Massimiliano Barattucci- PhD in Organizational Psychology
- Associate Professor at University of Bergamo
Massimiliano Barattucci
- PhD in Organizational Psychology
- Associate Professor at University of Bergamo
Assistant Professor in I/O Psychology (tenure track)
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Introduction
Associate Professor at the Department of Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università degli studi di Bergamo. Psychologist, Therapist, Recruiter, Assessor, with a Ph.D. in I/O Psychology.
Current research interests: 1) Leadership. 2) Candidates' perceptions and digital recruitment. 3) Risk perception and work stress. 4) Active training techniques and organizational interventions 5) Work Climate and Organizational Identification.
Current institution
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January 2022 - present
Education
October 2006 - April 2010
October 1994 - July 2000
Publications
Publications (63)
Recent literature highlights that well-being, happiness, as well as personal stress, has become important for guiding public policy in areas that might involve suboptimal behaviour. Positive life outcomes can extend from one field of life (family, work, sport, children, hobbies, etc.) to another, multiplying success, performance, and health. In the...
Purpose
Referring to the theory of organizational empowerment, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of organizational support and perceived environment on quality of care and job satisfaction, with organizational commitment as a mediator for the first variable.
Design/methodology/approach
This study employed a cross-sectional r...
Occupational stress, as a negative facet, is a pervasive problem with significant implications for organizations, employees, welfare systems and health. The implementation of measurement tools that can capture the different organizational dimensions that determine stress in workers is part of the stress management and troubleshooting strategy that...
Aim
The purpose of the study is to introduce the concept of distributed leadership to international nursing management by conduct a cross‐national investigation of its relationships with empowering nursing leadership, nurses’ work self‐efficacy and nurses’ innovative behavior.
Background
Distributed leadership theory suggests that when more people...
Introduction. Socio-demographics, work, and emotional factors, together with experience of specific hazards, seem to play a joint role in the process of risk perception. Objective. The present study of 96 transport sector workers was carried out with the aim of verifying the role of personality in emotional states that moderate the process of risk...
A wide body of literature showed the pivotal role of
organizational identification (OI) in understanding
organizational processes and individuals’ quality of life
in the workplace. The workers’ sense of belongingness
is closely related to building processes of moral values,
including the perception of trust toward other people
and the organization...
Given the recognised benefits of organisational identification (OI) on workers' well-being, we investigated the underlying mechanisms of this association in this work. We conducted a cross-sectional study (N = 192) to examine the possible mediating role of three factors related to individ-uals' workplace experiences (organisational trust, the meani...
Objectives
The research aimed to test the job demands-resources (JD-R) model on a sample of Italian oncology workers, and the role of perceived organizational support (POS) as a moderator of the effects of JD on outcomes (job satisfaction and burnout [BO]).
Methods
Based on the JD-R model, a correlational study was designed to investigate the rela...
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) actions are individual research grants that aim to support the research training and career development of researchers holding PhDs, in collaboration with one or more Supervisors and through international mobility.
The Global Fellowship involves the acquisition of new knowledge and skills thr...
In uno scenario lavorativo competitivo e in evoluzione,
la leadership è chiamata a rispondere a
sfide connesse alla gestione dei processi trasformativi
interni ed esterni all’organizzazione. Allo
scopo di validare la versione italiana della Global
Transformational (GTL) e della Empowering
Leadership Behavior scale (ELB) e di testarne
l’attendibilit...
Happiness is a basic human emotional state associated with positive life and work-related outcomes. Despite being currently considered a central topic in public health research and practice, there is a paucity of valid and reliable brief
measures of happiness that have been adapted in Italian. Thus, the present study sought to investigate the psych...
Objective.-Consistently with Bandura's theory of moral disengagement, we examined if moral disengagement predicted employees' counterproductive work behaviours and organizational citizenship behaviours, also assessing moral competence as a moderator that, at higher values, could mitigate the positive association with counterproductive work behaviou...
Sensory experiences play a remarkable role in the visitor’s satisfaction and behavioral intention to return to a wine tourism unit, so it is important to frequently review the environment in which the experience is lived, to make it memorable. This study aimed to perform a comparative analysis of the perception of sensory experiences between the Ab...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in adapting to social and work changes and new technological methods for remote teaching, teachers were subjected to increased work pressure, which affected their well-being and led to increased negative stress and burnout. This study was designed to test whether dysfunctional outcomes resulting from adapting to new wa...
