Suzana Nunes Caldeira

Paranoia in the general population: A revised version of the General Paranoia Scale for adults

Background Paranoid ideation has been regarded as a cognitive and a social process used as a defence against perceived threats. According to this perspective, paranoid ideation can be understood as a process extending across the normal–pathological continuum. Methods In order to refine the construct of paranoid ideation and to validate a measure of paranoia, 906 Portuguese participants from the general population and 91 patients were administered the General Paranoia Scale (GPS), and two conceptual models (one- and tridimensional) were compared through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results Results from the CFA of the GPS confirmed a different model than the one-dimensional model proposed by Fenigstein and Vanable, which comprised three dimensions (mistrust thoughts, persecutory ideas, and self-deprecation). This alternative model presented a better fit and increased sensitivity when compared with the one-dimensional model. Further data analysis of the scale revealed that the GPS is an adequate assessment tool for adults, with good psychometric characteristics and high internal consistency. Conclusion The model proposed in the current work leads to further refinements and enrichment of the construct of paranoia in different populations, allowing the assessment of three dimensions of paranoia and the risk of clinical paranoia in a single measure for the general population.

Atacar será a melhor defesa? A influência das experiências precoces e da paranoia na agressividade dos jovens açorianos || Is the offence the best defense? Influences of childhood experiences and paranoia in the aggression in Azorean youths

EnglishParanoid ideation is a normative cognitive and social process considered normative (e.g. occasional mistrust feelings) or dysfunctional and pathological symptom (e.g. Paranoid delusions). Even at subclinical levels, paranoid ideation can hinder interpersonal functioning, to the extent that the resulting disruptive behavior can impact several life areas (e.g. family, peer and academic/professional relationships). The current study explores the influence of parental styles and the mediating role of paranoid ideation in aggression during adolescence, and discusses the implications for prevention and intervention in clinical and educational settings portuguesA ideacao paranoide e um processo cognitivo e social que pode ser considerado normativo (e.g. sentimentos de desconfianca ocasionais) ou disfuncional, constituindo-se, neste ultimo caso, como um sintoma psicopatologico (e.g. delirios paranoides). Mesmo em niveis subclinicos, a ideacao paranoide pode constituir um entrave para o bom funcionamento interpessoal, na medida em que o comportamento disruptivo que dela advem pode afetar todas as esferas de funcionamento do individuo (e.g. relacoes familiares, entre pares, profissionais e/ou academicas). O presente estudo explorara a influencia dos estilos parentais e o papel mediador da ideacao paranoide na agressividade durante a adolescencia, bem como as implicacoes para a prevencao e intervencao em contextos clinicos e educacionais.

SILENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Domestic violence in itself is one of the most difficult, specific and wide-spread social-legal problems containing the number of signs of violation. Conflict directly concerns people connected with coexistence; it has the local, exclusive character and the fight against it is less effective in accordance with common practice of fight against the crime. Specificity of the fight against the crime of this category is expressed in both complexity of its revealing and in effective and lawful choice of coercive measures against it. The issue of domestic violence has been tabooed in many countries for a long time, because the disclosure of such issues was considered as interference in people’s private life. Although the society has gradually realized that the problem of domestic violence must not be ignored as violence endangers people’s health and life. Domestic violence is not only the problem of separate individuals, it has negative effect on the other members of the family, especially on minors and leads to distortion of their psyche and consciousness which, in its turn, leads to the formation of an unhealthy situation in the society.The author analyzes the results of the four stages of victimization surveys and Unified Crime Reports prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia in 2010-2013. The results of victimization surveys and statistics reports related to indexes and structure of crime became important after the parliamentary elections held in October 1, 2012, resulted by defeating of the ruling political party “National Movement” which was in power for the last 9 years. The new coalition “Georgian Dream”, headed by the billionaire B. Ivanishvili, radically changed political climate and announced the acceleration of democratization of the country and adopted the legislation decriminalization policy. According the new policy, the government of the country carried out the general amnesty, and released more than 60% of all prisoners from the custody. Such policy became the object of serious criticism from the part of the oppositions and some experts. They have expressed concerns about the criminal situation and decreasing level of security in the country predicted anarchy and disorganizations. This article is an attempt to assess the real situation in Georgia and the level of real threat to stability posed by criminality.Everything has his pros and cons. Debtor’s rights and obligations during court order enforcement, causes of problems that may arise. This problem is in the whole country, not just in one city or in one social class. A very large number of families from everywhere around Georgia have been affected. How and where it started will be discussed below in the text. Rights of creditors and debtors overlap in many aspects. We need to be very careful when sorting out this issue. We cannot under any circumstances make a decision with a benefit of one party while the other party will suffer losses. Georgian law on “Law Enforcement” does not support in any ways rights of debtors and all the procedures highlighted are towards forcing the debtor to pay off the debt. At this stage based on the current law, current socio-economic problems, statistics, ways on sorting out the problem, this object of studies is very important and has a very high intrinsic value in its theoretical part as well as in its practical part. If the right approach is taken it is possible to minimise the need to protect rights of creditors or debtors in the futures, because every party will be fully aware of their abilities and punishments for failures to fulfil their obligations, before signing the contractThe article includes detailed employment and uniploymant analysis in each municipality. In the analysis we use results from household survey conducted by the National Statistics Service. More specific information about the labour market at the municipal level was collected through cooperation with local municipalities. For the analysis we used information from municipalities’ web pages, telephone conversations with stakeholders, personal meetings with experts and so on. It should also be noted that a certain part of the data obtained from municipalities and from administrative territorial units have an approximate nature, but based on these information it is possible to gain some valuable conclusions and make assumptions. Terms and reality of employment analysis is carried out not only at the level of the municipality but on the country and regional ones as well.This project aims to apply learning of operations research and optimizing resources to practical cases. The aim of this problem is to maximize the the fairness of the schedule , while respecting all the constraints . In regards with the results obtained after some tests ILP has found a very good solution to our problem . Better values of the penalties associated to the shifts could be defined in order to represent the reality more accurately especially by taking into account the length of the shifts. The models can also be solved by means of optimization software. As shown in this paper, the current schedules can benefit from this work. My problem is NP-hard that it means unsolvable.My objective is to do the objective values ( diff =0.1) . The ideal must be 0 but it is impossible.there is shown in the table in 5 shifts , 20 nurses 10 weeks. We see that when we increase the number of shift the objective value is decreasing. It is fact that when we add a shift the software must do more iterations but the penalty is decreasing. We see that with the same number of iterations the penalty is smaller when we add a shift.For the welfare of modern society and any state`s correct function it is very important to have straightened working court system and to ensure every person`s court accessibility. Each step of court case management is detailed in civil procedure code. The legislation of civil procedure of Georgia foresees some mechanisms and opportunities of the restriction of court accessibility, which must be studied. The meaning of this study is stipulated by huge importance of court accessibility itself and by need of due caution during its restricting. The access to the court right is reserved not only by national, but also by international law, as evidenced by Article 42 of the Constitution [1], ``The UN Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms`` Article 6 [3]. As any study issue, this one also needs scientific, systemic approach. For fully demonstrating the issue it is advised to classify and define court accessibility restriction mechanisms. Here presented work is about this matter.The Administrative Law is a part of public law, as it is depended on the subordinate principle. It aims to realize public interest. On the other hand, Enforcement Law is part of administrative space, which regulates the rules and procedures of the enforcement process for different court’s decisions as well as other acts. As administrating effects our everyday lives, it is a public interest that this process should be kept in the legal borders. This is exactly what the Administrative Law is all about. It regulates the social relations in which were government and other administrative bodies play a major role. It is true that Enforcement Law provides us with the norms, rules and procedures of the legal administration, but it is still court’s responsibility to assess the legal quality of it. This is why we need effective justice, to have the competent court ruling practice and to enforce them properly.Collision issues are discussed in family law such as conditions of marriage, results of marriage, annulment of marriage, duty of maintenance, relations between parents and children, relations related to child’s origin, conditions of adopting, guardianship and tuition. I discuss issues of guardianship and tuition in mentioned work, which I think is very interesting and actual.

