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Vítor Costa has a PhD in Psychology (University of Beira Interior [UBI], Portugal) since May 2017 and a master's degree in Work and Organizational Psychology (UBI, Portugal) since July 2012. Starting in 2015, he has worked in academia as a research fellow and junior researcher in the context of European projects and as an invited assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Education at UBI. He has published 17 articles in peer-reviewed journals, ranging from systematic literature reviews to quantitative and qualitative empirical work. As a researcher, he has worked on a total of 15 scientific projects funded by the European Commission. In his teaching activity, he had 500+ students and has taught 11 different curricular units.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vitor Manuel Valente da Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Vitor

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1C1C-9764-7A17
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9209-5064
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=cwIsTYAAAAAJ
Researcher Id
J-3350-2014
Scopus Author Id
57200330139

Email addresses

  • vitormvc@ubi.pt (Professional)
  • vitormvc@outlook.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/09 - 2017/05/22
Concluded
 Psicologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Capacidade de absorção e processos organizacionais de gestão do conhecimento: relações com a inovação." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excelente
2010/09/01 - 2012/07/26
Concluded
 Psicologia (Mestrado)
Major in Trabalho e Organizações
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Partilha do conhecimento em professores universitários: a importância do comprometimento organizacional" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 valores
2007/09 - 2010/07/20
Concluded
 Psicologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 15 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/01 - 2023/08/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/10/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2024/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/10/02 - 2024/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Psicologia e Educação, Portugal
2019/09/02 - 2020/07/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/04/12 - 2019/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/09/18 - 2018/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2014/02/17 - 2014/07/30 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/11 - Current IN2PREV - Law enforcement and community cooperation and training approach to prevent radicalisation by ensuring refugees’ successful inclusion
2022-1-PT01-KA220-ADU-000088628
Principal investigator
European Commission
Ongoing
2021/11 - Current 4LessBurnout – Social Practitioners' Stress Relief
2021-1-FR01-KA220-ADU-000035393
Researcher
European Commission
Ongoing
2021/11 - 2024/05 VISION - Visualising the future through training
2021-1-PT01-KA220-VET-000025189
Researcher
European Commission
Under evaluation
2019/11 - 2023/01 PO21_ European Prison Officers for the 21st Century
612529-EPP-1-2019-1-PT--EPPKA2-SSA
Principal investigator
European Commission
Under evaluation
2019/11 - 2022/11 LEADCOR - Leadership development for occupational stress reduction in correctional settings
2019-1-PT01-KA204-061285
Principal investigator
European Commission
Concluded
2019/09 - 2022/02 R4JUST - Radicalisation Prevention Competence Development Programme for Justice Professionals
854047 — R4JUST
Principal investigator
European Commission
Concluded
2019/01 - 2021/12 ActiveGames4Change - Sports and Physical Activity Learning Environment for Citizenship, Emotional, Social e-Competences
604730-EPP-1-2018-1-UK-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN
Avaliador Interno
European Commission
2018/10 - 2021/03 AWARE - cross-sectoral awareness building on mental health needs in the criminal justice system and on release
2018-1-DE02-KA204-005144
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2018/12 - 2020/11 WAY OUT – Integrated Exit Programme for Prison and Probation
823690 ISFP-2017-AG-RAD
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2015/11 - 2018/12 EIGEP - European Interaction Guidelines for Education Professionals when working with Children in Juvenile Justice Context
562146-EPP-1-2015-1-PT-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2018/08/31 IDECOM - Innovation, Development and Communication for a better Education in Prison Systems
2014-1-RO01-KA204-002936
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2015/09 - 2018/08 R2PRIS - Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons
2015-1-PT01-KA204-013062
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2016 - 2018 MenACE - MenACE Mental health, Aging and palliative in European Prisons
2016-1-RO01-KA204-024685
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2015/09/01 - 2017/08 ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Work Administration
2015-1-PT01-KA204-001070
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Alves, Marta P.; Costa, Vitor; Cunha, Ana Isabel; Carvalho, Paula; Loureiro, Manuel J.. "Saúde mental dos estudantes do ensino superior durante a pandemia: Intolerância à incerteza e gravidade percebida como fatores de vulnerabilidade [Mental health of higher education students during the pandemic: Intolerance to uncertainty and perceived severity as vulnerability factors]". Paper presented in XI Congreso Internacional de Psicología y Educación, Valencia, 2023.
