The present study was designed to translate the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised into Portuguese and to test this translation among a snowball sample of 266 Catholic priests serving in Portugal (91% diocesan). The data demonstrated: good internal consistency reliability for the two scales proposed by this instrument (negative affect, α = .89 and positive affect, α = .89); support for the association with a mea...
This study was designed to test the power of personality, engagement with leisure activities, and professional support, in order to predict susceptibility to professional burnout among Catholic priests in Portugal. Data provided by 208 priests who completed both the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales and the Francis Burnout Inventory demonstrated that reported levels of burnout were sig...
Introdução: O envelhecimento populacional é um fenómeno atual e global, com repercussões sociais e económicas que têm gerado sequelas na saúde e bem-estar das pessoas, das famílias e das comunidades. As incertezas resultantes do processo de cuidar, o medo e insegurança na execução de cuidados e a alteração de papéis sociais, são fatores geradores de sobrecarga do cuidador. Neste contexto, a espiritualidade é co...