Member Name:

Ersilia

Member Since:

October 24, 2008

Last Logged in:

October 24, 2008

Hometown:

Florence

A few words about me...

Ersilia Menesini (Ph.D)

 

Office Address:

Dipartimento di Psicologia

Via S.Niccolò , 93  50125  FIRENZE

tel:  39 - 055-2491-617  (631)

e-mail: menesini@psico.unifi.it

Fax: 39- 055-2345326

 

 

 

Education:

 

University degree in Educational Sciences with major in Psychology

Doctorate degree in Pyschology

 

 

Academic Status and research activities

 

Associate professor of developmental psychology at the University of Florence – Department of Psychology.

Since 1996, Dr. Menesini has been a  senior researcher in the area of Developmental Pychology, at the University of Padua previously and  more recently in  Florence.

She has been working in the area of peer relations since the beginning, and specifically on peer rejection, friendships and school bullying.

 

She had several international learning experiences with Nato countries and  European Science Foundation and spent periods abroad as a visiting professor.

She has been involved in several European projects and specifically:

1)  task-coordinator in the working group: Bullying and moral emotions In the European project : (TMR 1997-2001- IV Framework  DG XII – Title of the project   “The causes and nature of bullying and social exclusion in schools, and ways of preventing them” coordinatore europeo Prof. P. K. Smith (Goldsmith College, University of London;

2) responsible for the Unit of Padua of the Project “Pupil power”. This project aimed to develop intervention against bulying at the European level, consisted of 6 countries and received financial support in the years 1998/99 within the “Violence in Schools Initiative” UE,  DG XXII.

3) responsible of the Italian unit for the European project “Connect “Tackling Violence in  schools on a European –wide basis – period 2000- March 2002 - (European coordinator Prof. P. K. Smith )

4) From 2002 to 2005, responsible of a research project on “Violence and uneasiness in adolescence” funded by the Local Community of Lucca.

5) 2008-  member of the management Committee of COST project  Action IS0801 - Cyberbullying coping with negative and enhancing positive uses of new technologies in relationships in educational settings

 

 

Main areas of research:

1. psycho-social risk factors  in the school context: peer rejection, isolation, bullying and cyber bullying;  

2. risk and protective factors in adolescence;

3. development and evaluation of school interventions against bullying

3. the development of moral emotions and moral sensibility;  

4. conflict relationships  in the family context.  

 

Recent publications:

 

Fonzi A., Genta M.L., Menesini E., Bacchini D., Bonino S.,  Costabile A., (1999),  Italy. In P.K. Smith, Y. Morita, J. Junger-Tas, D. Olweus, R. Catalano, and P. Slee (a cura di) The Nature of School Bullying. A Cross-national Perspective, London & New York: Routledge, pp.140-156 (ISBN: 0-415-17984-X)

 

Menesini E., Melan E., Pignatti B. (2000) Interactional styles of bullies and victims observed in a competitive and cooperative setting. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 3, 261-281.

 

R. Ortega Ruiz, V. Sanchez,  Menesini E. (2002) Violencia entre iguales y desconnexion moral: una analisis transcultural. Psicothema, 14, 37-49.

 

Menesini E., Fonzi A., P.K. Smith (2002) Attribution of meanings to terms related to bullying: a comparison between teacher and pupil perspectives in Italy. European Journal of Psychology of Education, XVII, 4, 393-406.

 

Menesini E., Modiano R. (2002) A Multi-faceted Reality: A Report from Italy.  P.K. SMITH (ed.) Violence in schools: the response in Europe, Routledge Falmer Ed. , pp.153-168 (ISBN: 0-415-27822-8).

 

Smith P.K., Smees R., Pellegrini D., Menesini E. (2002) Comparing pupil and teacher perception for Playful fighting, serious fighting and positive peer interaction. In J. L. Roopnarine  (ed.) Conceptual, Social –Cognitive and Contextual Issues in the Fields of Play ( Play and Culture Studies, 4), Westport: Ablex Pub. Pp. 235-245 (ISBN: I-56750-647-X).

 

Menesini E., Codecasa E., Benelli B., Cowie H. (2003) Enhancing children’s responsibility to take action against bullying: evaluation of a befriending intervention in Italian middle schools. Aggressive Behavior, 29, 1-14.

 

Menesini E., Sanchez V., Fonzi A., Ortega R., Costabile A., Lo Feudo G. (2003) Moral emotions and bullying. A cross-national comparison of diffenrences between bullies, victims and outsiders. Aggressive Behavior, 29, 515-530.

 

Smorti A., Menesini E., Smith P.K (2003), Parents’ definition of children’s bullying in a five-country comparison, Journal of cross-cultural psychology, Vol. 34,4, 417-432.

 

Eslea M., Menesini E., Morita Y., O’moore M., Mora-Merchan J.A., Pereira B., Smith P., Wenxin Z. (2004) Friendship and Loneliness among bullies and victims: Data from seven countries, Aggressive  Behavior, 30,1,71-83.

 

Menesini E., Camodeca M. (2008) Shame and guilt as behaviour regulators: relationships with bullying, victimization and prosocial behaviour. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Volume 26,  2, June 2008 , 183-196.

 

Menesini E. (2008) School bullying in Italy: Nature, functions from childhood to adolescence and related interventions. In D. Pepler and W. Craig (eds.) Understanding and addressing bullying: An international perspective, PREVnet Series, Volume 1. Blooming USA: AuthorHouse, pp. 253-270.

Interests

Education Issues, Family Life, Travel, Camping/Outdoor Activities