Carla Silva

​My research primarily focuses on understanding how relational experiences with significant others influence developmental outcomes across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. In connection with this, I am also involved in research investigating the determinants of parenting and the dynamics of parent-child relationships. This work spans both typical and high-risk developmental contexts. Additionally, I am interested in examining the correlates of authenticity, with an emphasis on its implications for well-being and the quality of interpersonal relationships.

• Self and identity: development processes and implications for psychosocial adjustment throughout the life cycle
• Authenticity: Predictors and implications for adjustment
• Parenting practices and children’s and adolescents’ developmental outcomes
• Adverse family experiences and psychosocial adjustment throughout the life cycle
• Processes of change in psychotherapy with children and adolescents

Disentangling the link between self-knowledge and (mal)adaptive behavior across emerging adulthood: the role of social and individual factors [Financiamento Plurianual de Unidades de I&D 2020-2023 (UIDP/03125/2020)].

Imagens sociais, clima organizacional e qualidade das relações em acolhimento residencial: desenho, implementação e avaliação de um programa de intervenção (PTDC/CED-EDG/30373/2017). https://www.psicologia.ulisboa.pt/investigacao/projetos/ptdc-ced-edg-30373-2017

ISOTIS – Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society (H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016). https://www.isotis.org

As imagens sociais de crianças e jovens institucionalizados (FCT-CAPES/311/Programa 13/Medida 004/Project 6818/2013)

Ad hoc reviewer of scientific journals, including:
– Journal of Clinical Psychology
– Child Psychiatry & Human Development
– Journal of Family Issues
– Child Indicators Research
– Personality and Individual Differences
– Journal of Social and Personal Relations
– Family relations

Ferreira, M., Calheiros, M. M., Silva, C. S., Magalhães, E. (in press). Out of Sight is not Out of Mind: Associations Between Perceived Maternal Attachment and Self-Representations of Youth in Residential Care Moderated by Sex and Age. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. PDF

Magalhães, E., Ferreira, M., Ornelas, S., Silva, C. S., Camilo, C., & Calheiros, M. M. (2024). Youth-caregiver relationship quality in residential youth care: Professionals’ perceptions and experiences. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(4), 822-845. 10.1177/02654075231215824.

Sousa, R., Magalhães, E., Camilo, C., Silva, C., 2024. Childhood Poly-victimization and Adults’ Psychoticism: A Moderated Mediation Model Testing an Affective Pathway. Anuario de Psicología Jurídica, 34, 97–106. 10.5093/apj2023a12.

Silva, C. S., & Calheiros, M. M. (2022). Youth’s self-construction in the context of residential care: The looking-glass self within the youth-caregiver relationship. Children and Youth Services Review, 132, 106328. 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106328.

Silva, C. S., Calheiros, M. M., Carvalho, H., & Magalhães, E. (2022). Organizational social context and psychopathology of youth in residential care: the intervening role of youth-caregiver relationship quality. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 1–23. 10.1111/apps.12339.

Silva, C. S., Martins, A. C., & Calheiros, M. M. (2020). ‘Why do I think what I think I am?’: Mothers’ and fathers’ contributions to adolescents’ self-representations. Self and Identity, 1–21. 10.1080/15298868.2020.1792338.

Silva, C. S., & Calheiros, M. M. (2020). Maltreatment experiences and psychopathology in children and adolescents: The intervening role of domain-specific self-representations moderated by age. Child Abuse & Neglect, 99, 104255. 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104255.

Silva, C. S., & Calheiros, M. M. (2018). Stop Yelling: Interparental Conflict and Adolescents’ Self-Representations as Mediated by Their Perceived Relationships With Parents. Journal of Family Issues, 39(7), 2174–2204. 10.1177/0192513×17741176.

Silva, C. S., Calheiros, M. M., & Carvalho, H. (2016). Interparental conflict and adolescents’ self-representations: The role of emotional insecurity. Journal of Adolescence, 52, 76–88. 10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.07.007.

self;
identity;
authenticity;
children;
adolescents;
interparental conflict;
child maltreatment;
parenting;