Drawing on an ecological approach with multiple informants, this study investigated the mediating role of youth–caregiver relationship quality in associations between different features of residential care settings' organizational social context and youth's psychopathology. Participants were 378 youth aged between 12 and 25 years old, and 54 caregivers aged between 24 and 57 years old, from 29 generalist residential youth care settings in Portugal. Given the hierarchical structure of data, analyses were performed using multilevel modeling. Results revealed that organizational social contexts characterized by higher levels of engagement, stress, and centralization, as perceived by the caregivers, were associated with lower levels of youth's externalizing problems (e.g., aggressive behavior and delinquency), reported by the caregivers, via better youth–caregiver relationship quality, perceived by the youth in care. These findings highlight the relevance of creating an organizational social context in residential care settings that supports caregivers in establishing high‐quality relationships with the youth in care, thereby promoting their mental health. This study contributes to the clarification of conflicting findings in previous studies of this field, by offering further empirical investigation of these issues.

The study of emotional labor and sickness presenteeism in the hotel industry is crucial due to the current context of economic uncertainty and to a climate of insecurity that forces employees to continue to show up for work even despite being sick. This research aimed to explore the effect of supervision distrust as an antecedent of surface acting on hotel service employees' emotional exhaustion levels. Sickness surface acting-the voluntary effort to suppress illness symptoms or to fake a healthy health status-was introduced as a new construct to explain the relation between a perception of supervision distrust and emotional exhaustion. A total of 166 employees from Portuguese hotels completed a five-day diary survey.From these, 58 reported working while ill. The results showed that surface acting mediated the relationship between emotional exhaustion and supervision distrust.Further analysis with a subsample of 58 employees who reported frequency of sickness presenteeism revealed that for sick employees, sickness surface acting mediated the relationship between supervision distrust perception and emotional exhaustion.These findings bring the sickness surface acting construct to the sickness presenteeism literature, and highlight the importance of creating policies to reduce and manage the negative consequences of supervision distrust -a factor capable of promoting attendance and sickness presenteeism behaviors. They also inform human resources managers of the negative impacts of "service with a smile" and sickness presenteeism in the hotel industry.

RESUMO: Este trabalho consiste na apresentação de resultados parciais provenientes de uma pesquisa de campo realizada pelo NIPIAC/UFRJ em 2002, com 39 jovens da comunidade de Bom Retiro, situada no Município de Duque de Caxias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Trata-se de uma análise qualitativa de entrevistas nas quais tivemos por objetivo discutir a busca por novos ideais e figuras de identificação, peculiares ao trabalho subjetivo da adolescência, no contexto peculiar dos jovens entrevistados. Para isso, partimos das seguintes questões: como os jovens percebem a si próprios e ao seu presente; que figuras apontam como referências subjetivas para suas identificações, tanto no âmbito privado quanto no âmbito público; e, finalmente, quais são suas perspectivas de futuro. Para pensar sobre os dados, nos baseamos principalmente nos conceitos de representação social, tal como define Moscovici e de ideal do eu, tal como foi construído por Freud, supondo uma articulação fecunda entre ambos. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: adolescência; família; sociedade; ideais. IDEALS AND IDENTIFICATIONS IN ADOLESCENTS IN BOM RETIROABSTRACT: This paper presents the partial results originated from a field survey accomplished by the NIPIAC/UFRJ in 2002, with 39 young people of the community of Bom Retiro in the Municipality of Duque de Caxias in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This survey deals with a qualitative analysis of interviews in which the objective was to discuss the search for new ideals and identification characters, particular to the subjective work of adolescents, in the peculiar context of the young people who were interviewed. In order to have that, we set the following questions as starting points: how the young perceive themselves and their current moment; which characters they indicate as their subjective references of identification, both in the personal and in the public scope; and finally, what are their perspectives for the future. The concepts of social representation, as defined by Moscovici, and the ideal self, constructed by Freud, are used to reflect upon the data, supposing a resourceful articulation between both.

Individuals’ perceptions of their social images [i.e., meta-representations (MR)] and perceived stereotyping threat create involuntary stress responses that may affect important outcomes, such as self-esteem, academic achievement, and mental health. This study aimed to (1) analyze the indirect associations between residential care youth’s MR and their psychological adjustment (i.e., externalizing and internalizing problems) through their self-representations (SR) and (2) test the moderating role of youth’s age and residential unit size in those associations. A sample of 926 youth aged between 12 and 25years old filled out self-report questionnaires regarding their representations about how people in general perceive them (i.e., MR) and their SR. Residential care professionals filled in the socio-demographic questionnaires and the Child Behavior Checklist. Data were analyzed through multiple mediation models and moderated mediation models. Results showed that (1) youth’s behavioral MR were indirectly associated with higher internalizing and externalizing behavior through higher levels of behavioral SR and (2) youth’s emotional MR were associated with higher internalizing problems through higher emotional SR, but also with lower internalizing problems through lower levels of behavioral SR. These results emphasize the importance of stimulating positive SR, by showing that they can be a protective factor for youth in residential care.

Based on social cognitive, reasoned action, and basic needs theories, this study examines whether co-rumination with others about the job search mediates the positive relation between state negative affect and job search intentions. In addition, we looked at how this positive indirect effect interacts with the social support received from different sources (such as friends, family, and significant others) at the beginning and six months after the initial job search process. Using a sample of 87 graduates (job seekers) from a Portuguese masters program, we used multilevel modeling to test this moderated mediation. Ages ranged from 22 to 53 years old ( M = 29.45; SD = 7.60). Data were collected using measures to assess negative affect, co-rumination, perceived social support, and job search intentions. We found an indirect effect of state negative affect on job search intentions; when job seekers perceive higher levels of social support from significant others at the beginning of the job search, the positive, mediating role of co-rumination in this relationship is increased. Further, for a sub-sample of six-month job seekers, this positive indirect effect increased when there was also an increased perception of social support from family. Discussion focuses on implications for theory and practice and the role of co-rumination for unemployed people during job search.