Marcela Matos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcela Matos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcela |
| FAMILY NAME | Matos |
| SIGNATURE | MATOS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7320-7107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Robust children
The study aimed to survey primary schoolchildren’s perception of well-being and safety. A total of 1,620 Norwegian children in 1st–4th grade answered, including 777 girls and 817 boys, while 26 did not report gender. Two scales with 14 question were used: one on well-being and safety at school (6 items) and one on perceived competence and enjoyment/likeability related to reading, maths, science and physical education (8 items). Overall, children …
The protective role of gratitude against the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health
Gratitude is often defined as the appreciation of life, whether in good or hard times. The study aimed to examine the protective role of gratitude against the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, in particular depression, anxiety and stress. It was carried out among 394 Portuguese adults, who filled in self-report measures on gratitude (GQ-6), depression, anxiety, stress (DASS-21) and the perceived traumatic impact of the CO…
The impact of gratitude practice on well-being and mental health in post-Covid times among Portuguese adults
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the physical and mental health of millions of people around the world. Now, that the COVID emergency is over, its repercussions remain and management plans on how to regain emotional stability are discussed worldwide. The study examined the role of the multidimensional gratitude practice in regaining mental health and facilitating post-traumatic growth in post-COVID times. The weekly gratitude tasks were: gratitud…
The roles of the centrality of shame memory and self-blame in the association between shame and paranoia
Tracking narrative change in post-intervention focus groups for teachers
Reliable and systematic qualitative methodologies to assess participants’ change after group interventions are scarce. This study outlines a methodolo5gical approach to use in focus groups, allowing the elicitation and coding of participants’ change talk after a group intervention. A Change Elicitation Script for Focus Groups was developed and its viability for evoking participants’ discussion around change was tested. Following a self-compassion…
Advancing the assessment of compassion
Fears of compassion magnify the effects of rumination and worry on the relationship between self-criticism and depression
Measuring shame across five countries
The flows of compassion in adolescents as measured by the compassionate engagement and action scales
Beyond trauma
Improvements in Compassion and Fears of Compassion throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic
During large-scale disasters, social support, caring behaviours, and compassion are shown to protect against poor mental health outcomes. This multi-national study aimed to assess the fluctuations in compassion over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents (Time 1 n = 4156, Time 2 n = 980, Time 3 n = 825) from 23 countries completed online self-report questionnaires measuring the flows of compassion (i.e., Compassionate Engagement and Actio…
Emotional climate in residential care scale for youth
Research has shown that social and contextual factors, such as climate in Residential Youth Care (RYC), are key protective factors for better outcomes in youth who experienced maltreatment. Even if increasing attention has been given to residential climate as a therapeutic tool, available measures are still scarce and revealed some limitations. This study aims to adapt and validate a brief self-report measure to assess the emotional climate of re…
A new measure to assess external and internal shame
Comparing compassion across cultures
ObjectivesCompassion, a social mentality, is shaped by social context. Social roles may facilitate or hinder compassionate motivations directed to others, received from others, or expressed to oneself. As such, cultural differences may emerge in compassion competencies and fears of compassion. However, current research has been limited in understanding such cultural differences in compassion competencies and fears of compassion, and the relations…
Incorporating psychoeducation, mindfulness and self-compassion in a new programme for binge eating (BEfree)
This study explores the efficacy of BEfree, a 12-session group intervention that integrates psychoeducation, mindfulness, compassion and value-based action, in a sample of overweight and obese women with binge eating disorder ( N = 31). We used repeated measures analyses of variance and explored processes of change in binge eating and eating psychopathology. At post-intervention, participants decreased in binge eating severity, eating psychopatho…
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others
Studies of the value of compassion on physical and mental health and social relationships have proliferated in the last 25 years. Although, there are several conceptualisations and measures of compassion, this study develops three new measures of compassion competencies derived from an evolutionary, motivational approach. The scales assess 1. the compassion we experience for others, 2. the compassion we experience from others, and 3. self-compass…
Avaliação do impacto de acontecimentos traumáticos na adolescência
O objetivo do presente estudo foi validar a Impact of Event Scale-Revised em uma amostra de adolescentes portugueses. Esta foi constituída por 383 adolescentes com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e os 18 anos. Foram usados outros questionários, que avaliavam a centralidade da memória de vergonha e sintomatologia psicopatológica. Foram testados vários modelos alternativos da estrutura fatorial da Escala do Impacto do Acontecimento através da Anál…
