The scale of personal conceptions of intelligence: A comparison of the Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian versions

Background: The aim of this research project was to conduct studies of confirmatory factor analyses of ECPI (Scale of Personal Conceptions of Intelligence) in three different cultural contexts - Italy, Portugal and Romania. We hypothesized a bi-factor structure of the instrument constructed in Portugal by Faria (1990; 2006). Method: 617 subjects, 222 Italian, 200 Portuguese, and 195 Romanian students participated in the study, attending high school, equally distributed according to their gender and socioeconomic status. We administered the ECPI composed of 26 items, of which 15 static and 11 dynamic. Results: In the three cultural contexts the results revealed the existence of 7 items, one …

Relationship between food literacy and gross motor and pre-literacy skills in pre-schoolers from the Training-to-Health Project

Purpose: Food literacy is a recent concept encompassing food knowledge and skills, and is related with every aspects of life including health, culture and environment. The assessment and development of food knowledge and skills is important since the early childhood. The aim of this study is to assess the relationships between food literacy and gross motor and pre-literacy skills in a sample of pre-schoolers. Methods: The sample was recruited within the Training-to Health Project conducted in the Palermo City Council. A total of 928 children aged 3–5 years from all 21 municipal kindergartens were recruited. Brief education sessions on nutritional topics and practical activities were perform…

Personal conceptions of intelligence, self-esteem, and school achievement in Italian and Portuguese students.

Educational research places emphasis on the fact that different cultures have different self-construals. These construals can influence cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes in individuals. Great importance is attached to individuals' implicit conceptions of the nature of their intelligence (incremental or entity) and self-esteem. In general, both representation of intelligence and self-esteem seem to play an important role in scholastic performance in terms of both a predispostion to learning and the results actually achieved. The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between variables such as school, and socioeconomic level and gender in Italian and Portuguese s…

Concepções pessoais de inteligência: qualidades psicomètricas da ECPI em Portugal e Italiá.

La fossa di Danisinni, un sistema di eccesso

La “fossa” di Danisinni è una depressione orografica che si estende dai margini del centro storico di Palermo fino alle emergenze monumentali delle Catacombe dei Cappuccini. Il presente studio, attraverso una sintetica disamina degli eventi salienti della storia di questo luogo, vuole delineare una possibile strategia per la riqualificazione del complesso sistema di aree verdi, proponendo nuove modalità d’accesso per connettere questo potenziale parco al centro storico della città. L’antico alveo del fiume Papireto e il sistema di gallerie delle Catacombe dei Cappuccini, appaiono come dei tracciati da riscoprire e nei quali insediare modalità d’accesso ricche ed inedite.