Anabela Caetano Santos

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• Doctor of Education
• Researcher at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural diversity. In this Registered Report, we...

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural diversity. In this Registered Report, we...

Self-regulated learning is one of the most relevant learning concepts, representing cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, behavioural and motivational aspects. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) is the most used instrument to measure self-regulated learning. Though, its 81-item structure is lengthy and presents psychometric i...

Creative self-efficacy and social skills are two elements that can significantly enhance personal and professional development. The main objective of this research is to analyze the relations established between creative self-efficacy and social skills with other variables such as self-esteem, academic performance, and life satisfaction. The partic...

Background: The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) recently completed a large-scale moral psychology study using translated versions of the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale (OUS). However, the translated versions have no validity evidence. Objective: The study investigated the structural validity evidence of the OUS across 15 translated versions an...

“Este livro, intitulado Pesquisas e intervenções da Psicologia no campo educativo: perspectivas críticas, surge como uma resposta às necessidades urgentes de repensar a Educação e o papel da Psicologia dentro desse contexto. Reunindo diversas pesquisas e intervenções que foram realizadas no campo educativo, esta obra propõe-se a ser um guia reflexi...

Clown doctors’ artistic interventions directed to hospitalized children in the Portuguese public hospitals have been performed over the last 20 years, uninterruptedly. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the doctor clowns’ visits were interrupted, but soon after resumed in some hospitals, by means of visits online. The present study evaluates hospital pr...

There is compelling evidence that early school intervention programs enhance children’s development of life skills, with a positive knock-on effect on their behaviors and academic outcomes. To date, most universal interventions have displayed gains in children’s social-emotional competencies with a limited reduction in problem behaviors. This may d...

Student engagement (SE) is known as one of the most relevant predictors of academic achievement and completion. Social and emotional competencies (SECs) are well established as critical skills for healthy and adaptative youth development. This systematic review investigated the associations between SE and SECs in students aged 10–25 years. The revi...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures...

Resilience is an interactive process involving internal skills that should be promoted, especially in the early stages of development. This study aims to adapt and implement two themes from the European Curriculum for Resilience Promotion – RESCUR, namely, ‘Developing Communication Skills’ and ‘Establishing and Maintaining Healthy Relationships’, f...

Research has been showing the negative impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on learning and mental health in youth. The protective factor of socioemotional competencies during lockdown has also been observed. Though, the longitudinal association between these constructs is scarcely documented, especially in research that includes data before and du...

Social and emotional competences are the cornerstone of student health and academic achievement, and an important predictor of individual school engagement, educational achievement, career achievement, health and well-being. It is necessary for universities to understand the general situation of university students' social and emotional competences...

COVID-19 changed and challenged education, with schools obliged to adapt to online settings. This study aims to evaluate the impact of a mental health curriculum implemented at schools, considering the implementation settings: online, onsite, and mixed (online and onsite). From kindergarten to high school, 933 students were evaluated by teachers re...

Student engagement (SE) is associated with higher academic performance and persistence, influencing academic completion. Social and emotional competencies (SECs) are fundamental protective factors for a healthy development. Despite being associated with SE, there are research gaps in this area. Therefore, our goal was to analyse the association bet...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in t...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

Objectives The consequences of long-lasting restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic have become a topical question in the latest research. The present study aims to analyze longitudinal changes in adolescents’ social emotional skills, resilience, and behavioral problems. Moreover, the study addresses the impact of adolescents’ social emotiona...

Background School absenteeism is associated with multiple negative short and long-term impacts, such as school grade retention and mental health difficulties. Objective The present study aimed to understand the role of resilience-related internal assets, student engagement, and perception of school success as protective factors for truancy. Additi...

Objectives: The consequences of long-lasting restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic have become a topical question in the latest research. The present study aims to analyze longitudinal changes in adolescents' social emotional skills, resilience, and behavioral problems. Moreover, the study addresses the impact of adolescents' social emotion...

