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Introduction
Giulio D'Urso is an Assistant Professor (Rtd b) in Developmental and Educational Psychology. He was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Education, University College Dublin. He was Visiting Fellow at INVEST Psychology, University of Turku. His research interests concern risk and protective factors connected with bullying and victimisation and related psychological consequences.
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The focus of this study is bystanders’ behavior and their willingness to intervene in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) in three different countries (China, Italy, and Ethiopia), considering individual and social factors (i.e., right-wing Authoritarianism, masculinity ideology, and gender). The Italian sample was made up of 192 participants...
The sexual harassment of adolescents is a heterogeneous phenomenon; however, some aspects of the perpetrators of these crimes appear obscure or little - known. This study aims to investigate the emotional and relational skills of a sex offender through the critical analysis of his psychological path. The sex offender is a middle - aged man accused...
Background: This study seeks to further our understanding of the factors associated with adolescent athletes and disordered eating, by expanding current research into a less-explored eating disorder known as orthorexia. Aim: The aim of the study is to explore the impact of parents' relationships and emotional regulation on the orthorexia nervosa (O...
The study investigated the emergence of toddlers’ regulatory strategies in aversive contexts. Forty-two toddlers were observed at 24 and 30 months of age using two paradigms designed to elicit fear and anger. We examined toddlers’ use of regulatory strategies at these two stages of life regarding the frequency of self-versus other-oriented strategi...
This study explores how children are involved in the family decision-making
the process when buying healthy vs unhealthy food, and whether this involvement is influenced by family emotional climate. Participants are 239 parents of 7 to 13 years old children. They completed a set of self-report questionnaires related to healthy and unhealthy foods...
The role of moral disengagement strategies and religiosity related to ethnic and homophobic prejudice were investigated in a sample of 550 Italian secondary school teachers (76.4% female, age range: 20–70; M = 46.18) who completed the teachers’ attitudes towards the representation of homosexuality in film and television scale; the Italian version o...
Introduction
Understanding how internal characteristics of teachers impact their teaching practices can shed light onto ways to promote inclusivity. Specifically, teachers’ personality traits and social anxiety could influence their acceptance of others, influencing student acceptance and achievement, yet minimal research has explored these relatio...
School engagement in adolescence is often associated with better academic performance at school, but what are the longitudinal associations between school engagement and adult educational and employment status? The current study explored these longitudinal associations using data spanning 40-years of life, from the 1970 British Cohort Study. School...
The aim of this study is to investigate the role played by mindfulness in the relationship between cognitive styles and gambling disorders in a sample of female young adults. Participants in this study (125 women; Mage = 18.64 years; SD = 1.7) were recruited in betting or bingo halls. They completed the South Oaks Gambling Screen, the Child and Ado...
In the present study, we explored the relationships between attachment styles, reflective functioning, and dimensions of emotion regulation in mothers of children diagnosed with combined type of ADHD. Participants were 336 mothers, 168 with children diagnosed with ADHD and 168 with children without any diagnosis. Preliminary results showed that mot...
The study investigates inclusivity practices and bullying management in a group of teachers. The study involved 18 volunteer teachers from upper secondary school in Italy (12 of them were women). They ranged in age from 33 to 66 years of age ( M = 44.53). A semi-structured interview was adopted to explore their knowledge on inclusivity within teach...
The current study investigates how internalizing and externalizing problems develop reciprocally across infancy to middle childhood, in relation to children’s gender, cognitive functioning, socioeconomic status, and parental stress. The study also examines the impact of the developmental cascade of internalizing and externalizing problems on bullyi...
This study analysed the levels of cognitive distortions and verified whether adverse experiences (e.g., emotional abuse) may influence psychopathological traits, empathy deficits and levels of moral disengagement and cognitive distortions. Participants were 96 sex offenders: 64 participants are Italians and 32 participants are Portuguese studied cr...
This study used a personal oriented approach to identify distinct combinations of children’s experiences of bullying and victimisation in the Irish primary school context. The study investigated the social and emotional characteristics that predicted those profiles at individual and classroom levels. The sample of 2,062 participants was drawn from...
