Alexandra Marques-Pinto

• Doctor of Psychology
• University of Lisbon

Today’s increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of work, call for a socially and emotionally competent workforce. However, there is a clear gap in higher education settings when it comes to assess and promote students’ social and emotional competence (SEC). Our study aims to address the pressing need to evaluate and develop h...

Research has emphasized the importance of teachers developing their socioemotional competencies to effectively deal with the challenges associated with teaching, considering its impact on their occupational health and wellbeing, namely on the risk of experiencing burnout. However, there is a lack of studies on the relationship between these variabl...

This study depicts the development of an online SEL intervention for Portuguese elementary-school teachers (A+), through an exploratory sequential design. First, to ensure the relevance and applicability of the A+, ten focus group were conducted with 66 elementary-school teachers (90.9 % female, Mage=45.56 years, SDage=5.57). Results indicated stro...

Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected university students globally, exacerbating their already existing academic stress. This study investigated how the first COVID-19 lockdown (March-July 2020) differently impacted Portuguese, Spanish, and Brazilian university students' perceived academic stress, personal well-being, aca...

In M. Greenberg (Coord.), International perspectives on assessment and intervention with Educator SEL [Symposium]. The study aimed to address the pressing need for an effective assessment tool to evaluate adults' Social and Emotional Competence (SEC), resulting in the development of the Social and Emotional Competence Assessment Battery for Adult...

This study investigated whether a social–emotional learning program, implemented over a one-year period, could lead to gains in social–emotional competencies and to a reduction in internalizing and externalizing problems in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the program analyzed how students (boys vs. girls) with varying levels of s...

The aim of the study was to explore the factors and barriers related to the incentive and opportunity of school–family communication. This work is part of the HOUSE‐Colégio F3 Project, ULisbon, which included 1,143 first‐year university students from the University of Lisbon, with average age of 19.61 ± 3.96 years. The young people who had better c...

O projeto Developing University Students’ Well-Being, Engagement, and Academic Performance through Mentoring (2022-24), é um projeto de investigação interno, financiado pelo Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica - CICPSI (grupo ProAdapt) da Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa – FPUL, cujo principal objetivo foi compreender e e...

O presente trabalho compreendeu o desenvolvimento, implementação e avaliação do programa de intervenção A+, considerando, em todas as etapas, o papel de variáveis contextuais. Esta intervenção, de caráter universal e com implementação online, tem como principal objetivo o desenvolvimento de competências sociais e emocionais (CSE) de professores por...

Aim To evaluate the adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and the level of nutritional literacy (NL) among university students from different academic fields of study, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A total of 1114 first-year undergraduate students at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, were included in this study. A self-...

Literature has emphasized the urgency of investing in the promotion of Social and Emotional Competence (SEC) in adults. Therefore, the development of a theoretically grounded and developmentally adjusted measure that adequately assesses SEC in its different domains is needed. This study aimed to develop a self-report battery for the assessment of a...

Job demands and resources have been consistently associated with the burnout syndrome in physicians, however the literature points to a lack of robust measures to assess these job characteristics across various medical specialties. This study aimed to develop a theoretically and empirically grounded physician-specific job demands and resources self...

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...

In the last 2 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread all over the world, forcing the closure of universities, among other unusual measures in recent history. (1) Background: This work is based on the study HOUSE-ULisbon, a survey carried out during the second confinement (March–May 2021) in Portugal with the collaboration of all the Faculties of t...

Teaching is, to date, one of the most prone jobs to experiencing occupational stress and burnout. Owing to burnout’s negative personal, social, organizational and economic impacts, researchers, practitioners and education policy leaders are interested in developing practices and interventions aimed at preventing/reducing its prevalence. With teache...

Students with chronic conditions (CC) tend to experience several barriers in terms of their school participation and performance. Therefore, the present study aims to explore the factors related to the time of diagnosis of CC (recent/non-recent), the barriers to participation and academic success (health condition, people’s attitude towards CC and...

