People
More about Tina
Tina is the director of the PDI lab. Her research focuses on the personality determinants (e.g., self-efficacy beliefs) of prosocial and antisocial behavior, the development of positive parenting practices, and the implementation of school-based intervention programs.
More about Maria Grazia
Maria (alias Maria Grazia) 's research focuses on the relations among personality individual differences and youths' adjustment (prosocial behavior, academic achievement) and maladjustment (aggresive beavior and depressive tendencies) . She is also involved in the evaluation of intervention aimed to promote positive youth development and safer internet use
More about Laura
Laura's research focuses on the continuity and change of individual differences that predict youths’ psychological (mal)adjustment, accounting for socialization factors, especially in regard to emotion regulation-related constructs and social competence.
More about Antonio
Antonio's research focuses on the antecedents (e.g., self-efficacy beliefs) and outcomes (e.g., mental well-being, academic achievement) of prosocial development from childhood to young adulthood. He mostly investigates these research questions using latent variable approaches for longitudinal data.
Concetta (Tina) Pastorelli, PhD
Full Professor
Maria (Grazia) Gerbino, PhD
Associate Professor
Laura Di Giunta, PhD
Associate Professor
Antonio Zuffianò, PhD
Associate Professor
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
More about Chiara
Chiara is a Post-doctoral Researcher: Her research interests focus on the influence of personality and temperament characteristics on adolescents’ and young adults’ risky behaviours, with particular emphasis on the online context. Ongoing research is about the study of individual and contextual factors in the development of sexting and problematic internet-related behaviours over the life course.
More about Ainzara
Ainzara is a Post-doctoral researcher. Her studies concern mainly adolescents'' profiles of personality individual differences and their associations with maladjustment, and in individual and contextual factors that sustain youths' positive use of digital technologies and counteract internet related risks
More about Eriona
Eriona is a Post-doctoral Researcher. Her main research interests focus on the influence of parents’ personality and parenting on child/adolescent’s development. Ongoing research is about the study of individual and family characteristics that buffer the negative effects of adverse life events on psychological adjustment over the life course in young adults.
Chiara Remondi, PhD
Ainzara Favini, PhD
Eriona Thartori, PhD
Doctoral Students
More about Fulvio
Fulvio is a Ph.D Student. His research interests include the relations between prosocial behavior and well-being. Fulvio has received training in intensive longitudinal data analysis
More about Silvia
Silvia is a Ph.D. student. Her research interests focus on the determinants and consequences of pro-environmental behavior. Silvia has knowledge of structural equation modeling and longitudinal data analysis
More about Lucia
Lucia is Ph.D. student. Her research interests focus on self-efficacy beliefs in emotion-regulation and well-being. Lucia has training in analyzing intensive longitudinal data
More about Giulia
Fulvio Gregori
Second-year PhD student
Silvia Caldaroni
Second-year PhD student
Lucia Manfredi
Second-year PhD student
Giulia Gliozzo
Third-year PhD student
More about Chiara
Chiara is a Ph.D Student. Her research interests focus on socio-emotional adjustment, parenting, and emotion regulation
Chiara Riccioni
Second-year PhD student
Former Members (Selection)
Carolina Lunetti, PhD (2014-2023)
Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology. Faculty of Education Sciences. Guglielmo Marconi University
Flavia Cirimele, PhD (2018-2022)
Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology. Department of Culture and Society. University of Palermo
Enrico Perinelli, PhD (2014-2018)
Assistant Professor. Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento
Paula Luengo Kanacri, PhD (2008-2015)
Associate Professor. Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile