Miguel, Isabel
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Isabel Miguel holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Graduate degree in Psychology, by the same University. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Education at Portucalense University (UPT), where she teaches in the fields of social psychology and developmental psychology. She is the Erasmus Coordinator for the Department of Psychology and Education, at UPT. She is an integrated member of Portucalense Psychology Institute (I2P) of Portucalense University. At present, her main research interests include social representations, social psychology of development, social contexts of aging, age attitudes and discrimination, and behavior change. She has (co-) authored publication in scientific journals, conferences proceedings and book chapter in these fields. She is a founding member of the Social Psychology Center (NPO) of the Portuguese Association of Psychology (APP).
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I2P - Instituto Portucalense de Psicologia.
DPE - Departamento de Psicologia e Educação.
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CINTESIS.UPT - Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde (CINTESIS.UPT), former I2P, is an R&D unit devoted to the study of cognition and behaviour in context. With an interdisciplinary focus, namely on Education, Translational and Applied Psychology
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Publication Open Access Questionário de Estilos e Dimensões Parentais – Versão Reduzida: Adaptação portuguesa do Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire – Short Form.2009 - Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Carugati, Felice; Miguel, IsabelO Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire – Short Form (Robinson, Mandleco, Olsen & Hart, 2001) é um questionário utilizado para avaliar os estilos parentais de pais e mães de crianças em idade escolar, cujas qualidades psicométricas estão bem estabelecidas internacionalmente. Com o objectivo de apresentar a versão portuguesa deste instrumento, o questionário foi aplicado a uma amostra de 344 pais e mães com filhos a frequentar o 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. A sua estrutura, evidenciada graças ao recurso à técnica de modelação de equações estruturais (análise factorial confirmatória), revelou-se semelhante à original: multidimensional e hierárquica, formada por factores de primeira e segunda ordem, que diferenciam os estilos parentais democrático, autoritário e permissivo, bem como as respectivas dimensões. Em termos gerais, os resultados finais revelam um bom ajustamento do modelo teórico aos dados. A consistência interna apresenta, igualmente, valores próximos da versão original, podendo ser considerada satisfatória.Publication Restricted Access Perspectives on perceived workplace age discrimination and engagement: The moderating role of emotion regulation2024-04-22 - Miguel, Isabel; von Humboldt, Sofia; Silva, Sara; Tavares, Patrícia; Low, Gail; Leal, Isabel; Valentim, Joaquim PiresEngaging workers with their work is fundamental for employee wellbeing and performance. Perceived age discrimination in the workplace is a factor that may influence workers’ engagement. The present study aimed to analyze the moderating role of emotion regulation in the relationship between perceived age discrimination and work engagement. Survey data were collected from a sample of 453 Portuguese workers of various age groups, between 18 and 65 years-old. Four instruments were used in this study: (a) a sociodemographic questionnaire; (b) the Workplace Age Discrimination Scale (WADS); (c) the Emotion Regulation Scale and (d) the reduced version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9). Results show that perceived workplace age discrimination negatively impacts work engagement. Further, results suggest that emotional regulation exacerbates the negative relationship between perceived age discrimination and work engagement. The progressively aging workforce is creating challenging issues to organizations, from a human resource management perspective. Age management strategies to address perceived age discrimination and work engagement are needed.Publication Restricted Access Is age an issue? Psychosocial differences in perceived older workers’ work (un)adaptability, effectiveness, and workplace age discrimination2022-12-15 - Humboldt, Sofia von; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Costa, Andrea; Low, Gail; Leal, Isabel; Miguel, IsabelThe aging population in the developed world has implied increasing age diversity in the workforce of organizations. Consequently, mutual perceptions about one’s coworkers and age discrimination are becoming increasingly important. This study aims to explore how perceptions about older workers’ work (un)adaptability, work effectiveness, and workplace age discrimination vary according to participants’ psychosocial factors, such as age group, gender, education level, and work sector. This study included a sample of 453 workers in Portugal, diverse in terms of age, gender, education level, and work sector. Four different instruments were used: (a) a sociodemographic questionnaire; (b) an older workers’ Work Adaptability scale; (c) an older workers’ Work Effectiveness Scale and; (d) the Workplace Age Discrimination Scale (WADS). Results: Middle-aged and older participants perceive older workers as more adaptable than younger participants. The oldest group of participants perceives older workers to be more workeffective and experience the highest levels of age discrimination in the workplace, when compared to the other age groups. Also, participants with lower levels of education tend to perceive higher levels of workplace age discrimination, when compared to participants with high school and higher education. Conclusions: Generational perceptions in the workplace are perceived by workers differently, hence organizations should implement age management strategies to address age discrimination, particularly due to the increasing proportion of older workers.Publication Open Access Parental ideas and their role in childrearing: The idea-behavior connection.2009 - Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Carugati, Felice; Miguel, IsabelThe relation between parental ideas and actions is an old and troublesome issue in socialization research. Parental ideas are assumed to play an important role as determinants of parental actions and the issue has received increasing attention. In this article, the idea-behavior dilemma is dealt with. In order to help glimpse underlying assumptions and build an accurate understanding of the role that childrearing ideas play in parents’ functioning, a review of several empirical approaches and studies is presented and limitations of current idea-behavior research are highlighted. Throughout the discussion, the complexity of the idea-behavior links is exposed and attention is called to the theoretical and practical importance of research connecting parents’ ideas and their behaviors for understanding, predicting and changing parental behavior. Finally, a perspective for the study of parents’ ideas is presented.Publication Open Access Colonialism in Portuguese History textbooks: A diachronic psychosocial study2018 - Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Miguel, IsabelPublication Open Access What influences representations on vaccines and children’s vaccination? A psychosocial study on mothers’ representations, values, and decision-making styles2022-03-16 - Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Carugati, Felice; Selleri, Patrizia; Miguel, IsabelAlthough the complex reasons underlying