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Psychopathological Issues of Technological Addiction: New Diagnostic Criteria for Addiction.
No full textAll forms of addiction (drug addiction, food addiction, sexual addiction, technological addiction, work addiction) are syndromic conditions characterized by a recurrent and reiterated search for pleasure derived from a specific dependence behavior, associated with abuse, craving, clinically significant stress, and compulsive dependence actions despite the possible negative consequences. The purpose of this article is to propose a new diagnostic criteria of addictio
Assessing the structural validity and measurement invariance of the psychological problems scale on a sample of international students
Get PDFObjective: The main purpose of the current study is to examine the factorial structure of the Psychological Problems (PP) scale, which is an inventory used for assessing anxious and depressive symptoms. No previous studies were found in which the dimensionality of the measure has been examined. Method: In order to test the underlying factorial structure of the scale, we performed both exploratory principal axis factor analysis and maximum likelihood robust confirmatory factor-analytic analysis on a sample of 266 international students. Parallel analysis was also computed to identify the number of factors to take into account. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses were performed to evaluate the factorial invariance of the scale across gender. Results: Our results yield a bifactorial structure. One item is removed due to its double-loading, resulting in a 14-item scale. Both of the subscales’ alpha coefficients are good, with satisfying levels of adjusted item-scale correlations. Findings from the measurement invariance indicate adequate configural, metric, scalar and strict invariance across gender. Conclusion: We conceptualize the two scales emerged from our factor analysis studies in terms of affective and psychosomatic domains of psychological problems. Despite some limitations, our findings may add new theoretical and practical implications, which are discussed also providing directions for future research
From Janet to Bromberg, via Ferenczi: standing in the spaces of the literature on dissociation
No full textAs Henri Ellenberger (1970) wrote, Pierre Janet’s work may be compared to a great city buried under the ashes, similar to Pompeii, a place that one day might be rediscovered and brought back to life again. This has been in several respects Janet’s destiny: his corpus has signified a vital transplant of ideas and discoveries that have influenced the contemporary discourse on several pathologies, and most especially on dissociation. A similar destiny awaited Sándor Ferenczi, who after decades of obscurity has now influenced and informed contemporary psychoanalytic views of trauma and dissociation, not least with his concept of identification with the aggressor on the part of the victim of violence and his therapeutic approach as it appears in his Clinical Diary (1932b)
Psychological Well-Being During the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediation Role of Generalized Anxiety
Get PDFIntroduction: The outbreak of the COVID-19 has largely impacted individuals’ health and lifestyles. This study aimed to investigate people’s psychological well-being during the second phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We selected six indicators of psychological well-being: fear of COVID-19, loneliness, social interaction anxiety, generalized anxiety, PTSD, and depression. A sample of 231 Italian participants (56.3% women), with a mean age of 32.7 (SD=12.61), completed an online survey from February to March 2021, during the so called “second wave”. It included the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), the UCLA Loneliness Scale-Version 3, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item Scale (GAD-7), the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Impact of Event Scale–Revised (IES-R), and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS). Results: Apart from loneliness, women reported lower levels of psychological well-being than men. Fairly good associations between all the detected variables were found. Based on a mediation model evaluation (in which generalized anxiety was introduced as a mediator in the relationship between fear of COVID-19, PTSD, loneliness, social interaction anxiety, and depression), except for social interaction anxiety, total and partial mediation effects suggested that generalized anxiety played a crucial role in exacerbating depressive symptoms during the pandemic. Conclusion: Our outcomes may expand the knowledge about the psychological well-being during the pandemic experience, with a focus on the mediating role of generalized anxiety
La comorbilità nello stalking
No full textLo stalking descrive una varietà di comportmanti di minaccia e di controllo, messi in atto intenzionalmente dall'autore allo scopo di provocare paura nella propria vittima. Nel corso degli ultimi vent'anni questa condizione è diventata oggetto di attenzione giuridica e clinica. é noto che più della metà degli stalker afferenti ai servizi psichiatrici e giudiziari è affetta da almeno un disturbo psichiatrico in comorbilità, tuttavia ad oggi non esiste un inquadramento diagnostico univoco del fenomeno che viene di volta in volta accostato alle esperienze psicotico, ai disturbi ossessivo-compulsivi ed alla psicopatia
Il Cyberstalking
No full textIl Cyberstalking è una forma diffusa di molestia effettuata tramite
l'utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie, come e-mail, chat e social network. Si
stima che tra il 2-13% e l'8-32% delle donne negli Stati Uniti è vittima di
cyberstalking. Il crescente interesse per questo nuovo crimine informatico
è testimoniato dal recente adeguamento del sistema legislativo italiano
(art. 612-bis del Codice Penale). Le azioni dei cyberstalker potrebbero
essere mosse dal desiderio di vendetta, da un'ossessione d'amore o dalla
ricerca di intimità
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