Roberto Burro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1289541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto Burro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Burro |
| SIGNATURE | BURRO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Verona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4491-2015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Emotion Regulation Flexibility Questionnaire
The ability to effectively use different emotion regulation (ER) strategies across situations—i.e., ER flexibility (ERF)—plays a key role in emotional intelligence and social functioning. However, it has rarely been studied in young people, partly due to the lack of age-appropriate measurement instruments. This study investigated children’s perceptions of ERF by adapting an adult scale and proposing the 10-item Emotion Regulation Flexibility Ques…
Cognitive and historical information can spark interest in modern and contemporary art
Modern and contemporary art can be challenging for the general observer. We investigated whether aesthetic appreciation of modern and contemporary artworks can be enhanced through two types of intervention. The first, a traditional approach, provided information related to art history (historical intervention [HI]). The second, novel intervention, encouraged participants to observe the creative elements in the artworks by “thinking in terms of op…
Improving the Big Five Inventory-2 in an Italian context using Rasch Analysis (BFI-2-R)
The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) is one of the most used questionnaires to assess personality traits. Its main strength regards the possibility of distinguishing the five traits into 15 facets. Despite its extended usage and validation, there is still room for research to explore its structure and potential. For instance, an examination of the facets through Rasch Analysis (RA) has not been developed yet. We investigated the psychometric properti…
Malleability of emotions
Beliefs about the ability to control emotions are related to emotional and interpersonal outcomes as well as school achievement, and can be shaped through interventions possibly in the early school years. However, they were rarely studied with children, partly for lack of measurement instruments. We investigated elementary school students’ beliefs about malleability of positive and negative emotions by developing the Robust Incremental Beliefs ab…
Self‐Report Questionnaires to Measure Big Five Personality Traits in Children and Adolescents
Personality can be described by referring to the so‐called Big Five traits, that is, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. These dimensions contribute to explaining individual differences not only in adults but also in children and adolescents. Although many authors used adult or other‐report instruments to assess the Big Five in young people, others developed or adapted specific self‐report measures for them.…
Development of a Drawing Set for the Achievement Emotions Adjective List (DS-Aeal)
This work investigated the goodness of a Drawing Set for assessing children’s achievement emotions, to be used together with a short form of the Achievement Emotions Adjective List (DS-AEAL). We considered control-value theory as the main theoretical framework. In Study 1, we developed a set of 10 drawings of faces representing enjoyment, pride, hope, relief, relaxation, anxiety, anger, shame, sadness, and boredom, involving 259 adults as raters.…
Personality, achievement emotions, and school-related wellbeing in primary and lower-secondary school
Positive and negative intergroup contact
Research has demonstrated that positive intergroup contact improves intergroup relations among children. However, empirical evidence about how positive and negative intergroup contact relates to intergroup outcomes at different ages is scant. By combining theories and empirical evidence in social and developmental psychology, this study aimed to examine positive and negative intergroup contact in a sample of N = 394, 9 and 12‐year‐old Italian chi…
Common-sense temporal ontology
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes
Natural disasters, including earthquakes, can have a traumatic impact on children's psychological wellbeing and development. The efficacy of interventions aimed at enhancing children's socio‐emotional learning has been documented in the literature. At the same time, these techniques are the key for training children for possible future disasters by enhancing their knowledge about behavioural preparedness and emotional competence. However, researc…
Reading with induced worry
BackgroundAn interplay of emotional and cognitive aspects underlies academic performance. We focused on the contribution of such interplay to text comprehension.AimsWe investigated the effect of worry on comprehension and the role of two potential moderators of this effect: physiological self-regulation as resting heart rate variability (HRV) and working memory updating.SampleEighty-two seventh graders were involved in a quasi-experimental design…
The Robust Italian Validation of the Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) for Adult Health Care Workers