Student engagement research in university students has been scarce, despite its major positive role on performance, degree completion and mental health. Social and emotional competencies, which are currently called twenty-first-century skills, exert some impact on student engagement in youth. Since engagement is cultural-sensitive, individual (soci...

Significance Communicating in ways that motivate engagement in social distancing remains a critical global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study tested motivational qualities of messages about social distancing (those that promoted choice and agency vs. those that were forceful and shaming) in 25,718 people in 89 countries...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures...

The study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychol...

Resilience is a dynamic, multidimensional complex concept that implies risk and protective factors, adaptation, and success. Communication and language are often identified as barriers in deaf children's development. However, research linking deafness in childhood and resilience is scarce. The present comprehensive literature review aims to verify...

Around the beginning of the 2021 new year, Europe’s COVID-19 third wave led many leaders to implement a new lockdown period, with the teaching–learning system returning to the online method once more. The present study aimed to understand the health consequences for adolescents and young adults (AYA) during the third wave’s lockdown. This mixed-met...

Student attendance is described as a universal challenge. To ensure quality class attendance, higher education institutions have initiated various measures like mandatory attendance policies and making attendance part of the assessment. However, the effectiveness of an attendance policy depends mainly on how university teachers and students perceiv...

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Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. These studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations in both healthy and clinical populations; however, they have suffered from several issues including generally low sample sizes and a la...

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have suffered from several methodological issues including small sample sizes and a lack of linguistic and cultural d...

The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) is a multidimensional measure widely used to access nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies. In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of the CERQ-Short Portuguese version. A sample of 1052 adolescents (aged 10–25 years old, 60.53% females) completed the CERQ-Short form, the Po...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the exponential increase in cases, educational institutions worldwide were forced to close, making way for digital learning. After a period of confinement and an online teaching methodology, a new school year has begun. However, this new school year included the application of a wide range of measures that transform...

Resilience is an individual’s ability to adapt successfully to and persevere during and after significant challenges. Resilience programmes based on a socioemotional learning approach have been associated with an increase in protextive factors (e.g., prosocial competencies), improvements in physical and mental health, and a decrease in internalised...

Research has documented the role of emotions in learning and emotion regulation for student engagement (SE). However, knowledge regarding the predictive power of emotion regulation strategies (ERSs) on SE at different age-groups was lacking. Also, our study aimed to provide data on ERSs use based on age and gender since findings are mixed. This cro...

Effectively motivating social distancing—keeping a physical distance from others —has become a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country preregistered experiment (n=25,718 in 89 countries) tested hypotheses derived from self-determination theory concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of differen...

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted p...

Feeling anxiety in a job interview is common. It is important to have a valid, reliable, and culturally adapted measure, enabling cross‐cultural comparisons. Our main goal was to examine the psychometric properties of the Measure of Anxiety in Selection Interviews (MASI) in a Portuguese sample, since no similar measure is available in the Portugues...

O PROMEHS – Promoting Mental Health at Schools, (promehs.org) é um Projeto Erasmus + Ação-Chave 3, cofinanciado pela Comissão Europeia (2019 – 2022), que pretende desenvolver, implementar e avaliar um currículo universal para a promoção da saúde mental dos alunos com idades entre os 3 e os 18 anos, fazendo a ponte entre programas escolares baseados...

A resiliência é um processo complexo, dinâmico e multissistémico. A resiliência pode ser definida como a capacidade de adaptação positiva apesar do confronto com desafios e/ou ameaças ao adequado funcionamento ou desenvolvimento harmonioso. Consciente das exigências que o mundo atual coloca às crianças e dos desafios com as quais estas se confronta...

In the emotion regulation process more than one strategy is often used, though studies continue to rely on the manipulation of one strategy alone. This study compares the effects of Combined Cognitive Reappraisal (CCR: acceptance and reappraise via perspective-taking) and suppression using the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). One hundred participan...