    Published
  2. Costa, Vitor; Monteiro, Samuel. Corresponding author: Costa, Vitor. "Knowledge Processes, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: Contributions for a Systematic Literature Review". Paper presented in European Conference on Knowledge Management, Santarém, 2014.
  3. Costa, V.; Monteiro, S.. "Knowledge sharing among university teachers: The role of organizational commitment". 2012.
Journal article
  1. Rita Coelho; Vítor Costa; Graça Esgalhado. "Autoeficácia ocupacional e Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho: o efeito mediador da Autoestima". Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology (2024): https://doi.org/10.30849/ripijp.v58i2.1900.
    10.30849/ripijp.v58i2.1900
  2. Vítor Costa; Marta Pereira Alves; Ana Isabel Cunha. "Job insecurity and mental health among community workers: the mediating role of work-family conflict". Community, Work & Family (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2024.2388546.
    10.1080/13668803.2024.2388546
  3. Vítor Costa; Samuel Monteiro; Ana Isabel Cunha; Henrique Pereira; Graça Esgalhado. "Job stress and burnout among prison staff: a systematic literature review". Journal of Criminal Psychology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcp-10-2023-0067.
    10.1108/jcp-10-2023-0067
  4. Bibiana Monteiro; Vítor Costao; Samuel Monteiro. "Social Support and Satisfaction with Life among Portuguese Prison Officers: The Mediating Effect of Anxiety". Ansiedad y Estrés (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.5093/anyes2024a1.
    10.5093/anyes2024a1
  5. Michael Köster; Ana Isabel Cunha; Costa, Vitor; Marta Pereira Alves. "Perceção de risco e comportamentos de proteção face à COVID-19 em estudantes do ensino superior: O papel mediador do medo". Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana 41 1 (2023): https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/apl/article/view/11100.
    Open access • Published • 10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.11100
  6. Alves, Marta P.; Costa, Vitor; Cunha, Ana I.; Carvalho, Paula; Loureiro, Manuel J.. "Optimism and fear of COVID-19 in higher education students: the mediating role of general anxiety". Psychology, Health & Medicine 28 1 (2022): 241-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2022.2073376.
    10.1080/13548506.2022.2073376
  7. Vítor Costa; Philina Koch; Ana Isabel Cunha; Graça Esgalhado; Rhianon Williams. "Comparing staff and inmates’ perceptions of mental health support in prison". Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11757-021-00689-2.
    10.1007/s11757-021-00689-2
  8. Costa, Vitor; Pedro Liberado; Ana Isabel Cunha; Graça Esgalhado; Pedro das Neves. Corresponding author: Costa, Vitor. "One Size Does Not Fit All: Exploring the Characteristics of Exit Programmes in Europe". Journal for Deradicalization 28 (2021): 1-38. https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/487/297.
    Open access • Published
  9. Henrique Pereira; Gergely Fehér; Antal Tibold; Graça Esgalhado; Vítor Costa; Samuel Monteiro. "The Impact of Internet Addiction and Job Satisfaction on Mental Health Symptoms among a Sample of Portuguese Workers". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 13 (2021): 6943-6943. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136943.
    10.3390/ijerph18136943
  10. Henrique Pereira; Gergely Feher; Antal Tibold; Vítor Costa; Samuel Monteiro; Graça Esgalhado. "Mediating Effect of Burnout on the Association between Work-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Symptoms". Brain Sciences 11 6 (2021): 813-813. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11060813.
    10.3390/brainsci11060813
  11. Henrique Pereira; Graça Esgalhado; Vítor Costa; Samuel Monteiro; Vivianne Oliveira. "PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE FEAR OF AND NEGATIVE IMPACT OF COVID-19 SCALES". Psicologia, Saúde & Doença (2021): https://doi.org/10.15309/21psd220202.
