Davide Marengo
Biographic Data
| ID | 762033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Marengo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Marengo |
| SIGNATURE | MARENGO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7107-0810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of videogame genre and platform in gaming disorder tendencies
Is it the Sharing, or the checking? Exploring the role of Instagram story views checking behavior in psychological well-being – a person oriented approach
Research on the relationship between social media use and psychological well-being has yielded mixed findings, underscoring the need for more nuanced investigations. While some studies have examined public social media feedback (e.g., likes), the psychological implications of private feedback mechanisms remain underexplored. This cross-sectional study investigates how frequent checking of Instagram Stories’ views list relates to psychological wel…
When parents share too much
Inferring Personality From Social Media Activity Using Large Language Models
INTRODUCTION: Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising approach to infer personality traits unobtrusively from digital footprints. However, the reliability and validity of these inferences remain underexplored. METHOD: Gemini 1.5 Pro and GPT-4o were used to infer Big Five traits from 2 years of Facebook posts by 1214 Italian users. Predictions were compared to self-reports on the Ten-Item Personality Inventory. RESULTS: LLM predictions unde…
The Interplay Between Sex-Biased Parenting Attitudes and Children’s Gender Nonconformity in the Psychological Adjustment of School-Age Children
Research on parental attitudes toward children's gender-related behaviors suggests that parents often treat boys and girls differently and apply varying degrees of pressure on children to conform to traditional gender norms. These pressures can negatively affect children's psychological adjustment. Compared to their cisgender peers, gender-diverse children tend to experience greater psychosocial challenges. In the present study, 1411 parents of c…
Testing order effects in autobiographical memory research
This study aimed to test whether changing the administration order of instruments assessing autobiographical memory has an effect on the responses that participants give when filling in these instruments. We employed a between-subjects experimental design involving two groups of undergraduates: participants in the “narrative-first group” (n = 149) recounted an autobiographical event in writing and then completed questionnaires assessing memory ph…
Instagram Stories Unveiled
Instagram is one of the most used platforms, and ephemeral stories are proving to be the most used medium for users to share content on the platform. However, there have been few studies examining this type of content in relation to emotional well-being. This study examined the association between the number of published Instagram stories, psychological well-being, personality traits, and gender in a sample of 734 Instagram users from Italy, incl…
Distinguishing high engagement from problematic symptoms in Instagram users
Building on recent findings by Fournier and colleagues (2023), the present study examined the fit of a bi-dimensional model of problematic Instagram use, distinguishing between non-pathological high engagement and problematic symptoms mirroring addictive tendencies. A sample of 696 Italian adults completed an online survey assessing problematic Instagram use, personality traits, psychological distress, usage motives for Instagram use, and Instagr…
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data
OBJECTIVE: Since the first study linking recorded smartphone variables to self-reported personality in 2011, many additional studies have been published investigating this association. In the present meta-analyses, we aimed to understand how strongly personality can be predicted via smartphone data. METHOD: Meta-analytical calculations were used to assess the association between smartphone data and Big Five traits. Because of the lack of independ…
Sense of Belonging at School and on Social Media in Adolescence
Belongingness is a key factor in the psychological development and school adjustment of children and adolescents. Going beyond the existing literature, the present study evaluated the association between two sources of belongingness, namely sense of belonging at school (SOBAS) and on social media (SOBOSM), and both psychological maladjustment and educational achievement. Sample consisted of 698 early-to-late adolescents (52.3% female, mean age = …
Smartphone and social media use contributed to individual tendencies towards social media addiction in Italian adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic
The links between students’ relationships with teachers, likeability among peers, and bullying victimization
Highly responsive teachers tend to foster behaviors that are low in conflict and high in prosociality, among their students, leading to a positive classroom climate and to a decrease in bullying victimization. However, little is known about the interaction between teacher responsiveness and both student–teacher, and student–student relationship characteristics, in influencing students’ bullying victimization at school. Here, we examined student–t…
Internal and External Causal Explanations of Happiness
The present study extends previous research on the folk concept of happiness by investigating people's causal attributions toward the things that make them happy. Six hundred ten Italian adults (18–55 years old) took part in a questionnaire study. Respondents were asked to report five happiness sources and to provide ratings for both the attainment of these sources and the internal and external factors potentially causing them (self, other people…
Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students
Examining the links between active Facebook use, received likes, self-esteem and happiness
Mining Facebook data for Quality of Life assessment
Research indicates that how individuals utilise language to express themselves reflects individual-level differences regarding psychosocial characteristics, including perceived Quality of Life (QoL). In this study, we apply a language modelling technique to the natural user-generated language from Facebook to examine associations between language expressed on Facebook and self-reported QoL. Specifically, we collected the user-generated language f…
Student‐teacher conflict moderates the link between students’ social status in the classroom and involvement in bullying behaviors and exposure to peer victimization
INTRODUCTION: Student-teacher relationships have been shown to influence bullying-related behaviors in students. In this study we considered the moderating role of student-teacher conflict and students' social status in the classroom and involvement in bullying behaviors and peer victimization. METHODS: Sample consisted of 1742 students (47.2% females, mean age = 10.79; SD = 1.36; range = 8-14) clustered in 113 classrooms, of which 1017 (58.4%) a…
Alone, together
Because of the high prevalence of smartphone use in early adolescence, communication between classroom peers increasingly occurs via online chat groups. Recent studies indicate that online classmate groups are places in which different forms of peer exclusion can occur, including being banned from participating in the groups, not being invited to join them, or being shunned by online peers. In order to avoid being offended by peers, students may …
Investigating the links between fear of missing out, social media addiction, and emotional symptoms in adolescence
The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder
Follow or be followed
The associations between sex drive, sexual self-concept, sexual orientation, and exposure to online victimization in Italian adolescents
A Parent-Report Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children
This article presents an Italian version of the Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children (GIQC) (Cohen-Kettenis et al., 2006; Johnson et al., 2004), a parent-report questionnaire covering a range of gender characteristics of children. We developed the GIQC-Italian version with the translation/back translation method and administered it, with a sociodemographic data sheet, to the parents of 1148 children aged 3-12 years (non-clinical sample). Af…
Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media
Highly-visual social media and internalizing symptoms in adolescence
Alone, together
Because of the high prevalence of smartphone use in early adolescence, communication between classroom peers increasingly occurs via online chat groups. Recent studies indicate that online classmate groups are places in which different forms of peer exclusion can occur, including being banned from participating in the groups, not being invited to join them, or being shunned by online peers. In order to avoid being offended by peers, students may …
Follow or be followed
Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students
The associations between sex drive, sexual self-concept, sexual orientation, and exposure to online victimization in Italian adolescents
The interplay between ADHD symptoms and time perspective in addictive social media use
Internalizing Symptoms and Friendship Stability
The present study investigated the stability of friendship nominations over the course of a school year as a function of early adolescents’ and their classroom best friends’ internalizing symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and somatization). Sample consisted of 156 early adolescents (57.1% female; [Formula: see text] age = 12.62; SD = 0.62) involved in 78 same-sex best friendship dyads. We assessed best friendship (classroom) nominations at beg…
A Parent-Report Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children
This article presents an Italian version of the Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children (GIQC) (Cohen-Kettenis et al., 2006; Johnson et al., 2004), a parent-report questionnaire covering a range of gender characteristics of children. We developed the GIQC-Italian version with the translation/back translation method and administered it, with a sociodemographic data sheet, to the parents of 1148 children aged 3-12 years (non-clinical sample). Af…
Student-Teacher Relationships As a Protective Factor for School Adjustment during the Transition from Middle to High School
A robust body of research has identified school transitions during adolescence, and in particular the transition from middle to high school, as one of the riskiest phases for school failure, being characterized by significant social, emotional and behavioral changes. This transition is critical even with respect to academic achievement: in Italy, the highest frequency of school dropout can be observed in the 9th and 10th grades, partly as a conse…
Internalizing Symptoms and Friendship Stability
The present study investigated the stability of friendship nominations over the course of a school year as a function of early adolescents’ and their classroom best friends’ internalizing symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and somatization). Sample consisted of 156 early adolescents (57.1% female; [Formula: see text] age = 12.62; SD = 0.62) involved in 78 same-sex best friendship dyads. We assessed best friendship (classroom) nominations at beg…
Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media
Highly-visual social media and internalizing symptoms in adolescence
The interplay between ADHD symptoms and time perspective in addictive social media use
The associations between sex drive, sexual self-concept, sexual orientation, and exposure to online victimization in Italian adolescents
A Parent-Report Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children
This article presents an Italian version of the Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children (GIQC) (Cohen-Kettenis et al., 2006; Johnson et al., 2004), a parent-report questionnaire covering a range of gender characteristics of children. We developed the GIQC-Italian version with the translation/back translation method and administered it, with a sociodemographic data sheet, to the parents of 1148 children aged 3-12 years (non-clinical sample). Af…
Investigating the links between fear of missing out, social media addiction, and emotional symptoms in adolescence
The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder
Follow or be followed
Examining the links between active Facebook use, received likes, self-esteem and happiness
Mining Facebook data for Quality of Life assessment
