Eva Diniz

Eva Diniz
Integrated Member
Social Development Team

Eva Diniz is a researcher at William James Center for Research at Ispa-Instituto Universitário. Her research focus on understanding the personal, relational, and ecological characteristics that contribute to the quality of parenting and early family relationships across families from diverse backgrounds. Adopting a bioecological perspective, her work examines how the multiple levels of influence (e.g., coparenting, work-family conflict, father involvement, parental sensitivity) shape parenting quality and child’s socioemotional development. She is currently leading a research project examining how parents’ cellphone use may interfere with parental availability and infants’ socioemotional adjustment through a multi-method approach (2024.15654.PEX).

Main 5 publications

Diniz, E., d’Orsi, D., & Mourão, S. (2026). What is being a father in Portugal? Examining parental representations and their association with father involvement. Journal of Family Studies, 32(2), 273–291. doi: 10.1080/13229400.2025.2518560
d’Orsi, D. & Diniz, E. (2025). Do mothers’ and fathers’ parental stress differently relate to child adjustment? A mediated dyadic approach. Children and Youth Services Review, 177, 108503. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108503.
Diniz, E., Brandão, T. & Veríssimo, M. (2025). What makes fathers involved? Fathers’ time, education, and cooperative coparenting. Curr Psychol 44, 920–930 (2025). doi: 10.1007/s12144-024-07214-8
Diniz, E., Brandão, T., D’Orsi, D., & Veríssimo, M. (2024). Work–Family Conflict Influences Mothers’ Perception of Father Involvement with Childcare: A Dyadic Approach. Journal of Family Communication, 24(3–4), 154–170. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2024.2394025
Diniz, E., Brandão, T., Monteiro, L., & Veríssimo, M. (2021). Father Involvement During Early Childhood: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 13, 77-99. doi: 10.1111/jftr.12410

Contacts

E-mail: ediniz@ispa.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/3B15-4320-8559
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4544-4839
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Diniz