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Esposito, Concetta; Affuso, Gaetana; Miranda, Maria Concetta; Bacchini, Dario – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Adolescent thinking about the wrongness of antisocial behaviours plays a key role in their own engagement in antisocial conducts. Nevertheless, measures assessing adolescent antisocial evaluations are not common in literature. Informed by the social domain theory and using adolescent actual thinking about antisocial behaviours, this study…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Measures (Individuals), Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Zambuto, Valentina; Stefanelli, Federica; Palladino, Benedetta E.; Nocentini, Annalaura; Menesini, Ersilia – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Nowadays, an increasing number of children and adolescents living in Europe have an immigrant background. Because ethnicity is a recognizable characteristic that may become the driver of bullying, these youths are at high risk of victimization. School interventions based on peer-led approaches, assuming all the conditions postulated in contact…
Descriptors: Bullying, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Immigrants
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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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Agnoli, Franca; Melchiorre, Francesca; Zandonella Callegher, Claudio; Altoè, Gianmarco – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Many studies have found that males, on average, perform better than females in mathematics, although the size of this gender gap is small and varies considerably across countries. Stereotype threat has been proposed as a principal cause of this gender gap. From this perspective, females' performance is affected by fear of confirming a negative…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Adolescents, Grade 9
Levenstein, Jessica – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
The author started in the Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Princeton in 1992, a year after she graduated from college. She fell in love with mythology and the classical traditions and find herself teaching literature. In the remainder of her time at Princeton, she precepted for four or five more classes, got the chance to join the…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Classical Literature, Mythology, World Literature