Expérience scolaire et développement psychosocial : une recherche sur les adolescents

L’école représente une tâche de développement importante et joue un rôle majeur dans le processus de croissance de l’individu. On peut cependant affirmer également le contraire, c’est-à-dire que la croissance d’un individu joue un rôle important dans le processus d’adaptation et de réussite scolaire. Les deux objectifs du présent travail découlent de ces constats préalables : 1) vérifier si l’outil élaboré ad hoc pour cette recherche peut relever quelques-unes des manifestations typiques de la réussite scolaire et de l’identité psychosociale de l’adolescent ; 2) observer si ces deux domaines sont en corrélation ou indépendants. Près de 3 000 élèves des collèges et lycées d’une région du Nord de l’Italie ont participé à cette recherche. L’analyse factorielle exploratoire a fait ressortir douze aspects saisis par le questionnaire. Les résultats de l’analyse factorielle confirmatoire ont indiqué un moindre ajustement aux données du modèle à deux facteurs (adaptation scolaire et difficultés dans le développement psychosocial) qui sont en corrélation. Des analyses supplémentaires ont mis en évidence des différences importantes entre les deux cycles d’études (collèges vs lycées) et les deux sexes.School adjustment represents both a developmental task and an important factor for the psychological and social advancement of young people. The opposite could, however, be true : psychosocial identity of adolescents plays an important role in school adjustment and academic success. Thus, the present research aims at estimating : 1) the psychometric properties of a questionnaire, developed for this research, to measure psychosocial identity and academic success and, 2) to evaluate whether these two fields are independent or correlated. Almost 3 000 students, attending junior and senior high schools in a region of the North of Italy, answered the questionnaire. Twelve factors were obtained through exploratory factor analysis. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that a better fit is obtained when school maladjustment and psychosocial identity are correlated. Further analyses showed differences between the two genders-males and females, and younger and older adolescents whether at junior high or at senior high school

Perspective Taking in Workplaces

Perspective taking is a well established psychological construct, investigated both in the field of human development, and also in social and clinical psychology (Parker & Axtell, 2001). However, although in modern organizations working cooperatively and taking into account customers\u2019 needs and experiences are becoming even more important (Schneider, White, and Paul, 1998), very few studies have considered perspective taking process within organizations. This paper aims to make available to a large audience such studies

Social Isolation and Stress as Predictors of Productivity Perception and Remote Work Satisfaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Concern about the Virus in a Moderated Double Mediation

From mid-March to the end of May 2020, millions of Italians were forced to work from home because of the lockdown provisions imposed by the Italian government to contain the COVID-19 epidemic. As a result, many employees had to suddenly switch to remote work, experiencing both troubles and opportunities. Social isolation from colleagues and the workplace represents a typical aspect of remote work which increased significantly during the social confinement imposed by the government. This study investigates the correlates of social isolation in terms of stress, perceived remote work productivity and remote work satisfaction, proposing the sequential mediation of stress and perceived remote work productivity, and the moderating role of concern about the new coronavirus. An online survey was conducted, and the responses of 265 employees showed the deleterious role of social isolation in stress, which leads to decreased perceived remote work productivity that, in turn, is related to remote work satisfaction. Furthermore, the results suggest that concern about the virus moderates the relationships between social isolation and remote work satisfaction, from one side, and remote work perceived productivity and remote work satisfaction from the other. This latter result suggests that the indirect sequential effect of social isolation on remote work satisfaction is conditional on concern about the virus. Some conclusions are drawn to support managers and HR officers in the choices to better manage employees\u2019 work during the health emergency

Smart working in Italia: origine, diffusione e possibili esiti

La presente rassegna affronta il tema del lavoro agile o smart working, e si pone tre obiettivi: 1) ricostruire brevemente l'origine dello smart working in Italia e illustrare la variet\ue0 di forme di lavoro agile disponibili per dipendenti e organizzazioni; 2) presentare i risultati della ricerca internazionale relativi agli effetti del lavoro flessibile su conflitto lavoro-famiglia, soddisfazione lavorativa, identificazione e commitment organizzativo, relazioni interpersonali con i colleghi e prestazione lavorativa; infine, 3) indicare alcune possibili ricerche future.This review addresses the issue of agile work, or smart working, and has three goals: 1) to shortly describe the history of the legal and normative acts that introduced and regulate the smart working in Italy and to illustrate the variety of agile work arrangements available to employees and organizations; 2) to present the results of international research on the effects of smart working on work-family conflict, job satisfaction, organizational identification and commitment, relationship with colleagues and job performance; 3) to propose some new directions for future research on this topic

