Francesco Marcatto

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• PhD
• Researcher (RTDb) at University of Trieste

Background The Health & Safety Executive Management Standards Indicator Tool (HSE-MS IT) is a questionnaire commonly used to assess work-related stress risks at an organizational level. A critical factor in determining whether this instrument is actually useful is that higher levels of stress risk in the work-design domains should predict higher le...

This article aims to present the development and test the psychometric properties of the Perceived Occupational Stress (POS) scale, a new brief instrument aimed at rating a worker's perception of feeling stressed at work. Six studies are conducted on an overall sample of 1,805 Italian workers, to examine both the construct and concurrent validity o...

This study presents and validates the Italian adaptation of the Dark Tetrad at Work (DTW) scale, an instrument for assessing four socially aversive personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism) in the context of the workplace. A total of 300 Italian-speaking participants (50% female, M age = 32 years ± 9.2) and 253 Engli...

Background The intricate interplay between work-related stress and its physiological impact has drawn extensive research attention. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEA-S) emerges as a potential biomarker reflecting stress-related endocrine changes. Aims This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the association between job demands and DHEA-S le...

Background Nursing is pivotal to healthcare delivery but is often associated with high levels of organizational stress. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to investigate the associations between exposure to organizational stressors, measured using the Health and Safety Executive Management Standards Indicator Tool, and psychosomatic complaints...

Background and aims: Despite the last decade’s significant development in the scientific study of work addiction/workaholism, this area of research is still facing a fundamental challenge, namely the need for a valid and reliable measurement tool that shows cross-cultural invariance and, as such, allows for worldwide studies on this phenomenon. Met...

Background: The assessment of work-related stress is mandatory in Italy, according to Legislative Decree 81/2008. The Academic Teacher Stress Indicator Tool (ATS-IT) was developed to address stress in academic teaching staff by adapting the Health and Safety Executive Management Standards Indicator Tool (HSE-MS IT). Methods: An online ATS-IT survey...

Introduction Measuring and understanding perceived occupational stress is crucial for understanding workers’ experiences of stress in the workplace and its potential implications on mental health outcomes and job performance. However, there is a scarcity of brief measures containing relevant items focused solely on occupational stress, suitable for...

The Perceived Occupational Stress (POS) scale has been recently developed to measure workers’ perception of feeling stressed at work. This cross-sectional study aimed to further study the practical applicability of the POS scale by testing its diagnostic utility for identifying workers with severe somatic symptom strain. A sample of 171 Italian wor...

The anticipation of regret is known to be a primary motivator of receiving a vaccination. Aim of this study is to evaluate whether the use of messages that leverage the anticipated emotion of regret can increase the intention to get the flu vaccination. The participants (N = 110) randomly received a leaflet containing a standard prevention message...

. Il presente studio descrive i risultati della validazione preliminare della Satisfaction with Work Scale (SWWS), una nuova misura sviluppata per misurare la valutazione generale della propria soddisfazione lavorativa, modellata sulla base della popolare Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). I due studi condotti hanno dimostrato che la nuova scala...

Exposure to organizational stressors is known to negatively affect police officers' well-being in terms of mental and physical health and performance. In this study, we adopted the Health and Safety Executive's Management Standards to identify specific associations between organizational stressors and health outcomes in a sample of local police off...

The in-depth assessment of work-related stress risk (WRS) represents both a regulatory obligation and a moment to reflect on the health conditions of the organization. This paper reports the results obtained from the in-depth WRS assessment conducted in a facility management company through the administration of the HSE Management Standards Indicat...

Do we look at persons currently or previously affected by COVID-19 the same way as we do with healthy ones? In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how participants (N = 54) looked at faces of individuals presented as “COVID-19 Free”, “Sick with COVID-19”, or “Recovered from COVID-19”. Results showed that participants tend to look at the eyes o...

The process to define the 2023–2027 Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is underway. The implementation model governing the process requires each EU Member State to design a National Strategic Plan to deliver operational actions exploiting the synergies under the two pillars of the policy. Each Plan must be built from an evidence-based needs assessment...

Introduzione Il Testo unico in materia di salute e sicurezza nel la-voro (D.Lgs. 81/2008 e successive modifiche e integra-zioni) ha introdotto l'obbligo di valutare il rischio stress lavoro-correlato (SLC) nei luoghi di lavoro. In base alle indicazioni elaborate dalla Commissione Consultiva Permanente (1), la valutazione dello SLC deve essere artic...

In two studies, we investigated the memory underpinnings of future intentions related to past hedonic experiences. Preceding research did not make clear whether the specific memory processes supporting the expression of intentions about the future involve global judgments of the past experience (general affective evaluations formed on-line) or judg...

