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  1. Friendship Quality and Mental Health of Youth in Residential Care: The Moderating Role of Individual and Contextual Variables

    Article • Child & Youth Care Forum, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carla Silva

  2. Self-representations and maternal attachment of youth in residential care and the role of gender

    Article • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, September 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margarida Ferreira, Carla Silva

  3. Childhood Poly-victimization and Adults’ Psychoticism: A Moderated Mediation Model Testing an Affective Pathway

    Article • Anuario de Psicología Jurídica, February 2024, Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid

    Carla Silva

  4. Youth-caregiver relationship quality in residential youth care: Professionals’ perceptions and experiences

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Carla Silva

  5. Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, June 2022, Elsevier

    Carla Silva

  6. Youth’s self-construction in the context of residential care: The looking-glass self within the youth-caregiver relationship

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, January 2022, Elsevier

    Carla Silva

  7. Youth in Residential Care: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis of Youth’s Perceptions of Their Social Images, Self-Representations, and Adjustment Outcomes

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, November 2021, Frontiers

    Carla Silva

  8. Organizational social context and psychopathology of youth in residential care: The intervening role of youth–caregiver relationship quality

    Article • Applied Psychology, August 2021, Wiley

    Carla Silva

  9. Predictors of shared book reading at home with preschoolers: Are there differences between Roma and non-Roma low-income families?

    Article • Social Psychology of Education, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carla Silva

  10. Perceived Causes and Attitudes Regarding Overindebtedness and Their Effects on Public Agreement With Government Financial Aid

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2021, Frontiers

    Carla Silva

  11. “(I Think) My Mother Thinks I Am, Therefore I Am.” The Looking-glass Self in Maltreated Children and Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Carla Silva

  12. On the Relation Between Over-Indebtedness and Well-Being: An Analysis of the Mechanisms Influencing Health, Sleep, Life Satisfaction, and Emotional Well-Being

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2021, Frontiers

    Carla Silva

  13. Attitudes Toward Money and Control Strategies of Financial Behavior: A Comparison Between Overindebted and Non-overindebted Consumers

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2021, Frontiers

    Carla Silva

  14. Interparental violence: Professionals’ perspectives in the child protection system

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, November 2020, Elsevier

    Carla Silva

  15. Maltreatment and youth self-representations in residential care: The moderating role of individual and placement variables

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, September 2020, Elsevier

    Carla Silva

  16. Measuring professionals’ perceptions about collaborative consultation in early childhood intervention

    Article • International Journal of Inclusive Education, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Carla Silva

  17. ‘Why do I think what I think I am?’: Mothers’ and fathers’ contributions to adolescents’ self-representations

    Article • Self and Identity, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Carla Silva

  18. Maltreatment experiences and psychopathology in children and adolescents: The intervening role of domain-specific self-representations moderated by age

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, January 2020, Elsevier

    Carla Silva

  19. Early interventions tackling inequalities experienced by immigrant, low-income, and Roma children in 8 European countries: a critical overview

    Article • European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Carla Silva

  20. Child Maltreatment Severity Questionnaire (MSQ) for Professionals: Development, Validity, and Reliability Evidence

    Article • Assessment, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Carla Silva

  21. The Relationship between Family Climate and Identity Development Processes: The Moderating Role of Developmental Stages and Outcomes

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carla Silva

  22. Stop Yelling: Interparental Conflict and Adolescents’ Self-Representations as Mediated by Their Perceived Relationships With Parents

    Article • Journal of Family Issues, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Carla Silva

  23. Interparental conflict and adolescents' self-representations: The role of emotional insecurity

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, October 2016, Elsevier

    Carla Silva

  24. Development and Psychometric Properties of the Self-Representation Questionnaire for Adolescents (SRQA)

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carla Silva

  25. Self-Representation Questionnaire for Adolescents

    Article • January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Carla Silva

  26. Security in the Interparental Subsystem (SIS) Scale: Psychometric Characteristics in a Sample of Portuguese Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Family Violence, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Carla Silva

  27. Interparental conflict and children's self-representations: The mediating role of children's emotional security in the interparental relationship

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Carla Silva

  28. Comportamento adaptativo e perspectivação do futuro: algumas evidências nos contextos da educação e da saúde

    Article • Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, January 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Carla Silva