!!Gian V. Caprara - Selected publications
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1.      Barbaranelli, C., Fida, R. , Di Giunta, L., Paciello, M., & Caprara, G.V. (2008). Assessing  personality in early adolescence through self report and others’ ratings: A multitrait-multimethod analysis of BFQ-C. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 876-886.

 

2.      Caprara,G.V., Schwartz, S.,Vecchione, M., & Barbaranelli, C. (2008). The personalization of politics: Lessons from the Italian case. European Psychologist, 13, 157-172.

3.      Paciello, M., Fida, R , Tramontano, C., Lupinetti, C., & Caprara, G.V. (2008). Stability and change of moral disengagement and its impact on aggression and violence over the course of adolescence. Child Development, 79, 1288-1309.

 

4.      Caprara, G.V., Fida, R., Vecchione, R. Del Bove, G. Vecchio, G.M., Barbaranelli, C., & Bandura, A. (2008). Longitudinal analysis of the role of perceived self-efficacy for self regulated learning in academic continuance and achievement. Personal determinants of academic achievement . Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 525-534.

5.      Caprara, G.V., Di Giunta, L., Eisenberg, N., Gerbino, M., Pastorelli, C., & Tramontano, C. (2008). Assessing regulatory emotional self efficacy in three countries. Psychological Asssessment, 20, 227-237

 

6.      Vecchione, M. & Caprara,G.V. (2009). Personality determinants of political participation: The contribution of traits and self efficacy beliefs. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 487-492

 

7.      Caprara, GV., Fagnani, C., Alessandri, G. Steca, P.,  Gigantesco, A.,  Cavalli Sforza, L., & Stazi, A. (2009). Human optimal functioning. The genetics of human positive orientation towards self, life and the future. Behaviour Genetics, 39, 277-284.

8.      Caprara, G.V. (2009). Positive orientation. Turning potentials into  optimal-functioning. The European Health Psychologist, 46-48.

 

9.      Caprara,G.V., Fida, R., Vecchione, M.,Tramontano, C., & Barbaranelli,C. (2009). Assessing Civic moral disengagement: Dimensionality and longitudinal Invariance. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 504-509

 

10.  Nantel-Vivier, A., Kokko, K., Caprara, G.V., Pastorelli, C., Gerbino, M., Paciello, M.,   Pastorelli, C., Pihl, R.O., Vitaro, F., & Tremblay, R. D. (2009). Prosocial development from childhood to adolescence: A multi-informant perspective with canadian and italian longitudinal studies. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 590-598.

 

11.  Alessandri, G. Caprara, G.V., Eisenberg, N., & Steca, P. (2009). Reciprocal relations among  self efficacy beliefs and prosociality across time. Journal of Personality, 7, 1229-1259

 

12.  Caprara, G.V., Gerbino M,  Paciello, M., Di Giunta, L., & Pastorelli,C. (2010). Counteracting depression and delinquency in late adolescence. The role of regulatory emotional and interpersonal self efficay beliefs.European Psychologist, 15, 34-48.

 

13.  Di Giunta, L., Eisenberg, N., Steca, P.,& Caprara, G.V.  (2010). Assessing perceived empathic and social self-efficacy across Countries. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 26, 77-86

 

14.  Caprara, G.V., Alessandri, G., Di Giunta, L., Panerai, L.,& Eisenberg, N.(2010). The   contribution of agreeableness and self efficacy beliefs to Prosociality. European Journal of Personality, 24, 36-55.

15.  Caprara, G.V., Alessandri, G., & Barbaranelli C. (2010).  Optimal functioning: The contribution of self efficacy beliefs to positive orientation. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics,79, 328-330

 

16.  Alessandri, G., Vecchione, M., Fagnani, C., Bentler, P., Barbaranelli, C., Medda, E., Nisticò, L., Stazi, M.A., & Caprara, G.V.(2010). Much more than model fitting? Evidence for the heritability of method effect associated with positively worded items of the Life Orientation test Revised, Structural Equation Modeling, 17, 642–653.

 

17.  Caprara, G.V., Vecchione, M., Alessandri, G., Barbaranelli, C., & Gerbino, M.(2010). The contribution of Personality Traits and Self-Efficacy Beliefs to Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 81, 78-96

 

18.  .Liuzza, T. M., Cazzato, V., Vecchione, M., Crostella, F., Caprara, G. V. , & Aglioti S. M. (2011). Follow my eyes: the gaze of politicians reflexively captures the gaze of ingroup voters. PLOS ONE, 6(9), e25117

 

 

19.  Caprara, G.V., Vecchione, M., & Barbaranelli, C. (2012) The political side of personality. In A. Weinberg (Ed.), The Psychology of Politicians. (pp.171-202). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

20.  .Vecchione, M., Caprara, G. V., Schoen, H., Gonzàlez Castro, J. L., Schwartz, S. H. (2012).The role of personal values and basic traits in perceptions of the consequences of immigration: A three nation study. British Journal of Psychology, 103, 359–377

 

21.  Alessandri, G., Vecchione, M., Caprara, G.V., & Letzring, T. The ER89-R scale: A cross-cultural study in Italy, Spain, and the United States.  European Journal of Psychological Assessment. Vol 28(2), 2012, 139-146

 

22.  Caprara, G.V. Vecchione, M., Barbaranelli, C., & Alessandri, G.Emotional Stability and Affective Self-regulatory Efficacy Beliefs: Proofs of Integration between Trait Theory and Social Cognitive Theory. European Journal of Personality, 2012, DOI: 10.1002/per.1847

 

23.  Gunzenhauser,, C., Heikamp,T.,Gerbino,M., Alessandri,G., Suchodoletz,A., Di Giunta, A, Caprara,G.V., & Trommsdorff, G.  Self-Efficacy in regulating positive and negative Emotions:
A validation study in Germany (2012). European Journal of Psychological assessment, DOI:10.1027/1015-5759/a000151

24.  Caprara, G.V., Alessandri,G.,  Caprara, M. Fontaine,R., Gerbino, M.,Paciello, M.,& Tisak,. M. Individual Differences in Personality Traits and Social Cognitive Mechanisms Conducive to Violence from Adolescence to Adulthood. European Journal of Personality.

25.  Caprara, G.V.Di Giunta,L., Pastorelli, C., & Eisenberg, N. (2012) Mastery of negative affect: The hierarchical  structure of self efficay beliefs related to discrete negative emotion. Psychological Assessment. 1939-134X (Electronic) / 1040-3590 (Print)

26.  Luengo Kanacri, B.P., Pastorelli, C., Eisenberg, N.,Zuffianò, A., & Caprara, G.V. (2012). The Development of prosociality from adolescence to early adulthood: The role of effortful control. Journal of Personality. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12001.

 

27.  Zuffianò, A., Alessandri, G., Gerbino, M., Luengo Kanacri, B.P., Di Giunta, L., Milioni, M., & Caprara, G.V. (2012). Academic Achievement: The unique contribution of self-efficacy beliefs in self-regulated learning beyond intelligence, personality traits, and self-esteem. Learning and individual Differences. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2012.07.010

28. Fontaine, R. G., Fida, R., Paciello, M., Tisak, M. S., & Caprara, G. V. (in press). The mediating role of moral disengagement in the developmental course from peer rejection in adolescence to crime in early adulthood. Psychology, Crime and Law.