Neste artigo, objetivamos refletir sobre a memória social e os desafios decoloniais do presente a partir da análise de um estudo sobre representações de personalidades históricas, realizado no Brasil e em Portugal. Conduzimos um inquérito no qual os participantes eram convidados a evocar livremente pessoas ou grupos que consideravam mais importantes na História nacional, e em que medida consideravam o seu impac...
Engaging workers with their work is fundamental for employee wellbeing and performance. Perceived age discrimination in the workplace is a factor that may influence workers’ engagement. The present study aimed to analyze the moderating role of emotion regulation in the relationship between perceived age discrimination and work engagement. Survey data were collected from a sample of 453 Portuguese workers of var...
Introduction: The aging population in the developed world has implied increasing age diversity in the workforce of organizations. Consequently, mutual perceptions about one’s co-workers and age discrimination is becoming increasingly important. Objectives: This study aims to explore how perceptions about older workers’ work (un)adaptability, work effectiveness and workplace age discrimination vary according to ...
Introduction: Gaining competitive advantage is essential to modern organizations, for which it is fundamental that workers are engaged with their work. Perceived age discrimination in the workplace is a factor that may influence workers’ engagement. Objectives: The present study aimed to analyze the moderating role of emotional regulation in the relationship between perceived age discrimination and work engagem...
The aging population in the developed world has implied increasing age diversity in the workforce of organizations. Consequently, mutual perceptions about one’s coworkers and age discrimination are becoming increasingly important. This study aims to explore how perceptions about older workers’ work (un)adaptability, work effectiveness, and workplace age discrimination vary according to participants’ psychosocia...
O presente manuscrito examina o modo como os jovens europeus representam a história da Europa. Um estudo realizado em 11 países europeus (N = 1406, estudantes de ciências sociais) mostra que as personalidades considerados mais importantes na história da Europa são, na sua maioria, homens ligados à Segunda Guerra Mundial, a autoritarismos, conquistas e impérios. Embora com menor frequência e com padrões distinto...
Despite the growing body of literature describing the interplays between financialisation and housing, little is known about the way financialisation processes interact with social representations related to housing and housing practices. This article addresses such gap by proposing a scoping review protocol to systematize the interrelations between financialisation and housing social representations and practi...
Although the complex reasons underlying parents’ decision whether to vaccinate their children have been largely unraveled, a socio-cognitive perspective on the representational field of vaccination is missing. This study is a contribution to fill such a gap. A sample of 309 Portuguese mothers with children aged 0-6 years answered a self-administered questionnaire. Results show that psychosocial variables such a...
University students (n = 758) from Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, and Portugal were given a list of morally relevant behaviors (MRB), the Schwartz Value Survey (PVQ40) and Tangney's TOSCA, measuring empathic guilt, guilt over norm-breaking, and shame. A factor analysis of MRB yielded 4 dimensions: prosocial behaviors, interpersonal transgressions, antisocial behaviors and secret transgressions. Prosocial behaviors...
O que fazer face à crise? Representações sociais da disposição para agir. Adotando o quadro teórico das representações sociais, analisam-se as variações e a ancoragem da disposição para agir face às medidas de austeridade no âmbito da recente crise económica, com base nas respostas de 453 participantes portugueses a um questionário. Os resultados mostram três tipos de posições: nada fazer, resistência económica...