Ana Daniela Silva

• PHD
• PostDoc Position at University of Minho

This study evaluates a group‐based career psychology intervention delivered face‐to‐face and online to enhance employability resources among unemployed individuals. Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory, the intervention focused on fostering self‐awareness, exploration, and goal setting. Qualitative and quantitative analyses showed positive re...

This study explores the long‐term outcomes of the Employability and Career Self‐Management group career intervention for unemployed adults based on social cognitive career theory. The intervention aimed to increase employability and career self‐management resources through modules focusing on self‐awareness, contextual exploration, and career actio...

Introduction The transition to higher education can be challenging for many students, requiring developing skills and strategies to help them overcome various challenges. Adjustment to university is a multifaceted process involving several dimensions. Given the difficulty that a significant percentage of students face in this process, the lack of a...

In Portugal, career counsellors require significant training, especially in the career development field. Online training emerged as a solution during the pandemic, but the evidence of its effects is still uncertain. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the effects of an online training course focused on a career psychological intervention model for...

The present study consists of a systematic literature review, based on the PRISMA model, with the objective of analyzing the relationship between organizational support and career self-management in order to address the gaps in the existing literature. Specifically, it seeks to answer whether organizational support influences career self-management...

Background: Due to global technological advances, psychology professionals have experienced constant changes in their daily routines. The field of career development and vocational psychology is no different. Amplified by the adjustments brought about by the circumstances of the pandemic, there has been an increased demand for and development of va...

Purpose Success in the transition between the university and the labor market is an important indicator of the adaptation of newly graduates to the worker’s role in life. This study aims to describe the validity and reliability of the University-to-Work Success Scale based on its internal structure and relationship with measures of career success,...

A better understanding of unemployed motivations for seeking career counselling can inform how to motivate other individuals to seek and benefit from career services. This study analysed the motivations for career counselling of 159 unemployed individuals (121, 76.1% women), with a mean age of 42.13 years (SD = 10.434). The results of a content ana...

The Conceptions of Career Choice and Attainment (CCCA) model has been supporting research on children’s career reasoning, particularly in the USA. This study examines the applicability of the CCCA model to Portuguese preschool and elementary-school children. The CCCA interview was answered by 101 children (38.6% preschoolers, 61.4% elementary schoo...

The protean career orientation refers to career agentic and values-driven attitudes in today’s changing contexts. This orientation shows readiness for facing lifespan tasks and challenges in diverse work roles, contributing, for example, to university students’ academic engagement and employability. Given the importance of this construct, there is...

Background Considering that beliefs may be assessed and changed, inventories measuring employability and career beliefs may be of utmost importance for career interventions. Objective This study introduces the psychometric properties of a brief version of the Employability and Career Beliefs Inventory (ECBI) in a sample of unemployed persons. Met...

The study of career development among unemployed people is vital for effective institutional responses. This integrative review based on Torraco's protocol fills a literature gap by synthesizing research on interventions for this population. Seven keywords, five databases, and six eligibility criteria were defined. Among 324 articles, 36 were revie...

This study describes the validity and reliability evidence of the multidimensional measure of employability (MME) based on the internal structure and relations to career self-efficacy and career success. Two hundred forty seven Portuguese persons (75.7% women) aged from 21–73 years old (M = 39.9, SD = 10.9) participated. Confirmatory factor analysi...

This study examined the relationship between two variables of the psychological future [future time orientation (FTO) and life project (LP)] and their relationship with career self-efficacy in unemployed individuals. Participants were 216 unemployed adults (151 women, 65 men), aged from 18 to 67 years old (M = 42.8, SD = 10.57), who responded to me...

This study describes validity and reliability evidence of the Multidimensional Measure of Employability (MME) based on the internal structure and relations to other measures in a sample of unemployed persons in Portugal. Altogether, 216 individuals participated in an online survey. The MME’s internal structure was tested by confirmatory factor anal...

The Teacher Support Scale has been used to assess students’ perceived teacher support in compulsory school years. However, the literature requires attention to perceived teacher support in higher education and to the referred measure’s psychometric properties. This study examines the factorial structure, invariance for sex, relations to other varia...

The transition to the first year of high school constitutes a critical moment because it corresponds to the implementation of a career choice, which can impact students’ satisfaction and psychosocial adjustment. The career construction model of adaptation holds potential to explain how students adapt to high school, by suggesting linkages among ada...

Unlabelled: This study compared the psychological future of unemployed individuals and workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. It used the data from two previous data collections, one with unemployed individuals and another with workers. Participants from the two datasets were paired considering the same gender and similar age and education degree....

