Caterina Fiorilli

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• Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at Maria SS. Assunta University of Rome

Introduction. – School-related events require ability on the part of teachers to control their emotionalintensity and maintain negative emotions at a low level without compromising their general well-being. Doudin and Curchod (2008) found that satisfaction with received support acted as a buffer againstburnout.Objectives. – The current research foc...

Italy had traditionally been considered a family‐oriented culture where support from relatives is primary. The major purpose of this study was to clarify the benefits of social support inside and outside the family for schoolteachers in Italy, focusing on the teacher burnout and work engagement. Findings indicated that the family was by far the mos...

Transferring pedagogical knowledge from university courses to school is a complex challenge for many teachers. For this reason, teacher education experts began to recommend integrating practice during university learning activities. Classroom videos could be one of the resources in supporting this critical process. The research involved 84 future t...

Congenital heart disease represents the most common malformation diagnosed in newborns, and the majority, during their lifetime, will have to undergo medical surgery, causing body scars that could impact perceived physical appearance and, subsequentially, their quality of life. In this study, we investigated how anxiety and depression mediate the r...

Parental interference in career choices can expose adolescents to the risk of school burnout and depressive symptoms. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between career-related parental interference, school burnout, depressive symptoms, career decision self-efficacy, and school anxiety. Participants were 134 Italian high school...

Background The number of people living with congenital heart disease (CHD) in 2017 was estimated to be 12 million, which was 19% higher than that in 1990. However, their death rate declined by 35%, emphasizing the importance of monitoring their quality of life due to its impact on several patient outcomes. The main objective of this study is to ana...

The study explored the associations between extreme levels of trust and young people’s pessimistic view of the future. The participants were 772 Italian university students (Male, 21%; range 18–57; Mage=21.6 years, SD = 5.3 years). Findings supported the expected negative linear associations between trust beliefs and pessimism. However, findings fu...

Background Engaged teachers experience a positive, fulfilling, and work-related state of mind related to their work tasks able to affect their well-being positively. Nevertheless, teachers are particularly exposed to burnout risk, which is highly probable to occur during teachers’ professional careers. The current study investigates the mediating e...

L’engagement, composto da dimensioni cognitive, affettive e comportamentali implicate nel coinvolgimento e nella dedizione al contesto accademico, è un fenomeno largamente approfondito in letteratura, alla luce delle implicazioni sul benessere e l’adattamento degli studenti (Fredricks, 2004). Studi precedenti, inoltre, hanno approfondito la relazio...

Despite the well-known link between earlier children’s emotional dysregulation and their high risk of developing later ADHD symptoms, few studies investigated the relationships between positive and negative emotion dysregulation, on the one hand, and ADHD symptoms, on the other one, via parent stress. This pilot study aimed to investigate the media...

Quality of life consists of various aspects, including physical, emotional, social, and occupational or school functioning. This research aimed to explore the relationship between the quality of life and gender, age, level of anxiety, depression, and impact of traumatic events. Participants were 798 patients with heart disease (18-63; Mage=26.7 yea...

Teaching students with Special Needs can be a very stressful challenge. However, cultivating personal resources can reduce the risk of burnout and depression. Flourishing is a state of optimal functioning that allows one to experience a sense of purpose and fulfillment in their personal and professional lives. Previous studies show flourishing redu...

Negli ultimi anni i comportamenti pro-ambientali (PEBs) hanno ricevuto un'attenzione crescente poiché il degrado ambientale è stato identificato come una delle maggiori sfide per l'umanità. Secondo la letteratura esistente, la connessione affettiva con la natura (CN) e l’agire secondo dimensioni di moralità hanno un effetto sul coinvolgimento degli...

The Occupational Depression Inventory (ODI) reflects a novel approach to job-related distress anchored in depression research. To date, the extent to which the ODI exhibits measurement invariance across countries, languages, and demographics is unclear. Measurement invariance refers to whether a measure has the same structure, or meaning, across gr...

