Concetta Pastorelli

Concetta Pastorelli is a full professor of Personality Psychology and was the director of the Master Degree Course in Health, Clinical and Community Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome (2007-2010). From 1990-2012 she directed the Genzano (Rome) Longitudinal Study on determinants of psychological adjustment in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood with Gian Vittorio Caprara. She was Director the Interuniveristy Center for the Study of Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior, Sapienza University of Rome from 2015 until 2025. In 2002, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Stanford University in the U.S. She is Responsible for the international bilateral agreements that Sapienza University of Rome has with universities such as Arizona State University in the U.S. and Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellin and Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta – Colombia.
Since 2009, she has worked on the dissemination of a universal school-based intervention in pre-adolescence entitled Promoting Prosocial and Emotional Skills to Contrast Externalizing Problems (CEPIDEAS) funded by the Italian Health Department and the Italian Mental Health Program especially in South America. Her main research interests include individual differences during the entire life-span with specific attention to self-efficacy beliefs in the domain of emotional development and interpersonal relationships in adolescence, aggressive behaviors, parenting, and prosocial behavior. She is also the author of a great number of scientific papers published in scientific journals of child development and personality development in adolescence and young adulthood.