Paola Perucchini
Biographic Data
| ID | 6213832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Perucchini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Perucchini |
| SIGNATURE | PERUCCHINI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6745-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender stereotypes and biases in primary students
This study evaluated the impact of a school-based pilot program designed to reduce gender stereotypes and biases in fourth-grade school children. The program used multiple strategies to reduce gender stereotypes and biases relating to social roles and to the agency-communion paradigm. It also aimed to improve egalitarian attitudes. One hundred and seventeen students, divided into two groups (control and intervention), were subjected to implicit a…
Social Participation in Adolescence
Social participation during adolescence is a fundamental indicator of active citizenship. Prior research has identified sense of community as an important predictor of social participation. However, literature also suggests that prosocial behaviour and other dispositional factors—such as self‐transcendence values and social dominance orientation (SDO)—may serve as antecedents of participation. Two correlational studies investigated the predictive…
A meta-analysis of the effects of school outdoor environmental education interventions on students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes
In an era of experiential learning, outdoor environmental education plays a vital role in enhancing students’ physical, environmental, and psychological development. This study conducted two meta-analyses, following PRISMA guidelines, to examine the impact of school-based outdoor environmental education on students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes. Drawing on 29 knowledge studies and 19 attitude studies with 7,359 participants across all ed…
Promoting Sympathy, Empathic Self‐Efficacy, and Prosocial Behaviours Among Primary School Children
The present study investigated the efficacy of the CEPIDEAS Junior program, a universal intervention promoting prosocial behaviours and social adjustment in schools, on sympathy, empathic self‐efficacy, and prosocial behaviour among primary school children. The longitudinal intervention was conducted in 18 schools in the metropolitan area of Rome, involving students from second, third, and fourth grades. Using a quasi‐experimental design, a sampl…
Which Factors Predict L2 Receptive Vocabulary and Expressive Syntax in Bilingual Children from Low-SES Families
Compared to normative data, 20 children showed lower receptive vocabulary abilities (<-1.5 SD), 24 lower expressive syntax skills (-2DS), and 7 children lower phonological processing (<-1.5 DS). Moreover, L2 phonological processing and the length of L2 exposure in an educational context positively predicted L2 receptive vocabulary as well as L2 expressive syntax skills. To date, performance in L2 among early sequential/simultaneous bilingual chil…
Early intergroup coalition
Racial concepts emerge in preschool age, and affect children's evaluations of others’ actions. This research investigated whether 2.5‐year‐old and 7‐year‐old children's ( N = 160; 100% White) evaluations may be influenced by an initial racial bias when both out‐group and in‐group protagonists were evaluated directly by attributing the responsibility of negative or positive outcomes (i.e., fair or unfair distributions of resources). After seeing e…
L1 and L2 vocabulary and word combinations of preschool children from migrant families in Italy
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the L1 and L2 linguistic profiles of preschool bilingual children of migrants, to compare the evaluations of their parents and teachers, and to identify the children with low L2 lexical skills. Method: The expressive vocabulary and word combinations of these bilingual children were assessed with the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI) short-form questionnaire, by both parents, to eva…
The Predictive Role of Quantity and Quality Language-Exposure Measures for L1 and L2 Vocabulary Production among Immigrant Preschoolers in Italy
In this study, we investigated the lexical ability in L1 and L2 of 60 immigrant children who were 37 to 62 months old and exposed to minority languages (L1) and Italian (L2). Using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, we measured children's vocabulary production in L1 and L2. From interviews, we collected data on quantitative language exposure (parental input, child output, length of exposure to L2 at preschool, and parental…
Green versus grey break
Studies regarding the experience of children in schools’ outdoor environments report several benefits of nature on children’s cognitive, emotional, and physical development; thus, there is a need to systematically assess the characteristics of children’s place experience considering their own activities and social interactions. The present study investigated the perceptions of the physical environment and children-environment interactions during …