La ricerca scientifica ha dimostrato che la salute mentale degli insegnanti ha ripercussioni anche sulla qualità dell’insegnamento. Secondo alcuni autori, le forze del carattere, come curiosità, cura e autocontrollo, definite anche virtù, hanno un impatto sulla salute mentale degli individui. Ad oggi, pochi studi hanno indagato tali dimensioni nell...

L'adolescenza rappresenta una delicata fase dello sviluppo, spesso accompagnata da incertezze e pensieri pessimistici sul futuro. In questa fase, i comportamenti dei genitori assumono un ruolo fondamentale per la scelta accademico-professionale degli studenti, con ripercussioni rilevanti sul loro benessere. Il presente studio ha indagato l’effetto...

Background Global climate change is recognized as a major and irreversible challenge for humanity, requiring people’s responsible and sustainable behaviors toward the environment. So far, the literature has widely investigated the role of cognitive determinants of ecological outcomes (e.g., pro-environmental behaviors and climate change perception)...

The flourishing state refers to people's psychological well-being as an expression of engagement and motivation during an activity. Regarding the teaching profession, previous studies have shown that the more flourishing, the fewer depressive symptoms. Among the teachers' population, teachers who work with students with special needs (i.e., SEs - s...

Teachers constitute a vulnerable professional group in terms of the impact of work-related stress on depression. The present study examined flourishing and occupational depression in general education teachers (GETs) and special education teachers (SETs). A sample of 448 Italian teachers (69.6% of SETs), mostly women (85.5%), aged 26-67 (M = 40.32;...

Background The number of people living with congenital heart disease (CHD) in 2017 was estimated to be 12 million, which was 19% higher than that in 1990. However, their death rate declined by 35%, emphasizing the importance of monitoring their quality of life due to its impact on several patient outcomes. The main objective of this study is to ana...

Climate change is an increasingly global issue that impacts individual well-being. Research has shown that adolescents are more at risk of experiencing climate anxiety, leading them to be more sensitive to the topic and to act in favor of the environment. The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between climate anxiety and the like...

L’engagement degli insegnanti (EI) rappresenta il coinvolgimento nel proprio lavoro ed è misurato attraverso vigore, assorbimento e dedizione. La ricerca dimostra che un insegnante ‘engaged’ ha minor rischio di burnout grazie ad una riserva di benessere psicologico su cui contare nelle situazioni di stress. Molte variabili intervengono positivament...

Climate change strongly threatens human survival on the planet and is a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Despite this, many are still reticent and tend to perceive the effects of climate change as chronologically and logistically distant. Recent studies reveal how emotions strongly influence pro-environmental perceptions, judgments and act...

Special Education Teachers (SET) are more at-risk compared with general teachers concerning burnout. However, teachers may protect their well-being by enhancing personal psychology resources. Flourishing is a state of optimal functioning that allows one to experience a sense of purpose and fulfillment in their personal and professional lives. Gener...

Negli ultimi anni i comportamenti pro-ambientali (PEB) hanno ricevuto un'attenzione crescente alla luce degli effetti sempre più drammatici dei cambiamenti climatici, il cui fronteggiamento rappresenta una delle maggiori sfide per l’umanità. In letteratura diversi autori hanno cercato di identificare gli antecedenti dei PEB, evidenziando come possi...

Il Flourishing è un concetto nella psicologia positiva descritto come uno stato di benessere mentale psicologico e sociale. Alti livelli di Flourishing sono associati positivamente ad una maggiore soddisfazione sul lavoro, mentre negativamente al rischio di sintomi depressivi. Diversi studi hanno dimostrato che gli insegnanti che lavorano con stude...

Background The Occupational Depression Inventory (ODI) reflects a new approach to job-related distress centered on work-attributed depressive symptoms. The instrument was developed with reference to the characterization of major depression found in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition. The ODI has been validated...

