Caring for an ill or disabled relative can present significant challenges that may exceed the personal resources of the caregiver. Young carers (YCs) often take on this role, providing support to family members or friends, which can have far-reaching effects on various aspects of their lives. This study involved 235 adolescents, 106 YCs, and 129 non-carers (NCs), who completed questionnaires assessing life satisfaction, satisfaction with social support, family functioning, academic functioning, and caregiving activities. Tests of group differences (MANOVA and MANCOVA controlling for age) showed YCs had more caregiving activities than NCs (as expected) and, critically, significantly lower life satisfaction. Hierarchical regressions with the YCS subsample showed academic functioning, social support, and the negative impact of caregiving were associated with life satisfaction, and that the negative influence of caregiving was linked to family functioning and the quantity of caregiving activities. For NCs, academic functioning, satisfaction with social support, and family functioning were associated with life satisfaction. In conclusion, caregiving in adolescents appears to be linked to lower life satisfaction, but this effect is determined by their social support, academic functioning, and negative impact of caring, which in turn depends on their family functioning and amount of caring activities.

Objective: In spite of the huge physical transformations that occur during pregnancy, there is little research on the role of body experience in the establishment of the mother–child relationship in pregnancy. The aim of the present study was to address this gap. Method: A sample of 330 pregnant women completed questionnaires assessing mother–child relationship (the Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale), body experience, and other demographic and pregnancy variables. Results: Pearson’s correlations revealed a number of variables were related to mother–child relationship in pregnancy, and t-tests and ANOVAs showed some between-subjects differences based on demographic variables. After controlling for these variables, regression analyses revealed that body experience was a significant predictor of both subscales of the Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale: emotional investment in the baby and maternal role-taking. Conclusion: These findings highlight the connection between body experience and the psychological tasks of pregnancy and draw attention to new ways of assessing and improving mother–child relationships as early as in pregnancy. Results are discussed in terms of their clinical implications.

Caring for an ill or disabled relative can present significant challenges that may exceed the per-sonal resources of the caregiver. Young carers (YCs) often take on this role, providing support to family members or friends, which can have far-reaching effects on various aspects of their lives. This study involved 235 adolescents, 106 YCs and 129 non-carers (NCs), who completed ques-tionnaires assessing life satisfaction, social support, family functioning, academic functioning, and caring activities. Group effects measured with MANOVA and MANCOVA (controlling for age effects), showed YCs to have higher amounts of caregiving activities than NC (as expected) but lower satisfaction with life. Hierarchical regressions also found that, for YCs, academic func-tioning, social support and the negative impact of caregiving predicted satisfaction with life; and that the negative impact of caregiving on YCs is explained by their family functioning and the amount of their caregiving activities. For NCs, only academic functioning, social support and family functioning predicted satisfaction with life. In conclusion, caregiving has a negative im-pact on YC’s life satisfaction, but this effect is determined by their social support, academic func-tioning and negative impact of caring, which in turn depends on their familiar functioning and amount of caring activities.

Isabel Torres-Oliveira and Ana Meireles, “Evaluation of (des) promoters factors of organizational creativity,” in Psicologia do Trabalho e das Organizações: Contributos, ed. Fátima Lobo (Braga: Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia, 2016), 239–50, DOI 10.17990/Axi/2016_9789726972556_239