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Promoting social competence and preventing aggression in primary school: an intervention based on social information processing

Social Information Processing interventions (Li et al.,2013) promote children Social Problem Solving (SPS) competence and
social skills. Our aim is to test the effectiveness of a SPS training in an Italian context.
Participants were 105 children (41 girls, mean age =8,7) who attended six classes in the same school. Project lasted two years.
Three classes were assigned to Group1 (N=61), and three classes to Group2. Both groups were tested at T1 (beginning 3rd Class),

Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator.

To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were interviewed when children were, on average, 10 years old and again when children were 12 years old.