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Designing a Method to Assess Empathy in Italian Children
No full textThis chapter opens with a review of the conceptual issues regarding empathy and its implications in measuring empathic responses. The elaboration of an empathic index for school-aged children is then presented. The index stems from the pioneering work of Feshbach and Roe (1968), who developed a series of story-narratives, the Feshbach and Roe Affective Situation Test for Empathy, considered a prototype in this field of inquiry. After describing how the FASTE is adapted to Italian children, some empirical findings are discussed which explore the consistency of the instrument and the relationships between empathy and other indicators of children’s social behavior such as aggressiveness, prosocial behavior and emotional instability
Psychosocial adjustment and quality of intergroup relations among immigrant adolescents in Sicily: From elaborating explanatory models to identifying strategies to foster mutual intercultural communal life.
No full textThe Feshbach and Roe Affective Situation Test for Empathy revised and adapted for italian children.
No full textIn the past years empathy has been operationalized either in terms exclusively affective or in terms exclusively cognitive. on the contrary, many authors underline an integrate approach which takes into account both the affective response concordant with someone else’s emotion and the cognitive mediators that affect the empathic experience. The aim of the present study is to elaborate a picture-story index of empathy based on the integrated model above mentioned and addressed children from seven to eleven years old. Keeping the Feshbach and Roe as a prototype measure, we designed a series of story narratives in which the characters are described and portrayed in contexts that evoke sadness, happiness, fear, anger, pride, shame, jealousy. After reading each story a semi structured clinical interview is conducted. The data collected regards 100 children recruited from an elementary school of Palermo city. The scoring criterion in presented and the results are discussed
EFFECTS OF ACCULTURATION ATTITUDES AND ETHNIC IDENTITY ON PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT OF IMMIGRANT PREADOLESCENTS AND ADOLESCENTS LIVING IN ITALY
No full textThe construction of European identity and attitudes towards europeans among Italian youth: The role of age and socio-cultural context.
No full textLa relazione fra atteggiamenti etnici e processi di identificazione in bambini di un gruppo minoritario
No full textEuropean and National Identity from Childhood to Preadolescence
No full textThe study is aimed at exploring the building patterns of European identity and its relations with the related kinds of social identity (national, regional and local) in Italian children. Two hundred fifty-Two children (aged 6-12) were asked to participate to an interview assessing the development of self-categorisation, relative importance and degree of identification with regard to the social identities examined. The data highlight that European identity becomes relevant at 12 years, regional identity at 9, whereas national and local identity are significant since 6 years. The findings are discussed in a socio-developmental perspective, underlining their impact on the field of educational programs
Relationships Between Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Attitudes, and Acculturative Stress in Tunisian Individuals in Early and Middle Adolescence
No full textFramed from an integrative approach, the current article examined the associations between ethnic identity exploration (EIE), ethnic identity commitment (EIC), and acculturative stress by investigating the mediating role of ethnic attitudes (i.e., in-group favoritism and out-group derogation) in these relationships. Additionally, the moderating role of age was analyzed. A multiple-group path analysis was performed on data collected from 256 Tunisians in early and 248 in middle adolescence living in Italy, which is an interesting and understudied immigrant group characterized by similarities and differences with the host population. In younger adolescents, EIE and EIC were indirectly and positively related to acculturative stress via the mediating role of in-group favoritism and out-group derogation. In older adolescents, EIE was related to higher levels of EIC, which, in turn, was predictive of acculturative stress. The findings are discussed in light of the theoretical framework, research context and limitations, and implications for practice are presented
Autonomy and intimacy toward parents in adolescent girls: the relation with empathic concern and psychological well-being
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