Tiziano Gerosa

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

Addressing air travel demand is a key open challenge in transitioning to a low-carbon society. In Switzerland, where most flights are from/to nearby European countries, their substitution with night train services is a promising alternative. However, still little research investigates whether the demand for night trains is well-established and the...

An ongoing and heated scientific debate pertains to the conceptualization and quantification of adolescents' problematic smartphone use (PSU). To address the limitations of existing surveys, the smartphone pervasiveness scale for adolescents (SPS-A) has been designed to measure the subjective frequency of smartphone usage during significant moments...

Smartphones are the principal instrument for internet access among adolescents and pre-adolescents in many industrialized countries. However, research on the long-term correlates of age at first access to these devices concerning life outcomes is scarce. This study contributes to the literature by collecting data from 3,247 Italian students in grad...

There is a growing debate about the proper age at which teens should be given permission to own a personal smartphone. While experts in different disciplines provide parents and educators with conflicting guidelines, the age of first smartphone acquisition is constantly decreasing and there is still limited evidence on the impact of anticipating th...

Cognitive reserve (CR) represents the adaptive response of the cognitive system responsible for preserving normal functioning in the face of brain damage. Experiential factors such as education, occupation, and leisure activities influence the development of CR. Theoretically, such factors build up from childhood and across adulthood. Thus, appropr...

Latent constructs measured at multiple points in time are frequently used in social and evaluation research to assess the impact of interven-tions or relevant phenomena on individuals and groups (e.g. training programs, policies, exogenous events, etc.). However, researchers of-ten do not consider the accuracy of such models depends on the as-sumpt...

I risultati presentati in questo volume permettono di costruire, per la prima volta in Italia, un quadro solido della diffusione della competenza digitale tra gli studenti delle scuole secondarie di diverso ordine e grado. All’interno del progetto «Benessere Digitale Scuole», invece, è stato possibile realizzare per la prima volta in Italia uno str...

Relational skills are an essential work-related tool for several professions, especially teaching. This specific domain of teacher competence is acquiring ever-increasing attention due to the connection between social and emotional aspects of education and student school success. Nonetheless, a persistent focus on content-related knowledge, didacti...

In recent years a public debate has been growing around mobile media and young people, as research has found adverse relationships between the intensive use of smartphones and well-being in this age group. However, there is still a lack of structured interventions targeting teachers and schools on the issue. This paper shows the results of a pre-re...

In recent years, smartphones have become the most popular and ubiquitous tool for adolescents to access the internet in developed countries (Mascheroni & Ólafsson, 2016). Increasingly, children’s and teens’ daily lives tend to gravitate around their smartphones, mainly for social uses: they spend a good deal of time with their mobile devices commun...

Background This study investigated changes in the prevalence of insomnia in Italy during COVID-19, starting from the first lockdown period (8 March 2020). We hypothesized that lockdown precipitated increased prevalence of insomnia symptoms relative to the pre-pandemic period; b) the gradual relaxation of containment measures – post-lockdown period...

This study explores alternative relationships between perceived investment in employee development (PIED) and turnover intention by including affective commitment, perceived internal employability, and perceived external employability as potential mediators. Data were collected through a structured survey from 337 employees working in two large com...

This study used a subsample of a household panel study in Italy to track changes in mental health before the onset of COVID-19 and into the first lockdown period, from late April to early September 2020. The results of the random-effects regression analyses fitted on a sample of respondents aged 16 years and older (N = 897) proved that there was a...

In the last decade, numerous studies have identified digital technologies as a tool to foster the integration of young people who have a personal or family migratory background. The spread of smartphones, which has occurred in recent years, has bridged the digital divide for Internet access, offering a favorable opportunity for the integration of m...

There is a debate in the managerial literature on the risks for the organization related to investments in employee. Building on attribution and social exchange theories we explore the relationship between perceived investments in employee development (PIED) and turnover intentions by testing simultaneously different paths where affective commitmen...

In recent years a growing public debate has started on smartphone use by young people. Research has found adverse relationships between smartphone intensive use and well-being. However, there has been a lack of structured interventions targeting schools and families. This paper shows the results of a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating t...

Over the past decade smartphones have permeated all domains of adolescents’ everyday lives, with research dominated by “smartphone addiction.” This study compares one of the most used measures of smartphone addiction with a new alternative measure, the smartphone pervasiveness scale for adolescents (SPS-A), which focuses on the frequency of smartph...

As COVID-19 swept across the globe, disrupting people’s lives through lockdowns and health concerns, information about how to stay safe and how to identify symptoms spread across media of all forms. Using survey data we collected in April 2020 on a national sample of Americans, we tested the knowledge gap hypothesis by examining how people’s educat...

Multi-item ordered categorical scales and structural equation modeling approaches are often used in panel research for the analysis of latent variables over time. The accuracy of such models depends on the assumption of longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI), which states that repeatedly measured latent variables should effectively represent the...

