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Gabriela Figueiredo is a Psychologist, Ph.D. student at the School of Psychology of the University of Minho and a researcher on the Self-Regulation Research Group (GUIA - http://www.guia-psi.com/). Study interests are focused on the eating domain, its problematic behaviors, and psychological implications related to self-regulation processes. Designing and applying assessments and intervention programs with families and children is one of her key interests.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gabriela dos Santos e Silva Carvalho de Figueiredo
Date of birth
1994/10/28
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Figueiredo, Gabriela
  • Figueiredo, G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1013-D49D-A71E

Email addresses

  • gsscfigueiredo@hotmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Escola de Psicologia - Edifício 14 Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/01/31 - 2025/01/31
Ongoing
 Doutoramento em Psicologia Aplicada (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"What about the siblings? Self-regulation, agency and quality of life in healthy-siblings of children with Celiac Disease" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/10/10 - 2017/04/27
Concluded
 Estágio curricular (Mestrado integrado)
Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Portugal
 18
2017
Concluded
 Psicologia (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Weight and problematic eating behaviors: Comparison between gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 valores
2014/09/01 - 2015/02/28
Concluded
 Psicologia (Laurea)
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
 16
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/15 - Current Colaboradora de Investigação em Psicologia da Educação Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Bolseira de Investigação de Doutoramento Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2020/10 Psicóloga Clínica Voluntária na Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima (APAV) APAV, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2019/10/31 Psicóloga Clínica Clínica Psiquiátrica Dra. Margarida Braga, Portugal
2018/02/20 - 2019/02/20 Estágio Profissional à Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (OPP) Clínica Psiquiátrica Dra. Margarida Braga, Portugal
2016/10/10 - 2017/04/27 Estágio curricular em Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31 What about the siblings? Self-regulation, agency and quality of life in healthy-siblings of children with Celiac Disease
2020.07940.BD
10.54499/2020.07940.BD
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/11/11 - 2020/11/30 In-Person and Online Healthy Eating Promotion through Self-regulation: Assessing the Efficacy of a Narretive-based Intervention
PTDC/PSI-GER/28302/2017
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/05 - 2019/07 MENTOR: Tutorias autorregulatórias
Direção Geral da Educação
Researcher

Other

Designation Funders
2020/03 - 2021/01 COVID-19 em Sarilhos
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia
Researcher
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2018/02 - 2019/10 To Be a Doctor - TBD
Unidade de Psicologia Médica da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto
Researcher
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Figueiredo, G.; Chiba, L.; Oliveira, H.; Rosário, P.; Magalhães, P.. "A Systematic Review onChronic Diseases’ Impact on Siblings: A Telltale for Celiac Disease". In Advances in Health and Disease, 1-48. Nova Science, 2025.
    Published
  2. Pereira, B.; Figueiredo, Gabriela; Agudelo, K.; Rosário, P.; Magalhães, P.. "Restrict unhealthy food intake or make healthy food choices proactively? How self-regulation concept has been used in children and adolescent’s eating behavior research". In The Psychology of Self-Regulation, edited by Nadya S. Columbus (Ed.). Nova Science, 2023.
    Published
  3. Figueiredo, Gabriela; Pereira, B.; Agudelo, K.; Rosário, P.; Magalhães, P.. Corresponding author: Magalhães, P.. "Self-regulation and agency perspectives in celiac disease". In The Psychology of Self-Regulation. Nova Science, 2023.
    Published
  4. Magalhães, P.; Oliveira, H; Aguiar, C.; Figueiredo, Gabriela; Rosário, P.. "Gamification: Reflections on how it can be used to promote children's healthy eating behavior". In A Closer Look at Children's Health. Nova Science, 2022.
    Published
  5. Figueiredo, Gabriela; de Lourdes, Marta; Machado, Paulo P.P.; Conceição, Eva. "Sex Differences in Terms of Eating Behaviors, Biological and Psychological Features: A Review in the Bariatric Surgery Population". In Advances in Psychology Research, 77-112. United States: Nova Publishers, 2017.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Figueiredo, G.; Pereira, B.; Rosário, P.; Magalhães, P.. "Psychological strategies for psychological strategies for effective management of Celiac Disease: Self-regulation and agency". Paper presented in 5º Congress of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, 2022.
  2. Pereira, B.,; Figueiredo, G.; Magalhães, P.; Rosário, P.. "Restriction of consumption of unhealthy foods or proactive choice of healthy foods? Food self-regulation in childrenand adolescents.". Paper presented in 5º Congress of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, 2022.
  3. Figueiredo, G.; Magalhães, M.; Rosário, P.; Magalhães, P.. "Impact of having a sibling with celiac disease on life dimensions: A systematic review". Paper presented in 36th Annual Conference of the EuropeanHealth Psychology Society, 2022.
  4. Figueiredo-Braga, M.; Figueiredo, G.. "Smell, health and affective state – Is there apot of gold at the end of the rainbow?". Paper presented in 19º World Psychiatric Congress (WCP), 2019.
  5. Figueiredo, G.; Figueiredo-Braga, M.. "Ability to respond to emotional cues –The helpful response questionnaire, is a new tool to assess empathy". Paper presented in 3º National Congress Research in Medical Education (CNIEM), 2018.
Journal article
  1. Figueiredo, G.; Oliveira, C.; Rosário, P.; Magalhães, P.. "Qualitative Evidence forDetrimental and Favorable Individual, Relational, Community, and Societal Level Impact of CeliacDisease on Siblings". British Journal of Health Psychology (2025):
    Submitted
  2. Oliveira, Hélder; Figueiredo, G.; Pereira, Beatriz; Magalhães, Mariana; Rosário, Pedro; Magalhães, Paula. "Understanding Children’s Perceptions of Game Elements in an Online Gamified Intervention: Contributions by the Self-Determination Theory". International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (2024): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2431363.
    10.1080/10447318.2024.2431363
  3. Magalhães, Paula; Pereira, Beatriz; Figueiredo, G.; Aguiar, Camila; Silva, Cátia; Oliveira, Hélder; Rosário, Pedro. "An Iterative Mixed-Method Study to Assess the Usability and Feasibility Perception of CANVAS® as a Platform to Deliver Interventions for Children". International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 40 23 (2023): 8057-8075. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2277491.
    10.1080/10447318.2023.2277491
  4. Silva, C.; Pereira, B.; Figueiredo, Gabriela; Rosário, P.; Núñez, J. C.; Magalhães, P.. "Self-Efficacy to Regulate Eating Behaviors Scale for Children: A Validation Study". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20 4 (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20042807.
    Published
  5. Magalhães, Paula; Silva, Cátia; Pereira, Beatriz; Figueiredo, Gabriela; Guimarães, Ana; Pereira, Armanda; Rosário, Pedro. "An Online-Based Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating through Self-Regulation among Children: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial". Trials (BMC) 21 786 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04685-5.
    Published
  6. Pereira, B.; Rosário, P.; Silva, Cátia; Figueiredo, Gabriela; José Carlos Núñez; Magalhães, Paula. "The Mediator and/or Moderator Role of Complexity of Knowledge about Healthy Eating and Self-Regulated Behavior on the Relation between Family's Income and Children's Obesity". International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health 16 (2019): 1-15. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/21/4207.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Figueiredo, Gabriela. "Weight and problematic eating behaviors: Comparison between gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2017. http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/48128.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/06 Body Mass Index (BMI) Predictors in Elementary School Children: The Role of Individual and Motivational Variables X National Symposium on Psychology Research
Universidade da Madeira (Madeira, Portugal)
2019/04 The trauma of caring in emergency nurses and physicians - different faces of the same mirror 16th European Conference on Traumatic Stress
(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2018/11/22 Smell identification, depression and empathy in medical students 3º Congresso Nacional de Investigação em Educação Médica pela Rede de Investigação em Educação Médica
Univerdade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28 Workshop "Pódio dos Alimentos" (2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Agrupamento de Escolas de Coronado e Castro , Portugal
2021/10/16 - 2021/10/16 Celebração do Dia Mundial da Alimentação (2021/10/16 - 2021/10/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Agrupamento de Escolas de Coronado e Castro , Portugal
2020/10/30 - 2020/10/30 Workshop Online "Preparar lancheiras saudáveis em tempos de pandemia" (2020/10/30 - 2020/10/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Agrupamento de Escolas de Coronado e Castro , Portugal
2020/10/16 - 2020/10/16 Celebração do Dia Mundial da Alimentação (2020/10/16 - 2020/10/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Agrupamento de Escolas de Coronado e Castro , Portugal
2019/10/16 - 2019/10/16 Celebração do Dia Mundial da Alimentação (2019/10/16 - 2019/10/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Agrupamento de Escolas de Coronado e Castro , Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses Cédula de Membro Efetivo nº 23470
2021 - 2022 International Scientific Association of Psychopedagogy Membro
2018 - 2019 European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Membro

