Predictors of Successful Weight Control: Cross-Cultural Moderators of Treatment Outcomes

Given the heterogeneity of effect sizes within the population for any treatment, identifying moderators of outcomes is critical [1]. In weight management programs, there is a high individual variability in terms of weight loss and an overall modest success [2]. Some people will adopt and sustain attitudes and behaviors associated with weight loss, while others won’t [3]. To predict weight loss outcome just from the subject’s baseline information would be very valuable [4,5]. It would allow to: - Better match between treatments and individuals - Identify the participants with less probability of success (or potential dropouts) in a given treatment and direct them to alternative therapies - Target limited resources to those most likely to succeed - Increase cost-effectiveness and improve success rates of the programs Few studies have been dedicated to describe baseline predictors of treatment success. The Healthy Weight for Life (USA) study is one of the few. Its findings are now being cross-validated in Portuguese samples. This paper describes these cross-cultural comparisons.

Contributo do enoturismo para o desenvolvimento de regiões do interior: o caso da rota dos vinhos do alentejo

The wine industry and its relationship with the tourism sector, as well as with the motivations, characteristics, and behaviors wine tourists are relevant for the valuable creation. Some scholars have identified distinct wine tourism market segments based on a supply-side analysis of certain wine-producing tourism destinations. Subsequent studies used cluster analysis to prove that specific wine tourism market segments can be identified in the Alentejo Wine Route. The significant dimension and economical importance of wine tourism in the Alentejo region point towards the need for more dynamic planning and branding efforts. Such efforts will no doubt place the Alentejo Wine Region on par with some of the foremost wine-producing regions in the world.

" (...) mais gosto de ti??? Diferenças entre homens e mulheres nas crenças e comportamentos sobre violência conjugal

O presente trabalho tem como objectivo analisar as diferenças de género nas crenças e comportamentos relacionados com a violência conjugal, fazendo uma avaliação de condutas e atitudes face ao fenómeno. Participaram no estudo 50 casais, que preencheram o Inventário de Violência Conjugal e a Escala de Crenças sobre Violência Conjugal. Os resultados apontam para a não existência de diferenças entre homens e mulheres na perpetração e vitimação de violência em relações íntimas. São os homens os que mais facilmente legitimam os comportamentos violentos, embora a tendência atitudinal flua no sentido de não a aprovar. ABSTRACT:This study aims to examine gender differences in beliefs and behaviors related to domestic violence, by making an assessment of behaviors and attitudes addressing the phenomenon. 50 couples supported the study by filling Inventário de Violência Conjugal and Escala de Crenças sobre Violência Conjugal. The results indicate that there are no substancial differences between men and women in the perpetration and victimization of violence in intimate relationships. Men are more easily prone to accredit violent behavior, although the sight tendency is not to approve.

Motivação e percepção do envolvimento parental na prática desportiva de jovens nadadores

RESUMO: O envolvimento parental no desporto é determinante no processo de formação desportiva dos jovens desportistas. Pelo facto de existirem poucos instrumentos de avaliação neste assunto, a adaptação e validação do Parental Involvement Sport Questionnaire (PISQ) para o idioma Português, tornou-se fundamental para colmatar esta lacuna. Assim, o presente estudo pretende alcançar dois objectivos principais: a) traduzir e adaptar o PISQ ao idioma Português do Brasil e, deste modo, iniciar o processo de validação do referido instrumento; b) analisar a relação entre a percepção dos jovens sobre o envolvimento parental na sua prática de natação e a motivação destes jovens nadadores. Um total de 114 nadadores participaram deste estudo, com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e 20 anos [ M = 14.67; DP = 8.29], para aferir utilizamos a versão Portuguesa do PISQ e do Sport Motivation Scale (SMS). Como principais resultados, a versão portuguesa do PISQ apresentou um Alpha de Cronbach deos comportamentos directivos dos pais mostraram reduzir a motivação intrínsica – saber, a motivação intrínsica pela prática e a motivação extrínsica – introjectada, e aumentar a amotivação dos jovens desportistas. ABSTRACT: The parental involvement in sport is crucial in the process of sports training of young athletes and, because there are few instruments for assessing this issue, the adaptation and validation of the Parental Involvement Sport Questionnaire (PISQ) for the Portuguese language, it became essential to bridge this gap. Thus, this study aims to achieve two main objectives: a) translate and adapt the PISQ to the Portuguese language of Brazil and thus begin the process of validation of that instrument, b) analyze the relationship between the perception of young people about the involvement parental in their practice of swimming, and the motivation of these young swimmers. A total of 114 swimmers participated in this study, aged between 12 and 20 years [M = 14.67, SD = 8.29], we used to measure the Portuguese version of PISQ and the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS). As main results, the Portuguese version of PISQ showed a Cronbach’s Alpha of , directive behaviors of the parents shown to reduce intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and increase the amotivation of the young athletes.

Psicologia das motivações ajurídicas do sentenciar : o lado invisivel da decisão

RESUMO: A presente investigação erige como objective inicial predizer as potencialidades/qualidades avaliativas da Grelha de Observação (Louro, 2005), realçando os diferentes comportamentos, a nível verbal e não-verbal, presentes em tribunal, relativamente aos arguidos, vítimas, testemunhas e juízes, num conjunto 34 julgamentos presenciados, no tribunal da Boa-Hora, 4ª Vara Criminal. Nesta medida, foram preenchidas 249 grelhas em contexto judicial, 190 do sexo feminino e 59 do sexo masculino, das quais, 43 grelhas referiam-se a arguidos dispostos 34 julgamentos, devido ao facto de haver julgamentos com mais do que um arguido; 14 a vítimas, dado a maior parte dos julgamentos a vítima fazer-se representar pelo Ministério Público; 108 a testemunhas e 73 grelhas aplicadas a 4 juízes presidentes de cada colectivo. Verificaram-se diferenças estatisticamente significativas no que toca aos comportamentos verbal e não verbal apresentados pelas personagens judiciais. Os resultados foram apoiados e discutidos com base na literatura revista. ABSTRACT: The present investigation aims at predicting the evaluative potential/quality of the Grelha de Observação (Louro, 2005), highlighting the different behaviors (verbal and non-verbal) displayed in a court of law, regarding the arguidos, victims, witnesses and judges, in a set of 34 observed trials at the court of Boa-Hora, “4rd” Vara Criminal. Therefore, 249 grills were filled in judicial contxt, 190 females and 59 males, from which, 43 grills were arguidos from the 34 trials (in some trials, there were more than one arguido); 14 regarding victims, since most trials she is represented by the public prosecution service; 108 witnesses and 73 grills were applied to 4 judges presidents from each collective jury. Statistically significant differences were found for the comparison between judicial characters for verbal and non-verbal behavior. The results were supported and discussed from the revised literature.