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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...
Second-generation Muslims who follow their faith and feel discriminated against tend to maintain their heritage culture and distance themselves from the culture of the country where they grew up, setting the conditions for psychosocial maladjustment. Yet some second generation do find ways to adopt the mainstream culture while remaining attached to...
In the face of the first wave of COVID‐19 contagion, citizens all over the world experienced concerns for their safety and health, as well as prolonged lockdowns – which brought about limitations but also unforeseen opportunities for personal growth. Broad variability in these psychological responses to such unprecedented experiences emerged. This...
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...
The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent body shame, parent per-fectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. In our main hypothe...
Resilience and empowerment are both strengths-based processes, which, while sharing commonalities, describe different goals, actions, and outcomes-one aimed at status quo; the other at status quake. The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience (TMER; Brodsky & Cattaneo, 2013) outlines these similarities and differences in order to uncove...
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The efficacy of public measures for reducing the transmission of the COVID-19 infection relies on citizens’ voluntary adherence with prescribed actions. Drawing on prior literature about compliant behavior, this study aimed to identify factors associated with people engagement in health-protective behaviors by including a conjoint comple...
The aim of this study is to examine the association between citizens' perceptions of the effectiveness of the institutional response, their connection and responsibility to their community (Sense of Community-SoC; Sense of Community Responsibility-SoC-R), and their personal and social concerns about the current emergency and their perceptions of a...
We aimed to identify the patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. Survey data were collected from a sample of Italian adults during the March May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online prosocial behaviours, sense of community responsibility (SoC-R) and perceptions of community re...
There is growing support for viewing communities as a multilevel construct in which the interdependence between individuals and community systems contributes to the promotion of individual responsibilities in thinking and enacting changes to respond to people's and community's needs. However, there is currently scant evidence regarding the influenc...
In Italy strict containment measures against COVID-19 pandemic were implemented from March to May 2020 with home confinement and schools and universities closed. Students shifted to remote learning, experienced a forced isolation from peers and an increased sharing of time and spaces with the family. The influence of these aspects on the psychologi...
The study is aimed at examining the relationship between emotional and self-regulated learning self-efficacy, subjective well-being (SWB) and positive coping among adolescents and youths, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. 485 Italian students (74% girls; mean age 19.3) filled in an online questionnaire during the lockdown period. The hypothesi...
Aim. To identify patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions.Method. Survey data was collected from a sample of Italian adults during the March ̶ May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online prosocial behaviours, Sense of Community Responsibility (SoC-R) and perceptions of community re...
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...
The current study focused on the education-nationalism relationship and aimed to understand whether the positive influence of education in the reduction of nationalist attitudes simply relies on the educational level reached, or is related to the kind of school attended to reach the level. Moreover, we were interested in understanding if book readi...
Second generation immigrants in Western societies negotiate between cultural sets: the inherited and the acquired culture. For second generation Muslims the negotiation involves personal dimensions such as identity and it deals with the assimilative pressures of the society where they have grown up: a context where their ethnic and religious identi...
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 central aim of the present research was to examine the psychometric properties of adapted versions of the sense of community (SOC) responsibility scale in three Italian samples. We examined the psychometric properties of three modified versions of the sense of community responsibility (SOC-R) scale. Consistent with the original scale, explorato...
The aim of the present study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Existential Quest (EQ) Scale, a nine-items instrument developed to assess openness to changing one’s own convictions concerning existential issues. We developed the Italian version of the scale and examined factorial structure, internal consistency, discriminant validity,...
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...
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...
The goal of this study was to investigate the relation between watching various types of TV programs and risk perception. Because risk perception is a complex phenomenon, we focused also on the role of personal (gender, educational level, personality) and contextual characteristics (living in a large, mid-sized, or small city) in the development of...
Although low life satisfaction is related to alcohol abuse among young adults, there is no clear evidence of a specific relationship between wellbeing indexes and alcohol consumption. Several studies have reported different nonlinear relationships. The role of other variables may explain the inconsistent relationships between life satisfaction and...
Community psychology is central to understanding how immigrants and more established residents of their new settings join together to develop a shared sense of community and membership. In our present study, we explored how newer (i.e., first‐ and second‐generation immigrants) and more established community members form multiple positive psychologi...
This study explores the bidirectional and interactional process of acculturation from the perspectives of immigrants and receiving community members (RCMs). Our aim was to understand the experiences and interactions of different ethno-cultural groups and their impact on the functioning and dynamics of multicultural communities. We conducted a cross...
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...
Cannabis is the illicit substance most used by young adults and adolescents in rich nations. Cannabis use may have negative consequences on mental and physical health and has been associated with low wellbeing indexes (i.e., life satisfaction). The present study aims to investigate the relationship of life satisfaction with cannabis use in young ad...
The literature suggests that religion may play an important role in the acculturation process of immigrants by contributing to the maintenance of the heritage culture and preventing identification with the mainstream. With few exceptions, studies on this topic have focused on religion as a whole by assessing specific aspects or dimensions (such as...