Strong links have been observed between professionals’ occupational health and their perceived organizational climate. However, in Portugal, one of the European Union countries where teachers present higher levels of occupational stress, no measures have been found to assess perceived school climate in elementary-school teachers. This study aimed t...

A docência tem vindo a ser considerada uma profissão de elevado risco para a saúde ocupacional e bem-estar docente em virtude das exigências profissionais, principalmente de natureza social e emocional, que caracterizam o seu quotidiano. Neste cenário, intervenções de aprendizagem social e emocional (ASE) para professores têm apresentado efeitos po...

Presentation integrated in the Symposium "Developing skills and personalities of teachers" organized by Filip De Fruyt. This study aimed to assess implementation quality and intervention efficacy of the A+, an online social and emotional learning (SEL) intervention for teachers. Eighty-one participants (96.3% women, M=46.21 years, SD=4.82, 42 assi...

As far as teachers’ occupational health and well-being is concerned, teaching has been described as a profession of high risk, associated with the high professional demands that characterize their job. Albeit international research has identified variables of a social and emotional nature as main factors of teacher occupational stress and burnout,...

A docência é considerada uma profissão de elevado risco para a saúde ocupacional, bem-estar e desempenho profissional docente, em resultado das elevadas exigências profissionais que a caracterizam. Agravadas pelo surgimento da pandemia por SARS-Cov-2, variáveis de natureza social e emocional (e.g., equilíbrio trabalho-vida pessoal, gestão de sala d...

Teaching is a job of high-risk of ill-health, due to an ongoing confrontation with persistent stressors which negatively impact teachers' occupational health, well-being and performance. Main teaching-specific demands are social and emotional related, thus interventions to develop teachers' Social and Emotional Competencies (SEC) have lately increa...

Em virtude das exigências profissionais que a caracterizam, a docência tem sido descrita como uma profissão de elevado risco no que respeita à saúde ocupacional e ao bem-estar docente, designadamente em Portugal. Neste cenário, agravado pelo surgimento da pandemia por SARS-Cov-2, variáveis de natureza social e emocional têm sido identificadas como...

Resumo: A docência tem sido indicada na literatura como uma profissão de elevado risco para a saúde e bem-estar ocupacional dos professores, associado às elevadas exigências profissionais que caracterizam o seu quotidiano. Este confronto continuado com fatores de stress persistentes, perante os quais as tentativas de coping resultam ineficazes, pod...

Over the last decades, extensive research has given considerable attention to teachers’ burnout. Owing to its negative personal, organizational, and social impacts (e.g., mental ill health, decreased work performance, turnover), intervention and prevention efforts have consequently been employed to minimize the effects of this phenomenon/syndrome....

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...

The aims of this research on burnout among physicians were threefold, (1) to characterize the burnout symptoms’ prevalence among Portuguese physicians, (2) to test the hypothesis that organizational demands and resources add, on top of other factors, to the explanatory level of burnout; and (3) to explore the predictors of organizational demands an...

Teaching is among the most emotionally demanding jobs, impacting teachers’ personal lives and job performance. Since teaching-specific stressors are mainly socio-emotional related, social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions targeting teachers have increased rapidly in recent years. This study conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis...

Teaching has been considered a high-risk of ill- health profession, associated with an imbalance of demands and resources which lead to an ongoing confrontation with persistent stressors. Since most teaching-specific stressors seem to be social and emotional related, Social and Emotional Learning interventions to promote teachers’ occupational heal...

Objectives Teachers’ stress can affect their occupational health and negatively impact classroom climate and students’ well-being. This study aims to evaluate the proximal and distal effects of a mindfulness-based program, specially developed to promote teachers’ social-emotional competencies (SEC), across teachers, classroom climates, and students...

A docência é considerada uma profissão de elevado risco para a saúde e bem-estar, em resultado da vivência continuada de episódios de stress ocupacional que caracterizam o quotidiano dos professores. Vários estudos têm identificado como principais fatores de stress na docência aspetos de natureza social e emocional decorrentes da presença de elevad...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets education and mental health as sociopolitical and scientific key-concerns of the 21st century worldwide. Hence, schools and, specifically, teachers, are expected to be actively involved in students’ holistic development attending equally their academic, social and emotional needs. Due to such difficu...

