Norma De Piccoli

Università degli Studi di Torino | UNITO · Dipartimento di Psicologia

Although scholars started investigating self-objectification more than twenty years ago, only a few studies focused on men and even fewer have taken into account the cross-cultural dimension. Our study focused on the antecedents of self-objectification paying attention to the role of biological and sociodemographic variables (gender, BMI), psycholo...

Objective To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Nijmegen Gender Awareness Scale – N-GAMS to the Italian context. Methods The structure of N-GAMS was evaluated by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and its invariance was tested with multigroup techniques The criterion-related validity of the measure was analyzed using the Pearson correlatio...

The study examined how 807 undergraduate Italian students coped with synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengths and weaknesses of online learning were collected via an electronic platform (SurveyMonkey) and then categorized by grounded theory analysis using ATLAS.ti 8.0 software. The results...

Enjoyment of sexualization (EoS) occurs when people find appearance-based sexual attention from others to be positive and rewarding. Scholars have not consistently established if enjoyment of being sexualized may be a form of sexual empower-ment, promoting positive body acceptance, control, and self-care, or instead an endorsement of sexist ideolog...

Life satisfaction is one of the most relevant indicators of psychological health. The present study aimed at extending previous research on life satisfaction by examining its antecedents for men and women in five countries (e.g., Italy, Poland, Romania, the UK, and Iran), with different levels of gender equality, according to the Global Gender Gap...

Il presente lavoro affronta il tema della transdisciplinarità nella formazione specialistica, con particolare attenzione all'ambito della Psicologia della Salute. A partire da alcune premesse legate all'approccio biopsicosociale, fortemente orientato all'integrazione delle diverse discipline, vengono sviluppate criticità e possibilità legate all'ap...

Following an ecological perspective, reactions to a disaster—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—should be analysed in the interdependence between individual and community dimensions. The present study aims to analyse individual emotional dimensions (anxiety, joy, fear or depressive feelings) and their community dimensions (connectedness, emotional shari...

The study aimed to validate the Italian version of the Measure for Assessing Subtle Rape Myths developed by McMahon and Farmer. A sample of 3,915 university students (70.8% female) completed the questionnaire. After an exploratory factor analysis, a confirmatory factor analysis tested the resulting four-factor structure of the Italian Subtle Rape M...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health issue worldwide and a serious violation of human rights. Recognizing IPV as a form of violence is essential for both victims who need help and offenders who can join treatment programs. Furthermore, only a society able to identify violence can effectively deal with IPV. The present study is aimed a...

La valutazione è uno degli elementi centrali di qualsiasi intervento di promozione della salute e uno dei suoi obiettivi è l'apprendimento. Di solito si valuta l'esito dell'intervento a favore dei gruppi target, mentre raramente si considerano le ricadute che il processo ha avuto su altri attori, quali ad esempio gli operatori. Il presente contribu...

Interventions addressing the endemic of sexual violence at European universities are scarce, particularly those that take a bystander focus to sexual violence prevention and involve university staff. Evidence-based data on their effectiveness are also lacking. This article reports the description of a pilot evaluation study of the USVreact Italian...

Although empowerment is a widely used concept in health-related areas, its definition remains unclear. While there is evidence for the effectiveness of empowerment interventions in improving some psychosocial factors linked to health (e.g. patient self-care strategy, coping skills, access and effective use of health services) and some health outcom...

The relationship between rape myth acceptance, gender-specific system justification (GSJ), and bystander intention to intervene has often been studied on a one-dimensional basis, without separating the four dimensions of the acceptance of rape myths. The current study analyzes the relationship between the acceptance of rape myths, GSJ, and bystande...

Ample evidence has shown that gender is one of the key determinants of health and illness and that a better understanding of gender-specific determinants can contribute to greater equity and equality in health services, with better health for both women and men. Nonetheless, the androcentric bias prevalent in healthcare makes it difficult to addres...

The community is an excellent potential arena in which to challenge gender perspective and change power structures in society because of its pivotal role in socializing gender and shaping social context. The community influences the availability of positive and negative role models, the accessibility of specific settings, the ease with which relati...

The present paper introduces a special issue focused on community gender perspective and health in an Italian context. After a brief analysis of the disparity and inequity that persist in Europe and Italy, we present six papers from different Italian regions that demonstrate different elements of the complex gender matters and challenges of well-be...