Study 1 dataset. (XLSX)

Additional analyses. The appendix reported alternative models for Study 1 and correlation matrices for Study 1 and 2. (DOCX)

Study 2 dataset. (XLSX)

Design: cross-sectional study by means of both a medical examination and a subsequent structured interview carried out with a questionnaire. Data were analysed using chi-square test, logistic regression and differences in prevalence. Setting and participants: the study was implemented between July and November 2013 on a sample of 492 patients of...

Introduction Work-related stress is one of the major concerns for occupational safety and health. Indeed, workplace stress may affect workers’ well-being and lead to health issues, and it has been estimated that about half of all work absence is due to work-related stress disorders. The objective of this study is to investigate associations between...

OBJECTIVES: to identify the criteria used by general practitioners (GPs) for the diagnosis of alcohol dependence (AD) and to compare them with the criteria of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). DESIGN: cross-sectional correlational study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: the 55 GPs of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Northern Italy) and...

Background: Brief interventions delivered in primary health care are effective in reducing excessive drinking; online behavior-changing technique interventions may be helpful. Physicians may actively encourage the use of such interventions by helping patients access selected websites (a process known as “facilitated access”). Although the therapeut...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate, self-inflicted destruction of body tissue without suicidal intent. Despite increasing attention to NSSI in research and clinical fields, a lot of unanswered questions still exist. In fact, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) recognized NSSI for the first...

User-generated content websites, such as review sites or travel communities, have become a major source of information for travelers with the advent of Web 2.0. A recent study [1] showed that more than 40% of travelers use the reviews and comments of other consumers as information sources when planning trips. While many studies have investigated th...

Brief intervention is a technique used to initiate behavioural change for risky lifestyles such as smoking, lack of exercise or alcohol misuse. It is a preventive approach typically carried out by health experts to help people at risk make an informed choice. While it is effective in primary care [1], little is known about its online application. I...

Psychometric instruments designed to assess work-related stress at the organizational level, such as the HSE-MS Indicator Tool, are usually very effective at identifying the domains of work design that, if not properly managed, can expose workers to high stress risk. These instruments, however, usually lack a measure of workers' perception of stres...

A randomized controlled non-inferiority trial of primary care-based facilitated access to an alcohol reduction website (EFAR-FVG): preliminary results

When a good decision leads to a bad outcome, the experience of regret can bias subsequent choices: people are less likely to select the regret-producing alternative a second time, even when it is still objectively the best alternative (non-adaptive choice switching). The first study presented herein showed that nearly half of participants experienc...

The optimism bias is the tendency to judge one's own risk as less than the risk of others. In the present study we found that also finance professionals (N = 60) displayed an optimism bias when forecasting the return of an investment made by themselves or by a colleague of the same expertise. Using a multidimensional approach to the assessment of r...

The adoption of new equipment in a work environment is usually meant to improve technology, increase safety and strengthen environmental protection. At the same time, however, technological changes can influence workers' performance, thus workload and tasks' reallocation should always be evaluated whenever new equipment is introduced. The aim of th...

Many health online resources addressed to the general public lack usability and their content is frequently difficult to understand. This case study evaluates the usability and the effectiveness of information presentation of the "Alcol e Salute" website, using two methods: heuristic evaluation and user testing. The results of the usability testing...

Physicians expect a treatment to be more effective when its clinical outcomes are described as relative rather than as absolute risk reductions. We examined whether effects of presentation method (relative vs. absolute risk reduction) remain when physicians are provided the baseline risk information, a vital piece of statistical information omitted...

Regret is the most frequently studied emotion in decision making. The aim of the present review is to offer a systematic analysis of experimental studies on regret in decision making, in order to highlight the most robust findings and to bring up inconsistencies and open issues. We first analyze the complex phenomenology of regret and then discuss...

The aim of this paper is to present a preliminary validation of an Italian adaptation of the HSE Management Standards Work-Related Stress Indicator Tool (IT), an instrument for assessing work-related stress at the organizational level, originally developed in Britain by the Health and Safety Executive. A scale that assesses the physical work enviro...

Regret is the most frequently studied emotion in decision making. The aim of the present review is to offer a systematic analysis of experimental studies on regret in decision making, in order to highlight the most robust findings and to bring up inconsistencies and open issues. We first analyze the complex phenomenology of regret and then discuss...

The present article investigates the effectiveness of methods traditionally used to distinguish between the emotions of regret and disappointment and presents a new method --- the Regret and Disappointment Scale (RDS) --- for assessing the two emotions in decision making research. The validity of the RDS was tested in three studies. Study 1 used tw...

Introduzione Con l'introduzione del nuovo Testo unico in materia di sa-lute e sicurezza nel lavoro (D. Lgs. 81/2008 e successive mo-difiche e integrazioni), è diventata prassi obbligatoria anche in Italia la valutazione del rischio stress lavoro-correlato. Se-condo le indicazioni contenute nella circolare 18/11/2010 del Ministero del Lavoro e delle...