Maria Do Céu Taveira
Biographic Data
| ID | 321855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Do Céu Taveira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Do Céu |
| FAMILY NAME | Taveira |
| SIGNATURE | TAVEIRA M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1762-8702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Community Clubs: Needs assessment and efficacy of a school career development program
Introduction School-based career interventions have shown consistent effectiveness in supporting students’ developmental tasks and future planning. Current approaches emphasize a holistic perspective of career development, integrating personal and social development, educational achievement, and career management competencies. Although policy frameworks recognize the importance of these domains, structural challenges such as school-to-work transi…
Career intervention program to promote academic adjustment and success in higher education
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 adaptation to higher education has been widely studied, as it is often associated with academic failu…
Understanding Personality Stability and Change From McAdams's Perspective: Implications for Research and Practice
Whether personality changes over time has long been a central question in psychology. While most research has approached this issue through the lens of trait stability, such a perspective alone is insufficient to fully capture the dynamic and multifaceted nature of personality development. From a constructivist standpoint, personality is not a fixed set of attributes but an evolving process of self‐organization, shaped by the continual interactio…
Career adaptation in higher education: A study with non-working and working students
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, M age = 20.64; working, n = 188, M age = 29.05), who completed measures of social support, protean orientation, adaptability and adapting as adaptation predictors, and career certainty, academic wellbeing, and life satisfaction …
The psychological future of unemployed individuals and workers: Invariance measurement model and mean differences
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. The analyzed sample consisted of 352 participants, of which 176 were unemployed individuals and 176 were workers.…
Career Interventions at a Distance: A Systematic Literature Review
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 various distance intervention methodologies. Methods: This study presents a systematic review of dista…
Employability and career beliefs inventory: A Brief Version for Unemployed Persons
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. Methods and results Altogether, 2023 unemployed persons aged from 18 to 66 years old and living in Southe…
Online training of psychologists for a career intervention with unemployed adults: A pilot study during the Covid-19 pandemic
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 unemployed adults. Eight female psychologists (Mage = 30.75; SD = 4.9) from different regions of the…
Protean Career Orientation Scale: A validation study with Portuguese university students
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 a need for valid and reliable measures of protean career orientation. Our study aimed to analyze the…
Client factors and working alliance: A preliminary study in Career Construction Counselling
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 working alliance was measured by the Work Alliance Inventory-Short and Revised at the end of both the …
Social-Emotional Skills, Career Adaptability, and Agentic School Engagement of First-Year High School Students
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 adaptive readiness, resources, responses, and results. However, research applying the career constructi…
Career Education Questionnaire: Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version
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 northern Portugal. The analysis of the internal consistency of the dimensions showed satisfactory Cronb…
Programa Edu-Car para o desenvolvimento socioemocional e de carreira: Avaliação de processo
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 Carreira (Edu-Car), que visou a promover a aprendizagem socioemocional e de carreira em estudantes …
Engajamento e Sucesso na Transição para o Trabalho: Estudo com Medidas Repetidas
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 medidas repetidas para analisar as variações do engajamento com a carreira, durante e após a conclusão da grad…
Aliança de trabalho em aconselhamento de carreira: Fatores dos/as psicólogos/as e clientes
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 inicial predizem a aliança final. Participaram 49 clientes do aconselhamento de construção da carreir…
Family Influence on Academic and Life Satisfaction: A Social Cognitive Perspective
Family influence is a key factor in many aspects of career development; however, very little research has examined the relationship between family and well-being. Drawing on social cognitive career theory, this study examined the influence of the family on college students’ academic and overall life satisfaction. The participants were 312 college students at a south Brazilian university who completed measures of family influence, along with measu…
Career Goals and Internship Quality Among VET Students
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 students’ career goals content (labor market vs. higher education). Using a longitudinal design (pre- and …
Career Adaptability in the 9th Year: Efficacy of an Intervention in Two Consecutive School Years
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 conducted with 2,376 students (1201 (50.5%) boys; age M = 14.53 years; SD = .836), 1138 of whom wer…
Escala de Desenvolvimento de Carreira de Universitários: Estudo Confirmatório com Estudantes Portugueses
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 carreira, como as respostas adaptativas. Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar as propriedades psico…
