Maria Ribeiro

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19Years (2008-Present)

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30 June 2021 in Sustainability

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Please, Do Not Interrupt Me: Work–Family Balance and Segmentation Behavior as Mediators of Boundary Violations and Teleworkers’ Burnout and Flourishing

The lockdown, in the COVID-19 pandemic, is considered an external crisis that evokes innumerous changes in individuals lives. One of the changes is the work and family dynamics. Based on boundary theory we examine the mediated role of work and family balance and boundary segmentation behavior in the relationship between boundary violations and teleworkers’ stress and well-being. However, because women and men live their work and family differently, gender may condition the way teleworkers lead with boundary violations and boundary segmentation. Hypotheses were tested through moderated mediation modeling using data collected of 456 teleworkers during lockdown. In line with our expectations, teleworkers who have suffered most boundary violations were those with least boundary segmentation behaviors and with least work-family balance which, in turn was related to higher burnout and lower flourishing. Furthermore, gender was found to moderate the relationship between boundary violations from work-to-family and segmentation behavior in the same direction and this relationship was stronger for females than for males. We discuss implications for future research and for managing teleworkers, creating sustainability, both during a crise and stable days.

2 March 2018 in Journal of Family Studies

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Parenting stress and preschoolers’ socio-emotional adjustment: the mediating role of parenting styles in parent–child dyads

This study examined the mediating effect of parenting styles in the relationship between parenting stress and children’s socio-emotional adjustment through Structural Equation Modeling. The moderating role of parent and child gender was also examined by means of a multi-group analysis. A sample of 552 mothers and 501 fathers of Portuguese families with preschoolers participated in the study. Mothers and fathers independently completed self-report measures to evaluate parenting stress, parenting styles and the child’s socio-emotional adjustment (children’s social skills, internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems). Results regarding direct effects indicated that mothers’ and fathers’ stress contributed to the child’s social skills. Additionally, results showed indirect effects: fathers’ authoritative parenting mediated the link between fathers’ stress and social skills, regardless of the gender of the child, while for mothers, the corresponding mediation effect was only observed for daughters; fathers’ authoritarian parenting mediated daughters’ externalizing problems while fathers’ permissive parenting mediated daughters’ internalizing problems. Overall, this study emphasizes the importance of both parents for the adjustment of their children, in addition to the need to examine dyadic parent–preschooler relationships, given that the results suggest some specificity in the processes responsible for direct and indirect effects.

1 June 2015 in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica

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Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire - versão portuguesa de autorrelato

Marta Figueiredo Pedro

Elsa Carapito

Maria Ribeiro

Os estilos parentais educativos constituem um conceito central na área de estudos da parentalidade e do desenvolvimento infantil. Neste sentido, décadas de investigação demonstram o impacto dos estilos parentais em vários aspectos do ajustamento socioemocional da criança e do adolescente. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar as propriedades psicométricas e a validade fatorial da versão portuguesa de autorrelato do Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire. A amostra foi constituída por 2081 indivíduos portugueses (1085 mães; 996 pais) com filhos dos 3 aos 15 anos. Os resultados da análise fatorial confirmatória replicaram a estrutura original de três fatores: autoritativo, autoritário e permissivo. Os índices de ajustamento revelaram uma boa adequação do modelo aos dados. Os níveis de consistência interna dos fatores autoritativo e autoritário revelaram-se adequados, mas o fator permissivo apresentou valores ligeiramente abaixo dos aceitáveis. Os valores de validade convergente e discriminante também se revelaram adequados. Apesar dos níveis menos aceitáveis de consistência interna do factor permissivo, o QDEP revelou, em geral, qualidades psicométricas adequadas para fins de investigação e clínicos, permitindo não só a avaliação de estilos parentais como também de diferentes dimensões e comportamentos parentais com impacto relevante no ajustamento socioemocional da criança e do adolescente.

