Maria João Afonso
Assistant Professor
Lecturer and Researcher
Psychological Tests Library Coordinator
Master’s and PhD Theses Advisor
Disciplines
Differential Psychology
Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment
Quantitative Research Methodology
Intelligence and Personality
Application Domains: Clinical and Career Guidance
Taught Modules
Psychometrics (Undergraduate Degree in Psychology, 3rd grade)
Intelligence (Undergraduate Degree in Psychology, 2nd grade)
Personality and Individual Differences (Undergraduate Degree in Psychology, 3rd grade)
Dissertation Seminar (Master’s Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology, 2nd grade)
Born in 1959 in Lisbon.
Lecturer at the FPUL since 1982.
Master’s Degree in Career Development and Vocational Psychology.
PhD in Differential Psychology: Human Intelligence.
Post-graduation in Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapies. Counseling and Psychotherapy with Adults (APTCC, Portugal).
Psychological assessment and Psychometrics: construction, adaptation, and validation of psychological tests and assessments; member of the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-A-RF Portuguese standardization research team.
Differential Psychology: inter-individual, intra-individual and inter-group differences in the cognitive and conative domains; fundamental and applied research.
General Psychology: history, epistemology and ethics in Psychology; integrative and complexity approaches in Psychology.
Career development and counselling: models and methods; psychological assessment.
Afonso, M.J. (2002). Inteligência Funcional: aspectos heurísticos e hermenêuticos do construto. Revista Portuguesa de Psicologia, 36, 9-24. sites.google.com/site/revistaportuguesadepsicologia/numeros-publicados/vol-36-2002/resumo-36-9.
Afonso, M.J. (2004). Da WAIS à WAIS-III: Evolução conceptual e metodológica. Revista Ibero-Americana de Diagnóstico y Evaluación Psicológica, 18 (2), 99-117. aidep.org/03_ridep/R18/R186.pdf.
Afonso, M.J. (2005). Inteligência, educação e sucesso: as abordagens diferencial e sistémica da inteligência humana e suas implicações para a educação. Psicologia, Educação e Cultura, IX (2), 337- 358. comum.rcaap.pt/bitstream/10400.26/5261/1/2005_PEC_2.pdf#page=111.
Afonso, M.J. (2006). Sur la structure interne de la WAIS-III Portugal. In C.Houssemand, R.Martin, & P.Dickes (Dir.), Perspectives de Psychologie Différentielle, (pp.237-240). Presses Universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 2-7535-0305-2.
Afonso, M.J. (2017). Psico somática ou Psicossomática? Das dicotomias aos binómios na construção científica. Revista Portuguesa de Psicossomática, 3, 11pp. ISSN 2183-9344.
Novo, R. F., Afonso, M. J., & Gonzalez., B. (2023). MMPI-2-RF – Inventário Multifásico de Personalidade de Minnesota-2 Forma Reestruturada (adaptation of the MMPI-2-RF – Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 – Restructured Form by Ben-Porath, Y. S., Tellegen, A.). Hogrefe Publishing – Portugal.
Afonso, M. J., Novo, R., Camilo, C., & Gonzalez, B. (2024). The Bilingual Study Methodology in Translating and Adapting Personality Tests: Equivalence Issues in the Development of the MMPI-2-RF Portuguese Version. Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (PTAD), 5(1). Advance online publication, Hogrefe. DOI: 10.1027/2698-1866/a000075.