A5071392956- Educational and Social Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Italian Social Issues and Migration
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Italian Literature and Culture
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Media Influence and Health
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
University of Palermo
2006-2024
Italian Society of Physiotherapy
2005-2020
Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Asti
2000-2014
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico "Paolo Giaccone" di Palermo
2006
University of Genoa
1990-1992
Abstract The European healthcare sector faces a significant shortage of workers. Assessing the prevalence this issue and understanding its direct indirect determinants are essential for formulating effective recruitment programs enhancing job retention strategies physicians nurses. A multicentric cross-sectional study was conducted, involving 381 1351 nurses recruited from eight hospitals in Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Poland. focused on assessing turnover intentions among workers based Job...
The Italian government adopted measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection from 9 March 2020 4 May and imposed a phase social distancing self-isolation all adult citizens. Although justified necessary, psychologists question impact this process isolation on mental health population (e.g., Lee, Jobe & Matis, 2020). Hence, paper investigated relationship between neuroticism, boredom, fantasy engagement, perceived control over time, fear COVID-19. Specifically, we performed...
Multiple factors can fuel nurses' intention to leave their employing hospital or profession. Job dissatisfaction and burnout are contributors this decision. Sociodemographic work context also play a role in explaining leave.
The IGDS9-SF, which assesses Internet Gaming Disorder behaviors, has been validated in a number of countries (Portugal, Italy, Iran, Slovenia), although the psychometric equivalence instrument assessed only across Australia, USA, UK, and India. This research aimed at providing further cross-cultural insights into IGD by assessing factorial structure IGDS9-SF Albania investigating its measurement invariance Albanian, Italian, American, British gamers. Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analyses...
It is well known that self-perceived health (SPH), even if it a subjective indicator, significantly associated with objective and quality of life (QoL) in the general population. Whether can be considered an indicator cognitive functioning elderly still open issue. This study used data-driven approach to investigate interrelationship among SPH, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), QoL, answer this question. The sample included information about 12,831 people living Italy, Spain, Greece,...
Research on the effects of guilt interpersonal relationships has shown that frequently motivates prosocial behavior in dyadic social situations. When multiple persons are involved, however, this emotion can be disadvantageous for other people environment. Two experiments were carried out to examine effect and empathy a context which more than two involved. Experiment 1 investigates whether, three-person situations, with beneficial victim one's actions but third individual. Participants faced...
Researchers investigating the psychological effects of choice have provided extensive empirical evidence that having comes with many advantages, including better performance, more motivation, and greater life satisfaction disadvantages, such as avoidance decisions regret. When decision task difficulty exceeds natural cognitive resources human mind, possibility to choose becomes a source unhappiness dissatisfaction than an opportunity for well-being, phenomenon referred overload. More...
Healthcare organizations worldwide face challenges in retaining their healthcare workforce, with individual and organizational factors influencing intentions to leave. This study conducted eight online co-creation workshops four Delphi sessions gain qualitative in-depth insights into job retention interventions, involving workers, hospital managers, policymakers. A thematic analysis was conducted, resulting multiple interventions that were clustered pre-defined themes: professional personal...
Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead procrastination consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing determinants decisional among undergraduate and assessing path model in which self-regulated learning strategies mediated relationship between metacognitive beliefs about procrastination. 273 Southern Italy filled out questionnaire composed by: socio-demographic section,...
(1) Aim: To assess the attitude toward Lifestyle Medicine and healthy behaviours among students in healthcare area to demonstrate its association psychological well-being; (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study is conducted 508 undergraduates of University Palermo (140 (27.6%) 368 (72.4%) non-healthcare area), during academic year 2018-2019. Psychological well-being measured through two dimensions eudaimonia hedonia, using 10-item Hedonic Eudaimonic Motives for Activities-Revised (HEMA-R)...
This study explored the relationships between Facebook self-disclosure and personality traits in a sample of Italian users. The aim was to analyze predictive role Big Five on different parameters breadth depth self-disclosed behaviors online. users, aged 18 64 years age ( M = 25.3 years, SD 6.8; N 958), which 51% were female, voluntarily completed an online survey assessing self-disclosure. Results at series hierarchical regression analyses significantly corroborated hypotheses that high...
This study evaluated the level of susceptibility monocytes and lymphocytes to spontaneously induced CH11-induced apoptosis in 16 patients with Brucella infection. The expression some immunological apoptotic markers was evaluated. Before therapy, showed a high resistance or all patients. In acute infection, this persisted for 10-20 days after treatment initiated, then decreased; chronically infected patients, it 45 treatment. Lymphocytes were also more resistant apoptosis. activated CD8(+) T...
The present study analyzed the relationships between directive, self and social functions of autobiographical memory, personality traits, as defined by Five Factor model, Facebook mementos. We mementos objective measures textual (i.e., Status Updating) visual Photos uploading) information people record on their profiles. Questionnaires gathered data from a sample 193 Italian users (148 female; 45 male; age M = 22.8, SD 6.8). Results at path analysis using AMOS showed direct significant...
Abstract. A growing body of research suggests that physical activity, healthy eating, and music can, either directly or indirectly, have positive effects on our brain cognition. More specifically, exercising eating seem to enhance cognitive abilities, such as memory, creativity, perception. They also improve academic performance play a protective role from many degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. Concerning music, has shown there exists general relation between aptitude...
ObjectiveThis research attempted to clarify the role played by personality traits and self‐regulated motivation in affecting decision‐making tendencies.MethodStudy 1 (n = 209) examined whether Big Five predict minimising, maximising, satisficing tendencies; Study 2 460) tested mediating of self‐regulatory orientations relationship between tendencies performing structural equation modelling with latent variables.ResultsConscientiousness emerged as strongest positive predictor whereas openness...