Anna ParolaUniversity of Naples Federico II | UNINA · Department of Humanistic Studies
Anna Parola
PhD in Mind Gender and Language
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Publications (42)
Negli ultimi decenni gli effetti di mega-trend come la digitalizzazione, l’evoluzione demografica e l'aumento della mobilità professionale, insieme alle diverse crisi attuali, hanno portato cambiamenti profondi nella sfera economica, sociale e ambientale. Questi cambiamenti influenzano direttamente e/o indirettamente il mondo del lavoro e i sistemi...
Flourishing is defined as an optimal state of functioning in which individuals pursue their goals and aspirations. Hence, flourishing seems to be a protective factor for career transitions in adolescence. This study aimed to analyze the predicting role of self-esteem, courage, and the four career adaptability dimensions, i.e., concern, control, cur...
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Career-related teacher support self-efficacy refers to the teacher's confidence in his/her own ability to support students' career choices. To our knowledge, there are neither studies that focus on this topic nor instruments to measure it. Therefore, the current study aimed at developing and validating an instrument to assess teacher c...
The present study examines the role of the presence of meaning in life and life satisfaction on university students' career indecision. 164 Italian university students (M age = 23.26; SD age = 3.44) took part in this study. Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire, Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and Satisfaction with Life Scale were admini...
Background
Adverse life events such as life-threatening accidents, domestic and/or sexual violence, organic diseases (i.e., cancer), or COVID-19 can have a strong traumatic impact – generating reactions as intrusive thoughts, hyperarousal, and avoidance. Indeed, the traumatic impact of COVID-19 seems to lead individuals to experience anxiety and de...
The book is the first project result of the Neet prevention in Educational systems through positive Future vision Enhancing Learning and teacher Education (NEFELE) Erasmus+ project. The chapters provide a theoretical framework of the project giving methodological landmarks that can be useful to teachers for enhancing adolescents’ career development...
The Adult Attachment Scale-Revised (Collins and Read in J Person Soc Psychol 58(4):644, 1990. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.58.4.644) measures the dimensions of the attachment style of adults through the degree to which the individual feels comfortable in intimacy and closeness with the partner (Close), with dependence on the partner (Depend) a...
The acronym 'NEET' includes adolescents and young people aged 15-34 years not engaged in education, employment or training programs. According to recent studies, NEET represents a high-risk category to suffer from lower well-being and mental health problems. Following a life course approach, this study examined the self-reported subjective well-bei...
The 21st-century world of work complexity is considered a health risk factor for young people. Due to the economic crisis, globalization, and challenges of post-industrial society, 28.8% of Italian young people experience the NEET condition. The study aims to understand the psychological factors associated with the NEET status, specifically the sel...
Educational digital storytelling (EDS) refers to digital storytelling in education. EDS is often presented as a technology-enhanced learning approach with powerful educational benefits. The use of EDS as a tool to support students to consider and pursue a meaningful life based on their interests, talents, and aspirations is spreading. Due to its na...
The extent to which young people think about the future, called time perspective, and their affective view (positive/negative) was related to their current socioeconomic situation. Specifically, we assessed the relationship between the NEET condition and self-perception of adulthood and health and aimed to verify the moderating role of future-time...
This study provides a culturally sensitive quantitative investigation aimed at assessing the post-traumatic symptomatology, post-migratory difficulties, and resilience of 36 Nigerian male asylum seekers hosted in the province of Caserta, South Italy. A survey composed by the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-Revised (HTQ-R), the Post-Migratory Checklist...
The volume collects the papers presented at the conference “Stat.Edu’21 -New Perspectives in Statistics Education” which was held at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II (25-26 March 2021). The conference was the final event of the “ALEAS - Adaptive LEArning in Statistics”, an ERASMUS+ project (https://aleas-...
Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parental career-related behaviors in the Italian language, but...
The paper presents MERGO an EU-funded project that delivers a MOOC in enology and wine tasting combined with a laboratorial olfactory experience based on Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) paradigms. The focus of the article is on the description of the MERGO TUI prototype that allows the user to improve and train their olfactory knowledge, as procedur...
Young adults in Neither in Employment nor in Education and Training (NEET) are at high risk of adverse health outcome, in particular of mental health problems.
The aim of this study is to identify the symptomatological profiles of young Italian NEETs. The dataset in question consists of 150 Italian respondents to the Adult Self Report (ASR 18-59)...
According to the Career Construction Model of Adaptation, career decision-making difficulties (CDD) and life satisfaction are important adaptation results, and career adaptability is a crucial resource to attain positive adaptation results. This study focused on the influence of parental career-related behaviors on career adaptability, CDD and life...
The paper proposes a semi-automatic labeling of topics extracted with a Topic Model using the tools of Social Network Analysis. The aim is to attach a label to every topic studying the terms-topics network structure. This method performs a semi-automatic topics labelling by using Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, integrating the network approach w...
Over the years, several instructional methods have been employed to support students in learning Statistics. Among them, intelligent tutoring systems deserve particular interest, personalizing the learning activities according to individual characteristics. Generally, students enrolled in human and social sciences degrees exhibit a high level of St...
