Autoeficácia, características sociodemográficas e capacitação profissional: um estudo com servidores de uma Universidade Federal

Self-efficacy, the construct developed by Albert Bandura in 1977 and widely studied around the world, means the individual's belief in his own capacity to successfully perform a certain activity. This study aims to determine the degree of association between sociodemographic characteristics and professional training to the levels of Self-Efficacy at Work (SEW) of the Administrative Assistants in a federal university. This is a descriptive research submitted to and approved by the Ethics Committee of UFRN. The method of data analysis, in quantitative nature, was accomplished with the aid of the statistical programs R and Minitab. The instrument used in research was a sociodemographic data questionnaire, variables of professional training and the General Perception of Self-efficacy Scale (GPSES), applied to the sample by 289 Assistants in Administration. Statistical techniques for data analysis were descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, reliability test (Cronbach's alpha), and test of significance (Pearson). Results show a sociodemographic profile of Assistants in Administration of UFRN with well-distributed characteristics, with 48.4% men and 51.6% female; 59.9% of them were aged over 40 years, married (49.3%), color or race white (58%) and Catholics (67.8%); families are composed of up to four people (75.8%) with children (59.4%) of all age groups; the occupation of the mothers of these professionals is mostly housewives (51.6%) with high school education up to parents (72%) and mothers (75.8%). Assistants in Administration have high levels of professional training, most of them composed two groups of servers: the former, recently hired public servants (30.7%) and another with long service (59%), the majority enter young in career and it stays until retirement, 72.4% of these professionals have training above the minimum requirement for the job. The analysis of SEW levels shows medium to high levels for 72% of assistants in administration; low SEWclassified people have shown a high average of 2.7, considered close to the overall mean presented in other studies, which is 2.9. The cluster analysis has allowed us to say that the characteristics of the three groups (Low, Medium and High SEW) are similar and can be found in the three levels of SEW representatives with all the characteristics investigated. The results indicate no association between the sociodemographic variables and professional training to the levels of self-efficacy at work of Assistants in Administration of UFRN, except for the variable color or race. However, due to the small number of people who declared themselves in color or black race (4% of the sample), this result can be interpreted as mere coincidence or the black people addressed in this study have provided a sense of efficacy higher than white and brown ones. The study has corroborated other studies and highlighted the subjectivity of the self-efficacy construct. They are needed more researches, especially with public servants for the continuity and expansion of studies on the subject, making it possible to compare and confirm the results

Aceitação e uso de ambiente virtual de aprendizagem no contexto de um curso de capacitação para servidores públicos

This study aimed to examine how students perceives the factors that may influence them to attend a training course offered in the distance virtual learning environment (VLE) of the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). Thus, as theoretical basis it was used the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the result of an integration of eight previous models which aimed to explain the same phenomenon (acceptance/use of information technology). The research approach was a quantitative and qualitative. To achieve the study objectives were made five semi-structured interviews and an online questionnaire (websurvey) in a valid sample of 101 public employees scattered throughout the country. The technique used to the analysis of quantitative data was the structural equation modeling (SEM), by the method of Partial Least Square Path Modeling (PLS-PM). To qualitative data was the thematic content analysis. Among the results, it was found that, in the context of public service, the degree whose the individual believes that the use of an AVA will help its performance at work (performance expectancy) is a factor to its intended use and also influence its use. Among the results, it was found that the belief which the public employee has in the use of a VLE as a way to improve the performance of his work (performance expectation) was determinant for its intended use that, in turn, influenced their use. It was confirmed that, under the voluntary use of technology, the general opinion of the student s social circle (social influence) has no effect on their intention to use the VLE. The effort expectancy and facilitating conditions were not directly related to the intended use and use, respectively. However, emerged from the students speeches that the opinions of their coworkers, the ease of manipulate the VLE, the flexibility of time and place of the distance learning program and the presence of a tutor are important to their intentions to do a distance learning program. With the results, it is expected that the managers of the distance learning program of ENAP turn their efforts to reduce the impact of the causes of non-use by those unwilling to adopt voluntarily the e-learning, and enhance the potentialities of distance learning for those who are already users

Análise experimental do efeito da diversificação em carteiras de ações: a relação entre risco e quantidade de ativos sob a ótica da estratégia ingênua