The Demands-Resources Model applied to the educational context identifies teachers' burnout due to elevated job demands versus low individual resources. High burnout levels may negatively impact teachers' well-being, which enhances students’ motivation. Although it has been previously shown how teachers' work engagement can reduce the impact of bur...

Teenagers are paying attention to climate change and are mobilizing to combat it through individual actions, implementing pro-environmental behaviors, and participating in pro-environmental movements. Therefore, it is interesting to explore the dynamics that drive adolescents to participate in these movements, also in light of the possible role of...

Students’ burnout has been widely investigated in recent decades, mainly showing a higher risk for female students across academic levels. To our knowledge, few studies have investigated whether employed students experience higher academic burnout risks. In this regard, previous findings have shown mixed results. The current study investigated the...

Managing the COVID-19 pandemic posed several challenges for healthcare professionals, which likely heightened their risk of burnout (Amanullah and Ramesh Shankar, 2020) and, consequently , their general physical and mental health. Although it may not be possible to address and eliminate the causes of burnout, current research informs healthcare org...

Teachers’ work engagement is associated with positive outcomes regarding work-related well-being. Conversely, burnout menaces teachers’ work and attitudes toward professional development. As indicated in the literature, burnout can influence teachers’ work engagement. Considering the impact of ICT on school activities, interest toward ICT training...

Il burnout scolastico è associato a diversi esiti avversi, come comportamenti disadattivi a scuola, alto rischio di fallimento scolastico e disturbi psicologici, che possono fortemente minare il benessere soggettivo degli studenti. Recentemente è stato validato il Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-C), che grazie alle sue dimensioni (esaurimento, distanz...

Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) represents one of the highest-risk population to develop burnout symptoms. Recently, a new tool has been designed to measure several dimensions that capture an exhaustive expression of burnout symptoms by six dimensions (i.e., exhaustion; mental distance; cognitive impairment; emotional impairment; psychological...

Recentemente è stato validato un nuovo strumento per la rilevazione del burnout nei lavoratori, il Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT), suddiviso in sintomi principali (BAT-C, composto da esaurimento, distanza mentale, deterioramento cognitivo, deterioramento emotivo) e sintomi secondari (BAT-S, composto da distress psicologico e disturbi psicosomatici)....

Gender inequalities are still persistent despite the growing policy efforts to combat them. Sexism, which is an evaluative tendency leading to different treatment of people based on their sex and to denigration (hostile sexism) or enhancement (benevolent sexism) of certain dispositions as gendered attributes, plays a significant role in strengtheni...

Burnout is psychological, physical, and emotional suffering that may affect students with low or inadequate resources to face stressful events at school. Although the existing instruments are used worldwide to assess school burnout risk, they show several flaws and mainly focus on the emotional facets of the syndrome. No previous studies have devel...

Il burnout è una sindrome legata allo stress eccessivo e frutto di un progressivo sbilanciamento tra le risorse a disposizione dell’individuo e le richieste provenienti dall’esterno. Sin dai lavori di Salmela-Aro, il burnout è stato adattato agli studenti di diversi gradi grazie all’associazione, ormai confermata da più studi, tra attività lavorati...

This study aims to validate the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) adapted to the Italian education sector. Teacher burnout is physical and emotional pain, due to prolonged exposure to school-related stress factors. Previous research has abundantly proven that preventive assessment of teachers’ risk level for burnout may reduce adverse outcomes. In this...

This study aimed to analyze and compare students’ school burnout levels in Switzerland and Italy. Previous research has confirmed that female and older students in particular are highly exposed to burnout risk. Nevertheless, few studies have observed this phenomenon through a cross-national comparison. Data on burnout were collected from a sample o...

School burnout is considered an extreme form of maladjustment that can seriously undermine the academic path of students who are affected. Previous studies have focused on possible protective factors, highlighting the role of academic resilience, i.e., the ability to overcome chronic adversity in the school setting. Notwithstanding this, it is equa...

