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Background: Psychological flexibility is essential for mental health, yet its assessment still lacks instruments suited to the Portuguese context. This study aimed to address that gap by validating an innovative instrument that integrates specific dimensions and presents robust evidence of reliability and validity, distinguishing it from existing measures. Aim: To validate the Personalized Psychological Flexibility Index (PPFI) for the Portuguese population by analyzing its factorial structure, internal consistency, item quality, test-retest reliability, and relationship with relevant variables. Method: A total of 368 participants aged between 18 and 62 (M = 25.44, SD = 9.50) completed an online protocol comprising sociodemographic questions and self-report instruments assessing psychological flexibility (PPFI and MPFI-24), values (ELS-9), psychological inflexibility (AAQ-II), and positive and negative affect (PANAS). The PPFI retest was conducted with 57 participants after a four-week interval. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis supported a hierarchical model with a higher-order factor (total score) and three lower-order factors (Avoidance, Acceptance, and Engagement), yielding acceptable fit indices. The PPFI demonstrated good reliability (α = 0.70) for both the total score and subfactors and strong test-retest reliability. It positively correlated with psychological flexibility (MPFI-24), personal values (ELS-9), and positive affect (PANAS-P) and negatively with experiential avoidance (AAQ-II) and negative affect (PANAS-N). Age and gender showed no significant correlation with the overall PPFI score. Conclusions: The PPFI proved to be a valid and reliable instrument for assessing psychological flexibility in Portuguese adults. Its validation contributes to evidence-based practice and is particularly relevant for research on the effectiveness of interventions promoting psychological flexibility.

Background: Prison work is associated with intense physical, emotional, and social demands and is internationally recognized as a high-risk occupation with significant psychosocial vulnerability. In the Amazonian context, these challenges are further exacerbated by institutional precariousness and structural inequalities. Objectives: To understand, from the perspective of prison workers themselves, the living and working conditions of prison security agents in Santarém, Pará, and to analyze the impacts of this experience on their physical, mental, and relational health. Methods: This exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative study was conducted with 33 prison officers from two correctional facilities. Data were collected through focus groups and analyzed using Bardin's content analysis, supported by NVivo 11 Pro Student software. Results: The findings revealed adverse working conditions, including functional overload, institutional insecurity, and inadequate infrastructure. Narratives showed evidence of physical and mental suffering, rigid professional identity, familial and social repercussions, and gender inequalities. Coping strategies included emotional support from family members and the role of spirituality. Conclusions: The study highlights the urgent need for institutional policies that recognize occupational suffering as a collective phenomenon and promote comprehensive care and professional recognition within the prison system.

Background: People living with HIV (PLHIV) face significant psychosocial adversities that can compromise their well-being. Resilience has been investigated as a key process in fostering positive adaptation to these challenges. Aim: To conduct an integrative literature review on resilience in PLHIV, identifying the conceptual frameworks used, risk and protective factors, and psychosocial adjustment indicators examined. Method: A comprehensive search was performed in the PUBMED, PsycINFO, SciELO, LILACS, PePSIC, and Index Psi databases for articles published between 2014 and 2023. Empirical studies with an explicit focus on resilience in the context of HIV were included. Results: Thirty-three studies were analyzed. Main risk factors identified included stigma in its various forms, structural inequalities, mental health disorders, and barriers to care. Protective factors included social support, religiosity, active coping strategies, access to health services, and awareness of rights. Resilience was associated with improved mental health, enhanced quality of life, and greater adherence to treatment. Conclusions: Resilience in PLHIV is a dynamic and context-sensitive process, influenced by multiple ecological levels. Understanding its mechanisms is essential for designing clinical interventions and public health policies that promote well-being and equity.

