The aim of this study was to construct and investigate validity evidence for a measure of socioemotional skills for university students. Of the 60 items initially designed to represent six factors of the construct, 42 of them showed theoretical consistency. To analyze the structure of the instrument, exploratory factor analysis was carried out, based on the application of the instrument with 365 students. The analysis revealed six factors that presented groupings of items theoretically consistent with the definitions of the proposed hypothetical model: Self-Management of Emotions, Social Awareness, Responsible Decision-Making, Perseverance, Emotional Self-Awareness and Relationship Skills. The final structure, with 35 items, was able to explain 45.16% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed, based on the application of the instrument with 712 undergraduate students. The proposed structural model was confirmed, with adequate fit indices. Precision indices varied between .69 and .78. It is suggested that further studies investigate other types of validity evidence.

Em um momento histórico, a Avaliação Psicológica (AP) teve que repensar seus processos em razão da decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal sobre a Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade -ADI 3481, a qual viabiliza o acesso

The paper presents an exploratory and descriptive quantitative study, involving 560 Portuguese parents with school children, aged between 6 and 17 years. Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire that was made available online and focused on the use of social networks, the Internet and the risk of online grooming. The results showed that about half of the participants did not know the term 'online grooming'. After defining the phenomenon, 97% of the participants considered it very seriously. To prevent risk, 52% of the participants reported talking with their children about online risks and taking precautions to reduce the children's vulnerability. Approximately 89% of the respondents said they knew where to report cybercrime. The study aimed to contribute to a greater awareness of the risks associated with the Internet, involving parents and caregivers in the prevention of situations of victimization of children and adolescents.

Em um momento histórico, a Avaliação Psicológica (AP) teve que repensar seus processos em razão da decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal sobre a Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade -ADI 3481, a qual viabiliza o acesso

O objetivo deste estudo foi adaptar e validar o Inventario de Desordem Alimentar (EDI-3) para o contexto brasileiro. O EDI-3 contem 91 itens e 12 subescalas. Participaram 664 pessoas com idades entre 14 e 51 anos (M=22,33; DP=5,63), sendo 71 adolescentes estudantes de ensino medio, 512 adultos universitarios e uma amostra clinica composta por 81 participantes. Analises fatoriais confirmatorias indicaram que o Componente de Risco de Transtorno Alimentar (EDRC) apresentou estrutura trifatorial com bons indicadores de ajuste, enquanto o Componente de Desajustamento Psicologico Geral (GPMC) apresentou melhores indicadores no modelo tetrafatorial. A consistencia interna mostrou-se adequada para maioria das subescalas. Comparacao de grupos apresentou indicios complementares de acuracia no instrumento. Confia-se que essa medida possa ser apta para o uso em pesquisas e no contexto da avaliacao clinica.

The National High School Examination (ENEM) has a restricted measurement model characterized by the assumption that the marker items in each domain are exclusively linked to their target domain. Previous studies suggest, through indirect evidence, that this model may not be valid. However, this postulate has not yet been directly assessed. In this study, this assumption was investigated through factor analysis of the items of the ENEM 2011 edition. Two models were tested. The first, called Thurstone's simple structure, represents the measurement model of the ENEM. The second, of crossed loadings, refute this model. The crossed loadings model was the only one that presented a good fit to the data according to all the indices employed. The evidence found is unfavorable for the assumption of simple factor loadings of the measurement model of the ENEM, indicating issues of validity and in the quality of the scores produced.

We adopted the concept of working conditions covering the content and surrounding aspects of work. However, there is a need \nto explore its specificities for public workers in federal universities with the intention of constructing a better approximation to \nreality, and, simultaneously, exploring their historical variability as theoretical expected. Accordingly, this study aimed to develop \na version of the Working Conditions Questionnaires (WCQ) for UFMG's public workers and improve it. We changed the WCQ, \nadapting items and creating others; we explored the factorial structures; and evaluated their psychometric properties. We applied \nthe structured questionnaire with 1,060 participants. Through exploratory factor analysis, we found an empirical structure with \nfirst and second order factors. The second order factors differed from the theoretical categories applied in previous studies. The \nfactors found (e.g., Bureaucratic Process and Participation) reflected the public workers perception about the reality experienced. \nThe new version of the WCQ can be useful in occupational diagnostics.

O desenho da figura humana (DFH)

Neste editorial, discutirei o que é o aprendizado de máquina (machine learning), bem como os seus principais usos na psicometria contemporânea.O aprendizado de máquina pode ser definido como a área de estudos que busca desenvolver algoritmos computacionais que auto-aprimoram por meio da experiência (Mitchell, 1997).Dessa forma, o aprendizado de máquina é considerado como uma subárea da inteligência artificial (IA; Russell & Norvig, 2020).Em modelos tradicionais de IA, todas as relações lógicas entre inputs (p.ex., imagens, vetores numéricos, ondas sonoras, entre outros) e outputs (p.ex., classificação, resultado analítico, uma mensagem escrita, entre outros) devem ser programadas no código fonte.No entanto, tal estratégia gera rigidez na programação, dado que inputs não conhecidos irão gerar falha na geração de outputs, o que irá exigir que o código seja sempre modificado.Dessa forma, o advento do aprendizado de máquina possibilitou que relações probabilísticas (ou seja, que consideram a incerteza dos inputs e de suas relações com os outputs) pudessem ser incluídas em programas de computador e, mais especificamente,

Despite the prevalence of personality disorders (PD) and their association with several harmful health outcomes, previous reports found a low number of studies on PDs conducted in Brazil. We conducted a narrative review to investigate the current state of research in Brazil focusing on PDs. The search was performed in BVS-Psi, PePSIC, and Google Scholar databases. We focused on papers published in Brazilian journals as a criterion to select studies conducted in Brazil and/or coordinated by Brazilian researchers. A total of 177 papers were included. Approximately 60% of papers were empirical studies, although only 47.17% of them had clinical samples. Borderline and Antisocial were the most recurrently investigated PDs. Two scales were usually administered, IDCP and PID-5. SCID-II was administered in less than 5% of empirical studies. We proposed an agenda for research on PDs in Brazil, including guidelines and directions eminently urgent to the studies to be conducted in Brazil.