Francesco Fattori

Codici | Research and Intervention

Introduzione. La relazione individuo-autorità ha da sempre interessato gli studiosi di Psicologia Sociale, specialmente, dagli esperimenti di Milgram in poi (1963; Burger, 2009; Blass, 2012) ad una sua manifestazione specifica: l’obbedienza distruttiva. Solo recentemente anche la disobbedienza è diventata oggetto di studio (Zimbardo, Bocchiaro, Van...

Background and objective: The recent notable increase in refugees' flows, with refugee children and adolescents relocating worldwide, posed severe challenges to the different national healthcare systems. Social groups such as refugees fleeing from their countries because of persecution, wars and violence are considered at high risk of developing me...

La presente ricerca ha l'obiettivo di offrire una fotografia del volontariato lombardo pre-sente e futuro, confrontando volontari attivi e volontari che intraprenderanno attività di volontariato nei prossimi 12 mesi su dimensioni come il livello di impegno attuale e desiderato, leve e barriere all'impegno volontario attuale e previsto e motivazioni...

This study aimed to explore the symptoms and risk signals related to the presence of traumatic experiences within a group of unaccompanied foreign minors living in socio-educational communities in the Milan area. The instrument used for this purpose was the Griglia di Osservazione dei Segnali di Rischio (Risk Sign Observation Grid), created through...

Recent migrations of East European Roma have exacerbated the currently widespread phenomenon of antiziganism in Europe, but there are cultural, social, political, and historical factors in the various European countries that may affect reactions to Roma in diverse ways. This study aims to compare the attitudes of two groups of 198 young Italian and...

Background: Shared decision-making (SDM) is a dialogical relationship where the physician and the patient define the problem, discuss the available options according to the patient’s values and preferences, and co-construct the treatment plan. Undertaking SDM in a clinical setting with patients who have limited, impaired or fluctuating cognitive ca...

Objective: The Assisted Decision-Making (ADM) (Capacity) Act was enacted in 2015 in Ireland and will be commenced in 2021. This paper is focused on this pre-implementation stage within the acute setting and uses a health systems responsiveness framework. Methods: We conducted face-to-face interviews using a critical incident technique. We interv...

Background: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) establishes a right to legal capacity for all people, including those with support needs. People with disabilities have a legal right to be given the appropriate supports to make informed decisions in all aspects of their lives, including health. In Irela...

Ireland’s Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 breaks from traditional views of capacity to consider the uniqueness of each decision with relation to topic, time and place for those with impaired or fluctuating capacity. It has yet to be commenced, however codes of practice and educational strategies are in development to support health and...

In Ireland, the Assisted Decision-Making (ADM) (Capacity) Act and emerging Codes of Practice provide a legal framework for Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) to enable ADM for patients with impaired capacity. ADM ensures that a person’s will and preference is at the centre of all decisions related to their care. This study conducted a realist evaluati...

Supporting the decision-making of those with capacity challenges is a relatively new area of health and social care policy and research. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 has yet to be commenced in Ireland, however codes of practice and educational strategies are in development to support healthcare professionals to practice in accor...

Every patient, regardless of whether their decision-making capacity is impaired, should be supported to make decisions in relation to their care.

In Ireland, codes of practice are in development to support healthcare professionals to practice in accordance with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. This Rapid Realist Review (RRR) will deepen understanding of the mechanisms that support the implementation of assisted decision-making (ADM) with older people in the acute setting. Me...

The present research aims to investigate the psychosocial phenomena of obedience and disobedience in young adults residing in the United States, as a replication of a previous study by Pozzi, Fattori, Bocchiaro, and Alfieri (2014). We utilize social representation theory as a means to better understand and define (dis)obedience, a behavioral dimens...

The aim was to explore shared representations of alcohol use in students who were to travel abroad to study. Focus group data from Italian students (N=69) were collected. Analyses used Grounded Theory Methodology and were informed by the four key components of Social Representation Theory (cognition, emotion, attitude and behavioural intentions). T...

The present study investigates the content and structure of the social representation (SR) that cognitive-behavioral (CBT) psychotherapists have of the therapeutic relationship (TR), through a discovery-oriented, mixed-methods approach. For this purpose, our reference point was social representation theory, in particular, the theory of the central...

The processes of globalization that have characterized recent decades have prompted social psychology to rethink some everyday life concerns and local problems at a global level. This article presents an explanatory model of collective action aimed at fighting poverty with a proposal to integrate the Encapsulated Model of Social Identity in Collect...

The concept of citizenship is used both as a synonym of social action when referencing to an active form of citizenship as well as to indicate a form of civic obligation (formal citizenship). According to these premises, citizenship can be formalized in a large number of activities that contribute to building it in different ways. The aim of the pr...

Obedience and disobedience have always been salient issues for both civil society and social psychologists. Since Milgram's first studies on destructive obedience there has not been a bottom-up definition of what obedience and disobedience mean. The current study aimed at investigating the social representations young adults use to define and to co...

Social psychology has always been focused on studying authority relationship without giving a descriptive definition of obedience and disobedience. This study aims to investigate the meaning of obedience and disobedience within a cross-cultural research design involving Italy, Austria and U.S.A.

Introduzione: gli studi che hanno indagato l'azione sociale, genericamente intesa, si sono da sempre concentrati sull'analisi delle componenti psicosociali responsabili di una azione tendente al miglioramento del proprio ingroup a partire da una condizione di svantaggio percepito. Recentemente Thomas, Mavor e McGarty (2011) hanno spostato l'attenzi...

Introduction Social psychology has always been focused on studying authority relationship, declined primarily in the behavioral study of obedience to authority (Milgram, 1963). Since Stanley Milgram’s studies (1963, 1974), investigations focused on the behavioral interaction between individuals and authority (Meeus & Raaijmakers, 1986; Dambrun, Vat...

In letteratura (Snyder & Omoto, 2007) il concetto di cittadinanza è stato usato sia come sinonimo di azione sociale quando lo si riferisce ad una forma attiva di cittadinanza, sia come un indicatore di una forma di impegno civico, quando si parla di cittadinanza formale. Lo studio della cittadinanza in psicologia è stato affrontato in diverse disci...