Referring to the institutional and research indications, those involved in higher education policies and management are formulating new plans to face, on the one hand, the decline in academic enrolments, on the other, the growing increase of
early university-leavers. Academic drop-out and negative experiences and affect, in addition to being indic...
The perceived quality of the learning environment may influence both motivation and concentration. Little is known about how perceived characteristics of the learning environment, and specifically sub-dimensions of Perceived Restorativeness (being away, fascination, compatibility, and extent), can promote these positive effects in an academic conte...
Background:
Lipodystrophy is one of the most frequent complications in people with diabetes following subcutaneous insulin therapy, and poor management can lead to several problems, such as impaired glycemic control and adherence to therapy, anxiety, and depression. Poor injection technique represents the main risk factor for lipodystrophies. In o...
The utility of students' approaches to learning (AL) has evolved from a simple act of academic monitoring to a systemic process of continuous improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. Research on the careful development of measures for AL is consequently crucial. The purpose of this research is to develop and validate a brief measur...
The purpose of this study is to analyse relations between students' attitude towards mathematics, prior knowledge, self-efficacy, expected grades, and performance in mathematics among 115 first-year engineering students. We combine two statistical techniques to analyse the data we generated by questionnaires and two tests. First, item-level modelin...
As the literature highlights, many health behavior theories try to explain both social
and psychological variables influencing an individual’s health behavior. This study integrates
insights relative to the antecedents of getting vaccinated from health behavior theories, particularly
including the health belief model (HBM), the theory of planned be...
Self-objectification at the workplace is the employees’ perception of being less human and more instrument-like. We explored whether perceived ethical climate – the shared perceptions of how the organization deals with ethical issues – represents an antecedent of self-objectification, in the light of the social identity approach. In a correlational...
The purpose of this study is to analyse relations between students' attitude towards mathematics, prior knowledge, self-efficacy, expected grades, and performance in mathematics among 115 first-year engineering students. We combine two statistical techniques to analyse the data we generated by questionnaires and two tests. First, item-level modelin...
The aims of the present investigation were (i) to determine psychological relapses of COVID-19 booster vaccine; (ii) to identify the determining factors affecting willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccine; and (iii) to study the relationship among emotional characteristics (anxiety, stress, depression, optimism), social media information, and the man...
Background
Nurse turnover is an issue that impacts a hospital’s financial resources and the quality of patient care. There is a need to discover what actions can be taken to improve nurse retention.
Objective
Nurses’ job satisfaction has been shown to improve organizational outcomes, such as nurses’ retention. The objective of this study is to exa...
Using the Biggs' 3P learning model and correlational design, this study explores the relationship between students' individual characteristics and course perceptions, approach to study, and academic outcomes, which account for the differences in academic achievement and student delay. 612 Italian students of a master's degree in psychology particip...
Successfully balancing between work and family domains represents a major issue to both employees and employers, especially during COVID-19 pandemic times during which employees are often forced to work from a distance and turn to home-schooling. An occupational group particularly affected by work changes due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions is re...
The Job Demands-Resources model hypothesises that some variables (especially personal and social resources/threats) moderate the relationship between job demands and work outcomes. Based on this model, in this study we examine the role of stigma towards customers as a moderator of the relationship between job demands and a series of work outcomes:...
Using the Biggs' 3P learning model and correlational design, this study explores the relationship between students' individual characteristics and course perceptions, approach to study, and academic outcomes, which account for the differences in academic achievement and student delay. 612 Italian students of a master's degree in psychology particip...
Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective public health tools and have greatly contributed to eliminating or controlling several serious vaccine-treatable diseases over the past century. To curb the spread of COVID-19, efficacious vaccination is emerging as essential in mitigating the disease and preventing deaths. Health care worke...
With the aim of investigating the impact of gender-related personality characteristics on bullying perceptions and outcomes, a correlational study was designed with 114 individuals who had used a public health service aimed at harassed workers identifying themselves as victims of mobbing in central Italy. The study was conducted using the following...
