The Experience of the Religious through Silent Moving Image and the Silence of Bill Viola's Passions

With the creationof the moving image at the end of the 19th century a new way of representing and expressing the Religious was born. The cinema industry rapidly understood that film has a powerful way to attract new audiences and transformed the explicit religious message into an implicit theological discourse of the fictional film. Today, the concept of "cinema" needs to be rethought and expanded, as well as the notion of "tTranscendental" since the strong reality effect of the film can allow a true religious experience for the spectator.

Traços de personalidade e religião: meio rural versus meio urbano

As relações do envolvimento religioso com os traços da personalidade em indivíduos do meio rural e indivíduos do meio urbano foram investigadas neste trabalho. Este estudo tem como objectivo o estabelecimento de associações entre traços de personalidade e religião, procedendo a um estudo comparativo entre uma amostra, constituída por indivíduos do meio urbano. A amostra rural foi recolhida no distrito de Portalegre e contou com a participação de 200 sujeitos escolhidos aleatoriamente, tendo sido também recolhida uma amostra de outros 200 sujeitos no meio urbano, em específico na região da Grande Lisboa, de uma forma aleatória. As idades dos participantes estão compreendidas entre os 18 e os 103 anos (M=44,20; DP=19,637), sendo os individuos de ambos os sexos. Procedeu-se a uma caracterização sociodemográfica da amostra e recorreu-se à aplicação de quatro instrumentos, a DUREL (Koening, 1997), o BFI (Oliver & John, 2001), o PANAS (Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988) e a PDS (Paulhus, 1998). Os resultados obtidos demonstraram associações sigmificativas entre as dimensões da personalidade, com as dimensões da religiosidade. Verificou-se que os indivíduos com alta religiosidade. Verificou-se que os indivíduos com uma religiosidade apresentam traços mais vincados de amabilidade e de conscienciosidade. Por outro lado verificou-se que os indivíduos com alta religiosidade no meio urbano apresentam um nível mais elevado de neuroticismo e de abertura à experiência do que no meio rural. ABSTRACT: The relation between the religious involvement with the personality traits in individuals from rural and urban environment were investigated in this work . This study aims to establish associations between personality traits and religion, by carrying out a comparative study of a sample consisting of individuals from rural areas and a sample of individuals from urban areas. The rural sample was collected in the district of Portalegre, in which participated 200 individuals randomly chosen, a sample of 200 individuals in the urban area, specifically in the area of Lisbon city, chosen at random, were also collected. The ages of participants are between 18 and 103 years old (M= 44.20, SD=19.637). A social-demographic characterization of the sample was carried out and four measures were used – Durel (Koenig et al., 1997), BFI (Oliver & John, 2001), the PANAS (Watson Clark & Tellegen, 1988) and PDS (Paulhus, 1998). Results showed significant associations between dimensions of personality and dimensions of religiosity. It was found that individuals with a high religiosity have more pronouneed trits of kindness and conscientiousness. Moreover it was found that individuals with high religiosity in urban areas have a higher level of neuroticism and openness to experience than in rural areas.

Assessment of a consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychology health care program

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relevance of subjective criteria adopted by a psychiatry and psychology consultation-liaison service, and their suitability in the evaluation of case registries and objective results. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted and all supervisors of the university hospital service were interviewed. Routinely collected case registries were also reviewed. Standardized assessment with content analysis for each category was carried out. RESULTS: The results showed distortions in the adopted service focus (doctor-patient relationship) and consultant requests. This focus is more on consulting physician-oriented interventions than on patients. DISCUSSION: Evaluation of the relevance of service criteria could help promoting quality assessment of the services provided, mainly when objective criteria have not yet been established to assure their suitability.

Cluster analysis using affinity aoefficient in order to identify religious beliefs profiles

International Scientific Forum, ISF 2013, ISF 2013, 12-14 December 2013, Tirana.

The making of saudade. National identity and ethnic psychology in Portugal

Roots and rituals.The construction of ethnic identities, Ton Dekker, John Helsloot Carla Wijers editors, p. 267-268; Selected papers of the 6TH SIEF conference on 'Roots & rituals', Amsterdam 20-25 April 1998.

Hopelessness and Related Variables among Cancer Patients in the Southern European Psycho-Oncology Study (SEPOS).

BACKGROUND: Although hopelessness has been studied in cancer, no data are available in non-English-speaking countries. OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to amass data from Southern European countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland) in order to fill this void. METHOD: A group of 312 cancer patients completed the Mini-MAC Hopelessness subscale, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Cancer Worry Inventory (CWI), and a six-item Visual Analog scale (VAS) to measure intensity of physical symptoms, general well-being, difficulty in coping with cancer, intensity of social support from close relationships, leisure activity, and support from religious beliefs. RESULTS: Regression analysis indicated that HADS-Depression, VAS Maladaptive Coping and Well-Being, and the CWI explained 42% of the variance. CONCLUSION: Hopelessness in cancer patients seems not exclusively to correspond to depression, but is related to various other psychosocial factors, such as maladaptive coping, as well.

Eating behavior and body image among psychology students

OBJECTIVE: To characterize eating habits and possible risk factors associated with eating disorders among psychology students, a segment at risk for eating disorders. METHOD: This is a cross-sectional study. The questionnaires Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) and a variety that considers related issues were applied. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 11.0 was utilized in analysis. The study population was composed of 175 female students, with a mean age of 21.2 (DP ± 3.6 years). RESULTS: A positive result was detected on the EAT-26 for 6.9% of the cases (CI95%: 3.6-11.7%). The prevalence of increased symptoms and intense gravity, according to the BITE questionnaire was 5% (CI95%: 2.4-9.5%) and 2.5% (CI95%: 0.7-6.3%), respectively. According to the findings, 26.29% of the students presented abnormal eating behavior. The population with moderate/severe BSQ scores presented dissatisfaction with corporal weight. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that attention must be given to eating behavior risks within this group. A differentiated gaze is justified with respect to these future professionals, whose practice is jeopardized in cases in which they are themselves the bearers of installed symptoms or precursory behavior.

All different or all the same? Exploring the diversity of professional practices in Portuguese school psychology

"Published online: 29 March 2016"