Cultural Meanings of Parenting Behavior: The Case of the Italian Population

Il ruolo dei fattori intra e interindividuali nell’insorgenza dell’inibizione comportamentale.

The relationship between emotion regulation, emotion knowledge and adjustment in preschoolers: A mediation model.

The study explored the total, direct and indirect effects of emotion knowledge on adjustment in preschoolers ans examined whether emotion regulation mediated the relationships between emotion knowledge and adjustment (social competence, and behavioral difficulties, such as anxiety–withdrawal and anger–aggression). Two hundred forty children (118 boys and 122 girls) from 3 to 5 years of age (mean age = 4.23, SD = .80) were administered a vocabulary test to check their verbal ability and a measure of emotion knowledge. Teachers filled out two questionnaires about children’s regulation and adjustment variables. A mediation model was tested combined with an assessment of the indirect effects to…

Cultural differences in the meaning of parental practices among southern-italian and congolese mothers.

Aggressiveness, social isolation and adjustment: The role of social reputation.

Behavioural Characteristics Associated with the Best Friendships of Shy and Aggressive Young Adolescents.

Quality of Parenting and contextual characteristics in a sample of South-Italian mothers

Psychological variables characterizing different types of adolescent gamblers: A discriminant function analysis

Objective: The study examined the effects of attachment attitudes, social support, and psychological and behavioral problems on pathological gambling among adolescents. Method: A total of 268 male adolescents, from 15 to 17 years of age (M = 16.23, SD = .39) completed self-report measures on gambling behaviors, attachment styles, social support, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Results and Conclusions. At-risk and pathological gamblers reported lower level of social support and higher level of fearful attachment and internalizing problems than non problematic-gamblers. Results from a discriminant function analysis, in which two discriminant functions emerged, were consistent wi…

A longitudinal study on patterns of autonomy and relatedness in the parent adolescent-relationship