Maria do céu Taveira

• PHD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Minho

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 This study evaluates the efficacy of a group-based career intervention designed to promote employability resources among unemployed individuals conducted in face-to-face and online modalities. Methods Employing a longitudinal quasi-experimental design, with two intervention groups and a control group, data was collected pre-, post, an...

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...

Career intervention can be designed to enhance constructive attitudes, emotions and behaviours that will improve clients´ career attainment. In this sense, mobilisation of career exploration constitutes one of the most important tasks of career counsellors, particularly with the emphasis in developmental career guidance models, first developed in t...

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...

This study aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the Scale of Interests by Areas of Psychology (Escala de Interesses por Áreas da Psicologia—EIAPsi-55) and test the predictive relationship of the Big Five and RIASEC on the interests by areas of work assessed by the scale. The sample consisted of 2366 participants, Brazilian and Portuguese,...

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 career construction and sociocognitive career theories were considered to test an integrative model of career adaptation in higher education. Participants were 523 Portuguese university students (non-working, n = 335, Mage = 20.64; working, n = 188, Mage = 29.05), who completed measures of social support, protean orientation, adaptability and a...

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 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....

This study tests an add‐on procedure to foster change in Career Construction Counseling by eliciting reconceptualization innovative moments. After the career counseling intervention with 42 participants, 21 participants were allocated to the add‐on procedure, consisting of two additional sessions focused on eliciting reconceptualization innovative...

As demandas do mundo do trabalho contemporâneo requerem competências socioemocionais, cognitivas e técnicas. Investigações mostram relações positivas entre as competências socioemocionais e os resultados no trabalho, como melhores salários, maior produtividade e satisfação com a carreira. Este estudo objetivou avaliar um Programa de Educação para a...

This Comment draws upon the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies' Statement on "Values in Times of Crisis: Strategic crisis management in the EU", which is available here: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022-11/ec_rtd_sam-crisis-management-ege-statement.pdf (November 2022)

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...

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...

This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Career Education Questionnaire, through the analysis of reliability, dimensionality and possible correlations with the SENNA 1.0 socioemotional measure. The participants were 282 Portuguese high school students of both genders, with a mean age of 15.93 years, from public schools in nor...

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 aliança de trabalho é um preditor da eficácia da intervenção psicológica e envolve o trabalho colaborativo entre psicólogo/a e cliente. Neste estudo, analisa-se em que medida a experiência profissional dos/as psicólogos/as, o rendimento económico e a (in)decisão do/da cliente predizem a aliança de trabalho inicial e se esses fatores e a aliança i...

Being employable in the 21st century implies managing one's career actively and values-driven. In other words, adopting a protean career attitude will make it easier to anticipate and cope with career transitions or tasks. These attitudes guide career self-management behaviors as networking or knowledge-seeking, which may be considered employabilit...

Academic success is a multifaceted and complex concept, including objective (e.g., performance) and subjective (e.g., engagement) indicators of relevance to institutions and students' lives. Personal motivational variables, as protean career attitudes, may influence these indicators. When analyzed in a similar context, such as the work context, the...

The mapping of therapeutic collaboration throughout counseling deepens our understanding of how the helping relationship fosters client change. To better understand the process of career construction counseling (CCC), we analyzed the therapeutic collaboration on six successful face-to-face cases. The participants were six Portuguese adults, five wo...

The mapping of therapeutic collaboration throughout counseling deepens our understanding of how the helping relationship fosters client change. To better understand the process of career construction counseling (CCC), we analyzed the therapeutic collaboration on six successful face-to-face cases. The participants were six Portuguese adults, five wo...

Resumo O engajamento com a carreira tem se mostrado um bom preditor de resultados positivos associados ao desenvolvimento profissional e ao sucesso na carreira. É crescente o interesse em estudar as relações entre o engajamento e o sucesso no contexto da transição universidade-trabalho. Esta investigação recorreu ao delineamento prospectivo com med...

