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Exploring weight management beliefs during the menopausal transition: A qualita...
Leitão, Mafalda; Faustino R. Pérez‐López; Marôco, João; Pimenta, FilipaObjectives: While most women experience weight gain during the menopausal transition, a subset successfully maintains a healthy weight. This study explores the determinants influencing different weight experiences during the menopausal transition, using the Health Belief Model (HBM). Qualitative design. individual interviews with 62 Portuguese post‐menopausal women were performed. Among them, 31 women maintaine...
Menopause and weight loss (ME-WEL) randomised controlled trial: An e-health cog...
Leitão, Mafalda; Pérez-López, Faustino; Marôco, João; Pimenta, Filipa; Pimenta, Filipa; Maroco, JoãoBackground: Successful weight management is important for menopausal women, given the high prevalence of overweight and obesity. This study evaluated the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioural e-Health group intervention for weight management in postmenopausal women with overweight or obesity. The intervention incorporates the Health Action Process Approach, Health Belief Model, Oxford Food and Activity Behaviours...
Factor analysis of ordinal items: Old questions, modern solutions?
Marôco, JoãoFactor analysis, a staple of correlational psychology, faces challenges with ordinal variables like Likert scales. The validity of traditional methods, particularly maximum likelihood (ML), is debated. Newer approaches, like using polychoric correlation matrices with weighted least squares estimators (WLS), offer solutions. This paper compares maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) with WLS for ordinal variables. ...
Assessing non‑dysfunctional attitudes toward sleep: psychometric properties of ...
Tecedeiro, Miguel; Reis, Cátia; Marôco, JoãoObjectives: To adapt the Charlotte Attitudes Toward Sleep (CATS) scale, the only self-assessment instrument measuring non-dysfunctional attitudes toward sleep, into Portuguese and to study its psychometric properties in a Portuguese sample.Method: A sample of 1858 participants, recruited through non-probabilistic methods, was randomly split in two subsamples; one was used to develop the CATS model, the other fo...
Sport tourism spectators’ environmental sustainability intentions in an interna...
Martins, Rute; Pereira, Elsa; Rosado, António; Marôco, João; Mccullough, Brian; Mascarenhas, MargaridaThe assessment of environmental strategies and practices is an essential factor in in sport tourism events environmental sustainability. Thus, this investigation aimed to study spectators’ environmental intentions in an international surfing event using the sport sustainability campaign evaluation model (SSCEM). A questionnaire was applied to 343 spectators of the World Championship Tour at Peniche, Portugal. T...
Frequency, sociodemographic, and neuropsychological features of patients with s...
Câmara Pestana, Pedro; Cardoso, Sandra; Guerreiro, Manuela; Marôco, João; Jessen, Frank; Simões Do Couto, Frederico; De Mendonça, AlexandreBackground: Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) is recognized as a risk stage for future cognitive impairment and dementia. The criteria for SCD include normal performance on neuropsychological testing; however, there is a lack of consensus regarding standard score cut-offs for neuropsychological tests to define cognitive impairment and to differentiate between SCD and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). This study...
Relational job characteristics and well-being of Brazilian K-12 teachers
Klein, Natan; Costa, Carlos; Pereira, Cícero Roberto; Chambel, M.J.; Marôco, JoãoA teacher’s relationship with students can be a source of more than stress. The attributes of relational jobs either promote positive (e.g., work engagement) or inhibit negative (e.g., exhaustion) psychological states that constitute potential predictors of teachers’ general well-being (e.g., health perception). The present study tests hypotheses regarding the relationships between the psychological efects of r...
Psychometric properties of the work limitations questionnaire applied to nursin...
De Oliveira, Samuel Andrade; Bonini Campos, Juliana Alvares Duarte [UNESP]; Marôco, João; Marziale, Maria Helena Palucci; Rocha, Fernanda Ludmilla RossiMade available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:45:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Work Limitations Questionnaire and to measure presenteeism in a sample of nursing workers. Method: A cross-sectional study, with non-probabilistic sampling. Data was collected b...
Body appearance (Dis)satisfaction scale applied to Brazilian university students
Martins, Bianca Gonzalez [UNESP]; Barra, Júlia Valério [UNESP]; da Silva, Wanderson Roberto [UNESP]; Marôco, JoãoMade available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:32:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Objective: This study aimed to estimate the psychometric properties of the Body Area Scale (BAS) applied to a sample of Brazilian university students to support the validi...
Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric assessment of the Portuguese languag...
Santos, Priscila Carvalho [UNESP]; da Silva, Wanderson Roberto [UNESP]; Marôco, João; Campos, Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:34:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Purposes: To develop a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Eating and Appraisal due to Emotions and Stress (EADES) Questionnaire and estimate the psychometric properties of the EADES factorial model for young Brazilian adults and also to assess the association between EADES factors and age, body mass in...