Ângela Leite
Biographic Data
| ID | 3740205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ângela Leite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ângela |
| FAMILY NAME | Leite |
| SIGNATURE | LEITE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0560-1756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Associations between time perspective, subjective happiness, psychological well-being, and mental health
The relationship between psychological well‐being, mental health, and time perspective remains insufficiently understood. This study examines the associations among these variables and explores whether sociodemographic factors moderate these relationships. A cross‐sectional sample of 428 Portuguese participants completed the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, the Psychological Well‐Being Scale, the Subjective Happiness Scale, and the Mental Hea…
How bad is war? a review of effects on happiness
Somatization and embodiment
This paper aims to explain the concepts of somatization and embodiment, clarifying their meaning and establishing points of contact and differentiation between them. To this end, a review of the concepts was carried out both in the psychological and the philosophical literature. We claim that a psychological account of somatization of psychical processes (whether of a pathological nature or not) must take into account the basic anthropological fe…
Direct Costs With Dementia Hospitalization and Its Determinants in Portugal in 2018
Background/Objectives: Major neurocognitive disorders, as is the case of dementia, are characterised by a decline in cognitive abilities, leading to adverse health outcomes and deterioration in quality of life. The projected rise in diagnoses for the coming decades represent a public health concern, impacting patients and society, and placing a considerable financial burden on healthcare systems. This study aims to estimate hospitalisation costs …
Psychometric Properties of Post-Critical Belief Scale and Centrality of Religiosity Scale
Risk Assessment Profiles for Caregiver Burden in Family Caregivers of Persons Living with Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) places a profound global challenge, driven by its escalating prevalence and the multifaceted strain it places on individuals, families, and societies. Family caregivers (FCs), who are pivotal in supporting family members with AD, frequently endure substantial emotional, physical, and psychological demands. To better understand the determinants of family caregiving strain, this study employed machine learning (ML) to devel…
Cultural Validation of the Fear-of-Intimacy Scale for the Portuguese Population
The findings underscore the importance of understanding the relationship between fear of intimacy and sociosexual orientation within the Portuguese context as a significant public health issue. Adapting the Fear-of-Intimacy Scale enables culturally sensitive research and supports clinical interventions aimed at improving relational and psychological well-being, thereby addressing broader public health challenges
Conflict Management Strategies as Moderators of Burnout in the Context of Emotional Labor
This study explores the relationship between emotional labor and burnout, focusing on the moderating role of conflict management strategies. A total of 233 employees from diverse sectors in Portugal participated in this cross-sectional investigation. We employed the Emotional Labor Scale (ELS) and the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) to quantitatively assess emotional labor and burnout levels. Additionally, the study examined conflict managemen…
Attack in the Form of Defense? Populist Anti-media Tactics to Avoid Being Blamed
This article explores the relationship between blame and populism by analyzing the defensive communication strategies employed by right-wing populist leaders in their attacks on the media. The study focuses on Jair Bolsonaro and concludes that he used various strategies to avoid taking responsibility for adverse outcomes while blaming the media as one of his favorite targets. The explorative study draws on qualitative discourse analysis of the pr…
Validation of the Portuguese Version of Hoge Intrinsic Motivation Religiosity Scale and Rohrbaugh and Jessor Religiosity Scale
This study aims to validate, for the Portuguese population, the bidimensional structure of the Hoge Intrinsic Motivation Religiosity Scale (HIMRS) and the four-dimensional structure of the Rohrbaugh and Jessor Religiosity Scale (RJRS); it also aims to establish an association between the two religious scales and religious identity. To this end, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with polychoric matrix (for ordinal data) and a confirmatory facto…
Beyond Work
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telework emerged as a pivotal strategy to mitigate the spread of the virus. However, telework's feasibility was contingent on job roles. This gave rise to two distinct groups: teleworkers and on-site workers. However, the impacts of social support and well-being extended to both groups. This study investigated the link between organisational and supervisory family support and subjective well-being, examining work eng…
Portuguese Caregivers of Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study addresses the experiences of informal caregivers caring for elderly family members with Alzheimer's disease (AD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study includes a sample of eight informal caregivers who were evaluated through a semi-structured interview six months after the death of a loved one they cared for. A thematic content analysis was applied to the interviews and yielded two higher-order domains: (1) Experiencing the AD and th…
