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List of works by Gian V. Caprara

A Unified Latent Curve, Latent State-Trait Analysis of the Developmental Trajectories and Correlates of Positive Orientation

scientific article published on June 2012

A look into the ballot box: gaze following conveys information about implicit attitudes toward politicians.

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

A look into the relationship between personality traits and basic values: A longitudinal investigation

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Quality of Experience in Learning

scientific article published in April 2007

Adolescents' Prosocial Behavior Predicts Good Grades Beyond Intelligence and Personality Traits

scientific article published on 25 February 2017

Advocating an agentic and potentialist view to health psychology

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Age differences in personality across the adult life span: parallels in five cultures

scientific article (publication date: March 1999)

Assessing Perceived Empathic and Social Self-Efficacy Across Countries

scientific article

Assessing civic moral disengagement: Dimensionality and construct validity

Assessing personality in early adolescence through self-report and other-ratings a multitrait-multimethod analysis of the BFQ-C

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Assessing regulatory emotional self-efficacy in three countries

scientific article published on September 2008

Association between positivity and smoking cessation

scientific article

Basic Personal Values Underlie and Give Coherence to Political Values: A Cross National Study in 15 Countries

Basic Values, Ideological Self-Placement, and Voting: A Cross-Cultural Study

Being positive despite illness: The contribution of positivity to the quality of life of cancer patients

scientific article

Bound to the group and blinded by the leader: ideological leader-follower dynamics in a trust economic game

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Development of a cultural self-efficacy scale for adolescents (CSES-A)

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

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Follow my eyes: the gaze of politicians reflexively captures the gaze of ingroup voters

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Fortunes and misfortunes of political leaders reflected in the eyes of their electors

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How Marginal Deviations Sometimes Grow Into Serious Aggression

scientific article published on July 2007

How do you Feel About this Goal? Goal-Related Affect, Positive Orientation, and Personal Goal Realization in the Family Domain

How self-efficacy beliefs in dealing with negative emotions are associated to negative affect and to life satisfaction across gender and age

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Human optimal functioning: the genetics of positive orientation towards self, life, and the future.

scientific article

Individual Differences in Personality Associated with Aggressive Behavior among Adolescents Referred for Externalizing Behavior Problems

Individual differences conducive to aggression and violence: trajectories and correlates of irritability and hostile rumination through adolescence.

scientific article published in July 2007

Investigating guilt in relation to emotionality and aggression

Investigation of age and gender effects on positive orientation in Italian twins.

scientific article

Juvenile firesetting in Italy: relationship to aggression, psychopathology, personality, self-efficacy, and school functioning

scientific article published in June 2008

Longitudinal Relations Among Positivity, Perceived Positive School Climate, and Prosocial Behavior in Colombian Adolescents

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

Longitudinal analysis of the role of perceived self-efficacy for self-regulated learning in academic continuance and achievement

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Looking for adolescents' well-being: self-efficacy beliefs as determinants of positive thinking and happiness

scientific article published on January 2006

Lymphocyte subsets are influenced by positivity levels in healthy subjects before and after mild acute stress

scientific article published on 21 May 2017

Mastery of negative affect: a hierarchical model of emotional self-efficacy beliefs

scientific article published on 25 June 2012

Measurement Invariance and Convergent Validity of Anger and Sadness Self-Regulation Among Youth From Six Cultural Groups.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Measuring parental and family efficacy beliefs of adolescents' parents: Cross-cultural comparisons in Italy and Portugal.

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency

article by Albert Bandura et al published 1996 in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Much More Than Model Fitting? Evidence for the Heritability of Method Effect Associated With Positively Worded Items of the Life Orientation Test Revised

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Multifaceted Impact of Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Academic Functioning

On the cross-cultural replicability of the resilient, undercontrolled, and overcontrolled personality types.

scientific article

Optimal functioning: contribution of self-efficacy beliefs to positive orientation.

scientific article published on 2 August 2010

Parents' self-efficacy beliefs and their children's psychosocial adaptation during adolescence

scientific article

Peer social preference and depressive symptoms of children in Italy and the United States

scientific article published on May 2007

Personal values and political activism: a cross-national study

scientific article

Personality and Politics: Values, Traits, and Political Choice

Personality described by adjectives: The generalizability of the Big Five to the Italian lexical context

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Personalizing politics: a congruency model of political preference

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Politicians' uniquely simple personalities

scientific article published in Nature

Positive orientation: explorations on what is common to life satisfaction, self-esteem, and optimism

scientific article published on January 2010

Positivity Scale--Brazilian Version

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Prosocial development from childhood to adolescence: a multi-informant perspective with Canadian and Italian longitudinal studies.

scientific article

Prosociality during the transition from late adolescence to young adulthood: the role of effortful control and ego-resiliency.

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Prosociality: the contribution of traits, values, and self-efficacy beliefs

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Psychometric properties of the positivity scale - Brazilian version

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

scientific article

Reciprocal relations among self-efficacy beliefs and prosociality across time

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Relations among EEG-alpha asymmetry and positivity personality trait

scientific article published on 24 May 2015

Relations among EEG-alpha asymmetry, BIS/BAS, and dispositional optimism

scientific article published on 2 June 2013

Role of affective self-regulatory efficacy in diverse spheres of psychosocial functioning

scientific article

Stability and change of moral disengagement and its impact on aggression and violence in late adolescence.

scientific article published in September 2008

The Contribution of Agreeableness and Self-efficacy Beliefs to Prosociality

scientific article

The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology: Empirical Evidences From Five Continents

The Effects of Marginal Deviations on Behavioral Development

scientific article published on January 2006

The Perceived Political Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form (PPSE-S)

The Positivity Scale: Concurrent and Factorial Validity Across Late Childhood and Early Adolescence

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

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

The attracting power of the gaze of politicians is modulated by the personality and ideological attitude of their voters: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

The contribution of moral disengagement in mediating individual tendencies toward aggression and violence

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

The contribution of personality traits and self-efficacy beliefs to academic achievement: a longitudinal study.

scientific article

The contribution of self-efficacy beliefs to dispositional shyness: on social-cognitive systems and the development of personality dispositions

scientific article published in December 2003

The development of prosociality from adolescence to early adulthood: the role of effortful control.

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

The mediating role of moral disengagement in the developmental course from peer rejection in adolescence to crime in early adulthood

scholarly article by Reid Griffith Fontaine et al published 13 September 2012 in Psychology, Crime and Law

The positivity scale.

scientific article published on 16 January 2012

The “big five questionnaire”: A new questionnaire to assess the five factor model

article by Gian V. Caprara et al published September 1993 in Personality and Individual Differences

Trajectories of prosocial behavior from adolescence to early adulthood: associations with personality change

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Trajectories of prosocial behaviors conducive to civic outcomes during the transition to adulthood: the predictive role of family dynamics

scientific article published in December 2014

Trajectories of religious coping from adolescence into early adulthood: their form and relations to externalizing problems and prosocial behavior

scientific article

Voters and leaders in the mirror of politics: similarity in personality and voting choice in Italy and Spain

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

Why and How to Promote Adolescents' Prosocial Behaviors: Direct, Mediated and Moderated Effects of the CEPIDEA School-Based Program

scientific article published on 12 May 2015