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The relationship between optimism, pessimism and sleep difficulties in universi...
Afonso,Boaventura R. C. R. O.; Soares,Maria João; Macedo,AntónioAbstract We found that the factors involved in the genesis/maintenance of sleep difficulties needed to be much better known. Our aims were to explore the role of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) and psychological distress (PD) as mediators in the relationship between pessimism/optimism and sleep difficulties. Our methods were to ask 253 university students to complete the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-...
Perfectionism and negative/positive affect associations: the role of cognitive ...
Castro,Juliana; Soares,Maria João; Pereira,Ana T.; Macedo,AntónioAbstract Objective To explore 1) if perfectionism, perceived distress/coping, and cognitive emotion regulation (CER) are associated with and predictive of negative/positive affect (NA/PA); and 2) if CER and perceived distress/coping are associated with perfectionism and if they mediate the perfectionism-NA/PA associations. There is a distinction between maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism in its association ...
Is positive affect in pregnancy protective of postpartum depression?
Bos,Sandra Carvalho; Macedo,António; Marques,Mariana; Pereira,Ana Telma; Maia,Berta Rodrigues; Soares,Maria João; Valente,José; Gomes,Ana AllenOBJECTIVE: To investigate the predictive/protective role of negative affect/positive affect in late pregnancy on the outcome of postpartum depression. METHODS: A total of 491 pregnant women participated in the study. The participants were asked to fill out a series of questionnaires, which included the Profile of Mood States, the Beck Depression Inventory-II, psychosocial variables and socio-demographic charact...
Perfectionism in obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders
Maia,Berta Rodrigues; Soares,Maria João; Gomes,Ana; Marques,Mariana; Pereira,Ana Telma; Cabral,Ana; Valente,José; Bos,Sandra Carvalho; Pato,MicheleOBJECTIVE: The main aims of this article are twofold. First, to assess perfectionism dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders in comparison with psychiatric control (depression/anxiety) and non-clinical control groups. Second, to examine if perfectionism is specifically related to these different clinical conditions. METHOD: Thirty-nine outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 24 ...
Factor structure of the Rutter Teacher Questionnaire in Portuguese children
Pereira,Ana Telma; Maia,Berta Rodrigues; Marques,Mariana; Bos,Sandra Carvalho; Soares,Maria João; Gomes,Ana; Macedo,AntónioOBJECTIVE: To examine the factor structure of the Rutter Teacher Questionnaire in Portuguese primary school children. METHOD: The Rutter Teacher Questionnaire, a 26-item scale covering a variety of behavioral problems, was completed by teachers of 877 children, aged 6 to 11 years. Data were subjected to factor analysis using the principal components solution with varimax rotation. RESULTS: The factorial analysi...