Understanding change is essential in most scientific fields. This is highlighted by the importance of issues such as shifts in public health and changes in public opinion regarding politicians and policies. Nevertheless, our measurements of the world around us are often imperfect. For example, measurements of attitudes might be biased by social des...

Over the past decade smartphones have permeated all domains of adolescents’ everyday lives, with research dominated by the pathologizing concept of “smartphone addiction.” This study compares one of the most used measures of smartphone addiction with a new alternative measure, smartphone pervasiveness, which focuses on the frequency of smartphone u...

The widespread diffusion of smartphones has opened new challenges regarding the psychological consequences of their usage on social relationships. The term phubbing (a combination of phone and snubbing) indicates the act of ignoring someone in a social context by paying attention to the smartphone. The few existing studies show that phubbing is wid...

Despite today's ubiquitous nature of smartphones among adolescents, little is known about behavioural online and offline longitudinal predictors of problematic smartphone use (PSU). Guided by Uses and Gratifications Theory, we applied latent class analysis on survey data collected in 2017 from a cohort of 1096 adolescents (M age = 12.4, SD age = 0....

Despite today’s ubiquitous nature of smartphones among adolescents, little is known about behavioural online and offline longitudinal predictors of problematic smartphone use (PSU). Guided by Uses and Gratifications Theory, we applied latent class analysis on survey data collected in 2017 from a cohort of 1096 adolescents ( M age = 12.4, SD age = 0...

Current theories of intelligence maintain that intellectual development is the expression of a strict interplay among different cognitive abilities and the environment. Yet, the environment in which the individual develops has often been reduced to a single measure in empirical research, which thus loses sight of its inherent multifaceted structure...

Per citare il documento: Gui M., Gerosa T., Vitullo A., Losi L. (2020), L'età dello smartphone. Un'analisi dei predittori sociali dell'età di accesso al primo smartphone personale e delle sue possibili conseguenze nel tempo, È un Centro di Ricerca che si occupa del rapporto tra media digitali e qualità della vita. Il "benessere digitale" è la condi...

Research in higher education highlighted that students' dispositions toward social interaction with peers represent fundamental resources for their long-term academic success. These resources facilitate access to relevant knowledge and opportunities but are not equally distributed across the population. Non-traditional students coming from less adv...

Current theories of intelligence maintain that intellectual development is the expression of a strict interplay among different cognitive abilities and the environment. This work stems from the need to grasp environmental complexity, by differentiating the contributions of cultural and socioeconomic factors to crystallized and fluid intelligence in...

In the last few decades, educational literature and policy makers have increasingly supported research into affective competencies—attitudes, emotions, values/ethics and motivation—as a key requirement to fostering positive youth development in the area of active and engaged citizenship. Considering that adolescents have limited opportunities to un...

Smartphones diffusion has contributed to the closing of the digital divide, allowing adolescents from all economic and social backgrounds to access the internet. However, the pervasiveness of such devices even in the most relevant moments of the day has raised some concerns about the unexpected consequences of their use. There is an extensive liter...

The “Digital Well-being - Schools” project carried out the first randomised trial in Italy on the efficacy of digital media education. The impact of a systematic media education course was tested in a sample of randomly selected classes, compared with a control sample.

Recent research has increasingly addressed smartphone overuse and its influence on different aspects of young people’s lives (Kühne & Baumgartner, 2018; Turkle 2016; Demirci et al. 2015; Przybylski & Weinstein 2013). Most of the existing literature is focused on a measure of addiction that links smartphone overuse with self-perceived daily-life dis...

The present chapter explores the phenomenon of teacher-students matching in Italy, in order to evaluate whether teachers’ quality predictors are unevenly associated with the social background of their students. Despite the Italian school system has a centralized structure which guarantees, at least in principle, the equality of opportunities for al...

The popularity of interactive whiteboards (IWB) as teaching support tools has increasingly grown in the last decade, urging educational institutions to invest considerable resources for their supply at school. This choice has been primarily driven by the fact that international literature generally agrees in associating the use of IWBs with a more...

Is smartphone pervasiveness in adolescents daily life unequally distributed along with pre-existing social inequalities? Does it contribute to a widening digital inequality? We test these hypotheses with unique data coming from a survey carried out in 2015 on the entire high-school population of Valle D’Aosta region (northern Italy). The survey inv...

We present novel evidence for Italy thanks to a unique dataset linking students standardized achievement measures and their teachers' characteristics, both for language and mathematics. First, we explore the extent to which teachers are allocated to students from different family backgrounds, focusing on observable teachers' characteristics that pa...

The recent introduction of ICTs in compulsory education has actively contributed to the development of students’ digital literacy. Less clear, however, is the ratio of the relationship between the use of these technologies in the classroom and students’ performance in the curricular areas of Literacy and Math. Using an original database, resulting...

In the late 90's the Italian Ministry of Education has adopted new organizational and employment policies, consistently increasing the recruitment of temporary workers. This change has weighed heavily upon teachers, resulting in longer access time to permanent contracts and unavoidable occupational insecurity risks. This study aims to define teache...