Lígia Monteiro

Full Member

Community, Education, and Development (CED)

Research interests

Attachment relationships; parenting quality; parental involvement; peer relations; social and non-social behaviors

Short bio

Lígia Monteiro is a Professor at Iscte and the current Director of the MSc in Community Psychology, Protection of Children and Youth at Risk. Her main research interests focus on parenting (mother and father) considering individual, family, and contextual variables, and attachment relationships during the first years of life. She is also interested in children’s social competence, internalizing, and externalizing behavioral problems.