Organizational identification (OI) has increasingly attracted scholarly attention as a key factor in understanding organizational processes and in fostering efficient human resource (HR) management. Available evidence shows that organizational ethical climate crucially predicts OI, a key determinant of both employees’ attitudes and behaviors. In th...
The motivation for learning mathematics is an essential factor in predicting the performance of secondary school students. Students who are intrinsically or extrinsically motivated to learn mathematics generally demonstrate higher performance than others who are not motivated. However, a properly designed instrument for the measurement of this cons...
The motivation for learning mathematics is an essential factor in predicting the performance of secondary school students. Students who are intrinsically or extrinsically motivated to learn mathematics generally demonstrate higher performance than others who are not motivated. However, a properly designed instrument for the measurement of this cons...
Helmeto 2021 special track.
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Scope
Background:
Both online and traditional academic institutions have gradually structured and reworked their policies on the basis of perceptions, satisfaction, needs, and requirements of their primary clients, namely the students. Some variables, related to t...
Due to COVID-19 spreading in Italy, on March 11 the Prime Minister of Italy declared a lockdown and imposed severe restrictive measures impacting citizens’ freedom at several levels. People were required to stay at home and go out only to satisfy basic needs. Several risk models have postulated a link among online searching behavior, affect, anxiet...
The work-family interface is a compelling topic that calls into question labor market dynamics and work processes, together with important social and family composition changes. The present study aimed at examining the antecedents of Work-Family Balance (WFB) in Italy consistent with Greenhaus and Allen’s (2011) conceptual model in which the charac...
Il capitolo offre una presentazione rigorosa e organica di una delle nuove branche della pedagogia generale: la pedagogia professionale. Il Pedagogista svolge una professione intellettuale superiore il cui focus è l’educazione in tutti i domini sociali, formali, non formali e informali, e in tutte le età della vita, in una prospettiva di life long...
With the aim of investigating the possible moderating effect of job control and dispositional mindfulness between different sources of organizational stress and job satisfaction, a correlational study was designed involving health care workers (HCWs). The following questionnaires were administered and completed by 237 HCWs: (1) Occupational Stress...
The COVID-19 emergency has significantly transformed the working environment and job demands. Providing care was emotionally difficult for healthcare workers. Uncertainty, stigmatisation, and potentially exposing their families to infection were prominent themes for healthcare workers (HCWs) during the crisis, which first broke out in China at the...
Special Issue "Working during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic".
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2021.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world health organization declare...
Forms of collective leadership, such as distributed leadership, have become increasingly important. The need for measurement of the variables involved in the delegation processes represents a new challenge for organizations that want to ensure high-level working. The present study aimed to validate the Italian version of the distributed leadership...
L'Organizational Behavior Management è l'applicazione dei principi comportamentali per individui e gruppi, nel mondo delle organizzazioni, delle industrie, dei governi e dei servizi umani. L'analisi comportamentale applicata nei contesti aziendali consente ai membri organizzativi di stabilire condizioni che diano luogo a modelli di condotta prevedi...
Straining is an attenuated form of mobbing, in which the continuity of vexatious actions is not driven by a discriminatory intent. With the objective of testing the possible moderating role of personality in the relationship between perceptions about straining at work and individual consequences, a correlational design research involved 374 healthc...
Changes in the health care environment, together with specific work-related stressors and the consequences on workers' health and performance, have led to the implementation of prevention strategies. Among the different approaches, those which are mindfulness-based have been institutionally recommended with an indication provided as to their effect...
Organisations appear to pay little attention to rejection letters, considered a special form of organisational communication, despite a growing body of literature that shows they play an important role in terms of employer branding. This study aims to empirically test how applicants’ perceptions are affected by differently manipulated rejection let...
The progressive spread of online academic courses is a result of the flexible and customisable nature of the related learning process, while some studies on students’ achievement in distance learning universities have underlined retention as a priority issue for future research. Despite the number of studies that have investigated specific variable...
Socio-demographics, work, and emotional factors, together with experience of specific hazards, seem to play a joint role in the process of risk perception.
OBJECTIVE
The present study of 96 transport sector workers was carried out with the aim of verifying the role of personality in emotional states that moderate the process of risk perception and...
