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Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:5
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Morphological priming development in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children
Many studies have shown that, while reading, the brain works a sort of decomposing process of words, reducing them to its morphemes. Moreover, many studies have shown that morphological awareness, which is the...
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Scale development: ten main limitations and recommendations to improve future research practices
The scale development process is critical to building knowledge in human and social sciences. The present paper aimed (a) to provide a systematic review of the published literature regarding current practices ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:3 -
Predictors of happiness among retired from urban and rural areas in Brazil
This study compared differences in degree of happiness, social support, activities performed, and health and economic situation among retirees from urban and rural areas in Minas Gerais State in Brazil. The in...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:2 -
Drug use prevention projects in schools in Vitória, Brazil: quality analysis and improvement proposals
Adolescents living in vulnerable regions are more exposed to risk factors for drug use. The prevention of such use in school is a public policy that needs evaluation. Based on technical criteria and derived fr...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:1 -
Self-report personality tests and medical school selection
There has been a growing interest on the assessment of personality when selecting medical students. However, how faking may affect its usefulness has been poorly addressed. Therefore, we aimed to assess the fa...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:48 -
Heart disease and the stress hypothesis in the mid-twentieth century: a historical review
In the 1920s, heart disease (a noncommunicable disease), was the new leading cause of death in the USA. Simultaneously, experimental progress in the study of stress provided scientific justification for a new ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:47 -
Tolerance of abuse within Mexican adolescent relationships
Violence in interpersonal relationships in young people has been the subject of several studies in recent years. Studies of dating violence show that one of the resources available for the young to help percei...
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Social skills in crack users: differences between men and women
Low levels of social skills in drug users are reported in the literature. However, specific characteristics of these users need to be identified and comprehended. Thus, we aim to evaluate and compare the socia...
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Burnout syndrome and abdominal adiposity among Primary Health Care nursing professionals
Accumulation of abdominal adiposity (AA) constitutes a risk factor for heart and coronary diseases and for metabolic complications. Research suggests that stress is related to adipogenesis. The burnout syndrom...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:44 -
Effects of animal-assisted activity on self-reported feelings of pain in hospitalized children and adolescents
Animal-assisted intervention (AAI) is an approach recently introduced into the hospital environment to improve the quality of hospitalization and provide important benefits for patients with chronic diseases a...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:43 -
Expert panel’s modification and concurrent validity of the Teacher Stress Inventory among selected secondary school teachers in Nigeria
The Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) is an instrument used for assessing occupational stress among teachers but has not been adapted or validated for use in Nigeria.
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:42 -
Developmental delay in early childhood is associated with visual-constructive skills at school age in a Brazilian cohort
We investigated differences in IQ and visual-constructive skills in school-age children evaluated as developmentally delayed or typically developed in early childhood. Sixty-four participants from a Brazilian ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:41 -
Authentic Leadership Questionnaire: invariance between samples of Brazilian and Portuguese employees
The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ) is used to assess authentic leadership (AL). Although ALQ is often used in empirical research, cross-cultural studies with this measure are scarce. Aiming to contribut...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:40 -
Development of the Arithmetic Subtest of the School Achievement Test-Second Edition
The School Achievement Test (Teste de Desempenho Escolar, TDE) has been widely used in clinical and educational contexts for the past 22 years. Arithmetic disorders are frequent among children and teenagers, requ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:39 -
An application of the Rasch model to reading comprehension measurement
An effective reading comprehension measurement demands robust psychometric tools that allow teachers and researchers to evaluate the educational practices and track changes in students’ performance. In this st...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:38 -
A short version of the questionnaire of metamemory in Adulthood (MIA) in Portuguese
The aim of this study was to develop a short version of the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire (MIA) in Brazilian Portuguese. The original MIA is an instrument in english composed by 108 items, divided into...
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Event centrality in trauma and PTSD: relations between event relevance and posttraumatic symptoms
Recent investigations propose that cognitive characteristics of autobiographical memory significantly interact with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). A traumatic event becoming more or less central in a pe...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:34 -
Relationship between coping and subjective well-being of elderly from the interior of the Brazilian Northeast
The objective of this study was to verify how the coping strategies, applied to health problems of the elderly, are related to the levels of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) in a cluster sample of 381 elderly peopl...
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Deviant behavior variety scale: development and validation with a sample of Portuguese adolescents
This study presents the development and analysis of the psychometric properties of the Deviant Behavior Variety Scale (DBVS). Participants were 861 Portuguese adolescents (54 % female), aged between 12 and 19 ...
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Professional choice self-efficacy: predicting traits and personality profiles in high school students
This study aimed to verify the predictive capacity of the Big Five personality factors related to professional choice self-efficacy, as well as to draw a personality profile of people with diverse self-efficac...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:30 -
Behavior problems and social competence in Brazilian children with specific language impairment
This study aimed to investigate the behavior and social profile of Brazilian children with specific language impairment (SLI) and explore whether the severity of language deficits was associated with behaviora...
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Right frontal stroke: extra-frontal lesions, executive functioning and impulsive behaviour
The aim of this study was to evaluate executive functioning (EF) and impulsiveness in three groups of people aged 30 to 79 years: post-frontal stroke (n = 13) and post-extra-frontal chronic stroke of the right he...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:28 -
Construct validity and reliability of Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire – Brazilian version
The Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (OBVQ) is among the few bullying assessment instruments with well-established psychometric properties in different countries. Nevertheless, the psychometric proper...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:27 -
Inhibitory and attentional control: the interaction between “professional activity” and bilingualism
This study investigates the consequences of bilingualism on inhibitory and attentional control. Findings garnered from studies about the so-called bilingual advantage in such executive functions are still cont...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:36 -
Conception and validation of the Behavioral Intentions Scale of Organizational Citizenship (BISOC)
This study aimed to construct and validate the Behavioral Intentions of Organizational Citizenship Scale (BISOC). Organizational citizenship consists of measures of voluntary behaviors, which are beneficial to...