Tra i lavori di Cesa-Bianchi nell'ambito della psicologia dello sviluppo e dell'educazione, sono di particolare interesse i suoi contributi sul tema dello sviluppo atipico, sul rapporto che intrattiene il divenire del pensiero con il linguaggio nella crescita del bambino e, infine, sulle sue ultime riflessioni e indicazioni in tema di formazione de...

Academic resilience is the ability to overcome setbacks and chronic difficulties in the academic context. Previous studies have found that resilient students tend to be more engaged in school than their counterparts. Nevertheless, it seems worth deepening the role of contextual factors, such as teacher emotional support and how students perceive it...

School burnout is linked to relevant adverse consequences for students’ academic careers. Thus, several authors have focused on the internal and external factors that reduce burnout, high- lighting the role of teachers’ support. Nonetheless, few studies addressed how students’ perception of teachers’ emotional support protects them from school mala...

Dear Colleagues, Mental health is defined as a state of well-being that allows people to acquire and develop cognitive, emotional, and social competences, allowing them to resiliently cope with life stressors and deal with life challenges. It is well-established in the existing literature that children and young people who experience positive suppo...

The present study sought to investigate the associations between workplace bullying and personal burnout both directly and indirectly via work-life conflict. Furthermore, the moderating role of gender in these relations was examined. Traditional research on stress at work focuses on the role of dimensions related to job tasks, demands, and organiza...

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Teachers’ work engagement positively impacts teachers’ attitudes towards their job. Nevertheless, teachers may experience burnout during their career, which negatively impacts their professional learning opportunities. In this study we investigated the relationship between teachers’ levels of burnout, work engagement, and their confidence in in-ser...

Purpose Principals’ beliefs about their profession are of great interest for schools in terms of organizational development and success. Furthermore, as meaning is a dimension of eudaimonic well-being, studying the principal meaning of work allows us to deepen the knowledge about their professional well-being, too. According to studies on non-educa...

The current study sought to investigate the role of trait emotional intelligence and perceived teacher emotional support in school burnout. Furthermore, the moderating role of academic anxiety in these relationships was examined. A sample of 493 Italian high school students (81.9% female) aged 14-19 years (M = 16.27, SD = 1.48) was involved in the...

Background/Objective This study represents a contribution to the validity and reliability of the 15-item Teacher Emotional Support Scale in a sample of Italian high school students (N=501; 80.2% females; M=15.66; SD=1.52). Therefore, the present paper aimed to examine the factor structure and to investigate the reliability and validity of the scale...

Students’ school burnout has been extensively investigated in relation to interpersonal factors such as peer relations and social adjustment. However, few studies have examined the role of individual traits such as empathic skills. Our aim in this study was to test, within a single comprehensive model, how students’ empathic skills affect their lev...

The main aim of the current study was to investigate the role of trait emotional intelligence (TEI) in preventing students' school burnout directly and indirectly via anxiety and academic resilience. The data were derived from a sample of 1235 high school students (962 females and 273 males), ranging in age between 13 and 17 years (mean = 15.46; st...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore whether, and to what extent, collective beliefs and emotions towards professional role could predict job satisfaction, above and beyond the role of self-efficacy and emotions towards students. More specifically, we expected job satisfaction to be incrementally predicted by beliefs and emotions relate...

The current study investigates the relations among teachers’ trait emotional intelligence, internal and external social support, and their levels of burnout. We hypothesized that both emotional intelligence and teachers’ perceived social support were associated with low level of teachers’ burnout. We further expected that internal and external supp...

I possibili rischi per il benessere psicologico degli insegnanti causate dalle ICT, con particolare riguardo alle sfide da affrontare nella fase prescolare dell’educazione, così come gli aspetti positivi dell’uso delle ICT, in grado di promuovere la qualità didattica, emergono dalla letteratura scientifica, evidenziando una relazione complessa e po...

