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Le competenze interculturali negli adolescenti: il ruolo delle caratteristiche individuali e ambientali.
No full textA training to develop six- to nine-year-olds’ empathy towards ethnically different people
No full textEurope has recently seen a massive multi-ethnic influx of migrants, marred by high social costs of inter-ethnic confrontation. This has prompted scholars to develop training schemes to improve the social skills needed to cope with this situation. Decades of studies have acknowledged empathy as a crucial variable in the development of positive interpersonal and intergroup relations. In this study, we tested a training program for enhancing empathy towards ethnically diverse people in 170 six- to nine-year-old children. The materials were drawn from other best-known training schemes and active techniques were used. Multicultural empathy was assessed with a self-report measure. Test, retest and follow-up (at 6 months) comparisons demonstrated the training’s efficacy, with improvement in multicultural empathy persisting six months later. The results suggest that it can be a useful tool to encourage the development of ethnocultural empathy starting from the first years of elementary school. The practical implications for school education are discussed
The Basic Empathy Scale, a measure of empathy in adolescence: A further contribution to the Italian validation|La Basic Empathy Scale, uno strumento per la misura della responsività empatica negli adolescenti: un contributo alla validazione italiana
No full textIl presente studio si propone di contribuire all’adattamento italiano della Basic Empathy Scale (BES), una scala per la misura della responsività empatica nell’adolescenza (Jolliffe e Farrington, 2006a) verificando la generalizzabilità, la validità e, per la prima volta, l’invarianza della sua strut- tura fattoriale tra maschi e femmine. La versione italiana della scala (Albiero et al., 2009) è stata somministrata a 1191 adolescenti. I risultati delle analisi fattoriali confermative multigruppo hanno mostrato un adattamento accettabile dei dati al modello a due fattori ipotizzato, ovvero empatia cognitiva ed empatia affettiva e testimoniato una discreta stabilità di tali dimensioni tra maschi e femmine. L’omogeneità degli item e la coerenza interna della scala hanno mostrato valori buoni. La validità convergente, misurata attraverso l’Interpersonal Reactivity Index e la Scala di Compor- tamento Prosociale, è risultata moderata, evidenziando la non ridondanza della scala rispetto agli strumenti già disponibili. Sono state, infine, discusse le implicazioni e i possibili utilizzi della scala in ambito di ricerca e di assessment psicologico
Contributo all'adattamento italiano dell'Interpersonal Reactivity Index.
No full textThis study presents further evidence for the psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980), a widely used measure for assessing empathic responsiveness. The IRI was administered to a sample of 828 Italian adolescents (47% males), aged from 10 to 20 years (M = 14.75, SD = 2.34), in order to examine its factor structure and reliability. Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that the hypothesized model of the IRI, representing four domains (i.e., empathic concern, internal distress, fantasy, and perspective taking) provided a reasonable fit for data. Furthermore, the reliability of the scale was satisfactory with good internal consistency. Finally, gender and age were relevant factors to explain the individual differences in the empathic capacit
Processi di pianificazione in soggetti sordi e udenti: Quale differenza?
No full textLo scopo dello studio è quello di analizzare il ruolo dei processi visuo-spaziali in compiti di pianificazione. Allo studio partecipano due gruppi di bambini: 38 bambini sordi profondi e 45 bambini udenti di pari età cronologica (8-14 anni). Ad ogni bambino vengono proposte tre prove di pianificazione: Tower of Hanoi, Maze Test e Errand Test. Le analisi mostrano differenze tra i due gruppi: in particolare i bambini sordi mostrano tempo di esecuzione ridotto, pause più corte, minor tempo medio di mossa, più elevati punteggi di velocità e produttività e completano un maggior numenro di items rispetto agli udenti. A questi risultati corrispondono strategie diverse dei due gruppi: i bambini sordi utilizzano una modalità di pianificaizone anticipata, con una preliminare costruzione della mappa; mentre gli udenti usano una pianificazione on-line, monitorando la prova nel momento stesso del suo svolgimento
Reaching Adult Status Among Emerging Adults in United States, Italy, and Taiwan
No full textToday, most societies allow more time for young people to transition to adulthood. Compared to youth from a generation ago, young people today are delaying marriage, prolonging their educational pursuits, and deemphasizing the need for a single life-long career. The purpose of this study was to delineate patterns of transitioning to adulthood among young people from three countries. As part of a collaborative multisite project, 1,310 emerging adults from Taiwan (n = 372), Italy (n = 364), and the United States (n = 574) provided perceptions of their endorsement and attainment of certain commonly accepted adult status markers. Using latent profile analysis, a four-class model emerged. The groups were not culturally specific and the groupings highlighted unique approaches to how emerging adults conceptualized adulthood. Using Marcia’s identity statuses as loose labels for each group, the achieved group was the largest as they showed an inclination toward endorsing and attaining most adult markers. Other groups showed both delay (diffused) and perplexity (transitional) toward many markers of adulthood. Using an alignment procedure to account for cross-cultural measurement non-invariance, the role of individualism-collectivism, filial piety, and parental autonomy support in relation to adult status profiles were also explored across participant groups. Vertical collectivism and authoritarian filial piety were the most predictive whereas parental autonomy support was less predictive in class membership in both the overall and stratified regression analyses
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Development of a Brief Form of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (B–IRI)
No full textThe Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) is a standardized self-report measure of disposition to empathic responsiveness for the general adult population (the domain for which it was developed), and for the general adolescent population. The IRI has a number of problems, however, including some uncertainty about its factor structure, low reliabilities, and poor readability of some items for people with limited literacy skills. To address these issues, we constructed an abbreviated form of the index, the Brief IRI (B–IRI). Three studies demonstrated that this 16-item B–IRI has a clear and coherent factor structure, adequate internal consistency, measurement invariance across gender and age, and theoretically meaningful associations with a range of external criteria that support its construct validity. The B–IRI substantially preserves the psychometric properties of the long form, and we recommend its use in all research settings
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