The literature has consistently shown the link between parental depressive symptoms and adolescent depressive symptoms. Emotion regulation processes may explain this association, with self-compassion acting as a potential mediating mechanism. This study aimed to explore these developmental trajectories using a longitudinal design. The sample comprised dyads of parents and adolescents (N = 311), assessed across ...
Background: The review of the literature on potential predictors of depressive symptoms has shown that traumatic experiences during childhood, experiences of shame, and gender have a relevant contribution. Aim: This study aimed to observe the intra-individual variability of shame, traumatic events, and gender and to test the predictive power of these variables in the evolution of depressive sympt...
Contexto: A revisão da literatura sobre potenciais fatores preditores dos sintomas depressivos em adolescentes tem mostrado que as experiências traumáticas durante a infância, as experiências de vergonha e o género têm um contributo relevante. Objetivo: Pretende-se com o presente estudo observar a variabilidade intraindividual da vergonha, acontecimentos traumáticos e género e testar o poder preditivo destas va...
Shame, as a self-conscious, multidimensional and socially focused emotion, plays a central role in the mental health of individuals. In adolescents, shame is also a frequent experience and its assessment is important for research and clinical practice. This study aims to validate a brief measure of external shame (Other as Shamer Scale – brief version for adolescents: (OASB-A). The participants were 834 adolesc...
Aims: Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in children, and in adolescents, as in adults. Once its occurrence during childhood and adolescence leads to serious consequences in adulthood, its early detection is an important goal. Self-report instruments have a key role in accessing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in an easily, reliably, and valid way. The aim of the current study is to assess ...
Introdução. A Depressão na infância e adolescência, tal como na população adulta, é uma das perturbações mentais mais comuns. Uma vez que o seu aparecimento nesta faixa etária conduz a graves consequências na idade adulta, é fundamental identificar os sintomas depressivos precocemente. Desta forma, os instrumentos de autorrelato têm um papel fundamental, uma vez que permitem com facilidade, de forma fidedigna e...
The OAS-2 is a shortened version of the Other as Shamer Scale and consists of 8 items that assess external shame (i.e., global judgments of how people think others view them). Respondents are asked to indicate the frequency on a 5-point scale (0 = Never; 4 = Almost always) of their feelings and experiences to items such as ''Other people see me as small and insignificant''
The CES-DC is a 20-item self-report depression inventory with possible scores ranging from 0 to 60. Each response to an item is scored as follows:0 = "Not At All"; 1 = "A Little" 2 = "Some" 3 = "A Lot". The items 4, 8, 12, and 16 are phrased positively, and thus are scored in the opposite order. Higher CES-DC scores indicate increasing levels of depression. In Portuguese version factor analysis revealed three f...
The definition and assessment of mental health imply not only the absence of mental illness as also the existence of subjective well-being (WHO, 2004). Keyes (2002) proposed a self-report scale, The Mental Health Continuum “ Short Form “ for youth (MHC-SF), in order to assess a continuum of mental health and to identify categorical diagnoses (flourisnhing, moderate mental health and languisinhg) of mental healt...