The emotional nature and the relationship between parents and their children, characterized by the parental styles, display an important contribution to the psychosocial development of adolescents. The adolescent personality is shaped by their family environment and the relationship with their peers, which have a big significance to the future behaviour of the adolescents and young adults. The present study aim...
Resumo: Os estilos parentais caracterizam a natureza afetiva e a relação entre os pais e os filhos, apresentando por isso, uma contribuição importante para o desenvolvimento psicossocial dos jovens. A vivência familiar, a relação mantida com os pares e o desenvolvimento do adolescente contribuem para a formação da sua personalidade, sendo esta que dita muitos dos comportamentos futuros dos adolescentes e jovens...
Introduction: The experience built in the process of living with chronic ulcer is marked by changes such as the inability to work, to relate socially and causes the need to adapt to a routine care. Understanding this network of meanings is important to develop techniques of individual or collective care. Objective: To understand impregnated subjectivities in the everyday experiences of Brazilian and Portuguese ...
The spread of mobile communications and IT artifacts in general, gives rise to a pervasive number of mobile working modalities, inducing transformations in social practices and organizational environments in a networked society. In order to design information systems we need to understand how information artifacts are used to get work done, and how these support work, inside and outside the organizations. By dr...
Individuals, like organizations, need to manage information for work (and non-work) related activities, on a daily basis. In order to extend their communication and fulfill information needs, people use artifacts (man made objects), that became increasingly technological, and in turn, these very technological artifacts are increasingly more dependent upon other supporting technologies, widely referred as infras...
Neste artigo apresentam-se os resultados de um estudo exploratório realizado no âmbito de um projecto mais vasto, (work in progress), que estuda a utilização de redes sociais e pretende questionar o papel, relevância, potencialidades e limitações destas nas organizações. Partimos do conceito de campo na acepção de Bourdieu, identificamos espaços sociais e espaços informacionais que se cruzam em contextos organi...
The spread of mobile communications and IT artifacts in general, gives rise to a pervasive number of mobile working modalities, inducing transformations in social practices and organizational environments in a networked society. In order to design information systems we need to understand how information artifacts are used to get work done, and how these support work, inside and outside the organizations. By dr...
Globalization has intensified the flow of companies’ top executives across borders. New information needs arise and are added to several other challenges faced by these executives when they move to a foreign country. Cultural differences of the host countries, and lack of local language skills preventing expatriates making sense of the social context and physical environment surrounding them, are among those ch...