O impacto das memórias de vergonha na adolescência
Experiências adversas, particularmente, experiências precoces de vergonha podem funcionar como memórias traumáticas e serem centrais na formação da autoidentidade. O objetivo da presente pesquisa é analisar a estrutura dimensional e qualidades psicométricas da versão portuguesa para adolescentes da Centrality of Event Scale (CES). Participaram 397 adolescentes com idades entre os 12 e os 18 anos a frequentarem escolas públicas de ensino regular. …
Work Matters
Subjective Well-Being Structure
Personality and Subjective Well-Being
Fears of compassion
Objectives. There is increasing evidence that helping people develop compassion for themselves and others has powerful impacts on negative affect and promotes positive affect. However, clinical observations suggest that some individuals, particularly those high in self‐criticism, can find self‐compassion and receiving compassion difficult and can be fearful of it. This study therefore developed measures of fear of: compassion for others , compass…
Effects of intranasal oxytocin on 'compassion focused imagery
This study explored the effects of oxytocin on Compassion Focused Imagery (CFI), that is, imagining another "mind" being deeply compassionate to oneself, and the interaction of these effects with self-criticism and feeling socially safe with others. Forty-four healthy participants (29 men and 15 women) completed self-report measures of self-criticism, attachment style, and social safeness before taking part in a double-blind randomized placebo co…
A centralidade das experiências da vergonha
A natureza das experiências de vergonha sugere que estas podem constituir-se como memórias traumáticas e autobiográficas, pontos de referência centrais para a identidade pessoal e atribuição de significado a outras experiências de vida, com consequências ao nível da psicopatologia. O presente estudo examina as propriedades psicométricas da versão portuguesa da Escala da Centralidade do Acontecimento (Centrality of Event Scale, CES; Berntsen & Rub…
Subjective Well-Being Structure
Comparing compassion across cultures
ObjectivesCompassion, a social mentality, is shaped by social context. Social roles may facilitate or hinder compassionate motivations directed to others, received from others, or expressed to oneself. As such, cultural differences may emerge in compassion competencies and fears of compassion. However, current research has been limited in understanding such cultural differences in compassion competencies and fears of compassion, and the relations…
Incorporating psychoeducation, mindfulness and self-compassion in a new programme for binge eating (BEfree)
This study explores the efficacy of BEfree, a 12-session group intervention that integrates psychoeducation, mindfulness, compassion and value-based action, in a sample of overweight and obese women with binge eating disorder ( N = 31). We used repeated measures analyses of variance and explored processes of change in binge eating and eating psychopathology. At post-intervention, participants decreased in binge eating severity, eating psychopatho…
Personality and Subjective Well-Being
A centralidade das experiências da vergonha
A natureza das experiências de vergonha sugere que estas podem constituir-se como memórias traumáticas e autobiográficas, pontos de referência centrais para a identidade pessoal e atribuição de significado a outras experiências de vida, com consequências ao nível da psicopatologia. O presente estudo examina as propriedades psicométricas da versão portuguesa da Escala da Centralidade do Acontecimento (Centrality of Event Scale, CES; Berntsen & Rub…
A centralidade das experiências da vergonha
A natureza das experiências de vergonha sugere que estas podem constituir-se como memórias traumáticas e autobiográficas, pontos de referência centrais para a identidade pessoal e atribuição de significado a outras experiências de vida, com consequências ao nível da psicopatologia. O presente estudo examina as propriedades psicométricas da versão portuguesa da Escala da Centralidade do Acontecimento (Centrality of Event Scale, CES; Berntsen & Rub…
Fears of compassion
Objectives. There is increasing evidence that helping people develop compassion for themselves and others has powerful impacts on negative affect and promotes positive affect. However, clinical observations suggest that some individuals, particularly those high in self‐criticism, can find self‐compassion and receiving compassion difficult and can be fearful of it. This study therefore developed measures of fear of: compassion for others , compass…
Effects of intranasal oxytocin on 'compassion focused imagery
This study explored the effects of oxytocin on Compassion Focused Imagery (CFI), that is, imagining another "mind" being deeply compassionate to oneself, and the interaction of these effects with self-criticism and feeling socially safe with others. Forty-four healthy participants (29 men and 15 women) completed self-report measures of self-criticism, attachment style, and social safeness before taking part in a double-blind randomized placebo co…
Subjective Well-Being Structure
Personality and Subjective Well-Being
Work Matters
O impacto das memórias de vergonha na adolescência
Experiências adversas, particularmente, experiências precoces de vergonha podem funcionar como memórias traumáticas e serem centrais na formação da autoidentidade. O objetivo da presente pesquisa é analisar a estrutura dimensional e qualidades psicométricas da versão portuguesa para adolescentes da Centrality of Event Scale (CES). Participaram 397 adolescentes com idades entre os 12 e os 18 anos a frequentarem escolas públicas de ensino regular. …
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others
