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Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Santilli, Sara; Di Maggio, Ilaria; Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
This article reports the development and psychometric requisites of Visions About Future (VAF), a measure to assess optimism, pessimism, and hope in early adolescence. Two different studies involving Italian middle school students were conducted. With the first study, the items were developed and the factor structure verified by using item…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Psychometrics, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
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Prati, Gabriele; Tomasetto, Carlo; Cicognani, Elvira – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Psychological sense of community among early adolescents has been investigated using instruments developed for adolescents/adults or ad hoc scales. The aim was to contribute to the validation of a scale of Sense of Community in Early Adolescents (SoC-EA) using a 3-year longitudinal study. Participants were 576 Italian students attending middle…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Middle School Students