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Satisfaction with the Basic Music Course: An Exploratory Study on the Perceptio...
Sousa, Rúben; Gonçalves, Carlos; Esteireiro, Paulo; Sousa, Rúben; Gonçalves, Carlos; Esteireiro, PauloThe objectives of this investigation were to know and analyze the levels of satisfaction of students with the Music Basic Course at the Conservatory – Madeira’s Professional School of the Arts, in both the articulated and supplementary regimes. Based on a quantitative methodology, a set of sociodemographic variables, musical aptitudes and tastes were analyzed, and positive correlations were found with the satis...
At the heart of change: Differences in young offenders' HRV patterns after the ...
Sousa, Rúben; Silva, Diana Ribeiro da; Petrocchi, Nicola; Gilbert, Paul; Rijo, DanielLiterature has pointed the need for intervention programs specifically tailored to target the treatment needs of young offenders, as well as the need to test the efficacy of such programs through physiological indexes of emotion regulation (e.g., heart rate variability; HRV), complementing self-reports typically used as outcome measures. The PSYCHOPATHY.COMP is a 20-session individual intervention program based...
Light-Activated Antimicrobial Surfaces Using Industrial Varnish Formulations to...
Santos, Madson R. E.; Mendonça, Patrícia V.; Branco, Rita; Sousa, Rúben; Dias, Carla; Serra, Arménio C.; Fernandes, José R.; Magalhães, Fernão D.Evidence has shown that hospital surfaces are one of the major vehicles of nosocomial infections caused by drug-resistant pathogens. Smart surface coatings presenting multiple antimicrobial activity mechanisms have emerged as an advanced approach to safely prevent this type of infection. In this work, industrial waterborne polyurethane varnish formulations containing for the first time cationic polymeric biocid...
Development and Validation of the Current Experiences of Warmth and Safeness Sc...
Santos, Laura; Sousa, Rúben; Pinheiro, Maria do Rosário; Rijo, DanielInterpersonal experiences of warmth and safeness have a key role on emotion regulation and social development during childhood and adolescence. This paper presents a new and brief scale designed to assess the adolescents’ perception of current experiences of warmth and safeness (CEWSS-A). Its dimensionality and psychometric properties were investigated using a Portuguese sample of 453 adolescents from the commu...
Exploratory Study on School Abandonment in Specialized Artistic Education (Supp...
Gonçalves, Carlos; Andres, Robert; Sousa, Rúben; Campanário, MicaelaThis article addresses the pupils’ dropout in vocational music education and was conducted at the Conservatory – School of Arts of Madeira (Portugal), using quantitative research methods. Different questionnaires were administered to participating groups (pupils, parents, teachers) and were statistically processed, in order to try to respond to the goals of the study: 1) analyse the related causes for enro...
Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale ...
Sousa, Rúben; Castilho, Paula; Vieira, Cláudia; Rijo, Daniel; Vagos, PaulaCompassion has been proposed as relevant to psychological functioning and mental health, involving being compassionate and caring towards others in times of difficulty. The Compassion Scale (CS) proposes to assess compassion for others considering its different dimensions (Kindness; Common humanity; Mindfulness; Indifference; Separation, and Disengagement) and also offers a total score. The current work investi...
Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale ...
Sousa, Rúben; Castilho, Paula; Vieira, Cláudia; Vagos, Paula; Rijo, DanielCompassion has been proposed as relevant to psychological functioning and mental health, involving being compassionate and caring towards others in times of difficulty. The Compassion Scale (CS) proposes to assess compassion for others considering its different dimensions (Kindness; Common humanity; Mindfulness; Indifference; Separation, and Disengagement) and also offers a total score. The current work investi...