A5080323596- Mental Health Research Topics
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Educational and Social Studies
- Mind wandering and attention
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
University of Genoa
2016-2025
Italian Institute of Technology
2021
Swedish Medical Association
2020
University of Parma
2015
Ospedale di Parma
2015
Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
2015
Smith College
2013
Objectives Law and order enforcement tasks may expose special force police officers to significant psychosocial risk factors. The aim of this work is investigate the relationship between job stress presence mental health symptoms while controlling sociodemographical, occupational personality variables in officers. Method At different time points, 292 294 members ‘VI Reparto Mobile’, a engaged exclusively law order, responded our invitation complete questionnaires for assessment traits,...
Recent research has found evidence of an association between motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) or near miss (NMAs), and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) its main medical cause, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). However, EDS can also be due to non-medical factors, such as sleep debt (SD), which is common among professional truck drivers. On the opposite side, rest breaks naps are known protect against accidents.To investigate OSA, SD, EDS, naps, with occurrence MVAs NMAs in a large sample...
Gosling, Rentfrow, and Swann (2003) developed the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) to meet need of very short measures Big Five for time-limited contexts or large survey questionnaires. In this paper we show inadequacy Italian version downloadable from Gosling’s website report results four studies in which psychometric properties a revised (I-TIPI-R) were investigated student general population samples. This new showed adequate factor structure, test-retest reliability, self-observer...
Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If these use methods that are unfaithful the original study or ineffective eliciting phenomenon of interest, then a failure replicate may be protocol rather than challenge finding. Formal pre-data-collection peer review by experts address shortcomings and increase replicability rates. We selected 10 replication from Reproducibility Project: Psychology (RP:P; Open Science Collaboration, 2015) for which...
Telecommuting is a flexible form of work that has progressively spread over the last 40 years and which been strongly encouraged by measures to limit COVID-19 pandemic. There still limited evidence on effects it workers’ health. In this survey we invited 905 workers companies made use telecommuting fill out questionnaire evaluate intrusive leadership managers (IL), request for outside traditional hours (OFF-TAJD), workaholism (Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS)), effort/reward imbalance...
Background Sleep-related problems are known risk factors for road accidents. However, very few studies have investigated the role played by insomnia and its components, no data available a population of occupational drivers at risk, such as truck driver category. Objective To measure prevalence impact on motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) near-miss (NMAs) in 949 drivers. Design Cross-sectional survey. Results Insomnia affected 27.5% sample. Compared to other drivers, 3 years prior study, with...
In the present study we examined whether higher levels of object imagery, a stable characteristic that reflects ability and preference in generating pictorial mental images objects, facilitate involuntary voluntary retrieval autobiographical memories (ABMs). Individuals with high (High-OI) low (Low-OI) imagery were asked to perform an ABM task laboratory. Results showed High-OI participants generated more ABMs than Low-OI, faster times. also reported detailed compared Low-OI retrieved as...
When people perform a task as part of joint action, their behavior is not the same it would be if they were performing alone, since has to adapted facilitate shared understanding (or sometimes prevent it). Joint performance music offers test bed for ecologically valid investigations way non-verbal facilitates action. Here we compare expressive movement violinists when playing in solo and ensemble conditions. The first two string quartets, professional student, asked play musical fragments...
Abstract Objectives Problematic gaming has become a phenomenon of growing clinical relevance due to its negative impact on life and mental health outcomes. Much research been carried out complex aetiology, some studies have suggested that dispositional mindfulness, mind wandering, attentional control, maladaptive personality traits may play role, but they never included in the same prediction model. This study used Gaussian graphical models Bayesian networks investigate pattern association...
Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) typically fail to support the a priori 5-factor structure of Big Five self-report instruments, due in part overly restrictive CFA assumptions. We show that exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), an integration and analysis, overcomes these problems relation responses 44-item Inventory (BFI) administered large Italian community sample. ESEM fitted data better resulted less correlated factors than CFA, although scores at near unity with observed...
The Internet and social media (SM) have profoundly changed the way public receives transmits news. ability of web to quickly disperse information both geographically temporally allows SM reach a much wider audience compared traditional mass media. A powerful role is played by sharing, as millions people routinely share news on platforms, influencing each other transmitting their mood feelings others through emotional contagion. Thus, has become crucial in driving perception opinion. Humans...
Parent ratings of their children’s behavioral and emotional difficulties are commonly collected via the Strength Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). For first time, this study addressed issue interparent agreement using a measurement invariance approach. Data from 695 English couples (mothers fathers) who had rated behavior 4.25-year-old child were used. Given inconsistency previous results about SDQ factor structure, alternative models tested. A five-factor Exploratory Structural Equation...
To provide plastic surgeons with more detailed information as to factors affecting the perception of female attractiveness, present study was aimed investigate whether interaction effect breast and body size on ratings attractiveness is moderated by sociodemographic variables shapeliness diverge from those attractiveness.A community sample 958 Italian participants rated 15 stimuli (5 sizes × 3 sizes) in which frontal, 3/4, profile views head torso a faceless woman were jointly shown.Bigger...
Subjective complaints of cognitive deficits are not necessarily consistent with objective evidence impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). Here we examined the factors associated objective-subjective discrepancy.We consecutively enrolled 90 non-demented patients PD who completed Disease Cognitive Functional Rating Scale (subjective measure) and Montreal Assessment (MoCA; measure). The were classified as "Overestimators", "Accurate estimators", "Underestimators" on basis discrepancy between...
Body awareness disorders and reactivity are mentioned across a range of clinical problems. Constitutional differences in the control bodily state thought to generate vulnerability psychological symptoms. Autonomic nervous system dysfunctions have been associated with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress. Though interoception may be transdiagnostic mechanism promoting improvement symptomatology, few psychometrically sound, symptom-independent, self-report measures, informed by...