The Coping Humor Scale (CHS) is a seven-item tool widely used to assess the use of humor in coping with stressful situations. The beneficial effect of humor in buffering the impact of negative experiences has been investigated in several contexts and populations; for this reason, the CHS has been used in many languages, but its solid validation in Italian is still missing. Our study aimed at building a robust instrument to measure coping humor st…
Factors affecting the choices of adoption/non-adoption of future technologies during coronavirus pandemic
“Old Wine in a New Bottle”. Depression and Romantic Relationships in Italian Emerging Adulthood
Intimate partner violence is an important social issue all over the world, and human sciences, in particular, are working to reduce it. Despite this, the topic is a little recognized phenomenon. Understanding the origins and the variables that have an impact on manic-style romantic relationships, as defined by John Alan Lee, is of primary importance, in particular in Italy where the data reveal alarming statistics. Most studies have not controlle…
A Rasch Analysis of the School-Related Well-Being (SRW) Scale
Within educational systems, promoting well-being is an essential objective along with traditional aims focused on students' learning. However, scarce attention has been devoted to school-related well-being in the transition from primary to lower secondary school, also for the paucity of brief instruments deputed to measure it. We assessed well-being at school for fourth-graders and seventh-graders, by adapting and validating the Italian version o…
Long-term intergenerational transmission of memories of the Vajont disaster
Our findings highlight the processes through which collective memories of historical traumatic events are built over the long term and the way a collective identity develops to bear the burden of highly dramatic events and to transmit intergenerational lessons from the past. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
The effects of modulating contrast in verbal irony as a cue for giftedness
This study adds to the existing literature on the ability to understand irony of typically developing versus gifted students (aged 12–15). In addition to the canonical condition of polarized statements applied to oppositely polarized situations, we also considered the case of intermediate statements and situations. The results showed a significant difference between the two groups of participants. Both groups recognized an ironic interpretation i…
Reading with induced worry
BackgroundAn interplay of emotional and cognitive aspects underlies academic performance. We focused on the contribution of such interplay to text comprehension.AimsWe investigated the effect of worry on comprehension and the role of two potential moderators of this effect: physiological self-regulation as resting heart rate variability (HRV) and working memory updating.SampleEighty-two seventh graders were involved in a quasi-experimental design…
The effects of modulating contrast in verbal irony as a cue for giftedness
This study adds to the existing literature on the ability to understand irony of typically developing versus gifted students (aged 12–15). In addition to the canonical condition of polarized statements applied to oppositely polarized situations, we also considered the case of intermediate statements and situations. The results showed a significant difference between the two groups of participants. Both groups recognized an ironic interpretation i…
The effects of modulating contrast in verbal irony as a cue for giftedness
This study adds to the existing literature on the ability to understand irony of typically developing versus gifted students (aged 12–15). In addition to the canonical condition of polarized statements applied to oppositely polarized situations, we also considered the case of intermediate statements and situations. The results showed a significant difference between the two groups of participants. Both groups recognized an ironic interpretation i…
Long-term intergenerational transmission of memories of the Vajont disaster
Our findings highlight the processes through which collective memories of historical traumatic events are built over the long term and the way a collective identity develops to bear the burden of highly dramatic events and to transmit intergenerational lessons from the past. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
“Old Wine in a New Bottle”. Depression and Romantic Relationships in Italian Emerging Adulthood
Intimate partner violence is an important social issue all over the world, and human sciences, in particular, are working to reduce it. Despite this, the topic is a little recognized phenomenon. Understanding the origins and the variables that have an impact on manic-style romantic relationships, as defined by John Alan Lee, is of primary importance, in particular in Italy where the data reveal alarming statistics. Most studies have not controlle…
A Rasch Analysis of the School-Related Well-Being (SRW) Scale
Within educational systems, promoting well-being is an essential objective along with traditional aims focused on students' learning. However, scarce attention has been devoted to school-related well-being in the transition from primary to lower secondary school, also for the paucity of brief instruments deputed to measure it. We assessed well-being at school for fourth-graders and seventh-graders, by adapting and validating the Italian version o…
Factors affecting the choices of adoption/non-adoption of future technologies during coronavirus pandemic
