E Crocetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 43952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Crocetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Crocetti |
| SIGNATURE | CROCETTI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2681-5684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Teachers’ Job Commitment Matters! Longitudinal Evidence on the Role of Identity Facets in Facilitating Classroom Cultural Diversity Climate
Teachers in today’s schools work in classrooms characterized by growing ethnic and cultural diversity, a trend that poses important challenges for everyday teaching practice. Their job identity can represent a key resource for addressing these challenges. Thus, this study examines how personal (i.e., commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment) and social (i.e., social identification with school and colleagues) facets of t…
If I Know Myself, I Can Welcome You
INTRODUCTION: While implementing integration policies is crucial for countries to foster cohesion and well-being, it is equally important to understand how individuals, especially youth, endorse such policies and the factors that influence this form of intergroup solidarity. Adolescents' identity statuses can influence various individual and interpersonal outcomes, but little is known about their relation with societal outcomes. Schools are cruci…
The Relationships Between Personal Identity, National Identity, and Well‐Being
INTRODUCTION: Personal and national identities can play a pivotal role in understanding youth well-being in increasingly diverse societies. However, previous research has predominantly focused on Western contexts, overlooking youth from non-Western societies. Furthermore, there is a scarcity of research that simultaneously examined both personal and national identities in relation to well-being. To address this gap, this study focused on youth be…
Intergroup, Intragroup, and Changing Best Friendships
Intergroup friendships are crucial to promote positive intergroup relations. However, it is less clear whether intragroup and intergroup best friendships are stable in adolescence and how they are intertwined with the development of prejudice and attitudes toward integration. The present study addressed these questions among ethnic majority and minority adolescents in Italy. Participants were 1,227 youth ( M age = 15.67, SD = 1.20, 47.34% female)…
The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-Mics)
The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS;) is a widely used self-report instrument in identity research. This article discusses the scale’s theoretical foundations and development. It then systematically reviews its applications across various identity domains. Subsequently, the article examines the scale’s psychometric properties and its adaptation into multiple languages. Finally, it discusses how the U-MICS can be utilized …
Going Out of the Comfort Zone
Identity development is an important task during adolescence that is shaped by events and transitions such as study abroad experiences. This longitudinal study addresses how these experiences are associated with adolescents’ identity development in the educational and interpersonal domains. Using a circumspective mixed-methods design, we analyzed quantitative survey responses (collected pre and post the experience abroad) and qualitative intervie…
Where is your best friend from? Implications of intragroup and intergroup friendships for adolescents’ identity and well-being
Nowadays, adolescents have increasing opportunities to interact with peers of their same and other ethnic groups. Yet, little is known about the implications of having an intragroup or intergroup best friend for the development of interpersonal identity processes (i.e., commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration) and its interplay with subjective, psychological, and social well-being. The current study aims to fill this gap. A total of…
Portrayal of Immigrants in Italian Newspapers
This contribution examines the role of linguistic abstraction and valence of terms in the portrayal of immigrants and Italians in national and local newspapers with different political leanings. Specifically, it investigates how linguistic abstraction and valence of terms vary between the two most popular Italian national outlets and between these and a highly read local newspaper. The sample consisted of 218 newspaper articles on immigration. Re…
Young Europeans – The Interplay between Short- and Medium-Term Development of European Identification Across Adolescence
Identification with the European group bears important implications for adjustment, intergroup processes, and civic participation. However, little is known about its development across different time scales in adolescence. The current study examined short- and medium-term developmental trajectories of European identification across two age cohorts separately and conjointly. Participants were 1552 Italian adolescents ( M age = 15.69, SD age = 1.22…