Local identification is related to both autochthony and sensitivity to urban disorder. Local identification is directly and indirectly associated with ethnic prejudice. Autochthony is a powerful ideology that can trigger exclusionary responses. Autochthony is the belief that a place belongs to those who were born there and that they are more entitl...

In response to Chamberlain’s article, the present paper offers a systemic-ecological analysis of the interdependence between the individual and the context. The analysis will also address lifestyles and critique the view that individuals bear sole responsibility for their actions. Coherent with this paradigm, participatory methodologies, mix-method...

Although there is extensive documentation of the damaging psychological consequences of self-objectification, more research is needed to explain its antecedents. With the present study we (a) investigated the correlates of self-objectification by analyzing biological (age and body-mass index), psychological (self-esteem), and sociocultural dimensio...

The harmful effects of objectification and self-objectification have been widely investigated, but few studies have examined factors that may predict self-objectification. This research intends to assess the protective versus risk role of sociodemographic and physical characteristics (age, BMI), psychosocial variables (self-esteem; self-oriented pe...

The study investigated the quality of life in a community facing a technological disaster causing environmental and economic damages. For years, the Italian city of Taranto has based its economy on a big steel plant. The industrial plant caused severe environmental pollution, negatively affecting the health of residents living in an area of the cit...

The aim of the study was to test the validity of the Italian version of the Body Image Coping Strategies Inventory (BICSI). This scale assesses cognitive and behavioural activities used to manage challenges to body image and comprises three subscales: avoidance, appearance fixing, and positive rational acceptance. Participants were 467 University s...

Self-objectification occurs when individuals treat themselves as objects to be viewed and evaluated based upon appearance. Literature has largely elucidated links between self-objectification and damaging outcomes in both men and women. The purpose of the present study was to extend past research on the antecedents of self-objectification. We were...

The link among health, well-being and social support is well known. Social support represents an important protective factor against stress both directly (see the main effect hypothesis) and as a mediator (see the stress-buffering hypothesis; Beckman & Syme, 1979; Cohen, 2003). Nevertheless, it fosters health but at the same time may create a burde...

Literature has conceptualized well-being in the work domain through specific constructs, such as job satisfaction, work alienation, work-family conflict, and the perception of decision-making. Research from a gender perspective has examined gender differences in relation to these variables, showing that—compared to men—women in most cases experienc...

This article is based on the contribution of Rose Capdevila; in particular to the construction of gender and motherhood in the context of health psychology but with a specific focus on "gender and health". According to the different meanings attributed to the concept of sex (referred to biological factors) and gender (which refers to the socio-cult...

The past three decades have witnessed numerous changes with respect to the treatment of gender in research on health and quality of life, leading to research in a more inclusive direction that focuses on the experiences of women as well as men. Gender is now considered a significant determinant of health and illness and health care has become more...

The relationship between inhabitants and their place of residence is important for people quality of life and well-being. This relationship entails both empirical and political challenges. Empirical challenges pertain to the investigation of different dimensions affecting well-being, distinguishing among personal characteristics (i.e., gender, age,...

Abstract The role of structural characteristics of the residential context in influencing adolescents’ Sense of community (SoC) has received limited consideration in the literature. Aim of this study was to assess SoC in male and female adolescents living in two Italian provinces characterized by different positions on indicators of quality of life...

Quality of life (QoL) refers to a subjective evaluation that is embedded in a cultural, social and environmental context. It is a multidimensional concept and its assessment covers four domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment. Although many studies report on QoL, literature rarely addressed the question...

The current study had two main purposes: 1) testing the predictive role of the coping strategies on the four domains of Quality of Life (physical, psychological, relational, and environmental domain), and 2) investigating the effect of gender as a moderator in the relationship between coping strategies and QoL’s dimensions. A total of 600 adults (5...

The aim of the study is to assess the predictive role of the affective link with the place of residence (place attachment) and the perception of one’s own community of residence (sense of community) on health and quality of life. Other variables were considered: size of place of residence, income, level of education, marital status, age, and gender...