Moderating Effects of Early Pointing on Developmental Trajectories of Word Comprehension and Production
The present study investigated the moderating role of early communicative pointing on the developmental trends of word comprehension and production over the second year of life. Seventy-seven infants were involved in an experimental pointing task (T-POINT) in sessions at 9 and 12 months, and the MB-CDI questionnaire was filled in by their parents at 15, 18 and 24 months. Based on the age at which the infants were seen to use pointing, they were c…
Reducing implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth grade pupils
This study evaluated the impact of a school-based program designed to reduce implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth-grade school children. The program used empathy and perspective taking and direct and indirect contact as strategies to reduce ethnic prejudice. Multiple activities were used, including drawings by migrant children as instruments to promote inclusive behaviors. One hundred and five students were divided into two groups (contro…
Developmental trajectories in infant pointing
The goal of this intensive longitudinal study was to trace the developmental trajectories of infant pointing production, through consideration of the modality (i.e. pointing alone vs pointing–vocal coupling) and the communicative intention (i.e. imperative vs declarative). Multilevel analysis was used to model the normative trend and the individual differences in pointing trajectories. Eighteen Italian infants participated in this study and were …
From childhood nature experiences to adult pro-environmental behaviors
In two studies, the role of nature experiences and social norms during childhood is explored next to adulthood biospheric values, connectedness to nature, environmental identity, and objective knowledge in relation to pro-environmental behaviors. Study 1 (N = 185) tested the hypothesized model in the realm of general pro-environmental behaviors and sustainable fruit consumption on a sample of students. Study 2 (N = 155) tested the model in the re…
The Pointing–Vocal Coupling Progression in the First Half of the Second Year of Life
This study investigated the development of the pointing–vocal coupling system. We were interested in the infants’ behavior to attune prosody with pointing intentions. Twenty‐five children were involved at 12, 15, and 18 months of age in an experimental procedure devised to elicit imperative and declarative pointing. Pointing, vocality associated with pointing, and the prosody of that vocality were analyzed. A significant increase in the coupling …
Is Infant Initiation of Joint Attention by Pointing Affected by Type of Interaction
This article reports the results of two experiments studying the effects of type of interaction on infant production of declarative pointing. In Experiment 1, intensity of social presence was manipulated in adult–infant interaction with 12–19‐month‐olds (no social presence; adult responding only; adult also initiating joint attentional bids). Experiment 2 extended the analysis to peer interaction in 12–24‐month‐olds. Pointing was considered in th…
The Role of Declarative Pointing in Developing a Theory of Mind
It has been suggested that the child's capacity to represent and influence another person's attentional state about an object or event in triadic interactions (declarative communication) is an early manifestation of social understanding in the second year of life. This study tested the following predictions: First, in typically developing children declarative pointing emerges later than imperative pointing. Second, the capacity to use declarative…
Representations and narratives during pregnancy
In this paper, we explore how maternal representations, and in particular their contents, are structured during pregnancy. Twenty-three primiparous women were recruited for participation in a longitudinal study about mothers' thoughts and feelings about their infants. A semistructured interview was conducted with each of the subjects in the third trimester of pregnancy. During the interview, subjects were also given five adjective lists based on …
Reducing implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth grade pupils
This study evaluated the impact of a school-based program designed to reduce implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth-grade school children. The program used empathy and perspective taking and direct and indirect contact as strategies to reduce ethnic prejudice. Multiple activities were used, including drawings by migrant children as instruments to promote inclusive behaviors. One hundred and five students were divided into two groups (contro…
Green versus grey break
Studies regarding the experience of children in schools’ outdoor environments report several benefits of nature on children’s cognitive, emotional, and physical development; thus, there is a need to systematically assess the characteristics of children’s place experience considering their own activities and social interactions. The present study investigated the perceptions of the physical environment and children-environment interactions during …
