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Relationship between compassionate love and satisfaction with life in Angolan c...

This research explored the relations between compassionate love (CL) for a partner, love satisfaction, commitment, and life satisfaction, and further aimed to scrutinize whether the relation between CL for a romantic partner and satisfaction with life was mediated by satisfaction with love life and commitment. The participants were 191 Angolan college students (50 % women; aged 18–34 years, M = 24.94; SD = 3.88...

The Abbreviated 3-Item Versions of the Satisfaction With Life Scale and the Sat...

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and the Satisfaction with Love Life Scale (SWLLS) are cognitive measures of subjective well-being. Each scale includes 5 items. The major goals of this work were to analyze the psychometric features and validity of the abbreviated 3-item forms of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS-3) and the Satisfaction with Love Life Scale (SWLLS-3), as well as the measurement invar...

Compassionate love for a romantic partner among Brazilian college students

Compassionate love (CL) is a recent subject of close relationships. CL is focused on enlarging beneficence to another. The present study approaches the test of the psychometric characteristics of the shortened form of the Compassionate Love Scale for a partner (CLS-P-SF) for Brazilian college students and its relationships with background and well-being variables. The sample included 217 young adults, 46.1% wom...

Measurement invariance of the short form compassionate love scale for a romanti...

Compassionate love (CL), a particular kind of love, is centred on enlarging beneficence to another. A short form to assess CL for a romantic partner (CLS-P-SF) was recently developed. The CLS-P-SF is a one-dimensional measure. In this study, we examined CLS-P-SF’s measurement invariance (MI) across gender and age, and the relationship of the CL with sexuality measures. There were 1184 Portuguese participants, 4...

Experienced saudade in times of COVID-19 pandemic

Saudade is a Lusophone concept concerning psychological reactions to situations related to the deprivation of loved ones and/or familiar places. It can be assessed empirically using the Experience of Saudade Scale (ESS), which comprises three factors: Lack of loved ones, Lack of intimacy, and Longing for the past. The aim of the study was to obtain further evidence concerning the psychometric properties of this...

Acculturation and adaptation of international students at Portuguese universities

The importance of understanding the adaptation of international students is particularly relevant to the expansion of the internationalization of higher education. This paper examines various psychosocial features with regard to the intercultural relations of international students (IS) in Portugal. This country is receiving an increasing number of IS. Two key components of intercultural relations are accultura...

Determinants of loneliness among Brazilian college students: Structure and corr...

Loneliness is a subjective, and unpleasant experience. This paper aimed at investigating the psychometric features of the short version of the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6), and its correlates in a Brazilian sample. To achieve this purpose two studies were conducted. The first study examined the factor structure of the ULS-6, its internal consistency and measurement invariance (MI) by gender. The sample...

Os Jovens e o Fenómeno Migratório: Coesão Nacional e a Projecção de Portugal no...

Measuring collective action intention toward gender equality across cultures

Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective efforts. Various instruments to measure collective action intentions...

Determinants of satisfaction with love life in Brazil and Portugal

In the present research, we investigated how individual love dispositions and personality traits predict satisfaction with love life. The sample comprised 531 participants, of whom 257 were Brazilian and 274 Portuguese. Their mean age was 23.36 (SD = 5.91) years. There were no significant differences between men and women, and between Brazilian and Portuguese participants in satisfaction with love. Love disposi...