- Psychologist, Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (USA) and postdoctoral degree from Arizona State Univers... morePsychologist, Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (USA) and postdoctoral degree from Arizona State University (USA). He is currently Professor of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, and coordinator of the Measurement Laboratory of the Graduate Program in Psychology. He was president of the National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP), the Brazilian Institute of Psychological Assessment (IBAP) and the Brazilian Association of Positive Psychology (ABP ). He was Head of Department, Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Psychology, Coordinator of the Undergraduate Psychology Program and Dean of the Psychology Institute of UFRGS. His lines of research are in the areas of Positive Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Psychometrics (with emphasis on the construction and validation of instruments for personality assessment).edit
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Some studies have suggested that personality factors are important to optimism development. Others have emphasized that family relations are relevant variables to optimism. This study aimed to evaluate the importance of parenting styles... more
Some studies have suggested that personality factors are important to optimism development. Others have emphasized that family relations are relevant variables to optimism. This study aimed to evaluate the importance of parenting styles to optimism controlling for the variance accounted for by personality factors. Participants were 344 Brazilian high school students (44% male) with mean age of 16.2 years (SD = 1) who answered personality, optimism, responsiveness and demandingness scales. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted having personality factors (in the first step) and maternal and paternal parenting styles, and demandingness and responsiveness (in the second step) as predictive variables and optimism as the criterion. Personality factors, especially neuroticism (β = –.34, p < .01), extraversion (β = .26, p < .01) and agreeableness (β = .16, p < .01), accounted for 34% of the optimism variance and insignificant variance was predicted exclusively by parental styles (1%). These findings suggest that personality is more important to optimism development than parental styles.
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A autocompaixão em mulheres e relações com autoestima, autoeficácia e aspectos sociodemográficos = Self-compassion in brazilian women and relations with self-esteem, self-efficacy and demographic aspects = La autocompasión entre las mujeres brasileñas y las relaciones con la autoestima, la autoef...more
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A transição para a parentalidade é um período do ciclo vital familiar caracterizado por mudanças impactantes sobre a vida e o relacionamento dos indivíduos que a experimentam. Este trabalho investigou o ajustamento conjugal e emocional... more
A transição para a parentalidade é um período do ciclo vital familiar caracterizado por mudanças impactantes sobre a vida e o relacionamento dos indivíduos que a experimentam. Este trabalho investigou o ajustamento conjugal e emocional neste contexto. Participaram da pesquisa 62 mulheres coabitantes com seus parceiros, as quais foram examinadas antes e depois do nascimento do bebê. Foram utilizadas a Escala de Ajustamento Diádico e a Escala Fatorial de Neuroticismo. Os resultados mostraram um declínio significativo nas médias de ajustamento conjugal do pré para o pós-natal, confirmando o efeito da transição para a parentalidade relatado pela literatura. Análises de Regressão revelaram que essa queda na qualidade da relação do casal foi parcialmente explicada por fatores disposicionais das participantes, tais como desajustamento psicossocial e depressão. Infere-se que, para as mulheres desta amostra, a chegada do primeiro bebê pode ter gerado problemas e dificuldades que afetaram o relacionamento do casal
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Este estudo tem como objetivo fazer uma revisao teorica em portugues acerca do abuso emocional, bem como apresentar alguns estudos que ligam o abuso emocional a autoestima, bem-estar subjetivo e estilos parentais sob um olhar... more
Este estudo tem como objetivo fazer uma revisao teorica em portugues acerca do abuso emocional, bem como apresentar alguns estudos que ligam o abuso emocional a autoestima, bem-estar subjetivo e estilos parentais sob um olhar desenvolvimental. O abuso emocional caracteriza-se por um padrao repetitivo no comportamento do cuidador, comunicando as criancas que elas nao tem importância, que sao imperfeitas, malamadas, indesejadas, que correm perigo e somente tem valor quando atendem as necessidades do outro. Tais atos manifestam-se de forma sutil, subjacentes a todas as outras formas de abuso, deixando marcas emocionais profundas, independentemente do nivel sociocultural, que acompanharao a crianca na vida adulta e poderao desencadear psicopatologias. Nos Estados Unidos da America, o abuso emocional vem sendo estudado desde o final dos anos 70 atraves de pesquisas empiricas e da busca de instrumentos confiaveis para sua mensuracao. No Brasil, encontram-se poucas analises empiricas e teo...
