Isabel Nunes Janeiro

Life Design Counseling Group Intervention With Portuguese Adolescents: A Process and Outcome Study

This article examines the process and outcome of a life design counseling group intervention with students in Grades 9 and 12. First, we applied a quasi-experimental methodology to analyze the intervention’s effectiveness in promoting career certainty, career decision-making, self-efficacy, and career adaptability in a sample of 236 students. Second, focus groups comprising 33 participants were conducted, examining participants’ perceptions of the intervention process and outcome. Our findings showed that the intervention had a significant effect on both career certainty and career self-efficacy, but it had no effect on career adaptability. Our results also showed that My Career Story (MCS) had a stronger effect on Grade 12 students. Focus group participants reported on the usefulness of MCS, as well as on its benefits, which include increased information as well as a sense of direction, self-discovery, connection, and increased self-awareness. Grade 9 participants expressed more difficulties in narrating self-experience than Grade 12 participants did. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

Factores personales y contextuales en la construcción de carreras de teatro

Resumen es: La presente investigacion tiene como objetivo general explorar los factores personales y contextuales que fundamentan la formulacion e implementacion de ...

Um Novo Modelo Multidimensional d a Perspetiva Temporal

EnglishTime Perspective is a cognitive - motivational dimension. Currently, Zimbardo & Boyd s (1999) model is one of the most cited, still, it doesn t consider the influence of future negative temporality, which is referred by Lewin (1965) as fundamental for human understanding. This study has three objectives, to determine i) Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) and ii) Transcendental - Future Time Perspective Scale (TFTPS) factor structures through Structural Equation Modeling and iii) to establish a new multi dimensional model which includes the negative future dimension. Results with both instruments showed a structure coherently aligned with current theory, suggesting a new model formed by seven temporal dimensions. portuguesA Perspetiva Temporal e uma dimensao cognitivo - motivacional. Um dos modelos com maior difusao na atualidade e apresentado por Zimbardo e Boyd (1999) . Contudo, e importante referir que este modelo nao considera a influencia da temporalidade futura negativa, apesar de esta ser referida como fundamental por Lewin (1965) . Sao tres os objetivos deste estudo: determinar a estrutura fatorial i) do Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), ii) da Transcendental - Future T ime Perspective Scale (TFTPS) atraves de Modelacao de Equacoes Estruturais e iii) apresentar um novo modelo multidimensional no qual seja considerada a dimensao negativa da temporalidade futura. Os resultados com ambos os instrumentos foram coerentes com a teoria estabelecida, assim como tambem permitem sugerir um novo modelo formado por sete dimensoes temporais.

Qualitative and Quantitative Trends in the Assessment of Subjective Temporality

Research on time perspective (TP) has struggled with several conceptual and methodological problems. One of the consistently identified shortcomings is the scarcity of reliable psychological assessment instruments. In this chapter, the authors provide a critical analysis concerning the methodological evolution of the assessment of the subjective temporality, and briefly describe some of the most representative measures. While most assessment efforts were initially set on the use of qualitative procedures, current research studies and conceptual developments are mainly founded on the use of quantitative assessment instruments providing several measurement indicators. There are, however, some remaining issues that must be addressed concerning the construction and development of innovative assessment procedures used in the understanding of the impact of subjective temporality constructs on individual and social behavior.