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View article: Identifying HEXACO personality types: what do type characteristics tell us about student misconduct?
Identifying HEXACO personality types: what do type characteristics tell us about student misconduct? Open
View article: Exploring Couples’ Dynamics Through Time: An Approach of Dyadic-Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis
Exploring Couples’ Dynamics Through Time: An Approach of Dyadic-Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis Open
Few studies adopt dyadic and longitudinal approaches to explore couple dynamics and, to our knowledge, no qualitative research has integrated both methods. We propose and discuss a novel approach for analyzing and interpreting dyadic-longi…
View article: Validation of the academic misconduct questionnaire: exploring predictors of student misconduct
Validation of the academic misconduct questionnaire: exploring predictors of student misconduct Open
Multiple instruments have been used to assess academic misconduct, yet robust psychometric evidence has been reported only for a few. This study aims to determine the validity and dimensionality of a novel Academic Misconduct Questionnaire…
View article: Careworkers’ Affect Regulation in Youth Residential Care: A Study on the Psychometric Properties of the Affect Regulation Checklist
Careworkers’ Affect Regulation in Youth Residential Care: A Study on the Psychometric Properties of the Affect Regulation Checklist Open
View article: Adolescents’ Future Expectations During High School: Examining the Role of Close Relationships, Psychosocial Risk and Sex in Stability and Change
Adolescents’ Future Expectations During High School: Examining the Role of Close Relationships, Psychosocial Risk and Sex in Stability and Change Open
This study examined the stability/change trajectories of future expectations during high school, analyzing whether adolescents’ sex, attachment to parents and peers, multiple risk, and pandemic-related stress explained these trajectories. …
View article: Romantic Attachment and Emerging Adults’ Future Expectations: Moderation Role of Self-Regulation
Romantic Attachment and Emerging Adults’ Future Expectations: Moderation Role of Self-Regulation Open
The characteristics of Western societies pose significant challenges to how emerging adults view their futures. In the present study, we analyzed the associations between romantic attachment, self-regulation, and future expectations of eme…
View article: First-time Fathers Navigating Caregiving and Paid Work: A Dyadic and Longitudinal Qualitative Study
First-time Fathers Navigating Caregiving and Paid Work: A Dyadic and Longitudinal Qualitative Study Open
This study aimed to explore how first-time (heterosexual) fathers’ involvement in caregiving and paid work roles was (co)constructed with their partners during the transition to parenthood. The transition to parenthood entails adaptations …
View article: How secure is the secure base? Romantic attachment, emotion regulation, and psychotherapists’ role as secure base figures
How secure is the secure base? Romantic attachment, emotion regulation, and psychotherapists’ role as secure base figures Open
In 1988, Bowlby posited that the emotional availability of psychotherapists in establishing a secure base environment is influenced by their personal relational history. Despite the acknowledged influence of the therapist’s attachment on t…
View article: Navigating the Countertransference Experience: A Transtheoretical Specifist Model
Navigating the Countertransference Experience: A Transtheoretical Specifist Model Open
The attempt to identify and classify distinct experiences falling under the common designation of countertransference has been labelled the specifist tradition. In this paper, a model describing two dimensions differentiating four componen…
View article: What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning Open
This study investigated the impact of an attachment-based intervention on care workers' reflexive functioning (RF), analyzing 212 professionals in a randomized control trial. The study employed a multi-group latent difference score model t…
View article: Affective relationships with caregivers, self-efficacy, and hope of adolescents in residential care
Affective relationships with caregivers, self-efficacy, and hope of adolescents in residential care Open
The transition to residential care (RC) is often experienced with fear and distrust, which, associated with a feeling of punishment and abandonment, may result in pejorative attributions and self-depreciation. These feelings may reveal a g…
View article: Parent-partner and parent-child attachment: Links to children's emotion regulation
Parent-partner and parent-child attachment: Links to children's emotion regulation Open
View article: Ecological correlates of adolescents' sense of agency: Are there differences for boys and girls?
