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The relationship between character strengths and the Dark Triad

This study aimed to verify the mean difference of the 24 character strengths considering the level of each character strength in relation to the Dark Triad of personality. A total of 284 people participated in the study, responding to the Character Strength Scale and to the Short Dark Triad. Among them, ...

Low back pain: biopsychosocial aspects of chronic and acute pain

Chronic low back pain is a highly prevalent pathology, which has unclear associations with psychosocial aspects. This study investigated differences between patients with chronic low back pain (n = 25) and acute low back pain (n = 20) and verified the effect of the variables assessed on the pain mean. Th...

Perfis artísticos em dança: os casos de Lac e Les Poupées

Este estudo tem por objeto a descrição de traços presentes em perfis artísticos em dança que reconhecemos por sua estabilidade e persistência. Toma como primeira investidura os casos de Lac (Sandro Borelli) e Les Poupées (Marta Soares). Com o modelo do Big Five - os cinco grandes fatores da person...

Diferenças de sexo no endosso de valores humanos: o papel mediador da ganância

Psico (Porto Alegre); 53 (1), 2022
No Brasil, inexistem investigações dos correlatos psicológicos e sociodemográficos da ganância. Este estudo investigou a relação entre a ganância e os valores humanos. Ainda, testou-se o efeito mediador da ganância na diferença entre sexos no endosso dos valores humanos. Os participantes respon...

Disonancia cognitiva y educación universitaria en tiempo demigración venezolana

La disonancia cognitiva (DC) representa un elemento psicológico bastante común en la sociedad. Las personas, sin importar edades ni condición social y mucho menos niveles de estudios, suelen caer permanentemente en este juego de ideas entre valores y realidades. Esto...

Evidence-based interventions for promoting prosocial behavior in schools: integrative review

Psicol. teor. prát; 23 (3), 2021
Since the last decades, an increasing number of research in schools have looked towards prosocial behavior, which refers to voluntary actions aimed at benefiting other individuals. This study aimed to describe evidence-based interventions, available in the national and international literature, focused o...

Conflict Resolution Behavior Questionnaire: new evidences of validity

Psico USF; 26 (3), 2021
This study aimed to investigate new evidence of internal and external validity of the Conflict Resolution Behavior Questionnaire (CRBQ) for the context of the state of Paraíba, Brazil. A total of 252 people participated this study, being in a marital relationship, with an average age of 38.3 years (SD =...

Relationship between depression and global and specific personality global functioning

Psicol. teor. prát; 23 (2), 2021
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between depressive symptoms and pathological personality functioning (PPF) and specific indicators of pathological personality patterns. The participants were 446 adults from the general population. Part of the sample (n = 237) answered scales evaluating t...

Effects of social skills training on school climate

Psicol. teor. prát; 23 (2), 2021
Studies point out that the development of social skills can interfere in the students' behavior and consequently in the environment, favoring the school climate and the acquisition of knowledge. Thus, this research aimed to identify the effects of a Social Skills Training (SST) on the school climate. 21 ...