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- O ajustamento das populações ao risco de cheias: estudo exploratório em PortugalPublication . Lima, Maria Luísa; Faísca, LuísNeste trabalho procura-se apresentar uma matriz teórica de análise dos comportamentos de populações residentes em zonas expostas ao risco de cheias a aplicá-las a regiões portuguesas onde houve experiência recente dessa fenómeno natural.
- Approaches to study in higher education portuguese students: a portuguese version of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST)Publication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Ribeiro Gonçalves, Fernando; Faísca, LuísThis paper examines the validity of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students—short version (ASSIST; Tait et al. in Improving student learning: Improving students as learners, 1998), to be used with Portuguese undergraduate students. The ASSIST was administrated to 566 students, in order to analyse a Portuguese version of this inventory. Exploratory factor analysis (principal axis factor analysis followed by direct oblimin rotation) reproduced the three main factors that correspond to the original dimensions of the inventory (deep, surface apathetic and strategic approaches to learning). The results are consistent with the background theory on approaches to learning. Additionally, the reliability analysis revealed acceptable internal consistency indexes for the main scales and subscales. This inventory might represent a valuable research tool for the assessment of approaches to learning among Portuguese higher education students.
- A aprendizagem implícita em crianças disléxicasPublication . Inácio, Filomena; Faísca, Luís; Forkstam, Christian; Araújo, Susana; Bramão, Inês; Reis, Alexandra; Petersson, Karl MagnusThis study investigates the implicit sequence learning abilities of dyslexic children using an artificial grammar learning task and an extended exposure period. Twenty children with developmental dyslexia participated in the study and were matched with two control groups—one matched for age and the second for reading skills. During 3 days, all participants performed an acquisition task in which they were exposed to sequences of colored geometrical forms with an underlying grammatical structure. On the last day, after the acquisition task, participants were tested in a grammaticality classification task. Sequence learning was present in dyslexic children, as well as in both control groups, and no differences between groups were observed. These results suggest that implicit learning deficits cannot explain the characteristic reading difficulties of the dyslexics.
- Assessment of psychopathological problems in school context: the psychometric properties of a portuguese version of the adolescent psychopathology scale – short formPublication . Lemos, Ida; Faísca, Luís; Valadas, Sandra T.The psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale–Short Form (APS-SF) were studied in a sample of 656 Portuguese adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years, assessed in school context. Also, the aim of the study was to gather data concerning age-and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems assessed by the APS-SF. Results of the reliability of APS-SF scales are compared with those obtained by Reynolds in the validation studies with the American sample. Factor analysis reproduced the bidimensionality of the original validation studies of the scale. These findings seem to support the use of the APS-SF as a valuable tool for early identification of psychosocial problems in the school context in Portuguese adolescents. Results concerning age-and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems in the adolescents are discussed.
- Assessment of psychopathological problems in school context: the psychometric properties of a portuguese version of the adolescent psychopathology scale – short formPublication . Lemos, Ida; Faísca, Luís; Valadas, Sandra T.The psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale-Short Form (APS-SF) were studied in a sample of 656 Portuguese adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years, assessed in school context. Also, the aim of the study was to gather data concerning age- and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems assessed by the APS-SF. Results of the reliability of APS-SF scales are compared with those obtained by Reynolds in the validation studies with the American sample. Factor analysis reproduced the bidimensionality of the original validation studies of the scale. These findings seem to support the use of the APS-SF as a valuable tool for early identification of psychosocial problems in the school context in Portuguese adolescents. Results concerning age- and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems in the adolescents are discussed.
- Atypical moral judgment following traumatic brain injuryPublication . Martins, Ana Teresa; Faísca, Luís; Esteves, Francisco; Muresan, A.; Reis, AlexandraPrevious research has shown an association between emotions, particularly social emotions, and moral judgments. Some studies suggested an association between blunted emotion and the utilitarian moral judgments observed in patients with prefrontal lesions. In order to investigate how prefrontal brain damage affects moral judgment, we asked a sample of 29 TBI patients (12 females and 17 males) and 41 healthy participants (16 females and 25 males) to judge 22 hypothetical dilemmas split into three different categories (non-moral, impersonal and personal moral). The TBI group presented a higher proportion of affirmative (utilitarian) responses for personal moral dilemmas when compared to controls, suggesting an atypical pattern of utilitarian judgements. We also found a negative association between the performance on recognition of social emotions and the proportion of affirmative responses on personal moral dilemmas. These results suggested that the preference for utilitarian responses in this type of dilemmas is accompanied by difficulties in social emotion recognition. Overall, our findings suggest that deontological moral judgments are associated with normal social emotion processing and that frontal lobe plays an important role in both emotion and moral judgment.
- Basic Emotion Recognition According to Clinical Personality TraitsPublication . Martins, A.; Ros, Antónia; Valerio, Leticia; Faísca, LuísDisturbances in the ability to recognize emotional faces have been attributed to individuals with specific personality disorders. Considering the importance of the dimensional models of psychopathology, studies involving healthy participants are becoming increasingly relevant in the domain of personality disorders. In this context, our main goal was to assess how clinical personality traits affect the ability to recognize basic emotions in a sample of subclinical participants. Photographs of faces expressing six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust and surprise) were presented to 72 undergraduate students (42 women
- Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injuryPublication . Martins, Ana Teresa; Faísca, Luís; Esteves, Francisco; Simão, Cláudia; Justo, M. G.; Muresan, A.; Reis, AlexandraChanges in social and emotional behaviour have been consistently observed in patients with traumatic brain injury. These changes are associated with emotion recognition deficits which represent one of the major barriers to a successful familiar and social reintegration. In the present study, 32 patients with traumatic brain injury, involving the frontal lobe, and 41 age- and education-matched healthy controls were analyzed. A Go/No-Go task was designed, where each participant had to recognize faces representing three social emotions (arrogance, guilt and jealousy). Results suggested that ability to recognize two social emotions (arrogance and jealousy) was significantly reduced in patients with traumatic brain injury, indicating frontal lesion can reduce emotion recognition ability. In addition, the analysis of the results for hemispheric lesion location (right, left or bilateral) suggested the bilateral lesion sub-group showed a lower accuracy on all social emotions.
- The Children’s Interpretation Bias Measure – Ambiguous Story- Stems (CIBM): adaptação portuguesa para crianças em idade pré-escolarPublication . Faísca, Luís; Sabino Canilhas, Nabor André; Martins, Ana TeresaAdaptar o Children’s Interpretation Bias Measure – Ambiguous Story-Stems (CIBM) para avaliação de viés de interpretação em crianças portuguesas de idade pré-escolar.
- Cognitive profiles in portuguese children with dyslexiaPublication . Pacheco, Andreia; Araújo, Susana; Faísca, Luís; Castro, S. L.; Petersson, Karl Magnus; Reis, AlexandraIndividuals with reading disorders like dyslexia seem not be a homogeneous group, neither with respect to the underlying causes nor the resulting cognitive profile. Our purpose was to analyze the cognitive profile, using a hierarchical cluster analysis, in an attempt to isolate the main cognitive profiles present in a sample of dyslexic Portuguese children.