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Remondi C, Gerbino M, Zuffianò A, Pastorelli C, Thartori E, Bacchini D, Di Giunta L, Lunetti C, Favini A, Lansford JE, Dodge KA. The developmental trends of parental self-efficacy and adolescents' rule-breaking behaviors in the Italian context: A 7-wave latent growth curve study. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293911. [PMID: 37967059 PMCID: PMC10651020 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023] Open
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Parental self-efficacy (PSE) captures parents' beliefs in their ability to perform the parenting role successfully and to handle pivotal issues of specific developmental periods. Although previous studies have shown that, across the transition to adolescence, parents show decreasing levels of PSE while adolescents exhibit increasing engagement in rule-breaking (RB) behaviors, there is a paucity of studies investigating whether and how changes in PSE are related to late adolescents' RB behaviors across development. The present study examined the developmental trends of PSE among Italian mothers and fathers over seven waves (representing children's transition from late childhood to late adolescence; approximately from 9 to 18 years old) as well as the longitudinal associations between PSE and RB behaviors during late adolescence. Data were drawn from seven waves of the Parenting Across Cultures (PAC) project, a large-scale longitudinal, cross-cultural study, and included 200 Italian children (MAgeAtTime1 = 9.80, SD = 0.65; 50.5% girls) and their parents (200 mothers; 190 fathers). PSE was measured across all seven time-points (from T1 to T7), while adolescents' RB behaviors were measured at the first and last assessment (T1 and T7). Results of univariate latent growth models showed a cubic trend of mothers' PSE, which revealed a decreasing pattern characterized initially by a slight decline, followed by a rebound before continuously decreasing. By contrast, fathers' PSE followed a linear decrease over time. Finally, our findings evidenced that only the slope of mothers' PSE negatively predicted adolescents' RB behaviors at T7, implying that mothers who maintained higher levels of PSE over time had children who later engaged in lower RB behaviors. The study implications are discussed.
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- Chiara Remondi
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences, Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Cirimele F, Gomez Plata M, Zuffianò A, Gerbino M, Uribe Tirado LM, Tamayo Giraldo G, Paba Barbosa C, Marin Londoño B, Narváez Marín M, Ruiz García M, Thartori E, Luengo Kanacri BP, Pastorelli C. Promoting prosocial behaviour among Colombian adolescents: the evaluation of a universal school-based program using a multi-informant perspective. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/02673843.2022.2110508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022] Open
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- Flavia Cirimele
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Grupo de investigación Cognición y Educación, Programa de Psicología, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Grupo de investigación Cognición y Educación, Programa de Psicología, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Iselin AMR, DiGiunta L, Lunetti C, Lansford JE, Eisenberg N, Dodge KA, Pastorelli C, Tirado LMU, Bacchini D, Thartori E, Fiasconaro I, Gliozzo G, Favini A, Basili E, Cirimele F, Remondi C, Skinner AT. Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 2022; 50:1313-1326. [PMID: 35870036 PMCID: PMC9979779 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-022-00951-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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This study examined gender-specific longitudinal pathways from harsh parenting through rumination to anxiety and depression symptoms among early adolescents from three countries and six subgroups. Participants were 567 mothers, 428 fathers, and 566 children (T1: Mage = 10.89; 50% girls) from Medellín, Colombia (n = 100); Naples, Italy (n = 95); Rome, Italy (n = 99); Durham, North Carolina, United States (Black n = 92, Latinx n = 80, and White n = 100). Parent reported maternal and paternal harsh parenting were measured at T1. Adolescent reported rumination was measured at T2 (Mage = 12.58) and anxiety and depression symptoms were measured at T1 and T3 (Mage = 13.71). Rumination mediated the pathway from maternal harsh discipline to girls' anxiety and depression symptoms, controlling for baseline anxiety and depression symptoms. The more harsh discipline mothers used, the more their daughters ruminated, which in turn was associated with increased anxiety and depression symptoms. Exploratory moderated mediation analyses indicated that the strength of the mediational pathway from maternal harsh discipline through girls' rumination to anxiety and depression symptoms decreased as the normativeness of harsh parenting increased. Mediational pathways for boys and for paternal harsh discipline were not significant. Our findings expand knowledge on specific contexts in which rumination is a mechanism for understanding pathways to anxiety and depression symptoms.
