Cosimo Talò

• Professor
• Associate Professor in Social psychology (M-PSI/05) at University of Chieti-Pescara

Social engagement is changing considerably in its forms and objectives, and it is not always easy to understand this change. Engagement in the local community can be the link between social participation and personal commitment. The purpose of this research was to define and validate the local community engagement (LCE) construct that is the degree...

Inspired by the relational framework (Bassi, in: Franz, Hochgerner, Howaldt (eds) Challenge social innovation, Springer, Berlin, pp 325–350, 2012; Donati in Ital J Sociol Educ 5(1):19–35, 2013) and designed to integrate psychological and sociological aspects, a measure of social added value (SAV) was developed and validated. A study was conducted i...

In literature, several variables, both individual and collective level, have been utilized to explain community engagement: the active, voluntary involvement of individuals and groups in changing problematic conditions in communities. The purpose of this study is to identify the main community-based variables and, via meta-analysis research, calcul...

Embedded in the strand of research on the community determinants of sense of community (SoC), the study was designed to verify whether: (1) the size of the urban context was inversely related to residents’ SoC; (2) the size of the urban centers affected some of the correlates of SoC, namely the perception of social support, the residential environm...

Based on the theoretical framework of multiple psychological sense of community (MPSOC) and acculturation models, the study explored the relationships between territorial (TPSOC) and ethnic PSOC (EPSOC) and the acculturation behaviors of 2 groups of immigrants who settled in Italy, namely, Albanians (N = 230) and Sri Lankans (N = 131). Based on sur...

Objective The aim of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2), for use with Italian adults, young adults and adolescents. Method In accordance with the guidelines for test adaptation, the scale has been translated with the method of back translation. The understanding of...

Codice etico AIP. Italian Ethics Code for Psychology Research. (PDF)

Letter of approval of research design by Istituto Auxologico Italiano. (PDF)

Model of the Dispositional Flow Scale. (DOCX)

The aim of this study was to adapt the Participatory Behaviors Scale (PBS) and validate the results for use among the Spanish population. Using snowball sampling methodology, 501 individuals from all areas of Spain were selected to participate in the study. The Participatory Behaviors Scale (PBS) and questionnaires that measure a sense of community...

With an increasing economic crisis, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a strategic lever representing a competitive advantage for companies, especially for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Although scholars have analyzed the various dimensions of CSR, the employers ’ agency toward CSR, and its impacts on employees ’ work...

Studies of political and civic engagement have revealed that different types of participatory behaviors exist. Relying on Ekman and Amnå’s (Human Aff 22(3):283–300, 2012) participation typology, we developed a new measure, the Participatory Behaviors Scale (PBS), to analyze four dimensions of participation: formal political participation, activism,...

To date, the discussion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has consistently addressed organizational activities, which are the focus of measures that are able to evaluate CSR in enterprises. However, the psychosocial characteristics of CSR have remained relatively unexplored. Indeed, some scholars have recently proposed that both the perspect...

Psychological sense of community (PSOC) has been a focus of extensive research investigation. However, despite the emphasis on the positive aspects of PSOC, scholars have paid relatively little attention on its negative aspects. The present work assumes PSOC to be a bipolar construct (Brodsky, 1996), introduces negative psychological sense of commu...

Many studies indicate that participation and sense of community (SoC) are associated factors enhancing community development. However, research has almost completely ignored the magnitude of the association between the two and the stability of this relationship across contexts, populations and different forms of community participation. A meta-anal...

Within Community of Practice theory, this study aimed at validating a psychosocial model about sustainable learning as a process of participation in socially responsible practices of organizations, fostered by ICTs. 345 workers, employers and employees of Apulian Small and Medium Enterprises, were involved in our study. Two main groups were conside...

Based on the Social Identity and Social Categorization Theory framework, this study investigated how identification with the physical component of a community (i.e., the place identity), the perception of a community (i.e., the ingroup) in terms of cohesion and entitativity, and the perception of one or more territorial communities as laying beyond...

The article presents two studies that address issues concerning the evaluation of public participation. Study 1 aimed to validate two instruments for measuring the process (the Deliberative Process Perceived Quality Scale, composed of two factors: “dialogue” and “knowledge/understanding”) and the outcome (Outcome Rating Scale) of a specific partici...

This study is comparative and explanatory in nature, investigating whether different types of participation (formal political participation, legal activism, and civic engagement) are differentiated from one another by a set of psychosocial variables (organisational commitment, perceived social support, stress and coping mechanisms, and organisation...

In light of collective action and community development research, this study aims at testing a model of activist persistence that takes into account both individual and organizational levels. The proposed model predicted that commitment to a group/organization or its cause does affect an activists’ persistence. This relationship is mediated by two...

The present study is aimed at testing the hypothesis of three forms of participation (namely political conventional, political unconventional, and social) and that they can be traced back to the same determinants. The study was carried out on 705 college students who completed a self-evaluation questionnaire. Independent variables included in the a...