Laura Di Giunta

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Laura Di Giunta is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Di Giunta has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Clinical Psychology, 51 papers in Social Psychology and 26 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Laura Di Giunta's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (66 papers), Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (24 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (23 papers). Laura Di Giunta is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (66 papers), Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (24 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (23 papers). Laura Di Giunta collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Colombia. Laura Di Giunta's co-authors include Nancy Eisenberg, Concetta Pastorelli, Gian Vittorio Caprara, Natalie D. Eggum, Jennifer E. Lansford, Dario Bacchini, María Gerbino, Liliana María Uribe Tirado, Kenneth A. Dodge and Ann T. Skinner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Laura Di Giunta

82 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Empathy-Related Responding: Associations with Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, and Intergroup Relations

2010 446 citations Nancy Eisenberg, Natalie D. Eggum et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Di Giunta Italy	34	2.9k	1.8k	1.1k	893	639	86	4.5k
Bram Orobio de Castro Netherlands	38	3.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	875 1.0×	504 0.8×	164	4.9k
Joseph A. Olsen United States	30	2.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	437 0.7×	69	4.6k
Geertjan Overbeek Netherlands	44	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	962 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	610 1.0×	166	5.1k
Dario Bacchini Italy	35	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	917 1.0×	388 0.6×	113	4.4k
Judith Semon Dubas Netherlands	36	2.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	846 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	706 1.1×	96	4.9k
Loes Keijsers Netherlands	38	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.8k 2.0×	940 1.5×	116	5.1k
William J. Burk Netherlands	34	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	882 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	733 1.1×	114	4.1k
Qing Zhou United States	32	3.6k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.8×	772 0.9×	533 0.8×	111	5.1k
Susan D. McMahon United States	36	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	993 1.1×	337 0.5×	103	4.7k
Christopher C. Henrich United States	34	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	739 0.8×	367 0.6×	81	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Di Giunta

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Di Giunta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laura Di Giunta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laura Di Giunta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Laura Di Giunta. Laura Di Giunta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Iselin, Anne‐Marie R., Jamie DeCoster, Laura Di Giunta, et al.. (2025). Rumination Mediates the Relation of Hostile Attribution to Psychological Maladjustment Among Adolescents from Three Countries. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 53(6). 861–876. 1 indexed citations

Bacchini, Dario, et al.. (2024). Cultural values, parenting and child adjustment in Italy. International Journal of Psychology. 59(4). 540–549. 7 indexed citations

Giunta, Laura Di, et al.. (2024). Cultural values, parenting and child adjustment in Colombia. International Journal of Psychology. 59(4). 578–587. 2 indexed citations

Lunetti, Carolina, et al.. (2023). Parental Happiness Socialization and Youth Adjustment in Italy and Azerbaijan in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3604–3604. 2 indexed citations

Lansford, Jennifer E., Nicholas Kerry, Suha M. Al‐Hassan, et al.. (2023). Development of Primal World Beliefs. Human Development. 68(4). 149–158.

Giunta, Laura Di, Carolina Lunetti, Jennifer E. Lansford, et al.. (2023). Predictors and outcomes associated with the growth curves of self-efficacy beliefs in regard to anger and sadness regulation during adolescence: a longitudinal cross-cultural study. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1010358–1010358. 3 indexed citations

Lunetti, Carolina, Laura Di Giunta, Reout Arbel, et al.. (2022). Perception of school climate, academic performance and risk behaviors in adolescence. RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA. 45(1). 1–15. 4 indexed citations

Skinner, Ann T., Jennifer Godwin, Liane Peña Alampay, et al.. (2021). Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries.. Developmental Psychology. 57(10). 1648–1666. 37 indexed citations

Basili, Emanuele, Antonio Zuffianò, Concetta Pastorelli, et al.. (2021). Maternal and paternal psychological control and adolescents’ negative adjustment: A dyadic longitudinal study in three countries. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0251437–e0251437. 12 indexed citations

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Rothenberg, W. Andrew, Jennifer E. Lansford, Lei Chang, et al.. (2019). Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use frequency in 10 cultural groups. Addictive Behaviors. 102. 106214–106214. 13 indexed citations

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Putnick, Diane L., Marc H. Bornstein, Jennifer E. Lansford, et al.. (2018). Parental acceptance–rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys.. Developmental Psychology. 54(10). 1881–1890. 36 indexed citations

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Chang, Lei, Hui Jing Lu, Jennifer E. Lansford, et al.. (2018). Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.. Developmental Psychology. 55(4). 890–903. 74 indexed citations

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Lansford, Jennifer E., Jennifer Godwin, Marc H. Bornstein, et al.. (2018). Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age 7 to 14 in nine countries. Development and Psychopathology. 30(5). 1937–1958. 36 indexed citations

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Duell, Natasha, Laurence Steinberg, Jason Chein, et al.. (2016). Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model.. Developmental Psychology. 52(10). 1593–1605. 81 indexed citations

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Lansford, Jennifer E., Marc H. Bornstein, Kirby Deater‐Deckard, et al.. (2016). How International Research on Parenting Advances Understanding of Child Development. Child Development Perspectives. 10(3). 202–207. 39 indexed citations

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Lansford, Jennifer E., Jennifer Godwin, Liliana María Uribe Tirado, et al.. (2015). Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: A longitudinal study in nine countries. Development and Psychopathology. 27(4pt2). 1417–1428. 75 indexed citations

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Caprara, Gian Vittorio, Laura Di Giunta, Concetta Pastorelli, & Nancy Eisenberg. (2012). Mastery of negative affect: A hierarchical model of emotional self-efficacy beliefs.. Psychological Assessment. 25(1). 105–116. 50 indexed citations

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Bombi, Anna Silvia, Concetta Pastorelli, Dario Bacchini, et al.. (2011). Attributions and Attitudes of Mothers and Fathers in Italy. Parenting. 11(2-3). 129–141. 27 indexed citations

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Giunta, Laura Di, Concetta Pastorelli, Nancy Eisenberg, et al.. (2010). Developmental trajectories of physical aggression: prediction of overt and covert antisocial behaviors from self- and mothers’ reports. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 19(12). 873–882. 21 indexed citations

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Sulik, Michael J., Argero A. Zerr, Nancy Eisenberg, et al.. (2009). The Factor Structure of Effortful Control and Measurement Invariance Across Ethnicity and Sex in a High-Risk Sample. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 32(1). 8–22. 81 indexed citations

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