Brenda De Sousa da Silva
- Name
- B.M. De Sousa da Silva
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- b.m.de.sousa.da.silva@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Brenda de Sousa da Silva is a PhD candidate at the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.
Short CV
Brenda de Sousa da Silva is a PhD candidate at the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She is completing her PhD with the Focus on Emotions lab under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carolien Rieffe, Prof. Dr. Berna Güroğlu, Prof. Dr. IR. Johan H.M. Frijns (LUMC, Leiden) and Dr. Guida Veiga (University of Évora, Portugal).
Brenda obtained her Master’s degree in Psychomotor Rehabilitation at University of Lisbon in 2014. She also holds a Bachelor in Psychomotor Rehabilitation from University of Évora. Brenda has completed her training in clinical settings with children with mental health problems, related to emotional problems.
Brenda’s PhD project focuses on play, socialization and emotional development in children with and without hearing loss. The aim of the project is to better understand how a hearing loss can impact on social participation of children within their peer group.
Since 2019 her research project has been financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT 2019 Studentship Grant SFRH/BD/144768/2019).
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
- De Sousa da Silva B.M., Rieffe C.J. & Veiga G. (2022), Empathy in preschool Portuguese children: validation of the empathy questionnaire (EmQue), Social Development : .
- De Sousa da Silva B.M., Ketelaar L., Veiga G., Tsou Y. & Rieffe C. (2022), Moral emotions in early childhood: validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ), International Journal of Behavioral Development 46(2): 157-168.
- De Sousa da Silva Brenda (2022), Being deaf in mainstream schools : the effect of a hearing loss in children’s playground behaviors [Being Deaf in Mainstream Schools: The Effect of a Hearing Loss in Children’s Playground Behaviors] (translation: De Sousa da Silva B.M., Rieffe C.J., Frijns J.H.M., Sousa H., Monteiro L. & Veiga G.), Children 9: 1091.
- Rieffe C.J., De Sousa da Silva B.M., Moutinho G.F.V. & Gibson J. (2022), Emotions in play: the role of physical play in children’s social well-being. In: Dukes D., Samson A.C. & Walle E.A. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of emotional development. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 339-353.
- Silva B.M.S da, Veiga G. & Rieffe C. (2018), A review on playground behaviors - the case of children with hearing loss. In: Rodrigues P., Rebolo A., Vieira F., Dias A. & Silva L. (Eds.), Estudos em Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança. Lisbon: Edições Piaget. 305-310.
- Rieffe C., Broekhof E., Eichengreen A., Kouwenberg M., Veiga G., Da Silva B.M.S., Van der Laan A. & Frijns J.H.M. (2018), Friendship and emotion control in pre-adolescents with or without hearing loss, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 23(3): 209-218.