Cristina Serrao
Biographic Data
| ID | 455291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Serrao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Serrao |
| SIGNATURE | SERRAO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Polytechnic Institute of Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6001-1164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Portuguese version of Bern illegitimate task scale: Validation for the teaching context
Illegitimate tasks, though increasingly studied in organizational behavior, remain underexplored in schools, especially among Portuguese teachers. Assessing them is crucial, as they may undermine teachers’ roles, increase stress, and harm well-being and effectiveness. The Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale (BITS) is a self-report tool assessing perceptions of illegitimate tasks—those needless or unrelated to one’s role—categorized as unreasonable or u…
Fostering humanization in education: A scoping review on mindfulness and teacher education
The humanization of education is increasingly invoked as a counterpoint to the overly technical and instrumental view of education that has developed in recent decades. In this article, it is intended to contribute to identify ways toward education humanization through teacher education. As the research on humanization of education at the empirical level remains vague, studies on mindfulness in teacher education are taken as a first means of oper…
A network approach to emotion regulation and symptom activation in depression and anxiety
Background Emotions can be regulated through several regulatory strategies that are involved in the development of psychopathological symptoms. Despite the well-established association between psychopathology and emotion dysregulation, little is known about the relationship between individual symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation strategies (ERS), as well as between ERS themselves. Method We conducted a cross-sectional study a…
Advantages and Disadvantages, Concerns, and Solutions for Emergency Remote Teaching During Covid-19: Portuguese Lecturers' Perspectives
COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world dramatically and how communities and societies behaved. The purpose of this study was to explore lecturers' perspectives on emergency remote teaching, not only from technology-prone lecturers but encompassing contributions from disparate academic fields, which brought assorted experiences into the data. The qualitative study analyses the perspectives of 344 lecturers from 35 higher education institutions in Po…
The effects of a mindfulness-based program on higher education students
Background Entering higher education is a process with multiple challenges that requires the mobilization of personal, social and instrumental resources. As a result, students tend to experience grater stress, anxiety, and depression. In this regard, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can serve as a useful tool to help students deal with these demands. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a Mindfulness in Education program in …
The impact of teleworking in psychologists during Covid-19: Burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced mental health professionals to adapt quickly. The pandemic has created multiple new tasks for the psychologist. In addition to the various stressors closely linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists were forced to make their services more flexible. Teleworking was a way of continuing to work. Objective: This study aimed to identify the impact of working pattern on the levels of burnout, depression…
Trajetória sociopolítica do intérprete de língua gestual portuguesa: Progressos e retrocessos
O artigo analisa a trajetória sociopolítica que a função de intérprete de língua gestual registou nas últimas décadas, em contexto internacional e em Portugal. São destacados os movimentos de participação e de empoderamento da comunidade surda e das Associações, na defesa e garantia de direitos. Apesar do reconhecimento público, a regulamentação da profissão de intérprete em Portugal ainda não é uma realidade. A recente visibilidade desta classe …
The Mediating Role of Resilience and Life Satisfaction in the Relationship between Stress and Burnout in Medical Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Following the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the subsequent quarantine and confinement measures that were adopted, including distance learning measures, were shown to have caused a significant deterioration in the mental health of medical students. The goal of this study was to explore the mediating role of resilience and life satisfaction in the relationship between perceived stress and burnout among…
Impact of Covid-19 on Medicine Lecturers’ Mental Health and Emergency Remote Teaching Challenges
COVID-19 has presented a novel pedagogical challenge in dealing with the sudden shift from classic instruction to emergency remote teaching (ERT). It had an impact on the well-being and mental health of lecturers, increasing burnout risk. A cross-sectional, quantitative, qualitative and analytical online study was conducted to collect participants' sociodemographic data, responses to ERT open-ended questions and mental health assessments using re…
Burnout and Depression in Portuguese Healthcare Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic—The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) have been exposed to multiple psychosocial stressors. Resilience might protect employees from the negative consequences of chronic stress. The aim of this study was to explore the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between depression and burnout (personal, work-related, and client-related). A cross-sectional study was performed using an online questionnaire distributed via socia…
Burnout among Portuguese healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
All three burnout dimensions were associated with a specific set of covariates. Consideration of these three dimensions is important when designing future burnout prevention programs for HCWs
Cultural adaptation and reliability of the questionnaire of sex education in schools
Sexuality is embedded in a social and cultural origin and its approach must go beyond biological aspects. Questionnaire on Sex Education in Schools (QUSES) assesses the knowledge, comfort, motivation and involvement of teachers in relation to sex education. This article aims to culturally adapt and verify the reliability of QUSES. The Experts Committee realized the Cultural adaptation and content validation. The Cronbach’s alpha and its stratific…
(Re)pensar o climatério feminino
O artigo sintetiza alguns contributos teóricos no âmbito do climatério. Pretende-se explicitar alguns conceitos fundamentais relacionados com o processo climatérico. Serão também apresentados alguns modelos explicativos, mostrando-se como esta etapa do ciclo vital tem sido científica e socialmente construídos. Finalmente, são apresentadas algumas pistas para investigação sobre uma temática
