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Gianluca Gini

Gianluca Gini

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Psychology

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12802
World Ranking
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National Ranking
124

Overview

Gianluca Gini is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research primarily spans social sciences and psychology, with a strong focus on social psychology, education, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and safety research.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Education Discipline and Inequality
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Gini has published a number of papers notable for their focus on social behaviors among youths and the dynamics of bullying and victimization. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Social norms and e-motions in problematic social media use among adolescents," 2020, published in Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • "Use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised COVID-19 patients is associated with reduced mortality: Findings from the observational multicentre Italian CORIST study," 2020, European Journal of Internal Medicine
  • "Bystander behaviour in peer victimisation: moral disengagement, defender self-efficacy and student-teacher relationship quality," 2020, Research Papers in Education
  • "Defending or Remaining Passive as a Bystander of School Bullying in Sweden: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Antibullying Class Norms," 2021, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "Longitudinal Relations between Students' Social Status and Their Roles in Bullying: The Mediating Role of Self-Perceived Social Status," 2020, Journal of School Violence

Their research has been disseminated frequently in specialized journals such as:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of School Psychology
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Educational Psychology

Gini's collaborations include multiple joint works with several researchers, most notably:

  • Robert Thornberg
  • Tiziana Pozzoli
  • Federica Angelini
  • Björn Sjögren
  • Linda Wänström

This profile outlines a research career focused on social dynamics, adolescent development, and educational contexts, with a significant impact on studies related to bullying, victimization, and psychological processes among young populations.

Best Publications

  • Association Between Bullying and Psychosomatic Problems: A Meta-analysis

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli

  • Does empathy predict adolescents’ bullying and defending behavior?.

    Gianluca Gini;Paolo Albiero;Beatrice Benelli;Gianmarco Altoè

  • Social cognition and moral cognition in bullying: What's wrong?

    Gianluca Gini

  • Moral disengagement among children and youth: a meta-analytic review of links to aggressive behavior

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli;Shelley Hymel

  • Determinants of adolescents' active defending and passive bystanding behavior in bullying.

    Gianluca Gini;Paolo Albiero;Beatrice Benelli;Gianmarco Altoè

  • The associations between problematic Facebook use, psychological distress and well-being among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Claudia Marino;Claudia Marino;Gianluca Gini;Alessio Vieno;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • Bullied Children and Psychosomatic Problems: A Meta-analysis

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli

  • Active Defending and Passive Bystanding Behavior in Bullying: The Role of Personal Characteristics and Perceived Peer Pressure

    Tiziana Pozzoli;Gianluca Gini

  • The role of bystanders in students' perception of bullying and sense of safety.

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli;Francesco Borghi;Lara Franzoni

  • A comprehensive meta-analysis on Problematic Facebook Use

    Claudia Marino;Gianluca Gini;Alessio Vieno;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • Different Forms of Bullying and Their Association to Smoking and Drinking Behavior in Italian Adolescents

    Alessio Vieno;Gianluca Gini;Massimo Santinello

  • The Role of Individual Correlates and Class Norms in Defending and Passive Bystanding Behavior in Bullying: A Multilevel Analysis

    Tiziana Pozzoli;Gianluca Gini;Alessio Vieno

  • Bullying as a social process: The role of group membership in students' perception of inter-group aggression at school

    Gianluca Gini

  • Bullies have enhanced moral competence to judge relative to victims, but lack moral compassion

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli;Marc Hauser

  • Peer victimization, cyberbullying, and suicide risk in children and adolescents.

    Gianluca Gini;Dorothy L. Espelage

  • Associations between bullying behaviour, psychosomatic complaints, emotional and behavioural problems

    Gianluca Gini

  • Why Do Bystanders of Bullying Help or Not? A Multidimensional Model.

    Tiziana Pozzoli;Gianluca Gini

  • The role of individual and collective moral disengagement in peer aggression and bystanding: A multilevel analysis.

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli;Kay Bussey

  • Individual and Class Moral Disengagement in Bullying Among Elementary School Children

    Tiziana Pozzoli;Gianluca Gini;Alessio Vieno

  • Peer influences on moral disengagement in late childhood and early adolescence

    Simona Carla Silvia Caravita;Jelle J. Sijtsema;J. Ashwin Rambaran;Gianluca Gini

  • The Role of Masculinity in Children’s Bullying

    Gianluca Gini;Tiziana Pozzoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Tiziana Pozzoli
Tiziana Pozzoli University of Padua
Robert Thornberg
Robert Thornberg Linköping University
Alessio Vieno
Alessio Vieno University of Padua
Marcantonio M. Spada
Marcantonio M. Spada London South Bank University
Kay Bussey
Kay Bussey Macquarie University
Ersilia Menesini
Ersilia Menesini University of Florence
Melissa K. Holt
Melissa K. Holt Boston University
David C. R. Kerr
David C. R. Kerr Oregon State University
Manuel Gámez-Guadix
Manuel Gámez-Guadix Autonomous University of Madrid
Jun Sung Hong
Jun Sung Hong Wayne State University

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