In the current study we investigated the relationship between ethnic prejudice and resilience and the perception of inclusion of immigrant students among primary and middle school teachers in two different countries (Italy and Spain). Participants were 315 teachers: 75 Catalan women, 25 Catalan men, 202 Italian women, and 13 Italian men. Participan...
This research aims to investigate, in a group of teachers, the link between ethnic prejudice and homophobic attitudes toward issues concerning the use of media tools that support gay and lesbian people. To achieve this purpose, teachers (155 women and 32 males) were given self-report questionnaires: the latent and manifest prejudice scale, and a sc...
The literature suggests that sex offenders are more at risk of relapse and how much treatment pathways are needed to prevent it. Furthermore, the picture of predisposing factors connected to relapse appears complex. Therefore, the aim of this work is to verify the framework of social-cognitive risk factors connected to relapse in sex offenders. Par...
Investigating the risk factors associated with bullying and victimisation in Ireland is important for understanding the individual and environmental conditions in which these actions emerge, and for informing the design of preventative programmes in childhood and adolescence. The aim of this systematic review is to identify studies which, over the...
The aims of the present research were to evaluate the preliminary psychometric properties of a new measure for evaluating teachers’ attitudes towards the representation of homosexuality in film and television, and to explore the association between moral disengagement and teachers’ negative attitudes towards homosexual representations. Participants...
Young adulthood is the life stage during which people are more prone to develop problematic smartphone use (PSU). Only one study investigated the relationship among attachment styles, family functioning, and PSU, but thus far, no research has shown the relative importance that such dimensions may have on PSU. The main aim of this study was to analy...
The phenomenon of hating is becoming common in adolescence, but it has been rarely investigated. The study aimed to examine the relationships between hating behaviors, maladaptive personality traits, and cognitive distortions, and to explore whether cognitive distortions might intervene in the relationship between personality traits and hating. Met...
The aim of the present study was to explore the level of perceived workload of university professors and to evaluate related psychosocial risks, such as addiction to work, psychological distress, and work–life conflicts. A total of 252 professors, balanced for gender (Mean age = 48.1; DS: 5.1) from 10 different universities across Europe participat...
The present study aimed to explore the unique and common role that some cognitive, personality and relational characteristics play in male adolescents' regular gambling behavior. Participants were 273 male adolescents and young adults aged 15-19 recruited in sports betting centers. They completed the South Oaks Gambling Screen, the Narcissistic Adm...
We aimed to investigate the relationship between homophobic bullying, parental psychological control and sensation seeking among adolescents and young adults and to examine the mediating role of sensation seeking. The participants included 394 adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 20 years attending the 3rd, 4th and 5th years of two public high s...
The aim of this work is the application of shadowing for the systematic observation and evaluation of teacher’s didactic actions recruited in an upper secondary school in northern Italy. The set of qualitative data allowed to define a fairly complete picture of the relevant aspects of the teacher's actions in relation to her specific school context...
This study identified emergent forms of psychopathological traits and explored their role in the etiology of homophobic bullying in adolescence. Participants were 394 adolescents and young adults (41.6% male and 58.4% female) aged 15–20 years (M = 16.55; SD = .85) attending the third and fourth classes of public high schools in Italian cities. Part...
L’obiettivo del presente studio è quello di esaminare la pratica educativa degli insegnanti ai tempi dell’emergenza Covid-19, considerando in che modo la didattica a distanza può influire sul proprio ruolo e sui propri allievi. I partecipanti sono 15 insegnanti di istituti scolastici superiori del territorio italiano. Tutti i partecipanti, dopo ave...
This study investigates the role of family relationships and psychoticism in relation to homophobic bullying in adolescence. Participants were 394 adolescents and young adults, (164 boys and 230 girls) aged from 15 to 20 years. Participants completed the Homophobic Bullying Scale, to investigate bullying towards gay males and lesbians, the Inventor...