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA
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- Psychology Department, Federico II Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA
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Lunetti C, Giunta LD, Fiasconaro I, Arbel R, Basili E, Thartori E, Favini A, Gliozzo G, Pastorelli C, Lansford JE. Perception of school climate, academic performance and risk behaviors in adolescence. RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA 2022; 45:1-15. [PMID: 37073333 PMCID: PMC10107649 DOI: 10.3280/rip2022oa13391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Previous studies support the relevance of students' perception of positive and negative school climate to learning processes and adolescents' adjustment. School climate is affected by both the interactions that are established within the classroom, and by the teachers' behaviors. This study has the overall objective of investigating the relationship between the perception of positive and negative school climate and students' (mal)adjustment during adolescence. Participants were 105 Italian adolescents (52.5% boys, mean age = 15.56,SD = .77) who responded for 15 consecutive days (ecological momentary assessment) to questions related to their perception of positive and negative school climate (Time 1). After one year (Time 2), students' academic performance reported by mothers and fathers and adolescents' self-reported propensity to engage in risk behaviors were examined. Four hierarchical regression models were implemented considering the mean and the instability levels (RMSSD) of the perception of positive and negative school climate as independent variables and, respectively, academic performance and risk behaviors as dependent variables. Results suggest that a higher perception of positive school climate and its instability predict higher academic performance one year later, while a higher perception of negative school climate and its instability predict higher risk behaviors. This study provides an innovative perspective to reflect on the relationship between students' perceptions of school climate and adolescents' (mal)adjustment.
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- Carolina Lunetti
- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- University of Haifa, Department of Counseling and Human Development indirizzo: 199 Aba Khoushy Ave. Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Psychology Via dei Marsi, 78, 00175 Rome - Italy
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- Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy inidirizzo: 2024 West Main Street, Bay C
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Cirimele F, Pastorelli C, Favini A, Remondi C, Zuffiano A, Basili E, Thartori E, Gerbino M, Gregori F. Facing the Pandemic in Italy: Personality Profiles and Their Associations With Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes. Front Psychol 2022; 13:805740. [PMID: 35282221 PMCID: PMC8908009 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals' psychosocial functioning was widely attested during the last year. However, the extent to which individual differences are associated with adaptive and maladaptive outcomes during quarantine in Italy remains largely unexplored. Using a person-oriented approach, the present study explored the association of personality profiles, based on three broad individual dispositions (i.e., positivity, irritability, and hostile rumination) and two self-efficacy beliefs in the emotional area (i.e., expressing positive emotions and regulating anger emotion), with adaptive and maladaptive outcomes during the first Italian lockdown (March-June 2020). In doing so, we focused also on how different age groups (i.e., young adults and adults) differently faced the pandemic. The study was conducted through an online survey from May to June 2020 and included 1341 participants living in Italy, divided into two groups: 737 young adults aged 18-35 and 604 adults aged 36-60 years old. Latent Profile Analysis identified three personality profiles: resilient, vulnerable, and moderate. A subsequent path analysis model showed that the resilient profile was positively associated with prosocial behavior as an indicator of adaptive outcome, and negatively associated with three maladaptive outcomes: interpersonal aggression, depressive symptoms, and anxiety problems. Contrarily, the vulnerable profile resulted negatively associated with prosocial behavior and positively associated with the three maladaptive outcomes. Finally, regarding age group differences, young adults belonging to the vulnerable profile showed a greater association especially with interpersonal aggression, depression, and anxiety problems, as compared to adults belonging to the same profile. Overall, the results of the present study highlighted the importance to analyze individual functioning during an isolation period by using a person-oriented approach. Findings evidenced the existence of three different profiles (i.e., Resilient, Vulnerable, and Moderate) and subsequent path analysis revealed, especially for the vulnerable profile and young adults, a greater maladaptive consequence of the quarantine. The practical implications will be discussed.