From childhood nature experiences to adult pro-environmental behaviors
In two studies, the role of nature experiences and social norms during childhood is explored next to adulthood biospheric values, connectedness to nature, environmental identity, and objective knowledge in relation to pro-environmental behaviors. Study 1 (N = 185) tested the hypothesized model in the realm of general pro-environmental behaviors and sustainable fruit consumption on a sample of students. Study 2 (N = 155) tested the model in the re…
Is Infant Initiation of Joint Attention by Pointing Affected by Type of Interaction
This article reports the results of two experiments studying the effects of type of interaction on infant production of declarative pointing. In Experiment 1, intensity of social presence was manipulated in adult–infant interaction with 12–19‐month‐olds (no social presence; adult responding only; adult also initiating joint attentional bids). Experiment 2 extended the analysis to peer interaction in 12–24‐month‐olds. Pointing was considered in th…
Representations and narratives during pregnancy
In this paper, we explore how maternal representations, and in particular their contents, are structured during pregnancy. Twenty-three primiparous women were recruited for participation in a longitudinal study about mothers' thoughts and feelings about their infants. A semistructured interview was conducted with each of the subjects in the third trimester of pregnancy. During the interview, subjects were also given five adjective lists based on …
The Role of Declarative Pointing in Developing a Theory of Mind
It has been suggested that the child's capacity to represent and influence another person's attentional state about an object or event in triadic interactions (declarative communication) is an early manifestation of social understanding in the second year of life. This study tested the following predictions: First, in typically developing children declarative pointing emerges later than imperative pointing. Second, the capacity to use declarative…
Is Infant Initiation of Joint Attention by Pointing Affected by Type of Interaction
This article reports the results of two experiments studying the effects of type of interaction on infant production of declarative pointing. In Experiment 1, intensity of social presence was manipulated in adult–infant interaction with 12–19‐month‐olds (no social presence; adult responding only; adult also initiating joint attentional bids). Experiment 2 extended the analysis to peer interaction in 12–24‐month‐olds. Pointing was considered in th…
The Pointing–Vocal Coupling Progression in the First Half of the Second Year of Life
This study investigated the development of the pointing–vocal coupling system. We were interested in the infants’ behavior to attune prosody with pointing intentions. Twenty‐five children were involved at 12, 15, and 18 months of age in an experimental procedure devised to elicit imperative and declarative pointing. Pointing, vocality associated with pointing, and the prosody of that vocality were analyzed. A significant increase in the coupling …
From childhood nature experiences to adult pro-environmental behaviors
In two studies, the role of nature experiences and social norms during childhood is explored next to adulthood biospheric values, connectedness to nature, environmental identity, and objective knowledge in relation to pro-environmental behaviors. Study 1 (N = 185) tested the hypothesized model in the realm of general pro-environmental behaviors and sustainable fruit consumption on a sample of students. Study 2 (N = 155) tested the model in the re…
Developmental trajectories in infant pointing
The goal of this intensive longitudinal study was to trace the developmental trajectories of infant pointing production, through consideration of the modality (i.e. pointing alone vs pointing–vocal coupling) and the communicative intention (i.e. imperative vs declarative). Multilevel analysis was used to model the normative trend and the individual differences in pointing trajectories. Eighteen Italian infants participated in this study and were …
Moderating Effects of Early Pointing on Developmental Trajectories of Word Comprehension and Production
The present study investigated the moderating role of early communicative pointing on the developmental trends of word comprehension and production over the second year of life. Seventy-seven infants were involved in an experimental pointing task (T-POINT) in sessions at 9 and 12 months, and the MB-CDI questionnaire was filled in by their parents at 15, 18 and 24 months. Based on the age at which the infants were seen to use pointing, they were c…
Reducing implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth grade pupils
This study evaluated the impact of a school-based program designed to reduce implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth-grade school children. The program used empathy and perspective taking and direct and indirect contact as strategies to reduce ethnic prejudice. Multiple activities were used, including drawings by migrant children as instruments to promote inclusive behaviors. One hundred and five students were divided into two groups (contro…