Occupational identity is a central concept of career development, by providing a sense of direction and meaning across career development. This study aimed to examine how this concept can be associated with career processes through model formed by a set of socio-cognitive factors. The participants were 358 college students at a Brazilian university...

Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) was recently reduced to a briefer 12-items version, the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Short Form (CAAS-SF). Considering its advantages in long protocols, we validated CAAS-SF for the Portuguese context. Participants were 314 university students (17–47 years old, Mage = 21.50, SDage = 4.32, 82.8% females), and 899...

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in a Lebanese sample. The study includes 236 Lebanese citizens (54.2% women; Mage = 30.14). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a hierarchical model yielded a good fit, with the CAAS measuring four distinct dimensions that can be combined in a higher-order c...

This study presents a systematic literature review about career interventions for university students exploring (1) which theoretical framework; (2) structure; (3) evaluation system; and (4) outcomes are reported. Fourteen keywords, five databases, and six eligibility criteria were defined. Among the 596 articles collected, 26 remained for meta-syn...

The Student Career Construction Inventory measures students’ adapting behaviors. The present study validates this inventory in a sample of 314 Portuguese college students. Measurement confirmatory factorial analysis indicates better fit for the 18-items measurement model, comparing to the 25-items model. Reliability and criterion-related analyses e...

The Covid-19 pandemic is an unexpected and unpredictable event that generates multiple challenges and difficulties for individuals in various contexts of their lives, including academic life and career more generally. This study aimed to identify and prioritise the psychoeducational support needs of university students in times of the COVID-19 pand...

A literature review using PRISMA protocol was performed to acknowledge career research with refugees. Eight keywords, six databases, and six inclusion criteria concerning articles’ language, abstract, population, career intervention theoretical and/or practical framework, intervention description, and year of publication were established. Amongst t...

The new coronavirus global pandemic has caused accelerated and emerging changes in the labor market, including increased unemployment. We examined the associations between employability beliefs and career exploration self-efficacy of 1585 unemployed adult workers, in Portugal, who lost their job after COVID-19. Participants completed measures of em...

Past research indicates that the family plays an important role in academic outcomes. This is an important topic for unequal family contexts such as those in Mozambique. The objective of this study is to explore the influence of family on academic performance and to determine whether self-efficacy and perceived progression mediate this relationship...

This study examined the influence of family on career choice implementation, assuming that implementation can be assessed through goal progress and satisfaction, and that family influences the latter through perceived environmental supports or barriers and self-efficacy. Three hundred and twenty-three college students completed measures of family’...

Em 2021, o IV Seminário Internacional Desenvolvimento de Carreira e Aconselhamento decorreu a partir da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, da Universidade do Algarve. Num evidente exercício de partilha e, sobretudo, de diálogo entre a investigação e a prática, esta edição adotou o desenvolvimento e o bem-estar nos contextos de trabalho e de f...

Title: CAREERS Employability Workshops: Favoring Career Development of the Unemployed Abstract: Portugal has high unemployment rates, partly due to the economic effects of the pandemic. The Algarve region is one of the most affected. Even before the pandemic, Algarve faced problems with unemployment, a regular pattern of seasonal unemployment, prec...

O presente estudo procura perceber a representatividade da Psicologia Vocacional nos cursos de Psicologia lecionados no ano letivo 2019/20 em Portugal. Recorreu-se a análises de frequência e de conteúdo das unidades curriculares de cada curso, de forma a distribuí-las pelas especialidades gerais e avançada de Psicologia Vocacional e Desenvolvimento...

Resumo A família tem sido foco de diversos estudos sobre sua influência no processo de tomada de decisão de carreira. Contudo, foram identificadas poucas revisões sobre o assunto. Nesse sentido, o presente artigo fornece uma revi-são dos estudos publicados sobre o tema entre 2002 e 2016. A seleção de trabalhos utilizou métodos de revisão sistemátic...

The present study focused on academic persistence and had two main aims, the first had a psychometric nature and aimed to adapt of an instrument designed to evaluate academic persistence, the College Persistence Questionnaire (CPQ), and seek evidence of its validity. The second aim was to present a practical use of the instrument, aiming to verify...

This study aims to test the applicability of the functional theory of life values and score differences among a group of students from Lebanon and Portugal. Participants include 565 college students—278 Lebanese and 287 Portuguese. A demographic questionnaire and an adapted version of the Basic Values Survey were completed. Confirmatory/multigroup...

Family influence is a key factor in many aspects of career development; however, very little research has examined the relationship between family and well-being. Drawing on social cognitive career theory, this study examined the influence of the family on college students' academic and overall life satisfaction. The participants were 312 college s...

Values are often used to explain life satisfaction, but little research has focus on this relationship in college students. In this study we sought to determine whether personal, central and social values predict the life satisfaction of a group of 133 Spanish college students of both sex (108 women, 81.2%), aged 18 to 37 years old. The data collec...