Ecological correlates of adolescents' sense of agency: Are there differences for boys and girls? Open
View article: Facets of Care in Youth: Attachment, Relationships with Care Workers and the Residential Care Environment
Facets of Care in Youth: Attachment, Relationships with Care Workers and the Residential Care Environment Open
According to the attachment theory, early experiences with primary caregivers are the foundation of the expectations and beliefs about the self, others, and the world. It becomes particularly relevant in youth living in Residential Care (R…
View article: Working time arrangements and exhaustion: The role of recovery experiences and satisfaction with the schedule
Working time arrangements and exhaustion: The role of recovery experiences and satisfaction with the schedule Open
Working time arrangements may be a source of strain and entail negative consequences for workers, one of which can be exhaustion. Based on the job demands‐resources and the conservation of resources theories, this study explores recovery e…
View article: Getting in touch with metadata: a DDI subset for FAIR metadata production in clinical psychology
Getting in touch with metadata: a DDI subset for FAIR metadata production in clinical psychology Open
To address metadata with researchers it is important to use models that include familiar domain concepts. In the Social Sciences, the DDI is a well-accepted source of such domain concepts. To create FAIR data and metadata, we need to estab…
View article: Stability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents
Stability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents Open
Although literature states that individual, relational, and contextual factors contribute to adolescents’ sense of agency, more research is needed to clarify and understand how adolescents develop this belief over time. The current study e…
View article: Psychological group intervention to support parenting: Qualitative study about needs and preferences of mothers with breast cancer
Psychological group intervention to support parenting: Qualitative study about needs and preferences of mothers with breast cancer Open
View article: Communication concerns in mothers with cancer: Development and psychometric properties of a new measure
Communication concerns in mothers with cancer: Development and psychometric properties of a new measure Open
This study aimed to present the development of the Communication Concerns in Parents with Cancer Scale (CCPCS) and to evaluate its psychometric properties in mothers with cancer.Two hundred and twenty-nine mothers with cancer participated …
View article: The Genetic Psychosocial Risk Instrument (GPRI): A Validation Study for European Portuguese
The Genetic Psychosocial Risk Instrument (GPRI): A Validation Study for European Portuguese Open
Introduction: Screening instruments specifically developed to identify genetic testing applicants who may need professional psychosocial support are much needed. However, there are no screening instruments validated for the Portuguese lang…
View article: Sense of personal agency in adolescence and young adulthood: A preliminary assessment model
Sense of personal agency in adolescence and young adulthood: A preliminary assessment model Open
Although there is a growing interest in the concept of sense of personal agency in adolescence and young adulthood, its operationalization and assessment have been inconsistent. We propose and test a preliminary assessment model of sense o…
View article: Adolescents' attachment, quality of relationships with residential caregivers, and emotion regulation
Adolescents' attachment, quality of relationships with residential caregivers, and emotion regulation Open
Introduction Adolescents in residential care are more likely to report insecure and especially disorganized attachments, which lead to difficulties in emotion regulation and compromise the quality of their interpersonal relationships. In r…
View article: “I have always lived with the disease in the family”: family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk
“I have always lived with the disease in the family”: family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk Open
Background Hereditary cancer syndromes have been conceptualized as a family level process. The present study explores the complexity and challenges of family adaptation to the hereditary cancer syndrome, in the context of genetic counselin…
View article: “Don’t Bring Work Home”: How Career Orientation Moderates Permeable Parenting Boundaries in Dual-earner Couples
“Don’t Bring Work Home”: How Career Orientation Moderates Permeable Parenting Boundaries in Dual-earner Couples Open
Having parenting boundaries permeated by work, expressed in bringing work home and dealing with work-related issues while performing the parental role can relate to increasing levels of work-family-conflict. This association, however, migh…
View article: Distress facing increased genetic risk of cancer: The role of social support and emotional suppression
Distress facing increased genetic risk of cancer: The role of social support and emotional suppression Open
View article: Is It Possible to Strengthen Bonds without Breaking Hearts? The Relational Paradox within Residential Care
Is It Possible to Strengthen Bonds without Breaking Hearts? The Relational Paradox within Residential Care Open
Abstract Attachment theory (AT) is one of the most popular theories used among professionals working in children and family welfare worldwide. An important contribution relies on the central role of professionals in creati…
View article: Family Adjustment to Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: A Systematic Review
Family Adjustment to Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: A Systematic Review Open
Hereditary cancer syndromes are inherited pathogenic genetic variants that significantly increase the risk of developing cancer. When individuals become aware of their increased probability of having cancer, the whole family is affected by…
View article: From Chaos to Normalization and Deconfinement: What did the Pandemic Unveil in Youth Residential Care
From Chaos to Normalization and Deconfinement: What did the Pandemic Unveil in Youth Residential Care Open
View article: Parental meta-emotion, attachment to parents, and personal agency in adolescents.
Parental meta-emotion, attachment to parents, and personal agency in adolescents. Open
Guided by attachment theory, we explored in the present study the links between parental emotion-coaching, attachment to parents, and adolescent's sense of agency. Further, we examined a possible mediating role of adolescent's attachment t…
View article: "I have always lived with the disease in the family": Family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk
"I have always lived with the disease in the family": Family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk Open
Abstract Background: Hereditary cancer syndromes have been conceptualized as a family level process. The present study explores the complexity and challenges of family adaptation to the hereditary cancer syndrome, in the c…