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Adaptation of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale for a sample of Portuguese po...
Leite, Ângela; Souto, Teresa; Sousa, Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e; Moura, Andreia de; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Cunha, Lígia; Lira, VítorThe aim of this study is to adapt a Portuguese version of the original 18 items of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS), via a translation / back translation process, using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in a Portuguese sample. The sample comprised 232 respondents from the general population. The modified BFAS acquires a different factor structure from the original, keeping 4 of the main theoretical e...
Adaptation of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale for a sample of portuguese po...
Leite, Ângela; Souto, Teresa; e Sousa, Hélder Fernando Pedrosa; de Moura, Andreia; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Cunha, Lígia; Lira, VitorThe aim of this study is to adapt a Portuguese version of the original 18 items of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS), via a translation / back translation process, using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in a Portuguese sample. The sample comprised 232 respondents from the general population. The modified BFAS acquires a different factor structure from the original, keeping 4 of the main theoretical e...
Adaptation of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale for a sample of Portuguese po...
Leite, Ângela; Souto, Teresa; Sousa, Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e; Moura, Andreia de; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Cunha, Lígia; Lira, VitorThe aim of this study is to adapt a Portuguese version of the original 18 items of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS), via a translation / back translation process, using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in a Portuguese sample. The sample comprised 232 respondents from the general population. The modified BFAS acquires a different factor structure from the original, keeping 4 of the main theoretical e...
Psychological well-being and health perception: predictors for past, present an...
Leite, Ângela; Ramires, Ana; Moura, Andreia de; Souto, Teresa; Marôco, JoãoBackground: Increasing evidence supports an association between psychological well-being and overall health, however, much remains to be understood about this association. Objectives: The current study addresses this issue by presenting a new perspective focusing on health perceptions. Additionally, it examines the impact of each of six dimensions of psychological well-being on health perception. Methods: Data ...
Facial emotion recognition: virtual reality program for facial emotion recognit...
Souto, Teresa; Silva, Hugo; Leite, Ângela; Batista, Alexandre; Queirós, Cristina; Marques, António da SilvaPeople with severe mental illness (SMI), schizophrenia in particular, show considerable functional impairment in emotional recognition and social perception, which negatively affects interpersonal relationships and social functioning. Owing to its ecological validity, virtual reality (VR) has been observed to improve both assessment and training of emotional recognition skills of people with SMI. This article i...
Pre-symptomatic testing for neurodegenerative disorders: Middle- to long-term p...
Lêdo, Susana; Leite, Ângela; Souto, Teresa; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Sequeiros, JorgeBackground. Over the past 20 years, studies have revealed that the communication of a pre-symptomatic test (PST) result for autosomal dominant late-onset diseases, such as Huntington's disease (HD), doesn’t cause psychological disturbance. This cross-sectional study investigated the middle- (4 years) to long-term (7 and 10 years) psychological impact in individuals who agreed to perform the pre-symptomatic test...
Depression as the Middle- and Long-Term Impact for Pre-Symptomatic Testing of L...
Lêdo, Susana; Leite, Angela; Souto, Teresa; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Sequeiros, JorgeThis cross-sectional study investigated depression as the middle- (4 years) and long-term (7 and 10 years) psychological impact of pre-symptomatic testing (PST) for 3 autosomal dominant late-onset diseases: Huntington’s disease (HD), Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) and familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) TTR V30M. It included 203 subjects: 170 (83.7%) underwent the PST for FAP, 29 (14.3%) for HD and 4 (2%) f...
Mid- and long-term anxiety levels associated with presymptomatic testing of Hun...
Lêdo, Susana; Leite, Ângela; Souto, Teresa; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Sequeiros, JorgeOBJECTIVE: To study anxiety as a variable of the mid- and long-term psychological impact of pre-symptomatic testing for three autosomal dominant late-onset disorders - Huntington's disease (HD), Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) and familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) TTR V30M - in a Portuguese sample. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 203 participants: 170 (83.7%) underwent pre-symptomatic testing for ...
Reconhecimento emocional facial: programa experimental de realidade virtual par...
Souto, Teresa; Baptista, Alexandre; Queirós, Cristina; Marques, AntónioA realidade virtual (RV), como recurso metodológico, tem provado ter um elevado potencial na avaliação e treino de pessoas que sofrem de doença mental, nomeadamente esquizofrenia (Costa et al., 2000; Kim et al., 2007). Apresentar um programa (RV-REF) em fase experimental, com uma concepção modular que visa em formato individualizado a avaliação e treino reconhecimento facial emociona incluindo feedback do desem...
Reconhecimento emocional de faces na esquizofrenia: resultados preliminares do ...
Souto, Teresa; Baptista, Alexandre; Tavares, Diana; Queirós, Cristina; António, MarquesCONTEXTO: Pessoas diagnosticadas com esquizofrenia apresentam um défice significativo na cognição social com implicações negativas relativamente ao funcionamento interpessoal e social. A realidade virtual apresenta grandes potencialidades para a avaliação e o treino de competências em pessoas com doença mental. OBJETIVOS: Apresentar os resultados preliminares de um programa construído para avaliação do reconhec...