Ana Ramires
Biographic Data
| ID | 1589712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Ramires |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramires |
| SIGNATURE | RAMIRES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Europeia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3028-0563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Traveling To learn English or another language? Language tourists in profile
Who are the language tourists? A factor‐cluster analysis based on language‐related attitudes, beliefs, and travel outcomes
Researching language tourism (where language learning is a primary or secondary motivation for the trip) is a growing field of interest as the importance of language within tourism experiences is recognized. Conceptually located at the intersection of cultural, youth, academic, and educational tourism, past research has focused on the analysis of tourists who travel to formally learn a language, missing out on an important number of tourists who …
Social Media Addiction Scale validation in a Portuguese sample
This study aims to validate a scale to measure addiction to social media (SMAS) for the Portuguese population (SMAS-PV). The original 14 items' SMAS was translated and back-translated from English to Portuguese. Psychometric scale validation procedures were followed. SMAS-PV's properties were assessed in a sample of 605 Portuguese university and high-school students. A Parallel Analysis was carried out as a criterion for extracting factors in Exp…
“Seeing a country with your own eyes”
This study approaches immersion experiences in the context of language tourism. Immersion is here understood as tourists’ extensive engagement and interaction with the members of the host culture. Previous studies have pointed out that language tourism implies a deeper contact with locals; however, other studies have observed that many language programmes abroad are not always as immersive as expected. These contradictory findings suggest that th…
Towards an interpretation of the Portuguese cultural tourist
The importance of cultural tourism for the development of tourist destinations has created a need for knowledge on both supply and demand sides, related to the motivations and constraints which can affect the decisions of the cultural tourist. The aim of this study is to develop and validate for the Portuguese tourists two scales to measure motivations to travel and its constraints, considering theories of needs and constraints, and to examine di…
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Human Value Priorities and Associations with Subjective Well-Being, Subjective General Health, Social Life, and Depression across Europe
Human values are a central component in understanding individuals’ choices. Using the Schwartz’s Values instrument, this study aimed to identify patterns of human value priorities of 35,936 participants across 20 European countries and analyse their relations with subjective well-being (SWB), subjective general health (SGH), social life, and depression indices in Europe. A hierarchical cluster analysis of data from the seventh European Social Sur…
Psychopathological Symptoms and Loneliness in Adult Internet Users
There are different concepts that translate abusive Internet use. Almost all these concepts converge on excessive time spent online, which can trigger the emergence of problematic situations. Most of the studies reported in the literature, both nationally and internationally, focused on a young population and found negative consequences of this Internet misuse. The objective of this study consists of associating the time spent using the Internet-…
Who Is Concerned about Terrorist Attacks? A Religious Profile
As part of the study on the psychological impact of terrorist acts on ordinary people, the objective of this study is to understand if religious identity protects individuals from feeling concerned about the possibility of terrorist attacks. The study was based on a sample from the World Values Survey, wave 6 (2010-2014), of 30,446 citizens of countries whose dominant religion is Christianity. According to the concern felt regarding the possibili…
Validação de um instrumento de avaliação dos fatores promotores da motivação para o trabalho
No âmbito da prestação de serviços de saúde, especialmente, em contexto oncológico, a associação entre motivação e satisfação no trabalho torna-se saliente. Partindo do instrumento de avaliação da motivação para o trabalho desenvolvido por Paleologou, Kontodimopoulos, Stamoli, Aletras e Niakas (2006), este estudo pretende, por um lado, avaliar a qualidade psicométrica deste instrumento, a sua estrutura fatorial, confiabilidade e validade numa amo…
Treino de modelagem e visualização mental
Este trabalho procurou avaliar de que modo um programa de duas semanas de treino de modelagem e de visualização mental poderia afectar as expectativas de eficácia pessoal e o rendimento de um grupo de atletas de patinagem artística. Os sujeitos (19), todosdo sexo feminino, foram afectos a uma de três condições experimentais: grupo de controlo, sem tratamento (n=7), grupo experimental, apenas com um tratamento de modelagem (n=6) e grupo experiment…
Who Is Concerned about Terrorist Attacks? A Religious Profile