The Robust Italian Validation of the Coping Humor Scale (RI-CHS) for Adult Health Care Workers
The Coping Humor Scale (CHS) is a seven-item tool widely used to assess the use of humor in coping with stressful situations. The beneficial effect of humor in buffering the impact of negative experiences has been investigated in several contexts and populations; for this reason, the CHS has been used in many languages, but its solid validation in Italian is still missing. Our study aimed at building a robust instrument to measure coping humor st…
Common-sense temporal ontology
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes
Natural disasters, including earthquakes, can have a traumatic impact on children's psychological wellbeing and development. The efficacy of interventions aimed at enhancing children's socio‐emotional learning has been documented in the literature. At the same time, these techniques are the key for training children for possible future disasters by enhancing their knowledge about behavioural preparedness and emotional competence. However, researc…
Reading with induced worry
BackgroundAn interplay of emotional and cognitive aspects underlies academic performance. We focused on the contribution of such interplay to text comprehension.AimsWe investigated the effect of worry on comprehension and the role of two potential moderators of this effect: physiological self-regulation as resting heart rate variability (HRV) and working memory updating.SampleEighty-two seventh graders were involved in a quasi-experimental design…
Development of a Drawing Set for the Achievement Emotions Adjective List (DS-Aeal)
This work investigated the goodness of a Drawing Set for assessing children’s achievement emotions, to be used together with a short form of the Achievement Emotions Adjective List (DS-AEAL). We considered control-value theory as the main theoretical framework. In Study 1, we developed a set of 10 drawings of faces representing enjoyment, pride, hope, relief, relaxation, anxiety, anger, shame, sadness, and boredom, involving 259 adults as raters.…
Personality, achievement emotions, and school-related wellbeing in primary and lower-secondary school
Positive and negative intergroup contact
Research has demonstrated that positive intergroup contact improves intergroup relations among children. However, empirical evidence about how positive and negative intergroup contact relates to intergroup outcomes at different ages is scant. By combining theories and empirical evidence in social and developmental psychology, this study aimed to examine positive and negative intergroup contact in a sample of N = 394, 9 and 12‐year‐old Italian chi…
Cognitive and historical information can spark interest in modern and contemporary art
Modern and contemporary art can be challenging for the general observer. We investigated whether aesthetic appreciation of modern and contemporary artworks can be enhanced through two types of intervention. The first, a traditional approach, provided information related to art history (historical intervention [HI]). The second, novel intervention, encouraged participants to observe the creative elements in the artworks by “thinking in terms of op…
Improving the Big Five Inventory-2 in an Italian context using Rasch Analysis (BFI-2-R)
The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) is one of the most used questionnaires to assess personality traits. Its main strength regards the possibility of distinguishing the five traits into 15 facets. Despite its extended usage and validation, there is still room for research to explore its structure and potential. For instance, an examination of the facets through Rasch Analysis (RA) has not been developed yet. We investigated the psychometric properti…
Malleability of emotions
Beliefs about the ability to control emotions are related to emotional and interpersonal outcomes as well as school achievement, and can be shaped through interventions possibly in the early school years. However, they were rarely studied with children, partly for lack of measurement instruments. We investigated elementary school students’ beliefs about malleability of positive and negative emotions by developing the Robust Incremental Beliefs ab…
Self‐Report Questionnaires to Measure Big Five Personality Traits in Children and Adolescents
Personality can be described by referring to the so‐called Big Five traits, that is, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. These dimensions contribute to explaining individual differences not only in adults but also in children and adolescents. Although many authors used adult or other‐report instruments to assess the Big Five in young people, others developed or adapted specific self‐report measures for them.…
The Emotion Regulation Flexibility Questionnaire
The ability to effectively use different emotion regulation (ER) strategies across situations—i.e., ER flexibility (ERF)—plays a key role in emotional intelligence and social functioning. However, it has rarely been studied in young people, partly due to the lack of age-appropriate measurement instruments. This study investigated children’s perceptions of ERF by adapting an adult scale and proposing the 10-item Emotion Regulation Flexibility Ques…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Rasch model (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (3 works)