Exploring Migrant Integration Through Local Governance
Given the high concentration of ethnic and cultural diversity in Italy, various national policies have been implemented to foster migrant integration. However, local authorities play a crucial role, as they are directly responsible for translating policy frameworks into concrete practices and mediating between institutions, families and communities. This study employed a mixed‐methods design, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, to …
Who Matters the Most? The Differential Role of Parents, Teachers, and Peers’ Supportive Relationships in Early Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being
Identity Processing Strategies, Classroom Ethnic Diversity, and Attitudes Toward Ethnic Outgroups
INTRODUCTION: According to the Intergroup Contact Theory, social interaction can foster positive attitudes toward outgroups. However, less is known about the role of social-cognitive strategies in navigating experiences that prompt identity reflection, such as interactions in ethnically diverse classroom environments. In this study, we examine the role of identity processing strategies (i.e., informational, normative, diffuse/avoidant) in the rel…
Night Owls and Early Birds
Chronotype is the preference for sleep and activity timing, differentiating individuals into morning (i.e., waking and sleeping early), evening (i.e., preferring later sleep patterns) and intermediate (i.e., falling between these extremes) types. Adolescents' chronotype has been linked to school performance, but its connection to the development of their educational identity has been overlooked. A stable educational identity involves the interpla…
The Interplay Between Personal Identity and Social Identity Among Vocational High School Students
Although identity research has predominantly focused on college-bound adolescents, it has largely neglected vocational high school students who enter the job market immediately after graduation. Furthermore, most studies have concentrated on personal identity and have overlooked the concurrent development of social identity. This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ personal and social identities over three years of vocational hig…
From inclusive schools to inclusive societies
Promoting Adolescents' Personal and Social Identities
This systematic review with meta-analysis sought to identify psychosocial interventions to enhance adolescents' and emerging adults' personal and social identities and assess their effectiveness. The review was pre-registered in PROSPERO. Eligible quasi-experimental studies and randomized control trials available as journal articles or gray literature (e.g. dissertations, reports) were searched using multiple strategies. By applying a two-step se…
What's Your Vocation? A Meta-Analysis of Interventions Tackling Youth Educational and Professional Identity
Choices related to educational and professional identity are critical in defining how adolescents and emerging adults find an area of study and a future occupation that may fit their interests, talents, and aspirations. This meta-analysis aimed to comprehensively identify psychosocial interventions promoting youth educational and professional identity and critically appraise their effectiveness. Studies could be published in any language and year…
A war on prejudice
INTRODUCTION: Ethnic prejudice poses a great challenge to the cohesion of current multicultural societies. Prior research has found that media portrayals of immigration-related issues might skew individual attitudes and feelings toward ethnic minorities. While these studies have focused on negative representations of ethnic minorities, less is known about the effects of media reports of unfortunate events affecting the victims of war, as in the c…
One way or another...or both
This study aimed to examine the processes of intergenerational transmission of attitudes toward migrant integration policies in families with adolescents. Participants included 809 adolescents ( M age = 15.61, range: 13.87–20.04 years), 545 fathers ( M age = 51.19, range: 38–77 years), and 716 mothers ( M age = 48.11, range: 33–68 years) involved in a longitudinal study with two assessments and a time‐lag of 1 year between them. Each family membe…
Parents' and classmates' influences on adolescents' ethnic prejudice
The family and classroom are important contexts that can contribute to the socialization of ethnic prejudice. However, less is known about their unique, relative, and synergic contributions in influencing youth's affective and cognitive prejudice. The current longitudinal study examined these processes and possible moderators among 688 Italian youth (49.13% girls; Mage = 15.61 years), their parents (nmothers = 603, nfathers = 471; Mage = 49.51 ye…