This study set out to explore the savoring strategies used by adolescents, adults and the elderly with a view to contributing to theory on age and savoring. A sample of 1018 Portuguese participants (n = 114 adolescents in the 3rd cycle of basic education; n = 474 adolescents in secondary education; n = 311 adults; and n = 119 older adults), answere...

Em resultado das exigências profissionais que caracterizam o quotidiano dos professores e da sua exposição regular a elevados níveis de stress e burnout, a docência tem sido indicada como uma profissão de elevado risco para a saúde e bem-estar ocupacional. Neste cenário, a literatura tem procurado identificar os principais fatores de risco / proteç...

O livro tem como principal objetivo apresentar o estado da arte sobre Mindfulness em Contexto Educacional, com especial incidência sobre estudos realizados em Portugal. Trata -se de um livro de base científica que pretende dar a conhecer a psicólogos, professores e outros profissionais de saúde e da educação o trabalho desenvolvido no nosso país ne...

Ao longo dos últimos anos, a investigação tem alertado para o elevado risco de stress e burnout da classe docente (Marques Pinto, Lima, & Lopes da Silva, 2005), com impacto negativo na sua saúde ocupacional e desempenho (Marques Pinto & Alvarez, 2016), sendo fundamental o desenvolvimento de intervenções específicas para estes profissionais. Neste c...

Social and Emotional Learning interventions for teachers have exponentially increased during the last decade, creating the need for consistent literature overviews regarding its impacts on teachers’ personal and professional outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of these interventions on five domains, through meta-analytic procedures.

ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between academic engagement, psychological capital (PsyCap) resources (efficacy, hope, optimism, resilience) and academic performance. Data were collected in two different universities, one in Spain (N=389) and another in Portugal (N=243). Undergraduate students completed self-report questionnaires...

Education and mental health are sociopolitical and scientific key-concerns of the 21st century, according to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Thus, schools and, specifically, teachers, are expected to be actively involved in students' development attending both their academic and social and emotional needs. However, this expectation all...

A Agenda 2030 coloca a saúde mental e a educação no cerne das preocupações sociopolíticas e científicas do século XXI. Neste sentido, espera-se que a Escola (enquanto contexto de uniformização de oportunidades) e, particularmente, os professores, participe(m) ativamente no desenvolvimento holístico dos alunos, respondendo não só às suas necessidade...

Participatory research with children and adolescents may increase their responsiveness toward interventions. This study focuses on the development of a program to promote social and emotional skills in middle school students, using educational dance. The main goal was to assess students’ social and emotional needs and their interests in education t...

Objective: Work accidents may be considered dyadic stressors in so far as they not only affect the worker, but also the couple’s relationship. Dyadic coping, as the process by which couples manage the stress experienced by each partner, can strengthen individual health and well-being as well as couple relationship functioning. Accidents at work hav...

This study aimed to assess the risks and opportunities associated with Facebook usage and to explore the moderating role of psychosocial (mal)adjustment, nationality and age in these relationships. This correlational study involved a sample of 452 Brazilian and 500 Portuguese youths, aged between 14 and 20 years. Results showed that these youths sp...

The nature of the turnover process calls for the study of more complex relationships among variables beyond simple bivariate or multiple associations between predictors and turnover intentions. The present article aims to examine the predictive value of job demands and resources in the explanation of nurses’ intention to leave the organization and...

Abstract. This study analyzed the influence of perceived time pressure, role clarity, working conditions and peer social support on the personal well-being (subjective, psychological and social well-being) of higher education students, in a sample of 128 Portuguese students from the University of Lisbon. A model was proposed which predicts a negati...

Rescue workers have a stressful and risky occupation where being engaged is crucial to face physical and emotional risks in order to help other persons. This study aims to estimate work engagement levels of rescue workers (namely comparing nurses, firefighters, and police officers) and to assess the validity evidence related to the internal structu...