parents’ decision whether to vaccinate their children have been largely unraveled, a socio-cognitive perspective on the representational field of vaccination is missing. This study is a contribution to fill such a gap. A sample of 309 Portuguese mothers with children aged 0-6 years answered a self-administered questionnaire. Results show that psychosocial variables such as the number of children modulate mothers’ representations of vaccination as a matter of freedom of choice and preference for natural immunity, while age of children and having (or not) searched for information in-fluence their confidence in vaccines. Also, results show that representations related to freedom of choice, preference for natural immunity, and conspiracy theories are positively predicted by individualism values and a dependent decision-making style, whereas confidence in vaccines is positively associated with uni-versalism values and a rational decision-making style. We discuss the implications of the socio-cognitive dynamics organizing mothers’ representations about vaccines and vaccination for the understanding of behaviors about vaccines and the development of tailored measures for vaccination promotion.Publication Open Access Social representations of the development of intelligence, parental values and parenting styles: A theoretical model for analysis2013 - Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Carugati, Felice; Miguel, IsabelWithin the theoretical framework of social representations theory, a substantial body of literature has advocated and shown that, as interpretative systems and forms of knowledge concurring in the construction of a social reality, social representations are guides for action, influencing behaviours and social relations. Based on this assumption, the primary goal of the current study was to investigate the relationship between social representations of the development of intelligence and parenting styles while also examining the role played by the values that parents desire for their children. The sample included 466 subjects with educational responsibilities (117 fathers, 227 mothers and 122 mother–teachers). Participants completed a self-administered survey on their representations of the development of intelligence, values desired for their children and parenting styles. A theoretical model which examined the relations among these variables was tested. Structural equation modelling procedures indicated, as hypothesised, that dimensions which emphasise the role of parents and the importance of constant accompaniment of children for the development of intelligence influence the authoritative parenting style, while dimensions which outline the role of school and teachers relate to authoritarian and permissive parenting styles. Additionally, although in some cases values were seen both to be determined bysocial representations and to influence parenting styles, the meditational hypothesis of values was not fully confirmed. Overall, the results obtained suggest that social representations, styles and values tend to build up a potentially significant organisation for parental activities. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings in research and educational intervention are discussed.Publication Open Access The degree of proximity in the construction of social representations: The case of intelligence.2012 - Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Carugati, Felice; Miguel, IsabelThe present article is devoted to the empirical endeavor of studying the effect of the degree of proximity, defined by specific socio-educational insertions, on the organization of social representations of intelligence. A questionnaire was answered by a sample of 752 participants belonging to five different social categories with different degrees of proximity and knowledge about intelligence: mothers, fathers, mother-teachers and non-parent students (psychology and science students). The questionnaire included different topics, namely concerning the concept of intelligence, its development and the effectiveness of teaching procedures. Results show that the principles organizing the contents of representations are linked to the personal involvement in intelligence, on which subjects more or less implied take different positions. Results produced suggest, therefore, that the content of representations is directly linked to the activation of social roles and the salience of the object, reflecting the functional character that the organization of representations has to specific social dynamics.Publication Open Access Psychosocial differences in perceived older workers’ work (un)adaptability, effectiveness, and workplace age discrimination [abstract]2023-07-19 - Humboldt, Sofia; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Andrea, Costa; Low, Gail; Leal, Isabel; Miguel, IsabelIntroduction: The aging population in the developed world has implied increasing age diversity in the workforce of organizations. Consequently, mutual perceptions about one’s co-workers and age discrimination is becoming increasingly important. Objectives: This study aims to explore how perceptions about older workers’ work (un)adaptability, work effectiveness and workplace age discrimination vary according to participants’ psychosocial factors, such as age group, gender, education level and work sector. Methods: This study included a sample of 453 workers in Portugal, diverse in terms of age, gender, education level and work sector. Four different instruments were used: (a) a sociodemographic questionnaire; (b) an older workers’ Work Adaptability scale; (c) an older workers’ Work Effectiveness Scale and; (d) the Workplace Age Discrimination Scale (WADS). Results: Middle-aged and older participants perceive older workers as more adaptable than younger participants. The oldest group of participants perceives older workers to be more work-effective and experience the highest levels of age discrimination in the workplace, when compared to the other age groups. Also, participants with lower levels of education tend to perceive higher levels of workplace age discrimination, when compared to participants with high school and higher education. Conclusions: Generational perceptions in the workplace are perceived by workers differently, hence organizations should implement age management strategies to address age discrimination, particularly due to the increasing proportion of older workers.Publication Open Access Workplace age discrimination and engagement: The role of emotional regulation [abstract]2023-07-19 - Silva, Sara; Sofia, Humboldt; Tavares, Patrícia; Low, Gail; Leal, Isabel; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Miguel, IsabelIntroduction: Gaining competitive advantage is essential to modern organizations, for which it is fundamental that workers are engaged with their work. Perceived age discrimination in the workplace is a factor that may influence workers’ engagement. Objectives: The present study aimed to analyze the moderating role of emotional regulation in the relationship between perceived age discrimination and work engagement. Methods:This empirical study included a sample of 452 Portuguese workers of various age groups, between 18 and 65 years-old and used the questionnaire as data collection method. Results: Results show that perceived workplace age discrimination negatively impacts work engagement. Further, results suggest that emotional regulation exacerbates the negative relationship between perceived age discrimination and work engagement. Conclusions: Age management strategies to address perceived age discrimination and work engagement, particularly due to the increasing proportion of older workers, are discussed.