Background/Objective: Sleep insufficiency, which affects more than 45% of the world's population, has a great importance when considering older adults. Thus, this research tested a mediation hypothesis, through a path analysis, which explains how depression relates to the quality of life considering the effects of sleep quality in older adults. Method: A sample of 187 community-dwelling Portuguese older adults answered questionnaires about sociodemographic status (age, gender, highest level of education completed, family status, sports activities, health, and retirement status), quality of life, sleep quality, and depression. Descriptive and path analysis statistics were performed considering the results of the normality test. Results: The sample has health characteristics and presents adequate sleep duration. Sleep quality acted as a mediator between depression and the quality of life in older adults, considering the variation of gender and health. This suggests that it is important to establish self-care practices, namely sleep quality, to intervene in the ageing process. Conclusions: It is important to consider sleep quality associated with depression for older adults and to test interventions to minimize health impacts. Also, more researches are needed about the primary prevention in sleep quality relating to depression.

Apresentam-se os resultados de pesquisa que analisou o processo de mudança curricular no curso de Odontologia em uma instituição de Ensino Superior no Sul do Brasil. A abordagem metodológica foi qualitativa e, para manter coerência com o objeto de estudo, utilizou-se a estratégia do estudo de caso. Foram entrevistados 46 estudantes, 12 professores e 3 representantes da equipe diretiva da universidade estudada. Na interpretação dos dados, quatro categorias emergiram: 1) O processo de reforma curricular: a proposta possível de mudança na formação; 2) As tensões do processo: a diferença entre a teoria pensada e a realidade percebida; 3) O caminhar do processo e seus avanços; 4) A vivência do currículo integrado: um processo contínuo de aprendizagem e superação. Há necessidade de repensar o processo de reforma curricular, reconstruindo continuamente esse currículo. É fundamental tratar, especificamente, da mudança no projeto pedagógico e nas práticas curriculares.

The main propose of this study is the cross-cultural validation of the Basic Psychological Needs in Physical Education Scale among Portugal and Brazil samples, through the study of measurement model invariance. Participated in this study, two independent samples, one with 616 Portuguese students, of the 2nd and 3rd basic grade of public school, aged between 9 and 18 years old and another with 450 Brazilian students, from 1st, 2nd and 3rd middle grade of public and private school, aged between 14 and 18 years old. The results support the suitability of the model (three factors, each one with four items), showing an adequate fit to the data in each sample (Portugal: χ2 = 203.8, p = .001, df = 51, SRMR = .062, NNFI = .926, CFI = .943, RMSEA = .070, RMSEA 90% IC = .060-.080; Brazil: χ2 = 173.7, p = .001, df = 51, SRMR = .052, NNFI = .940, CFI = .954, RMSEA = .073, RMSEA 90% IC = .061-.085), as well valid cross-cultural invariance among Portuguese e Brazilian samples (∆CFI ≤ .01). Those findings allow us to conclude that scale can be used to measure the basic psychological needs in physical education in Portugal and in Brazil.

Our research presents reports of 20 university teachers, both genders, from different cities of Rio Grande do Sul-BR, about what they think about affectivity in their teaching, aiming to clarify which aspects would be important to be developed by teachers and students, to contribute to better learning and well-being in the university environment, with interviews, analyzing their responses with qualitative technique of content analysis, described by Morais. The theoretical framework is mainly based on studies of: Gardner, Damasio, Casassus, Ekman, Goleman, with details on the development of emotions and feelings; complemented by Mosquera and Stobäus ideas, working in the Research Group Malaise and Wellness in Teaching and Affectivity: expression of feelings in Education. The analysis revealed eight categories: 1) Feelings/emotions in teaching; 2) Behavioral Expression of feelings/emotions; 3) Self-concept in the educational environment; 4) Affectivity and interpersonal relations in educational environment; 5) Affectivity and professional qualification; 6) Affectivity as facilitating/disturbing of learning; 7) Affectivity and identification with the profession; and 8) Affectivity related to Health and Education. As results we emphasize that affectivity/feelings of university teachers is, first, directed to the Personal Aspects (categories 1, 2, 3, 7), second, focused on Social Aspects (categories 4, 6, 8) and, finally, to Institutional Aspects (category 5), which in general leads to the understanding that, for the teachers interviewed, affect is very important in the educational context and depends on individual training (self) so you can be used positively in this environment as a tool for learning, and for healthy interpersonal relationships (contextualization).

O artigo descreve a adaptação transcultural do Selection, Optimization and Compensation questionnaire (SOC) para o idioma português, para aplicação a idosos. O instrumento tem o objetivo de verificar o grau de adaptação de idosos frente aos desafios do dia a dia e assim explicar seu envelhecimento bem-sucedido. A partir da compreensão do que torna alguns idosos bem-sucedidos, se poderá indicar a direção do cuidado e da atenção à saúde dessa faixa etária. É avaliada a utilização de quatro estratégias de planejamento de vida que compõem o modelo de otimização seletiva com compensação proposto por Baltes, cujo modelo é estruturado na perspectiva da Psicologia do Envelhecimento conhecida como life-span. O processo de adaptação transcultural envolveu as seguintes fases: tradução inicial; síntese da tradução; back-translation (retrotradução) ao inglês; revisão por um comitê de especialistas para avaliar a equivalência semântica, idiomática, experimental e conceitual e pré-teste da versão final, com a participação de 34 idosos. Com base na adaptação transcultural do questionário SOC, foi possível propor uma versão preliminar em português. No entanto, para aceitar-se com garantia a equivalência transcultural entre o original e a versão traduzida, faz-se necessária a posterior comparação entre as propriedades psicométricas da versão em português com o instrumento original, uma tarefa primordial que já está sendo realizada e será apresentada em artigos subsequentes.