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Background
Although sexual health and well-being have gained recognition as vital parts of a person’s overall well-being despite possible conditions of disability, individuals with severe mental illness, as well as people with intellectual disability and Down syndrome, especially adolescents and young adults, often face stigma and human rights viol...
We investigated how the endorsement of gender stereotypes affects disciplinary identity across three different science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) areas: physics, biology, and chemistry, and whether such relationship is mediated by self-concept constructs, such as self-efficacy and perceived academic control. Building on the ambivalen...
The past two decades have witnessed an increase in ethnicity-related peer aggression, driven by the intensification of the migration phenomenon and rise of information and communication technologies. The goal of the current study is to extend the scope of previous reviews on peer aggression to examine the emerging evidence on the role of technologi...
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is among the most frequent maladaptive behaviors reported in adolescence, with prevalence rates around 18–22% in community samples worldwide. The onset of NSSI typically occurs between early and middle adolescence, with a peak during middle adolescence (14–15 years) and a subsequent decline during late adolescence. T...
Introduction
Online sexual activities (OSAs) are sexual behaviors involving online sexual content and stimuli and are categorized into non-arousal (N-OSAs), solitary arousal (S-OSAs), and partnered arousal activities (P-OSAs). As such activities in older age remain largely underexamined, this study aimed to explore OSAs in a sample of Italian older...
IntroductionSchools are among the most homophobic social contexts, where students who do not conform to gender norms are at high risk of stigma and discrimination.Method
Using a multilevel approach, the aim of the current was to examine whether adolescents’ engagement in homophobic bullying behavior was associated with personal values and stereotyp...
Research on bullying victimization has expanded to specific forms of harassment based on discriminatory bias, which involve aggressive behavior targeting an individual's identity characteristics, such as sexual orientation and/or gender expression. Recent studies have documented elevated health risks associated with victimization based on homophobi...
Despite the common belief that sport is an excellent instrument to promote social inclusion, distal minority stressors, such as homophobic slurs and insulting or degrading comments, are frequently reported in sport contexts. The aim of this contribution was to expand previous knowledge on negative attitudes toward sexual minorities (gay and lesbian...
Students from sexual minorities generally describe Higher Education contexts as unwelcoming and chilly environments. Based on the Minority Stress theory, these disparities in climate perceptions may lead sexual minority students to negative health and academic outcomes. To date, research documenting the experience of sexual minority students within...
Muscle dysmorphia is characterised by a strong preoccupation with being lean and muscular, with negative psychological and social consequences. The condition mostly affects men, mainly because of sociocultural messages promoting hyper-muscular forms as ideal male figures. Relatively few studies have examined muscle dysmorphia in transgender people....
While overt instances of harassment and violence towards LGBQ+ individuals have decreased in recent years, subtler forms of heterosexism still shape the social and academic experience of students in higher education contexts. Such forms, defined as microaggressions, frequently include environmental slights that communicate hostile and derogatory me...
Bisexual people are a strongly stigmatized population experiencing health disparities caused by social stigmatization. The predominant framework helping to understand these health disparities and the impact of stigma on mental health of social groups belonging to a sexual minority identity constitutes the minority stress theory. In Italy, studies a...
In the last few years, research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health increased, but little scientific literature has been focused on bisexual health. This critical review aims at understanding the relationship between discrimination towards bisexual people and their mental and physical health. The first part of the article revie...
The present study aimed at assessing whether differences exist in identity complexity and integration between 31 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and 33 heterosexual youths (mean age 21.47, SD = 3.27), both Italian and US. Participants completed a newly created questionnaire, the Identity Labels and Life Contexts Questionnaire (ILLCQ), which assess...
During the 1980s and early 1990s, homophobia and sexism were pervasive in sport contexts due to their sex-segregation, male-domination, and heteronormative culture. In the last two decades, a change in attitudes toward gender and sexuality, in particular within typically masculine sports, has been observed. Notwithstanding that, no research assessi...
Although the rate of lesbian and gay (LG) parents is increasing, lesbian and gay adults are less likely than heterosexual adults to be parents, as desire and intention to become a parent tend to be lower. This study aims at assessing 290 childless LG individuals (120 lesbian women and 170 gay men) to explore the influence of minority stress, gender...
Corrective approaches taken by teachers towards gender nonconformity in childhood may increase the gender pressure that children feel, negatively affecting well-being and development. This study was aimed at assessing whether the approaches of 305 pre-service preschool and primary school teachers towards gender nonconformity in childhood are influe...
Il ruolo del genere nel lavoro con gli uomini autori di violenza: Affetti e rappresentazioni dei professionisti della salute The role of gender in working with male perpetrators of violence: Health professionals' affects and representations Abstract Il lavoro di contrasto alla violenza maschile contro le donne ha recentemente spostato il proprio fo...
Despite the rapid increase in lesbian and gay (LG) people who desire and decide to become parents, LG childless individuals may encounter serious obstacles in the parenthood process, such as minority stress. Notwithstanding, the psychological processes by which prejudice events might affect the desire to become parents are still understudied. As an...