The objective is to analyze the relationship between risk and number of stocks of a portfolio for an individual investor when stocks are chosen by "naive strategy". For this, we carried out an experiment in which individuals select actions to reproduce this relationship. 126 participants were informed that the risk of first choice would be an asset average of all standard deviations of the portfolios consist of a single asset, and the same procedure should be used for portfolios composed of two, three and so on, up to 30 actions . They selected the assets they want in their portfolios without the support of a financial analysis. For comparison we also tested a hypothetical simulation of 126 investors who selected shares the same universe, through a random number generator. Thus, each real participant is compensated for random hypothetical investor facing the same opportunity. Patterns were observed in the portfolios of individual participants, characterizing the curves for the components of the samples. Because these groupings are somewhat arbitrary, it was used a more objective measure of behavior: a simple linear regression for each participant, in order to predict the variance of the portfolio depending on the number of assets. In addition, we conducted a pooled regression on all observations by analyzing cross-section. The result of pattern occurs on average but not for most individuals, many of which effectively "de-diversify" when adding seemingly random bonds. Furthermore, the results are slightly worse using a random number generator. This finding challenges the belief that only a small number of titles is necessary for diversification and shows that there is only applicable to a large sample. The implications are important since many individual investors holding few stocks in their portfolios

Crenças e atitudes face ao VIH/SIDA na prostituição feminina

Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada para obtenção de grau de Mestre na especialidade de Psicologia Clínica.

O capital fictício e crise econômica : visões para um novo paradigma

Este artigo tem o propósito inicial de conceituar o que é capital fictício e questionar seu papel na narrativa econômica ortodoxa. Outro objetivo é demonstrar os efeitos prejudiciais deste capital no Brasil. O capital fictício é toda rentabilidade proveniente da valoração derivada e artificial de um capital aplicado, já sem atuação na produção. Sua presença massiva sinaliza uma contradição interna no capitalismo atual, ainda que o pensamento convencional continue a se basear na crença de que crises econômicas são decorrentes de eventos exógenos e inesperados. A crise provém não de eventos aleatórios ou ao acaso, mas da dissociação entre circulação e produção, o que possibilita seu surgimento. Deste modo, a primeira parte deste artigo analisa a teoria do valor e do capital fictício como expressa por Marx e a heterodoxia; a segunda parte busca elucidar suas principais implicações para o caso brasileiro, e questiona a fé irrevogável que a ortodoxia tem na narrativa de crises supostamente surgidas de modelos de equilíbrio. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT

A abordagem da grávida na prática da medicina dentária

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz

Otimismo, carreira e bem-estar subjetivo em estudantes do ensino superior

Dissertação de Mestrado, Psicologia da Educação, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

Igual consideração e respeito, independência ética e liberdade de expressão em Dworkin : uma reconciliação entre igualdade e liberdade e a possibilidade do discurso do ódio em um ordenamento coerente de princípios

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Direito, Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Direito, 2016.

Redefinição de uma metodologia de projecto à luz de uma estrutura fenomenológica

Dissertação de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.

A imigração japonesa na Amazônia: sua contribuição ao desenvolvimento agrícola.

A imigração japonesa na Amazônia; A proto-história da imigração japonesa na Amazônia; O início da imigração japonesa; Fukuhara e Uyetsuka: a crença na Amazônia; Adaptação da juta às várzeas amazônicas; A II Guerra Mundial e a democratização da experiência japonesa; A civilização da juta na Amazônia: expansão e declínio;A pré-história do cultivo da juta no Brasil; As tentativas de plantar juta e malva em São Paulo; Expansão da juta nas várzeas amazônicas; Valorização da malva: extrativismo e domesticação; A questão da produção e distribuição de sementes de juta; A produção de sementes de malva no Estado do Pará; O declínio do sistema juta e malva na Amazônia; Evolução das propostas para solucionar a crise da produção de juta; A descorticação mecânica de juta e malva; Transformações institucionais no sistema juta e malva na Amazônia; A civilização da pimenta-do-reino na Amazônia; Tomé-Açu: marco inicial da imigração japonesa na Amazônia; Makinossuke Ussui: a reintrodução da pimenta-do-reino no Brasil; Pimenta-do-reino marca nova fase da agricultura na Amazônia; Sucesso da juta e da pimenta-do-reino como justificativa da imigração japonesa no pós-guerra; Inserção da pimenta-do-reino na vida política, econômica e social da Amazônia; A movimentação de recursos genéticos na Amazônia; A movimentação de recursos genéticos na Amazônia; A fragilidade da economia extrativa como convite para a biopirataria; Mudanças no ciclo de vida de recursos da biodiversidade; Tomé-Açu, uma experiência de desenvolvimento agrícola nos trópicos; Os ciclos econômicos da pimenta-do-reino; A dinâmica dos sistemas agroflorestais (SAFs).

O mandado de injunção e a abstrativização do exercício da jurisdição constitucional

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Direito, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Estado e Constituição, 2016.

Aspectos motivacionais para o uso do fogo na agricultura no Distrito Federal e Entorno.

2016