Nowadays, journalism is considered a stressful occupation, not only due to the stress perceived in journalists’ daily work but also due to the critical, potentially traumatic events they report. However, research on journalists’ occupational stress in both these professional settings is still scarce. This study aims to characterize and compare occu...

Although journalists are increasingly being viewed by scientific research as an at-risk occupational group, there is still little knowledge on their strategies for dealing with occupational stressors, in both daily work settings and in critical scenarios, and on the support provided by the media organizations. Taking the occupational stress model a...

Recently, mindfulness-based social-emotional learning (SEL) approaches have been taught to children in some schools. Due to deficient methodological consistency observed in most studies, their results should be interpreted with caution. Moreover, research on how mindfulness-based SEL approaches benefit teachers is scarce, and the majority of these...

The present study sets out to assess the efficacy of a socio-emotional learning after-school program, Experiencing Emotions, on the socio-emotional skills of middle school pupils, as well as on their well-being and school engagement. The program provides educational dance within the curriculum. The sample included 83 middle school pupils from three...

The present study set out to evaluate participant responsiveness, one of the main dimensions of implementation quality, in a Socio-Emotional Learning after-school program using Educational Dance activities, Experiencing Emotions , and also to understand its influence on program outcomes. The sample involved 98 middle-school Portuguese pupils, 53 of...

This study comprised 467 adults in a conjugal relationship and examined dyadic coping and its moderating role between the family-of-origin retrospective experience and dyadic adjustment. While the contribution of family-of-origin variables to marital behaviors has long been a subject of interest, coping have only recently begun to be acknowledged a...

Mental health problems are a major cause of disability and morbidity of modern societies, as several epidemiological studies have evidenced. International reports indicate that before the age of 18 at least 20% of children and young people have a mental health problem, which highlights the importance of early intervention in order to promote good m...

A aquisição de competências sócio-emocionais configura-se como um caminho essencial para a promoção da saúde e do bem-estar dos mais jovens, estando associada ao aumento de comportamentos pró-sociais, à redução de problemas de comportamento e à melhoria dos resultados académicos. Recentemente, o recurso às práticas contemplativas (mindfulness) no c...

The main goal of this study was to examine the relationship among burnout, engagement, well-being, and academic performance in Portuguese secondary school pupils. The existence of gender related differences in these relationships was also investigated. The sample was composed of 489 pupils who attended an academic track at secondary school. Results...

This paper systematically reviews empirical research published from 2002 to July 2015 investigating journalists’ occupational stressors, coping strategies, and the impacts of these variables on the health and well-being of such professionals, whether on their daily work or as special envoys to critical scenarios. A meta-analytic approach was displa...

Background: Transition to school is a highly demanding phase at an intellectual, social and emotional level and is, therefore, an opportunity for growth and development. Despite the greater emphasis given to school transition in Portugal over recent years, namely by means of new educational policies, studies on the adaptation processes involved in...

Abstract The development of measures of children and adolescents’ subjective well-being is crucial to the conceptualization and evaluation of positive mental health. The aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure and invariance of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF—adolescents) across children and youths. Participants...

School engagement is a multidimensional construct characterized by vigour, dedication, and absorption towards academic work that is related to school achievement. This study aimed to examine the measurement invariance of a school engagement measure – the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Students (UWES-S) – across secondary school pupils and university...

Promoção da saúde ocupacional em contexto escolar: da saúde física ao bem-estar profissional dos professores. In M. J. Chambel (Coord.), Psicologia da saúde ocupacional (pp.135-166). Lisboa: Pactor Editora. A escola tem desde há muito vindo a ser descrita como uma ecologia geradora de stress 1 para os professores e a docência como uma profissão de...

The aim of this study was to construct and evaluate the psychometric qualities of a scale on the risks and opportunities of Facebook for young people. The items were generated with recourse to the literature and by consulting frequent users of Facebook. The study of the psychometric qualities was based on a sample of 4572 youths from the community...