Metacognitive skills and agency are among the main psychological abilities a clinical psychologist should have. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of group psychodynamic counselling as a clinical training device able to enhance metacognitive skills and agency in final-year undergraduates in clinical psychology within an educational context. Th...
The present study offers an overview on stigma against transgender people, analyzing its effects on physical and psychological well-being. We adopted a socio-ecological perspective, according to which antitransgender stigma may manifest at different levels: along the environment-individual spectrum, stigma may occur at the institutional, interperso...
Lavorare con le persone transgender e gender nonconforming (TGNC) richiede specifiche competenze psicologico-cliniche che, spesso, gli istituti formativi a cui gli psicologi si rivolgono non forniscono. Questa carenza rappresenta una grande lacuna per tutti quegli psicologi che potrebbero trovarsi ad avere a che fare nel proprio lavoro con tale pop...
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people are a highly-stigmatized population. For this reason, they might internalize society’s normative gender attitudes and develop negative mental health outcomes. As an extension of the minority stress model, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on psychological processes through which ant...
This study presents a training program developed with eight transgender youths who experienced transphobic episodes. Two focus groups were conducted and the 14-Item Resilience Scale was administered to evaluate training effectiveness in improving resilience. The intervention followed an empowerment, peer-group-based methodology. Three themes were i...
Aim. — Within the international project “Health and citizenship among trans individuals” developed in France, Italy, Brazil and Norway, this Italian study aims at exploring the socio-demographic characteristics and the role that hormonal treatments and Gender Affirming Surgery (GAS) play in gender identifications and transition pathways.
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Objectifs. — Dans le cadre du projet international «Santé et citoyenneté des personnes Trans» réalisée en France, Italie, Brésil et Norvège, cette étude italienne vise à explorer les caractéristiques sociodémographiques, et la fonction des traitements hormonaux et chirurgicaux, par rapport aux identifications de genre dans le cadre des parcours de...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults have not received proper attention by the scientific literature and gerontology research, especially in Italy. This lack represents only an aspect of a more general condition of social invisibility that weighs on this population. The present contribution aims to provide researchers and cli...
Educational institutions should ensure that students develop a professional identity, as well as safeguarding their well-being and activating awareness and change processes. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of group psychodynamic counselling as a means of reinforcing academic identity – considered the forerunner of professional iden...
Transgender people experience systematic oppression due to societal endorsement of binary notions of gender. As a result, they are at risk for self-stigmatization via the internalization of negative attitudes about being transgender. Thus, researchers need instruments to assess the multilayered nature of transgender identity and its role in the exp...
Although recent research has highlighted that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youths represent a resilient population, they still suffer from social stigma and oppression, being potentially at additional risk of developing negative mental health outcomes. One of the main environments where violence and harassment against this populati...
Though the term “identity” has been given various meanings across literatures, we believe that it is best understood as a process of integration among numerous domains, where social contexts and interpersonal relationships have pivotal importance in its development. Indeed, the recognition of the various aspect of self by important others may foste...
Introduction: Although attachment theory has been recognized as one of the main references for the study of the general well-being, little research has been focused on the attachment styles of transgender people. Attachment styles are deeply influenced by the earliest relationships with caregivers, which, for gender-nonconforming children, are ofte...
This paper addresses from a theoretical point of view the issue of the development of transgender identity and the role that peer groups play in this complex process. A brief review on core identity literature is provided, principally dealing with some models on transgender identity construction. These substantially highlight how transgender people...
This paper addresses from a theoretical point of view the issue of the development of transgender identity and the role that peer groups play in this complex process. A brief review on core identity literature is provided, principally dealing with some models on transgender identity construction. These substantially highlight how transgender people...
Transsexualism, or rather “gender dysphoria”, is currently a psychiatric disorder. Although there is an high pitched debate on its depathologization, studies focused on dimensions which go beyond the pathologization are still very few. This work is the result of a collaboration between the University of Naples “Federico II” and the Institute Nation...
This paper reports some thoughts about homophobic and transphobic practices in a Queer framework. Departing from a training experience carried out within the European project Hermes – Linking network to fight sexual and gender stigma and addressed to first responders who deal with gender violence and homophobic and transphobic discriminations, some...
Sexism, heteronormativity and homo/transphobia are pervasive in every social institutions. In sport such culture is evident because the cultural frame is represented by a very strong sex-segregation. The marked difference between males and females can produce dangerous gender stereotypes facilitating the development of a heterosexist culture. Heter...
- The presented study gets its idea from the interactionist and constructivist model (Jessor e Jessor, 1977) and aims to investigate which at risk and protection behaviours systems may be associated with physical, psychic and social wellbeing, in preadolescent subjects. More specifically we refer to some at risk behaviours as motorcyclists' dangero...
The presented study gets its idea from the interactionist and constructivist model (Jessor e Jessor, 1977) and aims to investigate which at risk and protection behaviours systems may be associated with physical, psychic and social wellbeing, in preadolescent subjects. More specifically we refer to some at risk behaviours as motorcyclists' dangerous...
This paper reflects on the state of psychotherapy and counselling in Italy, with specific attention to the situation within the public services. With regard to psychotherapy, several aspects of the current legislative status quo as well as the diffusion of this form of treatment are considered through two studies, one carried out in a region of the...
