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Introduction
My research activity mainly focuses on the topic of occupational health and
safety (OHS) promotion.
In particular, I'm currently working on:
- Promotion of safety behaviors in SCOs
- Developing positive personal resources in organizations (i.e., PsyCap and EI);
- Well-being of healthcare personnel in the post-pandemic era (in collaboration with IRCCS Maugeri and Istituto Auxologico)
- Telework and its effects on worker well-being
- Absenteeism prevention (in collaboration with IRSST Montréal)
Current institution
Education
November 2019 - May 2023
Publications
Publications (22)
Quite Quitting (QQ), defined as employees' limited engagement with work and reluctance to take on extra or non-essential tasks, gained attention in the post-pandemic era. However, recent studies suggest that QQ might not represent an entirely novel phenomenon, indicating a need for further exploration to ensure coherent theoretical development. Thr...
Purpose
This systematic literature review aims to list the validated tools measuring work-related psychosocial factors (WRPFs) influence health care workers’ (HCWs) sickness absence (SA), and to evaluate their psychometric and practical properties.
Methods
Using the PsycINFO, Medline, and Web of Science databases, the search targeted prospective s...
Theoretical background: Occupational safety training is crucial for reducing workplace risks, but traditional approaches often struggle to fully engage participants or guarantee effective knowledge retention. Over the past decade, interest in using technology-based active learning strategies has grown, with active learning focusing on practical app...
Purpose
Employee sickness absence (SA) is a significant issue facing organizations and individuals worldwide, leading to multiple negative consequences, such as increased costs, early retirement, decreased productivity, and reduced quality of work. Therefore, within the occupational health and safety (OHS) framework, it is crucial to explore the fa...
A partire dal 2020, le organizzazioni in Italia hanno affrontato la sfida senza precedenti posta dalla pandemia di Covid-19, che ha introdotto nuovi rischi per la salute e la sicurezza dei dipendenti. Questa ricerca ha avuto come scopo l’analisi dell’influenza delle risorse lavorative – in termini di adeguatezza delle misure organizzative, efficaci...
Work-related stress significantly jeopardizes employees' physical and mental health due to the considerable time they spend at work. Smartphone-based interventions provide a promising solution, eliminating traditional face-to-face interventions' barriers. However, the elements that influence workers' intentions to use this still remain unexplored....
Promoting workplace safety is crucial in occupational health and safety (OHS). However, existing studies have primarily concentrated on accident prevention, overlooking the role of resources in encouraging safety. This research investigates the impact of a personal resource, namely hope, on safety participation, considering its interaction with job...
Le organizzazioni di tutto il mondo si trovano ad affrontare il problema dell'assenteismo lavorativo ed i relativi costi umani e finanziari. Così è fondamentale indagare quali fattori psicosociali possono influenzare la sua insorgenza (frequenza e durata), al fine di prevenirlo e promuovere ambienti di lavoro sani.
Questa revisione sistematica dell...
Purpose
This research investigates risk and protective factors affecting physicians’ turnover intention during the post-COVID era.
Design/methodology/approach
A cross-sectional online survey study of 958 physicians working in Lombardy (northern Italy) hospitals was conducted.
Findings
In the post-COVID era, Burnout significantly increases physic...
The COVID-19 crisis has brought about massive and sudden changes in the way people work and has created new emotional strains on workers. For this reason, being an emotional business leader is necessary for an organization’s survival and employees’ well-being. This qualitative study aims: (1) to explore the quality of emotions expressed by business...
Starting from the insights of social identity theory and social exchange theory, the present study aimed to understand how social support and organizational identification relate to work engagement. Moreover, it sought to verify if social support and organizational identification interact with each other to explain work engagement three months late...
Purpose
Several studies investigated prevalence and determinants of physicians’ burnout during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but only a few during the chronic phase of the pandemic. This study thus aimed to examine this topic referring to the “post-COVID-19 era”, defined as a chronic and likely-to-be endemic status quo.
Methods
A cross-sectio...
Purpose:
Occupational health and safety (OHS) is a relevant issue for many systems and stakeholders. This systematic literature review aims to expand knowledge on this topic starting from the integrated safety model (ISM) and to evaluate the role of psychological capital (PsyCap) on safety behaviours (SBs) (i.e., safety performance and prevention...
This study aimed to standardize the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI), a psychometrically sound, worldwide-spread tool among Italian physicians.
Methods:
Nine hundred and fifteen Italian physicians were web-administered the CBI, Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)....
Background
Assessing burnout in physicians is relevant as it can adversely affect both their mental and physical health by also decreasing the quality of care, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed at standardizing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI), a psychometrically sound, worldwide-spread tool, in Italian phy...
Prior to COVID-19, telework was a key action adopted by companies to foster employee wellbeing, but the evidence of its effects was equivocal. This study aims to 1) develop and validate a questionnaire measuring the quality of telework (QoT-q) and 2) assess the impact of telework on employee work engagement and work-family balance in the case of hi...
Introduzione. Lo smart-working è stato, e rimane, un elemento chiave per affrontare il rischio sanitario legato alla pandemia Covid-19 senza dovere fermare le attività produttive. Nel settore bancario si è passati da uno scarso ad un quasi totale impiego di tale modalità lavorativa nel giro di pochi giorni. L’implementazione dello smart-working ric...
Sebbene numerosi studi abbiano finora dimostrato l'influenza delle risorse lavorative e personali sul work engagement, non appaiono ancora del tutto chiari i meccanismi psicologici e fisiologici alla base di questa relazione (Bakker e Demerouti, 2017). In questa direzione si inserisce la ricerca di Wang, Li e Li (2017) in cui si dimostra che l'affe...