    10.15309/21psd220202
  12. Pereira, H.; Fehér, G.; Tibold, A.; Monteiro, S.; Costa, V.; Esgalhado, G.. "The impact of shift work on occupational health indicators among professionally active adults: A comparative study". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 21 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85117899267&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/ijerph182111290
  13. Costa, Vitor; Samuel José Fonseca Monteiro. Corresponding author: Costa, Vitor. "From Potential Absorptive Capacity to Knowledge Creation in Organisations". Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (2018):
    10.1142/S0219649218500065
  14. Costa, Vitor; Monteiro, S.; Esgalhado, G.; Pereira, H.. Corresponding author: Costa, Vitor. "Investigação psicológica em contexto prisional português: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura e desafios futuros para a investigação". PSICOLOGIA 31 1 (2017): 49-58. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029161242&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.17575/rpsicol.v31i1.1238
  15. Vítor Costa; Samuel Monteiro. "Key knowledge management processes for innovation: a systematic literature review.". VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems 46 3 (2016): null-null. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/VJIKMS-02-2015-0017.
    10.1108/VJIKMS-02-2015-0017
  16. Costa, Vítor; Monteiro, Samuel. "Knowledge Processes, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: A Mediation Analysis". Knowledge and Process Management (2016): n/a-n/a. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1507.
    10.1002/kpm.1507
  17. Henrique Pereira; Mariana Fernandes; Vítor Costa; Lúcia Amorim; Francesco La-Rizza; Rui Hermenegildo. "Burnout in Portuguese Medical Students: Coping Strategies as a Mediating Variable". Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education 04 04 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000306.
    10.4172/2161-0711.1000306
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/07 - Current A relação entre o bem-estar e as perturbações do neurodesenvolvimento: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2024/03/12 Ansiedade Generalizada e Adição ao Trabalho em Trabalhadores no Setor Social e Comunitário
Supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/07/24 Ansiedade, satisfação com a vida e suporte social: Um estudo com guardas prisionais portugueses
Supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/02 O Impacto do Clima Organizacional Face às Pessoas LGBT no Burnout: O Papel Mediador da Qualidade de Vida Relacionada com o Trabalho
Supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/07 Organização do trabalho, qualidade de vida no trabalho e sintomas psicopatológicos: Um estudo com trabalhadores Portugueses e Brasileiros
Supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/07 Perceção de risco e comportamentos de proteção face à COVID-19 em estudantes do ensino superior: O papel mediador do medo
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/07 Autoeficácia Ocupacional e Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho: o efeito mediador da Autoestima
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/07 Saúde mental, suporte percebido, utilização de serviços e satisfação: Um estudo com reclusos em contexto prisional português
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/07 Fatores relacionados com percepção de satisfação: um estudo com reclusos em estabelecimentos prisionais portugueses
Co-supervisor
 Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/03/12 Ansiedade Generalizada e Adição ao Trabalho em Trabalhadores no Setor Social e Comunitário
Supervisor
 Ana Carolina Silva (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2024/01/11 Violência doméstica em Portugal: experiências de burnout dos técnicos de apoio à vítima
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Hanna Caroline Macário Dias Rocha (Master)
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2023/07/24 O Suporte Social e a Satisfação com a Vida em Guardas Prisionais Portugueses: O Efeito Mediador da Ansiedade
Supervisor
 Bibiana Patrícia Silva Monteiro (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/07/20 Ansiedade em teletrabalho: O papel do burnout e do conflito trabalho-família
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Inês Gomes Borges (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/12/02 O Impacto do Clima Organizacional Face às Pessoas LGBT no Burnout: O Papel Mediador da Qualidade de Vida Relacionada com o Trabalho
Supervisor
 Marco Minhós (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/12/02 As implicações do burnout nos profissionais de saúde na era da pandemia COVID-19: Uma revisão sistemática da literatura
(Thesis) Arguer
 Mónica Dinho Pinto da Silva Salgueiro (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/11/30 Bem-estar subjetivo e Engagement em adultos ocupacionalmente ativos - um estudo exploratório
(Thesis) Arguer
 Andreia Filipa Garcia Rosa (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/07/20 Organização do trabalho, qualidade de vida no trabalho e sintomas psicopatológicos: Um estudo com trabalhadores Portugueses e Brasileiros
Supervisor
 Márcia Godinho Morais Abrantes (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/07/08 Relationship between Work Engagement and Mental Health and Aggressive Behaviour Dimensions
(Thesis) Arguer
 Mariana de Carvalho Ramos Ferreira de Almeida (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/05/06 Motivações Para o Voluntariado e Satisfação com a Vida em Estudantes do Ensino Superior: um Estudo Exploratório
(Thesis) Arguer
 Fabiana Inês Formiga Fortunato (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal