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Promoting mental health at schools - PROMEHS: impact of curriculum implementati...
Simões, Celeste; Santos, Margarida Frade; Lebre, Paula; Canha, Lúcia; Santos, Anabela Caetano; Fonseca, Ana; Santos, Dória; Murgo, CaméliaDespite evidence of the positive impact of school-based mental health promotion interventions, there remains a need for robust studies, particularly to evaluate newly developed programs, in order to promote the adoption of best practices and identify effective intervention strategies. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing the PROMEHS curriculum in Portugal in a school setting, using a sample o...
The role of peer observation and peer feedback in the promotion of self-regulat...
Santos, Anabela Caetano; Torres, Ana Cristina; Nobre, Ana; Mouraz, AnaSelf-regulated learning (SRL) involves the cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions of knowledge acquisition and predicts academic achievement. This process can be enhanced through collaboration, particularly peer observation and feedback. Despite extensive research on SRL, the impact of peer observation and feedback in secondary education has been underexplored. This review aims to map th...
The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
Buchanan, Erin M.; Lewis, Savannah C.; Paris, Bastien; Forscher, Patrick S.; Pavlacic, Jeffrey M.; Beshears, Julie E.; Drexler, Shira MeirIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures for each experimental study, a general questionnaire examining ...
Supporting preschoolers’ mental health and academic learning through the PROMEH...
Conte, Elisabetta; Cavioni, Valeria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina; Santos, Margarida Frade; Santos, Anabela CaetanoThere is compelling evidence that early school intervention programs enhance children's development of life skills, with a positive knock-on effect on their behaviors and academic outcomes. To date, most universal interventions have displayed gains in children's social-emotional competencies with a limited reduction in problem behaviors. This may depend on programs' curricula focused to a greater extent on pres...
Truancy: the relevance of resilience-related internal assets, student engagemen...
Santos, Anabela Caetano; Simões, Celeste; Branquinho, Cátia Sofia dos Santos; Arriaga, PatríciaBackground: School absenteeism is associated with multiple negative short and long-term impacts, such as school grade retention and mental health difficulties. Objective: The present study aimed to understand the role of resilience-related internal assets, student engagement, and perception of school success as protective factors for truancy. Additionally, we investigated whether there were differences in these...
The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
Buchanan, Erin M.; Lewis, Savannah C.; Paris, Bastien; Forscher, Patrick S.; Pavlacic, Jeffrey M.; Beshears, Julie E.; Drexler, Shira MeirIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures for each experimental study, a general questionnaire examining ...
Quem te viu e quem te vê: promover a aprendizagem autorregulada de alunos do en...
Mouraz, Ana; Santos, Anabela Caetano; Nobre, AnaComunicação apresentada no MeetUP23 – 2º Encontro de Investigadores do LE@D – Inovação e Ciência, Categoria Projetos, 27 de maio de 2023, Sessão A1 | https://eventos.uab.pt/meetup23/
A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Legate, Nicole; Nguyen, Thuy-vy; Weinstein, Netta; Moller, Arlen; Legault, Lisa; Vally, Zahir; Tajchman, Zuzanna; Zsido, Andras N.; Zrimsek, MihaFinding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-support...
In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No ...
Dorison, Charles A; Lerner, Jennifer S; Heller, Blake H; Rothman, Alexander J; Kawachi, Ichiro I; Wang, Ke; Rees, Vaughan W; Gill, Brian P; Gibbs, NancyThe COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in terms of potential losses (e.g., "If you do not practice these st...
Health promotion and school engagement in youth : the influence of social and e...
Santos, Anabela CaetanoStudent engagement (SE) is associated with higher academic performance and persistence, influencing academic completion. Social and emotional competencies (SECs) are fundamental protective factors for a healthy development. Despite being associated with SE, there are research gaps in this area. Therefore, our goal was to analyse the association between SECs and SE, accounting for individual and environmental fa...