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- Flavia Cirimele
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Di Giunta L, Lunetti C, Gliozzo G, Rothenberg WA, Lansford JE, Eisenberg N, Pastorelli C, Basili E, Fiasconaro I, Thartori E, Favini A, Virzì AT. Negative Parenting, Adolescents' Emotion Regulation, Self-Efficacy in Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Adjustment. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:ijerph19042251. [PMID: 35206436 PMCID: PMC8871997 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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This study examines associations between parents' rejection and control, adolescents' self-efficacy in their regulation of negative emotions, and maladjustment. Path analyses were employed to test (a) whether adolescents' dysregulation and self-efficacy regarding anger/sadness regulation mediate the relationship between parental rejection/control and adolescent maladjustment; (b) whether adolescent adjustment mediates the association between parental rejection/control and dysregulation and self-efficacy regarding anger/sadness regulation. Participants included 103 Italian adolescents (Time 1: M age = 15.57; 53% male), their mothers (n = 103), and their fathers (n = 79). Follow up data were assessed one year later (Time 2). At Time 1, adolescent reports of the frequency of mothers' and fathers' rejection and control were examined. At Time 2, adolescent-reports of their beliefs about self-efficacy in regulating anger and sadness, as well as anger and sadness dysregulation, were assessed by two methods: questionnaire and mobile ecological momentary assessment. At Time 2, mothers', fathers', and adolescents' reports of adolescents' aggressive behaviors and depressive problems were also assessed. Maternal rejection was associated with higher one year later aggressive problems, which in turn were associated with higher dysregulation of sadness, and lower self-efficacy in dealing with both anger and sadness. In addition, maternal rejection was associated with higher depressive symptoms one year later, which in turn were associated with lower self-efficacy in dealing with sadness and higher dysregulation of both anger and sadness. Finally, maternal control was associated with higher depressive symptoms, whereas paternal control was associated with lower depressive symptoms.
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- Laura Di Giunta
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; (W.A.R.); (J.E.L.)
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; (W.A.R.); (J.E.L.)
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- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA;
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.L.); (G.G.); (C.P.); (E.B.); (I.F.); (E.T.); (A.F.); (A.T.V.)
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Thartori E, Pastorelli C, Cirimele F, Remondi C, Gerbino M, Basili E, Favini A, Lunetti C, Fiasconaro I, Caprara GV. Exploring the Protective Function of Positivity and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in Time of Pandemic COVID-19. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18:13171. [PMID: 34948780 PMCID: PMC8702160 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182413171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Despite several empirical studies on the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that have highlighted its detrimental effect on individuals' mental health, the identification of psychological factors that may moderate its impact on individuals' behavior and well-being remains partly unexplored. The present study was conceived to examine the mediation role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy in the relationship between positivity and anxiety, depression, and perceived self-efficacy in complying with the containment measures to contrast the COVID-19 spread. Furthermore, the moderation role of age was tested. A sample of 1258 participants (64.2% women; Mage = 42.09, SD = 13.62) enrolled from the Italian general population answered an online survey aimed at investigating the role of individual differences in facing the COVID-19 pandemic. We opted for a snowball recruiting procedure to find participants. The online survey was disseminated through email invitation and using social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram). A multi-group path analysis model was performed using Mplus 8.4 to explore the hypothesized relations among variables. The following criteria were employed to evaluate the goodness of fit: χ2 likelihood ratio statistic, CFI and TLI > 0.95, RMSEA < 0.06 and SRMR < 0.08. The findings corroborated the protective role of both positivity and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in reducing individuals' anxiety and depressive symptoms, as well as in fostering individuals' capabilities in complying with the containment measures imposed by the government to reduce the risk of illness and to contain the spread of the virus COVID-19. Specifically, regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs partially mediated the relations between positivity and anxiety and depressive symptoms and fully mediated the effect of positivity on perceived self-efficacy beliefs in complying with the containment measures. These paths were equal across ages. The results of the present study appear relevant to implementing psychological interventions aimed to reduce the deleterious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health through the promotion of individuals' optimistic orientation and emotion regulation.
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- Eriona Thartori
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.P.); (F.C.); (C.R.); (M.G.); (E.B.); (A.F.); (C.L.); (I.F.)
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (C.P.); (F.C.); (C.R.); (M.G.); (E.B.); (A.F.); (C.L.); (I.F.)
