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Overview

Marcela Matos is affiliated with the University of Coimbra in Portugal and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology, with 114 publications contributing to this domain. Their work covers several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics that Marcela Matos explores include mindfulness and compassion interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, emotions and moral behavior, and resilience and mental health.

Marcela Matos has published in multiple frequent venues such as Mindfulness, Current Psychology, PsycTESTS Dataset, Journal of Clinical Psychology, and PLoS ONE. Their recent papers reflect a focus on mental health interventions and social factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Selected publications include:

  • "Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries," 2022, Mindfulness
  • "The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress," 2021, PLoS ONE

Other notable papers related to psychological interventions and mental health include:

  • "Effectiveness of psychological interventions in the treatment of perinatal depression: A systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "A new measure to assess external and internal shame: development, factor structure and psychometric properties of the External and Internal Shame Scale," 2020, Current Psychology
  • "The impact of compassion-focused therapy on positive and negative mental health outcomes: Results of a series of meta-analyses," 2023, Clinical Psychology Science and Practice

Marcela Matos frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Paul Gilbert, Stanley R. Steindl, Nicola Petrocchi, Lara Palmeira, and Ana Galhardo. These coauthors have contributed collectively to multiple studies, reflecting collaborations within clinical and social psychology research.

Best Publications

  • Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures.

    Paul Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;Marcela Matos;Amanda Rivis

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

    Paul Gilbert;Francisca Catarino;Cristiana Duarte;Marcela Matos

  • Fears of compassion and happiness in relation to alexithymia, mindfulness, and self‐criticism

    P. Gilbert;Kirsten McEwan;L. Gibbons;S. Chotai

  • Shame as a traumatic memory.

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia

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

    José Pinto-Gouveia;Marcela Matos

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

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia;Paul Gilbert

  • 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

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

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

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on 'compassion focused imagery'.

    Helen Rockliff;Anke Karl;Kirsten McEwan;Jean Gilbert

  • The impact of shame and self-judgment on psychopathology in infertile patients

    Ana Galhardo;José Pinto-Gouveia;Marina Cunha;Marcela Matos

  • The Other As Shamer Scale-2: Development and validation of a short version of a measure of external shame.

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia;Paul Gilbert;Cristiana Duarte

  • Effectiveness of psychological interventions in the treatment of perinatal depression: A systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

    Mariana Branquinho;María de la Fe Rodriguez-Muñoz;Berta Rodrigues Maia;Mariana Marques

  • Shame memories and psychopathology in adolescence: The mediator effect of shame

    Marina Cunha;Marcela Matos;Daniela Faria;Sofia Zagalo

  • Understanding the Importance of Attachment in Shame Traumatic Memory Relation to Depression: The Impact of Emotion Regulation Processes

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia;Vânia Costa

  • Ability to receive compassion from others buffers the depressogenic effect of self-criticism: A cross-cultural multi-study analysis

    Nicola Hermanto;David C. Zuroff;Daniel C. Kopala-Sibley;Allison C. Kelly

  • Shame Memories and Eating Psychopathology: The Buffering Effect of Self‐Compassion

    Cláudia Ferreira;Marcela Matos;Cristiana Duarte;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • The Mediator Role of Emotion Regulation Processes on Infertility-Related Stress

    Ana Galhardo;Marina Cunha;José Pinto-Gouveia;Marcela Matos

  • Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries

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  • The Origins of Fears of Compassion: Shame and Lack of Safeness Memories, Fears of Compassion and Psychopathology

    Marcela Matos;Joana Duarte;José Pinto-Gouveia

  • The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress

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  • Internalizing early memories of shame and lack of safeness and warmth: the mediating role of shame on depression.

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia;Cristiana Duarte

  • Differences between depression and paranoia: the role of emotional memories, shame and subordination.

    José Pinto-Gouveia;Marcela Matos;Paula Castilho;Ana Xavier

  • Above and beyond emotional valence: The unique contribution of central and traumatic shame memories to psychopathology vulnerability

    Marcela Matos;José Pinto-Gouveia;Cristiana Duarte

Frequent Co-Authors

José Pinto-Gouveia
José Pinto-Gouveia University of Coimbra
Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert University of Derby
Cristiana Duarte
Cristiana Duarte York St John University
Cláudia Ferreira
Cláudia Ferreira University of Coimbra
Falko F. Sniehotta
Falko F. Sniehotta Newcastle University
Kirsten McEwan
Kirsten McEwan University of Derby
David C. Zuroff
David C. Zuroff McGill University
Nicholas A. Troop
Nicholas A. Troop Plymouth University
Anke Karl
Anke Karl University of Exeter
Ask Elklit
Ask Elklit University of Southern Denmark

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