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- Autonomy, competence, and relatedness: Unpacking faculty motivation in service-learningPublication . Compare, Christian; Rivero, Catarina; João Vargas Moniz, Maria; Albanesi, CinziaService-learning (SL) has gained global popularity for promotingstudents’civic engagement and democratic and pluralistic valuesand impacting faculty and communities. It relies on foundationalpillars (the 4 Rs): respect, reciprocity, relevance, and reflexivity.While the drivers of faculty motivation have received attention fromresearchers, a gap remains in understanding what sustains theirmotivation and engagement over time. This study aims to addressthis gap by exploring the perspectives of a group of Europeanscholars through the lens of Self-Determination Theory. A hybridthematic analysis was employed to analyze the 22 semi-structuredinterviews collected in 14 European countries. Thefindings revealthat SL exerts a transformative influence on the community,students, faculty, and higher education institutions, nurturing aheightened sense of competence among faculty members.Institutionalization is a pivotal factor in sustaining and rewardingengaged faculty scholarship, enabling autonomy in academic roles,and aligning personal values with institutional endeavors. Finally,the community experience within SL fosters positive connectionswith colleagues and communities at local, national, andinternational levels. As a result, this study introduces afifthfoundational pillar, extending the existing 4 Rs model:relatedness.Future research directions and implications are proposed.
- The impact of community resilience, well-being, and community attachment on human service workers’ burnoutPublication . Henriques, Joana; Luís, Sílvia; Rivero, Catarina; Gonçalves, Sónia P; Tavares, Lara Patrício; Marujo, Helena ÁBurnout has become an increasingly prevalent condition, especially affecting professionals in direct contact with clients. Human service workers (HSWs) have quite emotionally taxing jobs supporting vulnerable groups. In developing a close relationship with the communities they work with, it could be possible that community-related variables have an impact on HSWs’ burnout. We aim to analyze the prevalence of burnout in a sample of HSWs from Portugal and the role of community resilience as a predictor of their burnout, as well as explore if their subjective well-being and community attachment could explain the relationship between community resilience and burnout, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through an online questionnaire between August 2020 and January 2021 ( N = 598). Results indicate that HSWs presented medium to low levels of burnout, although 8.9% presented high levels. Those who reported lower levels of burnout perceived higher community resilience and had much higher well-being and community attachment. Findings point to community resilience having a significant direct effect on burnout and also an indirect effect, which was explained by subjective well-being and community attachment. Results seem to suggest that this sample's low-medium levels of burnout could be linked to the benefit of experiencing high community attachment and working in communities with high resilience, which consequently impacted their well-being and burnout. This highlights the crucial role of the work context in professionals’ mental health, showing that a broader context needs to be considered in professional mental health promotion programs.
- Revolução positiva: Psicologia positiva e práticas apreciativas em contextos organizacionaisPublication . Marujo, Helena Águeda; Neto, Luís Miguel; Caetano, Ana; Rivero, CatarinaO movimento emergente da psicologia positiva cresceu exponencialmente desde o seu surgimento formal no início do milénio. Tem tido como objectivo o estudo científico das emoções positivas, do carácter positivo e das instituições positivas. Em paralelo, as ciências sociais e humanas viram desenvolver e cimentar-se práticas inovadoras oriundas de outros quadrantes teóricos, como o Inquérito Apreciativo, suportado numa perspectiva de construcionismo social, e devotado à mudança positiva através de intervenções sistémicas e comunicacionais nas organizações. O valor de uma abordagem positiva nas organizações e locais de trabalho tem vindo a ser reconhecido, cada vez com mais vigor, e aprofundou-se em redor de novas teorias e investigações, tendo já levado ao surgimento de uma nova linguagem e de novos conceitos, como o Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), o Comportamento Organizacional Positivo (POB), e a Gestão Positiva de Capital Psicológico. Este artigo apresenta os modelos da Psicologia Positiva e do Inquérito Apreciativo, e revê os seus recentes desenvolvimentos, bem como as práticas de aplicação a que têm dado origem, explicitando as razões defendidas pelos autores para a sua integração e complementaridade na intervenção em organizações. Termina apresentando um estudo de caso no contexto educativo, destinado ao desenvolvimento organizacional positivo, e que concretiza na prática a conexão entre os modelos analisados.