The purpose of this research was to explore the cognitive and personality characteristics of male adolescent gamblers. Participants were 273 teenage males (M = 18.04, SD = 2.10) attending betting centers in Sicily, who completed self-report questionnaires on gambling, creativity, perceived social self-efficacy, hypercompetitiveness, and coping stra...
This study was based on exploring the role of attachment style related to emotional abuse and sexual coercion in a sample of people who are gay and lesbian. A total of 182 young adults, from 18 to 25 years old (58% females, M = 22.42, Sd = 1.91), participated. Participants completed the multidimensional measure of emotional abuse to investigate emo...
In the current study we investigated the developmental dynamics between positive youth development, being bullied in adolescence, gender, and sociocultural risk factors. Participants were 3,509 males (49%) and 3,656 females (51%) studied longitudinally across ages nine, thirteen, and seventeen in the Growing Up in Ireland study. Using structural eq...
This chapter aims to highlight the educational and psychological importance of fables for child development. This work underlines the role of fables for development, highlighting how they, if used appropriately, can become a valuable and effective, didactic tool (Moxnes, 2006). The chapter will present a text and content analysis of two fables ofte...
The phenomenon of haters is becoming common among adolescents. The aims of the present research were to evaluate the preliminary psychometric properties of the Hating Adolescents Test (HAT), an ad hoc questionnaire created to evaluate online and offline hate (Study 1), and possible risk factors connected with hate (Study 2). Participants (202 femal...
Objective
The study investigated the relationship between psychological parental control and muscle dysmorphia in adolescence, as form of exercise dependence, focusing also on the role of pathological worry.
Methods
Participants were 312 adolescents (140 boys and 172 girls) aged 16 to 18 years (M = 17.05; SD = 0.85) and completed the Muscle Dysmor...
This study investigates the role of parental and peer relationships’ quality on homophobic victimization and possible consequences on mental health during adolescence. Participants were 394 adolescents, (41.6% male and 58.4% female) aged 15–20 years (M = 16.55; SD = 0.85), attending the third and fourth classes of public high schools in Italy. Part...
Differences in gender and sexual orientation are suggested to be linked to differences in the way individuals think and behave. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the effect of gender and sexual orientation on sexual fantasies and gender roles in heterosexual and gay and lesbian people. The sample was composed of 547 participants, 246 men...
In the last few decades, the relationship between physical conditions and mental health in the elderly has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and professionals. Evidence shows that physical activity is a protective factor as it determines enormous benefits on both cognitive functioning and well-being. Based on these premises, the pr...
Objectives
This study aimed to explore the relationships between students’ perception of parental behaviours towards their children’s choice, parental attachment and students’ exploration when choosing a school.
Method
Participants included 1851 pre-adolescents attending some public middle schools’ third classes. They completed the adaptation to s...
Violence against women is a heterogeneous phenomenon worldwide. In order to better understand this phenomenon, it is also necessary to study the offenders against women. Therefore, the present study investigates, in the light of risk factors, the individual and social characteristics (related to adolescence), the moral disengagement strategies and...
The present study investigates religiosity, moral disengagement, attachment to God, and interpersonal attachment in 30 offenders within Italian jails. We administered a semi-structured interview to collect data about family, social and medical history, and the manner in which the deviant act was carried out; the Moral Disengagement Scale; the Attac...
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between attachment style and homophobic bullying in adolescence, focusing on the role of peer support. Participants were 334 adolescents and young-adults (141 boys and 193 girls) aged from 15–20 years (M = 16.50; SD = 0.87). Participants completed the Homophobic Bullying Scale, the Relationship Questi...
Authors aimed to examine an explanatory model of risk that started with dysfunctional personality trait domains, passed through low levels of mindfulness, and culminated with problem gambling. For individuals with problem gambling, mindfulness may provide a significant avenue to prevent them from engaging in addictive behaviors and lead them to an...
This study is based on exploring the trust between peers and the individual characteristics related to homophobic bullying in adolescence. Participants were 334 adolescents (141 boys and 193 girls) aged from 15 to 20 years. Participants completed the homophobic bullying scale, to investigate bullying actions towards sexual minorities, the personal...