L1 and L2 vocabulary and word combinations of preschool children from migrant families in Italy
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the L1 and L2 linguistic profiles of preschool bilingual children of migrants, to compare the evaluations of their parents and teachers, and to identify the children with low L2 lexical skills. Method: The expressive vocabulary and word combinations of these bilingual children were assessed with the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI) short-form questionnaire, by both parents, to eva…
The Predictive Role of Quantity and Quality Language-Exposure Measures for L1 and L2 Vocabulary Production among Immigrant Preschoolers in Italy
In this study, we investigated the lexical ability in L1 and L2 of 60 immigrant children who were 37 to 62 months old and exposed to minority languages (L1) and Italian (L2). Using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, we measured children's vocabulary production in L1 and L2. From interviews, we collected data on quantitative language exposure (parental input, child output, length of exposure to L2 at preschool, and parental…
Green versus grey break
Studies regarding the experience of children in schools’ outdoor environments report several benefits of nature on children’s cognitive, emotional, and physical development; thus, there is a need to systematically assess the characteristics of children’s place experience considering their own activities and social interactions. The present study investigated the perceptions of the physical environment and children-environment interactions during …
Which Factors Predict L2 Receptive Vocabulary and Expressive Syntax in Bilingual Children from Low-SES Families
Compared to normative data, 20 children showed lower receptive vocabulary abilities (<-1.5 SD), 24 lower expressive syntax skills (-2DS), and 7 children lower phonological processing (<-1.5 DS). Moreover, L2 phonological processing and the length of L2 exposure in an educational context positively predicted L2 receptive vocabulary as well as L2 expressive syntax skills. To date, performance in L2 among early sequential/simultaneous bilingual chil…
Early intergroup coalition
Racial concepts emerge in preschool age, and affect children's evaluations of others’ actions. This research investigated whether 2.5‐year‐old and 7‐year‐old children's ( N = 160; 100% White) evaluations may be influenced by an initial racial bias when both out‐group and in‐group protagonists were evaluated directly by attributing the responsibility of negative or positive outcomes (i.e., fair or unfair distributions of resources). After seeing e…
Promoting Sympathy, Empathic Self‐Efficacy, and Prosocial Behaviours Among Primary School Children
The present study investigated the efficacy of the CEPIDEAS Junior program, a universal intervention promoting prosocial behaviours and social adjustment in schools, on sympathy, empathic self‐efficacy, and prosocial behaviour among primary school children. The longitudinal intervention was conducted in 18 schools in the metropolitan area of Rome, involving students from second, third, and fourth grades. Using a quasi‐experimental design, a sampl…
Gender stereotypes and biases in primary students
This study evaluated the impact of a school-based pilot program designed to reduce gender stereotypes and biases in fourth-grade school children. The program used multiple strategies to reduce gender stereotypes and biases relating to social roles and to the agency-communion paradigm. It also aimed to improve egalitarian attitudes. One hundred and seventeen students, divided into two groups (control and intervention), were subjected to implicit a…
Social Participation in Adolescence
Social participation during adolescence is a fundamental indicator of active citizenship. Prior research has identified sense of community as an important predictor of social participation. However, literature also suggests that prosocial behaviour and other dispositional factors—such as self‐transcendence values and social dominance orientation (SDO)—may serve as antecedents of participation. Two correlational studies investigated the predictive…
A meta-analysis of the effects of school outdoor environmental education interventions on students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes
In an era of experiential learning, outdoor environmental education plays a vital role in enhancing students’ physical, environmental, and psychological development. This study conducted two meta-analyses, following PRISMA guidelines, to examine the impact of school-based outdoor environmental education on students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes. Drawing on 29 knowledge studies and 19 attitude studies with 7,359 participants across all ed…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Language Development and Disorders (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works)