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Pastorelli C, Zuffianò A, Lansford JE, Thartori E, Bornstein MH, Chang L, Deater-Deckard K, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, Gurdal S, Liu Q, Long Q, Oburu P, Skinner AT, Sorbring E, Steinberg L, Tapanya S, Uribe Tirado LM, Yotanyamaneewong S, Al-Hassan S, Peña Alampay L, Bacchini D. Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups. J Youth Dev 2021; 16:379-401. [PMID: 34888590 PMCID: PMC8651236 DOI: 10.5195/jyd.2021.1026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The current cross-cultural study aimed to extend research on parenting and children’s prosocial behavior by examining relations among parental warmth, values related to family obligations (i.e., children’s support to and respect for their parents, siblings, and extended family), and prosocial behavior during the transition to adolescence (from ages 9 to 12). Mothers, fathers, and their children (N = 1107 families) from 8 countries including 11 cultural groups (Colombia; Rome and Naples, Italy; Jordan; Kenya; the Philippines; Sweden; Thailand; and African Americans, European Americans, and Latin Americans in the United States) provided data over 3 years in 3 waves (Mage of child in wave 1 = 9.34 years, SD = 0.75; 50.5% female). Overall, across all 11 cultural groups, multivariate change score analysis revealed positive associations among the change rates of parental warmth, values related to family obligations, and prosocial behavior during late childhood (from age 9 to 10) and early-adolescence (from age 10 to 12). In most cultural groups, more parental warmth at ages 9 and 10 predicted steeper mean-level increases in prosocial behavior in subsequent years. The findings highlight the prominent role of positive family context, characterized by warm relationships and shared prosocial values, in fostering children’s positive development in the transition to adolescence. The practical implications of these findings are discussed.
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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- Chongqing Medical University
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- Hashemite University, Jordan and Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi
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Vega LMT, Kanacri PL, Pastorelli C, Di Giunta L, Lunetti C, Tirado LU, Thartori E, Lansford YJ. [Neighborhood Danger and Maternal Parenting in Medellin-Rome: The Role of Negative Emotional Self-Efficacy]. Psykhe (Santiago) 2021; 30:1-11. [PMID: 37131845 PMCID: PMC10150916 DOI: 10.7764/psykhe.2019.22461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
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The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effect of perceptions of neighborhood danger on positive parenting and whether it is mediated by the mothers' perceived self-efficacy in managing negative emotions, comparing two countries: Colombia and Italy. Participants were 434 mothers and children between ages of 8 and 10 years old (108 dyads from Medellin, Colombia and 109 dyads from Rome, Italy). selected by convenience, non-probabilistically and proportionally to the social stratum of each city. Mothers and children answered the neighborhood violence perception scale, mothers also answered the emotional self-efficacy scale and children the Acceptance-Rejection/Control questionnaire. The multigroup analysis found that mothers' self-efficacy in managing negative emotions behaved differently in Colombia compared to Italy. In Colombia, mothers' perceived self-efficacy in managing negative emotions mediated the link between the effect of perceived neighborhood violence and the quality of mother-child relationship. In Italy, mothers' self-efficacy in managing negative emotions did not mediate this link. Perceived self-efficacy in managing negative emotions of Colombian mothers indirectly explains the adverse effect of perceived neighborhood danger on positive parenting. With mothers from Rome-Italy, there is no significant relationship between perceived self-efficacy for the management of negative emotions and positive parenting.