Studies of the value of compassion on physical and mental health and social relationships have proliferated in the last 25 years. Although, there are several conceptualisations and measures of compassion, this study develops three new measures of compassion competencies derived from an evolutionary, motivational approach. The scales assess 1. the compassion we experience for others, 2. the compassion we experience from others, and 3. self-compass…
Avaliação do impacto de acontecimentos traumáticos na adolescência
O objetivo do presente estudo foi validar a Impact of Event Scale-Revised em uma amostra de adolescentes portugueses. Esta foi constituída por 383 adolescentes com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e os 18 anos. Foram usados outros questionários, que avaliavam a centralidade da memória de vergonha e sintomatologia psicopatológica. Foram testados vários modelos alternativos da estrutura fatorial da Escala do Impacto do Acontecimento através da Anál…
Comparing compassion across cultures
ObjectivesCompassion, a social mentality, is shaped by social context. Social roles may facilitate or hinder compassionate motivations directed to others, received from others, or expressed to oneself. As such, cultural differences may emerge in compassion competencies and fears of compassion. However, current research has been limited in understanding such cultural differences in compassion competencies and fears of compassion, and the relations…
Incorporating psychoeducation, mindfulness and self-compassion in a new programme for binge eating (BEfree)
This study explores the efficacy of BEfree, a 12-session group intervention that integrates psychoeducation, mindfulness, compassion and value-based action, in a sample of overweight and obese women with binge eating disorder ( N = 31). We used repeated measures analyses of variance and explored processes of change in binge eating and eating psychopathology. At post-intervention, participants decreased in binge eating severity, eating psychopatho…
A new measure to assess external and internal shame
Advancing the assessment of compassion
Fears of compassion magnify the effects of rumination and worry on the relationship between self-criticism and depression
Measuring shame across five countries
The flows of compassion in adolescents as measured by the compassionate engagement and action scales
Beyond trauma
Improvements in Compassion and Fears of Compassion throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic
During large-scale disasters, social support, caring behaviours, and compassion are shown to protect against poor mental health outcomes. This multi-national study aimed to assess the fluctuations in compassion over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents (Time 1 n = 4156, Time 2 n = 980, Time 3 n = 825) from 23 countries completed online self-report questionnaires measuring the flows of compassion (i.e., Compassionate Engagement and Actio…
Emotional climate in residential care scale for youth
Research has shown that social and contextual factors, such as climate in Residential Youth Care (RYC), are key protective factors for better outcomes in youth who experienced maltreatment. Even if increasing attention has been given to residential climate as a therapeutic tool, available measures are still scarce and revealed some limitations. This study aims to adapt and validate a brief self-report measure to assess the emotional climate of re…
The impact of gratitude practice on well-being and mental health in post-Covid times among Portuguese adults
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the physical and mental health of millions of people around the world. Now, that the COVID emergency is over, its repercussions remain and management plans on how to regain emotional stability are discussed worldwide. The study examined the role of the multidimensional gratitude practice in regaining mental health and facilitating post-traumatic growth in post-COVID times. The weekly gratitude tasks were: gratitud…
The roles of the centrality of shame memory and self-blame in the association between shame and paranoia
Tracking narrative change in post-intervention focus groups for teachers
Reliable and systematic qualitative methodologies to assess participants’ change after group interventions are scarce. This study outlines a methodolo5gical approach to use in focus groups, allowing the elicitation and coding of participants’ change talk after a group intervention. A Change Elicitation Script for Focus Groups was developed and its viability for evoking participants’ discussion around change was tested. Following a self-compassion…
Robust children
The study aimed to survey primary schoolchildren’s perception of well-being and safety. A total of 1,620 Norwegian children in 1st–4th grade answered, including 777 girls and 817 boys, while 26 did not report gender. Two scales with 14 question were used: one on well-being and safety at school (6 items) and one on perceived competence and enjoyment/likeability related to reading, maths, science and physical education (8 items). Overall, children …
The protective role of gratitude against the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health
Gratitude is often defined as the appreciation of life, whether in good or hard times. The study aimed to examine the protective role of gratitude against the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, in particular depression, anxiety and stress. It was carried out among 394 Portuguese adults, who filled in self-report measures on gratitude (GQ-6), depression, anxiety, stress (DASS-21) and the perceived traumatic impact of the CO…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Compassion (8 works) · Mindfulness (8 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (8 works) · Self-compassion (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (7 works)