As part of the study on the psychological impact of terrorist acts on ordinary people, the objective of this study is to understand if religious identity protects individuals from feeling concerned about the possibility of terrorist attacks. The study was based on a sample from the World Values Survey, wave 6 (2010-2014), of 30,446 citizens of countries whose dominant religion is Christianity. According to the concern felt regarding the possibili…
Treino de modelagem e visualização mental
Este trabalho procurou avaliar de que modo um programa de duas semanas de treino de modelagem e de visualização mental poderia afectar as expectativas de eficácia pessoal e o rendimento de um grupo de atletas de patinagem artística. Os sujeitos (19), todosdo sexo feminino, foram afectos a uma de três condições experimentais: grupo de controlo, sem tratamento (n=7), grupo experimental, apenas com um tratamento de modelagem (n=6) e grupo experiment…
Validação de um instrumento de avaliação dos fatores promotores da motivação para o trabalho
No âmbito da prestação de serviços de saúde, especialmente, em contexto oncológico, a associação entre motivação e satisfação no trabalho torna-se saliente. Partindo do instrumento de avaliação da motivação para o trabalho desenvolvido por Paleologou, Kontodimopoulos, Stamoli, Aletras e Niakas (2006), este estudo pretende, por um lado, avaliar a qualidade psicométrica deste instrumento, a sua estrutura fatorial, confiabilidade e validade numa amo…
Who Is Concerned about Terrorist Attacks? A Religious Profile
As part of the study on the psychological impact of terrorist acts on ordinary people, the objective of this study is to understand if religious identity protects individuals from feeling concerned about the possibility of terrorist attacks. The study was based on a sample from the World Values Survey, wave 6 (2010-2014), of 30,446 citizens of countries whose dominant religion is Christianity. According to the concern felt regarding the possibili…
Psychopathological Symptoms and Loneliness in Adult Internet Users
There are different concepts that translate abusive Internet use. Almost all these concepts converge on excessive time spent online, which can trigger the emergence of problematic situations. Most of the studies reported in the literature, both nationally and internationally, focused on a young population and found negative consequences of this Internet misuse. The objective of this study consists of associating the time spent using the Internet-…
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Human Value Priorities and Associations with Subjective Well-Being, Subjective General Health, Social Life, and Depression across Europe
Human values are a central component in understanding individuals’ choices. Using the Schwartz’s Values instrument, this study aimed to identify patterns of human value priorities of 35,936 participants across 20 European countries and analyse their relations with subjective well-being (SWB), subjective general health (SGH), social life, and depression indices in Europe. A hierarchical cluster analysis of data from the seventh European Social Sur…
“Seeing a country with your own eyes”
This study approaches immersion experiences in the context of language tourism. Immersion is here understood as tourists’ extensive engagement and interaction with the members of the host culture. Previous studies have pointed out that language tourism implies a deeper contact with locals; however, other studies have observed that many language programmes abroad are not always as immersive as expected. These contradictory findings suggest that th…
Towards an interpretation of the Portuguese cultural tourist
The importance of cultural tourism for the development of tourist destinations has created a need for knowledge on both supply and demand sides, related to the motivations and constraints which can affect the decisions of the cultural tourist. The aim of this study is to develop and validate for the Portuguese tourists two scales to measure motivations to travel and its constraints, considering theories of needs and constraints, and to examine di…
Who are the language tourists? A factor‐cluster analysis based on language‐related attitudes, beliefs, and travel outcomes
Researching language tourism (where language learning is a primary or secondary motivation for the trip) is a growing field of interest as the importance of language within tourism experiences is recognized. Conceptually located at the intersection of cultural, youth, academic, and educational tourism, past research has focused on the analysis of tourists who travel to formally learn a language, missing out on an important number of tourists who …
Social Media Addiction Scale validation in a Portuguese sample
This study aims to validate a scale to measure addiction to social media (SMAS) for the Portuguese population (SMAS-PV). The original 14 items' SMAS was translated and back-translated from English to Portuguese. Psychometric scale validation procedures were followed. SMAS-PV's properties were assessed in a sample of 605 Portuguese university and high-school students. A Parallel Analysis was carried out as a criterion for extracting factors in Exp…
Traveling To learn English or another language? Language tourists in profile
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)