Career intervention plays a key role in the inclusion of the students by making them more competent and adapted to the demands of personal and professional life. In fact, vocational challenges assume an integrative character embedded in a holistic perspective, in which individual, relational and contextual variables are interrelated. As so, career...

The study of career development has attracted the attention of several researchers and professionals, contributing with answers to the challenges and socio-economic changes of the last centuries. Considering the social relevance of this area of knowledge, it is important to see how teaching has been structured and what themes have been the subject...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provided the growth in the number and complexity of digital and online applications focused on career development. These applications are intended to promote vocational exploration and support the process of vocational decision-making, exposing educational, training and professional information for y...

The Functional Theory of Life Values can constitute a useful theoretical basis for evaluating and promoting the psychosocial development of young people. This study aimed to analyze the adequacy of this theory with students living in residential care institutions. We tested two main hypotheses: a content hypothesis, using a six-dimensional values m...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), have introduced significant changes in the way young people explore and have access to information and knowledge, laying new challenges in the field of Vocational Psychology and Guidance. Among these challenges is the way in which vocational information is transmitted using ICTs, as well as the...

The article analyzes the teaching of Career Psychology in Portugal, taking the more general panorama of Psychology teaching into account. Psychology educational offers of 31 national higher education institutions were identified, from which 12 were public and 19 were private. Curricular units whose designations included vocational or career words a...

Occupational identity provides a sense of direction and meaning and helps to establish a framework to define occupational goals. One of most prominent frameworks for the study of occupational identity is Marcia's identity status paradigm. The Dellas Identity Status Inventory was developed to assess occupational identity statuses according to Marcia...

A intervenção psicológica vocacional deve proporcionar oportunidades para o desenvolvimento de conhecimentos e competências vocacionais, permitindo aos alunos, a implementação de decisões esclarecidas de carreira. Neste sentido, implementou-se um programa de intervenção psicológica vocacional em grupo, destinado a alunos do 9o ano de escolaridade,...

Este estudo explorou o pensamento das mulheres que vivem em Acolhimento Residencial acerca da carreira e a relação com as subfunções valorativas e satisfação com a vida.Vinte mulheres responderam à Escala de Satisfação com a Vida, Questionário dos Valores Básicos e à entrevista com o Guião de Entrevista Semiestruturada de Reflexividade Ética sobre...

Neste estudo apresenta-se o processo de construção de uma grelha de categorias para avaliar a reflexividade ética na carreira em jovens. Para a construção da grelha analisaram-se discursos de 20 jovens entre os 12 e os 18 anos. Para analisar a validade da Grelha entrevistaram-se 40 jovens entre 12 e 20 anos de idade. Efetuaram-se cálculos de coefic...

Este estudo tem como objetivo perceber se a reflexividade ética na carreira prediz a adaptabilidade. Participaram no estudo 488 universitários, com uma média de idades de 21.9. Utilizou-se para recolha de dados um questionário de dados demográficos, a escala Adaptabilidade na Carreira e um Questionário de resposta aberta com situações dilemáticas a...

O presente artigo explora se os níveis de reflexividade ética podem explicar a existência de valores de experimentação ou de respostas adaptativas de curiosidade. Participaram no estudo 488 universitários de ambos os sexos (73.1% raparigas), com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 53 anos (M = 21.9, DP = 4.1), a frequentar diferentes anos e curso...

O presente estudo teve por objetivo apresentar estatísticas descritivas de uma escala que avalia a influência familiar nas decisões de carreira em relação a diferentes fatores estruturais e processuais familiares. Participaram 242 estudantes universitários, 181 mulheres (74.8%), entre os 21 e 45 anos (M = 25.17; DP = 5.07) de uma universidade do su...

Resumo: Nos últimos 40 anos, a investigação no domínio da Psicologia da Carreira em Portugal tem suscitado maior atenção de vários investigadores e profissionais, em parte fruto dos enormes desafios socioeconómicos com que os cidadãos se confrontam. Este trabalho pretende analisar o estado da arte da investigação portuguesa no domínio, através da a...

A carreira tem sido concetualizada como um processo de desenvolvimento que ocorre ao longo da vida, desde a infância até à velhice. A adolescência é uma etapa marcada pela iminência de decisões de carreira, particularmente propícia à exploração e à experimentação de hipóteses. A investigação sugere que os jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade poder...