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo descrever uma nova visão político-pedagógica transdisciplinar enfocando o método clinico em odontologia através do olhar da Psicologia. Tornou-se possível através da implantação da mudança curricular... more
Este trabalho teve como objetivo descrever uma nova visão político-pedagógica transdisciplinar enfocando o método clinico em odontologia através do olhar da Psicologia. Tornou-se possível através da implantação da mudança curricular praticada na Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade Federal do RioGrande do Sul a partir de 2005.
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This study investigated relationships between self-compassion, self-efficacy, and self-esteem, as well as age and sex differences and other sociodemographic variables in relation to self-compassion. Four-hundred and thirty-two Brazilian... more
This study investigated relationships between self-compassion, self-efficacy, and self-esteem, as well as age and sex differences and other sociodemographic variables in relation to self-compassion. Four-hundred and thirty-two Brazilian adults (50% women) from nearly all country states participated in the study filling out a sociodemographic survey and three scales: self-compassion, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Comparisons of means between self-compassion and pairs of groups designed by sociodemographic data showed higher self-compassion in men, people aged from 31 to 66 years-old, not under psychiatric medication, without a job, and with children. Results also showed that self-compassion is highly correlated with self-esteem and self-efficacy. We highlight that results are sample dependent and further studies on self-compassion need to be conducted in Brazil.
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This study verified the differences in the incidence of memory of emotional abuse among the different parenting styles in students from 18 to 30 years of age at a university in southern Brazil. The relationship between memory of emotional... more
This study verified the differences in the incidence of memory of emotional abuse among the different parenting styles in students from 18 to 30 years of age at a university in southern Brazil. The relationship between memory of emotional abuse and self-esteem, and subjective well-being was also examined. Students (n = 293) completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, published scales measuring
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ABSTRACT BARROS, Mônica Colognese; NATIVIDADE, Jean Carlos and HUTZ, Cláudio Simon. Development and validation of a gender role measure. Aval. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.3, pp. 317-324. ISSN 1677-0471. The instruments used for the... more
ABSTRACT BARROS, Mônica Colognese; NATIVIDADE, Jean Carlos and HUTZ, Cláudio Simon. Development and validation of a gender role measure. Aval. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.3, pp. 317-324. ISSN 1677-0471. The instruments used for the investigation of gender roles differ widely, depending on the time and culture in which they were developed, and on what they are designed to measure. The objective of the present study was to develop and validate a gender role scale through an empirical survey about feminine and masculine characteristics. A list containing 107 expressions of feminine and masculine characteristics was prepared. This list was presented to 223 people from Southern Brazil. Participants were asked to indicate how much each one of the expressions was masculine or feminine. The results led to the selection of 20 expressions which were applied to 510 people (53.4% women) from four regions of the country. Their mean age was 29.0 years (SD=8.83) and their education level ranged from high school to postgraduate. The results indicated that the final version of the instrument (14 items) was reliable and presented evidence of construct validity indicating independent dimensions of Masculinity and Femininity.
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This study searched for sociodemographic influences on visual memory and visuoconstructive ability in healthy and clinical samples evaluated with Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) in two studies. In Study 1, we searched for changes... more
This study searched for sociodemographic influences on visual memory and visuoconstructive ability in healthy and clinical samples evaluated with Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) in two studies. In Study 1, we searched for changes related to age in children, adolescents, adults and elderly on the performance of the BVRT. In Study 2, we investigated the relations among age, years of education and intellectual quotient (IQ) on the performance of the BVRT using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Participants were 624 individuals aged between six and 89 years old (M = 25.40; SD = 22.34) from the normatization and evidence validity studies at Brazil. We used a sociodemographic questionnaire, BVRT and IQ measure was estimated. Study 1 has shown a performance similar to the developmental graphics with a U-inverted pattern in relation to age: An increase of the visual memory ability in the children and adolescent groups as age increases, a tendency of a decrease in the performance in th...