
Giulia LandiUniversity of Bologna | UNIBO · Department of Psychology PSI
Giulia Landi
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Introduction
Giulia Landi currently works at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna. Giulia does research in Health Psychology and Clinical Psychology. One of her current project is the 'evaluation of an online ACT intervention to promote mental health among young carers'.
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Publications (36)
The Moderating Roles of Psychological Flexibility and Inflexibility on the Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown in Italy.
Preliminary data suggest the COVID-19 pandemic has adverse effects on mental health in approximately a quarter of the general population. Few prior studies have identified contextual risk factors and no publis...
The COVID-19 emergency has severely affected the Italian population. During a pandemic, those with high health anxiety are at risk of adverse mental health outcomes, including peritraumatic distress and mood disturbance. No prior research has explored the role of psychological flexibility in protecting people at high risk of poorer mental health im...
Objective: This study refined the conceptualisation of youth care- giving by testing the tripartite model of youth caregiving pro- posed by Pakenham and Cox, comprising caregiving responsibilities, experiences, and tasks. We also investigated con- vergent validity of the model by examining the unique and joint contributions of the three youth careg...
Parental chronic illness may adversely impact youth and family functioning. This study examined a moderated mediation model of the effects of parental illness on youth and family functioning derived from the Family Ecology Framework. Consistent with this model, we predicted that youth caregiving and stress would serially mediate the adverse impacts...
The COVID-19 pandemic evokes high levels of post-traumatic stress (PTS) in some people as well as positive personal changes, a phenomenon known as post-traumatic growth (PTG). Experiencing an adverse event as traumatic is crucial for triggering PTG, therefore higher PTS is often associated with higher PTG. This longitudinal study examined the prote...
The challenges of parental cancer while caring for young offspring are often neglected by researchers and healthcare providers. Focusing on parents with cancer, this cross-sectional study examines the mediating and moderating roles of a malleable risk factor, psychological inflexibility, in the relationships between perceived illness severity and p...
Objective
Individuals with fibromyalgia report alarming levels of suicidal ideation, and comorbidity with other chronic health conditions such as obesity - a risk factor for suicidal ideation per se- could further complicate the clinical picture. The aim of this study is to determine, in a sample of women with fibromyalgia and comorbid obesity, the...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of psychological flexibility in mediating the beneficial effects of resilience on distress and quality of life (QoL) in people with MS (PwMS). The psychological flexibility framework underpinning acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) was used to conceptualise psychological flexibility. A total...
Objectives:
A two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a group acceptance-based treatment (ABT) in improving pain acceptance, pain catastrophising, kinesiophobia, pain intensity and physical functioning compared to treatment as usual in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and comorbid obesity.
Methods:
F...
Background:
The first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wave and lockdown adversely affected the lives of people in diverse ways.
Aims:
This study used a person-centered approach to identify patterns of engagement in the 12 psychological flexibility (PF) and inflexibility (PI) processes to manage the first COVID-19 wave and lockdown hardships....
Background: This pilot study explored the effectiveness and feasibility of an online version of a group acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) resilience training intervention for people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), called e-READY for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Methods: Fifty-six PwMS were randomized to intervention (n = 31) or waitlist control (...
Citation: Boccolini, G.; Marino, M.; Tiberi, V.; Iannilli, A.; Landi, G.; Grandi, S.; Tossani, E.; ISPED Study Group; Cherubini, V. A Risk Profile for Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: A Latent Class Analysis Study. Nutrients 2023, 15, 1721. https:// Abstract: (1) Background: This multi-center study aimed to identify...
Objective:
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis disrupting healthcare delivery for people with severe obesity who have undergone bariatric surgery. This study examined the role of psychological distress during the first Italian COVID-19 lockdown in predicting post-operative outcomes in post-bariatric patients reaching the end of...
This study investigated caregiving responsibilities and associated mental health outcomes in young adult carers during the COVID-19 pandemic and had three aims: (1) to investigate differ- ences in caregiving responsibilities across two groups of young adult carers (parental illness context vs. ill non-parent family member context) relative to non-c...
The present study investigated the patterns of mutual associations between maladaptive daydreaming-related variables (MD, i.e., interference with life and somatosensory retreat), psychopathological symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, somatization, obsessive–compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, psychoticism), emotion regulation strategies (i.e.,...
