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Beatrice Bobba; Susan Branje; Elisabetta Crocetti – Child Development, 2024
The family and classroom are important contexts that can contribute to the socialization of ethnic prejudice. However, less is known about their unique, relative, and synergic contributions in influencing youth's affective and cognitive prejudice. The current longitudinal study examined these processes and possible moderators among 688 Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Influence, Parent Influence, Adolescents
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Ceccon, Chiara; Schachner, Maja K.; Lionetti, Francesca; Pastore, Massimiliano; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Moscardino, Ughetta – Child Development, 2023
Abstract This registered report evaluated the efficacy of an Italian adaptation of the "Identity Project," a school-based intervention promoting adolescents' cultural identity. Migration background and environmental sensitivity were explored as moderators. After adapting and piloting the intervention, a randomized controlled trial was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Intervention
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Sità, Chiara; Mortari, Luigina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
In Italy, family fostering is in most cases a voluntary service where foster parents are non-professional helpers. About half of the foster parents are couples with children of their own, which makes fostering a "family enterprise." Within growing attention to children's voices in research, the paper focuses on children living foster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Family Environment, Children
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Feraco, Tommaso; Casali, Nicole; Meneghetti, Chiara – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted an abrupt adoption of online learning worldwide challenging students' scholastic engagement and their ability to self-regulate their learning. Under these unexpected conditions, adaptability (one's capacity to adjust thoughts, behaviors, and emotions in new and uncertain situations) might have sustained students to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, COVID-19, Pandemics
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Rocha-Neves, Jesslynn; Jimerson, Shane; Di Sano, Sergio; Martinsone, Baiba; Majercakova Albertova, Silvia; Gajdošová, Eva; Baye, Ariane; Deltour, Caroline; Martinelli, Victor; Raykov, Milosh; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Palikara, Olympia; Szabó, Éva; Arlauskaite, Zydre; Athanasiou, Danai; Brown-Earle, Orlean; Casale, Gino; Lampropoulou, Aikaterini; Mikhailova, Aleksandra; Pinskaya, Marina; Zvyagintsev, Roman – School Psychology, 2021
School climate is a topic of increasing importance internationally. The current study investigated the established measurement invariance of an eight-factor school climate scale using a multinational sample of secondary students. School climate factor means across 14 international groups were compared and findings on the association between school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
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Skinner, Ann T.; De Luca, Lisa; Nocentini, Annalaura; Menesini, Ersilia – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted opportunities for adolescents to progress through a typical developmental trajectory of adjustment and self-regulation. Adolescents across many contexts have shown an increase in adjustment difficulties during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels. Utilizing data collected from 830 Italian adolescents from…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Self Efficacy, Emotional Response, COVID-19
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Buzzai, Caterina; Sorrenti, Luana; Costa, Sebastiano; Toffle, Mary Ellen; Filippello, Pina – School Psychology International, 2021
The main purpose of this study is to investigate how students' perceptions of need satisfaction and need frustration at school are indirectly associated with academic achievement through academic engagement. A modified version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale was used to assess these needs in a school-based…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy, Competence
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Turgut, Yigit Emrah; Kursun, Engin – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to examine the current state of mobile Internet experience of the children in Turkey and to compare the Internet experiences of the children in Turkey to the children living in seven European countries included in the Net Children Go Mobile (NCGM) project. Research Methods: In this study, a descriptive research design was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Telecommunications, Children
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Saloviita, Timo; Consegnati, Simone; Kontu, Elina; Pirttimaa, Raija; Fiorin, Italo – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2017
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare a sample of Italian (n = 29) and Finnish children (n = 32) with Down syndrome for possible differences emerging from diverse educational surroundings. Besides the level of adaptive and challenging behaviors, some other issues were compared, including teacher satisfaction. Methods: We used the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Down Syndrome, Adjustment (to Environment), Services
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Gil-Izquierdo, María; Han, Seong Won – Education Economics, 2020
In this paper, we have employed data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, 2012 edition) on the EU-15 countries in order to investigate the effect of using ICT at home on achievement. By employing Propensity Score Matching, we provide robust evidence that in most countries there is a negative association between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Use, Homework, Family Environment
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Barber, Carolyn; Ross, Jessica – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine profiles of students' attitudes toward citizenship norms and inclusiveness in the political process, focusing on changes in the frequency of particular profiles and in the strength of predictors across a decade. Using data from 16 countries participating in the 1999 and 2009 International Association for the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Citizenship, Social Attitudes
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Carissoli, C.; Di Natale, A. F.; Caputo, M.; Triberti, S.; La Paglia, F.; La Barbera, D.; Villani, D. – Computers in the Schools, 2019
Despite research having highlighted the positive outcomes of the use of videogames to learn, their integration into school contexts remains rare. Literature recognizes the importance of user's technology acceptance to predict the intention to use and the adoption of new technology in several settings. So far, investigations have primarily focused…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Video Games, Educational Environment, Game Based Learning
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Pozza, Andrea; Barcaccia, Barbara; Dèttore, Davide – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2019
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adolescents is understudied in Italy. This study evaluated the Italian Obsessive Compulsive Inventory--Child Version (OCI-CV) and its predictive validity on OCD symptoms at 1-year-follow-up, an aspect that was not investigated by previous international research. Use of OCI-CV in schools might enhance early…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Italian, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)
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Bademci, H. Özden; Sakmar-Balkan, Elçin; Karadayi, E. Figen; Cefai, Carmel; Alkan, Ceren; Warfa, Nasir – Pastoral Care in Education, 2020
Early School Leaving (ESL) is a complex phenomenon caused by multidimensional factors spanning personal, social and economic problems. We carried out two online surveys with 796 teachers and 900 students from Bulgaria, Italy, Malta, Romania and Turkey completed standard electronic surveys. The teachers' survey consisted of secondary school…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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Corsano, Paola; Musetti, Alessandro; Guidotti, Laura; Capelli, Francesca – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2017
Background: Researchers studying siblings of people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggest that growing up with an individual with disability has positive and negative effects. Method: Qualitative content analysis of semistructured interviews with 14 typically developing (TD) adolescents with a brother with an ASD and their mothers was…
Descriptors: Siblings, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Family Environment
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