1 November 2012 in The Spanish Journal of Psychology

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School Social Behavior Scales: an Adaptation Study of the Portuguese Version of the Social Competence Scale from SSBS-2

Raquel Raimundo

Elsa Carapito

Ana Isabel Pereira

Alexandra Marques Pinto

Luisa Lima

Maria Ribeiro

This study analyses the psychometric proprieties of a Portuguese version of the social competence scale from the School Social Behavior Scales (SSBS-2, Merrell, 2002). It is a rating instrument of children and adolescents behavior, to be used by teachers and other school personnel. This scale includes 3 subscales: self-management/compliance, peer relations and academic behavior. In our first sample, 175 teachers rated 344 students from grade 1 through 12. On the second sample 13 teachers rated 251 3rd and 4th grades students. The results from the Portuguese adaptation support the multidimensional structure of the social competence scale from the SSBS-2, although an alternative model demonstrated a better fit to the data than the model originally proposed by the author. The scale showed good internal consistency and good intercorrelations between subscales, as well as between subscales and the total scale. The final model was well replicated in the second sample. These results encourage us to pursue the SSBS-2 Portuguese adaptation, in order to provide a useful and validated instrument for the assessment of social competence and for educational interventions.

1 March 2015 in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica

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Adaptação portuguesa do questionário de coparentalidade: análise fatorial confirmatória e estudos de validade e fiabilidade

Marta Figueiredo Pedro

Maria Ribeiro

Este estudo teve como objetivo adaptar e avaliar as propriedades psicométricas, a validade e a fiabilidade da versão portuguesa do Coparenting Questionnaire (Margolin, Gordis, & John, 2001). O Coparenting Questionnaire é composto por 14 itens organizados em três subescalas: Cooperação, Triangulação e Conflito. O estudo foi realizado com uma amostra de 1133 indivíduos (530 pais e 603 mães), com filhos pré-adolescentes. A validade fatorial foi testada através da análise fatorial confirmatória. Os resultados replicam a estrutura da versão original composta por três fatores: Cooperação, Triangulação e Conflito. Os valores dos índices de ajustamento revelam uma boa qualidade de ajustamento do modelo aos dados, para pais (CFI = 0,94, RMSEA = 0,06, SRMR = 0,05) e mães (CFI = 0,96, RMSEA = 0,06, SRMR = 0,05). A escala apresenta coeficientes de consistência interna entre o aceitável e o elevado (0,71 < α < 0,88), bem como valores adequados de validade convergente e discriminante. Os resultados suportam a validade do construto de coparentalidade e sugerem a versão portuguesa do Coparenting Questionnaire como uma medida válida do construto.

1 January 2020 in Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)

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Daily Life, Communication and Affections of Siblings and Parents of Military Service Members in Mission

Ana Santos Duarte

Rita Francisco

Maria Ribeiro

Renato Pessoa dos Santos

In general, each military mission has three phases: the pre-deployment, which begins with the notification until the military departs to the operational theaters (OT); the deployment, period that corresponds to the time that the military is in the OT; and post-deployment, which begins when the service member definitely returns home (^{Houston, Pfefferbaum, Sherman, Melson, & Brand, 2013}). Several studies have revealed that the resources needed for a good family adaptation during the mission in its different phases are the social support of friends, the functional support of family members and the communication between family and the military (^{Barbudo, Francisco, & Santos, 2014}; Bóia et al., 2018; ^{Manigart, Lecoq, & Bue, 2015}; ^{Martins, Santos, & Francisco, 2014}). However, it is also essential to have individual coping resources and strategies, such as having a positive attitude towards the situation, learning from previous identical experiences, and the control of negative emotions (Bóia et al., 2018).

About Me

Maria Teresa Ribeiro is a Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, where she teaches and conducts research, particularly in the context of guiding master's and doctoral theses in Clinical Psychology and Psychology of the Family and Family Intervention. Maria Teresa Ribeiro has a PhD in Psychology from the FPCE of University of Lisbon, where she practices clinical practice, family and marital psychotherapy, and supervises academic and professional clinical internships. In this faculty she is the coordinator of the Master's in Systemic Clinical Psychology. Since 2008, she has been a co-coordinator of the Interuniversity Doctorate Coimbra-Lisbon in Clinical Psychology, specialty of Family psychology and Family intervention (PIDFIF). She has been a co-coordinator of the Master's in Psychology in Crisis and Emergency since 2021. Between 2002 and 2009, she was the Psychology Coordinator of the Institute of Family Sciences at Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and of the Master's in Family Sciences. Maria Teresa Ribeiro was the Portuguese representative at the Committee of Experts on Children and Family (CS-EF) of the Council of Europe. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Observatory of the Most Family-Responsible Municipalities and, since 2015, she has been on the board of the Portuguese Association of Large Families. She is the author of national and international books and articles in international journals on the above-mentioned topics.

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