This study aims to identify the client factors that predict working alliance in career construction counselling. The sample included 49 Portuguese participants (34 females). A demographic questionnaire collected information about clients’ gender, age and educational level. Distress was assessed using the Outcome Questionnaire-45. The strength of wo...

The career adaptation model helps to explain the process of transitioning from university to employment among college students. This study tested the invariance of the model for gender and for Portuguese and Brazilian cultural contexts. Participants included 638 students (69% women, 66.1% Brazilian), aged 18 to 56 (M = 23.78, SD = 20.33). Individua...

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...

Most research applications of the social cognitive model of career self-management (CSM; Lent & Brown, 2013) to career exploration and decision-making have involved U.S. college students. To extend research on the model, we tested its fit to the data in a sample of 345 unemployed adult workers in Portugal. Participants completed measures of career...

Next April, we are going to receive in Algrave, Portugal, the 4th International Conference on Career Development. We hope to see you there! Maria do Céu Taveira

Employability factors in adolescence: impact of an intermunicipal program on career adaptability Abstract: Vocational intervention is a useful process to boost career adaptability, and this competence is a good predictor of future employability. In order to develop these adaptive resources, the brief and structured vocational psychological counsell...

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...

A contemporaneidade, marcada por um mercado de emprego flexível e competitivo, exige que os jovens, nomeadamente universitários, sejam capazes de gerir a sua carreira. Para que os profissionais de carreira consigam auxiliar estes jovens, precisam de ter à sua disposição instrumentos válidos e fiáveis que lhes possibilitem avaliar comportamentos de...

The program Eu Pertenço ao Meu Futuro! (I Belong to My Future!) has evidence of effectiveness in the career adaptability of 9th-year Portuguese students. This study evaluates its effectiveness in two consecutive school years, 2015/16 and 2016/17 - a period with a series of government changes that impacted school educational projects. This study was...

The evaluation of the career intervention process is a research gap. This study presents the qualitative evaluation of the process of a career self-management program for university students, with six weekly sessions of 120 minutes each, held with eight distinct groups. Forty-two students, three psychologists and one supervisor participated. The co...

Portugal is one of the European countries that implemented early protective measures in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Portugal declared a state of emergency on 18 March, and a set of regional and national preventive public health measures was progressively implemented. Studies on the psychological impact of pandemics show evidence of the ne...

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...

Considering the relevance of the development of socio-emotional and career skills to deal with educational and occupational transitions, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Edu-Car Program, which purpose is the development of socio-emotional and career competence. From the quasi-experimental design with intervention and comparison...

Children develop career expectations as they increase self‐knowledge and perceive societal affordances and barriers to life roles. Parents are powerful agents in the socialization of children to work, transmitting occupational concepts that influence children's career development. The authors used Gottfredson's (1981) and Holland's (1973) theories...

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...

Given the increased self-directedness of todays’ career environment, career goals represent to some extent the exercise of individual agency, particularly during ecological transitions (e.g., school to work). The main purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between internship quality and career exploration behavior, considering studen...

A satisfação dos estudantes tem sido valorizada como um indicador da qualidade das instituições de Ensino Superior, e como variável relevante na explicação do envolvimento, aprendizagem e persistência dos estudantes. A satisfação, associada aos diversos contextos da experiência académica, pode ser entendida como a apreciação que os estudantes reali...

Considering the need to understand the variables related to the choice for Psychology specialties, this study aimed to present the adaptation process and to verify validity evidence based on the internal structure for the Portuguese version of the Scale of Interests by Areas of Psychology (EIAPsi) and relate it to personality. The sample consisted...

Purpose In a socioeconomic context that is undergoing continuous change, career adaptability emerges as a central construct for understanding the employability of graduates. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyze intra-individual differences in career adaptability among graduates between the end of graduation (time 1) and integrati...

Resumo O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar o poder preditivo da adaptabilidade de carreira na empregabilidade percebida, considerando o efeito mediador das respostas adaptativas nessa relação. Participaram da pesquisa 387 estudantes universitários. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizadas a Escala de Adaptabilidade de Carreira, a Escala de Desenvol...