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RESUMO: Este estudo tem como objetivos compreender o impacto que o confinamento e isolamento social no âmbito da COVID-19 tiveram nas vidas dos adolescentes e jovens, ao nível do seu bem-estar físico, psicológico e social; a par de estratégias e lições para lidar com futuras pandemias ou nova vaga da doença. 617 respostas (M = 19,2 anos; F = 19,1 a...

Resumo: Promover a saúde mental nas escolas é um dos objetivos da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), advogado, a nível nacional, pelos ministérios da Educação e da Saúde. Sendo a infância um período privilegiado para promover competências socio-emocionais e a adolescência uma altura em que frequentemente emergem perturbações da saúde mental, a esc...

Objective (1) To give adolescents and youth a voice and listen to the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in their lives; (2) to identify their coping strategies; (3) present lessons learned to be better prepared for future pandemics. Methods Six hundred and seventeen participants from 16 to 24 years old (M = 19.2 years; F = 19.1 years)...

There has been considerable debate about media effects, especially concerning the effect of exposure to violence on cognition, emotions, and aggressive behavior. Leonard Berkowitz systematically researched aggression and was an influential author who investigated the effects of this exposure in the 1960s. Berkowitz's contribution to the field of me...

This chapter presents a set of three studies developed in Portugal under the framework of resilience promotion, more specifically RESCUR, a European resilience curriculum for early and primary education. The RESCUR in Action - Students, which presents the results of the implementation of RESCUR with children and adolescentes from 3 to 17 years old....

The goal of this study was to analyze the level of self-efficacy, school engagement related variables and life satisfaction of Portuguese adolescents. A total of 5695 adolescents attending the 8th, 9th and 12th years of schooling enrolled in the HBSC 2018 study. with a mean age of 15.5 years old (SD = 1.8), 53.9% female. Participants completed a se...

The goal of this study was to analyze the relationship between a group resilience associated resources in a group of Portuguese adolescents as well as with gender and age. A total of 5695 adolescents attending the 8th, 10th and 12th grades enrolled in the HBSC 2018 study, with a mean age of 15,46 years old (SD = 1,80), 53,9% female, who responded t...

In the emotion regulation processes during a high stress event, the selection of the most adaptive strategies can be determinant for one to achieve his/her goal, maintaining wellbeing, reducing anxiety and balancing the psychophysiological response. This study examines the impact of two combined cognitive reappraisal strategies (CCR: acceptance and...

O projecto RESCUR em Acção (2017-2018) é um projeto nacional que visa a implementação do currículo RESCUR, Currículo Europeu para a Resiliência, em escolas com estudantes migrantes e/ou refugiados. O currículo RESCUR é um currículo universal que promove um conjunto alargado de competências sociais e emocionais associadas à resiliência. O mindfulnes...

Sommario In Europa il 20% dei bambini in età scolare sperimenta problematiche sociali, emotive e comportamentali all'interno dei contesti educativi. È quindi urgente proporre contesti capaci di promuovere il benessere, tramite i docenti. Il tema della resilienza e dello sviluppo delle competenze nei bambini assume un ruolo centrale come azione di i...

Resumo: O projecto RESCUR na Acção (2017-2018) é um projeto nacional que visa a implementação do currículo RESCUR, Currículo Europeu para a Promoção da Resiliência, em escolas com estudantes migrantes e/ou refugiados. O RESCUR em Ação, promovido pela Associação Aventura Social com o apoio do Programa Ciência Viva, promoveu ações de formação gratuit...

This article is intended to present the latest data on the implications for children of parental and interparental violence. It will be discuss bullying situations as a result of a disruptive family involvement, with deficits in attachment and inadequate and agressive education styles. In this sense, we present a clinical case study of a child, inc...

The aim of this study is to understand if motives to drink are associated to certain patterns of drinking and specific socio-demographic drinkers’ characteristics. As part of the Portugal Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey, developed with 5050 pupils (47.7% of boys), attending the 6th, 8th, and 10th grade levels and with a mean age of...

