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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION
No full textThe purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational identification as well as the impact that these two constructs have on turnover intention and job
satisfaction (focal outcomes). Participants were 5,195 employees from 730 teams in 6 Italian local health organizations. Two competing conceptual models were tested for goodness of fit using multilevel path analysis. In the first model, psychological empowerment predicts organizational identification, which, in turn, predicts focal outcomes. In the second model, organizational identification predicts psychological empowerment, which,
in turn, predicts focal outcomes. Fit indices of the path analysis indicated that the second model obtained the best fit to the data as compared with other models. Moreover, mediation analysis showed that psychological
empowerment mediated the relationship between organizational identification and focal outcomes
Community psychology in Europe: More needed, less wanted?
No full textIn this paper, we first contend that community psychology in Europe is facing a particularly challenging situation: On the one hand we witness an increase in complex social problems, which would require a community approach in order to be tackled; on the other hand socio-economic and cultural changes in the era of globalization diminish the demand and the sources of public funding needed to promote and implement community intervention programs. We then outline the main achievements of community psychology in Europe, and discuss future challenges. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Discourses and practices of citizenship among young people of different ethnic backgrounds living in Italy
No full textIn this research, we examine the complex ways in which young people of different ethnic background construct their representation of citizenship in Italy. Based on a psychosocial perspective the paper will show that the representations of citizenship shared by young people are informed by personal and collective experiences and that the notion of citizenship, is not straight forward, but influenced by location within a broader social, cultural, political, economic and historical context. Therefore, this article is concerned with understanding how young people of different (Italian, Moroccan, and Albanian) ethnic background define their representations of citizenship in Italy and how these representations are anchored in their experiences of participation and everyday life. For young people, and adolescents, in particular, recognition takes place in very local circumstances (bound by home, school and neighbourhood) that can be the training grounds for the practice of citizenship.
Participants
The total sample includes 85 participants (40 males, 45 females) 28 were Italians, 28 were Albanians and 29 Moroccans. The mean age of the sample was 19.50 (S.D. = 2. 67; min 14 years old, max 26 years old). A total of thirteen focus groups were conducted: two involved Italian young adults (n = 14; mixed by gender) and two involved Italian adolescents (n = 13; mixed by gender). Italians were all students. Two involved Albanian young adults (n = 15; mixed by gender) and two involved Albanian adolescents (n = 14; mixed by gender).
Recruitment
Although the sampling was purposive, we still used a convenience sample, which means that the data is drawn from a self-selected group.
Instruments
The focus group included questions concerning: understanding of citizenship and of human right issues, perceptions of young people participation, opportunities and resources, perception of young people voice, perceptions of young people information and of themselves as citizens, sources of information on political and social issues and their influence, personal and group experiences of participation. We did not ask for definitions of citizenship, but we gathered them from the discussions of related themes. All the focus groups were conducted in Italian language; participants with an immigrant background were fluent even for most of them if Italian was their second language. The data were analysed following the steps of thematic content analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006).
Results
The analytic process allowed us to progress from the description of participatory experiences to the identification of specific patterns of participation that were contributing to build young people’s views on citizenship. Those specific patterns allowed us to identify five dimensions that articulate young people’s discourses on citizenship and participation: legal or admittance dimension, that refers to rights and duties that are recognized to citizen; the instrumental dimension, where citizenship is seen more in terms of overcoming practical obstacles and consequent freedom, the belonging dimension, the everyday performing dimension, the participatory dimension. Practical implications of our findings will be discussed
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD: DOES IT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP?
Full text linkOne of the challenges faced by contemporary societies concerns building a more inclusive society. This objective is particularly compelling in the current historical period characterized by growing social and cultural heterogeneity in European countries and an increase of prejudice and discrimination to-ward immigrants. Global citizenship (GC) can support inclusive attitudes and immigrants’ acceptance. The aim of the study was to test the role of different forms of associative experiences and civic and po-litical participation in promoting GC in the younger generations. Data were collected between October 2016 and January 2017 using paper and online questionnaires. The sample consisted of 1,732 partici-pants (60.7% females; Mage = 19.73). The questionnaire measured demographics, mobility experiences, membership in organizations, latent and manifest political participation. Based on UNESCO conceptual model (2015), GC was operationalized as follows: openness and tolerance toward migrants and refu-gees, trust in people, democratic and civic values, knowledge and political awareness, personal and collective capacity to act politically. Results showed that members of volunteer organizations scored higher in all the dimensions of GC included in the study, compared to nonmembers, while the impact of other kinds of organizational membership and participation on GC was limited. Volunteer organiza-tions proved to be a very important context for the development of GC in young generation
Psicologia di comunità
No full textRivista ufficiale della Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità (SIPCo). Fondata nel 2005, si avvale della collaborazione di un comitato di consulenza e revisione internazionale. Direzione: Piero Amerio, Franco Di Maria, Bianca Gelli (coordinamento), Bruna Zani. Direzione Editoriale: Gioacchino Lavanco
MOBILISING CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS : A Community Psychology approach
Full text linkThis chapter addresses critical consciousness (CC) in educational and community psychology
interventions with young people.
We first introduce the conceptualisation of CC and its components, the main research
findings on the links between CC and some individual and contextual variables, and its association
with positive developmental outcomes. Then, we focus on interventions aimed to foster
CC development in adolescents and young adults, presenting two case studies.
The first case study is based on Youth- led Participatory Action Research (Y- PAR). The
main goal was to promote critical active European citizenship, involving students at an Italian
high school in a practical experience of PAR on social issues at local and European level. The
second case study is based on the implementation of the service- learning (SL) methodology to
promote CC and civic and cultural competences in Italian university students. Here the focus
is on analysing the reflexive process in SL as a “tool” to critically understand and address social
and cultural issues.
Finally, the implications of CC for a future Community Psychology praxis are discussed
Acculturation, social exclusion and resistance: Experiences of young Moroccans in Italy
Full text linkThis qualitative study examines how young people of Moroccan descent in Italy construct their
social identities and make sense of acculturation experiences. Twenty nine Moroccan young
people, fourteen males and fifteen females (16–23 years old) took part in five focus groups.
Thematic analyses of data indicated that participants have to navigate different identity categories
in the host country, including Muslim, Moroccan, and migrant, which are often used to
construct them as not belonging. They use different strategies to negotiate experiences of prejudice
and exclusion including; “Italy is not my home...it is other people’s home”: Accommodating an
outsider status, turning critically towards one’s community, claiming an insider status: Feeling Italian,
Creating activist identities: Becoming bridge builders.
In the absence of legal status, participants conceived citizenship as respecting Italian laws and
norms, accommodating their status and position, but making claims based on being and feeling as
belonging – cultural citizenship. By using a liberation orientation, our analysis shows the political
nature of acculturative integration in a context that denies citizenship as a legal status. These
political aspects include deconstructing exclusionary dominant group narratives and forming
identities of resistance that are important to their claims for recognition and belonging. We
discuss the findings with reference to ways in which researchers and activists can support the
activities of young people of immigrant background
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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