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The relationship between optimism, pessimism and sleep difficulties in universi...
Afonso,Boaventura R. C. R. O.; Soares,Maria João; Macedo,AntónioAbstract We found that the factors involved in the genesis/maintenance of sleep difficulties needed to be much better known. Our aims were to explore the role of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) and psychological distress (PD) as mediators in the relationship between pessimism/optimism and sleep difficulties. Our methods were to ask 253 university students to complete the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-...
Dominant Affective Temperaments and its variance among people with depression, ...
Azevedo,Julieta Martins; Carreiras,Diogo; Castilho,Paula; Rodrigues,Joana; Macedo,AntónioAbstract Affective temperaments are frequently described as a biologically determined early emerging variation in emotional reactivity, with solid temporal stability. We aimed to analyse affective temperament variation and dominance while adapting and translating the Affective Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ) to European Portuguese in both clinical (Major Depressive Disorder - MDD and Bipolar Disorder - BD) and ...
A pilot study of the Portuguese version of the Voices Acceptance and Action Sca...
Martins,Maria João; Castilho,Paula; Macedo,António; Pereira,Ana Telma; Vagos,Paula; Carvalho,Diana; Pascoal,Ana Carolina; Carvalho,Célia BarretoGiven the recent interest in acceptance-based interventions for psychosis, it has been recommended that coping with voices mechanisms, namely experiential acceptance, are routinely assessed in clinical and research settings. The Voices Acceptance and Action Scale (VAAS-12) is a self-report measure developed to specifically assess acceptance-based or action-based beliefs in relation to verbal auditory hallucinat...
Perfeccionismo, pensamento repetitivo negativo e sintomatologia do espectro obs...
Ferreira,Tiago; Nascimento,Marta; Macedo,António; Pereira,Ana; Pissarra,AntónioO perfeccionismo e o pensamento repetitivo negativo têm sido associados a diversas perturbações psiquiátricas e por isso considerados constructos transdiagnósticos. Assim, importa compreender a relação destes com vários grupos de sintomas, nomeadamente os sintomas obsessivo-compulsivos, pois poderá conduzir a uma melhor compreensão do diagnóstico, prevenção e tratamento de algumas doenças psiquiátricas. O objec...
Perfectionism and negative/positive affect associations: the role of cognitive ...
Castro,Juliana; Soares,Maria João; Pereira,Ana T.; Macedo,AntónioAbstract Objective To explore 1) if perfectionism, perceived distress/coping, and cognitive emotion regulation (CER) are associated with and predictive of negative/positive affect (NA/PA); and 2) if CER and perceived distress/coping are associated with perfectionism and if they mediate the perfectionism-NA/PA associations. There is a distinction between maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism in its association ...
Children and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale: Validation in a Portuguese Adolesc...
Bento,Carmen; Pereira,Ana Telma; Saraiva,Jorge Manuel; Macedo,AntónioThe aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS). Method: 971 Portuguese high school students (572 girls and 399 boys) answered the CAPS. The test-retest reliability was obtained with 206 participants from the total sample. Results: Internal consistency (α= .809) and test-retest reliability (r= .691) were satisfacto...
Is positive affect in pregnancy protective of postpartum depression?
Bos,Sandra Carvalho; Macedo,António; Marques,Mariana; Pereira,Ana Telma; Maia,Berta Rodrigues; Soares,Maria João; Valente,José; Gomes,Ana AllenOBJECTIVE: To investigate the predictive/protective role of negative affect/positive affect in late pregnancy on the outcome of postpartum depression. METHODS: A total of 491 pregnant women participated in the study. The participants were asked to fill out a series of questionnaires, which included the Profile of Mood States, the Beck Depression Inventory-II, psychosocial variables and socio-demographic charact...
Empathy in Family Medicine
Macedo,António; Cavadas,Luís Filipe; Sousa,Marlene; Pires,Paulo; Santos,José Agostinho; Machado,AlexandraAIM: Empathy is crucial in therapeutic relationships. An empathic relationship has several positive outcomes: improvement of doctor-patient relationship, increased satisfaction and diagnostic ability, and patients empowerment. This study aims to assess empathy levels in a Portuguese Primary Health Care Practice (PPHCP) and to verify the relation between doctor-patient empathy and socio-demographic characterist...
Affective state dependence and relative trait stability of perfectionism in sle...
Maia,Berta R.; Soares,Maria J.; Pereira,Ana T.; Marques,Mariana; Bos,Sandra C.; Gomes,Ana; Valente,José; Azevedo,Maria H.; Macedo,AntónioOBJECTIVE: To evaluate the degree of absolute change, relative stability and state dependence of trait perfectionism in sleep disturbances in a sample of university students. METHOD: Participants completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and two items concerning sleep difficulties. The mean age at T0 (baseline) was 19.59 years (SD = 1.61, range = 17-25) and 62.5% of the sample were female. RESULTS: Abs...
Perfectionism in obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders
Maia,Berta Rodrigues; Soares,Maria João; Gomes,Ana; Marques,Mariana; Pereira,Ana Telma; Cabral,Ana; Valente,José; Bos,Sandra Carvalho; Pato,MicheleOBJECTIVE: The main aims of this article are twofold. First, to assess perfectionism dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders in comparison with psychiatric control (depression/anxiety) and non-clinical control groups. Second, to examine if perfectionism is specifically related to these different clinical conditions. METHOD: Thirty-nine outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 24 ...