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Gian Vittorio Caprara

Gian Vittorio Caprara

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Psychology
Italy
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
99
Citations
53319
World Ranking
640
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2000 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gian Vittorio Caprara is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with particular focus on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scholar has contributed extensively to topics including Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Cultural Differences and Values, and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Happiness Studies
  • International Journal of Psychology
  • Current Psychology
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Caprara are the following:

  • Measuring Prosocial Behaviors: Psychometric Properties and Cross-National Validation of the Prosociality Scale in Five Countries, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Exploring the Protective Function of Positivity and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in Time of Pandemic COVID-19, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs matter for (mal)adjustment: A meta-analysis, 2022, Current Psychology
  • Within-individual relations of emotional, social, and work self-efficacy beliefs to organizational citizenship behaviors, 2021, Journal of Research in Personality

Caprara collaborates frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Guido Alessandri
  • Nancy Eisenberg
  • Antonio Zuffianò
  • Concetta Pastorelli
  • Simone Tavolucci

Their work reflects interdisciplinary engagement, connecting psychological constructs such as self-efficacy and prosocial behavior with contexts including pandemics and organizational settings.

In recognition of their contributions, Caprara was inducted as a Member of Academia Europaea in the year 2000.

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

  • TEACHERS' SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS AS DETERMINANTS OF JOB SATISFACTION AND STUDENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A STUDY AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Patrizia Steca;Patrick S. Malone

  • 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

  • Efficacy beliefs as determinants of teachers' job satisfaction

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Laura Borgogni;Patrizia Steca

  • Personality and Politics: Values, Traits, and Political Choice

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Shalom Schwartz;Cristina Capanna;Michele Vecchione

  • Sociocognitive self-regulatory mechanisms governing transgressive behavior.

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

  • Longitudinal Analysis of the Role of Perceived Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning in Academic Continuance and Achievement.

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Roberta Fida;Michele Vecchione;Giannetta Del Bove

  • Age differences in personality across the adult life span: Parallels in five cultures.

    R. R. McCrae;P. T. Costa;M. Pedroso de Lima;A. Simões

  • The contribution of personality traits and self‐efficacy beliefs to academic achievement: A longitudinal study

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Michele Vecchione;Guido Alessandri;Maria Gerbino

  • The "big five questionnaire": A new questionnaire to assess the five factor model

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Laura Borgogni;Marco Perugini

  • Basic Personal Values, Core Political Values, and Voting: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Shalom H. Schwartz;Gian Vittorio Caprara;Michele Vecchione

  • Brand personality: How to make the metaphor fit?

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Claudio Barbaranelli;Gianluigi Guido

  • A New Scale for Measuring Adults' Prosocialness

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Patrizia Steca;Arnaldo Zelli;Cristina Capanna

  • Prosociality: the contribution of traits, values, and self-efficacy beliefs.

    Gian Vittorio Caprara;Guido Alessandri;Nancy Eisenberg

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Alessandri
Guido Alessandri Sapienza University of Rome
Claudio Barbaranelli
Claudio Barbaranelli Sapienza University of Rome
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Michele Vecchione
Michele Vecchione Sapienza University of Rome
Daniel Cervone
Daniel Cervone University of Illinois at Chicago
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura Stanford University
Marinella Paciello
Marinella Paciello UniNettuno University
Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome
Arnaldo Zelli
Arnaldo Zelli University of Rome "Foro Italico"

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