Magda Sofia Roberto
Assistant Professor
Pedagogical Council Member
Disciplines
Quantitative Psychology, Social Psychology, Health Psychology
Taught Modules
Introduction to Probability
Statistics Applied to Psychology
Data Analysis and Processing
Postdoctoral research in applied health and care using mixed methods, valuing participatory approaches such as digital storytelling. Current research activities address: 1) the health and wellbeing of digitally excluded social groups, 2) the role of social and moral norms in compliance behaviours, and 3) the social determinants of migrant health. Additional interests in research methods and statistics and how student-centred approaches can decrease statistics anxiety.
Ref. PTDC/PSI-GER/30432/2017 – Food Parenting: study of a new web-based parent intervention
Postdoctoral studies in:
- Applied Health (CLAHRC – Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care developed at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the University of Birmingham)
- Communication Sciences (SFRH/BPD/78903/2011 “Learning, Identity and the Digital” financed by FCT at the University of Covilhã and Loughborough University).
Statistical consultant:
- DECRA DE150100731 “Contextual for the Early Development of Self-Regulated Learning” (School of Education, Murdoch University).
Gomes, A.I., Pereira, A.I, Roberto, M.S., Boraska, K., & Barros, L. (2021). Changing parental feeding practices through web-based interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0250231. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250231
Oliveira, S., Roberto, M.S., Veiga-Simão, A.M. et al. (2021). A meta-analysis of the Impact of Social and Emotional Learning Interventions on Teachers’ Burnout Symptoms. Educational Psychology Review, 33, 1779–1808. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09612-x
Monteiro, S. Marques-Pinto, A., & Roberto, M. S. (2016). Job demands, coping, and impacts of occupational stress among journalists: a systematic review. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25(5), 751-772. DOI:10.1080/1359432X.2015.1114470.
Roberto, M. S., Fidalgo, D. & Buckingham, D. (2015). De que falamos quando falamos de infoexclusão e literacia digital? Perspetivas dos nativos digitais. Observatório (OBS*) 9(1), 43-54.
Roberto, M. S., Mearns, K. & Silva, S. A. (2012). Perceptions of social and moral norms towards hand hygiene compliance from first and sixth year Portuguese medical students. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 17(4), p. 408- 416. DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2011.626431.