Flexibility is considered one of the key resources for a successful adaptation to the world of work. It has also been defined as “the positive side” of career reconsideration process in vocational identity theory. However, previous empirical observations conducted in the Italian context have highlighted the negative relationship between vocational...
The latest economic crisis, globalization, and fast-changing of post-industrial society have severely impacted educational transitions. This 21st century world of work complexity is considered a risk factor for adolescents and young adults. Due to this scenario, the theory and practice of career counseling have undergone profound changes. This rese...
The paper presents a joint use of text analysis and network text analysis in order to study the narrations. Text analysis allows to detect the main themes subjects in the narrations and hence the processes of signification, network text analysis permits to track down the relations between linguistic expressions of text, identifying, therefore, the...
In the last few years, the technology-based approach in psychology for clinical intervention, assessment, and scientific research has shown the several advantage. Researchers typically use the digital versions of existing pen and paper instruments Therefore, the study of psychometric properties of the measures appears necessary. The present study a...
In the last years, the use of technology has been introduced in career guidance to help career practitioners support their clients' career decision-making. From a critical psychological perspective, this paper aims to analyze opportunities and risks of career guidance interventions through digital technologies. Specifically , the paper starts with...
Introduction:
In times of economic crisis, the literature shows that young people have always been in the high-risk category. The COVID-19 outbreak and the consequence on the economic level have increased the sense of uncertainty and precariousness experienced by young people. The current scenario has forced young people at the school-to-work tran...
IntroductionHealth emergencies, such as epidemics, have detrimental and long-lasting consequences on people’s mental health, which are higher during the implementation of strict lockdown measures. Despite several recent psychological researches on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighting that young adults represent a high risk...
In the last few years, economic and social changes have made the path from university to work long and twisted, in particular in Southern Italy, an area with the highest rate of unemployment. This contribution aims to exploring the experiences of university-work transition of undergraduates. Using an open-ended interview, the authors obtained narra...
In the last few years, changes in the work market have produced effects on the transition school-to-work and, more specifically, on the ability to plan for the future, in particular in the Italian context. This study aims to explore the experiences of young people who have encountered difficulties in transition-to-work, and how unsuccessful experie...
Time perspective is crucial for young adults in relation to decision making regarding present and future. Literature links PT to age, to well-being and many other psychological issues, and recent study also to socioeconomic status. In this paper, we have studied the relationship between PT and employment status. Specifically, taking into account th...
The present study aimed to explore the effect of positive and negative creativity on the career construction process during adolescence. Since creativity has been conceptualized as a useful resource for identity construction, we tested the influence of creativity on future orientation, assessing the role of career adaptability. 338 high school stud...
The present study aimed to explore the effect of positive and negative creativity on the career construction process during adolescence. Since creativity has been conceptualized as a useful resource for identity construction, we tested the influ-ence of creativity on future orientation, assessing the role of career adaptability. 338 high school stu...
Latest economic crisis has severely impacted Italian young adults making harder their transition to work. For this reason, NEET phenomenon has so increased, acronym for youth aged 15-34 years not engaged in employment, education or training. In our opinion the phenomenon should be considered taking into account of specific socio-cultural context be...
Il lavoro presenta le procedure analitiche per un uso congiunto delle tecniche di Text Analysis e Network Text Analysis. Se la prima permette di cogliere i temi principali affrontati in una narrazione e quindi i processi di significazione, la seconda consente di rintracciare le relazioni tra le espressioni linguistiche di un testo, individuando in...
According to Self-Regulatory Model of problematic drinking behaviour (Spada and Wells, 2009), meta-cognitive beliefs are a specific form of expectancies about the advantages of alcohol to regulate cognitive and emotional functioning (positive meta-cognitions) or alcohol negative impact on cognitive functioning (negative meta-cognitions). These meta...
The studies on Kohlbergian moral judgment were criticized by Gilligan (1977), who hypothesized two different models of moral judgment: justice, specifically to male, and care, specifically to female. This moral orientation could be related to modes of self-definition. Almost forty years later, this paper will review Gilligan's theory assuming that...
La transizione tra scuola e mercato del lavoro è una fase delicata nella vita dei giovani che segna il passaggio verso una condizione di maggiore indipendenza economica e autonomia personale. Ad oggi, in un periodo di contrazione occupazionale, influenzata sia dal declino della natalità, iniziato verso la fine degli anni Sessanta, e sia dall’andame...
Projects
Projects (5)
The NEFELE ERASMUS+ project aims at modelling innovative methodologies for pre-service teachers of middle schools that can be useful to support adolescents’ career development and a positive vision about their future.
Specifically, NEFELE aims to develop a MOOC for teachers and an authoring tool that allows the creation of games for middle school pupils to support career choices. This innovative tool will enable students to experiment with themselves in different roles, opening to a positive future vision and enhancing planning and future orientation skills.
In this scenario, teachers will scaffold their students, providing them with a space to shape their future.
Therefore, the project will impact teachers who can, through the NEFELE innovative methodology, impact adolescents, the final users of the project.
The project aims at exploring different joint approaches between statistical text analysis and social network analysis
