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  1. Developing Virtual Personas from User-Level Social Media Data: Stability and Human Alignment of LLM-Generated Symptom Profiles

    Article • July 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  2. The role of videogame genre and platform in gaming disorder tendencies: A large-scale world-wide study of gamers' preferences

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, July 2026, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Davide Marengo

  3. When parents share too much: Sharenting, social appearance anxiety, and internalizing symptoms in adolescence

    Article • Family Relations, June 2026, Wiley

    Dr Davide Marengo

  4. Validation and Polish Adaptation of the Doomscrolling Scale

    Article • Chronic Stress, June 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Davide Marengo

  5. Detecting Suicidal Ideation in Adolescence Using Self-Reported Emotional and Behavioral Patterns: Comparing Machine Learning and Large Language Model Predictions

    Article • Assessment, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Davide Marengo

  6. Inferring Personality From Social Media Activity Using Large Language Models: Cross‐Model Agreement, Temporal Stability, and Convergent Validity With Self‐Reports

    Article • Journal of Personality, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Davide Marengo

  7. Assessing the accuracy and consistency of large language models in triaging social media posts for psychological distress

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  8. Leveraging social media and large language models for scalable alcohol risk assessment: Examining validity with AUDIT-C and post recency effects

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  9. Using Large Language Models to Infer Problematic Instagram Use from User Engagement Metrics: Agreement Across Models and Validation with Self-Reports

    Article • Electronics, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  10. Fatigue and Its Association with Upper Limb Function in People with Multiple Sclerosis

    Article • Neurology International, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  11. The Interplay Between Sex-Biased Parenting Attitudes and Children’s Gender Nonconformity in the Psychological Adjustment of School-Age Children

    Article • Psychological Reports, June 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Davide Marengo

  12. Distinguishing high engagement from problematic symptoms in Instagram users: Associations with big five personality, psychological distress, and motives in an Italian sample

    Article • Cyberpsychology Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, November 2024, Masaryk University Press

    Dr Davide Marengo

  13. Examining the Postdictive Validity of Self-Report Big Five Personality Traits with Objective Recordings of Online Behaviors: A Ten-Year Retrospective Study Using Facebook Page Likes

    Article • Heliyon, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  14. Longitudinal Patterns of Online Activity and Social Feedback Are Associated with Current and Perceived Changes in Quality of Life in Adult Facebook Users

    Article • Data, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  15. Correction: Fabris et al. Exploring Multivariate Profiles of Psychological Distress and Empathy in Early Adolescent Victims, Bullies, and Bystanders Involved in Cyberbullying Episodes. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 9871

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  16. Longitudinal Patterns of Online Activity and Social Feedback Are Associated with Current and Change in Quality of Life in Adult Facebook Users

    Article • February 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  17. Influence of cognition on the correlation between objective and subjective upper limb measures in people with multiple sclerosis

    Article • Neurological Sciences, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  18. Social Media Use Is Associated With Suicidal Ideation in Early Adolescence: The Role of Visual Cybervictimization

    Article • October 2023, Research Square

    Dr Davide Marengo

  19. Evaluation of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 through dual-task paradigm: a longitudinal case-controlled study

    Article • Neurological Sciences, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  20. The correlation between 9-HPT and patient-reported measures of upper limb function in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  21. Sense of Belonging at School and on Social Media in Adolescence: Associations with Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Maladjustment

    Article • Child Psychiatry & Human Development, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  22. Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping

    Article • Journal of Personality, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Davide Marengo

  23. Teachers’ sentiment about physical appearance of primary school students: Associations with student–teacher relationship quality and student popularity among classroom peers

    Article • Social Psychology of Education, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  24. Text mining to improve screening for trauma-related symptoms in a global sample

    Article • Psychiatry Research, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  25. Correlation between patient‐reported manual ability and three objective measures of upper limb function in people with multiple sclerosis

    Article • European Journal of Neurology, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Davide Marengo

  26. Temporal trends in health worker social media communication during the COVID‐19 pandemic

    Article • Research in Nursing & Health, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Cherie Armour, Dr Davide Marengo

  27. The representation of bullying in Italian primary school children: A mixed-method study comparing drawing and interview data and their association with self-report involvement in bullying events

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  28. Exploring Multivariate Profiles of Psychological Distress and Empathy in Early Adolescent Victims, Bullies, and Bystanders Involved in Cyberbullying Episodes

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Davide Marengo

  29. Dataset on individual differences in self-reported personality and inferred emotional expression in profile pictures of Italian Facebook users

    Article • Data in Brief, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  30. Mining Digital Traces of Facebook Activity for the Prediction of Individual Differences in Tendencies Toward Social Networks Use Disorder: A Machine Learning Approach

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  31. Smartphone and social media use contributed to individual tendencies towards social media addiction in Italian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  32. Italian translation and psychometric validation of the ABILHAND-26 and its correlation with upper limb objective and subjective measures in multiple sclerosis subjects

    Article • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  33. Exploring the Associations Between Self-reported Tendencies Toward Smartphone Use Disorder and Objective Recordings of Smartphone, Instant Messaging, and Social Networking App Usage: Correlational Study

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, September 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Davide Marengo

  34. Examining the links between active Facebook use, received likes, self-esteem and happiness: A study using objective social media data

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  35. Correction to: The links between students’ relationships with teachers, likeability among peers, and bullying victimization: the intervening role of teacher responsiveness

    Article • European Journal of Psychology of Education, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  36. A meta-analysis on individual differences in primary emotional systems and Big Five personality traits

