Paolo Bozzato

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria | UNINSUBRIA · Human Sciences Territory and Innovation

Young adults face numerous challenges during their first year of university, which is considered by various researchers to be a time of potential threat and acute stress. These challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in disruption of old learning and social structures that make it all the more difficult to adapt. Th...

This study applies Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory to analyse how social support impacts resilience, future outlook, and academic performance during high school transition. Self-report questionnaires were completed by 958 high school students (54.5% female) ages 13–1 (M = 13.72, SD = 0.47). After descriptive and correlational analyses...

Future orientation refers to an individual’s conscious portrayal of upcoming events, encompassing thoughts, motivations, and emotions. Research on future orientation has primarily focused on adolescents due to their perceived necessity to prepare for adulthood. To investigate the hopes and fears of Italian adolescents in post-pandemic times, as wel...

Drawings of male and female human figures are useful indicators of how children perceive gender as a cultural construct. From pre-school age, children use anatomical and stylistic elements (e.g., haircuts and clothing) to characterize the gender of their characters. Using the Classroom Drawing Test (Quaglia & Saglione, 1990), the present study inve...

Transition into higher education (HE) has received increased interest in recent years, since it represents a challenging period for students. The aim of this study was to further understand the associations between self‐efficacy, academic achievements, and regulation in first‐year university students during their transition into HE. The convenience...

The literature recognizes that students’ beliefs concerning their academic skills play a fundamental role in their motivation to achieve academic success. In this chapter, we focused on the investigation of the role of future orientation on education (i.e., conscious ideas about one's future education) in the relationship between academic self-effi...

The ways in which children from different countries view and draw scientists have been investigated in numerous studies. The present study explored Italian primary school students’ images of scientists and their work, with a particular focus on gender and grade level differences. A sample of 686 students (368 girls and 318 boys) from the first (n =...

Grounded in literature on school transitions and autobiographical memory, this study focuses on the personal memories of a sample of 112 young Italian adults facing their transition to university. Participants were asked to recall five memories of their high school transition experience and, subsequently, the students were assessed in terms of resi...

A non-random sample of 560 Italian high school students completed a questionnaire consisting of demographic items and questions about gambling behaviour, motivations, and perceived social, self-regulatory, and academic self-efficacy. Among these participants, 49 of them were classified as at-risk gamblers, 21 as problem gamblers, and the rest as no...

Limited research in the psychology literature has addressed the specifics of children’s future orientations. Using a thematic approach, the present study investigates children’s personal aspirations for their adult lives via a questionnaire that addressed (1) the types of aspiration profiles present in a sample of 456 Italian students aged 8–13 and...

In music psychology, the relationship between musicians or music students and their musical instrument has not been much investigated. The present study addresses the emotional connection of a sample of 58 adolescent classical music students with their musical instruments. The group was composed of 37 girls and 21 boys, aged between 11 and 17, livi...

The present study investigates autobiographical memory through the use of imagery and a short narrative. A sample of 72 young adults, residing in Italy, were asked to draw a meaningful memory (and to choose a title for it) about their infancy, childhood, pre-adolescence and adolescence. Through the use of special markers, a qualitative-quantitative...

Il volume intende rispondere al crescente bisogno di strumenti teorici e applicativi da parte di tutti coloro che lavorano, o intendono lavorare, con i bambini in età prescolare e nella scuola primaria: direttori e coordinatori di strutture educative per l’infanzia, insegnanti, educatori e assistenti d’infanzia. Tra le tematiche analizzate: lo svil...

Questo testo affronta diversi temi, tutti connessi tra loro. La preadolescenza viene considerata un’età della vita con una sua specificità, che la differenzia dall’infanzia da un lato e dall’adolescenza vera e propria dall’altro. Si tratta di un periodo di veloci trasformazioni in cui assume grande importanza l’educazione socio-affettiva, intesa co...