Like parents, like children... this is not always the case! A longitudinal study on the family transmission of intergroup contact
During adolescence, opportunities for interethnic interactions can shape future attitudes toward diversity. However, it is unclear how family can influence adolescents' quality of contact in different life contexts. This study aims to fill this gap. A sample of 702 Italian adolescents (M age = 15.61, SD age = 1.11, 48.58% girls) and their parents (615 mothers, M age = 48.45, SD age = 4.34; 487 fathers, M age = 51.22, SD age = 4.92) completed ques…
Don’t sleep on identity
Identity processes are intertwined with adolescents’ well-being; thus, it is likely that they are also reciprocally linked to their sleep quality. This longitudinal study—conducted in Italy—aimed to unravel how identity processes (i.e. commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment) in two domains (i.e. educational and interpersonal) were associated with sleep quality both subjectively (i.e. sleep/wake cycle problems) and obj…
Exploring the self, others, and the world
Study abroad experiences can be an important asset for individuals’ personal development and well-being. However, their impact on social identity domains and prejudice is still unexplored. The current research examined whether the ways in which youth retrospectively narrate their abroad experiences in adolescence were intertwined with their national and European identity processes and ethnic prejudice. A total of 117 Italian youth (Mage = 22.71, …
When ethnic minorities hit the headlines
Ethnic prejudice poses great challenges to adolescents' adjustment to multicultural societies. However, little is known about the role of the media in influencing attitudes in adolescence. Combining information environment and ecological development theories, the current study examined the longitudinal associations between the quantity, valence (i.e., neutral, positive, and negative), and target (i.e., migrant, refugee, and foreigner) of the news…
Navigating Across Heritage and Destination Cultures
Personal identity and social identification processes can be challenging for adolescents belonging to an ethnic minority, who have to cope with the acculturation task of navigating several (and often conflictual) alternatives put forth by their cultural heritage community and destination society. Because identity and acculturation tasks are embedded in core domains of adolescents’ life, this three-wave longitudinal study with ethnic minority adol…
Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence
Although adolescents' prosocial behavior is related to various positive outcomes, longitudinal research on its development and predictors is still sparse. This 6-wave longitudinal study investigated the development of prosocial behavior across adolescence, and examined longitudinal associations with perspective taking and empathic concern. Participants were 497 adolescents (M age t1 = 13.03 years, 43% girls) who reported on their prosocial behavi…
Identity Formation in Early and Middle Adolescents From Various Ethnic Groups
Anxiety Trajectories and Identity Development in Adolescence
I and Us
Linking Parent–Child and Peer Relationship Quality to Empathy in Adolescence
Empathy, which is the ability to feel concern for and to understand others' feelings, is thought to develop in high quality relationships with parent and peers, but also to facilitate the quality of these relationships. While a wide literature has addressed this aspect, the heterogeneity of primary studies, in which different indicators of relationship quality (e.g., support, conflict) and empathy (i.e., affective and cognitive) have been examine…
Relationships Between Identity and Well-Being in Italian, Polish, and Romanian Emerging Adults
Impact of Early Adolescent Externalizing Problem Behaviors on Identity Development in Middle to Late Adolescence
Correlates of Identity Configurations
Developing Identification with Humanity and Social Well-Being Through Social Identification with Peer Groups in Adolescence
Linking delinquency and personal identity formation across adolescence
Adolescent delinquency and identity formation have both been described in relation to the confusion, doubt, and need for individuation and autonomy faced by adolescents. While theoretical conceptualizations (e.g., Erikson, 1968; Moffitt, 1993) suggest that delinquency and identity formation might be developmentally intertwined across adolescence, this link had yet to be longitudinally examined. This study tested whether delinquency and identity a…
Identity Matters for Well-Being
Adolescents’ identity processes and their levels of well-being are likely to be intertwined. On the one hand, how adolescents cope with the core developmental task of forming their identity has important implications for their well-being. On the other hand, experiencing a condition of well-being can help adolescents consolidate their identity. This longitudinal study adopted a multidimensional and culturally sensitive perspective to unravel how i…
