Carla Peixoto

Biographic Data

ID3882430
NAMECarla Peixoto
GIVEN NAMESCarla
FAMILY NAMEPeixoto
SIGNATUREPEIXOTO C
AFFILIATIONSPolytechnic Institute of Porto
ORCID0000-0003-3927-3818
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Early Childhood Educators’ Reported Social-Emotional Learning Practices in Portuguese Preschool Education: The Role of Beliefs and Training

    Open AccessMónica Nogueira Soares, Carla Peixoto et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Education Journal2026

  • Burnout and emotional regulation: Insights from students enrolled in higher education programs for initial teacher training

    Open AccessJúlia Rabelo Santos Ferreira, Julia Ferreira et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2025

    Research has emphasized the importance of teachers developing their socioemotional competencies to effectively deal with the challenges associated with teaching, considering its impact on their occupational health and wellbeing, namely on the risk of experiencing burnout. However, there is a lack of studies on the relationship between these variables in initial teacher training courses for students. Therefore, explores students attending higher e…

  • Exploring teachers' attitudes towards inclusive education: Role of self‐efficacy and perceived school climate

    Open AccessHelena Azevedo, Beatriz Barat et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Special…2025References: 58

    Teachers' attitudes towards inclusive education are among the most relevant predictors of successful inclusion. Several factors related to child, teacher and environment predict teacher attitudes. This study aims to analyse the relationship between teachers' attitudes towards inclusive education, their perception of self‐efficacy, and perceived school climate. A total of 463 teachers (81.4% female) participated in this study. A sociodemographic q…

  • Academic Stress and Anxiety among Portuguese Students: The Role of Perceived Social Support and Self-Management

    Open AccessAna Pontes, Vera Coelho et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    Adolescents are experiencing increasing levels of anxiety and academic stress, with schools being privileged contexts to foster mental health literacy and hinder stress and anxiety. Social support and self-management skills have been described as protective factors for these phenomena. Therefore, this cross-sectional study examines the relations between social support, self-management skills, academic stress, and anxiety among adolescents, analyz…

  • Variations of Quality of Teacher–infant Interactions Across Play and Care Routine Activities

    Joana Cadima, Sílvia Barros et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2023

    This study examined the extent to which the quality of teacher-infant interactions varies across play and routine care activities. In addition, the effects of the quantity of adult involvement in the quality of teacher-infant interactions were investigated. Participants were teachers and infants from 90 infant classrooms in Portugal. Classrooms had, on average, six infants enrolled (M = 6.38, SD = 2.34), with the number of adults ranging from 1 t…

  • Social and Emotional Learning in Preschool Settings: A Systematic Map of Systematic Reviews

    Open AccessDariush Djamnezhad, Nadia Koltcheva et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2021

    The preschool years presents an important opportunity to support children’s social and emotional development. Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs in early childhood education and care (ECEC) have gained an increased interest due to its potential to improve child health and educational outcomes. We aimed to identify existing systematic reviews on universal, curriculum-based SEL interventions in ECEC settings (children aged 0 to 7 years), …

  • Quality of infant child care and early infant development in Portuguese childcare centers

    Open AccessAna Isabel Pinto, Joana Cadima et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2019Cited by: 1References: 6

  • The quality of caregiver–child interactions in infant classrooms in Portugal: The role of caregiver education

    Sílvia Barros, Joana Cadima et al.ARTICLEResearch Papers in Education2018Cited by: 1References: 53

    Recent research has shown that caregiver education and training can be important in determining levels of quality in early childhood, but has mainly considered the education and training of the lead teacher. In infant child care, however, classrooms have more than one caregiver with varying levels of education and in Portugal it is less common to have a qualified teacher exclusively assigned to infant classrooms. This study examines the quality o…

  • Stability and change in teacher-infant interaction quality over time

    Open AccessManuela Pessanha, Carla Peixoto et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2017Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Infant child care quality in Portugal: Associations with structural characteristics

    Open AccessSílvia Barros, Joana Cadima et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2016Cited by: 7References: 9

  • Parceria família-creche na transição do bebé para a creche

    Open AccessVera Coelho, Vera Lúcia Marques Coelho et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2015

    Este estudo apresenta atitudes e comportamentos de parceria família-creche, relatados por mães e educadoras, durante o período de entrada de bebés na creche. Mães e educadoras de 90 bebés responderam à Escala de Parceria Educadores-Pais (Ware, Rusher, Barfoot & Owen, 1995). Os resultados indicam uma grande valorização, por parte das mães e educadoras, da parceria família-creche para dar resposta às necessidadesdas crianças, bem como uma elevada p…

  • Factores de risco: A Multiplicidade Das Variáveis Contextuais No Desenvolvimento Das Crianças

    Open AccessJoana Cadima, Carla Peixoto et al.ARTICLEPsicologia2014

    O presente estudo pretende analisar os efeitos de múltiplos factores de risco do contexto familiar no desenvolvimento cognitivo e social de crianças em idade pré-escolar. Vários estudos têm demonstrado que as competências das crianças estão associadas a variáveis familiares permanecendo, no entanto, o debate sobre se as variáveis mais influentes correspondem a características particulares das famílias ou se o desenvolvimento das crianças depende,…

  • Qualidade em educação pré-escolar

    Open AccessTeresa Leal, Ana Madalena Gamelas et al.ARTICLEPsicologia2014

    No período de 1992 a 2007 Joaquim Bairrão, na Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, coordenou vários estudos que produziram um conjunto de conhecimentos sobre diferentes tipos de características de contextos de educação pré-escolar e sobre a relação entre essas características e o desenvolvimento das crianças. Este artigo pretende ilustrar o percurso de investigação da equipa coordenada por Joaquim Bairrão na…

  • Observação das interacções educador-criança: Escala de interacção do prestador de cuidados

    Open AccessJoana Cadima, Teresa Leal et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2013

    A Escala de Interacção do Prestador de Cuidados, na sua versão original, Caregiver Interaction Scale (CIS), é um sistema de observação que pretende avaliar a qualidade e o conteúdo das interacções, em termos da sensibilidade, aspereza e permissividade dos prestadores de cuidados. Com o intuito de apresentar esta escala e algumas qualidades métricas para o contexto português, realizámos um conjunto de análises com base numa amostra de 115 salas do…