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...
Affective touch plays a pivotal role in nonverbal communication between caregivers and young children, supporting the development of emotion regulation and socioemotional functioning. This exploratory study examines the initial development and validation of the Caregiver-Child Affective Touch Assessment (CCATA), an observational measure designed to classify the quality of caregiver touch during interactions wit...
A tarefa de Correção Automática de Redação tem despertado crescente interesse na área de processamento de texto em português. Entre os conjuntos de dados disponíveis, destaca-se um corpus de redações narrativas produzidas por alunos do 5º ao 9º ano do ensino fundamental no Brasil. Essas redações são avaliadas segundo quatro competências: registro formal, coerência temática, estrutura retórica narrativa e coesão...
Child maltreatment is a pervasive global public health concern with profound societal implications, affecting millions of children and adolescents worldwide. This study aimed to explore attitudes towards child maltreatment among immigrant mothers from São Tomé and Príncipe in Portugal, as well as the associations between these attitudes, parental toxic stress, and sociodemographic variables. The sample included...
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 ...
Compared with the more physically fragile extremely/very preterm children (E/VPT), moderate-to-late preterm (MLPT) children—the large majority of preterm births—are underrepresented in research. This gap persists despite evidence that MLPT children exhibit more difficulties than full-term peers in certain domains. This scoping review surveys the literature on psychological forms of self-regulation in MLPT child...
Adolescents in residential care may achieve positive outcomes despite previous adverse experiences. However, literature focuses more on negative outcomes than resilience. Supportive relationships between professionals and adolescents in residential care are key to ensuring resilience in adolescents. Therefore, professionals' perspectives need to be explored. This study aimed to identify professionals' perspecti...
A partir de um conjunto de dados semi-automaticamente anotados do Corpus de Textos Antigos (CTA), este artigo propõe-se a analisar os resultados obtidos sobre a síncope de -d- intervocálico no morfema da 2.ª pessoa plural, e a consequente resolução do hiato, e as terminações de Particípio Passado -udo/-ido nos verbos com origem etimológica nas 2.ª e 3.ª conjugações latinas. A novidade deste artigo está no recur...
Despite the continuous development of approaches and tools for Named Entity Recognition (NER), historical texts still face issues that modern ones do not have. These issues relate to the nature and type of the documents, the time period when they were produced, the diachronic difference in the language and how they were extracted from their source and preserved in their digital form. This paper addresses the ch...
A avaliação da inteligibilidade de textos e a sua classificação por níveis de complexidade é essencial para o ensino de língua e para indústrias relacionadas com a linguagem que dependem de uma comunicação eficaz. O Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para as Línguas (CEFR) é uma referência amplamente reconhecida para a classificação dos níveis de proficiência linguística. Este quadro pode ser utilizado não apen...