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Concetta Pastorelli

Concetta Pastorelli

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Psychology

D-Index
60
Citations
30124
World Ranking
3461
National Ranking
51

Overview

Concetta Pastorelli is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. The main fields of their research encompass psychology and social sciences, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, education, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's research work extensively covers topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, attachment and relationship dynamics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, bullying, victimization, and aggression, cultural differences and values, as well as behavioral health and interventions.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures (2020) - Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study (2021) - Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries (2020) - Developmental Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups (2020) - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Parent-adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers' and young adults' adjustment in five countries (2021) - Developmental Psychology

Pastorelli has frequently published in journals such as the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Frontiers in Psychology, PLoS ONE, Journal of Personality, and PsycTESTS Dataset.

They have collaborated often with several researchers, including Jennifer E. Lansford, Laura Di Giunta, Dario Bacchini, Liliana María Uribe Tirado, and Kenneth A. Dodge.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral Agency

    Albert Bandura;Claudio Barbaranelli;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Self-Efficacy Beliefs as Shapers of Children's Aspirations and Career Trajectories.

    Albert Bandura;Claudio Barbaranelli;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Multifaceted Impact of Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Academic Functioning

    Albert Bandura;Claudio Barbaranelli;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Role of affective self-regulatory efficacy in diverse spheres of psychosocial functioning.

    Albert Bandura;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Maria Gerbino

  • Prosocial Foundations of Children's Academic Achievement

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Concetta Pastorelli;Albert Bandura

  • Self-efficacy pathways to childhood depression.

    Albert Bandura;Concetta Pastorelli;Claudio Barbaranelli;Gian Vittorio Caprara

  • Sociocognitive self-regulatory mechanisms governing transgressive behavior.

    Albert Bandura;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang;Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone

  • A questionnaire for measuring the Big Five in late childhood

    Claudio Barbaranelli;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Annarita Rabasca;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Early emotional instability, prosocial behaviour, and aggression: some methodological aspects

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Assessing regulatory emotional self-efficacy in three countries.

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Laura Di Giunta;Nancy Eisenberg;Maria Gerbino

  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

    Laurence Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Kaitlyn Breiner

  • The Structure of Children's Perceived Self-Efficacy: A Cross-National Study

    Concetta Pastorelli;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Jarek Rola

  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

    Natasha Duell;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Jason Chein

  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Ann T. Skinner;Emma Sorbring;Laura Di Giunta

  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Chinmayi Sharma;Patrick S. Malone;Darren Woodlief

  • Positive effects of promoting prosocial behavior in early adolescence: Evidence from a school-based intervention

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri;Maria Gerbino;Antonio Zuffianò

  • Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender

    Jennifer E Lansford;Liane Peña Alampay;Suha M Al-Hassan;Dario Bacchini

  • Impact of Adolescents' Filial Self‐Efficacy on Quality of Family Functioning and Satisfaction

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Concetta Pastorelli;Camillo Regalia;Eugenia Scabini

  • Multi-faceted self-efficacy beliefs as predictors of life satisfaction in late adolescence

    Giovanni Maria Vecchio;Maria Gerbino;Concetta Pastorelli;Giannetta Del Bove

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome
Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Sombat Tapanya
Sombat Tapanya Chiang Mai University
Lei Chang
Lei Chang University of Macau
Ann T. Skinner
Ann T. Skinner Duke University
Liane Peña Alampay
Liane Peña Alampay Ateneo de Manila University
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst

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