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Early childhood education settings are also organizations: Indirect association...

Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers play an essential role in delivering high-quality education, yet they often struggle with diverse job demands and lack of job and personal resources to help them manage those demands. To understand the needs of ECE teachers, it is important to study personal and professional factors that support them. Based on the Job Demands-Resources Model, this study aimed to examine ...

Why do people become a foster parent? Insights from a national study

Objective Many countries face a shortfall in the number of foster families needed to support maltreated children. This study aims to explore the drivers and barriers to becoming a foster family and to identify clusters derived from these drivers/barriers and their association with sociodemographic factors. Method A representative sample of 1,066 Portuguese adults (Mage = 52.76, SD = 14.92) responded to a survey...

How virtual are we? Introducing the Team Perceived Virtuality Scale

With the strong proliferation of virtual teams across various organizations and contexts, understanding how virtuality affects teamwork has become fundamental to team and organizational effectiveness. However, current conceptualizations of virtuality rely almost exclusively on more or less fixed, structural features, such as the degree of technology reliance. In this paper, we take a socio-constructivist perspe...

Atividades de expressão musical no jardim de infância: Conceções e práticas

O presente artigo trata das questões que se colocam à realização de atividades de expressão musical na Educação Pré-escolar. Para o efeito, foi aplicado um questionário aos profissionais de Educação de Infância em exercício com o objetivo de saber a sua opinião sobre a sua prática neste domínio. Paralelamente procedemos ao levantamento e análise de 50 relatórios finais de Mestrado de Qualificação para a Docênci...

Child sexual abuse attributions: Are they different depending on mothers versus...

Family reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) are important, but there is a lack of research on the effect of maternal and paternal reactions on social attributions towards the victim and perpetrator. We conducted an experimental study (N = 549, aged 18-76) using vignettes in which the reactions of the mother or father (blame, denial, or support) were manipulated. Statistically significant differences were found...

Profiles of adults most likely to become a foster family: A latent profile anal...

Background The shortage of foster families to protect maltreated children requires urgent and effective solutions supported by theoretical and evidence-based frameworks. However, most research has focused only on the perspective of foster parents and has not been theoretically grounded. To the best of our knowledge, profiles of prospective foster families with representative samples from the general population ...

Effects of consensus on Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) within nursing teams on th...

Aim: This study explores how consensus on leader–member exchange (LMX)—the degree of within-unit agreement regarding the LMX nurse leaders establish with each team member—moderates the effects of abusive supervision on job satisfaction and internal turnover intentions. Method: Involving a sample of 1357 nurses nested into 130 groups (led by as many nurse leaders), cross-level moderations were tested. Results: R...

Legislar a orgânica das entidades sob a tutela central da cultura: Evolução do ...

No quadro da sua progressiva autonomização como sector político próprio, a orgânica das entidades sob tutela central da Cultura em Portugal tem sido reconfigurada por reformas legislativas, impactando a sua autonomia formal. A compilação dos diplomas legais que configuraram a orgânica destas organizações entre 1974-2022 e a sua conversão gráfica em cronologias permite a análise longitudinal deste sector na admi...

O desenvolvimento local em contextos territoriais de contração: Contributos par...

Neste artigo elabora-se uma análise, essencialmente conceptual, sobre as estratégias de desenvolvimento e os desafios enfrentados por territórios “em contração”, procurando partir de uma compreensão alargada dos fatores que explicam a configuração espacial na atual fase do capitalismo. Por um lado, revisita-se a literatura sobre o desenvolvimento regional e local, procurando questionar a evolução geral das teor...

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