Resumo Numa perspectiva funcionalista, os valores são uma expressão cognitiva das necessidades humanas, princípios que orientam o comportamento para metas mais pessoais, sociais ou gerais de vida, cujo impacto psicossocial merece mais investigação. Neste estudo, analisou-se em que medida o tipo de orientação dos valores prediz a satisfação com a vi...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief and structured career adaptability intervention for institutionalized youth. The intervention included six weekly 90-min sessions. Participants were 22 youths aged 14–18 years (Mage = 15.09; SD = 1.269, 81.8% boys). Participants were divided in two groups: an experimental group (n = 16) and a contro...

This study aimed to research the influence of parental education over University course prestige chosen by their children. Participated in this study 1555 college students, from 1st and 2nd grade, 966 women (62.1%), between 16 and 45 years (M = 20.0; SD = 3.34), all of them from an university in southern of Brazil. The measure used was a sociodemog...

This work presents a brief history of Vocational Psychology in Portugal. We begin by highlighting the pioneering work of António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira (1916, 1917), Augusto Alves dos Santos (1916) and Faria de Vasconcelos (1925), in the domains of the educational and occupational guidance during the first decades of century 20. We continue with...

This study aims to test the functional theory of life values with Portuguese youths, based on the Basic Values Survey (BVS). A content hypothesis predicting a six-dimensional values model and a structure hypothesis predicting the representation of values into two space dimensions are tested. Participants include 815 youths, 444 girls, with a mean a...

Resumo Apresentam-se dois estudos da exploração vocacional com grupos específicos de adolescentes tendo-se recorrido ao Career Exploration Survey (CES). No primeiro estudo analisou-se o processo de exploração vocacional de 135 jovens institucionalizados comparando-o com o de 184 a viver em famílias recorrendo-se à One-Way MANOVA. No segundo estudo...

The paper presents three empirical studies designed to extend the test of the construct validity of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) among Portuguese students. In the first study, the responses of 461 elementary and secondary education students were submitted to a principal component analysis. A solution of one single factor was chosen, acco...

In the present study we analysed the simultaneous relations between the processes of career exploration and academic adjustment, in order to identify career profiles in Higher Education. The sample included 135 undergraduate students of the Pedagogical University in Maputo, Mozambique, enrolled in a Teacher Training program. A Career Exploration Sc...

Many factors have been pointed out to explain the differences in career development of women and men, in terms of access to such careers as well as in terms of the type of career choices and success in these choices. Among these factors, education is considered one of the most important variables. This article presents a review of psychological lit...

The career self constitutes an organized subset of the person's cognitive universe, responsible for the subjective character that the person attributes to career. This study aims to evaluate changes in the content of the career self of college students, from the beginning to the end of last year's graduation. Therefore, we used repeated measurement...

Resumo Este estudo pretende ser um contributo para o conjunto de trabalhos que têm procura-do explicar porque um número elevado de raparigas continuam a não escolher determina-dos ramos da Engenharia e das Ciências. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas a 102 participantes, desde o Ensino Básico a profissionais, que foram analisadas atravé...

Given that most information about the feminization of Higher Education in Portugal is usually performed by large areas of education we intend, in this paper, to evaluate the frequency of boys and girls, the means of candidature to Higher Education and the option of candidature for Higher Education in certain courses that integrate the areas commonl...

The social-cognitive model of well-being (Lent, 2004) has become an important framework to study satisfaction and adjustment in specific life contexts and in overall life (Betz, 2008; Lent, 2005; Lent, Taveira, Sheu & Singler, 2008). Taking into consideration this integrative perspective, this paper aims to understand and compare the process of aca...

Despite some advances regarding equality of participation of sexes in both education and work, certain areas of education and the labour market continue to be highly lacking in female representation. This is the case of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This fact is of particular importance to vocational psychology because it interf...

Apresenta-se um estudo que tem como objectivo avaliar as mudanças no self de carreira de estudantes universitários do início para o final do último ano de graduação. Para tal recorreu-se a um estudo de medidas repetidas dos índices de uma Grelha de Repertório da Carreira (GRC), desenvolvido para este propósito. Esta grelha avalia a relação estabele...

This study aimed to assess changes in the career self of college students, from the beginning to the end of the last year of the program. For that, a study of repeated measures of the indices of a Career Repertory Grid (GRC), specially developed for this purpose, was conducted. This grid assesses the relationships established by students between vo...

This descriptive transversal study presents a research about the psychological adjustment and personal experience of first-year students at the University. The first goal was to analyse if psychological symptoms and difficulties in problem solving skills manifested by these students are related. Secondly we were interested in analysing if these dim...

En este artículo se presenta una investigación centrada en el ajuste psicológico y en la experiencia personal de alumnos recién llegados a la Universidad. El objetivo fue, por un lado, analizar las dificultades en el ajuste psicológico que manifiestan estos alumnos, tanto a través de la presencia de sintomatología psicopatológica como a través de l...