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Journal of Personality | 2015

Reciprocal Relations Between Emotional Self‐Efficacy Beliefs and Ego‐Resiliency Across Time

Michela Milioni; Guido Alessandri; Nancy Eisenberg; Valeria Castellani; Antonio Zuffianò; Michele Vecchione; Gian Vittorio Caprara

The present study examined the longitudinal relations of adolescents self-reported ego-resiliency to their emotional self-efficacy beliefs in expressing positive emotions and in managing negative emotions as they moved into early adulthood. Participants were 239 females and 211 males with a mean age of 17 years (SDu2009=u2009.80) at T1, 19 years (SDu2009=u2009.80) at T2, 21 years (SDu2009=u2009.82) at T3, and 25 years (SDu2009=u2009.80) at T4. A four-wave cross-lagged regression model and mediational analyses were used. In a panel structural equation model controlling for the stability of the constructs, reciprocal relationships across time were found between ego-resiliency and emotional self-efficacy beliefs related to the expression of positive emotions and to the management of negative emotions. Moreover, the relation between ego-resiliency assessed at T1 and T3, and ego-resiliency assessed at T2 and T4, was mediated through emotional self-efficacy beliefs (at T2 and T3, respectively), and vice versa. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in ego-resiliency and has implications for understanding the development of ego-resiliency.


Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | 2014

Prosociality During the Transition From Late Adolescence to Young Adulthood The Role of Effortful Control and Ego-Resiliency

Guido Alessandri; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri; Nancy Eisenberg; Antonio Zuffianò; Michela Milioni; Michele Vecchione; Gian Vittorio Caprara

The present prospective study examined the prediction of prosociality from effortful control and ego-resiliency from late adolescence to emerging adulthood. Participants were 476 young adults (239 males and 237 females) with a mean age of 16 years (SD = .81) at T1, 18 years (SD = .83) at T2, 20 years (SD = .79) at T3, 22 years (SD = .81) at T4, and 26 years (SD = .81) at T5. Controlling for the stability of the examined variables and the effect of potential confounding variables (i.e., sex, socioeconomic status [SES], and age), results supported a model in which a temperamental dimension, effortful control, positively predicted a specific behavioral tendency (i.e., prosociality) indirectly through mediation by a personality factor (i.e., ego-resiliency). Practical implications of the results are discussed in terms of the importance of early prevention efforts designed to enhance the capacity to cope effectively with emotional reactions and difficult situations.


BioMed Research International | 2014

Association between positivity and smoking cessation.

Maria Caterina Grassi; Guido Alessandri; Stefania Pasquariello; Michela Milioni; Domenico Enea; Mauro Ceccanti; Paolo Nencini; Gian Vittorio Caprara

The literature documents that personality characteristics are associated with healthy lifestyles, including smoking. Among positive traits, Positivity (POS), defined as a general disposition conducive to facing experience under a positive outlook has shown robust associations with psychological health. Thus, the present study investigated the extent to which POS is able to predict (i) relapse after quitting smoking and (ii) the desire to smoke again. All participants (481) had previously attended a Group Counselling Program (GCP) for Smoking Cessation (from 2005 through 2010). They were contacted through telephone interview. Among participants, 244 were ex-smokers (age: years 56.3 ± 10.08, 52% female) and 237 were still-smokers (age: years 55.0 ± 9.63; 63.5% female). The association of POS with “craving to smoke” levels was assessed with multivariate linear regression analysis while controlling also for important differences in personality such as conscientiousness and general self-efficacy, as well as for gender and age. Results showed that POS was significantly and negatively associated with smoking status and with craving to smoke. Among covariates (i.e., conscientiousness, generalized self-efficacy), gender was associated with smoking status and with craving to smoke. Altogether these findings corroborate the idea that POS plays a significant role in sustaining individuals efforts to quit smoking.


Journal of Personality | 2016

The Relation of Pro-Sociality to Self-Esteem:The Mediational Role of Quality of Friendships

Antonio Zuffianò; Nancy Eisenberg; Guido Alessandri; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri; Concetta Pastorelli; Michela Milioni; Gian Vittorio Caprara

The present longitudinal study examined the role of quality of friendship in mediating the relation of pro-sociality to self-esteem over time. Participants were 424 Italian young adults (56% females) assessed at two waves (M(age)u2009=u200921.1 at Time 1; M(age)u2009=u200925 at Time 2). An autoregressive cross-lagged panel model was used to test the mediational model. Self- and friend-report measures of pro-sociality, quality of friendship, and self-esteem were included in the analyses. Results were in line with the hypothesized paths, with quality of friendship mediating the relation of pro-sociality to later self-esteem above and beyond its high stability. Self-esteem, in turn, predicted pro-sociality 4 years later. Overall, the present findings support the potential benefits of behaving pro-socially for an actor in terms of increased perceived self-worth and also expand previous work by outlining the specific mediational role of the quality of friendships. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.