Psychometric Study of the Scale of Interests by Areas of Psychology - Portuguese Version
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 of 340 Portuguese university students, using the EIAPsi and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI).…
Edu-Car for life and career: Evaluation of a program
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 groups, 116 high school students from the 10th year, of two public schools in the interior of the S…
Testing functional theory of life values with students living in residential care institutions
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 model (excitement, promotion, existence, supra-personal, interactive, normative), and a structure hyp…
Effectiveness of a career intervention for empowerment of institutionalized youth
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 control group (n = 6). Both groups completed the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, the Positive Affect Scale a…
Satisfaction with Life Scale Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Portugal: Extending Evidence of Construct Validity
The paper presents three empirical studies designed to extend the test of the construct validity of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) among Portuguese students. In the first study, the responses of 461 elementary and secondary education students were submitted to a principal component analysis. A solution of one single factor was chosen, accounting for 55.7 % of the total variance, with Cronbach alpha coefficient and inter-item correlation …
Calidad en educación superior y orientación: Eficacia de un seminario de gestión personal de la carrera para pre graduados
Career services and interventions based on research and empirical evidence are progressively considered mechanisms for quality assurance in higher education. We present a study on the effectiveness of a career self-management seminar designed for help undergraduates prepare for next life career changes and goal attainment. Four hundred and twenty eight students with an age mean of 22 years old (n=208 experimental group; n=220 control group) atten…
Satisfaction with Life Scale Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Portugal: Extending Evidence of Construct Validity
The paper presents three empirical studies designed to extend the test of the construct validity of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) among Portuguese students. In the first study, the responses of 461 elementary and secondary education students were submitted to a principal component analysis. A solution of one single factor was chosen, accounting for 55.7 % of the total variance, with Cronbach alpha coefficient and inter-item correlation …
Testing functional theory of life values with students living in residential care institutions
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 model (excitement, promotion, existence, supra-personal, interactive, normative), and a structure hyp…
Effectiveness of a career intervention for empowerment of institutionalized youth
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 control group (n = 6). Both groups completed the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, the Positive Affect Scale a…
Análise fatorial confirmatória da prova de avaliação de competência social face à carreira
A competência social diz respeito à forma como as pessoas percebem e atuam face a uma variedade de situações sociais. Este estudo avalia as características métricas da Prova de Avaliação de Competência Social face à Carreira (PACS-Car). Participaram 572 adolescentes (M=13,28 anos; DP=0,59), do 8o ano de escolaridade1 de escolas portuguesas. Os resultados da Análise Fatorial Confirmatória apontam para uma solução fatorial constituída por oito fato…
Discursos de adolescentes sobre a vida profissional e familiar: Entre O Sonho E a Realidade
Na actualidade, um dos maiores desafios que se colocam às mulheres que seguem ou pretendem seguir uma carreira profissional é a conciliação entre a vida familiar e a profissional. Apesar da pertinência actual deste tema na literatura sobre gestão da carreira, é escassa a investigação sobre esta temática na adolescência. Assim, os objectivos deste estudo são avaliar até que ponto as adolescentes têm consciência daquela realidade, bem como os mecan…
Análise fatorial confirmatória da prova de avaliação de competência social face à carreira
A competência social diz respeito à forma como as pessoas percebem e atuam face a uma variedade de situações sociais. Este estudo avalia as características métricas da Prova de Avaliação de Competência Social face à Carreira (PACS-Car). Participaram 572 adolescentes (M=13,28 anos; DP=0,59), do 8o ano de escolaridade1 de escolas portuguesas. Os resultados da Análise Fatorial Confirmatória apontam para uma solução fatorial constituída por oito fato…
Calidad en educación superior y orientación: Eficacia de un seminario de gestión personal de la carrera para pre graduados
Career services and interventions based on research and empirical evidence are progressively considered mechanisms for quality assurance in higher education. We present a study on the effectiveness of a career self-management seminar designed for help undergraduates prepare for next life career changes and goal attainment. Four hundred and twenty eight students with an age mean of 22 years old (n=208 experimental group; n=220 control group) atten…
Sensibilizar professores para o desenvolvimento de carreira dos alunos: Relato De Uma Experiência
A literatura destaca a importância de realizar sessões de sensibilização dos professores para promover a sua influência positiva e intencional, enquanto docentes, nas trajetórias de carreira dos alunos. Este artigo relata uma experiência de realização de uma sessão de sensibilização junto a professores da educação básica de um agrupamento de escolas no noroeste de Portugal. Procurou-se esclarecer o conceito de desenvolvimento de carreira junto do…
