Filipa NunesUniversity of Porto | UP · Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
Filipa Nunes
Doctor of Psychology
Researcher at University of Porto
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Introduction
Personal agency | Future expectations | Adolescence | Family relations | Attachment | School relations | Peers | Classroom climate | School environment | Psychosocial adversity |
Filipa is a Young Scholar that represents Portugal at European Association for Research on Adolescence.
Additional affiliations
November 2017 - present
Education
September 2016 - December 2022
September 2012 - December 2014
September 2009 - July 2020
Publications
Publications (37)
Guided by attachment theory, we explored in the current study the links between parental emotion-coaching, attachment to parents and adolescent's sense of agency. Further, we examined a possible mediating role of adolescent’s attachment to parents in the association between parental emotion-coaching and sense of agency. All models control for cumul...
Although there is a growing interest in the concept of sense of personal agency in adolescence and young adulthood, its operationalization and assessment have been inconsistent. We propose and test a preliminary assessment model of sense of agency combining four of the most relevant indicators suggested by the literature for its assessment (setting...
Although literature states that individual, relational, and contextual factors contribute to adolescents’ sense of agency, more research is needed to clarify and understand how adolescents develop this belief over time. The current study examined the stability/change trajectories of the sense of agency during adolescence, specifically across high s...
Although the literature recognizes the relevance of sense of agency during adolescence, little is known about which factors can promotes or undermines this belief. Identifying the factors that determine adolescents' sense of agency is a challenging task that must consider influences assessed at both the individual and structural levels for a more c...
Sense of personal agency (SPA) is crucial for adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment and well-being. The relationships with parents and peers, as well as the adolescent’s sex, have been suggested as important correlates of adolescents’ SPA. Nevertheless, no prior study has adopted a gender perspective to analyze how the intertwining of relationships...
How adolescents spend their time in different daily activities, such as sleep, physical activity, reading, and screen time, has been identified as an important determinant of their current and future mental health. Also, there is evidence that technological advances have contributed to individuals changing their lifestyles. Informed by this evidenc...
The characteristics of Western societies pose significant challenges to how emerging adults view their futures. In the present study, we analyzed the associations between romantic attachment, self-regulation, and future expectations of emerging adults controlling the sex and age of participants. More specifically, we analyzed the moderating role of...
The current study will investigate the relationship between parents’ work schedules and adolescents’ adjustment. We will identify work schedule patterns based on whether parents have part- or full-time jobs and whether their work schedules are standard or non-standard, characterized by fixed, irregular, or flexible work schedules and fixed or rotat...
Study question
Which fertility education interventions have been delivered to adolescents and are effective in increasing fertility knowledge? A systematic review
Summary answer
Adolescents’ fertility knowledge is low, particularly when it comes to individual factors. Educational interventions are perceived as useful and can increase fertility kno...
Background/objective: The parenting styles and social skills are important factors to emotional development of young
people and can associate, positive or negative way, to suicidal thoughts of adolescents. The current study analyzed the
contribution of parenting styles of mother and father and social skills on suicidal ideation of adolescents. Furt...
The current study examined the stability/change trajectories of sense of agency across high school, analyzing whether these trajectories are influenced by attachment to parents over time, as well as adolescent’s sex, psychosocial risk in baseline, and pandemic stress. The sample includes 467 Portuguese adolescents (59.3% were females; Mage = 15.58...
Ser um agente ativo e ter a capacidade de moldar a própria vida é um recurso importante, mas também um desafio que os jovens enfrentam na adolescência e é necessário analisar as variáveis explicativas da agência pessoal na adolescência. Os contextos relacionais e sociais dos adolescentes têm sido sugeridos como importantes correlatos das crenças da...
Embora exista um interesse crescente no conceito do sentido de agência pessoal na adolescência e na idade adulta emergente, a sua operacionalização e avaliação têm sido inconsistentes. O presente estudo propõe e testa um modelo preliminar de avaliação das crenças de agência pessoal, combinando quatro indicadores apontados pela literatura como os ma...
A teoria da vinculação preconiza que os laços afetivos estabelecidos e mantidos com as figuras parentais representam um marco no desenvolvimento afetivo dos indivíduos ao longo da vida. Na jovem adultícia, tanto a vinculação aos pais como a autoeficácia podem ter um contributo no modo como os jovens estabelecem expectativas futuras. O presente estu...
This study focuses on emerging adults’ personal agency, an individual feature associated with enhanced
adaptive and resilient developmental trajectories. The two objectives were to explore the role of
demographic, psychosocial risk, and relational factors in predicting personal agency and analyze whether
romantic attachment mediates the connection...
Creating expectations helps adolescents to prepare themselves for the future. Relationships established with parents also prepare adolescents to face challenges and to assume responsibilities in order to achieve future projects. Peer relationships become gradually more significant due to reciprocity and mutual understanding and adolescents can deve...
Peer relationships are significant for adolescents' development and the way they perceive challenges, adapt and overcome difficulties. The socio-cultural context also plays an important role in the of personal agency developmental process. The current study aims to analyze the contribution of attachment to peers and cumulative psychosocial risk on...
Although the importance of parents on adolescents' development has long captured the attention of researchers, only a few studies addressed personal agency. The individual capacity to be an actor on their own life course constitutes a great challenge to adolescents living in Western societies characterized by uncertainty and unpredictability. The w...