The study shows preliminary results of “The ACTyourCHANGE in Teens” project, a Randomized Controlled Trial aimed at evaluating the efficacy of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based intervention combined with treatment as usual (ACT+TAU) compared to TAU only, for improving psychological well-being, psychological distress, experiential avoidance...
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Transgenerational Effects of Parental Physical and Mental Illnesses on Their Young Offspring's Adjustment: A Psychosomatic Perspective
Background
Published reports on the adverse mental health impacts of the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic suggest an emerging global mental health crisis. However, the trajectories of these mental health impacts over multiple COVID-19 peaks and corresponding lockdowns are unknown. This study explored the trajectories of anxiety and depression...
The mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adult carers have been neglected. This study aimed to identify COVID-19 related risk factors for young adult carers and to investigate their mental health relative to non-carer peers. Of the 1823 Italians aged 18–29 who completed an online survey, 1458 reported no ill family member (non-ca...
Purpose
Given the large number of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) impacted by parental cancer and the potential for negative psychosocial outcomes in this vulnerable population, this study examined the mediating role of offspring unmet needs with regard to parental cancer and the relation between AYAs psychosocial adjustment and perceived illne...
The psychosocial stressors related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns have been shown to lead to an exacerbation of suicide risk. The present study aims to examine (a) the contribution of mental pain intensity to psychological distress and suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic and (b) the protective role of mental pa...
The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI) is a recently developed measure of psychological flexibility and inflexibility based on the psychological functioning model of behavior change that underpins Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The present study sought to develop a validation of this measure in Italian language fr...
The psychological flexibility model of behavior change underpins acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). However, the measurement of psychological flexibility over the past 20 years has mostly hinged on the use of measures with poor discriminant validity and fuzzy boundaries with distress and negative emotionality. The current study analyzed the s...
The main goal of the study was to evaluate Orbach’s multidimensional model of mental pain in Italy, while constructing a reliable and valid Italian version of the 40-item Orbach and Mikulincer Mental Pain scale (OMMP) in a non-clinical sample. The sample consisted of 544 Italian adults. Findings indicated that the original 8-factor structure of the...
Mental pain and tolerance for mental pain have been receiving international recognition as transdiagnostic constructs related to many psychiatric conditions as well as increased probability of suicide. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Tolerance for Mental Pain Scale (TMPS) in Italian and to examine its protective role in depr...
Purpose: Parental illness or disability has wide ranging impacts on offspring. Due to the lack of an Italian contextually sensitive measure of youth caregiving, this study explored the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Italian version of the Young Carer of Parents Inventory-Revised (YCOPI-R).
Materials and methods: Seven hundred an...
Aims:
To identify all available research on psychosocial outcomes in young people who have a parent with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Methods:
Embase, PsychInfo, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed and ProQuest Social Sciences databases were searched according to a registered study protocol (PROSPERO CRD42019125301). Quality assessment, data extraction...
We hypothesized that parents of child psychiatric patients would themselves show distorted psychological functioning. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI) of 237 Italian parents (128 normative parents with no psychiatric involvement, 30 with a child in psychiatric care, and 79 in psychiatric care themselves)....
We hypothesized that parents of child psychiatric patients would themselves show distorted psychological functioning. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI) of 237 Italian parents (128 normative parents with no psychiatric involvement, 30 with a child in psychiatric care, and 79 in psychiatric care themselves)....
Procedures to assess attachment in school-age are mainly based on verbal responses and are carried out in conditions of relative security, implying some reliability and validity problems. In particular, the assessment in these children presents particular difficulties related to the specific characteristics of this stage of development—such as the...
The assessment of attachment in school-age children presents particular difficulties related to the specific characteristics of this stage of development—such as the different use of verbal and non-verbal communication and the particular display of facial expressions and behaviors related to their inner emotional states. However, most of the assess...
Una funzione maschile importante, per lungo tempo sottovalutata e solo recentemente oggetto di studio, è quella di proteggere la propria compagna offrendole una base sicura nei periodi in cui è maggiormente esposta a condizioni di potenziale pericolo fisico o psicologico. Questo compito si rivela particolarmente importante durante il periodo perina...
Will we see a world-wide increase in the number of psychologically literate citizens in coming years? The second half of the 20th century saw a meteoric rise in psychology education at all levels-first in the USA, then internationally. How is this likely to impact public knowledge and attitudes toward psychology? This data-based essay reviews the d...