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Youth & Society, May 16, 2020

Public Health Nutrition, Oct 30, 2020

Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment 2004, 2004

International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2022

Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2015

Suppl. 1A Proceedings AIP 2015 Milazzo 25,26,27 Sept 2015 Symposia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021

Obesity is a widespread and broadly consequential health condition associated with numerous medic... more Obesity is a widespread and broadly consequential health condition associated with numerous medical complications that could increase mortality rates. As personality concerned individual’s patterns of feeling, behavior, and thinking, it may help in understanding how people with obesity differ from people with normal-weight status in their typical weight-relevant behavior. So far, studies about personality and BMI associations have mainly focused on broad personality traits. The main purpose of this study was to explore the personality and health associations among a clinical group composed of 46 outpatients with overweight/obesity (mean age = 55.83; SD = 12.84) in comparison to a healthy control group that included 46 subjects (mean age = 54.96; SD = 12.60). Both the clinical and control groups were composed of 14 males and 32 females. Several personality and psychopathological aspects were assessed with the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). The results of the analysis of vari...

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is showing a strong impact on people in terms of uncertainty and instabilit... more The COVID-19 pandemic is showing a strong impact on people in terms of uncertainty and instability it has caused in different areas of daily life. Uncertainty and instability are also emotions that characterize emerging adulthood (EA). They generate worries about the present and the future and are a source of anxiety that impacts negatively on personal and interpersonal functioning. Anxiety seems a central effect of the pandemic and recent studies have suggested that it is linked to COVID-19 risk perception. In the present study, a sample of 1045 Italian emerging adults was collected: (1) to assess anxiety severity and perceived risk related to COVID-19 and their association and (2) to compare general health and protective factors such as attitudes about security, relationships, self-esteem, and self-efficacy across anxiety severity and perceived risk categories. The findings of this study highlighted that anxiety severity categories were distributed homogeneously across the sample ...

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2021

The current investigation tested life satisfaction (LS), a cognitive component of subjective well... more The current investigation tested life satisfaction (LS), a cognitive component of subjective well‐being, among emerging adults, in the context of individualism (I) and collectivism (C), by distinguishing both cultural and individual levels of analysis, considering their horizontal (H) and vertical (V) dimensions, and controlling age and gender effects. Emerging adults (N = 1760 university students, aged 18–25, Mage = 19.46, SDag = 1.50) located across four countries, namely China, Italy, Russia, and the USA, known to differ in the individualism index value (IDV), completed measures on the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism and Life Satisfaction. At the cultural level, an ANCOVA showed a significant country effects on LS. The post hoc comparisons indicated that the higher the country IDV score, the higher the average LS score, in the following order: Americans, Italians, Russians, and Chinese. At the individual level, LS was unrelated to HI and VI. Instead, it was...

Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 2020

In the last decades, consensus from laymen, scholars, and policy-makers has emphasized the role o... more In the last decades, consensus from laymen, scholars, and policy-makers has emphasized the role of child-parent relationships to promote child’s development and positive well-being. Parenting style was claimed as one of the crucial factors for the child’s positive adjustment. The main aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles and child’s difficulties. The mediational role of parent’s perception of a difficult child on the above mentioned relation was taken into account. The study was carried out on a sample of 459 couples including mothers (n = 459) and fathers (n = 459) of children aged 2 to 10 years old who filled in the Parenting Styles & Dimensions Questionnaire short version, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, and the Parenting Stress Index-short form. Main findings indicated that authoritative style was associated with less child’s maladjustment, while the authoritarian one showed the oppos...

Schizophrenia Research, 2020

Gallese, Peciccia, Ferri and Ardizzi developed the study concept and contributed to the study des... more Gallese, Peciccia, Ferri and Ardizzi developed the study concept and contributed to the study design. Testing and data collection were performed by Ardizzi, Ambrosecchia, Buratta, Volpe-Gaudelli and Palladini. Ardizzi and Ferroni performed the data analyses. Results interpretation was conducted by Ardizzi, Ferri, Mazzeschi, Peciccia and Gallese. Ardizzi and Ferroni drafted the manuscript, while all the other authors provided critical revisions. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for submission. Role of the funding source The funding source had no role in the design of this study and will not have any role during its execution, analyses, interpretation of the data, or decision to submit results.

Frontiers in Public Health, 2019