Alice Chirico

Datos Biográficos

ID292169
NOMBREAlice Chirico
NOMBRESAlice
APELLIDOChirico
FIRMACHIRICO A
AFILIACIONESUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
ORCID0000-0001-9955-1926
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAS11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR43
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2018
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Measuring Teachers’ Motivational Styles

    Open AccessSara Germani, Giulia Raimondi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoeducational…2026

    Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), this study proposes the Teachers’ Motivational Styles (TMS) questionnaire, a new tool designed to assess how teachers support or frustrate students’ basic psychological needs. Items were developed based on a recent SDT-based taxonomy of need-supportive and need-thwarting teaching behaviors. The questionnaire was administered to 2454 secondary school students in Italy and the United Kingdom. Exploratory…

  • A Dual Country Validation of the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale

    Open AccessGiulia Raimondi, Sara Germani et al.ARTICLEPsychology in the Schools2026

    Despite the growing interest in basic psychological needs within educational settings, existing measures fail to distinguish between students' relationships with teachers and classmates, limiting the understanding of how different social dynamics uniquely impact need satisfaction and frustration during adolescence. This study provided psychometric evidence for a refined school‐specific version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frus…

  • The effects of athletes’ moral identity on clean sport behavior intentions

    Open AccessMartina Giorgi, Alice Chirico et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2026Referencias: 7

    Introduction In recent years, doping has increasingly been recognized not just as a health risk for athletes, but also as a factor undermining the credibility of sports as a whole. The scientific discussion is gradually shifting: rather than simply predicting risky behavior, there is growing emphasis on fostering a genuine “clean sport identity,” meaning a conscious commitment to shared ethical values. In this study, we draw on both Social Cognit…

  • Cognitive changes and emotional heart rate variability dynamics in subjective cognitive decline

    Open AccessGiuseppina Elena Cipriani, Francesca Borghesi et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026Referencias: 3

    Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is increasingly recognised as a potential preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease, yet the physiological mechanisms underlying its progression remain poorly understood. This longitudinal study examined whether heart rate variability (HRV), a non-invasive marker of autonomic nervous system regulation, could serve as an early psychophysiological indicator of cognitive vulnerability in older adults with SCD. Twent…

  • Shaping kindness

    Open AccessMarta Pizzolante, Sabrina Bartolotta et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2025

    The aesthetic of our surrounding environment has a significant impact on our behavior. According to the S-O-R model, specific features characterizing the environment act as stimuli (S) that affect the internal states of people - organisms (O)-, which, in turn, drive their behavioral responses (R). Specifically, engaging with aesthetically appealing environments has been found to potentially promote positive normative outcomes such as prosocial be…

  • Supporting Brainstorming with a Collaborative Platform or a Generative Artificial Intelligence Tool

    Open AccessKatusha Gerardini, Eleonora Diletta Sarcinella et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2025

    This study explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) versus traditional whiteboards in supporting group brainstorming. Sixteen groups of five members each used Miro (a conventional whiteboard) and DALL-E (an image-based GAI tool), either online or offline, in a 2 × 2 experimental design (online vs. offline; Miro vs. DALL-E). Researchers measured participants’ affect (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), emotions (Aesth…

  • Exploring Academic Self‐Efficacy for Self‐Regulated Learning

    Open AccessGiulia Raimondi, Sara Manganelli et al.ARTICLEPsychology in the Schools2025

    Academic Self‐Efficacy for Self‐Regulated Learning (ASE for SRL) represents individuals’ belief in their abilities to regulate and organize their learning to achieve academic outcomes, and it is crucial for motivation and students’ well‐being. This study, conducted on a nationally representative sample of 26,564 10th grade Italian students (50.1% female; Mean Age = 15.60), aims to evaluate differences in ASE for SRL. Specifically, we assessed the…

  • A new method of exploring affect dynamics in music

    Open AccessFrancesca Borghesi, Eleonora Diletta Sarcinella et al.ARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2025

    For several years, researchers in the realm of music psychology have sought to understand how listeners perceive and experience emotions during music listening. Experimental and psychometric tools have been developed to explore the nuances of these emotional experiences, highlighting individual differences. Surprisingly, while much effort has been made to relate musical elements to specific emotional states, it is still an open issue explaining h…

  • Music making and music listening today

    Open AccessAlice Chirico, Alfredo RaglioARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2025

  • Applying the networked flow model in a real-world music contest

    Open AccessEleonora Diletta Sarcinella, Francesca Borghesi et al.ARTICLEMusicae Scientiae2025

    Flow and creativity have always held a special link in artistic domains. Music-making is increasingly demonstrated as a source of group flow and collaborative musical creativity. The Networked Flow (NF) model outlines factors supporting optimal collaborative group work in different contexts, including music. The model suggests that high levels of affect, group flow, and social presence are crucial for optimal group creativity, along with the prog…

  • A stochastic model for affect dynamics

    Open AccessFrancesca Borghesi, Gloria Simoncini et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    Employing Markov chains provided a quantitative and insightful approach for examining affect dynamics in a patient with AN. This methodology accurately measures emotional transitions and provides a clear and interpretable framework for clinicians and patients. By leveraging Markovian indexes, mental health professionals may gain a comprehensive understanding of emotional fluctuations' patterns. Moreover, graphical representations of emotional tra…

  • How Classroom Composition and Size Shape Adolescent School Victimization

    Open AccessElisa Cavicchiolo, Giulia Raimondi et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2025Referencias: 13

