The impact of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and childhood trauma on 141 Portuguese women’s HIV risk behaviors (61 victims and 80 non-victims of IPV) was examined as well as differences between victims and non-victims in terms of childhood trauma, condom use, and history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A cross-sectional study design was used with retrospective self-report. Women who reported IPV als...
Purpose: Graduates’ employability has been recognised as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon in the theoretical literature. However, some critics have emerged around the lack of relation between structural, contextual and individual dimensions that have been acknowledged as relevant for the understanding of graduates’ employability. This study aims to map empirical research, grounded on a scoping and inte...
Background: Childhood trauma is increasingly recognized as a key risk factor for autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysregulation and chronic pain. However, the mechanisms underlying this association remain insufficiently explored, particularly within integrated healthcare frameworks. Objective: This study examined whether autonomic reactivity mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and pain severity whi...
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[Excerto] Nos últimos dois anos, os avanços e a popularização da Inteligência Artificial (IA), em particular da IA generativa, têm reconfigurado de forma rápida e disruptiva o ecossistema da produção e circulação do conhecimento científico. Se nas últimas décadas assistimos a uma progressiva sofisticação das ferramentas de apoio à investigação, facilitando tarefas como a pesquisa, organização e divulgação da in...
This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention program on career resources in the blended and distance modalities and explores the relationship between changes in career resources and self-determined motivation. For this purpose, two groups of 68 and 72 higher education students participated in blended and distance career interventions, respectively. The blended program took place in a curricular inf...
O objetivo desse estudo é mapear práticas que visam ao apoio e à promoção da empregabilidade de estudantes e diplomados dos institutos politécnicos portugueses. A metodologia é de caráter descritivo e exploratório. A amostra é composta de 11 institutos politécnicos portugueses públicos e não militares, contemplando todas as regiões de Portugal continental. O corpus do estudo envolve os planos estratégicos (n = ...
Nos últimos anos, a rápida expansão do Ensino Superior em Portugal tem impulsionado a sua democratização e promovido uma maior diversificação do perfil social dos estudantes, trazendo novos desafios ao nível da formação e da transição para o mercado de trabalho. Partindo de uma amostra de estudantes universitários (n=2095) e com base num inquérito por questionário, este artigo procura compreender a relação entr...
This study undertook a comparative analysis of the assessment of transversal competences using two methods, one based on self-assessment and the other on external evaluation, to verify whether there was a (mis)match between the two. Self-assessment was based on the scores obtained through a self-report survey, and external evaluation was based on the scores obtained through the adaptation of the Multiple Mini-I...