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Körperkoordinations test für Kinder: A short form is not fully satisfactory
2022
Assessment of motor competence (MC) is crucial to finding deficiencies in children's motor development. Because of the need to ensure validity, reliability, and feasibility, the selection of contemporary testing batteries is a difficult task. Many papers report the validity of the KTK test in describing MC in school aged children. KTK consists of 4 four separate items: walking back, jumping sideways, moving sideways, and hopping for height. Some authors suggested the use of a short version of KTK that includes 3 items excluding one subtest: hopping for height. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of short versions of Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK). A sample of 2,231 part…
Palermo tra aspirazioni Euro-Mediterranee e processi innovativi
2011
Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form: uno studio per l’adattamento italiano
2008
La scelta scolastico-professionale è un compito decisionale complesso e per la sua gestione un ruolo significativo viene assunto dalle credenze di efficacia nelle proprie capacità decisionali. La Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale_Short Form (CDSES-SF) messa a punto da Betz e Taylor è uno degli strumenti più utilizzati nel panorama internazionale proprio per analizzare l’autoefficacia nei confronti di tali capacità. In considerazione di ciò, pur esistendo in Italia anche altri strumenti che possono essere utilizzati per approfondire le credenze di efficacia sperimentate dagli adolescenti che si approcciano al compito di career decision making, si è deciso di analizzare i requisiti psicomet…
Do personality traits and self-regulatory processes affect decision-making tendencies?
2018
Objective: This research attempted to clarify the role played by personality traits and self-regulated motivation in affecting decision-making tendencies. Method: Study 1 (n = 209) examined whether the Big Five personality traits predict minimising, maximising, and satisficing tendencies; Study 2 (n = 460) tested the mediating role of self-regulatory orientations in the relationship between personality traits and decision-making tendencies by performing structural equation modelling with latent variables. Results: Conscientiousness emerged as the strongest positive predictor of maximising, whereas openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness emerged as negative predictors of…
Current and Potential Cognitive Development in Healthy Children: A New Approach to Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices
2022
In clinical practice and research, Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPMs) continue to be used according to a single procedure that aims to evaluate a single overall score of the current general intelligence level. This study aimed to examine potential cognitive development in a sample of 450 typically developing children, aged from 6 to 10 years, by administering RCPMs according to the standard procedure followed immediately by a standardized interview on incorrect items. In addition, the study aimed to analyze how performance differed across age groups. The results analysis was examined on the basis of three different factors in which the items were grouped in previous factorial stu…
A first examination of the structure of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in an Italian sample
2008
Work Engagement is defined by Schaufeli and colleagues as a positive, fulfilling work-related state of mind that is characterized by Vigor, Dedication and Absorption. A questionnaire (UWES) was developed in different versions and languages, to be used in organizational contexts. We tried to confirm the factorial structure of the scale (either about the 9 and 17 items’ versions) using responses from an overall sample of 1080 Italian workers. Results confirmed the good structure of the UWES, consistent to Schaufeli’s findings. Concluding, the UWES can be used as a good measure of work engagement in Italian organizational contexts as well.
The Child Neglect Assessment technique (C.N.A.). A path of the S.I.P.Ped
2022
Lo studio presenta il percorso di validazione di una specifica tecnica di assessment del child neglect rivolta a genitori di bambini di età compresa tra 3 e 9 anni, e che risulta articolata in due specifici strumenti di osservazione. Questa tecnica si fonda su uno specifico modello teorico-operativo costruito in riferimento alla prospettiva della Psicologia pediatrica, che identifica la causa del child neglect nella presenza di una disregolazione della competenza genitoriale, e quindi, nella gestione delle funzioni genitoriali di caregiving, scaffolding e coping. La tecnica presenta un particolare punto di forza: la capacità di intercettare i segnali di una possibile condizione di child neg…
The scale of personal conceptions of intelligence: A comparison of the Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian versions
2012
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 …
La valutazione della psicopatia con la PCL-R e aspetti depressivi
2013
La PCL-R è lo strumento più utilizzato al mondo per la misurazione del costrutto di psicopatia: si tratta di un test clinician-report multimetodo che, attraverso l’applicazione di un’intervista semistrutturata e l’analisi della documentazione personale, degli atti processuali e delle informazioni collaterali relative al soggetto, permette di valutare accuratamente il grado di psicopatia di un individuo.