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...
Television viewers construct many different meanings from the programs they watch. Here, we investigated whether ethnic prejudice is differentially influenced by the genre of television programs in their portrayal of ethnic minorities. We also wanted to determine whether a higher educational level reduces ethnic prejudice and television use. A self...
Social dominance theory (Sidanius e Pratto, 1999) posit that all human societies are organised in group-based hierarchical systems. Age and gender groups are the most common basis of social hierarchy, other widespread criteria are ethnic, national, or religious belongings. Group-based hierarchy often produces discrimination and domination. Social D...
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...
This research aimed to examine lay beliefs about the causes of and solutions to ethnic prejudice towards immigrant populations in the Italian context. The research had two main goals: (a) to explore in Italy what non-experts think causes ethnic prejudice against immigrants, and how they suggest we combat it; (b) to assess whether lay perceptions of...
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...
The paper discusses the concept of citizenship both from a critical-theoretical point of view and in the light of the findings of a research conducted in Italy on the social representation of citizens and migrants. The research aims to analyze how the thêma of social recognition is objectified in everyday language and to explore the characteristics...
Il contributo illustra i risultati di una ricerca sul ruolo che la giustizia organizzativa e il supporto sociale - da parte di colleghi e superiori - hanno in ambito lavorativo sull'insorgere del burnout. Obiettivo è evidenziare gli effetti di queste dimensioni organizzative sull'insorgere della sindrome e, nel dettaglio, identificare gli eventuali...
Nel corso degli ultimi vent’anni, la psicologia della salute occupazionale ha sviluppato la ricerca relativa ai fattori legati al contenuto e al contesto del lavoro che possono costituire gli antecedenti del disagio occupazionale (operazionalizzato come stress o burnout) o, al contrario, sostenere il benessere emotivo dei lavoratori, al fine di ela...
This contribution explains the results of a research conducted on the relationships between organizational justice and social support - from colleagues and superiors - and burnout. The aim is to highlight the direct effects of those organizational variables on the onset of such syndrome. More specifically, the possible effects of moderation of soci...
The paper discusses the concept of citizenship both from a critical-theoretical point of view and in the light of the findings of a research conducted in Italy on the social representation of citizens and migrants. The research aims to analyze how the thêma of social recognition is objectified in everyday language and to explore the characteristics...
The validity of the Classical and Modern Racial Prejudice Scale by Akrami and colleagues, in its full 17-item form and a new reduced 15-item form, was assessed in the Italian context. Study 1 was carried out on 300 participants and Study 2 on 310. Confirmatory factor analyses showed that classical and modern prejudice may be distinguished one from...
The validity of the Classical and Modern Racial Prejudice Scale by Akrami and colleagues, in its full 17-items form and a new reduced 15-items form, was assessed in an Italian context. Study 1 was carried out on 300 participants and study 2 on 310. Confirmatory factor analyses showed that classical and modern prejudice may be distinguished one from...
- The contribution illustrates the results of a research on the determinants of the burnout syndrome. This was carried out in four Piemontese hospitals in order to put into practice actions of prevention of the surveyed discomfort. The aim is to compare, besides the traditional individual factors, the determinants belonging to the interpersonal sph...
Social Dominance theory (Sidanius, and Pratto, 1999) posit that all human societies are organised in group-based hierarchical systems. Group-based hierarchy often produces discrimination and domination. Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) is considered a personality variable that measures a general individual orientation to accept hierarchy, and con...
In this study, we analyzed dimensionality for Pettigrew and Meertens' Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scale (1995). More specifically, we sought to verify two hypotheses: first, that the scale is one-dimensional, and second, that the difference in the items featured in the two subscales (blatant and subtle) is exclu-sively due to their different locat...
El propósito de esta investigación fue estudiar la representación social que los estudiantes tienen de los emigrantes. Exploramos la relación entre esta representación y las siguientes variables: prejuicio racial, ideología política, calidad de la relación entre los encuestados y los emigrantes correspondientes, tipo de instituto y nivel de educaci...
En este trabajo se analizan los componentes centrales de las distintas representaciones sociales de la solidaridad. La solidaridad surge de la imposibilidad del individuo de actuar aisladamente o de su interes por desarrollar formas de colaboración con los otros; es decir no debe confundirse con altruismo o generosidad. A través de un estudio empír...
In this paper Amerio and Roccato (2001)'s Urban Unsafety Scale has been validated according to the Extended Logistic Model (ELM) (Andrich, 1985a, 1985b, 1988). We performed two studies, interviewing 823 subjects (418 men, 405 women), aged between 16 and 31, living in large Northern-Italy towns, from families of different social-economic status. Ame...
The aim of the present research was to study the relationships between racial prejudice and political ideology of the respondents on one hand, and, on the other hand, to explore the relationships between the two variables and the way our respondents described the minority ethnic groups considered. The theoretical background referred both to cogniti...
