- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Occupational Health and Burnout
- Business and Management Studies
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
- Education and Public Policy
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Youth, Drugs, and Violence
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Social and Political Issues
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Education and Work Dynamics
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Cultural Differences and Values
Universidade Federal do Ceará
2024
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2013-2023
Madeira Tecnopolo
2023
Centro de Estudos para a Intervencao Social
2003
Summary Employee silence, the withholding of work‐related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective learning as well detection errors unethical behaviors in many areas world. To facilitate cross‐cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four employee silence motives (i.e., based on fear, resignation, prosocial, selfish motives) 21 languages. Across 33 countries ( N = 8,222) representing diverse...
The present study evaluated the applicability of 1H NMR and UV-Vis spectroscopies as analytical techniques for characterization determination biodiesel conversion monitoring oxidative stability samples with antioxidants. For this study, safflower babassu biodiesels were obtained through transesterification, physicochemical properties confirmed success both reactions. A bench-top accelerated oxidation system was used an alternative to Rancimat® method, 6.0 g heated at 110 ± 5 °C collected...
What are the best interventions that Work and Organizational Psychology offers today for promoting high work motivation in organizations? This paper seeks to answer this question two steps. First, we briefly summarize main findings from 26 meta-analyses concerned with traditional practices such as goal setting, feedback, design, financial incentives, or training. These can improve both organizational performance well-being of members. Second, examine more depth a new, increasingly important...
Despite a widespread view that social norms have an important contextual influence on health attitudes and behaviors, the impact of normative influences safety behaviors has received very little attention. The current study proposes supervisors' coworkers' descriptive injunctive proactive compliance behaviors. Longitudinal results from 132 workers in passenger transportation company support link between (at Time 1) practices 2). Crystallization supervisor' 2) moderated effect self-reported...
This article has three objectives. Firstly, we seek to demonstrate the relevance of voice and silence – that is, whether employees contribute or withhold information, ideas, views and/or concerns at work for sustainable development individuals, organizations societies. Our second objective is identify emerging (and enduring) issues conceptual, theoretical methodological have not yet been adequately addressed in research. These include relationship between silence, how they may manifest...
The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) has been gaining increased attention as a sound and innovative instrument in its conceptualization of burnout. BAT adapted for several countries, revealing promising validity evidence. This paper aims to present the psychometric properties Brazilian Portuguese versions both 23-item 12-item versions. BAT’s evidence based on internal structure (dimensionality, reliability, measurement invariance) relations other variables are focus research. A cross-sectional...
Objectives. There is a debate on the determinants of smoking behaviour, their relative impact, and how impacts are exerted. This longitudinal study relations among social influence, intention to smoke, controlling for attitude self-efficacy. Design Methods. A model combining parents peers with subjective descriptive norms, resulting in four factors, was used assess influence. Data were collected at beginning 7th(-T1), 8th(-T2), 9th(-T3) school years, concerning 578 students (Mage= 13.04 T1)....
The aim of this study is to identify the influence social dimensions work environment and employees' felt responsibility on transfer safety training. We tested a model in which responses reactions from players such as coworkers, supervisors, professionals are positively related training (TT), through mediating effect moderating supervisor support sanctions. A two-time data collection was implemented among blue-collar employees, all low qualified, four city councils who attended fundamental...
Theory and research suggest that the intention to smoke is main determinant of smoking initiation emphasizes role cognitive social factors on prediction smoke. However, extended models such as I-Change results from published studies reveal inconsistencies regarding impact influence Possible explanations for this may be definition measurement constructs have been used.The current study was designed with two goals: (i) test a model influence, combining different types (subjective norms,...
This study combines contributions from both safety climate literature and prominent social influence theories. It was developed to identify the combination of sociocognitive variables that differentiate between different profiles behaviors. empirical approach has hardly been explored in on behavioral aspects related safety. The research setting for this a transportation company ( N = 356). results discriminant analysis showed combinations dispositional situational influences may lead diverse...
Although many studies have explored gender role expectations of pain behaviours in different cultures, only a few authors tried to explore whether certain pains are more associated with the typical man or woman. Hence, this study aimed at exploring, among Portuguese laypeople and nurses, patterns common strongly woman, their relationship health-care training personal experiences.A total 68 nurses (76% women) 55 (62% were asked identify, through free association, most frequent that people...
Studies of safety climate in construction revealed a significant positive association between and various aspects occupational health safety. The mechanisms through which this impact operates are still unclear is usually studied without considering the complexity industry (companies, worksites groups). aim research to analyze what extend there differences sites explore relations sites' workers' response examine how influence occur workgroups. was evaluated using reduced version questionnaire...