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Factorial structure, measurement invariance and reliability of the Emotion Regu...
Fernandes, Marília; Morais, Inês; Santos, Carolina; Guedes, Maryse; Ribeiro, Olívia; Fernandes, Carla; Pires, Eva; Santos, Ana FilipaEmotion regulation is important for socioemotional and mental health development, with lifelong implications. The Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC; Shields & Cicchetti, 1997) is a widely used tool to assess emotional regulation and dysregulation in children. Despite wide use and translate into several languages, inconsistent findings have been found in its factorial structure across studies. This study address...
Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn...
Guedes, Maryse; Veríssimo, Manuela; Santos, António J.Shy-withdrawn behaviours place preschoolers at increasedrisk of experiencing adverse developmental outcomes. Posi-tive teacher-child relationships play a protective role againstthese negative socioemotional outcomes. This study aimedto understand, in-depth, the beliefs, practices and supportneeds of preschool teachers toward shy-withdrawn children.Thirty preschool teachers of children aged 3–5 years wereintervi...
Evidence-based interventions targeted at behavioral inhibition, shyness, and an...
Maia, Rita; Santos, Ana Filipa; Veríssimo, Manuela; Santos, António J.; Guedes, MaryseHigh and stable behavioral inhibition (BI) during early childhood may place individuals at increased risk of experiencing anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis. Prior knowledge syntheses showed that selective prevention interventions were efective in reducing child BI and anxiety. However, the efectiveness of preschool-based universal and selective prevention interventions targeted at BI to improve child social ou...
Perceptions of portuguese preschool teachers and psychologists about the accept...
Guedes, Maryse; Veríssimo, Manuela; Santos, António J.High and stable behavioral inhibition (BI) during early childhood place children at increased risk of experiencing anxiety, depression, peer exclusion, victimization, and academic difficulties. The bioecological developmental framework and existing limitations in the scope of the few available interventions targeted at behavioral inhibition during early childhood support the need to develop new teacher-led soci...
Associations between secure base script knowledge in early childhood and percei...
Fernandes, C.; Fernandes, M.; Antunes, Marta; Santos, António J.; Vaughn, Brian; Verissimo, ManuelaAbstract: Previous studies suggest that mental representations of attachment can show moderate stability across childhood but none of these considered the child’s use of the Secure Base Script (SBS). This study tested the longitudinal stability of attachment representations from early to middle childhood, providing data that will allow us to determine whether the SBS score behaves like other attachment measures...
Associations between secure base script knowledge in early childhood and percei...
Fernandes, Carla; Fernandes, Marilia; Antunes, Marta; Santos, António J.; Vaughn, Brian; Verissimo, ManuelaPrevious studies suggest that mental representations of attachment can show moderate stability across childhood but none of these considered the child’s use of the Secure Base Script (SBS). This study tested the longitudinal stability of attachment representations from early to middle childhood, providing data that will allow us to determine whether the SBS score behaves like other attachment measures for early...
Loneliness profiles in adolescence: Associations with sex and social adjustment...
Ribeiro, Olívia; Freitas, Miguel; Rubin, Kenneth; Santos, António J.Loneliness is a complex feeling associated with socio-emotional adjustment difficulties, particularly during adolescence. Such construct is often treated as unidimensional rather than multidimensional, moreover, studies consisting of both peer and family contexts, are very scarce. Adopting a multidimensional and person-centered approach, our study aimed to identify distinct clusters of adolescents with similar ...
Caregivers’ responses to children’s negative emotions: Associations with presch...
Fernandes, C.; Santos, A. F.; Fernandes, M.; Veríssimo, Manuela; Santos, António J.There is a lack of knowledge regarding the connection between parental emotional responsiveness and children’s executive functioning (EF). This study aimed to explore the relations between caregivers’ reactions to their children’s distress and children’s EF. Mothers of 136 preschoolers reported their reactions to their children’s negative emotions using the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale. Childr...
Associations between emotion regulation, feeding practices, and preschoolers’ f...
Santos, A. F.; Fernandes, Carla; Fernandes, M.; Santos, António J.; Veríssimo, Manuela: Previous research identified emotion dysregulation, non-responsive feeding practices, and unhealthy food consumption as risk factors for childhood obesity. However, little is known about the relationships between these factors. This study examined associations between children’s emotion regulation, parental feeding practices, and children’s food consumption. The sample consisted of 163 mothers of children age...
Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in pres...
Torres, Nuno; Martins, Daniel; Monteiro, Lígia; Santos, António J.; Vaughn, Brian; Verissimo, ManuelaBackground: Oxytocin (OXT) has attracted research interest for its potential involvement in many of the behavioural problems observed in childhood. Due to its logistical advantages, saliva is an attractive fluid to quantify neuropeptides in children. Salivary OXT has been suggested as a potential biomarker for psychopathology during childhood. However, several questions still remain about the extent to which, a...