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Oronzo Mazzeo; Lucia Monacis; Paolo Contini – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
The study aimed to analyze the influence of such factors, as cognitive engagement, learning strategies and social support on academic success and student satisfaction in online learning environments. Data were collected in a cross-sectional survey carried out in the Winter semester of 2023. Participants were 523 students recruited from…
Descriptors: Success, Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, College Students
Savenije, Geerte M.; Goldberg, Tsafrir – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2019
This study explores the silencing and voicing of sensitive topics in history education from a cross-national and multilevel perspective. In this mixed-method study, we undertook a quantitative analysis of a 'teaching sensitive issues' questionnaire and qualitative analyses of history curricula and teachers' verbal responses. The findings show that…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teacher Attitudes, Social Influences
Contini, Dalit; Cugnata, Federica; Scagni, Andrea – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive picture of social selectivity in higher education in Italy by focusing on enrolment and two alternative indicators of success: retention and timely completion. The existing literature has shown that young individuals of disadvantaged backgrounds have lower enrolment probabilities and higher chances of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Selective Admission, Social Influences
Bortoli, Laura; Bertollo, Maurizio; Vitali, Francesca; Filho, Edson; Robazza, Claudio – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of task- and ego-involving climate manipulations on students' climate perception and psychobiosocial (PBS) states in a physical education setting. Method: Two subsamples of female students (N = 108, 14-15 years of age) participated in 12 lessons on either a task-or an ego-involving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Adolescents, Females
Graziano, Federica; Bina, Manuela; Giannotta, Fabrizia; Ciairano, Silvia – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
Although drinking motives have been largely studied, research taking into account the Mediterranean drinking culture and focusing on motives specifically associated to adolescents' developmental tasks is lacking. For these reasons the study investigates drinking motives in a group of Italian adolescents and their relationships with drunkenness and…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Social Behavior, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks
Giannotta, Fabrizia; Ciairano, Silvia; Spruijt, Rob; Spruijt-Metz, Donna – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The goal of the present study was to investigate meanings of sexual intercourse in adolescence, and the relationships between meanings, gender, age, and sexual behaviors. Subjects were 201 Italian adolescents (107 boys and 94 girls), aged 14-19 (M=17.44, SD=1.65). Participants completed a battery of questionnaires on meanings of sex, sexual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sexuality, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Crocetti, Elisabetta; Rubini, Monica; Berzonsky, Michael D.; Meeus, Wim – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factor structure and convergent validity of an Italian translation of the Identity Style Inventory (ISI). Confirmatory factor analyses revealed a clear three-factor structure of identity style and a mono-factor structure of commitment, not only in the overall sample, but also in gender and age…
Descriptors: College Students, Test Validity, Factor Structure, Adolescents