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/12/03 - 2024/12/03 Educação e Parentalidade Mestrado em Psicologia da Educação (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2019/05 - 2019/07 MENTOR training of trainers: Self-regulatory tutoring General Direction for Education (DGE), Portugal
2019/05 - 2019/07 Formação de Formadores MENTOR - Tutorias Autorregulatórias (Outros)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/09 - Current Tese de doutoramento: A Mix-method study examining the motivational factors underlying Sleep Procrastinationand its impact on educational success Camila Aguiar
2020/02 - Current Tese de doutoramento: Self-regulation and intimate relationships in adolescents Maria João Obrist
2024/07 - 2024/12 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Alexander Perazzo
2024/01 - 2024/06 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Leticia Chiba de Oliveira
2023/06 - 2023/12 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Katherine Costa
2022/02 - 2023/07 Tese de mestrado: Parent and child perspectives of engagement in an online intervention to promote self-regulation skills for healthy eating: A qualitative study. Andréa Pereira
2022/07 - 2022/12 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Anushka Deshmukh
2021/02 - 2022/10 Tese de mestrado: Barreiras e Facilitadores da Integração da Criança com Alergia Alimentar na Escola: Perceção das Crianças e Pais Fernanda Daló
2021/02 - 2022/10 Tese de mestrado: Impact of covid-19 Lockdown in snack consumption in Portuguese students – alongitudinal study Francisco Garcia
2022/01 - 2022/06 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Katarina Agudelo
2021/06 - 2021/12 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Eliza Rice
2020/02 - 2021/10 Tese de mestrado: Children's perceived impact of gamification elements on engagement in a self-regulation intervention for healthy eating Hélder Oliveira
2021/01 - 2021/06 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Abigail Leavitt
2019/02 - 2020/10 Tese de mestrado: Children's perceived barriers for a healthy diet: A case study Catarina Vilas
2020/01 - 2020/05 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Yuntian Shi
2019/01 - 2019/06 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Julia Hayward
2019/01 - 2019/06 Tutoria estágio Co-op de aluno internacional de licenciatura da Universidade Northeastern, Boston (EUA) Connor Holmes
Distinctions

Award

2021 Bolsa de Investigação de Doutoramento
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2019 EuroPsy - European Certificate in Psychology
European Federation of Psychologists' Associations, Belgium