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It has been suggested previously that rising economic inequality would push parents to become overly involved in their children’s academic lives. In the present investigation we examined whether parents’ perceptions of economic inequality, in terms of perceived income inequality and perceived job insecurity, is predictive of their school involvemen...
Investigating the scope of international school psychology practices may promote and influence the globalization of the profession. Although some extant studies assessed the presence and functions of school psychologists internationally, little research to date has focused on Italy. This nation-wide study provides up-to-date information about how p...
Although the doctoral path provides a unique opportunity for learning and professional growth, recent research has highlighted a significant prevalence of psychological problems among doctoral students. For this reason, it is crucial to shed light on this issue, understand the factors involved in PhD students' well-being, and inform potential solut...
As PhD students’ well-being gathers relevance, exploring what factors influence it and how is crucial. Therefore, this study quantitatively examined the joint effect of personal and contextual variables on PhD students’ well-being and qualitatively assessed their perceptions about the main issues they faced during their doctoral course. Through a m...
Background
Although it is well established that students' adaptive reactions towards errors promote learning outcomes, little is still known about the role of error feedback in promoting these reactions.
Aim
Through a targeted intervention based on an online teaching unit, this study aimed at testing whether supportive error feedback promotes more...
Teachers’ beliefs about students’ errors are influenced by structural factors and by other beliefs towards education and students that teachers may hold. The literature on this topic has provided some evidence and some mixed results. Furthermore, some structural aspects related to errors have not been considered in framing teachers’ beliefs about e...
It is now well documented that school closures enforced at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic impaired teachers’ well-being. Yet, only a few studies tracked changes in teachers’ well-being during the subsequent phases of the pandemic, phases that were characterized by the discontinuous implementation of in-person teaching and distance learning....
L’obiettivo di una carriera sostenibile è centrale soprattutto per popolazioni con alti livelli di incertezza occupazionale, come i giovani ricercatori. Nonostante una crescente attenzione in ricerca, il tema della sostenibilità di carriera richiede ulteriori approfondimenti, anche per comprendere i meccanismi e i fattori che sono all’origine dell’...
The present study aimed to investigate the activities carried out by psychologists in Italian schools, focusing mainly on the activities different from the psychological help-desk. To this end, 565 school psychologists (85.9% female, Mage = 42.2) answered an online survey comprising 21 items aimed to gather information on participants’ socio-demogr...
The present study aimed at analysing the impact of teachers’ perceived family and colleague support and work engagement on their well-being and life satisfaction during the first European wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. While implementing distance learning and complying with school closures, 1036 Italian teachers took part in an online survey. A str...
Impostor Syndrome (IS) is a threat to the mental health of doctoral students who may experience a sense of inadequacy and self-doubt. We aimed to investigate this phenomenon in an Italian doctoral student to understand its relationships with other relevant variables. We collected qualitative and quantitative data using a convergent parallel mixed-m...
Errors are an integral part of the learning process and an opportunity to increase skills and knowledge, but they are often discouraged, sanctioned and derided in the classroom. This study tests whether students' perceptions of being part of an error-friendly classroom context (i.e., a positive classroom error climate) is positively related to stud...
Errors are an integral part of the learning process and an opportunity to increase skills and knowledge, but they are often discouraged, sanctioned and derided in the classroom. This study tests whether students' perceptions of being part of an error-friendly classroom context (i.e., a positive classroom error climate) is positively related to stud...
In the context of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, teachers faced unprecedented challenges and threats while implementing distance learning. Consequently, teachers may have experienced emotional exhaustion. The aim of our study was threefold: To explore teachers’ threat appraisals, to investigate the relation between teachers’ threat ap...
The present research investigated the possibility to foster positive classroom climate, achievement emotions, and adaptive beliefs about errors by manipulating teachers' error handling strategies. Through a pre-post experimental design, teachers' error handling strategies were manipulated during a fictitious lesson in the primary school context. Th...
Il gruppo tematico E-CARE (Early CAreer REsearchers' network) della Sezione di Psicologia per le Organizzazioni dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP) si prefigge tre obiettivi: rappresentare i ricercatori ad inizio carriera presso AIP; sensibilizzare AIP rispetto ai bisogni dei soci ricercatori ad inizio carriera; raccogliere e formulare l...
Background
Despite an internationally recognized significant increase of students with a diagnosed Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) entering higher education, psychological features of university students with SLD still remain to be explored.
Aims
The study aims to investigate the perceived academic self-efficacy and to identify predictors of psyc...
A partire da febbraio 2020, l'emergenza sanitaria causata dal COVID-19 ha
portato a provvedimenti di contenimento della diffusione del virus con
restrizioni della mobilità dei cittadini, confinamento e chiusura delle scuole di
ogni ordine e grado su tutto il territorio nazionale.
A causa della chiusura delle scuole gli insegnanti hanno dovuto attiv...
School psychology is an applied profession with considerable variation in its presence across countries. In Italy, the specialty of school psychology is becoming gradually more recognized and visible. Practicing psychologists in a Northern-East region of Italy who work in educational contexts were surveyed to investigate their characteristics, trai...
The present research investigated the possibility to foster positive classroom climate, achievement emotions, and adaptive beliefs about errors by manipulating teachers' error handling strategies. Through a pre-post experimental design, teachers' error handling strategies were manipulated during a fictitious lesson in the primary school context. Th...
Mistakes and failure are natural elements of the learning process; however, errors are usually considered as indicators of lack of abilities, insufficient effort, misconceptions and generally something negative to avoid, by both students and teachers. As a consequence, teachers and students try to reduce as much and as fast as possible the insurgen...
