A5040516007- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Educational and Social Studies
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Italian Social Issues and Migration
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Child Therapy and Development
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Italian Literature and Culture
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Family Support in Illness
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
University of Padua
2016-2025
University of Haifa
2018-2024
Emerald Group Publishing (United Kingdom)
2022
University of Klagenfurt
2019-2020
University of Naples Federico II
2013
This study examined the role of different psychological coping mechanisms in mental and physical health during initial phases COVID-19 crisis with an emphasis on meaning-centered coping. A total 11,227 people from 30 countries across all continents participated completed measures distress (depression, stress, anxiety), loneliness, well-being, health, together problem-focused emotion-focused coping, a measure called Meaning-centered Coping Scale (MCCS) that was developed present study....
This paper presents a two-phase cross-sectional study aimed at examining the possible mitigating role of perceived meaning life and representation death on psychological distress, anxiety, depression.The first phase involved 219 healthy participants, while second encompassed 30 cancer patients. Each participant completed Personal Meaning Profile (PMP), Testoni Death Representation Scale (TDRS), Hospital Anxiety Depression (HADS), Distress Thermometer (DT). The primary analyses comprised (1)...
Since the borders between natural life and death have been blurred by technique, in Western societies discussions practices regarding became infinite. The studies this area include all most important topics of psychology, sociology, philosophy. From a psychological point view, research has created many instruments for measuring anxiety, fear, threat, depression, meaning life, among them, profiles on attitude are innumerable. This presents validation new scale, which conjoins dimensions...
Studies that have examined pet loss hypothesize attachment, representations of death, and the belief in an afterlife for animals may influence owners' bereavement depressive outcomes. The following instruments were administered to 159 Italian participants recruited through snowball sampling: Lexington Attachment Pets Scale (LAPS), Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (PBQ), Testoni Death Representation (TDRS), Beck's Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). Questions concerning euthanasia-related issues...
This study describes the psychological effects of an experience death education (DE) used to explore a case suicide in Italian high school. DE activities included philosophical and religious perspectives relationships between meaning life, visit local hospice, psychodrama activities, which culminated production short movies. The intervention involved 268 school students (138 experimental group). Pre-test post-test measures assessed ontological representations death, anxiety, alexithymia,...
This study describes the psychological effects of death education in reducing fear a large cohort Italian adolescents. Following constructs "distal defenses" and "mortality salience" Terror Management Theory, this research intervention also evaluated proposition that spirituality belief an afterlife could provide effective buffer against death. Five hundred thirty-four high school students participated school-based program with experimental group nonrandomized control condition. Using...
In Italy, in the very first phase of COVID-19 pandemic there was a dramatic rise mortality. However, families were forbidden because lockdown regulations to be with their loved ones at deathbeds or hold funerals. This qualitative study examined bereavement experiences among family members, how they processed grief, and used social networks particular by uploading photographs during working-through bereavement. The sample composed 40 individuals aged 23–63 (80% women) from different Italian...
Abstract Spirituality may be a key factor in reducing the negative psychological effects of traumatic events and means by which experience grief can processed. The objective present research is to assess whether how spirituality provided concrete support those who lost loved one during COVID-19 pandemic. participants are 8 people from most affected cities northern Italy. They were interviewed depth, interviews transcribed texts analyzed through Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. results...
This mixed-method research study delves into the repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic on loss and mental health in Italy. The analysis uncovers a significant correlation between fear heightened anxiety, depression, stress, exacerbated by social isolation misinformation. loved ones during intensifies distress, with 28% showing signs prolonged disorder 22.8% displaying maladaptive grief symptoms. Distress persists across phases (59.3% critical, 54.9% intermediate, 48.4% less critical),...
This study examined the relationship between Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) and several psychological tests: Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS), Spontaneity Assessment Inventory-Revised (SAI-R), Dissociative Experiences (DES), Short-Form Boundary Questionnaire (SFBQ), Mini Locus of Control (MLOC), Testoni Death Representation (TDRS), Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Two hundred forty volunteers were administered above tests; 78 them also HIP, its scores compared to those on other tests....
