# Meet Dr. Claudio Barbaranelli

## INYI Featured Member

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Dr. Barbaranelli can be contacted at: claudio.barbaranelli@uniroma1.it

Claudio Barbaranelli, PhD is a full Professor in Methodology at Sapienza University of Rome. A substantive amount of his work is focused in the areas of: a) personality structure, measurement and development; b) social cognitive theory with special focus on self-efficacy and moral disengagement; c) risk behaviours; d) counterproductive work behaviours; and e) safety and security in organization.

Dr. Barbaranelli's key projects include: optimal functioning, adjustment problems in early adolescent, longitudinal analysis of efficacious intellectual, social and occupational development, impact of socio-

cognitive trajectories of moral, academic, and occupational development. Methodologically, Dr. Barbaranelli has expertise in quantitative methods and methodologies, with particular focus on structural equation modelling, item response theory, research methods in longitudinal and cross-cultural research. He has published books, book chapters and articles in a variety of scientific journals including Nature, Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Child Development, Structural Equation Modelling and Multivariate Behavioural Research.

## Selected Publications by Dr. Barbaranelli

Bandura A, Caprara G.V, **Barbaranelli C.**, Regalia C, SCABINI E (2011). Impact of family efficacy beliefs on quality of family functioning and satisfaction with family life. *Applied Psychology, 60*, 421-448, ISSN: 0269-994X

Alessandri G., Vecchione M., Tisak J., **Barbaranelli C.** (2011). Investigating the nature of method factors through multiple informants: Evidence for a specific factor? *Multivariate Behavioural Research, 46*, 625-642, ISSN: 0027-3171, doi: 10.1080/00273171.2011.589272

Caprara G.V., Vecchione M., Alessandri G., Gerbino M.G., **Barbaranelli C.** (2011). The contribution of personality traits and self-efficacy beliefs to academic achievement: A longitudinal study. *The British Journal of Educational Psychology, 81*, 78-96, ISSN: 0007-0998, doi: 10.1348/2044-8279.002004

Alessandri G., Vecchione M., Fagnani C., Bentler P.M., **Barbaranelli C.**, Medda E., Nisticlo 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 Modelling, 17*, 642-653, ISSN: 1070-5511, doi: 10.1080/10705511.2010.510064

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, ISSN: 0033-3190, doi: 10.1159/000319532