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José Pinto-Gouveia

José Pinto-Gouveia

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Psychology
Portugal
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
60
Citations
13865
World Ranking
3533
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

José Pinto-Gouveia is affiliated with the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology. The scientist's work spans multiple subfields including pharmacology, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and general health professions.

The scientist has contributed notably to research on mindfulness and compassion interventions, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Their expertise also extends to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, COVID-19 and mental health, eating disorders and behaviors, and digital mental health interventions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with José Pinto-Gouveia include:

  • Paula Castilho
  • Marina Cunha
  • Sérgio A. Carvalho
  • Inês A. Trindade
  • Teresa Lapa

Their work is regularly published in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Mindfulness
  • Scandinavian Journal of Pain

Some of the recent papers include:

  • Efficacy of Online-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2021, Journal of Pain)
  • Cultivating the Compassionate Self: an Exploration of the Mechanisms of Change in Compassionate Mind Training (2021, Mindfulness)
  • Portuguese version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5): Comparison of latent models and other psychometric analyses (2020, Journal of Clinical Psychology)
  • Above and beyond emotional suffering: the unique contribution of compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding in chronic pain (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Pain)
  • Self-compassion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain: a pilot study (2021, Scandinavian Journal of Pain)

Best Publications

  • The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others

    Paul Gilbert;Francisca Catarino;Cristiana Duarte;Marcela Matos

  • Relationships between nurses’ empathy, self-compassion and dimensions of professional quality of life: A cross-sectional study

    Joana Duarte;José Pinto-Gouveia;Bárbara Cruz

  • Self-compassion in the face of shame and body image dissatisfaction: Implications for eating disorders

    Cláudia Ferreira;José Pinto-Gouveia;Cristiana Duarte

  • Dysfunctional Sexual Beliefs as Vulnerability Factors for Sexual Dysfunction

    Pedro J. Nobre;José Pinto‐Gouveia

  • Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress

    Catarina Cardoso Tomás;Emanuel Oliveira;D. Sousa;M. Uba-Chupel

  • Shame as a traumatic memory.

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • Validation of the Psychometric Properties of the Self-Compassion Scale. Testing the Factorial Validity and Factorial Invariance of the Measure among Borderline Personality Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Eating Disorder and General Populations

    Joana Costa;João Marôco;José Pinto-Gouveia;Cláudia Ferreira

  • Early Maladaptive Schemas and Social Phobia

    José Pinto-Gouveia;Paula Castilho;Ana Galhardo;Marina Cunha

  • Can Shame Memories Become a Key to Identity? The Centrality of Shame Memories Predicts Psychopathology

    José Pinto-Gouveia;Marcela Matos

  • Effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention on oncology nurses' burnout and compassion fatigue symptoms: A non-randomized study.

    Joana Duarte;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • The Effect of Shame and Shame Memories on Paranoid Ideation and Social Anxiety

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia;Paul Gilbert

  • Evaluating the Multifactor Structure of the Long and Short Versions of the Self-Compassion Scale in a Clinical Sample.

    Paula Castilho;José Pinto-Gouveia;Joana Duarte

  • Emotions during sexual activity: differences between sexually functional and dysfunctional men and women.

    Pedro J. Nobre;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • The Protective Role of Self-compassion in Relation to Psychopathology Symptoms and Quality of Life in Chronic and in Cancer Patients

    José Pinto-Gouveia;Cristiana Duarte;Marcela Matos;Sofia Fráguas

  • Acceptance of pain, self-compassion and psychopathology: using the chronic pain acceptance questionnaire to identify patients' subgroups.

    Joana Costa;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • The role of psychological factors in oncology nurses' burnout and compassion fatigue symptoms.

    Joana Duarte;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • Psychological and Physiological Effects of Compassionate Mind Training: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Study

    Marcela Matos;Cristiana Duarte;Joana Duarte;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • Exploring Self-criticism: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the FSCRS in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples

    Paula Castilho;José Pinto-Gouveia;Joana Duarte

  • Cognitive and emotional predictors of female sexual dysfunctions: preliminary findings.

    Pedro J Nobre;Jose Pinto-Gouveia

  • Exploring the efficacy of an acceptance, mindfulness & compassionate-based group intervention for women struggling with their weight (Kg-Free): A randomized controlled trial.

    Lara Palmeira;José Pinto-Gouveia;Marina Cunha

  • Validation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 for Portuguese women

    Joana Marta-Simões;Ana Laura Mendes;Inês A. Trindade;Sara Oliveira

Frequent Co-Authors

Cláudia Ferreira
Cláudia Ferreira University of Coimbra
Cristiana Duarte
Cristiana Duarte York St John University
Marcela Matos
Marcela Matos University of Coimbra
Pedro Nobre
Pedro Nobre University of Porto
Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert University of Derby
João Maroco
João Maroco ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Erick Janssen
Erick Janssen KU Leuven
William B. Stiles
William B. Stiles Miami University

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