Research indicates that how individuals utilise language to express themselves reflects individual-level differences regarding psychosocial characteristics, including perceived Quality of Life (QoL). In this study, we apply a language modelling technique to the natural user-generated language from Facebook to examine associations between language expressed on Facebook and self-reported QoL. Specifically, we collected the user-generated language f…
Student‐teacher conflict moderates the link between students’ social status in the classroom and involvement in bullying behaviors and exposure to peer victimization
INTRODUCTION: Student-teacher relationships have been shown to influence bullying-related behaviors in students. In this study we considered the moderating role of student-teacher conflict and students' social status in the classroom and involvement in bullying behaviors and peer victimization. METHODS: Sample consisted of 1742 students (47.2% females, mean age = 10.79; SD = 1.36; range = 8-14) clustered in 113 classrooms, of which 1017 (58.4%) a…
Alone, together
Because of the high prevalence of smartphone use in early adolescence, communication between classroom peers increasingly occurs via online chat groups. Recent studies indicate that online classmate groups are places in which different forms of peer exclusion can occur, including being banned from participating in the groups, not being invited to join them, or being shunned by online peers. In order to avoid being offended by peers, students may …
Smartphone and social media use contributed to individual tendencies towards social media addiction in Italian adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic
The links between students’ relationships with teachers, likeability among peers, and bullying victimization
Highly responsive teachers tend to foster behaviors that are low in conflict and high in prosociality, among their students, leading to a positive classroom climate and to a decrease in bullying victimization. However, little is known about the interaction between teacher responsiveness and both student–teacher, and student–student relationship characteristics, in influencing students’ bullying victimization at school. Here, we examined student–t…
Internal and External Causal Explanations of Happiness
The present study extends previous research on the folk concept of happiness by investigating people's causal attributions toward the things that make them happy. Six hundred ten Italian adults (18–55 years old) took part in a questionnaire study. Respondents were asked to report five happiness sources and to provide ratings for both the attainment of these sources and the internal and external factors potentially causing them (self, other people…
Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data
OBJECTIVE: Since the first study linking recorded smartphone variables to self-reported personality in 2011, many additional studies have been published investigating this association. In the present meta-analyses, we aimed to understand how strongly personality can be predicted via smartphone data. METHOD: Meta-analytical calculations were used to assess the association between smartphone data and Big Five traits. Because of the lack of independ…
Sense of Belonging at School and on Social Media in Adolescence
Belongingness is a key factor in the psychological development and school adjustment of children and adolescents. Going beyond the existing literature, the present study evaluated the association between two sources of belongingness, namely sense of belonging at school (SOBAS) and on social media (SOBOSM), and both psychological maladjustment and educational achievement. Sample consisted of 698 early-to-late adolescents (52.3% female, mean age = …
Instagram Stories Unveiled
Instagram is one of the most used platforms, and ephemeral stories are proving to be the most used medium for users to share content on the platform. However, there have been few studies examining this type of content in relation to emotional well-being. This study examined the association between the number of published Instagram stories, psychological well-being, personality traits, and gender in a sample of 734 Instagram users from Italy, incl…
Distinguishing high engagement from problematic symptoms in Instagram users
Building on recent findings by Fournier and colleagues (2023), the present study examined the fit of a bi-dimensional model of problematic Instagram use, distinguishing between non-pathological high engagement and problematic symptoms mirroring addictive tendencies. A sample of 696 Italian adults completed an online survey assessing problematic Instagram use, personality traits, psychological distress, usage motives for Instagram use, and Instagr…
Inferring Personality From Social Media Activity Using Large Language Models
INTRODUCTION: Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising approach to infer personality traits unobtrusively from digital footprints. However, the reliability and validity of these inferences remain underexplored. METHOD: Gemini 1.5 Pro and GPT-4o were used to infer Big Five traits from 2 years of Facebook posts by 1214 Italian users. Predictions were compared to self-reports on the Ten-Item Personality Inventory. RESULTS: LLM predictions unde…
The Interplay Between Sex-Biased Parenting Attitudes and Children’s Gender Nonconformity in the Psychological Adjustment of School-Age Children
Research on parental attitudes toward children's gender-related behaviors suggests that parents often treat boys and girls differently and apply varying degrees of pressure on children to conform to traditional gender norms. These pressures can negatively affect children's psychological adjustment. Compared to their cisgender peers, gender-diverse children tend to experience greater psychosocial challenges. In the present study, 1411 parents of c…
Testing order effects in autobiographical memory research
This study aimed to test whether changing the administration order of instruments assessing autobiographical memory has an effect on the responses that participants give when filling in these instruments. We employed a between-subjects experimental design involving two groups of undergraduates: participants in the “narrative-first group” (n = 149) recounted an autobiographical event in writing and then completed questionnaires assessing memory ph…
Psychology (22 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Social media (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (6 works)