Identity Styles, Positive Youth Development, and Civic Engagement in Adolescence
Promoting Adolescents' Personal and Social Identities
This systematic review with meta-analysis sought to identify psychosocial interventions to enhance adolescents' and emerging adults' personal and social identities and assess their effectiveness. The review was pre-registered in PROSPERO. Eligible quasi-experimental studies and randomized control trials available as journal articles or gray literature (e.g. dissertations, reports) were searched using multiple strategies. By applying a two-step se…
A longitudinal integration of identity styles and educational identity processes in adolescence
Identity formation is a main adolescent psychosocial developmental task. The complex interconnection between different processes that are at the basis of one's identity is a research and applied intervention priority. In this context, the identity style model focuses on social-cognitive strategies (i.e., informational, normative, and diffuse-avoidant) that individuals can use to deal with identity formation. The 3-factor identity dimensional mode…
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Relationships between Emotional Separation, Parental Trust, and Identity in Adolescents
Navigating Across Heritage and Destination Cultures
Personal identity and social identification processes can be challenging for adolescents belonging to an ethnic minority, who have to cope with the acculturation task of navigating several (and often conflictual) alternatives put forth by their cultural heritage community and destination society. Because identity and acculturation tasks are embedded in core domains of adolescents’ life, this three-wave longitudinal study with ethnic minority adol…
On Imbalance of Impulse Control and Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Risk
Heterogeneity in development of imbalance between impulse control and sensation seeking has not been studied until now. The present study scrutinized this heterogeneity and the link between imbalance and adolescent risk. Seven-wave data of 7,558 youth (50.71% males; age range from 12/13 until 24/25) were used. Three developmental trajectories were identified. The first trajectory, “sensation seeking to balanced sensation seeking”, included partic…
Are Mixed-Gender Committees Less Biased Toward Female and Male Candidates? An Investigation of Competence-, Morality-, and Sociability-Related Terms in Performance Appraisal
The present research investigated the spontaneous reference to the criteria of competence, morality, and sociability in descriptions made by professional committees evaluating female and male employees' work performance. We examined whether professional committees used different criteria in their performance appraisal of male and female employees and how gender of committee members influences this outcome. The evidence showed that men were primar…
Future-oriented or present-focused? The role of social support and identity styles on ‘futuring’ in Italian late adolescents and emerging adults
Late adolescence and emerging adulthood are periods in the life cycle when individuals are involved in anticipating and planning for the future (futuring). However, in the last five or six years, as the effects of the recession have made themselves felt in Southern Europe, the situation that young people face has deteriorated dramatically. As a consequence, contemporary young people’s relationship with the future is strongly marked by these socia…
Big Five personality dimensions in Italian and Dutch adolescents
Objective and subjective markers of transition to adulthood in emerging adults
The purpose of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect (via objective and subjective markers of adulthood) relations of parental trust and emerging adults' life satisfaction in samples of Lithuanian ( N = 399, ages 18-25) and Japanese ( N = 585, ages 18-25) emerging adults. Results revealed that parental trust was associated with emerging adults' life satisfaction both directly and indirectly via subjective markers of adulthood (i.e…
Do Gender and Ethnicity Make the Difference? Linguistic Evaluation Bias in Primary School
In two studies, we examined how primary school teachers use the subtle structural properties of language to communicate different evaluations of students who achieve higher versus lower marks, boys versus girls, and students with immigrant versus nonimmigrant origins. Written judgments of final evaluation records were coded for language abstraction. Results showed that students with higher marks are described with more abstract positive and more …
Adolescents’ Identity Development Predicts the Transition and the Adjustment to Tertiary Education or Work
I Feel You!”