Influence of Sociodemographic and Social Variables on the Relationship between Formal Years of Education and Time Spent on the Internet
This study aims to validate the impact of sociodemographic factors and differentiate the influence of social variables on the correlation between the number of years of formal education an individual has and the time they allocate to internet usage. To achieve this, we utilized a publicly available database, extracting relevant indicators for our investigation. Subsequently, we conducted analyses involving associations, regressions, and moderatio…
Cooperative learning scale
The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Cooperative Learning Scale (CAT) for Portuguese and Brazilian higher education students. The study included 493 higher education students aged 17-45 years from a university in northern Portugal and 414 Brazilian university students aged 14-52 years from different universities in Brazil. To this adaptation, the original instrument, designed and validated for Spanish context…
Escala de aprendizagem cooperativa
O objetivo deste estudo foi adaptar e validar a versão espanhola da Escala de Aprendizagem Cooperativa (EAC) para estudantes portugueses e brasileiros do ensino superior. Participaram no estudo 493 estudantes do Ensino Superior com idades entre 17 e 45 anos de uma universidade do norte de Portugal e 414 estudantes universitários brasileiros com idades entre 14 e 52 anos de universidades do Brasil. Para a adaptação, o instrumento original, desenha…
Autoeficacia, autorregulación y aprendizaje cooperativo en estudiantes españoles y portugueses de Educación Secundaria
Los informes internacionales muestran resultados académicos y de abandono escolar mucho más positivos en la vecina Portugal que en España, pero las comparaciones deben tomarse con precaución. Son necesarios datos que reflejen las percepciones de los propios estudiantes sobre variables pedagógicas y psicológicas significativas para el aprendizaje. El objetivo de esta investigación fue comparar dos poblaciones similares de estudiantes de Portugal y…
Dark Personality Traits and Online Behaviors
The main objective of this study is to assess moderation effects of online behaviors between personality traits and addiction to Internet. To this end, four instruments were validated for Portuguese version through confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis (Study 1) Multiple regression analysis was applied to examine the personality predictors of specific online behaviors while controlling for gender and age; and moderation eff…
Being Female and in a Romantic Relationship Enhances the Association between Satisfaction with Love Life and Capacity to Love
This study aims to evaluate if the relation between love life satisfaction, assessed by the satisfaction with love life scale (SWLLS), and capacity to love, assessed by the capacity to love inventory (CTL-I), is moderated by gender and by being or not in a romantic relationship, in a Portuguese sample. To this end, the adaptation and validation of CTL-I for this population were carried out through an exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) followed …
Religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across countries and world regions
The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure and measurement invariance of the religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across cultures in six world regions (Asia, non-Western Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, and Western Europe) and across Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic regions (WEIRD) and non-WEIRD world regions. Confirmatory factory analysis examined whether the hypothesized mea…
Religious Discrimination Toward Other Religious Groups by Descendants of Religiously Heterogamous Versus Homogamous Parents
This study aimed to develop a model that explains personal attitudes toward religious groups and the role of parental religious heterogamy and homogamy. The sample included 32,595 participants from 26 countries around the world and was obtained from the International Social Survey Programme. Participants whose parents were religiously homogamous presented higher well-being, better health perception, and higher religiosity than participants whose …
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…
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…
Dark Tourists
This work aims to address whether knowing what dark tourism is (or not) impacts rumination on sadness, self-hatred, hostility, psychological vulnerability, and tourist wellbeing, as well as practices and motivations for dark tourism. A quantitative approach, based on a survey of 993 respondents, reveals that women and more educated participants know more about dark tourism; people who know what dark tourism is have visited more Holocaust museums,…
Adaptation of the Phubbing Scale and of the Generic Scale of Being Phubbed for the Portuguese population
Excessive, abusive, or inappropriate use of mobile phones can have a negative effect on interpersonal relationships. This study aims to adapt the Phubbing Scale (PS) and the Generic Scale of Being Phubbed (GSBP) for the Portuguese population, establishing the convergent validity of the instruments with others that assess approximate constructs, such as the Partner Phubbing Scale (PPS)and the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), and investigate the d…
Self-Care Practices with Psychedelics – A Qualitative Study of Users’ Perspectives
