1,012 research outputs found
Happiness and socio-emotional well-being of children and adolescents: a multi-method and multi-informant perspective
No full textThe present dissertation explores individual and family happiness and socio-emotional well-being in children and adolescents within the family environment, identifying risk and protective factors that influence happiness during childhood and adolescence. This doctoral thesis is divided into three chapters comprising three closely related studies. Specifically, Chapter 1 provides an overview of the theoretical frameworks used in the present dissertation. The first study represents the first systematic literature review to examine the relationship between happiness (defined to encompass subjective well-being, life satisfaction, and positive affect) and family functioning during the developmental stage (age range: 6-18 years). Of the 2,683 retrieved documents, 124 original articles met the eligibility criteria and were included in the review. The review results prove a positive relationship between happiness and family functioning across different cultures and age groups. Family dimensions (e.g., cohesion, communication) strongly predicted children’s and adolescents’ happiness.
Chapter 2 encompasses the second study of this doctoral thesis, which aims to explore the happiness of children and pre-adolescents within the family context, utilizing a multi-method and multi-informant approach. Specifically, the narratives of happy moments spent with mothers and fathers were qualitatively examined within a sample of 154 families, each with at least one child aged between 6 and 13 years. Furthermore, this study seeks to underscore potential differences in perspective among children, mothers, and fathers. Six main themes related to children’s happy moments emerged from the transcripts: (1) Activities outside the home; (2) Shared activities; (3) Play; (4) Affection; (5) Gifts; (6) Non-specified. Emotional interactions characterized the happiest moments reported with mothers, while those with fathers were more frequently playful and fun situations.
Chapter 3 contains the third study employing qualitative and quantitative approaches and a multi-informant perspective for exploring potential age and gender disparities in happiness between 77 pre-adolescents and adolescents (age range: 6-18 years) and their respective mothers and fathers. The results revealed that pre-adolescents report higher happiness levels than adolescents and lower levels of loneliness. Through Thematic Analysis, five primary sources of happiness emerged: (1) Social relationships, (2) Family relationships, (3) Personal interests, (4) Achievement, and (5) Entertainment. Pre-adolescents exhibited a higher occurrence of the Entertainment and Family relationships themes than adolescents. Parents notably more frequently mentioned Achievement than children. Overall, the findings of this dissertation could provide valuable insights to parents and educators on how to help children and adolescents promote their happiness
“Insider Knowledge Versus Outsider Perspective in Early Italian American and African American Detective Stories”
No full textEarly Representations of Organized Crime and Issues of Identity in the Italian American Press (1890 to 1910)
No full textBeginning from the early days of mass immigration (1890s), Italian immigrants were increasingly depicted in association with crime, especially organized crime, in the mainstream press. Fuelled by nativist views of immigrants as a threat to American safety, character, and morality, these first images of the newcomers became increasingly popular as the new century progressed, crystallizing in the minds of Americans and becoming the predominant representations of Italian immigrants. The response of the newly formed Italian communities can be found in the Italian-American press, which took upon itself the task of providing alternative images with which the burgeoning Italian community could identify, and alternative perspectives on organized crime. I argue that, as Italians were represented almost exclusively in the context of criminality, it was in this discursive field that many immigrant writers sought to construct their own representations. The dominance of criminality, coupled with the central role that the Italian-American press played in the immigrant community, makes the immigrant press an unrivalled source in which to examine the ways Italian-American communities struggled to define themselves and their place within the larger American society. It was in newspapers that counter-representations and re-codings of stereotypes first emerged, and in the press that the process of constructing a collective Italian-American identity first takes shape
Il racconto del servizio sociale. Memorie, narrazioni, figure dagli anni Cinquanta ad oggi
No full textBones and blood: family ties and the experience of immigration in Anzia Yezierska's “Bread givers” and Fae Myenne Ng's “Bone”
No full textThe Role of Early Textual Production in the Development of a Canon of Italian American Literature
No full textHaving missed out on many of the developments spurred by the ethnic revival of the 1960s, Italian American literary studies only began in the late 1980s and did not take off as a movement until the late 1990s. However, the predominant focus of this work has been on authors of the 1930s and 1940s such as John Fante, Pietro Di Donato, Jerre Mangione and those who came after, almost completely leaving out the vast literary output in Italian from the 1880s to the 1920s. Especially important, in my view, is the fiction which was serialized in newspapers and other periodicals of the day which not only illuminates the early experiences of immigrants in America and the specific dynamics at work within these early Italian American communities, but also sheds light on the process of forming an Italian American ethnic identity: its mechanisms and dynamics, the external forces impinging upon it, the group’s own concerns with self-representation, both individually and collectively
La vera bellezza è quella analitica Edgar Allan Poe [All Real Beauty is Analytical Edgar Allan Poe]
No full text"If the Sidewalks of These Street Could Talk." Reinventing Italian-American Ethnicity : The Representation and Construction of Ethnic Identity in Italian-American Literature
No full text“Un nuovo ed entusiasmante modello sulla scena dell’arte contemporanea: Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia” [ There’s a new and thrilling model on Sicily’s contemporary art scene: Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia]
No full text“Un nuovo ed entusiasmante modello sulla scena dell’arte contemporanea: Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia” [ There’s a new and thrilling model on Sicily’s contemporary art scene: Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia
Between Entertainment and Education: Early Serialized Literature in the Italian-American Press
No full textIn the first decades of Italian mass migration to the United States, the Italian- American press was a site of emergence and negotiation of an Italian-American identity. Indeed, the Italian press was the site of intense ideological struggle for the minds of the immigrants between the newspapers controlled by the elite prominenti and their radical opponents, the sovversivi. From the 1890s, serialized popular novels and novelettes appeared in the pages of Italian-American periodicals and newspapers of all political stances. They were simultaneously the first cultural expressions of the intellectual elites of the colony and the first cultural products consumed by the working class of the nascent Italian community; therefore, they played a central role in shaping their tastes and values. Although these works were offshoots of the Italian and French traditions of the feuilleton, their development in the US was shaped by the new audience’s needs. By describing urban squalor, the criminal underworld, and the excesses of the upper classes, they educated immigrant readers, mediating their experience of the world of the capitalist city. But, no matter the intended ideological coercion, for their working-class readers they were empowering experiences dramatizing the social and racial vulnerability of the condition of immigrants in the capitalist city and showing how vulnerable conditions could be mobilized toward empathy, community, and social change
- …
