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Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in pres...
Torres, N.; Martins, D.; Monteiro, L.; Santos, A. J.; Vaughn, B. E.; Verissimo, MBackground: Oxytocin (OXT) has attracted research interest for its potential involvement in many of the behavioural problems observed in childhood. Due to its logistical advantages, saliva is an attractive fluid to quantify neuropeptides in children. Salivary OXT has been suggested as a potential biomarker for psychopa- thology during childhood. However, several questions still remain about the extent to which,...
Early attachment to mothers and fathers: Contributions to preschoolers' emotion...
Fernandes, C.; Fernandes, M.; Santos, A. J.; Antunes, M.; Monteiro, L.; Vaughn, B. E.; Veríssimo, M.Children acquire and develop emotional regulatory skills in the context of parent-child attachment relationships, nonetheless empirical studies have focused mainly on mother and less information is available regarding the role of both parent-child attachment relationships. Furthermore, despite its importance, there is no information regarding preschool years. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the po...
Examining the factorial structure of the maternal separation anxiety scale in a...
Guedes, M.; Monteiro, L.; Santos, A. J.; Torres, N.; Veríssimo, M.The increase in women’s labor market participation emphasizes the importance of understanding maternal separation anxiety, that is, the unpleasant maternal emotional state, due to the actual or anticipated short-term separation from the child. Drawing on the insights of the attachment and psychoanalytic perspectives, the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale (MSAS) was developed to overcome existing measurement gap...
Inclusão e participação social em educação de infância
Aguiar, C.; Cadima, J.; Correia, N.; Daniel, J.; Fialho, A.; Gamelas, A,; Aguiar, A.; Ferreira, M.; Peceguina, I.; Santos, A. J.; Pimentel, J.A inclusão em educação de infância pode ser definida como o conjunto de valores, políticas e práticas que apoiam o direito de cada criança e da sua família, independentemente das suas capacidades, a participar num vasto conjunto de atividades e contextos enquanto membros de pleno direito (DEC/ NAEYC, 2009). De acordo com esta definição, os resultados desejáveis das experiências inclusivas para crianças com e se...
Convergent and discriminant validities of SCBE-30 questionnaire using correlate...
Fernandes, M.; Santos, A. J.; Antunes, M.; Fernandes, C.; Monteiro, L.; Vaughn, B. E.; Veríssimo, M.Correlated trait–correlated method minus one was used to evaluate convergent and discriminant validity of Social Competence Behavior Evaluation questionnaire (Social Competence, Anger-Aggression, Anxiety-Withdrawal) between multiple raters. A total of 369 children (173 boys and 196 girls; Mage = 55.85, SDage = 11.54) were rated by their mothers, fathers, and teachers. Results showed more convergence between par...
Early father-child and mother-child attachment relationships: contributions to ...
Fernandes, C.; Monteiro, L.; Santos, A. J.; Fernandes, M.; Antunes, M.; Vaughn, B. E.; Veríssimo, M.The main goal of this study was to explore the contributions of early father-child and mother-child attachment relationships to children’s later social competence with their preschool peers; possible unique and shared contributions were tested. Using a multi-method design and focusing on direct observation, attachment was assessed at home at age 3 with the Attachment Behavior Q-sort (AQS) and two years later so...
How do hypothalamic nonapeptides shape youth’s sociality? A systematic review o...
Torres, N.; Martins, D.; Santos, A. J.; Prata, D.; Veríssimo, L.The hypothalamic nonapeptides oxytocin and vasopressin are important modulators of socio-affective behaviours in a wide variety of animal species, including humans. Nevertheless, there is little research addressing their possible roles on socio-affective dimensions of human behaviour across development, during which considerable behavioural and physiological change occurs. Questions still remain about the exten...
Functional rehabilitation of heritage buildings based on reinforced concrete st...
Miranda Dias, J.; Santos, A. J.; Pinto, A.; Matias, L.; Oliveira Santos, T.For the definition of conservation and rehabilitation actions in buildings of heritage value, it is necessary to take into account the significant evolution processed in several functional aspects of these buildings. The complexity of the issues involved in conservation and repair of their construction elements and functional rehabilitation requires knowledge in several domains, in order to integrate, in an int...
Análise fatorial confirmatória da versão portuguesa da escala Preschool Play Be...
Monteiro, L.; Fernandes, M.; Sousa, T.; Torres, N.; Rosado, A.; Santos, A. J.A Preschool Play Behavior Scale é um instrumento constituído por 18 itens que expressam diferentes tipos de comportamentos das crianças, em contexto de brincadeira livre com os pares, procurando diferenciar, em particular, tipos de comportamentos não-sociais. O presente estudo teve como objetivo traduzir e analisar a estrutura fatorial do instrumento e as suas características psicométricas. Sessenta educadoras ...
Social engagement and adaptive functioning during early childhood: identifying ...
Vaughn, B. E.; Santos, A. J.; Monteiro, L.; Shin, N.; Daniel, J. R.; Krzysik, L.; Pinto, A.This study tested the hypothesis that social engagement (SE) with peers is a fundamental aspect of social competence during early childhood. Relations between SE and a set of previously validated social competence indicators, as well as additional variables derived from observation and sociometric inter- views were assessed using both variable-centered and person-centered approaches (N 1453, 696 girls) in 4 sam...