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(Re)pensar o climatério feminino
O artigo sintetiza alguns contributos teóricos no âmbito do climatério. Pretende-se explicitar alguns conceitos fundamentais relacionados com o processo climatérico. Serão também apresentados alguns modelos explicativos, mostrando-se como esta etapa do ciclo vital tem sido científica e socialmente construídos. Finalmente, são apresentadas algumas pistas para investigação sobre uma temática
Cultural adaptation and reliability of the questionnaire of sex education in schools
Sexuality is embedded in a social and cultural origin and its approach must go beyond biological aspects. Questionnaire on Sex Education in Schools (QUSES) assesses the knowledge, comfort, motivation and involvement of teachers in relation to sex education. This article aims to culturally adapt and verify the reliability of QUSES. The Experts Committee realized the Cultural adaptation and content validation. The Cronbach’s alpha and its stratific…
Burnout among Portuguese healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
All three burnout dimensions were associated with a specific set of covariates. Consideration of these three dimensions is important when designing future burnout prevention programs for HCWs
Impact of Covid-19 on Medicine Lecturers’ Mental Health and Emergency Remote Teaching Challenges
COVID-19 has presented a novel pedagogical challenge in dealing with the sudden shift from classic instruction to emergency remote teaching (ERT). It had an impact on the well-being and mental health of lecturers, increasing burnout risk. A cross-sectional, quantitative, qualitative and analytical online study was conducted to collect participants' sociodemographic data, responses to ERT open-ended questions and mental health assessments using re…
Burnout and Depression in Portuguese Healthcare Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic—The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCW) have been exposed to multiple psychosocial stressors. Resilience might protect employees from the negative consequences of chronic stress. The aim of this study was to explore the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between depression and burnout (personal, work-related, and client-related). A cross-sectional study was performed using an online questionnaire distributed via socia…
The effects of a mindfulness-based program on higher education students
Background Entering higher education is a process with multiple challenges that requires the mobilization of personal, social and instrumental resources. As a result, students tend to experience grater stress, anxiety, and depression. In this regard, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can serve as a useful tool to help students deal with these demands. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a Mindfulness in Education program in …
The impact of teleworking in psychologists during Covid-19: Burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced mental health professionals to adapt quickly. The pandemic has created multiple new tasks for the psychologist. In addition to the various stressors closely linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists were forced to make their services more flexible. Teleworking was a way of continuing to work. Objective: This study aimed to identify the impact of working pattern on the levels of burnout, depression…
Trajetória sociopolítica do intérprete de língua gestual portuguesa: Progressos e retrocessos
O artigo analisa a trajetória sociopolítica que a função de intérprete de língua gestual registou nas últimas décadas, em contexto internacional e em Portugal. São destacados os movimentos de participação e de empoderamento da comunidade surda e das Associações, na defesa e garantia de direitos. Apesar do reconhecimento público, a regulamentação da profissão de intérprete em Portugal ainda não é uma realidade. A recente visibilidade desta classe …
The Mediating Role of Resilience and Life Satisfaction in the Relationship between Stress and Burnout in Medical Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Following the WHO's declaration of a public health emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the subsequent quarantine and confinement measures that were adopted, including distance learning measures, were shown to have caused a significant deterioration in the mental health of medical students. The goal of this study was to explore the mediating role of resilience and life satisfaction in the relationship between perceived stress and burnout among…
Advantages and Disadvantages, Concerns, and Solutions for Emergency Remote Teaching During Covid-19: Portuguese Lecturers' Perspectives
COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world dramatically and how communities and societies behaved. The purpose of this study was to explore lecturers' perspectives on emergency remote teaching, not only from technology-prone lecturers but encompassing contributions from disparate academic fields, which brought assorted experiences into the data. The qualitative study analyses the perspectives of 344 lecturers from 35 higher education institutions in Po…
Fostering humanization in education: A scoping review on mindfulness and teacher education
The humanization of education is increasingly invoked as a counterpoint to the overly technical and instrumental view of education that has developed in recent decades. In this article, it is intended to contribute to identify ways toward education humanization through teacher education. As the research on humanization of education at the empirical level remains vague, studies on mindfulness in teacher education are taken as a first means of oper…
A network approach to emotion regulation and symptom activation in depression and anxiety
Background Emotions can be regulated through several regulatory strategies that are involved in the development of psychopathological symptoms. Despite the well-established association between psychopathology and emotion dysregulation, little is known about the relationship between individual symptoms of depression and anxiety and emotion regulation strategies (ERS), as well as between ERS themselves. Method We conducted a cross-sectional study a…
Portuguese version of Bern illegitimate task scale: Validation for the teaching context
Illegitimate tasks, though increasingly studied in organizational behavior, remain underexplored in schools, especially among Portuguese teachers. Assessing them is crucial, as they may undermine teachers’ roles, increase stress, and harm well-being and effectiveness. The Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale (BITS) is a self-report tool assessing perceptions of illegitimate tasks—those needless or unrelated to one’s role—categorized as unreasonable or u…
Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Burnout (5 works) · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)