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The inclusion of a person with intellectual disability, such as Down Syndrome (DS), depends not only on the skills of the person himself, but also on the attitude that other persons have to him. Most of the studies that focused on the attitude towards people with DS did not thoroughly investigate the beliefs on the competences of people with DS. Ou...
Aim of this study was to confirm the increase of friendship competence and its multifactorial nature in kindergarten and primary school children and to verify gender differences, parenting and socioeconomic status influences on friendship concept. A semi-structured interview was administered in a natural context to 3–8 years-old children (N = 99; m...
Background:
Echolalia is a verbal disorder, defined as 'a meaningless repetition of the words of others'. It is pathological, automatic and non-intentional behaviour, often observed in a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders and above all in autism. We assume that echolalia is an imitative behaviour that is due to difficulties in inhib...
The Child Behavior Scale (CBS) is a teacher-report questionnaire based on a 3-point scale evaluating 4- to 8-years-old children behavior in school settings. Previous findings have shown that some aspects of children’s behavior in their relation- ships with peers could be assumed as indexes predicting psychosocial risks. This study aims to translate...
Keywords: child assessment, basic function, observational scale, validation, early infant valuation.
Diversi studi sottolineano l'importanza di una precoce valutazione delle capacità del bambino che analizzi l'intero funzionamento di base e non solo le aree deficitarie. Lo scopo del lavoro è la validazione di una Scala osservativa per la Valutazio...
The purpose of this study is to examine family-level and community-level factors contributing to children and pre-adolescents’ moral disengagement and cooperation in the context of deprived neighborhoods. A set of validated measures has been administered to 374 participants, who were involved in an action research project aimed at reducing cultural...
This paper aimed at investigating the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and academic performance in two samples of Italian 10-14 years old middle-school adolescents (N = 714 and N = 1093) using Multilevel Mixed Models. The main results show that: 1) Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience were the most important predictors of scho...
This study explores the educational adoption of Minecraft as a boundary-crossing practice in primary schools. Previous research indicates that Minecraft can facilitate connections between educational activities and students’ out-of-school experiences, promoting the development of skills such as creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Using a qua...
In this cross-sectional study we aimed at: 1) validating the observer (Obs) version of HEXACO Medium School Inventory Extended (MSI-E); 2) establishing convergent and divergent construct validity of the HEXACO-MSI-E; 3) establishing criterion validity of HEXACO-MSI-E. We administered the HEXACO-MSI-E, the Big Five Questionnaire-Children (BFQ-C), th...
The stress experienced by parents of persons with Intellectual Disability (ID) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is higher than that of parents of neurotypical children (TD). An important protective factor is the perception of the support received within the family and the social network. The emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impac...
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is an essential factor of mother–infant interaction and facilitates early language processing and word learning during dyadic interactions. This study aimed to longitudinally investigate emotional and prosodic components of IDS in the first year of life by analyzing children’s responses to the different prosodic trends...
Intellectual Disabilities (ID) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with considerable individual variability in type and severity. Due to overt and covert prejudices around ID, however, society tends to generalize this condition. Also, in schools, teachers’ attitudes toward students with IDs often differ from those toward regular students. The purpose...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the consistency of the adult’s responses to different infant cues (faces and cries) by taking into account different levels of processing (explicit and implicit). A sample of 94 non-parent adults (56 Females; Mage = 27.8 years) participated in a within-subject design. Each participant was administered tw...
The book presents an overview of more than 50 professions. It contains links to interviews with professionals available for free use and innovative approach to presenting the professions.
Despite the increasing interest in sleep and dream-related processes of emotion regulation, their reflection into wake and dream emotional experience remains unclear. Here, we aimed to assess dream emotions and their relationships with wake emotions through the modified Differential Emotions Scale (Fredrickson, 2003), which includes a broad array o...
The present study aims to explore classical and modern prejudice towards individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) among a sample of Italian university students who attend Social Sciences and Physical Sciences degree courses. A convenience sample of 280 university students (51.4% doing Social Sciences degrees, and 48.6% doing Physical Science...
The goal was to examine the contribution of parenting style to externalizing/internalizing problems in children and early-adolescents, on the hypothesis that parenting style would affect externalizing and internalizing problems via its effects on behavioral dysregulation. The participants were parents and teachers of 199 children (111 F) from 6 to...
Background
Prejudices and negative attitudes towards intellectual disabilities (IDs) may hinder social inclusion of ID individuals, limiting their well‐being. This study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the Italian Modern and Classical Prejudices Scale (MCPS‐IT) towards people with ID and the effects of gender, age and socio‐economi...
A Friend is truly a treasure, in accordance with age and competence’s qualitative changes. The aim of this study was to confirm the increase in friendship competence and its multifactorial nature in 3- up to 10-year-old children, and to verify gender differences, and parenting influences on the concept of friendship. A semi-structured interview was a...
The development of social competence is associated with the set of parental behaviour. The main aim of the study is to verify if different parental styles (Authoritarian, Permissive, Authoritative) affect the child behaviour displayed during peer interactions in an ecological context such as the classroom, according to child’s gender and age. 496 c...
