[pt] O treinamento de habilidades sociais (THS) pode contribuir de forma significativa para o desenvolvimento das pessoas, tanto no âmbito pessoal como profissional. As atitudes das pessoas frente a participar de um THS revelam o quanto elas são favoráveis a esse treinamento e juntamente com normas subjetivas e percepção de controle, podem explicar o comportamento de realizar efetivamente um THS. O objetivo desse estudo foi elaborar e buscar evidências de validade de quatro escalas para aferir: intenção comportamental, normas subjetivas, percepção de controle e atitude frente a participar de um THS. Participaram da pesquisa 808 adultos brasileiros, média de idade de 32,3 anos, 64 por cento mulheres. Os resultados mostraram instrumentos unifatoriais, com índices psicométricos satisfatórios. A atitude correlacionou-se positivamente com a intenção de fazer um curso de habilidades sociais, com cinco das seis dimensões dos valores básicos e com motivação para aprender. Normas subjetivas e percepção de controle correlacionaram-se positivamente com intenção comportamental. E intenção comportamental correlacionou-se positivamente com motivação para aprender. Reuniram-se diversas evidências de validade que corroboram a adequação dos instrumentos para aferir os construtos. Ainda, ficou evidenciado que as mulheres e as pessoas que já tinham participado de um THS mostraram níveis maiores na atitude frente a participar de um THS. O estudo aponta para possibilidades de uso dos instrumentos em ambientes acadêmicos e organizacionais. / [en] Social Skills Training (SST) can significantly contribute to people s development, both personally and professionally. People s attitudes toward participating in an SST reveal how much they see this training favorably, and along with subjective norms and perception of control, can explain the behavior of effectively taking part in an SST. The objective of this study was to elaborate and search for evidence of the validity of four scales measuring: behavioral intention, subjective norms, perception of control and attitude towards taking part in an SST. Participants were 808 Brazilian adults, with mean age 32.3 years, and 64 percent being women. Our results showed a one-factor instrument with satisfactory psychometric indices. The attitude toward SST correlated positively with the intention of taking part in an SST, with five of the six dimensions of basic values, and with general motivation to learn. Subjective norms and perception of control were positively correlated with behavioral intention. And behavioral intention correlated positively with motivation to learn. Evidence of validity was gathered to corroborate the suitability of the instrument to measure the construct. Also, it was found that women and people who had already participated in an SST showed higher levels in their attitude towards participating in an SST. The study points to the possibility of using these instruments in organizational and academic environments.

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / In Chapter 1, I describe social competence, task competence and self-protection in an organisational context. In Chapter 2, I review key self theories and relate them to the self-competence construct. In Chapter 3, I review the research on self-competence to show that there is a need for a construct of social competence and self-protection. I discuss the limitations of three self-competence theories: Bandura’s (1977) self-efficacy theory, Williams and Lillibridge’s (1992) self-competence theory and Tafarodi & Swann’s (1995) self-competence/self-liking theory. In Chapter 4, I present my selfcompetence model. I raise the research questions and specify my hypotheses. In Chapter 5, I describe the construction of Social and Task Competence Scale. I present evidence of the reliability and factor structure of the Social and Task Competence Scale. I concluded that scale revisions were needed. In Chapter 6, I present evidence of the reliability, factor structure and predictive validity of the revised Social and Task Competence Scale and Self-Protection Scale. I describe the results of an experiment that investigated the interaction of task setting, social competence, task competence and selfprotection. I concluded that the measures predicted performance. In Chapter 7, I investigate the factor structure and reliability of the revised Social and Task Competence Scale and revised Self-Protection Scale. I provide evidence of the convergent and discriminant validity of these measures with reliable measures of self-competence, selfesteem, self-monitoring, personality and social desirability. In Chapter 8, I investigate the factor structure and reliability of the Social and Task Competence Scale and Self-Protection Scale after final revisions and show that these measures are acceptable for use in scientific research. I present evidence of their convergent validity with a valid andreliable measure of emotional intelligence, and describe experimental results that supported the hypothesised relationships between perceived task difficulty, social competence, task competence and self-protection and task performance. In Chapter 9, I discuss the implications of my research for self-competence theory, self-regulation and self-esteem and the prediction of social and task performance in organisations.

This diploma thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The is a review om the topic of recycled asphalt pavement and recycled concrete and their possible use in road construction in the theoretical part. The individual chapters deal with describing these materials, their production, and their use in construction layers of pavements. In the next chapters the attention is also paid to their problematic features and foreign experience using these materials in pavements. In the practical part, laboratory samples of recycled asphalt pavement and recycled concrete and their mixtures with cement are tested. The main purpose is to verify the applications of these mixtures of recycled asphalt pavement and recycled concrete in the bonded base layers of the pavement. Another purpose is to compare how these mixtures individual properties with different proportions of both components and different amounts of cement will be different. In the end, the two mixtures with the best properties was selected and the modulus of elasticity was experimentally determined for the possibility of replacing the currently used base layers and the economic evaluation of this design was made.