This article explores the psychedelic experience from the users' point of view and through the lens of self-care, a concept within the domain of health and well-being. In a time of renewed interest in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of these substances by exploring their role in different settings. A phenomenological approach was used in this study. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 19…
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…
Human Values and Religion
Values are guiding constructs of social action that connote some actions as desirable, undesirable, acceptable, and unacceptable, containing a normative moral/ethical component, and constituting a guide for actions, attitudes, and objectives for which the human being strives. The role of religion in the development of moral and ideal behaviors is a subject of concern and object of theoretical and empirical debate in various sciences. Analyzing so…
A Solidão Em Utilizadores Portugueses Do Facebook
Sendo o Facebook a rede social mais utilizada no nosso país, a pretensão deste estudo é compreender se esta atividade interfere nas amizades pessoais dos seus utilizadores, contribuindo para que os indivíduos se distanciem uns dos outros, conduzindo ao isolamento e, consequentemente, à solidão. Assim, torna-se pertinente avaliar se os indivíduos que passam mais tempo nas redes sociais percecionam níveis mais elevados de solidão, comparativamente …
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…
Ajustamento psicossocial ao cancro da mama em função do tipo de cirurgia
Este estudo compara o ajustamento psicossocial à doença em mulheres com cancro da mama submetidas a cirurgia de conservação e mastectomia, prevendo diferenças entre os dois grupos. Procura ainda avaliar se há diferenças no ajustamento ao longo de quatro momentos de avaliação. A amostra foi constituída por 74 mulheres no estádio I-III da doença submetidas a cirurgia. Todas as mulheres responderam a questionários de baseline, antes da cirurgia, e f…
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…
For a Healthy (and) Higher Education
Increased recognition of outcomes, or competency-based education, has evolved across higher education on health sciences. However, there is significant diversity in the current study of Portuguese programmes. Considering learning outcomes (LO) as indicators of knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes and the understanding that the student will gain as a result of an educational experience, this study aims to explore which LO are emphasised on the …
Parenting and management skills
The present study aimed to test the effect of sex as well as the experience of parenting at the level of empathy and management skills and the mediating effect of empathy on the relationship between the experience of parenting and management skills. No differences were found between men and women concerning management skills. Women had higher empathy levels than men. Being a father or mother increased management skills and empathy levels. However…
Finding a path for happiness in the context of sustainable development
Sustainable development does not prosper in unhappy societies, as it is a direct indicator of well-being and inequality. As part of well-being, the pursuit of happiness should be understood as a fundamental human goal for all nations and integrate the public policy objectives. The aim of this study is to find the variables explaining happiness in order to provide scientific knowledge to be addressed in public policies. Although the literature sug…
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-…
The Relevance of God to Religious Believers and Non-Believers
This study presents a review about what great figures of history thought about the existence of God and a worldwide comparison between religious believers and non-believers using the World Social Survey (WSS) database, comprising a sample of 90,350 respondents. Results reveal that most people believe in the existence of God and consider that God is important and very important in their lives. Believers are mainly women; younger than non-believers…
Engineering Students’ Industrial Internship Experience Perception and Satisfaction
An essential aspect of higher education institutions’ academic curricula for engineering courses is the students’ industrial internship programs. In the literature, it is well accepted that such programs provide valuable learning outcomes and increase the graduates’ employment prospects. Thus, it is paramount to evaluate the internship programs’ quality to identify opportunities to improve their design and implementation. However, that evaluation…
Portuguese Version of Covid-19 Perceived Risk Scale and Covid-19 Phobia Scale
The COVID-19 pandemic scenario has a psychological impact on individuals and society. A higher level of perceived risk concerning COVID-19 has been found when compared to other potential health threats. A misperception of risk in contrast with the real risk may lead people to develop disruptive cognitive, affective, or behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, coronaphobia. Validated instruments are needed to evaluate such responses.…
Psychological Factors Explaining Perceived Impact of Covid-19 on Travel
This cross-sectional study aims to determine the psychological factors that contribute to the perceived impact of COVID-19 on travel using a convenience sample (N = 1122) from the general population to whom instruments assessing the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on travel, anxiety, fear, phobia, risk perception, and stress were applied. The participants were mainly female (65.6%), had not attended university, and who were professio…
Preliminary Validation Study of the Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale and the Centrality of Religiosity Scale for the Portuguese Population