Satisfaction with Life Scale Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Portugal: Extending Evidence of Construct Validity
The paper presents three empirical studies designed to extend the test of the construct validity of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) among Portuguese students. In the first study, the responses of 461 elementary and secondary education students were submitted to a principal component analysis. A solution of one single factor was chosen, accounting for 55.7 % of the total variance, with Cronbach alpha coefficient and inter-item correlation …
Effectiveness of a career intervention for empowerment of institutionalized youth
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 control group (n = 6). Both groups completed the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, the Positive Affect Scale a…
Testing functional theory of life values with students living in residential care institutions
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 model (excitement, promotion, existence, supra-personal, interactive, normative), and a structure hyp…
Psychometric Study of the Scale of Interests by Areas of Psychology - Portuguese Version
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 of 340 Portuguese university students, using the EIAPsi and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI).…
Edu-Car for life and career: Evaluation of a program
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 groups, 116 high school students from the 10th year, of two public schools in the interior of the S…
Family Influence on Academic and Life Satisfaction: A Social Cognitive Perspective
Family influence is a key factor in many aspects of career development; however, very little research has examined the relationship between family and well-being. Drawing on social cognitive career theory, this study examined the influence of the family on college students’ academic and overall life satisfaction. The participants were 312 college students at a south Brazilian university who completed measures of family influence, along with measu…
Career Goals and Internship Quality Among VET Students
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 students’ career goals content (labor market vs. higher education). Using a longitudinal design (pre- and …
Career Adaptability in the 9th Year: Efficacy of an Intervention in Two Consecutive School Years
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 conducted with 2,376 students (1201 (50.5%) boys; age M = 14.53 years; SD = .836), 1138 of whom wer…
Escala de Desenvolvimento de Carreira de Universitários: Estudo Confirmatório com Estudantes Portugueses
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 carreira, como as respostas adaptativas. Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar as propriedades psico…
Career Education Questionnaire: Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version
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 northern Portugal. The analysis of the internal consistency of the dimensions showed satisfactory Cronb…
Programa Edu-Car para o desenvolvimento socioemocional e de carreira: Avaliação de processo
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 Carreira (Edu-Car), que visou a promover a aprendizagem socioemocional e de carreira em estudantes …
Engajamento e Sucesso na Transição para o Trabalho: Estudo com Medidas Repetidas
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 medidas repetidas para analisar as variações do engajamento com a carreira, durante e após a conclusão da grad…
Aliança de trabalho em aconselhamento de carreira: Fatores dos/as psicólogos/as e clientes
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 inicial predizem a aliança final. Participaram 49 clientes do aconselhamento de construção da carreir…
Client factors and working alliance: A preliminary study in Career Construction Counselling
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 working alliance was measured by the Work Alliance Inventory-Short and Revised at the end of both the …
Social-Emotional Skills, Career Adaptability, and Agentic School Engagement of First-Year High School Students
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 adaptive readiness, resources, responses, and results. However, research applying the career constructi…
Career adaptation in higher education: A study with non-working and working students
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, M age = 20.64; working, n = 188, M age = 29.05), who completed measures of social support, protean orientation, adaptability and adapting as adaptation predictors, and career certainty, academic wellbeing, and life satisfaction …
The psychological future of unemployed individuals and workers: Invariance measurement model and mean differences
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. The analyzed sample consisted of 352 participants, of which 176 were unemployed individuals and 176 were workers.…
Career Interventions at a Distance: A Systematic Literature Review
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 various distance intervention methodologies. Methods: This study presents a systematic review of dista…
Employability and career beliefs inventory: A Brief Version for Unemployed Persons
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. Methods and results Altogether, 2023 unemployed persons aged from 18 to 66 years old and living in Southe…
Online training of psychologists for a career intervention with unemployed adults: A pilot study during the Covid-19 pandemic
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 unemployed adults. Eight female psychologists (Mage = 30.75; SD = 4.9) from different regions of the…
Protean Career Orientation Scale: A validation study with Portuguese university students
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 a need for valid and reliable measures of protean career orientation. Our study aimed to analyze the…
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