Ricerc@Sapienza

The Personality Development & Intervention (PDI) Laboratory aims to study human personality as a psychological system mediating the relations between the organism and the environment. Within this perspective, our research aims to: (a) arrange a descriptive system of personality that includes how people are in relations with themselves, with others, with events, and with daily problems; (b) examine changes in the way in which people, across the lifespan, represent themselves and are in relations with the world; (c) explain the processes, the mechanisms, the structures that sustain individual psychological functioning within an integrative view of biological, affective, cognitive factors that contribute to personality self-regulative functioning; (d) develop and evaluate efficacious interventions based on scientific knowledge of psychological mechanisms aimed to promote positive development among children and adolescents, social inclusion as well as to prevent aggressive and violent behaviors.