Anastasia Vatou

Dados Biográficos

ID4420522
NOMEAnastasia Vatou
PRENOMESAnastasia
SOBRENOMEVatou
ASSINATURAVATOU A
AFILIAÇÕESInternational Hellenic University
ORCID0000-0001-9081-9068
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Early Childhood Educators’ AI Literacy: Validation of the Meta-AI Literacy Scale in a Greek Context

    Open AccessStamatios Papadaki, Anastasia Vatou et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2026

    This study adapted the Meta-AI Literacy Scale (MAILS) for Greek early childhood educators and examined whether its nine-factor structure could be replicated in a new linguistic, professional, and educational context. A total of 475 participants took part in two samples: an exploratory factor analysis with one sample (n = 133) and a confirmatory factor analysis with an independent sample (n = 342). The analyses supported the original nine-factor s…

  • Young Children’s Social Competence and Peer Exclusion in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Role of Gender

    Open AccessAnastasia Vatou, Demos Michael et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2026

    Social competence in early childhood is a foundational, multifaceted construct and a strong predictor of academic and behavioral outcomes. Difficulties in this domain are often linked to challenges in forming positive peer relationships. The present study investigates the association between children’s social competence and peer exclusion, while examining the effect of gender in both domains. Participants were 312 children (3–5 years old) from 39…

  • Institutional Belonging and Social Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Perceived Ostracism Among Preservice Teachers

    Open AccessAnastasia Vatou, Maria Evangelou-Tsitiridou et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2025

    The teaching profession is consistently ranked as one of the most stressful occupations worldwide, creating an urgent need for teacher education programmes to prepare highly skilled and reliant educators. Rooted in social cognitive theory, this study aims to explore preservice teachers’ social self-efficacy beliefs and examine its associations with institutional belonging and perceived ostracism. Social self-efficacy describes one’s confidence in…

  • Cross-cultural examination of teacher-child dependency and relationship quality across Greece and China

    Open AccessAnastasia Vatou, Weiyi Xie et al.ARTICLEStudies In Educational Evaluation2025

    This cross-cultural study investigated the factorial structure and the measurement invariance of the Teacher-Child Dependency Scale (TCDS) and Student-Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS-SF) in Greece and China. The sample consisted of 346 children (Greece: 170, China: 176) and 44 teachers across 18 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings. A two-factor structure of the TCDS - emotional dependency and physical dependency was supported and …

  • Integrating the Perma model and SWPBS approach: Effects on Portuguese Early Childhood Teachers’ Well-Being and Children’s Self-Regulation

    Open AccessFilipe Piedade, Tiago Ferreira et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2025Referências: 3

  • Cross-Cultural Validation of Teachers Social Self-Efficacy Scale: Insights from Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal

    Open AccessAnastasia Vatou, Athanasios Gregoriadis et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    The main aim of this study is to explore early childhood teachers’ social self-efficacy in Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal. In addition, this study examines the validity of the factorial structure of the Teachers’ Social Self-Efficacy Scale (TSSES). A sample of 349 early childhood teachers across the three countries participated in this study. An exploratory analysis and then a confirmatory factor analysis were employed to reveal the structure of th…

  • Assessing parents' self‐efficacy beliefs before and during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in Greece

    Open AccessAnastasia VatouARTICLEInternational Journal of Psychology2023

    The aim of the present study is to establish the psychometric properties of the Self‐Efficacy for Parenting Tasks Index‐Toddler Scale (SEPTI‐TS) in the Greek educational context and to examine changes in parenting self‐efficacy over time. The Short Form of SEPTI‐TS was used to evaluate parents' self‐efficacy on four different domains: nurturance, discipline, play and routine. A sample of 159 parents of children aged from 3 to 5 years completed an…

  • Examining the Reciprocity in Dyadic Teacher-Child Relationships: One-With-Many Multilevel Design

    Open AccessAthanasios Gregoriadis, Anastasia Vatou et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2022

    Recent literature has shown the reciprocal influences of teacher-student relationships for both teachers and students in primary school. When it comes to early childhood education, very few studies have examined the level and the nature of agreement between teachers’ and students’ perceptions for their dyadic relationships. Using the one-with-many model (OWM), a dyadic analysis approach, the present study aims to examine the degree of agreement b…