Elisa Cavicchiolo
Biographic Data
| ID | 378353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Cavicchiolo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavicchiolo |
| SIGNATURE | CAVICCHIOLO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salerno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8552-2737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Measuring Teachers’ Motivational Styles: Development and Validation of a Self-Determination Theory-Based Questionnaire in a Dual-Country Study
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: A New Focus on School Relationships
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…
Exploring Academic Self‐Efficacy for Self‐Regulated Learning: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Immigrant Background, and Biological Sex
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…
How Classroom Composition and Size Shape Adolescent School Victimization: Insights from a Doubly Latent Multilevel Analysis of Population Data
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…
Addressing Adolescents’ Prejudice toward Immigrants: The Role of the Classroom Context
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: A Conceptual and Theoretical Overview on Its Social Psychological Determinants
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…
Positive Youth Development Among Youth Living in Poverty: The Role of Psychological Needs Satisfaction
Positive developmental outcomes among youth living in poverty have rarely been studied. Despite numerous risk factors, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to positive developmental outcomes among youth in poverty. Using the Self-Determination Theory framework, this two-wave longitudinal study investigated the contribution of basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to positive developmental outcomes…
Impulsivity and Depressive Brooding in Internet Addiction: A Study With a Sample of Italian Adolescents During Covid-19 Lockdown
This contribution presents a study conducted on a sample of Italian adolescents ( n = 411) in the period of the first COVID-19 lockdown. The study investigated the role and predictive weight of the impulsivity and depressive brooding variables on Internet addiction, using a hierarchical regression analysis. The participants were administered the Uso-Abuso e Dipendenza da Internet [Internet Use-Abuse and Addiction] (UADI-2), the Barratt Impulsiven…
Improving University Students' Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From an Online Counseling Intervention in Italy
The study demonstrates the promising impact of online counseling intervention and its efficient contribution in promoting the well-being of university students. The results contribute to the ongoing debate concerning the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults, helping professionals develop more efficient clinical and psychological interventions
Internet addiction in young adults: The role of impulsivity and codependency
Excessive Internet use has demonstrated comorbidity with other psychological symptoms and psychiatric disorders, as well as impairments in the management of daily life, relationships and emotional stability. Recent findings in the literature have consistently supported the relationship between impulsivity and Internet addiction. The present study hypothesized that, in addition to impulsivity, a further predictor of Internet addiction might be rel…
The Psychometric Properties of the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-3): Factorial Structure, Invariance and Validity in the Italian Context
The Italian version of the BREQ-3 has proved to be a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the behavioral regulation of exercise in individuals with different demographic characteristics
Adolescents’ Characteristics and Peer Relationships in Class: A Population Study
This population study suggests that adolescent characteristics (especially immigrant background, socioeconomic status, and academic achievement) seem to affect social relationships with classmates
Anxiety, Motives, and Intention for Physical Activity during the Italian Covid-19 Lockdown: An Observational Longitudinal Study
In conclusion, a multidisciplinary approach should be promoting methods and infrastructures to permit people to adhere to physical activity, as a front line against any health emergency
School absenteeism and self-efficacy in very-low-income students in Italy: Cross-lagged relationships and differential effects of immigrant background
Bullying and Victimization in Native and Immigrant Very-Low-Income Adolescents in Italy: Disentangling the Roles of Peer Acceptance and Friendship
Social inclusion of immigrant children at school: The impact of group, family and individual characteristics, and the role of proficiency in the national language
The present study, based on data concerning 2328 immigrant children attending a representative sample of 561 schools, investigates the impact of various group, family and individual characteristics as well as proficiency in the national language on acceptance and friendship among classmates, while controlling for measurement errors by means of a structural equation modelling approach. As regards group characteristics, the results indicate that on…
Immigrant Children’s Proficiency in the Host Country Language is More Important than Individual, Family and Peer Characteristics in Predicting Their Psychological Well-Being
Brothers, ants or thieves: Students’ complex attitudes towards immigrants and the role of socioeconomic status and gender in shaping them
Support for Autonomy at School Predicts Immigrant Adolescents’ Psychological Well-being
Social inclusion of immigrant children at school: The impact of group, family and individual characteristics, and the role of proficiency in the national language
The present study, based on data concerning 2328 immigrant children attending a representative sample of 561 schools, investigates the impact of various group, family and individual characteristics as well as proficiency in the national language on acceptance and friendship among classmates, while controlling for measurement errors by means of a structural equation modelling approach. As regards group characteristics, the results indicate that on…
Immigrant Children’s Proficiency in the Host Country Language is More Important than Individual, Family and Peer Characteristics in Predicting Their Psychological Well-Being