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Basili E, Zuffianò A, Pastorelli C, Thartori E, Lunetti C, Favini A, Di Giunta L, Bacchini D, Gerbino M, Lansford JE. Disentangling Italian mothers' and fathers' psychological control over time: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. J Fam Psychol 2021; 35:789-800. [PMID: 33793275 PMCID: PMC8416941 DOI: 10.1037/fam0000845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Psychological Control (PC) refers to the control parents exert over their offspring through strategies that limit the psychological and emotional experience of children and adolescents. Although the topic of PC has been largely investigated in the literature, very little is known on the potential differences/similarities in the use of specific psychologically controlling strategies by mothers and fathers. Hence, in the present study, we considered the contribution of both parents to analyze the direct and mutual relations in the use of PC over time by disentangling the role of mothers and fathers at the between- and within-person level. Participants were 147 parents of Italian adolescents (mean age = 13.54 at Time 1) who reported on their use of two different PC dimensions: Relationship-Oriented PC (R-OPC) and Verbal Constraint (VC). Results from a Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model showed that at the between-person level, mothers' and fathers' use of R-OPC (and VC) was positively correlated over time. At the within-person level, significant cross-lagged effects showed that one parent's higher than usual levels of R-OPC and VC positively predicted the other parent's higher than usual use of PC at the next time point, showing how parental variations in PC are related to their partner's variations over time. For VC, significant cross-lagged effects were found only for fathers. Furthermore, differences were found when comparing the classical cross-lagged panel models to the Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Basili E, Zuffianò A, Pastorelli C, Thartori E, Lunetti C, Favini A, Cirimele F, Di Giunta L, Gerbino M, Bacchini D, Uribe Tirado LM, Lansford JE. Maternal and paternal psychological control and adolescents' negative adjustment: A dyadic longitudinal study in three countries. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251437. [PMID: 33989323 PMCID: PMC8121295 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Psychological Control (PC) interferes with autonomy-related processes in adolescence and has a negative impact on adolescents’ development related to internalizing and externalizing problems. Several scholars suggested that PC can be used differently by mothers and fathers. However, these differences are still understudied and mainly grounded on maternal and/or adolescents’ perspectives, leading to potentially incomplete inferences on the effects of PC. The present study extends previous research on PC in two directions. First, we tested the dyadic and cumulative effects of maternal and paternal PC on adolescents’ antisocial behaviors and anxious-depressive symptoms. Secondly, we explored the cross-cultural generalizability of these associations in three countries: Italy, Colombia, and USA. Participants included 376 families with data from three consecutive years (T1, adolescents’ age = 13.70). Mothers’ and fathers’ reports of PC and youth’s reports of antisocial and internalizing behaviors were assessed. Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) we found that maternal PC predicted adolescents’ reported antisocial behaviors whereas paternal PC predicted lower anxious-depressed symptoms. Comparisons across countries evidenced the cross-cultural invariance of the longitudinal APIM across Italy, Colombia, and USA. The practical implications of these results are discussed.
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- Emanuele Basili
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Studies, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Kanacri BPL, Pastorelli C, Thartori E, Lunetti C, Di Giunta L, Bacchini D, Lansford JE. Longitudinal Relations among Maternal Self-Efficacy, Maternal Warmth, and Early Adolescents' Prosocial Behavior. Parent Sci Pract 2020; 21:24-46. [PMID: 33732095 PMCID: PMC7959051 DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2020.1777791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This article examined two-wave longitudinal paths among maternal self-efficacy, maternal warmth, and early adolescents' prosocial behavior. DESIGN Participants were 194 Italian mother/child dyads from 9-13 years at the first assessment and 12-15 years at the second assessment. Using a two-wave longitudinal design, the present study tested cross-lagged paths among maternal self-efficacy, warmth, and early adolescents' prosocial behavior controlling for the stability of these variables and their concurrent associations. RESULTS Maternal warmth mediated the link between maternal self-efficacy and adolescents' prosocial behavior, and bi-directional effects between maternal self-efficacy and maternal warmth were found. CONCLUSIONS These findings support a parent-driven model in the promotion of prosocial behaviors across early adolescence and a general need to consider simultaneously parental cognitions (maternal self-efficacy) and actions (maternal warmth) in explaining adolescents' prosocial behaviors. Implications for parenting program interventions are discussed.