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  37. On Corporate Responsibility When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  38. The links between students’ relationships with teachers, likeability among peers, and bullying victimization: the intervening role of teacher responsiveness

    Article • European Journal of Psychology of Education, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  39. Alone, together: Fear of missing out mediates the link between peer exclusion in WhatsApp classmate groups and psychological adjustment in early-adolescent teens

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Davide Marengo

  40. Student-teacher conflict moderates the link between students’ social status in the classroom and involvement in bullying behaviors and exposure to peer victimization

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  41. Objective Recordings of Instant Messaging and Social Network App Usage are associated with Self-reported Tendencies towards Smartphone Use Disorder: The distinctive Role of Image-Based Apps (Preprint)

    Article • January 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Davide Marengo

  42. Mental health responses to COVID-19 around the world

    Article • European Journal of Psychotraumatology, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Davide Marengo, Prof. Ulrich Schnyder

  43. The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder: A meta-analysis

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, October 2020, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Davide Marengo

  44. Nine Hole Peg Test asymmetry in refining upper limb assessment in multiple sclerosis

    Article • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  45. Box and block test, hand grip strength and nine‐hole peg test: correlations between three upper limb objective measures in multiple sclerosis

    Article • European Journal of Neurology, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr Davide Marengo

  46. Investigating the links between fear of missing out, social media addiction, and emotional symptoms in adolescence: The role of stress associated with neglect and negative reactions on social media

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  47. Follow or be followed: Exploring the links between Instagram popularity, social media addiction, cyber victimization, and subjective happiness in Italian adolescents

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  48. One Social Media Company to Rule Them All: Associations Between Use of Facebook-Owned Social Media Platforms, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and the Big Five Personality Traits

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  49. The interplay between neuroticism, extraversion, and social media addiction in young adult Facebook users: Testing the mediating role of online activity using objective data

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, March 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  50. Italian translation and psychometric validation of the Manual Ability Measure-36 (MAM-36) and its correlation with an objective measure of upper limb function in patients with multiple sclerosis

    Article • Neurological Sciences, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  51. Mining Facebook data for Quality of Life assessment

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Davide Marengo

  52. Examining the validity of the multiple-sclerosis walking scale-12 with Rasch analysis: Results from an Italian study

    Article • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  53. Exploring the association between problem drinking and language use on Facebook in young adults

    Article • Heliyon, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  54. The associations between sex drive, sexual self-concept, sexual orientation, and exposure to online victimization in Italian adolescents: Investigating the mediating role of verbal and visual sexting behaviors

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  55. Students’ Psychological Adjustment in Normative School Transitions From Kindergarten to High School: Investigating the Role of Teacher-Student Relationship Quality

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  56. Exploring the Dimensional Structure of Bullying Victimization Among Primary and Lower-Secondary School Students: Is One Factor Enough, or Do We Need More?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  57. A Parent-Report Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children: Psychometric Properties of an Italian Version

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Davide Marengo

  58. “Development and preliminary validation of an image-based instrument to assess depressive symptoms”

    Article • Psychiatry Research, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  59. Measuring Quality of Classroom Interactions in Italian Primary School: Structural Validity of the CLASS K–3

    Article • The Journal of Experimental Education, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    dr. CLAUDIO LONGOBARDI, Dr Davide Marengo

  60. Placing Multiple Tests on a Common Scale Using a Post-test Anchor Design: Effects of Item Position and Order on the Stability of Parameter Estimates

    Article • Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, October 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  61. The Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS) Scale

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, September 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr Davide Marengo, Dr Emanuela Calandri

  62. From Their Point of View: Identifying Socio-Behavioral Profiles of Primary School Pupils Based on Peer Group Perception

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  63. Conflictual student–teacher relationship, emotional and behavioral problems, prosocial behavior, and their associations with bullies, victims, and bullies/victims

    Article • Educational Psychology, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Davide Marengo, dr. CLAUDIO LONGOBARDI

  64. The interplay between ADHD symptoms and time perspective in addictive social media use: A study on adolescent Facebook users

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo, dr. CLAUDIO LONGOBARDI

  65. Highly-visual social media and internalizing symptoms in adolescence: The mediating role of body image concerns

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo, dr. CLAUDIO LONGOBARDI

  66. Predicting the Big 5 personality traits from digital footprints on social media: A meta-analysis

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  67. Predicting Individual Characteristics from Digital Traces on Social Media: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, April 2018, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Davide Marengo

  68. Assessing personality using emoji: An exploratory study

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  69. Internalizing Symptoms and Friendship Stability: Longitudinal Actor-Partner Effects in Early Adolescent Best Friend Dyads

    Article • The Journal of Early Adolescence, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Emanuela Rabaglietti, Dr Davide Marengo

  70. Winter recreationists' self-reported likelihood of skiing backcountry slopes: Investigating the role of situational factors, personal experiences with avalanches and sensation-seeking

    Article • Journal of Environmental Psychology, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  71. Student-Teacher Relationships As a Protective Factor for School Adjustment during the Transition from Middle to High School

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2016, Frontiers

    dr. CLAUDIO LONGOBARDI, Dr Davide Marengo

  72. Illness perception in systemic lupus erythematosus patients: The roles of alexithymia and depression

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo

  73. Sharing feelings online: studying emotional well-being via automated text analysis of Facebook posts

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Davide Marengo

  74. Drivers’ subtypes in a sample of Italian adolescents: Relationship between personality measures and driving behaviors

    Article • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Davide Marengo