This study investigated the individual and social characteristics, moral disengagement strategies and cognitive distortions toward children among 120 sex offenders in Italian jails. A semistructured interview was administered to collect data about family, social and medical histories, utilizing the Moral Disengagement Scale and the Hanson Sex Attit...
The aim of the study is to examine the relationships between early adolescents’ low effortful control, middle adolescents’ internalizing problems and late adolescents’ Internet abuse, focusing on the mediating role that middle adolescents’ internalizing problems may play in the relationship between early adolescents’ low effortful control and late...
Il fenomeno dei reati sessuali continua a essere in primo piano nelle cronache nazionali e internazionali.
Numerosi sono ormai i contributi e i testi che analizzano le varie tipologie di abuso sessuale, infantile e non, che trattano delle conseguenze per le vittime e delle migliori strategie di rilevazione e di intervento. Tuttavia, restano eviden...
Introduction:
The phenomenon of hate is becoming common among adolescents, but is little investigated by literature. Typically the haters leave their insults on the victim's social pages to denigrate another person, famous or not. In the literature, to date, there are no scientific studies that have explored psychological variables linked to these...
The study focused on the transition from middle school to high school and aimed to verify the mediating role that perceived peer support may play in the relationship between family functioning in middle school and school satisfaction in high school. In middle school (Wave 1), participants were 208 adolescents (106 boys and 102 girls) aged 12–13 yea...
This study investigates the moral-disengagement strategies and influence of drug use in adolescence on 49 offenders in Italian jails, 30 of which are drug traffickers and 19 of which are offenders against other persons. A semi-structured interview was conducted to collect data on family, social and medical histories and the manner in which the devi...
This longitudinal study investigates the moderating role of a temperamental trait, the effortful control, in the relation between father's psychological control and externalizing problems. In Wave 1, the participants included 507 adolescents attending the second classes of two public schools situated in two Italian cities; in Wave 2, 482 adolescent...
In the present study, we examined from a longitudinal perspective the relationship between parental (both maternal and paternal) psychological control, perceived peer support, and negative eating attitudes and behaviors, focusing on the moderating role that perceived peer support may play in the relationship between parental psychological control i...
This article investigates mechanisms of moral disengagement and psychopathy in offender detainees (sex offenders and non-sex offenders). In particular, this article investigates whether, in all offenders, moral disengagement and psychopathy are correlated, if there are any differences between sex offenders and non-sex offenders as to psychopathy, a...
Sexual abuse is a heterogeneous phenomenon. The literature on sexual offenders considers risk factors in the individual and familial history as well as precursors such as cognitive distortions, defence mechanisms and moral disengagement (MD) mechanisms. This study investigates the MD in sex offenders and non-sex offenders in a sample of 362 males c...
La letteratura scientifica riporta un atteggiamento generale positivo verso l’omogenitorialità, tuttavia nel dibattito pubblico emergono pregiudizi che riguardano principalmente le competenze genitoriali e il benessere dei bambini e delle bambine che crescono in queste famiglie. Con il presente contributo sono stati analizzati gli atteggiamenti nei...
Although the scientific literature reported no differences between traditional families and same-sex families, prejudices about same-sex couples’ parental skills are still widely pervasive in the public debate. This paper investigates in heterosexual, gay, lesbian and bisexual participants, prejudices related to same-sex families and to the differe...
INTRODUZIONE: Molti studi hanno esaminato gli atteggiamenti delle persone con orientamento eterosessuale e delle persone appartenenti a minoranze sessuali verso l'omogenitorialità. Nessuno studio ha però indagato questi atteggiamenti in persone appartenenti a minoranze sessuali. Questo studio italiano ha esaminato come alti livelli di Sessismo, Sti...
Introduction: Although the scientific literature reported no differences between traditional families and same-sex families, prejudices about same-sex couples’ parental skills are still widely pervasive in the public debate. This paper investigates in heterosexual, gay, lesbian and bisexual participants, prejudices related to same-sex families and...
