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The Impact of Shame, Self-Criticism and Social Rank on Eating Behaviours in Ove...

Recent research has suggested that obesity is a stigmatised condition. Concerns with personal inferiority (social rank), shame and self-criticism may impact on weight management behaviours. The current study examined associations between social comparison (shame, self-criticism), negative affect and eating behaviours in women attending a community based weight management programme focused on behaviour change. 2...

Immersion and distancing across the therapeutic process: relationship to sympto...

This study aims to clarify the roles of immersion and distancing (that is, reflection on an experience from an egocentric point of view or as an observer, respectively) on therapeutic change analyzing i) the evolution of these two perspectives across the resolution of a clinical problem, and ii) the relationship between immersion/distancing with symptoms and emotional arousal. We extracted all the passages of s...

THE AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS SCALE FOR ADOLESCENTS: FACTOR STRUC...

Eating disorders and type 1 diabetes: about 4 clinical reports.

Type 1 Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease, often diagnosed in youth and associated with important psychological, familial and social disorders. Its intensive treatment with insulin and dietary changes is an extra stress factor in a stage of life already complicated. This vulnerability, coupled with low self-esteem and psychological factors typical of the youth, makes eating disorders twice as common in youn...

A necessidade de competir para evitar a inferioridade: Estudos de validação da ...

The Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale (SAIS) assesses beliefs about the need to compete or struggle to avoid inferiority. In a sample of 2411 subjects from general population, it was verified a two-factor structure for both SAIS part one – insecure striving and secure non-striving – and SAIS part three – drive for and avoidance of competition. The three parts present high internal consistency and moderate to ...

Contributos para a Validação da Versão Portuguesa do Questionário de Estilos de...

The Coping Styles Questionnaire (CSQ; Roger, Jarvis, & Najarian, 1993) assesses the coping strategies usually used by individuals when facing a situation perceived as exceeding their resources to deal with it. In a sample of 444 subjects from general population, it was performed a Factorial Analysis of the Principal Components. It was verified in the Portuguese version a 4 factor structure – rational, emotional...

Auto-Criticismo: Estudo de validação da versão portuguesa da Escala das Formas ...

Self-criticism is related to psychopathology, either as a personality factor associated with a specific vulnerability to depression (Blatt, 2004; Gilbert, 1998, 2002a), or as a process directly associated with depression and other forms of psychopathology (Gilbert et al., 2001; Birchwood et al., 2001), and also as a predictor of poor interpersonal adjustment and psychological problems. This study aims to presen...

Estudos de validação com a versão portuguesa da Escala de Dificuldades na Regul...

The domain of Emotion Regulation is in expansion and its relevance in different therapeutics settings led to the development of several measures to assess this dimension. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale pretends to assess the difficulties that adult people have when they try to regulate their emotions. The study presented here permitted to adapt one scale for the Portuguese population – Difficultie...

Estudo das Características Psicométricas da Versão Portuguesa da Escala de Expr...

The Emotional Expressivity Scale (EES; Kring, Smith, & Neale, 1994) intended to assess the degree to which people outwardly display their emotions, regardless of emotional valence or channel of expression. This study presents the psychometric characteristics and the factorial structure of the Portuguese version. In a sample of 1008 subjects, students and general population, the results show that the scale as an...

Desenvolvimento de um Questionário de Experiências de (In) Validação Emocional ...

Several studies have confirmed the existence of a relationship between adverse early experiences, parenting styles and attachment in infancy with the development of psychopathology in adulthood. This study explores the psychometric properties of the Emotional (In) Validation Experiences Questionnaire, which was developed by us, in order to assess retrospectively, the emotional validation (and invalidation) envi...