Marcello Nonnis

• Professor
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Cagliari

The construct of place attachment is crucial in the relationship between people and their satisfaction with their work environment, but there are still few studies on it. This study aims to verify through a longitudinal design with a sample of healthcare workers in an Italian hospital (N = 110 at Time 2) whether secure workplace attachment is a pre...

Objective The aim of this work is to verify whether a cohort of elderly people with hyper-energy tended to increase depressive symptoms and misaligned social and personal rhythms during the lockdown compared to a cohort of older adults without hyper-energy one year before the lockdown. Methods The two cohorts were evaluated in April 2019 (T0) and...

The present study aimed to evaluate the multivariate relationships between variables related to burnout and job stress in healthcare workers, evaluating whether the relationships between these dimensions, the variables related to personal factors (age, seniority of service), and work–family balance factors (overwork related to unused vacation days...

The present study aimed to evaluate the multivariate relationships between variables related to burnout and job stress in healthcare workers, evaluating if the relationship between these dimensions, the variables related to personal factors (age, seniority of service), and work–family balance factors (overwork related to unused vacation days, accum...

Introduction: This research describes incorporating the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in training students at an Italian university. It also describes the perception of students on the rights of people with disabilities and the quality of services using the questionnaire the Well-Being...

Background: Alexithymia, a predictor in chronic illnesses, like cardiovascular and bipolar disorder (CD–BD), could be improved with a virtual reality (VR) cognitive remediation program. This secondary analysis of a previous randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluates alexithymia improvement and its factors in an experimental group versus a control...

Background This study aimed to measure differences among informal caregivers, users, and mental healthcare workers (MHW) regarding job/organizational satisfaction and perceptions of respect for rights in the mental health services of one region of Italy. Methods A sample of 100 caregivers, 240 MHW, and 200 users completed the “Well-Being at Work a...

For a long time, care environments have been characterized as "inhuman," with their place meaning linked to illness and suffering. This study aims to analyze the shift in the meaning of the hospital space, investigating the impact of a permanent art gallery in a hospital's Gynecology Department on employees' well-being. Employing a quasi-experiment...

Background: This longitudinal study aimed to evaluate whether prior engagement in a physical exercise program correlated with enhanced perceptions of quality-of-life components among older adults during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Methods: The cohort comprised elderly individuals (aged ≥ 65 years) who had previously partaken in a 12-week randomiz...

Background: The objective of this work is to investigate the effectiveness of a cognitive remediation intervention on anxiety symptoms in people with bipolar disorder and the therapeutic effect on people whose anxiety symptoms were above the threshold for a screener and whose comorbidity could be identified as an anxiety disorder. Methods: The expe...

Background This study has investigated perceptions of respect for users' rights among informal caregivers in mental healthcare settings, aligning with the guidelines outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the World Health Organization QualityRights initiative. The study has employed the quest...

Healthcare workers’ stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, whose mid-term negative effects are still present. The aim of this work was to consider the effects of burnout (psychophysical exhaustion, relational deterioration, and professional inefficacy) on the career satisfaction of healthcare workers. Th...

Background Life skills, according to the World Health Organization, can promote youth well-being through educational school programs. Among life skills, decision-making and problem-solving skills can help adolescents consciously choose their career path. The Italian school system, in fact, requires students, already at a young age (13–14 years old)...

Healthcare workers' stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, whose mid-term negative effects are still present. The aim of this study was to investigate in healthcare workers the effect of the dimensions of burnout (Psychophysical exhaustion, Relational deterioration, and Professional inefficacy) on Career...

Long-term unemployment has major consequences from an economic, physical and psychosocial perspective. Several authors have pointed out that the search for employment is in itself work, which can generate feelings of exhaustion of psychophysical energies, cynicism and disinvestment, as well as a sense of ineffectiveness to the point of complete dis...

Background Search for work is in itself a job and its outcomes are similar to those of job burnout: it can generate feelings of exhaustion, detachment from the commitment to research, and a sense of ineffectiveness. The aim of the present study is to investigate the construct of burnout within the category of long-term unemployed people engaged in...

Though place attachment has been widely studied for a variety of settings, little attention has been devoted to place attachment in the workplace, particularly in healthcare environments. The objective of this research is to test the relationship between Secure workplace attachment and work engagement through the mediating effect of the work enviro...

This study focuses on caregivers who work in residential facilities (RFs) for the elderly, and specifically on their organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) in relation to their interaction respectively with the overall context (workplace attachment dimension), the spatial-physical environment (perceived environmental comfort), and the social e...

In the educational field, the role of the support component of the teacher-student relationship is well known, while the role of the teacher-student relationship on teacher burnout is a more current field of investigation. Several studies on the sources of burnout have recently focused on job satisfaction and teacher-student satisfaction. However,...

The role played by place attachment in the prediction of positive or negative outcomes for people wellbeing has been analyzed in various environments, nevertheless the work environment is still understudied. The aim of this research was to test the relationship between the three workplace attachment styles (i.e., secure, avoidant, and preoccupied)...

The present study describes the semantic nature of burnout and engagement in the operators involved in the management of illegal immigration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on a sample of Italian practitioners (n = 62) of the two levels of the reception system considered: (1) rescue and first aid and (2) reception and integration. Within...