Objectives
The Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire (FMAQ) is a 30-item self-report measure developed for assessing adolescents’ and young adults’ representations of attachment relationships with each parental figure separately, across three dimensions: quality of emotional bond, separation anxiety, and inhibition of exploration and individua...
Os estilos parentais caracterizam a natureza afetiva e a relação entre os pais e os filhos, apresentando por isso, uma contribuição importante para o desenvolvimento psicossocial dos jovens. A vivência familiar, a relação mantida com os pares e o desenvolvimento do adolescente contribuem para a formação da sua personalidade, sendo esta que dita mui...
The study of personal agency assumes especial relevance during the complex process of transition from adolescence to adulthood, particularly in contemporary Western societies characterized by high levels of unpredictability. Despite the importance of this individual capacity, little is known about the factors that predict personal agency. The curre...
Although there is a growing interest in the concept of personal agency in adolescence and emerging adulthood, few efforts have been made to operationalize the concept. This study proposes and tests an assessment model of personal agency. The sample is composed of 692 emerging adults aged 18 to 30 years. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) revealed a...
O presente estudo procura adaptar para a população portuguesa o Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (ITEA) e analisar as suas características psicométricas. A amostra em estudo foi constituída por 432 adultos emergentes portugueses com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 30 anos. A análise fatorial confirmatória revelou índices de ajustamento...
The Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire (FMAQ; Matos & Costa, 2001) is a 30-item self-report measure developed for assessing adolescents' and young adults’ representations of attachment relationships with each parental figure separately, across three dimensions: quality of parental bond, inhibition of exploration and individuality, and separ...
O presente estudo procura analisar as propriedades psicométricas do Parenting Styles and Dimension Questionnaire (pSDQ) e adaptar para a população portuguesa a sua versão de heterorrelato. A amostra foi constituída por 604 adolescentes com idades entre os 15 e os 18 anos (m=15.99, dp=.97). A confiabilidade foi avaliada através do alfa de Cronbach,...
Este estudio, de naturaleza cuantitativa, tuvo como principal objetivo analizar el papel de la vinculación a los padres y de las habilidades sociales en el desarrollo de ideación suicida en los adolescentes. La muestra se constituyó con 604 individuos, con edades comprendidas entre 15 y 18 años de edad. Para la recolección de los datos, se utilizó...
O presente estudo, de natureza quantitativa, teve como principal objetivo analisar o papel da vinculação aos pais e das competências sociais no desenvolvimento de ideação suicida em adolescentes. A amostra foi constituída por 604 indivíduos, com idades entre os 15 e os 18 anos de idade. Para a recolha dos dados, recorreu-se ao Questionário de Vincu...
The present study aims to analyze the role of parenting styles in the development of suicidal ideation in adolescents, as well as test the mediating role of attachment to parents in the association between authoritative, authoritarian and permissive parenting style and suicidal ideation. The sample was made up of 604 individuals, aged between 15 an...
This study, of quantitative nature, had as main objective analyze the role of attachment to parents and social skills in the development of suicidal ideation in adolescents. The sample comprised 604 individuals, aged between 15 and 18 years old. For data collection we resorted to the Questionário de Vinculação ao Pai e à Mãe (QVPM), Social Skills Q...
This research aims to verify whether physical activity influences the levels of self-esteem and depression in the elderly. The sample is constituted by 215 subjects (61 males and 154 females), practitioners and non-practitioners of physical activity, aged 60 to 100 years. The study variables were evaluated by applying two instruments, the Rosenberg...
Resumo: A presente investigação pretende verificar se a prática de atividade física influencia a autoestima e os níveis de depressão em idosos. Cons-tituíram a amostra 215 indivíduos (61 do sexo masculino e 154 do sexo feminino), praticantes e não praticantes de atividade física, com idades compreendidas entre os 60 e os 100 anos. As variáveis do e...
This research aims to verify whether physical activity influences the levels of self-esteem and depression in the elderly. The sample is constituted by 215 subjects (61 males and 154 females), practitioners and non-practitioners of physical activity, aged 60 to 100 years. The study variables were evaluated by applying two instruments, the Rosenberg...
Resumo: A presente investigação pretende verificar se a prática de atividade física influencia a autoestima e os níveis de depressão em idosos. Cons-tituíram a amostra 215 indivíduos (61 do sexo masculino e 154 do sexo feminino), praticantes e não praticantes de atividade física, com idades compreendidas entre os 60 e os 100 anos. As variáveis do e...
This research aims to verify whether physical activity influences the levels of self-esteem and depression in the elderly. The sample is constituted by 215 subjects (61 males and 154 females), practitioners and non-practitioners of physical activity, aged 60 to 100 years. The study variables were evaluated by applying two instruments, the Rosenberg...
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Questions (2)
Hello, I have a sample of 455 adolescents with multiple informants. The father and mother answered a questionnaire about the quality of the relationship they have with the adolescent who participates in the study and the adolescent answered a questionnaire about the quality of the relationship he establishes with each of the parents and about his personal agency.
Can I use the multitrait-multiméthod (MTMM) to analyze this data? The traits would be 4 dimensions (quality of the mother-child relationship, mother-child inhibition, quality of the father-child relationship and father-child inhibition) and the methods (mother report and father report). I would use the teenager's report with the reference report.
I have 4 factors to measure a latent second order variable. Three factors have a likert-type response scale and one has a dichotomous response scale. I have converted all items into Z score notes to express all variables on the same scale. Can I convert a dichotomous variable into a Z score?