This study set out to examine some psychometric properties of the Prospective Conjugal Coping Questionnaire (QCCP), namely the predictive value of the prospective coping in the explanation of personal well-being and dyadic adjustment. A sample of 451 adults in a couple relationship answered the QCCP, the Mental Health Continuum-SF (Keyes et al., 20...

Nas últimas décadas a investigação científica a nível internacional tem-se debruçado consistentemente sobre o tema das competências socioemocionas, dando importantes contributos para a sua conceptualização e suporte empírico ao papel fundamental destas competências na saúde-mental, no bem-estar e no sucesso académico ao longo da vida. Este livro re...

Savoring is as an emotion regulation process that moderates the effect of positive events on positive feelings and helps people to generate, maintain, and increase their positive emotional experiences. Savoring processes are expected to have an impact on romantic relationships, although no study has yet been conducted. Using self-reported data from...

This study presents the validation process of the Portuguese version of the short-form Dedication Scale (Rhoades, Stanley, & Markman, 2006; Stanley, 1986), with a sample of 924 participants in different relationship statutes. With 14 items, this short version is recommended by the authors for its simple use, when wanting to measure commitment in ro...

Background: Work engagement may be defined as a persistent, positive, work-related affective-cognitive state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication and absorption. Studies have shown that the organizations with high levels of engagement among their employees usually have better quantitative and qualitative results, as well as higher lev...

Background: Work engagement may be defined as a persistent, positive, work-related affective-cognitive state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication and absorption. Studies have shown that the organizations with high levels of engagement among their employees usually have better quantitative and qualitative results, as well as higher lev...

Abstract This study presents the validation process of the Portuguese version of the short-form Dedication Scale (Rhoades, Stanley, & Markman, 2006; Stanley, 1986), with a sample of 924 participants in different relationship statutes. With 14 items, this short version is recommended by the authors for its simple use, when wanting to measure commitm...

This work analyses the performance of the Mental Health Continuum – Long Form (MHC-LF) – for Adults (Keyes, 2007), in a Portuguese sample of university students. The MHC-LF is a self-assessment scale, composed of forty items, that measures subjective well-being. These items are organized according to three distinct scales: positive emotional well-b...

Enquadramento: A síndrome de burnout constitui um importante factor de impacto negativo na saúde, bem-estar e produtividade dos enfermeiros. Têm sido documentados efeitos directos na qualidade e segurança dos cuidados e, logo, no desempenho dos serviços de saúde. Embora estudos realizados em Portugal descrevam esta realidade em alguns contextos org...

This study evaluated the results of Mind Up, a social and emotional program through mindfulness practice implemented by 3rd grade teachers from Portuguese schools. A quasi-experimental study compared outcomes for an experimental group to a waitlist control group. Data were collected for teachers and children through self and hereto report measures...

O savoring nas relações de casal: Impacto no bem-estar pessoal, qualidade relacional e ajustamento diádico Costa-Ramalho, Marques-Pinto e Ribeiro, 2014 A última década tem testemunhado um interesse crescente no impacto das experiências emocionais positivas e sua regulação sobre o bem-estar e a saúde (Fredrickson & Cohn, 2008). Investigação recente...

The aim of this paper was to explore the role of early maladaptive schemas (EPMA) into the relationship between stress and burnout and also into the relationship between stress and professional engagement. The sample comprised 400 subjects who were administered the following instruments of self-assessment: Maslach Burnout Inventory, Student Engagem...

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Resumo: Quando satisfatória, a relação de casal tem um potencial único ao nível da promoção da saúde e do bem-estar dos cônjuges e seus descendentes. Apesar das inúmeras mudanças contextuais, este será um dos motivos que leva a maioria das pessoas a incluir no seu projeto de vida a ideia dum casamento longo e bem-sucedido.

Studies indicate that mindfulness-based approaches with children promote emotional self-regulation and attention, reduce stress and improve academic behaviour (Fredrickson, Coffey, Pek, Cohn, & Finkel, 2008; Saltzman & Goldin, 2008; Shapiro, Brown, Thoresen, & Plante, 2011). One of these approaches is the MindUp program (Hawn Foundation, 2011), a c...