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Maria Anna Donati; Sofia Santisi; Laura Di Leonardo; Caterina Primi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Climate change worry (CCW) is a specific worry about climate change, involving thoughts about changes that might occur in the climate system and their possible effects. Nowadays, it is growing especially among adolescents. As there is a lack of measurement tools with adequate psychometric properties to assess CCW in this age group, we investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Climate, Fear
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Sorgente, Angela; Vosylis, Rimantas; Lanz, Margherita; Serido, Joyce; Shim, Soeyon – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
The transition from financial dependence on one's parents to financial self-sufficiency is one of the most relevant transitions during emerging adulthood. It is important to have an instrument able to assess emerging adults' financial capabilities and to detect its change over time. The current article aims to collect international evidence of the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Money Management, Young Adults, Test Validity
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Marci, Tatiana; Moscardino, Ughetta; Altoè, Gianmarco – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
The recently developed short form of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale--Revised Child version (ECR-RC) is a promising tool to assess anxious and avoidant attachment in children and adolescents. Yet, evidence concerning its validity in middle childhood is limited. This study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the 12-item ECR-RC…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Attachment Behavior, Children, Early Adolescents
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Donati, Maria Anna; Boncompagni, Jessica; Scabia, Aurora; Morsanyi, Kinga; Primi, Caterina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Time attitudes (TA) are evaluative feelings toward the past, present and future. Given the role of TA in psychological and behavioral outcomes, the aim of this study was to analyze the adequacy of the Adolescent Time Inventory-Time Attitudes (ATI-TA) scale among adolescents and young adults in Italy. The scale was administered to 638 students in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Young Adults, Psychometrics