In the current information society, over half the world’s population still does not have access to the Internet. This problem strikes mostly elderly people, poor people, people with little schooling, dwellers in rural areas, and affects women more than men. Scant access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) makes the exercise of citizenship difficult and generates social exclusion. For this reaso...
Women tend to be more concerned about the welfare of (human/nonhuman) animals and the natural environment than men. A growing literature has shown that gender differences in environmental exploitation can be explained partially by the fact that women and men differ in their social dominance and empathic orientations. We extend past studies by examining whether social dominance orientation (SDO; ‘Superior groups...
Rheumatic diseases, by their nature and symptoms are one of the diseases that have the greatest impact on public health, affecting thousands of people, and being directly responsible for serious limitations, not only on a physical level but also the emotional and social level. These diseases have a chronic nature. In many cases, they seriously influence the well-being of many people, as well as their productivi...
About a third of the Portuguese population suffers from some form of rheumatic disease. Although the pathology in several persons is mild, these illnesses are chronic and incurable, have a progressive evolution, and the symptoms tend to become increasingly severe. Rheumatic illnesses frequently lead to major consequences for the person's life disturbing their social relationships, work and leisure. The present ...
Chronic diseases are characterized by continuous pain and suffering, affecting the personal well-being, emotional, family and social. Patients experience moments of disruption, in face of alterations or deformations in their body image, and the need to change their habits and social roles. Some patients accept their situation, having good practices of self-care, adapting to their limitations and seeing the futu...
Este estudo aborda uma prática frequente no nosso dia-a-dia e nas opções que tomamos enquanto cidadãos, face à necessidade de provarmos que efectuámos determinados procedimentos - através de documentos probatórios, que comprovem a realização desses procedimentos -, numa sociedade cada vez mais tecnológica. Numa perspectiva mais social do que técnica, averigua-se a relação existente entre utilizadores de ferrame...
Apresentamos a Análise Factorial de Correspondências (AFC), uma técnica de análise de dados qualitativos com grande adequabilidade e aplicação no estudo de diferentes objectos, situações e fenómenos, nos mais diversos domínios da psicologia, em particular, no vasto campo das representações sociais. A AFC é um método de estatística descritiva multivariada que evidencia as afinidades entre as linhas e colunas de ...
Dada a importância que os comportamentos suicidários assumem nos adolescentes, torna-se pertinente a análise dos sentidos associados ao suicídio no campo particular da sua construção social. Várias investigações evidenciam que, o modo como as pessoas constróem explicações para os acontecimentos, não só se baseia nas crenças e experiências dos seus grupos de pertença, como determina comportamentos. Neste primeir...
No quadro de uma investigação empírica sobre as representações sociais da música, da morte e do suicídio na adolescência, apresentamos neste artigo alguns resultados de perguntas comuns a dois estudos diferentes, com adolescentes da cidade de Lisboa. Destacamos, na análise de resultados, os efeitos das variáveis sexo e grupo etário na ideação de suicídio, ideação demorte, comportamentos de risco, comportamentos...
The body and food are subjects covered by several areas of intervention and are of great importance. This is partly due to their involvement in people’s everyday practices and experience related to healthy behaviours or to illness. In order to find out about the attitude to the body and food in adolescents on the basis of the cognitive and symbolic dimensions associated with them, we interviewed 523 students of...