A5051690710- Social Media and Politics
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Community Health and Development
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Peace and Human Rights Education
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Social Capital and Networks
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Representations and Identity
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Educational and Social Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Educational Innovations and Technology
- Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
University of Bologna
2017-2023
Azienda-Unita' Sanitaria Locale Di Cesena
2020-2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused abrupt and profound changes to teaching learning. present study seeks understand adolescents' experiences of the emergency adoption online school learning (OSL) during first national lockdown in Italy. Sixty-four students their final two years high were interviewed content analysis was performed. findings describe students' views related OSL according structural, individual relational dimensions. Schools' lack organization, overwhelming demands, as well...
<p xmlns="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1">A substantial amount of literature has revealed gender gaps in political participation. However, little is known about such when using more comprehensive measures civic and participation including online In the present study, we recruited a sample (n = 1792) young people living Italy. Controlling for age, majority/minority status, socioeconomic respondents’ educational attainment, parents’ found that female participants reported higher scores on...
We aimed to identify the patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. Survey data were collected from a sample Italian adults during March May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online behaviours, sense community responsibility (SoC-R) perceptions resilience. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used for analysis. A total 4,045 participants completed survey, 2,562 eligible (72% female; mean age 38.7 years). LCA revealed four classes...
Growing evidence shows that exposure to nature and psychological engagement with improve health wellbeing promote greater proenvironmental engagement. The unprecedented situation created by COVID-related lockdowns seems have brought both potential distress household confinements research on experiences in nature. University students may been particularly impacted as the quality of their home arrangements can vary substantially. aim study was examine how (nature connectedness noticing...
There is growing support for viewing communities as a multilevel construct in which the interdependence between individuals and community systems contributes to promotion of individual responsibilities thinking enacting changes respond people’s community’s needs. However, there currently scant evidence regarding influence psychological sense role assets on prosocial behavior during COVID-19 national lockdown. The main aim current study was test conceptual model predictors Italy’s A sample...
The aim of this study is to examine the association between citizens' perceptions effectiveness institutional response, their connection and responsibility community (Sense Community-SoC; Sense Community Responsibility-SoC-R), personal social concerns about current emergency a postpandemic future during first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Another variable considered was reflexivity pandemic. 3925 Italian adults completed an online questionnaire A structural equation model with mediation...
This study examined the social representations of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Italy. We used technique free word association involving 1572 adults living An open coding procedure and content analysis lead to identification 13 key topics representing categorisation concepts that emerged from elicited words. The most common categories were spread virus, negative feelings, life during quarantine, health consequences virus. Multidimensional scaling co-occurrences revealed these grouped into four...
Prior studies revealed that low levels of youth political activity are not necessarily indicative complete disengagement from societal affairs but could be accompanied by interest and latent involvement stemming a standby or monitorial attitude. However, no prior study has investigated patterns citizenship orientations including both manifest engagement defined one’s position towards institutional politics, according to different forms participation. A questionnaire was filled out 1,732 late...
How does academic literature across various disciplines conceptualize and empirically address active citizenship? What are the potential benefits dangers of dominant epistemological ideological perspectives on ‘good citizenship’? Our paper engages with these questions by drawing 12 disciplines. We used textual analysis software T-LAB to quantify visualize co-occurrences, word associations thematic clusters in abstracts 770 texts gathered eight country teams original in-depth qualitative...
Democratic school climate, critical reflection, and student participation at have been linked to the development of civic political attitudes. The study aims identify contribution these characteristics attitudes their impact on students' (civic, political, activist, lifestyle/online). Questionnaire data were collected in two waves with 1589 students from four European countries (Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic). Structural equation modelling tested effects different types...
Abstract In the face of first wave COVID‐19 contagion, citizens all over world experienced concerns for their safety and health, as well prolonged lockdowns – which brought about limitations but also unforeseen opportunities personal growth. Broad variability in these psychological responses to such unprecedented experiences emerged. This study addresses this by investigating role community resilience. Personal resilience, collective disaster management ability, provided information local...
Studies on youth participation tend to characterize as either active and trustful or passive alienated. This cross-national longitudinal study examines patterns of citizenship orientations characterized by both manifest latent involvement differentiated one’s position toward institutional politics (trustful distrustful) among 1,914 adolescents from five European countries (53.5% female; M age = 16.27). Demographic proximal contextual correlates associated with different at a 1-year interval...
Aim. To identify patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions.Method. Survey data was collected from a sample Italian adults during the March ̶ May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online behaviours, Sense Community Responsibility (SoC-R) perceptions community resilience. Latent class analysis (LCA) used for analysis.Results. A total 4,045 participants completed survey 2,562 were eligible (72% female; mean age 38.7 years). LCA...
The topic of youth participation in the public sphere has received increasing attention within recent psychological research. literature remains somewhat fragmented between different conceptualizations varying their specificity or broadness. present study aims to map current state debate psychology regarding civic and political identify prevalent themes that characterize research discipline from 1990 2016. A semantic content analysis with software T-Lab was performed on a corpus 1,777...
It has been widely argued that effective citizenship education should focus on more than mere teaching of civic knowledge, but provide a wider range opportunities for the experience participation and development skills, efficacy interest instrumental to active citizenship. Opportunities critical reflection such as open classroom discussions, fairness at school, institutional student school activities have linked political attitudes. The capacity students’ participative experiences, however,...
The current study aimed to investigate the longitudinal predictors of perceived importance climate change and personal worry among Italian youths. Specifically, we used machine learning techniques examine predictive a wide range socio-demographic factors, political perceptions, attitudes on national European level (identity, attitudes, tolerance, support for democracy, authoritarianism, nationalism, trust), efficacy beliefs, social well-being, interest, different forms participation worry....
The COVID-19 pandemic experience had a major impact on adolescents’ relational lives. abrupt change in habits led adolescents to revise their relationships with respect family, friends, and school; they suffered greatly because of this but, at the same time, were able discover new resources possibilities. present paper aims give voice by exploring experiences that period brought about life significant as well examining whether quarantine social isolation provided opportunities for personal...
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