INTRODUZIONE In Europa il 20% dei bambini in età scolare sperimenta problematiche sociali, emotive e comportamentali all'interno dei contesti educativi (Cefai et al., 2015). Diventa quindi fondamentale riuscire a creare contesti capaci di promuovere il benessere a scuola, anche grazie allo sviluppo di programmi di intervento universali e inclusivi...

The Surf-Salva Camp 2016 project aimed at promoting social inclusion, wellbeing, and mental health, as well as developing beach security values and social citizenship in children and youth in foster care institutions, through surfing (Surf-Therapy). Participants were 48 adolescents aged 10 to 16, selected from 4 foster institutions in the greater L...

The Surf-Salva Camp 2016 project aimed at promoting social inclusion, wellbeing, and mental health, as well as developing beach security values and social citizenship in children and youth in foster care institutions, through surfing (Surf-Therapy). Participants were 48 adolescents aged 10 to 16, selected from 4 foster institutions in the Lisbon di...

O projeto piloto Surf Salva Camp 2016 decorreu em Cascais (Portugal) e teve como principal objetivo promover a integração social, a promoção de bem-estar e saúde, partilha de valores de segurança nas praias e cidadania social em crianças e jovens integrados em instituições de acolhimento através da prática de surf. Os participantes foram 48 adolesc...

RESCUR, a resilience curriculum for early years and primary schools in Europe was developed collaboratively among six partner’s countries: Malta, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Sweden. RESCUR was design as a universal and inclusive program to promote resilience related competences in children from 4 to 12 years old, giving, nevertheless, a sp...

O presente relatório tem como objetivo apresentar e descrever o Projeto Surf Salva Camp 2016 e a sua avaliação. Resultante de uma parceria entre o Instituto de Socorros a Náufragos e o LIDL Portugal, e integrado no projeto Surf Salva, o projeto Surf Salva Camp 2016 foi desenhado e implementado pela Pensamento Vivo - Associação Portuguesa de Pedagog...

Nell’attuale momento storico attraversato da dinamiche di cambiamento dovute alla crisi economica, alla globalizzazione e alla presenza di una complessità di criticità, in cui il futuro delle persone viene continuamente ridefinito, diventa fondamentale predisporre contesti di crescita supportivi capaci di porre gli individui nella condizione di far...

RESCUR Surfing The Waves is a resilience programme for early years and primary schools in Europe developed by six European universities The curriculum seeks to empower vulnerable children at risk of early school leaving, absenteeism, disengagement, bullying, social exclusion and marginalisation through a universal, whole school approach. Amongst it...

Considered one of the most common psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence, behavioral disorders are characterized by unresolved conflicts which are expressed through disruptive actions. Disruptive behavior disorders often persist and have significantly impact on childhood and adult life through difficulties in school adjustment, social d...

Investir dans la construction de personnes résilientes fournit aux enfants les capacités nécessaires pour dépasser les défis. Le programme RESCUR est un curriculum pour les enfants en Europe qui promeut la résilience aux niveaux académique, émotionnel et social. Ce programme fournit des outils-clés qui permettent de surmonter les obstacles au dével...

Caractérisé comme le deuxième groupe le plus fréquent des troubles dans la petite enfance et enfance, les troubles de l’anxiété sont caractérisés par un niveau excessif de tension musculaire, de l’hyper-vigilance et un comportement d’évitement en réponse à des situations vécues comme étant dangereuses. Ces enfants ont aussi des difficultés manifest...

As crianças com perturbação reativa da vinculação (PRV) tendem a apresentar atrasos no desenvolvimento ou problemas alimentares (APA, 2002), imaturidades estruturais, depressões e desorganizações pré-psicóticas e psicóticas (Strecht, 2012). A terapia psicomotora propõe-se como terapia complementar eficaz em crianças com PRV. O recurso à terapia psi...