The present study aims to expand the understanding of the effects of dispositional happiness and self-esteem, as dispositional traits, on the health of teachers, as well as to understand the role played by the working environment in generating positive affection, thus mediating between the dispositional traits and teachers’ health. Two hundred and...

The present quantitative multi-trait cross-sectional study aims to gain a better understanding of the network of relationship between subjective happiness, compassion, levels of work engagement, and proactive strategies (self- and co-regulation) in a sample of teachers. Participants were 187 full-time in-service teachers (89% female; age M = 48.5;...

Background/ Objective: Burnout could depend on an imbalance between personal resources and external requests. Although burnout has been typically studied in helping professions, several studies have highlighted similar conditions in the academic context (e.g. Fiorilli et al., 2014). To the best of our knowledge, academic literature that has focused...

Emotions toward students (e.g., Chan, 2004) and professional role (e.g., O’Connor, 2008) impact teachers’ self-efficacy (TSE) beliefs. The effect of positive emotions (PEs) can be explained by the broaden and build theory, stating that the higher the PEs individuals attribute to themselves, the higher the chance to build positive aspects of the sel...

Insegnare è un'attività esposta al rischio di burnout che può comportare senso di frustrazione e sentimenti di inefficacia. Il burnout minaccia lo stato di benessere soggettivo e professionale di un insegnante. Il presente studio esplora, in un confronto tra insegnanti di gradi scolastici diversi, fattori di protezione e di rischio in un ampio grup...

Alexithymia prevents people from understanding and adopting verbal language to describe and regulate one's emotions. Recent studies have found that alexithymia symptoms also impact on young people's academic achievement. Nevertheless, it is worth investigating risk and protective roles played by students' academic anxiety and resilience, respective...

Depression in adolescents can lead to social and educational impairment and is a major risk factor for suicide and substance misuse. Thus, predicting and preventing this disorder are extremely important. The current study aimed to analyze the contribution of adolescents’ self-esteem (i.e., quality of interpersonal relationships, control of life eve...

The current study addressed students’ risk perceptions regarding the phenomena of sexting, by considering its association with time spent online, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, at-risk behaviors, and school attainment. Gender differences were analyzed. Participants were 137 Italian teenagers (58% female; mean age = 12.63 years, SD = .48 years)....

Background: Teachers’ subjective well-being (SWB) has received much attention, in the light of the major increase in sick leave as well as job quitting among teachers across different cultures and countries. Studies on SWB of kindergarten teachers are still scarce, since most of the academic literature is focused on teachers of primary and secondar...

Introduzione: Gli studenti universitari sperimentano numerose condizioni di stress durante il loro percorso di studi (Li et al., 2018). Per alcuni studenti, le risorse personali a disposizione non sono sufficienti a fronteggiare le pressioni derivate dalle richieste del contesto accademico, favorendo nel tempo l’insorgenza di disturbi stress-correl...

Background: Burnout syndrome represents a factual risk for school teachers during their career. Several factors have been analyzed as stress sources enabled to menace teachers’ general well-being; nevertheless, protective factors mostly related to their personal resources may differently characterize teachers’ profiles. Objectives: The current stu...

This is an introductory paper to the special section “Multilingual learning and social inclusion of children: The development of educational programmes to connect school and family”.

Previous research has found a strong correlation between children’s academic self-concept and their behavioral problems. The present study examined whether children’s peer rejection moderated the relationship between children’s math and verbal self-concepts and their behavioral problems at school. We expected that children’s social competence, as m...

Background: Teachers are at-risk of burnout due to continuous emotional demands. Existing research suggests that there is a strong relationship between the burnout phenomenon and teachers’ propensity to experience unpleasant emotions. Objective: The current study examined whether teachers' levels of burnout affect the process by which they apprais...

Prior studies have shown that student burnout becomes more prevalent during adolescence and is associated with both depressive symptoms and school engagement. Little is known about how burnout, engagement, and depressive symptoms jointly affect students’ school achievement in terms of grades and skipping class. The main purpose of the current study...

