My research interests are at the intersection of three disciplines: personality psychology, developmental psychopathology and criminology. Although I take a developmental perspective, I am particularly interested in the periods of adolescence and emerging adulthood. My work is subdivided into four main connected axes:
personality development;
predictive links between personality and psychopathology, particularly anti-social behavior (delinquency, criminality, use of psychotropic drugs, etc.);
role of environmental factors (friends, family, school, etc.) in the development of personality and antisocial behavior;
utility and efficiency of modern statistical and psychometric methods to conceptualize the diagnosis and classification of personality and psychopathology
