Promoting personal and social competence with the elderly : a community-based program

The purpose of the present work is to describe and present the final results of a Personal and Social Competence Promotion Program – PSCPP [1] [2] carried out in the community with a group of older people (> 55 years) living in Lisbon. This project [4] was born from a partnership between Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém and the Social Adventure’s team of the Faculty of Human Kinetics. The mentioned project took place from November 2003 until July of 2005, and included both regular and extra sessions. The “Peer” Project aimed at promoting healthy life styles; developing interpersonal skills, collaboration and support competences among the seniors; as well as adaptation to aging and development of behaviors related to positive health. In the first year, a group of elderly volunteered to participate in the sessions carried out by the technician and, in the second year, some elements of this group leaded the session for other new-comers.FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), IDP (Instituto do Desporto de Portugal), AIESEP World Congres

ANÁLISE DA POLÍTICA DE SEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR: UM OLHAR PARA A ALIMENTAÇÃO ESCOLAR COMO POLÍTICA SOCIAL

Resumo A Política Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (PNSAN), de 2010, tem como objetivo promover a SAN e garantir o Direito Humano a Alimentação Adequada (DHAA). Tais metas apresentam-se como norteadores de políticas e programas, direcionando ações de promoção da alimentação saudável. Dessa forma, este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a PNSAN a luz da trajetória do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (PNAE), primeira política social de alimentação e nutrição que, após 60 anos, torna-se atualmente destaque no cenário brasileiro e internacional, referência de política pública pautada na SAN e na garantia do DHAA. Assim, o PNAE destaca-se por contribuir para a consolidação dos objetivos da PNSAN e garantir acesso da população à alimentação saudável, de modo descentralizado e participativo, sendo fundamental para atendimento da população mais vulnerável, auxiliando no combate à miséria e a fome

Community-based intervention in schools : a personal and social competence promotion program

Primary prevention, through universal interventions, aims at the development of personal and social resources, and nowadays, it is one of the most important strategies for the prevention of drugs abuse in youth. School setting is pointed out as one of the best scenarios for health promotion actions. In this article are shown results of a Personal and Social Competences Promotion Program - PSCPP [1] [2] which took place in two schools in Lisbon. The program aims to prevent substance use, by means of developing personal and social competences. 100 students, aged between eight and eleven years, participated, mostly boys. The intervention occurred during school classes and was based on role-playing activities. Evaluation showed significant positive results in what concerns psychological difficulties, perception of social support, and problem solving competences. Teachers’ evaluation pointed out a better social behaviour among peers, as well as the importance of implementing programs promoting personal and social competences in schools. PSCPP had a positive impact on children positive health. Details of this project can be found in a manual [3].FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), IDP (Instituto do Desporto de Portugal), AIESEP World Congres

There is no failure. Only feedback- enhancing effort throw change oriented feedback: the mediation effects of organizational based self-esteem and trust in leader

Feedback is a powerful way of interaction between leaders and their teams. However, its benefits on future performance are found not to be linear. Prompting oriented feedback (or positive feedback) has a positive influence on future performance, however, according to past research, the same relation is not consistent for change oriented feedback (or negative feedback). With this research, we propose to study the relation between change oriented feedback and individual effort. Moreover, we test two possible mechanisms (mediators) of change oriented feedback on individual effort. To perform this study, we used a sample of youth football players and their coaches, participating in an end season football tournament

Prevention of bullying in schools: an ecological model

The main goal is to understand the different processes, characteristics, settings and timing of bullying behaviour according to ecological system theory. The data is based on the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children surveys conducted in 1997/1998 and 2001/2002 in which students with average ages of 11.5, 13.5 and 15.5 years participated. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, logistic regression, and structural equation modelling and multiple regression. Victims are usually highly associated with internalizing behaviours, bullies frequently indicate a high association with externalizing behaviours, and bully/victims often have strong associations with excessive and extreme behaviours of both an internalizing and an externalizing type. For each country, with in the school, victims and bully/victims reported lower levels of support from classmates, and bullies and bully/victims received similar support from teachers. Outside school, victims reported lower levels of support from friends. Across nations, bullying attained its highest prevalence, for both victims and bullies, in the lower and higher GDP countries (U-shaped curve). These findings support the assumption that involvement in bullying will damage the healthy development of young people and turn the world into malfunctioning societies. It is important for society to develop strategies that might prevent bullying, and school is considered to be a particularly important setting for implementing systematic approaches towards preventing bullying behaviour. Furthermore, school is in a position to initiate collaboration with both parents and local community which is important for wide reaching impact of the prevention strategies

Modelo Cost-Of-Carry: Mispricing, Retornos e Volatilidades do Índice PSI-20 e dos Futuros PSI-20

Perante a evidência de um mispricing entre o preço do contracto de Futuros PSI-20 e o preço teórico do Futuro PSI-20, modelizado segundo a teoria do cost-of-carry, procedemos à análise da dinâmica da rentabilidade e da volatilidade entre o índice PSI-20 e o Futuro PSI-20. A evidência empírica mostra que existe interdependência entre os retornos dos dois mercados, no curto prazo. No que concerne à volatilidade, transmissão que se verifica, no curto prazo, é dentro do próprio mercado, não se verificando volatilidade cruzada. A volatilidade dos mercados decorre, também, da sazonalidade intraday.Contracto Futuro, Mispricing, Cost-of-carry

The impact of brand reputation on financial performance

As the business world moves towards the digital era, conversations about brands are being held around the world, which can affect the perception that people have about companies. Consequently, it has become imperative to address the topic of brand reputation management so that companies have control over the information being shared about them to protect, preserve and enhance their brands and businesses. Following this reasoning, this thesis investigated the impact of brand reputation in the financial performance of companies in Portugal, particularly, in the banking sector. It analysed how brand reputation performs as a differentiating factor for businesses and may represent a source of competitive advantage that allows companies to outperform their competitors and survive. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered through experts’ interviews and surveys to consumers, investors, journalists and C-level/board directors. The aim of this exercise was to analyse how people develop perceptions of brands and how different brand attributes affect the reputation of a brand reputation and financial performance of companies across different sectors of the Portuguese economy. Furthermore, this dissertation compared the performance of strongly perceived brands with its competitors and investigated how a reputational crisis affects the financial performance of companies through the analysis of Banco Espírito Santo’s governance scandal case study.Com a entrada do mundo do negócio na era digital, as marcas são faladas por todo o mundo, o que pode impactar a perceção que as pessoas têm das empresas. Consequentemente, tornou-se imperativo abordar a gestão da reputação das marcas para que as empresas possam gerir a informação partilhada para proteger, preservar e reforçar as suas marcas e negócios. Como tal, esta tese investiga o impacto que a reputação de marca tem na performance financeira de empresas em Portugal, particularmente, no setor da banca. A tese analisa como a reputação de marca desempenha um papel diferenciador para as empresas e pode representar uma fonte de vantagem competitiva que permita às empresas superar a concorrência e sobreviver. Foram recolhidas informações qualitativa e quantitativa através de entrevistas a peritos de indústria e questionários a consumidores, investidores, jornalistas e diretores de empresas. O objetivo deste exercício foi de analisar como as pessoas desenvolvem perceções de marcas e como diferentes atributos de marca afetam a sua reputação e a performance financeira de empresas dos vários setores de atividade em Portugal. Adicionalmente, esta tese comparou a performance financeira de marcas com reputações fortes com os seus rivais no mercado de ações e investigou como uma crise reputacional impacta os resultados das empresas através da análise do caso da crise de governo do Banco Espírito Santo