A5068848747- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Spaceflight effects on biology
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
University of Chieti-Pescara
2017-2024
The COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis: it has unpredictably changed our whole way of life. As suggested by the analysis economic data on sales, this dramatic scenario also heavily impacted individuals’ spending levels. To better understand these changes, present study focused consumer behavior and its psychological antecedents. Previous studies found that crises differently affect people’s willingness to buy necessities products (i.e., utilitarian shopping) non-necessities...
On January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 pandemic a Public Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Italy has been one most affected countries in world. To contain further spread virus, Italian government imposed an unprecedented long-period lockdown for entire country. This dramatic scenario may have caused strong psychological distress, with potential negative long-term mental health consequences. The aim present study is to report prevalence high...
After the COVID-19 worldwide spread, evidence suggested a vast diffusion of negative consequences on people's mental health. Together with depression and sleep difficulties, anxiety symptoms seem to be most diffused clinical outcome. The current contribution aimed examine attentional bias for virus-related stimuli in people varying their degree health (HA). Consistent previous literature, it was hypothesized that higher HA would predict bias, tested using visual dot-probe task, stimuli....
Objectives Older adults have been identified as a high-risk population for COVID-19, therefore it is crucial to understand how they perceived and reacted the emergency. We examined age-related differences in emotions, cognitive attitudes, behavioral responses COVID-19 crisis. Based on Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, we expected find positive approach older adults, which may translate into lower compliance with restrictive measures.Methods: analyzed data (n = 306) from nation-wide online...
Extensive possibilities of applications have rendered emotion recognition ineluctable and challenging in the fields computer science as well human-machine interaction affective computing. Fields that, turn, are increasingly requiring real-time or interactions everyday life scenarios. However, while extremely desirable, an accurate automated classification approach remains a issue. To this end, study presents model based on easily accessible physiological signals deep learning (DL)...
Abstract The Chieti Affective Action Videos (CAAV) is a new database designed for the experimental study of emotions in psychology. main goal CAAV to provide wide range standardized stimuli based on two emotional dimensions: valence and arousal. first present through videos actions filmed developed specifically research. 444 young adults were recruited evaluate this database, which consisted sub-set 90 four versions, total 360 videos. versions differ gender actor (male or female) perspective...
The current study examines the association of individual hoarding levels with temporal discounting different commodities during COVID-19 pandemic. Based on their level, participants were assigned to Hoarding Group (HG) or Non-Hoarding (NHG). Participants performed two delay tasks: a traditional task monetary options and modified task, where money was replaced disposable surgical masks, needed commodity Results revealed stronger preference for immediate commodity, therefore higher discount...
(1) Background: Psychological well-being (PWB) is a multidimensional construct which key protective factor against chronic diseases in older adults. Numerous psychological and cognitive factors can influence people's PWB. However, while most studies have explored the effect of general cognition, only few investigated role specific functions such as efficiency executive functions. Thus, present study aimed to directly explore relationships between PWB, age, core (namely working memory,...
Previous studies consistently showed age-related differences in temporal judgment and memory. Importantly, emotional valence plays a crucial role older adults' information processing. In this study, we examined the effects of emotions at intersection between time memory, analysing source memory task. Twenty-five younger adults (age range 18–35), 25 old 65–74), old–old 75–84) saw series pictures three sessions separated by one-day rest period. fourth session, participants were asked to...
Background: Cognitive biases are popular topics in psychology and marketing, as they refer to systematic cognitive tendencies human thinking that deviate from logical rational reasoning. The framing effect (FE) the decoy (DE) examples of can influence decision making consumer preferences. FE involves how options presented, while DE addition a third option influences choice between other two options. Methods: We investigated interaction case both incongruent (ID) congruent (CD) decoys sample...
The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has unpredictably changed way people live, by influencing their behaviors and beliefs. This article presents raw data that have been used to investigate how affected people's beliefs expectations about future. A total 3991 participants (18-85 years old) were recruited through an online survey using Qualtrics platform. collection was carried out during Italian lockdown, between April 1st 20th, 2020. collected information psychological...
We investigated people's preferences in COVID-19 vaccine allocation priority, comparing different social categories based on age and occupation. Vaccine were related to perceived health vulnerability economic backlash (economic negative consequences) endured by the groups during pandemic. In-group favoritism was analyzed.Data collected through an online survey Italy (n = 506) before start of vaccination campaign.Vaccine preferences, vulnerability, due COVID-19, measured ranking tasks.The...
Abstract The causal role of the cerebral hemispheres in positive and negative emotion processing remains uncertain. Right Hemisphere Hypothesis proposes right hemispheric superiority for all emotions, while Valence suggests left/right hemisphere's primary involvement positive/negative respectively. To address this, emotional video clips were presented during dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) electrical stimulation, incorporating a comparison tDCS high frequency tRNS stimulation...
Background: Neuroinflammation, with altered peripheral proinflammatory cytokine production, plays a major role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), while inflammation dementia Lewy bodies (DLB) is less known and results different studies are often disagreement. Objective: The present study aimed to investigate levels TNFα IL-6 serum supernatants, related DNA methylation patients affected by DLB AD compared healthy controls (HCs), clarify...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the obligation to wear surgical face masks have affected social interactions. Wearing a mask can cause impairments in identification, emotion recognition, trait impressions. present study investigated, during period, age-related differences perceived trustworthiness (Study 1) health 2) when viewing faces with or without masks. Younger (YAs, 18-35 years) older (OAs, over 65 adults' ratings were compared. Through web-based platform, series of neutral younger (YFs vs....
Abstract The present study tested the influence of stimuli emotional valence, arousal, and typicality on memory recollection in three groups participants exposed to same environment through different modalities: vivo exposure (i.e., real-life), 3D virtual reality VR), 2D pictures. Context-related free-recall, recognition accuracy, confidence were analyzed. results showed that performance was best real-life modality, VR pictures modalities performed comparably. Interesting effects valence...
(1) Background: Space tourism (ST) is an emerging frontier in tourism, attracting considerable stakeholders the era of New Economy. Thus, understanding intentions and characteristics future space travelers crucial. (2) Methods: Here, we validated brief 11-item Tourism Propensity Questionnaire (STP-Q) administered it, along with sociodemographic psychological questionnaires, to 333 undergraduates order explore ST propensity predictive factors. (3) Results: Linear regression analysis revealed...