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Staying well in old age: Predicting older adults’ wellness
von Humboldt, Sofia; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Pimenta, FilipaIn an ageing world, the potential for ageing well in older people is still relatively unexplored. Literature has suggested that a sense of coherence (SOC) is an important factor with regard to retaining a good quality of life in old age. To explore whether satisfaction with life (SWL), as well as sociodemographic, health- and lifestyle-related variables, are predictors of SOC in a community-dwelling sample of o...
Assessing subjective age and adjustment to aging in a portuguese and german old...
von Humboldt, Sofia; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Pimenta, FilipaPurpose: This study aims at examining the contributors to adjustment to aging (AtA) and subjective age (SA) identified by older adults and to investigate the latent constructs that can work as major determinants in AtA and SA in an older Portuguese and German population. Method: Measures were completed, using a variety of appropriate methods, including demographics and interviews. Complete data were available f...
Adjustment and age through the eyes of portuguese and english community dwellin...
Humboldt, Sofia von; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Pimenta, FilipaTo analyze subjective age (SA) and the contributors to adjustment to aging (AtA) identified by older adults and to investigate the latent constructs that can work as major determinants in SA and AtA in an older population. Method: Measures were completed, using a variety of appropriate methods, including demographics and interviews. Complete data were available for 108 older adults aged between 75-99 years (M =...
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Latent constructs of adjustment to aging and subjective age in Portugal and Rom...
von Humboldt, Sofia; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Pimenta, Filipa; Niculescu, GeorgetaObjective: To analyze the determinants of adjustment to aging (AtA) and subjective age (SA) identified by older adults and to investigate the differences of latent constructs that can work as major determinants in AtA and SA in an older Portuguese and Romanian population. Method: Measures were completed, including demographics and interviews. Complete data were available for 38 older adults aged between 74-90 y...
The portuguese version of the perceived control over hot flushes index: Evaluat...
Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Maroco, JoãoAim: This research aims at validating an instrument to assess the perception of control over hot flushes, frequent symptoms during menopause. Method: A sample of 243 symptomatic women completed the Perceived Control over Hot Flushes Index, PCoHFI (Reynolds, 1997), two subscales from the Menopause Symptoms’ Severity Inventory, MSSI-38 (Pimenta et al., 2011) to assess perceived loss of control and vasomotor sympt...
Brief cognitive-behavioral therapy for weight loss in midlife women: A controll...
Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Maroco, João; Ramos, CatarinaObjective: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has proven to be effective in weight reduction. This study explores whether individual, 8-session CBT can promote weight loss in midlife women. Methods: Anthropometric (weight, abdominal perimeter, and body mass index calculation), psychological (health-related and sexual quality of life, stress, anxiety, and depression), and behavioral measures (binge eating disord...
Adjustment to aging, subjective age and age representation: Assessing a nationa...
von Humboldt, Sofia; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Pimenta, Filipa; Niculescu, GeorgetaAim: This research sought to analyse older adults’ conceptualization of adjustment to aging (AtA), subjective age (SA) and age representation (AR), adding a cross-national comparative perspective to aging well. Method: Questionnaires were completed, assessing participants’ background information. Semi-structured interviews were performed, addressing three core areas: SA, AtA and AR. Complete information on 231 ...
Menopause and midlife: menopausal symptoms, body weight and well-being
Pimenta, FilipaDissertação apresentado ao ISPA-Instituto Universitário para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Psicologia Aplicada: Especialidade Psicologia da Saúde ; A menopausa tem sido genericamente definida como um fenómeno bio-médico, tendo como consequência a emergência de sintomas físicos e psicológicos decorrentes da diminuição de estrogénios endógenos. O presente trabalho pretende alargar esta conceptualização da menopa...
Adaptação e estudo da escala de valor da saúde
Pimenta, Filipa; Leal, Isabel Pereira; Maroco, JoãoO presente estudo pretende averiguar se pessoas com diferentes comportamentos de consumo de tabaco valorizam a sua saúde de forma discrepante; é igualmente objectivo desta investigação adaptar a Escala de Valor da Saúde (Lau, Hartman, & Ware, 1986) à população Portuguesa. Para tal aplicou-se o instrumento a uma amostra de 380 estudantes universitários (fumadores regulares, ocasionais e exfumadores). Os resultad...
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