People often develop strong emotional connections with their dogs and consider them to be members of the family. The purpose this study was a novel validated tool, Mourning Dog Questionnaire, recognise evaluate mourning process in people who have lost dog. research model based on grid five different questionnaires: Pet Bereavement Lexington Attachment Pets Scale, Animal-Human Continuity Positivity Testoni Death Representation Scale. Italian version survey posted social networks. A sample 369...
Research has widely demonstrated that religiosity is related to psychological well‐being even in situations of severe illness. To assess religious beliefs, explicit measures have generally been used. In this study, we measured the belief God reality as opposed myth or abstraction by using an implicit technique (the Single Category Implicit Association Test). The study was carried out Italy, where a large majority population Catholic, and prevailing image compassionate supportive father....
The censorship of death and dying has removed the "memento mori" practices, in order to reintroduce this practice, some "Before I die" projects have been increasingly implemented. Running parallel, syllabi social service psychology students, experiences education commenced. This study illustrates results a qualitative research conducted on die want …" Polaroid® Project (BIDIWT), which is divided into two phases. first phase entails an analysis wishes collected from United States, Japan,...
This study investigates the psychological effects of participation in Death Education (DeEd) by middle school children two towns northeast Italy which suicides occur to a greater extent than rest region. The aims project "Beyond Wall" were inherent prevention suicide, address existential issues and enhance meaning life through positive intentions for future reflection on mortality. It involved eight classes (150 students four experimental group; 81 control group) engaging with films,...
Italy was the first country outside Asia to deal with early phase of COVID-19 pandemic, and health care facilities medical staff were not fully prepared. Research worldwide has documented enormous effect pandemic on providers' mental health, including experiences dehumanization, but less work focused factors which may influence development these outcomes in response COVID-19-related stress.
The present study investigated the effects of a hybrid online course on group Italian Master’s degree students involved in European Erasmus+ project. was composed nine modules about death education, palliative psychology and use creative arts therapies—such as psychodrama, intermodal psychodrama photovoice—in end-of-life-field. project 64 experimental (who attended course) 56 control group. Both groups completed an questionnaire before after delivery 10 from participated focus at end course....
Abstract Background This study adopts a qualitative methodological framework to investigate the overall experiences of institutional gender affirmation pathway (GAP) with focus on narratives mandatory psychological assessment in Trans and Nonbinary (TNB) people Italy, who face daily discrimination, social prejudice, episodes violence, victimization. In Italian context, is prerequisite receive diagnosis dysphoria, which essential access hormone therapy, surgical interventions, legal change...
This study explores the impact of death representations on openness to education among university students in teaching and degree programs. Drawing from Terror Management Theory, roles future time perspective (FTP), anxiety, ontological representation as total annihilation were analyzed. The results show that viewing negatively impacts FTP, reducing ability think about future. Diminished FTP increases negative thoughts lack acceptance. When still allows making sense life despite death, it...
This paper focuses on the motives for vegetarian choices in contemporary Italian food culture, with specific reference to role of representations death. The study adopts a qualitative research design aimed at an in-depth exploration reasons avoiding meat, following ethnographic method. Twenty-two participants (55% women, 45% men) aged 19-74, all vegetarians or vegans, mainly from Northern and Central Italy, were involved. Data Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis examined according...
The Italian situation of lesbian women-parented families seems to be trapped between a deprivation public and legal acknowledgment the reality everyday lives women having children in same-sex relationship context experiencing this ambivalence their personal, familiar, social existence. aim study is analyze narratives 17 mothers (10 biological seven mothers) order outline construction identities as parents, affective relationships with partner (social mother), established agencies (school,...
The article presents the results of a research intervention aimed at exploring differences among some factors (death anxiety, ontological representation death as annihilation, alexithymia, spirituality, resilience, happiness) in two different groups university students: one that attended course Death Education (DeEd; 83 DeEd-gr) and another did not participate it (149: NoDeEd-gr). DeEd utilized photo-voice an elective strategy facilitating performative experience. It was hypothesized this...