Background Research on teachers' representations of children's learning is currently ongoing. Social representations are common-sense theories built and shared in everyday interactions. Their analysis can detect the possible differences between teachers’ naïve beliefs and scientific learning theories. Objective The objective of this pilot study is...

Illegal immigration throughout the Mediterranean Sea is an intense and epoch-making phenomenon. This quantitative and qualitative study, based on the framework of the JD-R Model of burnout, described and assessed the risk of burnout among practitioners working in the reception system for illegal immigrants. A sample of Italian practitioners complet...

This study assesses the levels of and relationships between the Motivation to donate, Job crafting propensity, and the Organizational citizenship behavior of blood collection volunteers in a non-profit association. An Italian sample of AVIS (the Italian Association of Voluntary Blood donors) blood donors (N = 1215) actively involved in organizing b...

Mobbing, Bullying at Work: Hostile Behaviors, Consequences and reactions of the victims, in Italy.

Background The literature has shown that workaholism acts at the root of burnout, but research regarding these constructs in the nursing profession is scant. Similarly, little attention has been paid to the impact of workaholism on disillusion, which is a dimension of burnout linked to professional vocation. Objectives Contribute to the ongoing re...

Introduction: The risk for nurses to be exposed to workaholism is widely demonstrated in the relevant international literature; however, this does not seem to be paid sufficient study and analysis in Italy. The Italian adaptation of the Dutch Workaholism Scale (DUWAS) comprises the working excessively (WE) and working compulsively (WC) scales. Meth...

Riassunto. Lo studio esplora l’incidenza dell’assertività sul burnout nei medici ospedalieri. 262 medici ospedalieri italiani della Sardegna compilano la SIB-r (Scale for Interpersonal Behavior, versione ridotta) e l’LBQ (Link Burnout Questionnaire). L’incidenza dell’assertività sul burnout è valutata mediante modelli di equazioni strutturali (SEM)...

The present study investigates the relationship between assertiveness and satisfaction of students in school transitions in and out of the secondary school. Method. 250 high school students (first and fifth classes) completed the questionnaires: "Come mi comporto con gli altri" [How do I behave with others?] and "La Mia vita da Studente" [My life a...

The study explores the effect of assertiveness on burnout in physicians. 262 Italian physicians from the region of Sardinia, filled the SIB-r (Scale for Interpersonal Behavior, short version) and the LBQ (Link Burnout Questionnaire). The impact of assertiveness on burnout was evaluated by means of a structural equation model (SEM). The distress in...

To date, the physician-patient relationship has not been dealt with by means of shared theoretical and descriptive models or common measuring instruments. Hence, this study focuses on the psychometric properties of an Interdependence scale that aims to assess the physician-patient relationship. This survey is based on a model that investigates four...

Il presente studio descrive le valutazioni sulle competenze relazionali, tecnico-operative e organizzative dei Neolaureati magistrali in Scienze infermieristiche e ostetriche, espresse da questi e da parte dei ruoli professionali maggiormente implicati nella loro socializzazione lavorativa: i Dirigenti e i Coordinatori infermieristici. A tal fine è...

In the wake of the paradigms of positive psychology and positive organizational behavior, the Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R) identifies a wide array of significant links between both positive and negative aspects of work environments and individual and organizational outcomes. This study tested the basic assumptions of the JD-R model on a sampl...

Numerous studies show the existence of stress and burnout among teachers. The psycho-social sources of stress and burnout in teachers cover many aspects, often of conflictual nature, affecting the relationship with the school organization, colleagues, parents, students, and many other variables. This study aimed at exploring the incidence of burnou...

Psycho-social sources of stress and burnout in schools: research on a sample of italian teachers». Background: Numerous studies show the existence of stress and burnout among teachers. The psycho-social sources of stress and burnout in teachers cover many aspects, often of conflictual nature, affecting the relationship with the school organization...

Background - Numerous studies show that health care providers are at risk of burnout. Variability linked to the unit in which they work, the presence of chronic and disabling conditions and excessive contextual demands have been found. Few studies focus on burnout in paediatric wards. Objectives -To check for syndromes among doctors that work in th...

Understanding the effects of job insecurity in order to prevent or counterbalance them is a current topic for scholars and practitioners alike. In particular, this study investigated the possible moderators of job insecurity, an analysis that has always been carried out in a fragmented and erratic way, in rela-tion to outcomes such as work engageme...

Il gruppo di lavoro sta diventando uno strumento sempre più frequentemente utilizzato per gestire in termini di efficacia e qualità la domanda di salute. A fronte però del ricorso ad una impostazione di natura tecnica nella costituzione dei team sanitari ad esempio in termini di organigramma, ruoli, funzioni, obiettivi, vincoli e risorse, emerge se...

Nell’ambito del Dipartimento di Salute Mentale di Cagliari, è stata realizzata una ricerca azione finalizzata alla costruzione di un manuale del ciclo dell’accoglienza per il miglioramento dell’offerta sanitaria e la promozione del benessere organizzativo degli operatori. Il contributo illustra il contesto con il quale il progetto si è confrontato,...

Boundaryless and Protean Careers in Italy