Although women have gained increased access to leadership positions, they often remain in second to men in competitions for top executive roles. Even in most industrialized societies, women are still suffering disadvantage in access to major leadership posts. There are fewer women members of national Parliaments than men in all European member stat...

Prejudice toward female leaders can arise because of the inconsistency between the communal quality associated with women and the agentic qualities stereotypically required to be a successful leader. The present study explores the perception of female and male leaders by applying free association tasks. Moreover, it investigates how demographic var...

Quality of life concerns individual (physical and psychological health), interpersonal (social relationships) and contextual (environment) aspects, which are both subjective and objective. In considering contextual characteristics, empirical findings have demonstrated that people’s relation to their living environment is a key issue for their well-...

In considering both the affective and the cognitive component that characterize the relationship between people and places, the present study aimed at investigating which factors affect place attachment and identification with the social groups of inhabitants in two different populations (N = 388): students attending University in their home-town v...

Le autrici considerano che gli studi di genere si inseriscono in una prospettiva epistemologica volta a studiare l'articolazione tra processi psicologici e processi sociali. Anche gli stereotipi di genere esprimono contenuti che hanno una origine sociale. L'articolo intende rispondere a due questioni: a) i valori di sessismo, ostile e benevolente,...

Although literature yields some insights on the connection between place and well-being, to date the direct influence of place attachment on the dimensions that characterize social well-being has not been explicitly investigated. The present study, conducted on 443 first-year undergraduates, had one main purposes: exploring the influence of place a...

Tra le discipline psicologiche affermatesi piů di recente in Italia figura la psicologia della salute che, nonostante sia ancora una materia "giovane", negli ultimi anni ha ottenuto un considerevole riconoscimento. Questo contributo si propone di descrivere lo stato dell'arte della Psicologia della Salute nel nostro Paese cosě come emerge dagli art...

The relationship between people and places is characterized by affective and cognitive dimensions, defined, respectively, as place attachment and identification. This paper aims at clarifying differences between place attachment and identification by (1) identifying their predictors in a structural equation model and (2) exploring their association...

One interesting perspective from which to investigate participation processes is that of gender (Angelique & Culley, 2007). The disparity between male and female participation is evident, in particular when dealing with politics. The research reported here examines any differences between men and women in three different groups: non-participants (N...

Health psychology is a relatively new branch of psychology. However, although still a "young" topic, it has obtained important recognition over the last few years. This study attempts to highlight Italy's present situation in health psychology as devived from the articles published in the journal Psicologia della Salute. Both the content of the tit...

- Debate on Sense of Community increased recently. Present work is an exploration of the articles published in the last years (2000-2006) by scientific journals included in PsycINFO database. The study aims to explore the use of the Sense of Community concept in scientific literature. On the ground of the results, some critical points about the con...

- The author, after having traced a brief historical excursus related to the action-research, illustrates some approaches that, today it is possible recognize in this type of orientation to the research. Even though different are the epistemological approaches and the finalities, these manifold forms of action-research share some common principles:...

Il contributo, partendo dalla constatazione che la ricerca-azione costituisce, oggi, un orientamento alla ricerca, e non un metodo codificato, presenta in sintesi gli elementi caratterizzanti tale approccio. A tal proposito specifica quali sono le forme di conoscenza a cui la ricerca-azione si riferisce, in particolare facendo riferimento allo stre...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las dimensiones individuales (la percepción de control) y las dimensiones contextuales y de relación (el sentido de comunidad) en la participación política. La implicación activa en la acción social es considerada la base para desarrollar un sentido psicológico de comunidad y la percepción de control. El est...

This paper questions the conceptions found in the principal theoretical approaches developed within psychological and social sciences to the problem of community and psychological sense of community. Some core assumptions that are recurrent in the various definitions of the concept of community are discussed. From these assumptions stem the idea of...

The observations here presented come from an action-research project carried out at the Dialysis Centre of Ivrea. The work is focused on the articulation between subjective (the felt experience) and objective variables (the structure and intervention typology) with the aim of understanding patient's needs from an organizational point of view. A que...

A questionnaire to evaluate the needs of dialytic patients and the burden that these have on the health service and staff, was formulated by the nurses. The results showed how the patient's case history indicate, significantly, not only personal and subjective aspects (e.g. interpersonal relationships), but also how they construct their relationshi...