Dora d’Orsi

Dora d’Orsi is a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology. She graduated in Psychology at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Bachelor´s Degree) and holds a Master´s Degree in Clinical Psychology at ISPA. Her main research interests are related to parenting relationships, father involvement, and parental well-being through a dyadic approach. She is interested in understanding the personal, relational, and ecological determinants of parental stress in the transition to parenthood. Using a bioecological lens and a longitudinal design, she would like to explore gender differences in the experience of becoming a parent and how contextual and relational variables may impact first parents’ well-being.


Supervised at WJCR by: Eva Diniz and Manuela Veríssimo