Alexandra Barros

University of Lisbon | UL · Centro de Investigação em Psicologia

The closure of higher education institutions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a sudden and unexpected transition from face-to-face to online teaching and learning. This paper draws on data from a broader study focusing on higher education students’ perceptions and experiences of online learning during the first lockdown in 2020...

This article draws on data from a broader research study focusing on Portuguese teachers’ perceptions and experiences of remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2638 teachers participated in the study. Data were collected through an online survey which included both closed- and open-ended questions. Findings suggest that, overall, t...

Teachers can contribute to preventing and solving cyberbullying situations. Therefore, it is relevant to investigate what may influence their involvement and actions concerning this phenomenon. A first study analyze teachers' definitions of cyberbullying, how they would intervene and feel morally implicated with the phenomenon. A second study aimed...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a global crisis affecting all sectors of society. Higher education is no exception. The closure of higher education institutions has dictated a sudden and unexpected transition from face-to-face to remote teaching to mitigate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2. This paper draws upon a wider piece of research which aime...

The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV2 has had an impact on the education sector, and its stakeholders, such as teachers who had to do remote work from their home, despite many constraints. These professionals tried to perform their teaching functions, despite having to deal with adverse situations, such as cyberbullying among their students, as well as...

A pandemia da COVID-19 desencadeou mudanças e efeitos sem precedentes nas instituições educativas. Também no ensino superior se assistiu a um processo rápido de transição do ensino presencial para o ensino remoto. Este estudo teve como objetivo conhecer as perceções dos estudantes do Ensino Superior sobre o ensino e a aprendizagem à distância duran...

Teaching and training are becoming more student-oriented, thus requiring a higher degree of self-regulated learning, involving agency and cyclical adaptation to attain academic success and engagement in academic activities. Previous research has shown how students who set learning-oriented goals, have a greater ability to focus on cognitive tasks a...

O encerramento das escolas decorrente da necessidade de mitigar a disseminação do vírus SARS-CoV-2 ditou a adoção de um ensino remoto de emergência a que professores e alunos rapidamente tiveram de se adaptar. Neste artigo apresentam-se resultados de um estudo mais vasto que pretendeu analisar as condições em que os professores realizaram as suas t...

O presente trabalho reporta o desenvolvimento do Inventário de Crenças de Carreira e Empregabilidade que permite avaliar crenças facilitadoras de comportamentos e atitudes adaptativos dos indivíduos face a transições de carreira. O ICEB tem 38 itens e seis escalas: Esforço/Realização, Proatividade/Iniciativa, Flexibilidade/Abertura às mudanças, Ace...

This study aimed to analyze the relations between university students' approaches to learning and self-referential sense of humor. It also investigated how both approaches and self-referential humor relate with academic achievement. The sample involved 224 university students, that frequented from the 1 st to the 3 rd academic year of their graduat...

The perceived causes of success in academic learning play a decisive role in students’ goals, behaviours and emotional reactions towards similar situations in the future. The purpose of this study was to identify the perceived causes of academic achievement in the transition to higher education and to relate them to the academic outcomes. The parti...

The objective of this study, in the Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) perspective, was to test a computer-assisted intervention that seeks to promote awareness and self-regulation of learning strategies, aiming at improving the quality of learning. The intervention involved the use, by a sample of higher education students, of purposely develope...

This paper draws upon a broader piece of research on assessment in higher education, particularly focusing on issues regarding the fairness and effectiveness of the assessment methods and their implications for the learning process. The perceptions of undergraduate students are analysed taking into account the effectiveness and fairness of both tra...

This study seeks to analyse the relationships between students' self-worth, perception of scholastic competence, approaches to learning and academic achievement, with a sample of 224 college students. Self-worth and perceived scholastic competence are evaluated through Self-Perception Profile for College Students: SPPCS and Student's Approaches to...

This paper draws upon a wider study on assessment in higher education. It focuses on students’ perceptions of the effectiveness and relevance of feedback in regard to assessment methods and self-regulation of learning. In total, 605 undergraduates participated in the study from five Portuguese public universities. Data were collected through questi...

O clima institucional e psicossocial universitário contempla duas importantes dimensões do construto do clima universitário, considerado como as perceções dos estudantes sobre os elementos estruturais, sociais e pessoais integrados num processo dinâmico. Este estudo tem como objetivo compreender como os estudantes universitários portugueses e brasi...

This paper draws upon a broader piece of research aimed at investigating assessment in higher education. It focuses upon the perceptions of undergraduates about issues of effectiveness, fairness and feedback, particularly in regard to the so-called learner-centred methods. In total, 378 undergraduate students participated in the study at the Univer...

This research examines the life values of college students during an economic and financial crisis. We study whether students’ values are compatible with the entrepreneurial motivations that could help them to succeed in a labor market characterized by uncertainty, instability and multiple career transitions. Data are obtained from a sample of 263...

This study aimed to analyze the relations between university students’ approaches to learning and self-referential sense of humor. It also studied how approaches relate with humor and how both relate with academic achievement. Humor was evaluated through the Humor scale of an adapted version of the Self-Perception Profile for College Students – SPP...

This study aimed to analyze the relations between university students’ self-worth and their approaches to learning. It was also studied how self-worth and approaches to learning relate with academic achievement. Self-Worth was evaluated through the Global Self-Worth scale of an adapted version of the Self-Perception Profile for College Students – S...

The present work analyzes indicators of reliability and validity of Self-Perception Profile for College Students (SPPCS) in a Portuguese sample of students of higher education from several public institutions in Lisbon (n=683). The indicators of internal consistency, the intercorrelations between the scales and the analysis of principal components...

The present work analyzes validity indicators for the Work Importance Study (WIS) Values Scales, in two Portuguese samples: one with high school students (n = 1228), with 64% females and 36% males, and one with higher education students (n = 683), with 48% females and 52% males. Referring to age, the medians are, respectively, 17 and 21 years old....

Based on the socio-cognitive theory of Bandura (1995), the aim of the present research was to study the relation between self-efficacy beliefs in the transition to work and perceived social support of college students. The sample was constituted by 221 participants. The instruments used were the Scale of Self-efficacy in the Transition to Work (Vie...

O presente estudo procura integrar conceitos e técnicas da Psicologia das Carreiras e de outros campos da Psicologia, baseando-se no modelo de desenvolvimento vocacional de Super (1990) e na perspectiva desenvolvimentista de Susan Harter (1999) sobre a construção do self. Os resultados foram obtidos numa amostra de 683 alunos do ensino superior púb...

The aim of the present article is to analyze the challenges of Vocational Psychology to face uncertainty and unpredictability of individual careers in an economic context of change and globalization. Theories of career development that have a major impact on career related issues are summarized and analyzed to address the multiplicity of needs of a...