Is the offence the best defense? Influences of childhood experiences and paranoia in the aggression in Azorean youths || Atacar será a melhor defesa? A influência das experiências precoces e da paranoia na agressividade dos jovens açorianos

EnglishParanoid ideation is a normative cognitive and social process considered normative (e.g. occasional mistrust feelings) or dysfunctional and pathological symptom (e.g. Paranoid delusions). Even at subclinical levels, paranoid ideation can hinder interpersonal functioning, to the extent that the resulting disruptive behavior can impact several life areas (e.g. family, peer and academic/professional relationships). The current study explores the influence of parental styles and the mediating role of paranoid ideation in aggression during adolescence, and discusses the implications for prevention and intervention in clinical and educational settings portuguesA ideacao paranoide e um processo cognitivo e social que pode ser considerado normativo (e.g. sentimentos de desconfianca ocasionais) ou disfuncional, constituindo-se, neste ultimo caso, como um sintoma psicopatologico (e.g. delirios paranoides). Mesmo em niveis subclinicos, a ideacao paranoide pode constituir um entrave para o bom funcionamento interpessoal, na medida em que o comportamento disruptivo que dela advem pode afetar todas as esferas de funcionamento do individuo (e.g. relacoes familiares, entre pares, profissionais e/ou academicas). O presente estudo explorara a influencia dos estilos parentais e o papel mediador da ideacao paranoide na agressividade durante a adolescencia, bem como as implicacoes para a prevencao e intervencao em contextos clinicos e educacionais.

Is the offence the best defense? Influences of childhood experiences and paranoia in the aggression in Azorean youths

EnglishParanoid ideation is a normative cognitive and social process considered normative (e.g. occasional mistrust feelings) or dysfunctional and pathological symptom (e.g. Paranoid delusions). Even at subclinical levels, paranoid ideation can hinder interpersonal functioning, to the extent that the resulting disruptive behavior can impact several life areas (e.g. family, peer and academic/professional relationships). The current study explores the influence of parental styles and the mediating role of paranoid ideation in aggression during adolescence, and discusses the implications for prevention and intervention in clinical and educational settings portuguesA ideacao paranoide e um processo cognitivo e social que pode ser considerado normativo (e.g. sentimentos de desconfianca ocasionais) ou disfuncional, constituindo-se, neste ultimo caso, como um sintoma psicopatologico (e.g. delirios paranoides). Mesmo em niveis subclinicos, a ideacao paranoide pode constituir um entrave para o bom funcionamento interpessoal, na medida em que o comportamento disruptivo que dela advem pode afetar todas as esferas de funcionamento do individuo (e.g. relacoes familiares, entre pares, profissionais e/ou academicas). O presente estudo explorara a influencia dos estilos parentais e o papel mediador da ideacao paranoide na agressividade durante a adolescencia, bem como as implicacoes para a prevencao e intervencao em contextos clinicos e educacionais.

Contributos da psicologia para o estudo da indisciplina na sala de aula

In the last decades parents, teachers and educators in general have been feeling an increasing concern about students disruptive behaviour in schools. Underlying these concerns are the growing number of students with disruptive behaviour, the severity of these behaviours, and their manifestation in ever younger pupils. This article presents a descriptive and exploratory study designed to explore teachers’ conceptions of classroom disruption. A set of situations containing classroom disruptive behaviours were created and later presented to teachers of grades seven to nine in schools of Ponta Delgada, Acores. We aimed at finding out which of these situations teachers considered more severe in terms of disruption, which factors they believed were more influential, and what kind of interventions they considered more appropriate to deal with those situations.