The main purpose of the present research was to analyse the relationship between team psychological capital and innovation, considering team learning as a mediating variable.A field survey was carried out, which included 124 work teams belonging to organizations from different sectors of activity. Hypotheses were tested through PROCESS. Results supported a direct positive relationship between team psychological capital and team innovation and an indirect influence of team psychological capital on team innovation, through team learning. The findings of this study highlight the role of team learning as an intervening process between team psychological capital and team innovation. Accordingly, managers should seek to develop team psychological capital and learning behaviours among their teams to promote innovation.
Empowerment is usually defined as a process of promoting the sense of competence and control as a means of capacitating individuals to improve their life conditions. The aim of this study was to describe the psychometric qualities of the Portuguese Rheumatic Disease Empowerment Scale (P-RES-8), an 8-item measure of empowerment for patients with rheumatic disease. The study enrolled 81 patients with rheumatic diseases. Participants filled in the P-RES-8, the Portuguese validated version of the Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form-36 (MOS SF-36), and a questionnaire including sociodemographic data and disease-related variables. To evaluate the dimensionality of the P-RES-8 scale, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted, and its reliability was assessed by Cronbach’s α. The validity of this measure was assessed by analyzing the correlations between empowerment, quality of life, and other relevant variables (education level and illness duration). The P-RES-8 proved to be a reliable 1-dimensional measure of empowerment in patients with rheumatic disease (Cronbach’s α = 0.94). Empowerment was positively related to quality of life. Particularly, the findings showed positive associations between empowerment, assessed by the P-RES-8, and each of the 8 domains of the MOS SF-36. The associations were stronger for mental health and general health perception. The results also revealed that empowerment is positively associated with a higher education and more years after the diagnosis. The findings provide support for the adequacy of the P-RES-8 as a measure of empowerment in patients with rheumatic disease. Moreover, empowerment showed to be an important variable in the assessment of patients’ quality of life.
Resumo: O estudo de natureza não experimental apresentado pretendeu identificar e caracterizar os padrões sexuais pré-matrimoniais aos níveis individual e social e analisá-los em função do sexo, religião e posição política numa amostra de 308 estudantes do ensino superior. Os resultados apontaram para a adesão ao duplo--padrão sexual ao nível individual, mas para uma maior consensualidade na sua forma social, isto é, na percepção dessa duplicidade moral nos julgamentos e nas avaliações dos comportamentos sexuais pela sociedade em geral. Da análise da influência da opção religiosa e da posição política sobre as representações sociais da sexualidade pré-matrimonial, observou-se que os factores religiosidade e conservadorismo político estão negativamente associados à permissividade das atitudes sexuais, apesar da tendência comum dos diferentes grupos religiosos e políti-cos para a adesão ao duplo-padrão sexual, nas suas duas formas, individual e social. As implicações dos resultados são discutidas no âmbito da teoria das representações sociais e do género.
Palavras-chave:Género, representações sociais, duplo-padrão sexual, religião, posição política, ideologia.
Gender and social representations: dual sexual pattern as a function of religion and political opinion (Abstract):The non-experimental study presented sought to identify and characterize pre-matrimonial sexual standards at an individual and social level and analyze these norms as a function of sex, religion and political opinion in a sample of 308 graduate students. The results point to the adherence to the double standard at an individual level in a tenuous form, gathering more consensus in its social form, i.e. in the perception of moral duplicity
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