira; Rui Gomes, A.; Morais, CatarinaSport represents a social and emotional learning environment in which parents play a crucial role in shaping young athletes’ motivation and well-being. This paper examines the effects of parental behavior in sport and introduces the Communication Efficacy Model as a framework for understanding and enhancing parent–athlete interactions. In this model, it is proposed that positive communication profiles enhance confidence and enjoyment in sports, while negative communication profiles generate anxiety and lack of engagement. Practical recommendations are offered to promote balanced and intentional communication based on listening, emotional regulation, and reinforcement of effort rather than outcomes. Overall, effective parental communication emerges as a key factor in turning sport into a shared process of growth, where both parents and children learn what it truly means to grow together.
- Schools' evaluation drift: inconsistencies and interpellations of a high-stake inspection systemPublication . Serra, Lídia Jesus Pecegueiro; Alves, José MatiasA consensus exists in transnational educational policy regarding the relevance of accountability and the contribution of school evaluation to education quality. This paper scrutinises the evaluation results of Portuguese schools provided by the Inspectorate services using a pairwise comparison between 194 schools evaluated in 2018-2020 and 2021-2023. Regarding the literature gap on the behaviour of accountability systems over time, this study can contribute to a reflection on justice and transparency in high-stakes systems. The findings suggest that (i) the external evaluation results drift following a directional evolutionary model, indicating progression concerning the self-evaluation, educational services, and results domains; (ii) the occurrence of standardisation and leadership legitimisation phenomenon; (iii) possible side ecects in the schools' evaluation process, namely evasive behaviour, apparent and constructed realities, and evaluation distortion; (iv) the external evaluation framework flexibility in accommodating territorial dicerences between schools without producing system disadvantage. Departing from insights into how a high-stakes external evaluation system operates over time, the study ocers an empirically grounded assumption that reveals dynamics not unique to Portugal, but characteristic of accountability regimes adopted across many educational systems. In conclusion, to improve the quality of education, low-stakes accountability systems should be implemented to strengthen transparent schools' autonomy.
- Adaptation and content validity of the Brazilian version of the mental health literacy questionnairePublication . Moreira, Wanderson Carneiro; Campos, Luísa; Dias, Pedro; de Sousa Nóbrega, Maria do Perpétuo SocorroOBJECTIVES: to perform cross-cultural adaptation and content validity of the Mental Health Literacy questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese. METHODS: a validity study developed according to the following stages: (1) assessment of conceptual and item equivalence; (2) idiomatic and semantic equivalence (translation, back-translation, formal assessment, critical analysis by 17 experts and pre-testing with 32 young adults, using the survey technique); (3) operational equivalence. RESULTS: important changes were made to ensure instrument validity. The Content Validity Index for the Brazilian context was 97.2% (feasibility) and 98.9% (relevance). The instrument proved to be understandable and easy to apply in pre-testing. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the Mental Health Literacy questionnaire, Brazilian version, contributes to assessing mental health literacy as well as to improving the quality of actions to promote, prevent and protect mental health in young people.
- A pedagogia social na formação dos educadores sociais, o papel das representações sociais e suas implicações educativasPublication . Ferreira, Arthur Vianna; Baptista, IsabelEste texto apresenta e discute resultados de uma investigação sobre Representações Sociais (RS) e Pedagogia Social, desenvolvida junto de um grupo de educadores sociais em formação no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. As RS estão presentes nos processos formativos de todos os educadores sociais e se desdobram na organização das suas práticas cotidianas. O seu objetivo principal foi compreender em que medida as RS contribuem para o condicionamento dos processos formativos dos educadores sociais, enquadrados pela Pedagogia Social entendida como ciência da educação específica pautada pelo princípio da hospitalidade. A pesquisa, de caráter exploratório, descritivo e qualitativo, envolveu a análise das atividades formativas de 26 educadores sociais entre os anos de 2023 e 2024. Os resultados mostraram a existência de RS de “formações docentes” ancoradas no núcleo figurativo “Escola”. Os desdobramentos dessas RS foram: o silenciamento da discussão sobre a Educação Social como área autônoma do fenômeno escolar; a dificuldade em entender as demandas próprias do contexto socioeducativo; e a exclusão do outro-educativo como parâmetro das práticas socioeducativas. Estes resultados sugerem a necessidade de desenvolver, e reafirmar, os conteúdos específicos da Pedagogia Social, em particular da noção de hospitalidade nos processos formativos dos educadores sociais de forma a reduzir os desvios provocados pelas RS.
- Pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in women with eating disorders: a four-year longitudinal study with case seriesPublication . Machado, Bárbara César; Gonçalves, Sónia; Duarte, Sofia; Brandão, Isabel; Roma-Torres, António; Soares, FilipaBackground/Objectives: Eating disorders (EDs) often affect fertility, yet many women with ED still become mothers. The pattern of ED symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum, along with their effects on maternal and child health, is not yet fully understood. This longitudinal study aimed to (1) examine the course of ED symptoms from conception to postpartum, (2) evaluate pregnancy outcomes and children’s health and developmental milestones, and (3) assess ED status approximately four years after the initial evaluation. Methods: Thirty women with a prior ED diagnosis (21 with anorexia nervosa, 9 with bulimia nervosa) were evaluated at two time points. Time 1 with the Eating Disorders Examination and the Oxford Risk Factors for Eating Disorders: Interview Schedule; Time 2, approximately four years later, with the Eating Disorders Examination and the Clinical Interview on Reproductive History and Eating Behavior that also included clinical data related to mother’s health and baby’s health and development accessed through the Pregnant Women’s Health Bulletin and the Child and Youth Health Bulletin using the national health records. Results: ED symptoms (dietary restriction, self-induced vomiting, laxative misuse) persisted from conception through postpartum. BN participants reported more severe symptoms and higher rates of pregnancy complications (hyperemesis gravidarum, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia), while premature births occurred only in AN participants. Children of mothers with AN more frequently showed delays in developmental milestones (sitting, walking, speaking, sphincter control) compared to those of BN mothers. Conclusions: A substantial proportion of women with prior ED continued to experience symptoms during and after pregnancy, and nearly half still met diagnostic criteria four years later and are still in treatment. Cognitive features such as body dissatisfaction persisted despite partial symptom remission. These findings highlight the chronicity of ED and underscore the need for systematic screening, psychological support, and interdisciplinary follow-up during pregnancy and early motherhood.
- Media and ambivalence: the value of a quandaryPublication . Zelizer, Barbie; Ribeiro, NelsonAmbivalence is often associated with indecision or ineptitude, capable of paralyzing our ability to make decisions and take sides. For institutions such as the media and academia, which privilege messages that project certainty, ambivalence is a particularly terrifying concept. Even so, the concept has been central to how media scholars have thought about messages, reception, effects, and technologies. While some consider that ambivalence undercuts and undermines the media environments it inhabits, others consider it is a necessary complication of the overused binaries of late modernity. This article argues that the presence of ambivalence in contemporary media environments may well be the best we can get in times of extreme polarization.
- Predicting different dimensions of music performance anxiety in young adolescents: the role of gender, psychological vulnerability, and music self-efficacyPublication . Dias, Pedro; Veríssimo, Lurdes; Silva, InêsThe present study aimed to examine sociodemographic, music-related, and psychological predictors of music performance anxiety (MPA) in a group of 145 adolescent music students. The study also aimed to confirm the bifactorial structure of the Portuguese version of the MPAI-A. Results from the CFA showed an appropriate fit of the bi-dimensional organization of MPA into two dimensions: cognitive-somatic and performance. The results showed that each dimension of MPA was predicted by different variables: cognitive-somatic MPA was predicted by gender (female), higher levels of emotional and behavioural problems, and lower levels of music self-efficacy; performance MPA was predicted by lower levels of music self-efficacy. Results highlight the importance of mental health and motivational cognitions, particularly the role of emotional and behavioural problems and self-efficacy on MPA.
- Innovation plans in Portuguese schools: the importance of the aspects and locus of action on the slow path to metamorphosisPublication . Martins, Natália; Palmeirão, Cristina; Alves, José MatiasAcademic failure and social inequalities are becoming more prevalent in schools. While knowledge has evolved and society has undergone significant transformation, schools have largely remained structured around a uniform model applied indiscriminately to all. In Portugal, efforts were made to initiate change through the conceptualisation and implementation of innovation plans to alter the prevailing grammar of schooling, prompting an inquiry into whether these initiatives yielded the intended outcomes. To this end, a case study was conducted in two such schools, aiming to capture the perspectives, ideas, and perceptions of various stakeholders: students and teachers through questionnaires, coordinating teachers via narrative accounts, and school leaders through semi-structured interviews. The findings reveal that the contexts of implementation, the scale of the initiative, and the number of schools involved significantly influence both practices and leadership outcomes. Nonetheless, despite these constraints, the innovation plans facilitated the emergence of more collaborative dynamics and the creation of more meaningful learning environments, wherein students assumed a more active role in their educational processes. The results further indicate that these innovation plans encountered obstacles rooted in entrenched professional and organisational cultures, which hindered profound changes in the structuring of teaching and learning practices.