Marília Fernandes

Marília Fernandes graduated in Educational Psychology (five-year degree) at ISPA and holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology (FCT grant). She is a co-author in several national and international peer reviewed journals and presented papers on international conferences, relating to Developmental Psychology. She has taught undergraduate courses in Research Methods and Developmental Psychology.
Her main research interests are attachment relationships during infancy and childhood. Specifically, how these relationships relate with several outcomes of social and emotional child development. She is also interested in advanced statistics and attended several courses on the topic.

Main 5 publications

Fernandes, M., Morais, I., Santos, C., Guedes, M., Ribeiro, O., Fernandes, C., Pires, E. Santos, A. F., Santos, A. J. & Veríssimo, M. (2025) Factorial structure, measurement invariance and reliability of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in a sample of Portuguese parents. Análise Psicológica, 42, 2, doi: 10.14417/ap.2032
Santos, A. F., Fernandes, C., Fernandes, M., Bost, K. K. & Veríssimo, M. (2025). Attachment, feeling, and feeding: Associations between caregivers’ attachment, emotional and feeding responsiveness, and Children’s food consumption. Appetite 204: 107729. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107729
Costa Martins, M, Santos, C., Fernandes, M., & Veríssimo, M. (2022). Attachment and the Development of Prosocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Children 9, 6: 874. doi: 10.3390/children9060874
Fernandes, M., Santos, A. J., Antunes, M., Fernandes, C., Monteiro, L., Vaughn, B.E., & Veríssimo, M.
(2020). Convergent and Discriminant Validities of SCBE-30 Questionnaire using Correlated Trait Correlated Method Minus One. Frontiers in Psychology 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571792
Fernandes, M., Veríssimo, M., Santos, A. J., Ribeiro, O., Vaughn, B. E., Gastelle, M., & Kerns, K. A. (2020). Measurement invariance across mother/child and father/child attachment relationships”. Attachment & Human Development: 1-19. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2019.1710222

Contacts

E-mail: mfernandes@ispa.pt
CiênciaVitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/791A-5E1A-FAB4
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5023-0643
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marilia_Fernandes