Violence against sexual and gender diversity is a present reality worldwide reaching all social subjects independent of their Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expressions and/or Sexual Characteristics – OIEC. This still poorly investigated phenomenon has advanced in recent years with the growth of hate discourse against all social subjects threatening and/or rupturing with heteronormativity in society, causing numerous consequences and aggravates the health of their direct and indirect victims. This paper focuses on the analysis of the consequences of homotransphobic violences against sexual and gender diversity in Portugal, through the study of officials of the officials in the Public Safety Forces and the Judiciary Police Office, among the PJ, among the years 2015 and 2020. The study in question reviews 29 reports/news records, documents with records of complaints of Criminal Criminal Investigation Departments Surveys – DIAPs across national territory. The investigation stands out as the first mapping of official hate crime cases with homophobic and/or transphobic motivations in Portugal. It consists of a descriptive and documentary study of qualitative character using content analysis, in the embodiment of thematic categorization of Bardin (2016). Major results show that most homotransphobic hate crimes are cyber-crimes and cyberbullying with unknown, disknowledge and underreported authorships, featuring diverse types and natures of violence with serious consequences of physical, psychological, economic and social character, directly compromising health and the welfare of their victims.

Background: Integrative Review is a systematic literature review method that enables comprehensive analysis and synthesis of theoretical and empirical research using different methodologies. The literature highlights the need to establish minimum guidelines during its construction due to a lack of consensus among researchers in implementing the method. Objective: The aim is to present a precise systematization of all necessary and sufficient steps to conduct an Integrative Review. Method: To this end, an analysis of the items reported as necessary for constructing systematic reviews in the PRISMA protocol was carried out, as well as their adequacy to the Integrative Review method and steps presented in psychology studies. Results: It was concluded that two items were adequate, 16 items were partially adequate with modifications, nine items were not satisfactory, and one item was developed and added. At the end, a checklist with 15 items was constructed and presented with examples of the expected reports for each item developed. Conclusion: It was concluded that the Integrative Review method has its characteristics. This study will likely help reduce the disparity found in the field involving Integrative Reviews in Psychology and help promote the replication and extension of research.

Several of the poems that make up the Églogas pastoriles (1582) by Pedro de Padilla, including certain sonnets that appear at the end of the volume, are obvious imitations of Philippe Desportes’ Premières Œuvres (1573). According to a 19th century bibliophile, Adolphe de Puibusque, Desportes himself indicated this, through annotations, in his copy of Padilla's book, although we have detected some additional cases, which seem to have escaped his attention. Our article presents this set of French sources, in addition to analysing the most relevant aspects of the imitative technique used by the Spanish poet. 

One of the most interesting recent findings in the field of cognitive psychology is the one that considers emotions and affections as phenomena influenced by the cultural and historical processes of each era. This article starts from this observation and seeks, on the one hand, to carry out a semiotic analysis of one of the paradigmatic works of the sentimental fiction genre, Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de amor. Secondly, to reflect on the emotions of the characters and the interpretation of female expression based on the social codes of the Modern Age and the literary topics of fiction of the time. And, finally, to find out to what extent this work could serve as a model of education for men and, very especially, for the women who read it during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This article analyzes the propaganda in favor of classicist poetry by Francisco de Quevedo, Lorenzo van der Hamen and José de Valdivieso in their respective paratextual speeches to the editions of the Works of Francisco de la Torre (Madrid, Imprenta del Reino, 1631) and Fray Luis de León (Madrid, Imprenta del Reino, 1631), both of them promoted by the author of Buscón. To do this, the linguistic, conceptual and dispositive similarities and differences between them are compared and, in light of previous studies, a new hypothesis is formulated about the role of the appendix of translations located at the end of the volume of the poet from Salamanca.

This article examines the variants of the double redaction of Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo’s first novel: La hija de Celestina (Zaragoza and Lérida, 1612) and La ingeniosa Elena (Madrid, 1614). Particularly, it analyses the accidental errors of both versions and the equally acceptable variants, with the aim of establishing their authorship and of reconstructing the author’s strategy of revision.

This article examines critical opinions on Lope's poetry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (in theoretical writings and paratexts of the editions). In them, the very positive evaluation of La Gatomaquia and the poems of the Rimas de Tomé de Burguillos stands out compared to the very negative opinion about the Jerusalén conquistada.