Religion is a construct widely present in most people’s lives. Religious motivations, either intrinsic or extrinsic, as well as religious centrality, are crucial aspects of religion. In the Portuguese population, there are no validated instruments to assess these aspects of religion. Accordingly, this study intends to validate the Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (IRMS) and the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) for the Portuguese populati…
Associations between Cues of Sexual Desire and Sexual Attitudes in Portuguese Women
Sexuality is defined as a multidimensional experience that involves genital, mental, and bodily components. It is also assumed as a basic condition inherent to the human existence that encourages the search for love, intimacy, sex, and proximity to others. The main objective of this study is to assess the relationship between cues of sexual desire and sexual attitudes in Portuguese women. This is a cross-sectional study with 804 Portuguese women …
Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) and Fear of Covid-19 Scale (FCV-19S) and Associations with Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
The aim of this study is to determine the anxiety and fear related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and their associations with travel, tourism and hospitality, in the Portuguese population. The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) and Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) were validated for the Portuguese population and correlations with issues related to travel, tourism and hospitality were established. CAS and FCV-19S presented a good adjustment m…
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…
Human Values and Religion
Values are guiding constructs of social action that connote some actions as desirable, undesirable, acceptable, and unacceptable, containing a normative moral/ethical component, and constituting a guide for actions, attitudes, and objectives for which the human being strives. The role of religion in the development of moral and ideal behaviors is a subject of concern and object of theoretical and empirical debate in various sciences. Analyzing so…
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…
Dark Tourists
This work aims to address whether knowing what dark tourism is (or not) impacts rumination on sadness, self-hatred, hostility, psychological vulnerability, and tourist wellbeing, as well as practices and motivations for dark tourism. A quantitative approach, based on a survey of 993 respondents, reveals that women and more educated participants know more about dark tourism; people who know what dark tourism is have visited more Holocaust museums,…
Adaptation of the Phubbing Scale and of the Generic Scale of Being Phubbed for the Portuguese population
Excessive, abusive, or inappropriate use of mobile phones can have a negative effect on interpersonal relationships. This study aims to adapt the Phubbing Scale (PS) and the Generic Scale of Being Phubbed (GSBP) for the Portuguese population, establishing the convergent validity of the instruments with others that assess approximate constructs, such as the Partner Phubbing Scale (PPS)and the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), and investigate the d…
Self-Care Practices with Psychedelics – A Qualitative Study of Users’ Perspectives
This article explores the psychedelic experience from the users' point of view and through the lens of self-care, a concept within the domain of health and well-being. In a time of renewed interest in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of these substances by exploring their role in different settings. A phenomenological approach was used in this study. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 19…
Adaptation of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale for a sample of Portuguese population
The 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 elements (subscales) and 10 of the 18…
Autoeficacia, autorregulación y aprendizaje cooperativo en estudiantes españoles y portugueses de Educación Secundaria
Los informes internacionales muestran resultados académicos y de abandono escolar mucho más positivos en la vecina Portugal que en España, pero las comparaciones deben tomarse con precaución. Son necesarios datos que reflejen las percepciones de los propios estudiantes sobre variables pedagógicas y psicológicas significativas para el aprendizaje. El objetivo de esta investigación fue comparar dos poblaciones similares de estudiantes de Portugal y…
Dark Personality Traits and Online Behaviors
The main objective of this study is to assess moderation effects of online behaviors between personality traits and addiction to Internet. To this end, four instruments were validated for Portuguese version through confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis (Study 1) Multiple regression analysis was applied to examine the personality predictors of specific online behaviors while controlling for gender and age; and moderation eff…
Being Female and in a Romantic Relationship Enhances the Association between Satisfaction with Love Life and Capacity to Love
This study aims to evaluate if the relation between love life satisfaction, assessed by the satisfaction with love life scale (SWLLS), and capacity to love, assessed by the capacity to love inventory (CTL-I), is moderated by gender and by being or not in a romantic relationship, in a Portuguese sample. To this end, the adaptation and validation of CTL-I for this population were carried out through an exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) followed …
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