Laura Di Giunta

TL;DR: There is evidence that empathy and/or sympathy are important correlates of, and likely contributors to, other-oriented prosocial behavior, the inhibition of aggression and antisocial Behavior, and the quality of intergroup relationships.

TL;DR: Testing in an international sample of more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas finds that sensation seeking increased between preadolescence and late adolescence, peaked at age 19, and declined thereafter, whereas self-regulation increased steadily from preadolescentence into young adulthood, reaching a plateau between ages 23 and 26.

TL;DR: The Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy scale was developed to assess perceived self-efficacy in managing negative (NEG) and in expressing positive (POS) affect and in this study of young adults, the factorial structure of the RESE scale was found to be similar in Italy, the United States, and Bolivia.

TL;DR: Despite mean-level differences in relational and physical aggression across countries, the findings provided support for cross-country similarities in associations between relational andPhysical aggression as well as links between gender and aggression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the contribution of self-efficacy beliefs in self-regulated learning (SESRL) in predicting academic achievement at the end of junior high school above and beyond the effects of previous academic achievement, gender, socioeconomic status, intelligence, personality traits, and self-esteem.