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- A bailar é que a gente se entende: o papel da comunicação nas coreografias da parentalidadePublication . Portugal, Alda; Alberto, Isabel; Beja, Maria João; Sotero, Luciana; Fonseca, Gabriela; Carvalho, Joana; Areia, Neide; Relvas, Ana PaulaA comunicação parento-filial representa uma dimensão essencial do exercício da parentalidade. Apesar de muitas famílias procurarem intervenção psicoterapêutica por considerarem que o seu problema reside na falta de comunicação, o Modelo da Pragmática da Comunicação Humana postula que é impossível não comunicar e, por esse motivo, comunicação e comportamento são sinónimos aquando da significação que se faz das relações familiares. Como uma dança (tendo os autores deste ensaio privilegiado o Bailinho da Madeira enquanto metáfora), a comunicação parento-filial rege-se por pressupostos e regras que permitem compreender e analisar a identidade de cada família e o modo como se operacionaliza a parentalidade. Tal como outras funções e tarefas, também o exercício da parentalidade se altera à medida que o ciclo vital da família evolui e, nesse sentido, os padrões de comunicação estabelecidos também se modelam, apresentando especificidades distintas em famílias com filhos em idade escolar e famílias com adolescentes. Pretende-se com este ensaio teórico reavivar os contributos do Modelo da Pragmática da Comunicação Humana para as relações familiares, bem como, apresentar uma sucinta caracterização dos padrões comunicacionais entre pais e filhos de famílias portuguesas.
- Global study of social odor awarenessPublication . Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Groyecka, Agata; Karwowski, Maciej; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Lansford, Jennifer E; Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh; Alghraibeh, Ahmad M.; Aryeetey, Richmond; Bertoni, Anna; Bettache, Karim; Blumen, Sheyla; Błażejewska, Marta; Bortolini, Tiago; Butovskaya, Marina; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Castro, Felipe Nalon; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Cunha, Diana; David, Daniel; David, Oana A.; Dileym, Fahd A.; Domínguez Espinosa, Alejandra del Carmen; Donato, Silvia; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Fialová, Jitka; Fisher, Maryanne; Gulbetekin, Evrim; Hamamcıoğlu Akkaya, Aslıhan; Hilpert, Peter; Hromatko, Ivana; Iafrate, Raffaella; Iesyp, Mariana; James, Bawo; Jaranovic, Jelena; Jiang, Feng; Kimamo, Charles Obadiah; Kjelvik, Grete; Koç, Fırat; Laar, Amos; Lopes, Fívia de Araújo; Macbeth, Guillermo; Marcano, Nicole M; Martinez, Rocio; Mesko, Norbert; Molodovskaya, Natalya; Moradi Qezeli, Khadijeh; Motahari, Zahrasadat; Mühlhauser, Alexandra; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Ntayi, Joseph; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Ojedokun, Oluyinka; Omar-Fauzee, Mohd Sofian Bin; Onyishi, Ike E; Paluszak, Anna; Pierce, John D; Pillay, Urmila; Portugal, Alda; Razumiejczyk, Eugenia; Realo, Anu; Relvas, Ana Paula; Rivas, Maria; Rizwan, Muhammad; Salkičević, Svjetlana; Sarmány-Schuller, Ivan; Schmehl, Susanne; Senyk, Oksana; Sinding, Charlotte; Sorbring, Emma; Stamkou, Eftychia; Stoyanova, Stanislava; Šukolová, Denisa; Sutresna, Nina; Tadinac, Meri; Tapanya, Sombat; Teras, Andero; Tinoco Ponciano, Edna Lúcia; Tripathi, Ritu; Tripathi, Nachiketa; Tripathi, Mamta; Uhryn, Olja; Yamamoto, Maria Emília; Yoo, Gyesook; Sorokowski, PiotrOlfaction plays an important role in human social communication, including multiple domains in which people often rely on their sense of smell in the social context. The importance of the sense of smell and its role can however vary inter-individually and culturally. Despite the growing body of literature on differences in olfactory performance or hedonic preferences across the globe, the aspects of a given culture as well as culturally universal individual differences affecting odor awareness in human social life remain unknown. Here, we conducted a large-scale analysis of data collected from 10 794 participants from 52 study sites from 44 countries all over the world. The aim of our research was to explore the potential individual and country-level correlates of odor aware ness in the social context. The results show that the individual characteristics were more strongly related than country-level factors to self-reported odor awareness in different social contexts. A model including individual-level predictors (gender, age, material situation, education, and pre ferred social distance) provided a relatively good fit to the data, but adding country-level predictors (Human Development Index, population density, and average temperature) did not improve model parameters. Although there were some cross-cultural differences in social odor awareness, the main differentiating role was played by the individual differences. This suggests that people living in different cultures and different climate conditions may still share some similar patterns of odor awareness if they share other individual-level characteristics.
- Preferred interpersonal distances: a global comparisonPublication . Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Sorokowski, Piotr; Hilpert, Peter; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh; Alghraibeh, Ahmad M.; Aryeetey, Richmond; Bertoni, Anna; Bettache, Karim; Blumen, Sheyla; Błażejewska, Marta; Bortolini, Tiago; Butovskaya, Marina; Castro, Felipe Nalon; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Cunha, Diana; David, Daniel; David, Oana A.; Dileym, Fahd A.; Domínguez Espinosa, Alejandra del Carmen; Donato, Silvia; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Fialová, Jitka; Fisher, Maryanne; Gulbetekin, Evrim; Hamamcıoğlu Akkaya, Aslıhan; Hromatko, Ivana; Iafrate, Raffaella; Iesyp, Mariana; James, Bawo; Jaranovic, Jelena; Jiang, Feng; Kimamo, Charles Obadiah; Kjelvik, Grete; Koç, Fırat; Laar, Amos; de Araújo Lopes, Fívia; Macbeth, Guillermo; Marcano, Nicole M.; Martinez, Rocio; Mesko, Norbert; Molodovskaya, Natalya; Moradi, Khadijeh; Motahari, Zahrasadat; Mühlhauser, Alexandra; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Ntayi, Joseph; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Ojedokun, Oluyinka; Omar-Fauzee, Mohd Sofian Bin; Onyishi, Ike E.; Paluszak, Anna; Portugal, Alda; Razumiejczyk, Eugenia; Realo, Anu; Relvas, Ana Paula; Rivas, Maria; Rizwan, Muhammad; Salkičević, Svjetlana; Sarmány-Schuller, Ivan; Schmehl, Susanne; Senyk, Oksana; Sinding, Charlotte; Stamkou, Eftychia; Stoyanova, Stanislava; Šukolová, Denisa; Sutresna, Nina; Tadinac, Meri; Teras, Andero; Tinoco Ponciano, Edna Lúcia; Tripathi, Ritu; Tripathi, Nachiketa; Tripathi, Mamta; Uhryn, Olja; Yamamoto, Maria Emília; Yoo, Gyesook; Pierce, John D.Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of interpersonal distances over a large data set (N = 8,943 participants from 42 countries). We attempted to relate the preferred social, personal, and intimate distances observed in each country to a set of individual characteristics of the participants, and some attributes of their cultures. Our study indicates that individual characteristics (age and gender) influence interpersonal space preferences and that some variation in results can be explained by temperature in a given region. We also present objective values of preferred interpersonal distances in different regions, which might be used as a reference data point in future studies.
- YES, WE COPE: dyadic coping as a mediator between perceived relationship quality and emotional representation of COVID-19Publication . Relvas, Ana Paula; Lacomba-Trejo, Laura; Portugal, Alda; Chiarolanza, Claudia; Major, Sofia; Rosa, Catarina; Sotero, Luciana; Randall, Ashley K.; Portugal, AldaBackground The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about social changes that have impacted the functioning and dynamics of couples in a romantic relationship, arising from the overwhelming amount of added stress they have endured. Specifically, the divorce rate in Portugal has increased after lockdown, which underscores the adverse consequences of COVID-19 on couples. A lower quality of the couple’s relationship may worsen the emotional representation of COVID-19; however, the literature suggests that perceived partner dyadic coping responses have a great influence on adverse events. The aim of the present study was to assess the mediating role of partner coping in the association between relationship quality and emotional representation of COVID-19. We also sought to observe whether the length of the relationship moderates this association. Methods Participants (N=528) were adults living in Portugal (84.7% female) currently in a romantic relationship with their current partner for at least 1 year. Online data collection. Results We found that relationship quality predicted COVID-19 emotional representation, but this association was fully mediated by total dyadic coping. This association was especially significant in couples with a shorter length of time in the relationship. Conclusions We point out the importance of dyadic coping as a protective factor against emotional distress to cope with the ongoing stressors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. These data suggest the need for relationship education programs that promote positive coping between partners.