Being member of an inter-organizational network: psycho-social and organizational processes in enterprises' network

Enterprises networks or Inter-Organizational Network (ION) are considered as a way to improve organizational performance, to promote organizational learning and to produce innovation. ION is defined as a group of three or more organizations connected in ways that facilitate achievement of a common goal and linked by many types of connections and flows, such as information, materials, financial resources, services, and social support. (Provan, Fish and Sydow, 2007). examined to better understand aspects related to the establishment and management of networks. We conducted three case studies in three networks in Italy. The main aims were to: a) reconstruct the history and the organizational processes of the network and b) describe some psycho-social aspects among network members related to the daily procedures and critical events. Six interviews were conducted in each network; legal documents, regulations and network websites were also analysed. Results show that size of the network, and having a network managed by an independent manager or by one of the entrepreneurs, have a strong influence on organizational processes, trust and acceptance of unequal distribution of job orders. Advantages and benefits that companies receive from the network are also important to motivate continuous membership and active participation in the network

Pc virus attacks in small firms: Effects of risk perceptions and information technology competence on preventive behaviors

While Information Technology (IT) is undeniably useful in improving organizational efficiency, it is also vulnerable: A virus attack can interrupt the work of many employees. Human behaviors, practices and errors are possible causes of a computer virus attack and the consequent infections. Even if preventive behavior is studied in health psychology and other fields, the prevention of personal computer (PC) virus attacks is a fairly new area of research. In this study it is hypothesized that both risk perception of actions that might cause a virus attack and IT self-rated competencies influence the implementation of behaviors aiming to prevent virus attacks. It is also hypothesized that risk perception is related to IT competencies. Employees (N = 134) working in four organizations participated in the study by completing a questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was used to test the model. Results show that risk perception does not have a significant effect on preventive behaviors; in contrast, IT competencies influence the actual preventive behaviors and are related to the perception of risk of virus attacks

Scambio di informazioni, Fiducia e Identificazione nei gruppi di lavoro: uno studio preliminare

Introduzione Ai gruppi di lavoro \ue8 sempre pi\uf9 richiesto di elaborare informazioni e risolvere problemi lavorativi in modo efficace e innovativo (Hinsz, Tindale and Vollrath, 1997). Per contribuire efficacemente al gruppo \ue8 importante che i membri del gruppo si sentano pienamente parte del gruppo e si identifichino con le sue finalit\ue0; questo \ue8 ancor pi\uf9 valido nei gruppi di lavoro temporanei o in quelli i cui membri partecipano anche ad altri gruppi. La fiducia tra i membri e lo scambio di informazioni possono facilitare l\u2019identificazione con il gruppo. Obiettivo Verificare se la centralit\ue0 nella rete di informazioni scambiate dai membri del gruppo e la percezione di fiducia verso gli altri influenzino l\u2019identificazione con il gruppo stesso. Metodo La raccolta dati sar\ue0 completata a breve. Si presentano qui i risultati preliminari. 9 gruppi di lavoro (4 composti da lavoratori e 5 da studenti universitari), per un totale di 39 soggetti, hanno risposto ad una survey. Si \ue8 utilizzata la Social Network Analysis per misurare la information centrality (centralit\ue0 nella rete di informazioni scambiate), nonch\ue9 le scale di fiducia di Costa e Anderson (2010) e quella di identificazione di Bergami e Bagozzi (2000). Risultati La regressione lineare a blocchi mostra che la centralit\ue0 nella rete di informazioni non ha effetti sulla identificazione con il gruppo; questa \ue8 invece influenzata da due dimensioni della fiducia: la percezione che il funzionamento del gruppo sia monitorato dai suoi componenti e che gli stessi siano percepiti come affidabili nel lavoro di gruppo. I componenti pi\uf9 centrali dei gruppi hanno valutato come minore la propensione dei membri a collaborare nel team. Conclusione L\u2019identificazione con il team sembra essere influenzata dalla percezione di affidabilit\ue0 degli altri membri e dal monitoraggio e controllo delle attivit\ue0 del team (solitamente considerata invece come un costo per l\u2019efficacia dei team)