A5046896094- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Parental Involvement in Education
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Family Support in Illness
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Sapienza University of Rome
2016-2025
Walter Sisulu University
2022
Empathy-related responding, including empathy, sympathy, and personal distress, has been implicated in conceptual models theories about prosocial behavior altruism, aggression antisocial behavior, intergroup relationships. Conceptual arguments empirical findings related to each of these topics are reviewed. In general, there is evidence that empathy and/or sympathy important correlates of, likely contributors to, other-oriented the inhibition quality Applied implications findings, prevention...
Abstract The dual systems model of adolescent risk‐taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination heightened sensation seeking and still‐maturing self‐regulation, but most tests this have been conducted in United States or Western Europe. In present study, these propositions are tested an international sample more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 30 years from 11 countries Africa, Asia, Europe Americas, using multi‐method test battery that includes both self‐report...
The Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy (RESE) scale was developed to assess perceived self-efficacy in managing negative (NEG) and expressing positive (POS) affect (G. V. Caprara & M. Gerbino, 2001). In this study of young adults, the factorial structure RESE found be similar Italy, United States, Bolivia. addition a factor for POS, NEG represented by second-order 2 different affects: despondency-distress (DES) anger-irritation (ANG). Overall, there partial invariance at both metric scalar...
Distinguishing between relational and physical aggression has become a key feature of many developmental studies in N orth A merica W estern E urope, but very little information is available on more diverse cultural contexts. This study examined the factor structure of, associations between, gender differences C hina, olombia, I taly, J ordan, K enya, P hilippines, S weden, T hailand, U nited tates. Children ages 7–10 years ( = 1,410) reported their relationally physically aggressive...
Abstract Two key tasks facing parents across cultures are managing children's behaviors (and misbehaviors) and conveying love affection. Previous research has found that corporal punishment generally is related to worse child adjustment, whereas parental warmth better adjustment. This study examined whether the association between adjustment problems (anxiety aggression) moderated by maternal in a diverse set of countries vary number sociodemographic psychological ways. Interviews were...
All countries distinguish between minors and adults for various legal purposes. Recent U.S. Supreme Court cases concerning the status of juveniles have consulted psychological science to decide where draw these boundaries. However, little is known about robustness relevant research, because it has been conducted largely in other Western countries. To extent that lawmakers look research guide their decisions, important know how generalizable scientific conclusions are. The present study...
Background . The purpose of this paper is to contribute a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers' and fathers' use with daughters sons in nine countries. Methods Interviews were conducted 1398 mothers, 1146 fathers, 1417 children (age range<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>7</mml:mn></mml:math>to 10 years) China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States....
The goal of the current study was to investigate potential cross-cultural differences in covariation between two major dimensions parenting behavior: control and warmth. Participants included 1,421 (51% female) 7- 10-year-old (M = 8.29, SD .67 years) children their mothers fathers representing 13 cultural groups nine countries Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North South America. Children parents completed questionnaires interviews regarding mother father Greater warmth associated with...
Significance Interpersonal conflict and violence occur within between groups around the world. Although not proving causation, this study is significant because it suggests a key psychological mechanism in children’s chronic aggression that might be targeted for intervention: one’s attribution peer acting with hostile intent. When children attribute intent to peers, they are more likely predict would react aggressively than when benign Differences tendency statistically account differences...
The present study examined how agreeableness and self-efficacy beliefs about responding empathically to others' needs predict individuals' prosociality across time. Participants were 377 adolescents (66% males) aged 16 at Time 1 18 2 who took part this study. Measures of agreeableness, empathic collected two time points. findings corroborated the posited paths relations assigning a major role in predicting level prosociality. Empathic partially mediated relation conceptual model accounted...
Background Research supports the beneficial role of prosocial behaviors on children's adjustment and successful youth development. Empirical studies point to reciprocal relations between negative parenting maladjustment, but positive behavior are understudied. In this study two different dimensions (quality mother–child relationship use balanced discipline) were examined in Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States. Methods Mother–child dyads ( N = 1105)...
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH turn regulate development behavior optimize survival under prevailing conditions. The present study tested hypotheses concerning based on a 6-year longitudinal sample 1,245 adolescents their parents from 9 countries. results revealed that, invariant...
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates links between those youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States) were interviewed when were, on average, 10 years old again old. Multilevel models examined 5 aspects parenting (expectations regarding family obligations, monitoring, psychological control, behavioral...
Background It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects perceived acceptance‐rejection on diverse domains adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, whether these hold across populations for mothers fathers are still open questions. Methods This study assessed children's perceptions mother father in 1,247 families from China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United...
We assessed 2 forms of agreement between mothers' and fathers' socially desirable responding in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand United States (N = 1110 families). Mothers fathers all 9 countries reported upper half distribution, varied minimally (but China was higher than cross-country grand mean Sweden lower). did not differ levels responding, were largely uncorrelated. With one exception, similarly correlated with self-perceptions parenting,...
We assessed whether mothers' and fathers' self-reports of acceptance-rejection, warmth, hostility/rejection/neglect (HRN) their pre-adolescent children differ cross-nationally relative to the gender parent child in 10 communities 9 countries, including China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States (N = 998 families). Mothers fathers all countries reported a high degree acceptance low HRN, but also varied. greater than States, these effects were accounted...
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand cross‐cultural generalizability of how parental warmth control are bidirectionally related externalizing internalizing behaviors childhood early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, children completed measures when were ages 8–13. Multiple‐group autoregressive, cross‐lagged structural equation models revealed that...
Abstract This study advances understanding of predictors child abuse and neglect at multiple levels influence. Mothers, fathers, children ( N = 1,418 families, M age 8.29 years) were interviewed annually in three waves 13 cultural groups nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, the United States). Multilevel models estimated to examine (a) within-family differences across time points, (b) between-family within-culture differences, (c)...
In the present analysis, we test dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to taking, ask these relations differ as function age culture. To compare across cultures, conduct 2 sets analyses: 1 comparing Asian Western countries, low- high-GDP Results indicate that...
Abstract This study used data from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States; N = 1,315) to investigate bidirectional associations between parental warmth control, child externalizing internalizing behaviors. In addition, the extent which these held across mothers fathers cultures with differing normative levels of parent control were examined. Mothers, fathers, children completed measures when ages 8 13....
We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents 12 cultural groups. did not find that single universal characterized adolescent symptoms across cultures, but instead found significant heterogeneity starting points rates change both cultures. Some similarities emerge. Across many groups, decreased 10, increased 10 14. Parental appears function similarly cultures as a protective...