Introduzione: Bambini con comportamenti disattenti/iperattivi sono descritti in letteratura come avversi ai coetanei, al punto di essere ripetutamente esclusi dal gruppo dei pari (Ladd, 2006; Mrung et al., 2012). A sua volta, l’assenza di coinvolgimento in relazioni tra pari pare contribuire allo sviluppo di stati d’ansia (Gulay, 2011). Attualmente...
Introduzione: Le disabilità intellettive (ID) sono un gruppo di disturbi dello sviluppo neurologico che coinvolge deficit intellettivi, adattativi e sociali a vari livelli di gravità (APA, 2013). Presentano una forte variabilità individuale (Shalock et al., 2002), ma la Società tende a generalizzarle a fronte di pregiudizi e credenze (Ouellette-Kun...
Il pregiudizio è un’opinione concepita sulla base di convinzioni personali o generali senza una reale conoscenza di fatti o persone che va a influenzare la valutazione e i comportamenti. I pregiudizi riguardo la Disabilità Intellettiva (DI) e gli atteggiamenti ad essi correlati hanno come conseguenza l’assunzione di comportamenti e atteggiamenti di...
L’amicizia è una componente delle competenze sociali che riguarda l’interazione tra pari e la formazione di reti amicali.Il processo di scelta amicale si basa sulle abilità di cognizione sociale messe in atto nell’interazione con differenti partner sociali. Al fine di comprendere il processo di scelta amicale nei preadolescenti è stato definito un...
This article discusses the first development of communicative interaction between mother and child, by analyzing the connection between expression and smile. A total of 13 mother–child dyads, recruited at the moment of admission to hospital, participated in the study. Observations have been made when the children were 3, 6, and 9 months old. Mother...
La comprensione delle emozioni è la conoscenza cosciente dei processi emotivi propri e altrui. Obiettivo dello studio è verificare eventuali differenze nei percorsi evolutivi di bambini con sviluppo tipico (TD) e atipico (AD) nelle singole componenti che compongono la comprensione delle emozioni. È stato somministrato il Test of Emotion Comprehensi...
Introduzione
L’amicizia è una componente delle competenze sociali, in termini di interazione tra pari e di
formazione di reti amicali; essa investe lo sviluppo cognitivo ed emotivo, favorendo l’acquisizione
del senso d’appartenenza al gruppo e la strutturazione dell’identità. Selman (1980) ne propone un
modello stadiale. L’obiettivo è di conferm...
Introduzione
Lo sviluppo della competenza sociale – ossia la capacità di raggiungere i propri obiettivi nelle
interazioni sociali mantenendo buone relazioni con gli altri e acquisire norme, simboli e strumenti
propri della cultura e della società di appartenenza – è associato all’insieme dei comportamenti
genitoriali di cura e sostegno verso i p...
IL SUPERAMENTO DELLA DIDATTICA TRADIZIONALE ATTRAVERSO I SERIOUS GAMES
Sommario
Il gioco rappresenta il primo fondamentale promotore dello sviluppo di abilità, apprendimenti e competenze tout court nei bambini. Molti studi recenti evidenziano i vantaggi dell’uso da parte dei bambini di strumenti di gioco elettronici. Attualmente, l’attenzione si di...
Introduzione
L’amicizia è una componente delle competenze sociali relativa all’interazione coi coetanei e alla formazione di reti di amicizia; essa investe lo sviluppo cognitivo ed emotivo favorendo la regolazione sociale e il senso d’identità. Selman (1980) ne propone un modello stadiale. Lo stile parentale potrebbe influenzare e supportare alcuni...
La qualità della vita delle persone con Sindrome di Down può risultare migliore allorquando vengano riconosciute e promosse le competenze di ciascun individuo, nel rispetto delle caratteristiche della Sindrome stessa, ma soprattutto delle singole peculiarità che ogni persona mostra.
L’obiettivo di questo studio è di indagare sulle credenze della ge...
Unintentional bullying in pre-school children
Our aims are to investigate the aggressive behavior in preschool children. Teacher's questionnaire, peer nomination and self-nominations were used to assign the different roles of the partecipants. It also examinated the coping strategies of the victims and the correlations between roles taken and physi...
Several studies underline the importance of early assessment of the child's ability to analyze the basic operation and not just the deficit areas. The purpose of work is the validation of an observational Scale for the Assessment of Basic Functions (SVFB). 231 children participated (38 with atypical development). The values of Weighed Cohen's Kappa...
Keywords: Communication, emotion, preterm, fullterm, interaction
Il presente lavoro si pone l'obiettivo di osservare il coinvolgimento emotivo affettivo nelle interazioni diadiche madre-bambino. La ricerca è incentrata sull'influenza che la variabile nascita pretermine ha sullo sviluppo della relazione fra madre e bambino. A tale scopo si mettono...
Background:
In the last 30 years, a growing number of studies on home-movies of the first two years of life of children later diagnosed with Autism, report evidences of several abnormalities in the early social development.
Objectives:
The objective is to describe influences of early signs of autism on social development and to figure-out spe...