Journal of Adolescence | 2014

Hostile, aggressive family conflict trajectories during the transition to adulthood: Associations with adolescent Big Five and emerging adulthood adjustment problems

Valeria Castellani; Concetta Pastorelli; Nancy Eisenberg; Maria Gerbino; Laura Di Giunta; Rosalba Ceravolo; Michela Milioni

The goal of this longitudinal study was to investigate the relation of adolescents Big Five factor (BFF) personality to the development of different patterns of mother-adolescent hostile, aggressive conflict (MHAC) from late adolescence to young adulthood. Furthermore, we examined the prediction of Antisocial Problems (AP) and Depressive Problems (DP) in emerging adulthood from BFF and MHAC trajectories. 385 adolescents participated in this study (age 15-16 at Time 1 and 21-22 at Time 4). Using latent growth curve analysis, Low stable (69.1%), Medium Increasing, (23.3%), and High decreasing (7.6%) trajectories were distinguished. Low adolescents emotional stability was directly related to AP and indirectly related to DP, throughout the mediation of both Medium Increasing and High Decreasing trajectories. Agreeableness was directly negatively related to DP and indirectly throughout the mediation of High Decreasing trajectory. Low Conscientiousness was indirectly related to DP, throughout the mediation of Medium Increasing trajectory. 385 adolescents participated in this study (age 15-16 at Time 1 and 21-22 at Time 4). Using latent growth curve analysis, Low stable (69.1%), Medium Increasing, (23.3%), and High decreasing (7.6%) trajectories were distinguished. Low adolescents emotional stability was directly related to AP and indirectly related to DP, throughout the mediation of both Medium Increasing and High Decreasing trajectories. Agreeableness was directly negatively related to DP and indirectly throughout the mediation of High Decreasing trajectory. Low Conscientiousness was indirectly related to DP, throughout the mediation of Medium Increasing trajectory.


Journal of Adolescence | 2016

Ego-resiliency development from late adolescence to emerging adulthood: A ten-year longitudinal study.

Guido Alessandri; Nancy Eisenberg; Michele Vecchione; Gian Vittorio Caprara; Michela Milioni

This study examined the development of ego-resiliency from late adolescence to emerging adulthood, using a 10-year cohort-sequential design. Participants were 335 Italian adolescents (173 females and 162 males), living, at the time of the study, in Genzano, a small city near to Rome. Latent growth curve analyses indicated that the developmental trajectory of ego-resiliency from 15 to 25 years is adequately described by a piecewise model that included separate growth profiles corresponding to different developmental stages. Essentially, ego-resiliency remained remarkably stable until the end of high school, and then encountered a phase of relative increase. Moreover, the trajectory of ego-resiliency from ages 15 to 19 was predicted by self-efficacy beliefs in managing negative emotions, and the trajectory from age 19 to 25 was predicted by experienced familial support and self-efficacy beliefs in expressing positive emotions at age 15. Experienced stressful life events also accounted for individuals deviation from the typical ego-resiliency trajectory.


European Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2015

The predictive role of ego-resiliency on behavioural problems

Michela Milioni; Guido Alessandri; Nancy Eisenberg; Michele Vecchione; Gian Vittorio Caprara

This study examined the longitudinal relations of participants self-reported ego-resiliency to internalize and externalize behavioural problems during the early adulthood. Participants were divided in two cohorts: 144 young adults (59.7% of females; mean age of 20 years at Time 1—T1 and 28 years at Time 3) were included in the first cohort and 119 young adults (48.7% of females; mean age of 21 years at T1 and 29 years at Time 4) were included in the second cohort. In a panel structural equation model controlling for stability of the constructs, we found that ego-resiliency predicted internalizing problems, and near significantly predicted externalizing problems, during the period of young adulthood. The posited conceptual model accounted for a significant portion of variance in the considered variables and has implications for interventions designed to promote and sustain ego-resiliency to counteract behavioural problems.


Learning and Individual Differences | 2013

Academic achievement: The unique contribution of self-efficacy beliefs in self-regulated learning beyond intelligence, personality traits, and self-esteem

Antonio Zuffianò; Guido Alessandri; Maria Gerbino; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri; Laura Di Giunta; Michela Milioni; Gian Vittorio Caprara


Personality and Individual Differences | 2014

The relation between prosociality and self-esteem from middle-adolescence to young adulthood

Antonio Zuffianò; Guido Alessandri; Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri; Concetta Pastorelli; Michela Milioni; Rosalba Ceravolo; Maria Giovanna Caprara; Gian Vittorio Caprara


Sex Roles | 2018

Why Women Take Fewer Risk Than Men Do: The Mediating Role of State Anxiety

Angelo Panno; Maria Anna Donati; Michela Milioni; Francesca Chiesi; Caterina Primi

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Guido Alessandri

Sapienza University of Rome

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Barbara Barcaccia

Sapienza University of Rome

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Michele Vecchione

Sapienza University of Rome

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