Ethical climate defines what is correct behavior and how ethical issues should be handled within organizations. For this reason, it plays a key role in organizational life. We relied on the social identity approach to compare the effects of two specific ethical climates – an ethical climate of self-interest vs. friendship – on employees’ reactions....
Active Training Techniques for outplacement: does group training improve placement? Employability should represent a target for consultants and job agencies with measurable and verifiable outcomes. Outplacement has to meet actual needs of workers and markets, taking into account a rigorous methodology. In order to verify the effect of different tra...
The spread and publicity given to questionable practices in the corporate world during the last two decades have fostered an increasing interest about the importance of ethical work for organizations, practitioners, scholars and, last but not least, the wider public. Relying on the Social Identity Approach, we suggest that the effects of different...
Academic institutions have gradually structured their policies on the basis of their students' perceptions, satisfaction and needs. This paper explores the use of phenomenography in the Student Learning Perspective, which claims that students' perceptions of the learning environment, in light of their motivations and expectations, determine how sit...
The applicability of certain constructs of occupational psychology in practical terms is often underestimated by human resources specialists. This article considers the practical and operative implementation of the organizational justice concept, a construct that facilitates the understanding of recent developments in exchanges between workers and...
Academic institutions have gradually structured their policies on the bases of their students’ perceptions, satisfaction, and needs. The relationship between academic environment and learning quality has become central, leading to a broad range of studies. In the present study we investigated the applicability of Biggs’ 3P learning process model to...
This review investigates the contribution of John Biggs in playing an important role within learning research and educational system quality. Schools and Universities have gradually structured their policies on the bases of their students’ perceptions, satisfaction, and needs. The interest in the measurement of student’s study strategies and percep...
The aim of this study was to adapt to the Italian context and validate two instruments used to investigate learning environment perceptions and approaches to study: the Student Course Experience Questionnaire (SCEQ), and the Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI). A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a cross-validation for both instruments were...
In the present study an evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Short Negative Acts Questionnaire (S-NAQ) was carried out by using data concerning an organizational sample (N = 692) and a clinical sample (N = 180). Results confirm that a three-factor structure (Work-related mobbing, Personal mobbing and Social isolation) is superior in ter...
The hypothesis that a state of hypoarousal upon awakening should lead to a decrease in amplitude and an increase in latency of the N1-P2 components of the Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEPs) as compared to presleep wakefulness levels, was evaluated after two nocturnal awakenings and after the final morning awakening from a 7.5-h night of sleep. The a...
Attraverso l'analisi del modello sull'approccio all o studio di Biggs, è stata condotta una rassegna delle ricerche in grado di descrivere il contesto d i nascita e l'evoluzione della cornice teorica denominata Student Approach to Learning . Dalle iniziali ricerche sui processi di studio co ndotte nell'ambito dell' Information Processing , attraver...
L'articolo propone una rassegna delle ricerche condotte nell'ambito della Student Learning Perspective, una prospettiva di studio dell'apprendimento che ha come oggetto di interesse la comprensione del sistema di percezioni che lo studente ha di se e del suo ambiente accademico. L'analisi dei contesti educativi permette di interpretare le variazion...
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world health organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 a pandemic on March 11th, pointing to the over 118,000 cases in over 110 countries around the world. During this pandemic related to the spread of coronavirus, it became necessary to understand the protective factors, risk factors, stressors, and psychological and health conditions, associated with an unprecedented emergency, expecially on those workers on duty during the lockdown.
This research topic wants to understand which variables are considered most important to investigate, how research on the phenomenon is implemented, and the differences in studies between different countries, on the emergency covid-19, with the aim of assessing how researchers are acting to study psycho-social phenomena related to the coronavirus emergency, as well as effective preventive measures and public health management response and containment interventions.
Since many researchers around the world are using their efforts to contribute to the study of the phenomenon, this research topic aims to highlight interdisciplinary research approaches deployed during the covid-19 epidemic from across the world.
It will incorporate critical, theoretically informed, and empirically researched contributions using diverse approaches; experimental, observational, and intervention studies; and conceptual framing.
Dr. Emanuele Cannizzaro
Prof. Ramaci Tiziana
Dr. Massimiliano Barattucci
Dr. Fulvio Plescia
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