A5056249981- Educational and Social Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Italian Social Issues and Migration
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Italian Literature and Culture
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
University of Turin
2014-2024
Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedale Maggiore
2007
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
1997
Objective: In the first year of postpartum period, parenting stress, mental health, and dyadic adjustment are important for wellbeing both parents child. However, there few studies that analyze relationship among these three dimensions. The aim this study is to investigate relationships between health (depressive anxiety symptoms), first-time parents. Method: We studied 268 (134 couples) healthy babies. At 12 months postpartum, filled out, in a counterbalanced order, Parenting Stress...
Although there is an established link between parenting stress, postnatal depression, and anxiety, no study has yet investigated this in first-time parental couples. The specific aims of were 1) to investigate whether any differences fathers' mothers' depression symptoms see their evolution three 6 months after child's birth; 2) explore how each parent's stress anxiety levels the depressive partners contributed depression.
Objectives: In the scientific literature on aging, a recent core issue has been role of individuals' internal and external resources, which are considered intrinsically connected, in contributing synergistically to physical psychological quality life (QoL). The current study investigates way factors—such as loneliness, resilience, mental states, terms depression anxiety symptoms—affect perceived QoL among elderly individuals. Method: Data from 290 Italian participants were used mediation...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is identifiable as a major public health concern worldwide. The international literature highlights how this phenomenon complex and transversal to all age groups. While the global population becoming older, scientific research about risk protective factors related IPV in golden diverse, different findings of various studies have not been systematized so far. Thus, systematic review, we aim analyze that investigate violent dynamics between elderly couples. From...
Objective: The transition to parenthood, from pregnancy postpartum period, is a critical process, particularly for couples expecting twins. There very little literature regarding the links between anxiety, depression, dyadic adjustment, parental stress, and infant temperament spanning postpartum. This study has two aims: first, examine whether mothers' fathers' assessed at sixth month of three months postpartum, are associated with infants' negative affectivity parenting stress; second,...
Literature indicates that good levels of self-esteem, self-efficacy and social support would be elements strength in the elderly, while, loneliness, depression anxiety among main vulnerability mentioned studies on wellbeing Third-Age. Our aim was to examine role these factors perception Quality Life its different dimensions. Protective were: perceived self-efficacy; depression, loneliness were considered as risk factors. Participants 464. Results evidenced importance plan interventions for...
Developed by Spanier in 1976, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), a 32 items self-report tool, to assess couple satisfaction and evaluate how each partner within perceives his or her relationship. The aim of study is psychometric properties DAS Italian context. total sample size was 896 participants (M = 44.54; SD 10). Exploratory confirmatory factor analyses were performed order test dimensionality analysis tool these demonstrated reliability four factors. model, representing dimensions...
The media play has a leading role in the construction of public opinion, especially relation to sensitive issues like Domestic Violence (DV). aim study is point out how DV represented 2 Italian-newspapers years 2002/12 - both are not politically aligned. Seven keywords have been used appropriate articles, after that two independent researchers categorized into: form and content. Is observed there an higher percentage denounced. results show increase denunciation articles from 2002 2012,...
This article presents an Italian version of the Gender Identity Questionnaire for Children (GIQC) (Cohen-Kettenis et al., 2006; Johnson 2004), a parent-report questionnaire covering range gender characteristics children. We developed GIQC-Italian with translation/back translation method and administered it, sociodemographic data sheet, to parents 1148 children aged 3–12 years (non-clinical sample). After obtaining descriptive each item, in line al. (2004), we examined dimensionality through...
Domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner (IPV) represent a widespread phenomenon. Several studies that focus on students their attitudes toward DV IPV indicate changes in may depend gender. The purpose of this study was to explore the perception against women among 4,200 undergraduate Italian how these perceptions are associated with Students were recruited as volunteers fill out questionnaire specifically developed evaluate regarding IPV. Relations explored by crosstabulation analysis...
The research investigated (a) the connection between attitudes toward homosexuality and same-sex parenting; (b) socio-demographic socio-cultural variables linked to such attitudes; (c) knowledge behind these attitudes. 223 participants completed a self-report questionnaire including Attitudes Toward Lesbians Gay Men Scale (revised version), an parenting scale, personal data form, answered some questions about their of homosexuality. results showed association parenting, variables,...
This study investigated the psychometric properties of Italian version a French scale to detect attitudes toward same-sex parenting. The sample was split into two subsamples. On one, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) conducted structure scale, and on other, confirmatory (CFA) run find data's best fit model. scales' internal consistency evaluated using Cronbach's alpha. questionnaire's convergent validity also evaluated. EFA extracted four-factor solution, in accordance with original scale's...