Empathic competences might help adolescents navigate current multicultural societies by supporting harmonious intergroup relations. Yet it is unclear how each component of empathy (empathic concern and perspective-taking) is associated with different dimensions (affective, cognitive, behavioral) of ethnic prejudice. The current study aims to fill this gap. A total of 259 Italian adolescents ( M age = 15.60, 87.6% female) completed online question…
Cultural self-construction and identity formation in emerging adulthood
Cultural pathways of identity formation have been largely unexplored. In many Asian cultures, youth are expected to concentrate on adaptation to their groups or relationships rather than pursuing their own uniqueness. Then, how do they develop a sense of identity while considering groups or relationships to be important? The purposes of this study were (a) to examine relationships between cultural self-construction (i.e. independence and interdep…
Capturing the dynamics of identity formation in various ethnic groups
The aim of this study was to develop a model of identity formation comprising three structural dimensions: commitment, in‐depth exploration and reconsideration of commitment. A new tool, the Utrecht‐Management of Identity Commitments Scale, was designed to assess these processes. Early and middle adolescents ( N =1952) participated in this study. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the three‐factor model provided a better fit than alternat…
Identity Formation in Early and Middle Adolescents From Various Ethnic Groups
Anxiety Trajectories and Identity Development in Adolescence
The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-Mics)
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Dutch and Italian versions of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) in large community samples of adolescents from Italy (N = 1,975) and The Netherlands (N = 1,521). Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the three-factor model, consisting of commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment, provided a better fit to the data than alternat…
Big Five personality dimensions in Italian and Dutch adolescents
Identity and civic engagement in adolescence
The purpose of this study was to examine the links between identity (statuses and processes) and adolescent civic engagement (volunteer and political participation). Participants were 392 Italian high school students (42% males) aged 14–20 years ( M age = 16.23 years; SD age = 1.53) who completed a self‐report questionnaire. First, using a person‐centered approach, we found that achieved adolescents were more involved in volunteer activities, rep…
Personal identity in Italy
This chapter discusses specifics of identity formation in Italian adolescents and emerging adults. We review consistent evidence illustrating that, in Italy, a progressive deferral of transition to adulthood strongly impacts youth identity development by stimulating identity exploration and postponement of identity commitments. We also consider the influence of ecological contexts and specific Italian groups (i.e., immigrant adolescents and those…
Correlates of Identity Configurations
Commitment to community and political involvement
The purpose of this study was to test whether personal commitment to community was related to political involvement in two cultural contexts: Italy and the USA. Participants were 566 adolescents (48.2% males) aged 14–19 years (M = 16 years; SD = 1.29): 311 Italians and 255 Americans. Participants filled out a self-report questionnaire. Analyses of variance revealed that American high school students reported higher levels of personal commitment t…
Impact of Early Adolescent Externalizing Problem Behaviors on Identity Development in Middle to Late Adolescence
Identity Styles, Positive Youth Development, and Civic Engagement in Adolescence
Systematic Reviews With Meta-Analysis
Systematic reviews with meta-analysis represent the gold standard for conducting reliable and transparent reviews of the literature. The purpose of this article is threefold: (a) to address why and when it is worthwhile to conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis, covering advantages of this approach in the context of the statistics reform in the behavioral sciences; (b) to explain how to conduct and publish a systematic review with meta-an…
Identity Centrality and Psychosocial Functioning
There has been increased recognition that identity operates within several "components" and that not every component is likely to be equally central to one's sense of self. The aim of the current study was to determine the extent to which identity components (i.e., personal, relational, collective, and public) are differentially central to emerging adults' identity. We used a two-step cluster analytic procedure to identify distinct clusters and d…
Perceptions of Emerging Adulthood
In this study, we sought to compare perceptions of emerging adulthood of Italian and Japanese youth and we examined, within each national sample, gender and occupational status (students vs. workers) differences on these perceptions. Participants were 2,472 emerging adults (1,513 Italian and 959 Japanese) of age 18–30 (50.8% females; 57.1% university students and 42.9% workers). Findings indicated measurement invariance of the Inventory of Dimens…
Cultural self-construction and identity formation in emerging adulthood
