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Reliable and systematic qualitative methodologies to assess participants' change after group interventions are scarce. This study outlines a methodolo5gical approach to use in focus groups, allowing the elicitation and coding of participants' change talk after a group intervention. A Change Elicitation Script for Focus Groups was developed and its viability for evoking participants' discussion around change was tested. Following a self-compassion intervention for teachers, participants' dialogue was examined in three focus groups following a simplified version of Innovative Moments Coding System for groups. Results suggest that the Change Elicitation Script for Focus Groups effectively prompted participants' discussion around change. The Innovative Moments Coding System for groups allowed to reliably identify, delimit, and categorize Innovative Moments throughout these dialogues. Although preliminary, this study puts forward a mixed-method methodology, applicable to the retrospective analysis of the process of change in post-intervention focus groups, from educational to clinical settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to present descriptive and multivariate data obtained with the NEO-FFI, a reduced version of the NEO-PI-R, with a sample of Portuguese participants. To make possible this objective, the personality inventory was administered to 1178 subjects, 68% were female, with ages between 18 and 90 years (M = 41.8, SD = 22.3). The Portuguese version of the NEO-FFI reflects the universality of basic dimensions of personality and may, therefore, be used as a reliable version of the NEO-PI-R. These data reinforce the results obtained internationally, and will be discussed in this article at the light of the literature about the five factor model. The results also reveal a significant effect of gender and educational level on personality (controlling age), specifically with regard to the dimensions of Openness, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. Concerning Extroversion this significant effects were not found. We also encountered that, with age, the scores in Extroversion and Openness tend to get lower. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]