The authors compared the relations between general psychological difficulties and dimensions of temperament in children with and without learning disability (LD). The main aim was to analyze whether and to what extent children's temperament dimensions contribute to their general psychological difficulties when LD diagnosis, age, and gender are take...

The purpose of the current study was to examine, within an integrative predictive model, the relative contributions of sociodemographic variables, personal resources, and work wellbeing to teacher burnout. The research was conducted with special education teachers at Italian preschools—a context in which few previous studies have been carried out—a...

The present study explored the omitting behaviour of a sample of 15-year-old Italian students participating in a large-scale assessment, in relation to their scientific self-efficacy, scientific self-concept, enjoyment of science, general interest in science and instrumental motivation, taken as dimensions of their overall motivation to learn scien...

Background: Health-related quality of life, which can be investigated using self-reports or parental reports, could help healthcare providers understand the subjective perception of well-being of children suffering from recurrent syncopal episodes. Quality of life is not only a measure of health but is also a reflection of patients' and parents' p...

This study explored the relationships among teachers’ emotional competence, burnout as a mediator, and social support. Teachers’ emotional competence was assessed via measures of emotional intensity and emotional regulation. Social support was evaluated in terms of external versus internal support, and teacher dissatisfaction with support received....

Abstract The aim of this study was to validate the Italian version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) (Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen, & Christensen, 2005), a public domain questionnaire evaluating the level of physical and psychological fatigue experienced by individuals with respect to: personal, work-related, and client-related burnout....

Parents’ emotion socialization practices are their ways of handling their children’s emotional experiences in light of cultural expectations surrounding emotions. Such practices are thought to significantly affect children’s social adjustment. We compared the parenting practices of Italian and Hong Kong Chinese samples in an ethnological validation...

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The aim of this study was to validate the Italian version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI; Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen, & Christensen, 2005), a public domain questionnaire evaluating the level of physical and psychological fatigue experienced by individuals with respect to personal, work-related, and client-related burnout. Participants...

Le emozioni positive contribuiscono allo stato di benessere del soggetto incrementandone i livelli di resilienza e favorendo una migliore gestione degli eventi stressanti. Nel caso di bambini con learning disability (LD) la diagnosi in età scolare può compromettere lo stato di benessere con effetti sulla qualità della vita socio-relazionale. Gli st...

Sono molti i modi in cui si percepiscono gli eventi fonte di stress e si attivano le risorse per elaborare soluzioni. Il volume raccoglie i principali filoni nazionali e internazionali sul tema del coping, evidenziando che apprendere e riconoscere le strategie efficaci per affrontare situazioni difficili è la chiave per innalzare il benessere indiv...

Il benessere degli insegnanti è un argomento di grande attualità nella cultura scolastica. La psicologia dell'educazione, quella sociale e del lavoro non possono più prescindere da questo tema quando si occupano tanto di qualità dell'insegnamento quanto di qualità dell'apprendimento. "Star bene a scuola" è la lente attraverso cui analizzare e rifle...

A questionnaire was administered, composed of the Maslach Burnout Inventory as well as of questions regarding social-demographic information such as gender, age, and seniority According to the literature, we expected to find a higher burnout level among lay than among consecrated teachers. Secondly, we expected to find lower burnout risk in lay tea...

Introduzione. Le pratiche di accudimento sono influenzate da variabili genitoriali, infantili e contestuali (Belsky, 1984). Una variabile genitoriale di interesse è la gestione dello stress (Schoppe-Sullivan et al., 2007). Se lo stress normativo successivo alla nascita diventa troppo elevato, la coppia può non riuscire a gestire i propri compiti, m...

This study investigated the role of verbal ability and fluid intelligence on children's emotion understanding, testing the hypothesis that fluid intelligence predicts the development of emotion comprehension over and above age and verbal ability. One hundred and two children (48 girls) aged 3.6–6 years completed the Test of Emotion Comprehension (T...