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Caratteristiche psicometriche di una versione italiana breve dell' Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire (IGQ)
No full textAlexithymia and sexual functioning: a clinical study on female patients with sexual disorders
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What do men and women ask a helpline on sexual concerns? Results of an Italian telephone counselling service
No full textAim: To investigate the range of sexual concerns reported by users of an
Italian helpline and to describe the differences, if any, between male and female
callers; to identify the overlap among sexual difficulties and the associations
between the variables of the study. Methods: The study included selected records
of the calls received during the 3-year period between 2006 and 2008 (n = 944).
Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis. Results:
Users were more often male (62.2%), aged between 26 and 35 years, who had
not sought any previous help. The most frequently reported male sexual difficulties
were erectile dysfunction (ED) and premature ejaculation, while the majority of
female callers reported vaginismus and orgasmic disorder (OD). We found an association
between desire disorder (DD) and ED in men (41.7%), and between OD
and DD in women (36.8%). Conclusions: Telephone counselling is an important
and effective resource to elicit requests that otherwise might remain hidden; therefore,
it can be a useful link between the health-care system and callers. This is
true mainly for men. The next step could be to establish a quality management
instrument to investigate whether users find the service helpful
University Teachers During the First Lockdown Due to SARS-CoV-2 in Italy: Stress, Issues and Perceptions of Misconduct
Full text link: With the spread of the pandemic and the introduction of measures aimed at its containment, it is necessary to understand in specific national contexts how home quarantine has affected the psychophysical well-being of academics, and their ability to maintain integrity. To this end we constructed an online questionnaire to investigate the levels of stress, well-being, and work-life balance in relationship with living and working conditions. Moreover, the questionnaire was designed to obtain information about the perceived occurrence, increase or decrease of misconduct in research (e.g., research misconduct by colleagues) and professional relationships (e.g., misbehaviors between colleagues, from students and toward students). The questionnaire was administered online by contacting faculty at three universities in Tuscany, Italy, asking them to relate their experience during the first lockdown (March-May 2020). Faculty members were invited to complete the questionnaire by their institutional e-mail account. The final sample consisted of 581 respondents. The results showed that inadequacies of the equipment, and particularly poor internet connection, were significantly correlated with main issues reported, such as relationships with students and research activities. Female teachers primarily suffered from stressful conditions, lacked well-being, and experienced work-life imbalance. Stress levels were related to perceptions of the frequency of misconduct and of an increase in their frequency during the period of home quarantine. Female professors, when compared to their male counterparts, perceived misconduct from students as increased and more frequent in the period of quarantine. Results point to a gender issue that is likely to arise from conditions of domestic activities imbalance and that increases stress and misconduct perception
Effects of the lockdown on perceived stress and well-being: a study on Italian University in the first period of isolation due to COVID-19
No full textThis study investigated the effect of the isolation during the lockdown period on psychological distress and well-being in a sample of professors (N=150), students (N=150) and technical administrative staff (N=150) from 3 Italian Universities, in the region of Tuscany. We administered a self-reported online questionnaire to collect socio-demographic information, investigate issues in work and study life, and assess the level of perceived stress and psychological well-being. The results of this study indicate that under conditions of isolation perceived stress levels are increased, and this is related to the experience of an unpleasant house environment. This is also significantly predicted by the occurrence of issues with online lectures and administrative activities for university professors or by having issues with managerial support for technical administrative staff. On the other hand, for university students, a good relationship with other students is of great importance to maintain a high level of mental well-being and being male is a protective factor. Evidently, aspects related to the deprivation of opportunities for peer relationships are experienced as particularly problematic
How many cyberbullying(s)? A non-unitary perspective for offensive online behaviours
Full text linkResearch has usually considered cyberbullying as a unitary phenomenon. Thus, it has been neglected to explore whether the specific online aggressive behaviours relate differentially to demographic features of the perpetrators of online aggressive actions, their personality characteristics, or to the ways in which they interact with the Internet. To bridge this gap, a study was conducted through a questionnaire administered online to 1228 Italian high-school students (Female: 61.1%; 14–15 yo: 48.%; 16–17 yo: 29.1%; 18–20 yo: 20.4%, 21–25 yo: 1.6%; Northern Italy: 4.1%; Central Italy: 59.2%; Southern Italy: 36.4%). The questionnaire, in addition to items about the use of social media, mechanisms of Moral Disengagement and personality characteristics of the participants in the study, also included a scale for the measurement of cyberbullying through the reference to six aggressive behaviours. The results indicate that cyberbullying can be considered as a non-unitary phenomenon in which the different aggressive behaviours can be related to different individual characteristics such as gender, personality traits and the different ways of interacting with social media. Moreover, the existence of two components of cyberbullying has been highlighted, one related to virtual offensive actions directly aimed at a victim, the other to indirect actions, more likely conducted involving bystanders. These findings open important perspectives for understanding, preventing, and mitigating cyberbullying among adolescents
Alexithymia increases the discordance between implicit and explicit self-esteem
No full textRecent studies have stressed the importance of affective information in the translation of implicit/associative evaluations into an explicit/propositional format. Accordingly, we predicted that alexithymia (as an inability to process emotions explicitly) increases implicit vs. explicit self-esteem (SE) discordance. Subjects were 310 university students with mean age 20.5. Four multiple regression analyses with interaction were conducted on self-reported measures of SE, using SE-IAT (Self-Esteem Implicit Association Test) and TAS-20 (Toronto Alexithymia Scale) scale and subscales scores as predictors (Alexithymia total score; Difficulty Identifying Feelings - DIF; Difficulty Describing Feelings - DDF and Externally Oriented Thinking - EOT). In the first regression the interaction term was significant and in the expected direction, confirming that the alexithymia total score increases implicit-explicit SE discordance. With the TAS-20 subscales, only DIF and DDF, but not EOT showed the expected impact on implicit-explicit SE consistency. Some implications in a clinical perspective are discussed. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Antipsychotic treatment and the Rorschach Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI) in psychotic disorder patients: Effects of treatment
No full textThe Rorschach-based Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI) is used to identify and rate features of psychotic disorders, but effects of antipsychotic treatment on such ratings is not clear. Accordingly, we examined potential effects of antipsychotic drugs on PTI measures in 114 patients with a psychotic or bipolar-I disorder. Use and doses of antipsychotic drugs (as chlorpromazine-equivalent [CPZ-eq] mg/day) were unrelated to PTI total or subscale scores in any diagnostic group. PTI scores were independently and significantly associated with psychotic symptomatic severity (PANSS score) and less with female sex. These findings support the validity and value of the PTI in identifying features of psychosis even in the presence of antipsychotic treatment
Being Part of an “Intermediate Community” and Aggressive Behavior on the Net: A Study on Cyberbullying Inside the Contrade of Siena in Italy
No full textThe study investigates cyberbullying within the Contrade (singular “Contrada”) of Siena. The objective is to explore whether and how intermediate communities such as the Contrade of Siena, social bodies which are intermediate between the individual and the State, with their own rules and values, can play a protective role or increase the risk of detrimental behavior on the Net. Adolescents (N = 304) aged between 11 and 16 years completed an online questionnaire on moral disengagement [1], their relations with the Contrada, the values attributed to the Contrada, the use of social media [2], cyberbullying and cyber-victimization [3]. The study highlights that intermediate communities can have a protective function, through the values they manage to convey and represent, both to those who are part of them and to those who perceive them from the outside
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