Resumo Qualitative research on career success has been encouraged across different category of workers. This qualitative research sought to explore how do new graduates define career success and also highlight some implications for career counseling and Human Resources management. Sample included nine new graduates from two different regions of Bra...

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...

This study aimed to describe the profile of vocational interests of Civil Engineering students and to present two case studies. Forty-nine Brazilian university students (35, 72% men, 14, 28% women), aged between 20 and 54 years old (M=26.10, SD=7.0), participated. Quantitative and qualitative data were obtained using the Brazilian version of the Be...

Career development is a complex process that requires, among other things, adapting responses. Few instruments bring together in the same measure different dimensions of the career development of university students in the transition to work. This research aimed to construct and analyze the psychometric characteristics of the Career Development Sca...

The social cognitive career theory suggests that the development of career self-efficacy expectations begins during the childhood period. The Multidimensional Scales of Perceived Self-Efficacy (MSPSE) has been used to assess adolescents and adults’ career self-efficacy. This study extends this research by assessing the psychometric characteristics...

Lent and Brown's (2006, 2008) social cognitive model of work well-being was tested in Brazilian (N = 349) and Portuguese (N = 357) college student samples. Participants completed Portuguese language measures of academic domain self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, and satisfaction, along with measures of global positive affect and li...

Academic adaptation is a complex process and its success is related to life satisfaction and career success. This study aimed to design and evaluate the results of an Academic Adaptation Program in higher education. Twenty-two university students, with problems of adaptation, participated in the study. For the design stage, the action-research meth...

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...

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,...

A gestão pessoal da carreira é um processo continuado de reflexão, definição de objetivos e autorregulação na vida de trabalho. Pretende-se testar um modelo sociocognitivo do constructo, aplicado aos comportamentos de exploração e decisão em adultos desempregados portugueses (N=427; n=234, 54.8% mulheres), com idades entre 17 e 65 anos (M = 47.10;...

O planeamento de carreira estimula sentimentos de competência pessoal que habilitam a lidar com a carreira e futuro. Analisa-se a relação simultânea entre planeamento da carreira e comportamento e desempenho académico. Participaram 446 alunos do 5º ano (231, 52.2% rapazes), com idades entre nove e 13 anos (M = 10.23, DP = 0.49). Utilizou-se um ques...

As intervenções de carreira em contexto educacional são um método poderoso e eficaz para ajudar a aproximar a escola e o mercado de trabalho, preparando os jovens com as competências que lhes permitam enfrentar os desafios do futuro. Esta brochura visa reforçar os contactos entre a escola e o contexto laboral para apoiar a transição dos alunos para...

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...

Adolescence has been characterized as a moment of transitions, changes and crises, proper to this stage of development. In this context, also the vocational choices that adolescents have to make can play a crucial role in the psychosocial development of young people. Thus, it is considered that the evaluation of vocational psychological interventio...

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...

Social Cognitive Career Theory suggests that students' preparedness for the school-to-work transition is a developmental process. Middle school children explore various careers, obtain feedback about their academic progress, and develop career self-efficacy and outcome expectations. These processes advance provisional educational/occupational goals...

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 chapter starts off by providing an account of the historical development of career guidance in Portugal, acknowledging the contributions of early pioneers in the field. It highlights some of the more important initiatives implemented after the installation of democratic government in 1974, noting developments in schools, at universities, and i...

Resumo O desenvolvimento vocacional é um processo que se inicia na infância e que apresenta uma natureza dimensional, mutável e contextual. Entre as dimensões de desenvolvimento vocacional na infância, podem considerar-se a exploração, o autoconceito, o locus de controlo, o planeamento e o rendimento académico, que têm impacto em processos vocacion...

This study aims to explore the psychological intervention needs of the students attending the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University. 157 students were evaluated on their personal, career and learning needs and concerns, as well as on their possible support preferences, through the questionnaire of identification of psychol...