    Adolescent school victimization is a socially regulated experience, making it important to consider classroom-level compositional effects beyond individual characteristics. This study investigated the role of classroom characteristics, specifically, classroom socioeconomic status, average academic achievement, sex composition, immigrant density, and class size, in shaping students’ experiences of school victimization. Victimization was analyzed u…

  • Exploring variables related to teachers' self-efficacy in inclusive education

    Open AccessMariano Giorgi, Martina Giorgi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Referencias: 8

  • Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers

    Open AccessLorenzo Filosa, Valentina Sommovigo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2025Referencias: 85

    OBJECTIVES: The present pre-registered study examined the reciprocal day-to-day associations between global self-esteem and self-concept clarity and their incremental validity with respect to daily life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. METHODS: We used intensive longitudinal data from 153 adult workers (45.1% women), over a period of 31 days. Data were analyzed using dynamic structural equation modeling. RESULTS: Results attest…

  • Emerging technologies in varied domains

    Open AccessMarco Benvenuti, Claudia Scorolli et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2024

  • Virtual vs. real

    Open AccessMarta Pizzolante, Sabrina Bartolotta et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2024

    Background Virtual Reality (VR) has already emerged as an effective instrument for simulating realistic interactions, across various domains. In the field of User Experience (UX), VR has been used to create prototypes of real-world products. Here, the question is to what extent the users’ experience of a virtual prototype can be equivalent to that of its real counterpart (the real product). This issue particularly concerns the perceptual, cogniti…

  • “Standing Up for Earth Rights”

    Open AccessAlice Chirico, Marta Pizzolante et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2023

    Virtual nature exposure has emerged as an effective method for promoting pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, also due to the increased emotional connection with nature itself. However, the role played by complex emotions elicited by virtual nature, such as awe, needs to be fully elucidated. Awe is an emotion stemming from vast stimuli, including nature, and virtual reality (VR) emerged as an effective medium to elicit it. One hundred ninet…

  • How Real Are Virtual Emotions

    Open AccessAlice Chirico, Andrea GaggioliARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2023

  • Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information

    Open AccessAlicia B W Clifton, Alexander G Stahlmann et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2023

    Measures of the same phenomenon should produce the same results; this principle is fundamental because it allows for replication—the basis of science. Unfortunately, measures of a psychological construct in one language can often measure something a bit different in another language (i.e., low “scale equivalence”). Historically, the problem was thought to stem from insufficient knowledge of best-practice translation procedures. Yet solutions base…

  • Awe in the metaverse

    Open AccessMarta Pizzolante, Francesca Borghesi et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2023

    An increasing number of studies have unveiled the nuanced nature of awe - a complex emotion stemming from stimuli so perceptually and conceptually vast to impact individuals’ current mental frames. Its positive impact on human wellbeing and health have been reported even after a single short exposure to awe-inspiring stimuli. Recently, Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a suitable technique for eliciting brief moments of intense awe. Moreover, n…

  • Self-transcendent dispositions and spirituality

    Alice Chirico, Marta Pizzolante et al.ARTICLEJournal of Spirituality in Mental…2023

    The considerable connection between religiosity/spirituality and positivity in life in general has been widely demonstrated. However, preliminary evidence has shown that when also a cognitive component is included, the direction of this relationship seems to emerge more clearly. Specifically, the differential pathways linking specific positive self-transcendent (ST) experiences and religiosity/spirituality is still an open issue. In this study, w…

  • I RUN CLEAN Project”—An Innovative and Self-Sustainable Approach to Develop Clean Sport Behaviours in Grassroots Athletes

    Open AccessRoberto Codella, Fabio Lucidi et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Investigation…2023

    The phenomenon of doping is a public health issue that poses threats to sport and society. In recent decades, the emphasis on efforts to address the issue and reduce the incidence of doping by young people in sport has shifted from deterrence through testing and punishment to the promotion of clean sport behaviours through values-based education. The “I Run Clean project” sought to develop new and effective tools targeting grassroots athletes and…

  • I Am on Top!”

    Open AccessF Galli, Alice Chirico et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Investigation…2023

    The use of substances to improve sports performance is a widespread phenomenon among adolescents. Several anti-doping programs have been developed, mainly based on knowledge-based evidence. The main aim of the present study was to implement an anti-doping intervention in sports high school students, based on a psychological framework, such as Socio-Cognitive Theory, through the development of a Serious Game (SG), i.e., digital learning based on t…

  • Addressing Adolescents’ Prejudice toward Immigrants

    Open AccessFlavia Albarello, Sara Manganelli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 71

    According to social learning theory, classrooms are essential socialization contexts for intergroup attitudes, but analyses of contextual factors net of the impact of individual variables affecting prejudice toward immigrants are very limited. This study was conducted on a large sample of Italian adolescents ( N = 2904; M age = 13.70; females = 48.5%; 168 classrooms). It examined the role of classroom contextual factors affecting adolescents’ pre…

  • Prejudice towards Immigrants

    Open AccessFlavia Albarello, Silvia Moscatelli et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 123

    Immigration processes and the possible marginalization of ethnic minorities in the receiving countries are essential issues in contemporary societies. Prejudice and discrimination can be critical obstacles to immigrants' integration into the host country and can severely affect their well-being and mental health. This theoretical and conceptual overview aims to highlight the critical social-psychological processes underlying attitudes toward immi…