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Di Giunta L, Rothenberg WA, Lunetti C, Lansford JE, Pastorelli C, Eisenberg N, Thartori E, Basili E, Favini A, Yotanyamaneewong S, Peña Alampay L, Al-Hassan SM, Bacchini D, Bornstein MH, Chang L, Deater-Deckard K, Dodge KA, Oburu P, Skinner AT, Sorbring E, Steinberg L, Tapanya S, Uribe Tirado LM. Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries. Dev Psychol 2020; 56:458-474. [PMID: 32077717 PMCID: PMC7041852 DOI: 10.1037/dev0000849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States) were interviewed when children were about 13 years old and again 1 and 2 years later. Models were examined separately for mothers and fathers. Overall, cross-cultural similarities emerged in the associations of both mothers' and fathers' irritability, as well as of mothers' self-efficacy about anger regulation, with subsequent maternal harsh parenting and adolescent irritability, and in the associations of the latter variables with adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems. The findings suggest that processes linking mothers' and fathers' emotion socialization and emotionality in diverse cultures to adolescent problem behaviors are somewhat similar. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples Federico II
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- Child and Family Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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- Department of Psychology, University of Macau
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- Department of Educational Psychology, Maseno University
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, University West
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Rothenberg WA, Di Giunta L, Lansford JE, Lunetti C, Fiasconaro I, Basili E, Thartori E, Favini A, Pastorelli C, Eisenberg N, Amico FD, Rosa M, Cirimele F. Daily Associations between Emotions and Aggressive and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Emotion Dysregulation. J Youth Adolesc 2019; 48:2207-2221. [PMID: 31302795 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-019-01071-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Nearly half of adolescents experience depressive or aggressive symptoms that impair their functioning at some point in adolescence. Experiencing intense difficult emotions and difficulties regulating such emotions may lead to these depressive and aggressive symptoms. However, existing work largely investigates how adolescent emotions at a single time point predict adolescent depressive or aggressive symptoms months or years later. New investigations are needed to capture the dynamic, changing nature of adolescents' daily experiences of emotions and symptoms of mental distress. Such investigations would further understanding of how emotions affect mental health in adolescents' everyday lives. Answering this call, the present study investigated how emotion dysregulation moderated and mediated daily associations between sadness and depressive symptoms and between anger and aggression utilizing ecological momentary assessment in a community sample of 103 Italian adolescents (Mage = 16.77, SD = 0.78, range: 15-18 years old; 47% female). The results revealed that if an adolescent experienced higher-than-usual sadness or anger on a particular day, then they also experienced higher than usual depressive or aggressive symptoms, respectively. Emotion dysregulation mediated and moderated these associations. Adolescents with higher anger had greater difficulties regulating their anger, which led to higher aggressive symptoms (a mediating effect). If adolescents' sadness was higher than usual on a given day, their depressive symptoms were more severe than usual if they also had higher than usual difficulties regulating sadness (a moderating effect). These findings contribute to our understanding of how emotions impact mental distress on a daily basis for adolescents, emphasize the importance of examining specific adolescent emotions, and shed new light on how emotional regulatory capacities influence emotions and mental health in adolescents' everyday lives.
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- W Andrew Rothenberg
- Duke University Center for Child & Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA. .,University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Mailman Center for Child Development, Miami, FL, USA.
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Luengo Kanacri BP, Zuffiano A, Pastorelli C, Jiménez‐Moya G, Tirado LU, Thartori E, Gerbino M, Cumsille P, Martinez ML. Cross‐national evidences of a school‐based universal programme for promoting prosocial behaviours in peer interactions: Main theoretical communalities and local unicity. Int J Psychol 2019; 55 Suppl 1:48-59. [DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Thartori E, Zuffianò A, Pastorelli C, Gerbino M, Lunetti C, Favini A, Basili E, Di Giunta L, Bacchini D, Lansford JE. Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0209493. [PMID: 30625161 PMCID: PMC6326468 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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According to Belsky's process model of parenting, parents' personality represents the most important factor influencing parenting and child development. While an extensive literature has empirically corroborated the role of irritability traits in predicting aggressive behaviors in laboratory-based studies, only a few studies have examined the role of irritability in predicting aggressive behaviors within family contexts. The present study addressed this gap by examining the longitudinal association between maternal irritability and harsh parenting. Referencing latent state-trait theory (LST), first we estimated the amount of variance in mothers' irritability due to trait and state components, and, next, we examined the relation between mothers' irritability (both at trait- and state- levels) and harsh parenting over time. A sample of 204 mothers from Naples and Rome provided data over 5 years in four waves. Mothers averaged 40.30 years (SD = 5.33) at Time 1 and 44.01 years (SD = 5.43) at Time 4. Their children (50% girls) were 9.45 years (SD = 0.74) at Time 1 and 13.18 years (SD = 0.66) at Time 4. Results of LST analysis showed that, on average, 39% of variability in irritability was due to trait-like factors and only 12% to state-like factors. A multitrait-multistate model revealed that the irritability trait associated with mother's lack of control predicted her harsh parenting 1-year later, while controlling for the rank-order stability of harsh parenting.