Brothers, ants or thieves: Students’ complex attitudes towards immigrants and the role of socioeconomic status and gender in shaping them
Prejudice towards Immigrants: A Conceptual and Theoretical Overview on Its Social Psychological Determinants
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…
Addressing Adolescents’ Prejudice toward Immigrants: The Role of the Classroom Context
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…
Positive Youth Development Among Youth Living in Poverty: The Role of Psychological Needs Satisfaction
Positive developmental outcomes among youth living in poverty have rarely been studied. Despite numerous risk factors, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to positive developmental outcomes among youth in poverty. Using the Self-Determination Theory framework, this two-wave longitudinal study investigated the contribution of basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to positive developmental outcomes…
School absenteeism and self-efficacy in very-low-income students in Italy: Cross-lagged relationships and differential effects of immigrant background
Support for Autonomy at School Predicts Immigrant Adolescents’ Psychological Well-being
Brothers, ants or thieves: Students’ complex attitudes towards immigrants and the role of socioeconomic status and gender in shaping them
Social inclusion of immigrant children at school: The impact of group, family and individual characteristics, and the role of proficiency in the national language
The present study, based on data concerning 2328 immigrant children attending a representative sample of 561 schools, investigates the impact of various group, family and individual characteristics as well as proficiency in the national language on acceptance and friendship among classmates, while controlling for measurement errors by means of a structural equation modelling approach. As regards group characteristics, the results indicate that on…
Immigrant Children’s Proficiency in the Host Country Language is More Important than Individual, Family and Peer Characteristics in Predicting Their Psychological Well-Being
Bullying and Victimization in Native and Immigrant Very-Low-Income Adolescents in Italy: Disentangling the Roles of Peer Acceptance and Friendship
Impulsivity and Depressive Brooding in Internet Addiction: A Study With a Sample of Italian Adolescents During Covid-19 Lockdown
This contribution presents a study conducted on a sample of Italian adolescents ( n = 411) in the period of the first COVID-19 lockdown. The study investigated the role and predictive weight of the impulsivity and depressive brooding variables on Internet addiction, using a hierarchical regression analysis. The participants were administered the Uso-Abuso e Dipendenza da Internet [Internet Use-Abuse and Addiction] (UADI-2), the Barratt Impulsiven…
Improving University Students' Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From an Online Counseling Intervention in Italy
The study demonstrates the promising impact of online counseling intervention and its efficient contribution in promoting the well-being of university students. The results contribute to the ongoing debate concerning the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults, helping professionals develop more efficient clinical and psychological interventions
Internet addiction in young adults: The role of impulsivity and codependency
Excessive Internet use has demonstrated comorbidity with other psychological symptoms and psychiatric disorders, as well as impairments in the management of daily life, relationships and emotional stability. Recent findings in the literature have consistently supported the relationship between impulsivity and Internet addiction. The present study hypothesized that, in addition to impulsivity, a further predictor of Internet addiction might be rel…
The Psychometric Properties of the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-3): Factorial Structure, Invariance and Validity in the Italian Context
The Italian version of the BREQ-3 has proved to be a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the behavioral regulation of exercise in individuals with different demographic characteristics
Adolescents’ Characteristics and Peer Relationships in Class: A Population Study
This population study suggests that adolescent characteristics (especially immigrant background, socioeconomic status, and academic achievement) seem to affect social relationships with classmates
Anxiety, Motives, and Intention for Physical Activity during the Italian Covid-19 Lockdown: An Observational Longitudinal Study
In conclusion, a multidisciplinary approach should be promoting methods and infrastructures to permit people to adhere to physical activity, as a front line against any health emergency
School absenteeism and self-efficacy in very-low-income students in Italy: Cross-lagged relationships and differential effects of immigrant background
Addressing Adolescents’ Prejudice toward Immigrants: The Role of the Classroom Context
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: A Conceptual and Theoretical Overview on Its Social Psychological Determinants
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…
Positive Youth Development Among Youth Living in Poverty: The Role of Psychological Needs Satisfaction
Positive developmental outcomes among youth living in poverty have rarely been studied. Despite numerous risk factors, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to positive developmental outcomes among youth in poverty. Using the Self-Determination Theory framework, this two-wave longitudinal study investigated the contribution of basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to positive developmental outcomes…
Exploring Academic Self‐Efficacy for Self‐Regulated Learning: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Immigrant Background, and Biological Sex
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…
How Classroom Composition and Size Shape Adolescent School Victimization: Insights from a Doubly Latent Multilevel Analysis of Population Data
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…
Measuring Teachers’ Motivational Styles: Development and Validation of a Self-Determination Theory-Based Questionnaire in a Dual-Country Study
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: A New Focus on School Relationships
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…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Psychological intervention (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works)