Cultural pathways of identity formation have been largely unexplored. In many Asian cultures, youth are expected to concentrate on adaptation to their groups or relationships rather than pursuing their own uniqueness. Then, how do they develop a sense of identity while considering groups or relationships to be important? The purposes of this study were (a) to examine relationships between cultural self-construction (i.e. independence and interdep…
Future-oriented or present-focused? The role of social support and identity styles on ‘futuring’ in Italian late adolescents and emerging adults
Late adolescence and emerging adulthood are periods in the life cycle when individuals are involved in anticipating and planning for the future (futuring). However, in the last five or six years, as the effects of the recession have made themselves felt in Southern Europe, the situation that young people face has deteriorated dramatically. As a consequence, contemporary young people’s relationship with the future is strongly marked by these socia…
Emerging adulthood features and criteria for adulthood
Reaching adulthood is the aim of the transition to adulthood; however, emerging adults differently define both adulthood and the transitional period they are living. Variable-centered and person-centered approaches were integrated in the present paper to investigate if the criteria used to define adulthood are linked to how emerging adults perceive the transitional phase they are going through. Participants were 1513 emerging adults (53.60% femal…
Relationships Between Identity and Well-Being in Italian, Polish, and Romanian Emerging Adults
Self‐Concept Clarity in Adolescents and Parents
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to disentangle patterns of change and stability in self‐concept clarity (SCC) in adolescents and in their parents and (b) to examine processes of intergenerational transmission of SCC in families with adolescents. Participants were 497 Dutch families including the father (baseline M age = 46.74), the mother (baseline M age = 44.41), and their adolescent child (56.9% males; baseline M age = 13.03). Each f…
Adolescent Abstention From Delinquency
Research consistently identifies a group of adolescents who refrain from minor delinquency entirely. Known as abstainers, studying these adolescents is an underexplored approach to understanding adolescent minor delinquency. In this paper, we tested hypotheses regarding adolescent delinquency abstention derived from the developmental taxonomy model and social control theory in 497 adolescents (283 boys) aged 13-18 comparing three groups of adoles…
Identity Formation in Adolescence
The biological, cognitive, and social changes that occur in adolescence stimulate young people to think about themselves, reflect on the kind of people they want to become, and find their place in society. Traditionally, these changes have been explained by Erikson's theory and Marcia's identity status model, but process-oriented models of identity provide new insights. In particular, dual-cycle models, such as the three-factor identity model, fo…
Global Versus Domain-Specific Identity Processes
The current study contributes to the ongoing discussion about validity and utility of global and domain-specific assessment of identity processes in emerging adulthood (EA) by using a three-dimensional model of identity development and examining four identity domains (best friend, education, occupation, and partner). The links between global and domain-specific identity processes and main features of EA are analyzed in the Eastern European contex…
A longitudinal integration of identity styles and educational identity processes in adolescence
Identity formation is a main adolescent psychosocial developmental task. The complex interconnection between different processes that are at the basis of one's identity is a research and applied intervention priority. In this context, the identity style model focuses on social-cognitive strategies (i.e., informational, normative, and diffuse-avoidant) that individuals can use to deal with identity formation. The 3-factor identity dimensional mode…
Linking delinquency and personal identity formation across adolescence
Adolescent delinquency and identity formation have both been described in relation to the confusion, doubt, and need for individuation and autonomy faced by adolescents. While theoretical conceptualizations (e.g., Erikson, 1968; Moffitt, 1993) suggest that delinquency and identity formation might be developmentally intertwined across adolescence, this link had yet to be longitudinally examined. This study tested whether delinquency and identity a…
Do Gender and Ethnicity Make the Difference? Linguistic Evaluation Bias in Primary School
In two studies, we examined how primary school teachers use the subtle structural properties of language to communicate different evaluations of students who achieve higher versus lower marks, boys versus girls, and students with immigrant versus nonimmigrant origins. Written judgments of final evaluation records were coded for language abstraction. Results showed that students with higher marks are described with more abstract positive and more …
Psychology (83 works) · Developmental psychology (71 works) · Social Psychology (70 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (43 works) · Social Psychology (40 works) · Identity (music (28 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Self-concept (22 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 works) · Longitudinal study (20 works)