Browsing by Author "Pereira, Cícero Roberto"
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- Relational job characteristics and well-being of Brazilian K-12 teachersPublication . Klein, Natan; Costa, Carlos; Pereira, Cícero Roberto; Chambel, M.J.; Marôco, JoãoA teacher’s relationship with students can be a source of more than stress. The attributes of relational jobs either promote positive (e.g., work engagement) or inhibit negative (e.g., exhaustion) psychological states that constitute potential predictors of teachers’ general well-being (e.g., health perception). The present study tests hypotheses regarding the relationships between the psychological efects of relational job characteristics and teachers’ work-related and context-free well-being indicators. Preschool, primary, and secondary Brazilian school teachers (n=2205) responded to a cross-sectional survey. Data were analyzed by multiple mediator structural equation modeling. The psychological efects of relational job characteristics predicted exhaustion, engagement, and health perception. Findings support indirect efects on health perception of exhaustion and engagement. Data were interpreted according to the job demands-resources model, where the relational job characteristics constitute essential resources that foster work engagement, diminish burnout, and indirectly afect more generalized well-being states such as general health. Possible explanations for the relationships are discussed.
- Validation of the revised Belief in a Just World Scale based on Popular SayingsPublication . Linhares, Layanne Vieira; Torres, Ana Raquel Rosas; Pereira, Cícero RobertoAbstract: The development of measures that assess individual differences in the Belief in a Just World plays an important role in advancing research in this area. The intent of this article was to validate a new version of the Belief in a Just World Scale based on Popular Sayings (BJWPS), proposing that this measure may be an alternative to the original scale. For this, two studies were developed: Study 1 (N=160) aimed to presenting psychometric evidence for a new version of the BJWPS scale through an exploratory factor analysis. Study 2 (N=144) aimed to verify the goodness-of-fit of the proposed measurement model using confirmatory factor analysis. Results of the two studies indicated a single-factor structure that assesses BJW, which corroborates the theoretical frameworks of the BJW scales. Together, the results allow us to conclude that the BJWPS presented satisfactory psychometric indexes.