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Well-being and health in adolescents with disabilities
Several studies have indicated that adolescents with disabilities are more dissatisfied with their quality-of-life and have more complaints regarding their health in comparison to their nondisabled peers.
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:32 -
Games as a measure of reading and writing generalization after computerized teaching of reading skills
Behavior Analysis is usually accused of not being able to account for the generalization of verbal behavior that is present in linguistically competent individuals. However, several behavior analytic studies i...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:26 -
Adaptation and preliminary validation evidences of the School Climate Questionnaire – Revised, Elementary and Middle School Version (SCS-MS)
This study presents the procedures for adapting the School Climate Survey – Revised, Elementary and Middle School Version (SCS-MS) to the Brazilian context and demonstrates the first evidence of the validity o...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:25 -
Social Conduct Scale (SCS): a psychometric investigation
The social conduct of an individual comprises all the interpersonal behaviors that he or she exhibits in the social contexts he or she is exposed to. The Social Conduct Scale (SCS) is a self-report instrument ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:24 -
Influence of family socioeconomic status on IQ, language, memory and executive functions of Brazilian children
The aim of this study was to assess the effect of family socioeconomic status (SES) and parental education on non-verbal IQ and on the processing of oral and written language, working memory, verbal memory and...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:23 -
Portuguese validation of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale (SCBE-30)
The Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale (SCBE-30) is a 30-item questionnaire designed to assess preschoolers’ behavioral problems (externalizing and internalizing) and social competence. It is wide...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:22 -
University student’s engagement: development of the University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI)
Student engagement is a key factor in academic achievement and degree completion, though there is much debate about the operationalization and dimensionality of this construct. The goal of this paper is to des...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:21 -
Are happier people less vulnerable to rumination, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress? Evidence from a large scale disaster
The present longitudinal study tested hypotheses about the relationship of subjective well-being and neuroticism with rumination, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress in university students after a large scale d...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:20 -
Development and refinement of the Peer Aggressive Behavior Scale–PAB-S
Child aggressive behavior is a growing research topic in several fields of knowledge. Nonetheless, there are few instruments in Brazil designed to assess such a construct. The aim of this study was to present ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:19 -
An application of item response theory to psychological test development
Item response theory (IRT) has become a popular methodological framework for modeling response data from assessments in education and health; however, its use is not widespread among psychologists. This paper ...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:18 -
Projective aspects on cognitive performance: distortions in emotional perception correlate with personality
Several approaches in psychology converge with the concept that individual characteristics may interfere with the perception and interpretation of the world. We hypothesized that such phenomenon could be ident...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:17 -
Frailty and depressive symptoms in older adults: data from the FIBRA study - UNICAMP
The relationship between the presence of depression, as measured by total score on the GDS-15 scale, and both pre-frailty and frailty status in community-dwelling elderly was determined. Two thousand four hund...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:16 -
Associations between clinical and sociodemographic data and patterns of communication in pediatric oncology
Pediatric communication directly contributes to treatment adherence, fewer symptoms, better clinical responses, healthier treatment adaptation and management of psychosocial issues. This study aimed to evaluat...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:15 -
Effects of chronic alcoholism in the sensitivity to luminance contrast in vertical sinusoidal gratings
The aim of this study was to measure visual contrast sensitivity (CS) of luminance using vertical sinusoidal gratings with spatial frequencies of 0.6, 2.5, 5.0 and 20.0 cycles per degree of visual angle in chr...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:14 -
Evidences of validity and reliability of the Luria-Nebraska Test for Children
This paper aimed to verify evidences of validity and reliability of Luria-Nebraska Test for Children (TLN-C, in Portuguese). Three hundred eighty-seven students aged 6–13 years old, with learning difficulties,...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:13 -
Adaptation and validation of the psychosocial values questionnaire to the context of Brazilian and Portuguese teenagers
The aim of this work was to adapt and validate the Psychosocial Values Questionnaire (PVQ-24) for application to Portuguese and Brazilian adolescents and to test the content, structure and compatibility hypoth...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:12 -
The incidental binding of color and shape is insensitive to the perceptual load
The binding of information in visual short-term memory may occur incidentally when irrelevant information for the task at hand is stored together with relevant information. We investigated the process of the i...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:11 -
What is popular? Distinguishing bullying and aggression as status correlates within specific peer normative contexts
This study tested social status correlates of aggression and bullying and how these are influenced by peer groups’ normative beliefs about aggression and prosocial behavior among 1165 fourth, fifth and sixth g...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:10 -
Process of adoption communication openness in adoptive families: adopters’ perspective
Communication about adoption is a family interaction process which is more than the simple exchange of information. Adoption communication can be characterized in terms of the level of openness of family conve...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:9 -
Locus of control in maltreated children: the impact of attachment and cumulative trauma
Up until now research studies carried out on abused children have rarely taken in consideration the impact of maltreatment on the locus of control; furthermore results concerning the distribution of attachment in...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:8 -
The influence of personal characteristics and social support regarding pacifier introduction among preterm infants
The study evaluated mothers of preterm infants who were discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with regard to their personal characteristics and those of their infants as well as the role that...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:7 -
Review of the self-sacrifice dimension of the dimensional clinical personality inventory
The present study aimed to review the Self-sacrifice scale from the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory (IDCP), and investigate its psychometric properties. To this end, the study comprised 199 particip...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:6 -
Causal attribution among women with breast cancer
Causal attribution among women with breast cancer was studied. The study included 157 women outpatients with breast cancer. A form for sociodemographic and clinical data and the Revised Illness Perception Ques...
Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:4 -
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