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- Eriona Thartori
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Favini A, Gerbino M, Eisenberg N, Lunetti C, Thartori E. Personality profiles and adolescents' maladjustment: A longitudinal study. Personality and Individual Differences 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Di Giunta L, Iselin AMR, Lansford JE, Eisenberg N, Lunetti C, Thartori E, Basili E, Pastorelli C, Bacchini D, Uribe Tirado LM, Gerbino M. Parents' and early adolescents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and early adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems: A longitudinal study in three countries. J Adolesc 2018; 64:124-135. [PMID: 29454294 DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The present study examines whether early adolescents' self-efficacy beliefs about anger regulation mediate the relation between parents' self-efficacy beliefs about anger regulation and early adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems. Participants were 534 early adolescents (T1: M age = 10.89, SD = .70; 50% female), their mothers (n = 534), and their fathers (n = 431). Families were drawn from Colombia, Italy, and the USA. Follow-up data were obtained two (T2) and three (T3) years later. At T1 and T3, parents' self-efficacy beliefs were self-reported and internalizing and externalizing problems were assessed via mothers', fathers', and early adolescents' reports. At T2, early adolescents' self-efficacy beliefs were self-reported Within the overall sample, mothers with higher self-efficacy beliefs about anger regulation had children with similar beliefs. Early adolescents' low self-efficacy beliefs were associated with higher internalizing and externalizing problems.
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- Psychology Department, Second University of Naples, Italy
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- Psychology Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Di Giunta L, Pastorelli C, Thartori E, Bombi AS, Baumgartner E, Fabes RA, Martin CL, Enders CK. Trajectories of Italian Children’s Peer Rejection: Associations with Aggression, Prosocial Behavior, Physical Attractiveness, and Adolescent Adjustment. J Abnorm Child Psychol 2017; 46:1021-1035. [DOI: 10.1007/s10802-017-0373-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Luengo Kanacri BP, Eisenberg N, Thartori E, Pastorelli C, Uribe Tirado LM, Gerbino M, Caprara GV. Longitudinal Relations Among Positivity, Perceived Positive School Climate, and Prosocial Behavior in Colombian Adolescents. Child Dev 2017. [PMID: 28643844 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Bidirectional relations among adolescents' positivity, perceived positive school climate, and prosocial behavior were examined in Colombian youth. Also, the role of a positive school climate in mediating the relation of positivity to prosocial behaviors was tested. Adolescents (N = 151; Mage of child in Wave 1 = 12.68, SD = 1.06; 58.9% male) and their parents (N = 127) provided data in two waves (9 months apart). A model of bidirectional relations between positivity and perceived positive school climate emerged. In addition, adolescents with higher levels of perceived positive school climate at age 12 showed higher levels of prosocial behaviors in the following year. Positive school climate related positivity to adolescents' prosocial behavior over time.
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Di Giunta L, Iselin AMR, Eisenberg N, Concetta P, Gerbino M, Lansford JE, Dodge KA, Caprara GV, Bacchini D, Tirado LMU, Thartori E. Measurement Invariance and Convergent Validity of Anger and Sadness Self-Regulation Among Youth From Six Cultural Groups. Assessment 2017; 24:484-502. [PMID: 26603118 PMCID: PMC4877287 DOI: 10.1177/1073191115615214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The present study examined measurement invariance and convergent validity of a novel vignette-based measure of emotion-specific self-regulation that simultaneously assesses attributional bias, emotion-regulation, and self-efficacy beliefs about emotion regulation. Participants included 541 youth-mother dyads from three countries (Italy, the United States, and Colombia) and six ethnic/cultural groups. Participants were 12.62 years old ( SD = 0.69). In response to vignettes involving ambiguous peer interactions, children reported their hostile/depressive attribution bias, self-efficacy beliefs about anger and sadness regulation, and anger/sadness regulation strategies (i.e., dysregulated expression and rumination). Across the six cultural groups, anger and sadness self-regulation subscales had full metric and partial scalar invariance for a one-factor model, with some exceptions. We found support for both a four- and three-factor oblique model (dysregulated expression and rumination loaded on a second-order factor) for both anger and sadness. Anger subscales were related to externalizing problems, while sadness subscales were related to internalizing symptoms.
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- Psychology Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Psychology Department, Second University of Naples, Italy
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Hoxha H, Simaku A, Kallfa-Foto E, Lito G, Petrela R, Thartori E. The study of epidemiological data of the mumps and the effect of MMR vaccine in the Albanian children. Int J Infect Dis 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.1939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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