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Margarida Gaspar de Matos

Publications (4)

Challenges for Prevention and Promotion in the 21st Century

Margarida Gaspar de Matos & Lucia Ramiro · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2018

Prevention is now considered as a way to spread curiosity and commitment and has to do with the creation of communities where it is believed that "good things happen" and that people are part of them.  Promoting people positive development, that is, promoting competence, motivati...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JESBS/2018/43287

Caffeine, Sleep Duration and Adolescents’ Perception of Health Related Quality of Life

Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Teresa Paiva, David Costa, Tânia Gaspar & Diana Galvão · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Introduction: The main objective of this study was to understand the impact of caffeine on adolescents’ health and health related behaviours, namely sleep duration and health related quality of life. Methods: Students in the 6th, 8th and 10th grades were chosen randomly from clus...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23894

When Foster Care is Called “Home”: Risk and Protective Issues

Inês Camacho, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Catarina Mota, Gina Tomé, Marta Reis & Antonia Jiménez-Iglesias · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Aim: The aim of this study was to understand in depth the differences that exist between adolescents in foster care and adolescents living with their families (living with mother and father; living with mother or father; living with mother and stepfather; living with father and s...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24093

Strangers, Powerless and Hopeless in their Own Town: Alienation among Adolescents in Times of Recession

Gina Tomé, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Inês Camacho, Celeste Simões, Paulo Gomes & José Caldas de Almeida · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2015

The present work aims to make use of a national survey in order to propose an analysis of all the available indicators theoretically associated with the construct of alienation, and then validate a tool enabling not only to estimate alienation and its components in Portuguese ado...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2015/17546