141 research outputs found
Adolescente ed ambiente. Il contributo della psicologia a supporto della scuola impegnata nell’educazione ambientale
No full textRappresentazioni delle relazioni familiari: un contributo metodologico tramite il test del disegno della famiglia.
No full textInvestigating the Automatic In-group Bias toward EU and its Role for the Development of a European Identity
No full textThe European Union (EU) is a relatively recent political institution which, in last years, is particularly crossed by centrifugal tensions, making difficult for European citizens to feel a full EU identity, and making their emergent attitudes and beliefs towards EU uncertain. In this vein, an important research issue may be the spontaneous evaluations of EU which, in line with the recent literature, may be considered as embryonic precursors of successive explicit/reflexive beliefs and attitudes.
The present study is aimed at investigating implicit attitudes towards EU administering an adaptation of the Implicit Association Test (EU-IAT) to a sample of 210 EU participants (147 males) aged average 38.7 (SD= 15.7), along with the PVQ-21, a scale designed to measure basic values. Results showed: 1) An adequate reliability for the EU-IAT; 2) A positive value for mean IAT scores which is significantly different from zero, indicating that participants associate more strongly EU with good attributes rather than with bad attributes (and Rest of the world with Bad attributes rather than with good attributes); and 3) A significant positive correlation of the EU-IAT with conservation values (in particular with conformity) and a significant negative correlation with openness to change values (in particular with self-direction) with a moderate/high effect size. These results provide first evidence for reliability and criterion validity of the EU-IAT, and suggest that EU citizens showed an automatic and emergent bias in favour of EU that is related to conservation values
La soddisfazione delle famiglie degli studenti delle scuole pugliesi. Una ricerca pilota
No full textVantaggi e limiti delle tecniche proiettive in età evolutiva: il disegno della famiglia
No full textPredictability of big five traits in high schooteacher burnout. Detailed study through the disillusionment dimension
No full textThis research aimed to investigate the theme of burnout syndrome in high school teachers. In particular, the objective was to verify if the five personality traits can be considered predictors of the four dimensions of burnout. The sample consisted of 171 teachers, 49 males and 122 females. For the burnout measurement, the Link Burnout Questionnaire (LBQ) was used, and for the personality measure, the Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ) was used. As predictive factors for the development of the negative polarity of Psychophysical Exhaustion, the results identify both Energy and Emotional Stability. For Relational Deterioration, the same traits emerge due to the dimension of Professional Inefficiency. For the LBM’s Disillusion dimension, there was no corresponding predictive BFM trait, but by reducing the statistical error via analysis of regression with fixed effects, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability were predictive. The research confirms the relationship between personality and burnout, but future studies should both analyse the influence exerted by the contextual factors on the onset of the syndrome and deepen the research on the mental models
Representations of physician's role and their impact on compliance
No full textThis study deepens the analysis of how the physician’s role is represented in contemporary
society and how such a representation affects the patient’s propensity to comply. 468 patients
were asked to fill out a questionnaire aimed at detecting the representation of the medical role.
The level of compliance was measured by means of a multiple 4-point Likert scale with questions
on five aspects: therapy, advice on health, hygienic rules, prohibited behaviours, suggestions
for a healthy life-style. A procedure combining multiple correspondence analysis and
cluster analysis was applied to identify response profiles, corresponding to different representations
of the physician’s role. Univariate analysis (ANOVA) was performed to compare clusters
on compliance levels. Four profiles were identified; the physician is represented in turn as
affiliative authority, idealized friend, competent advisor or disappointing opponent. Significant
differences were found in the level of compliance characterizing each representation. The findings
suggest that the knowledge of the ways patients represent their relationship with the physician
is a crucial area for a better understanding of the different patient compliance levels
Active range of motion of the head and cervical spine : a three-dimensional investigation in healthy young adults
No full textPURPOSE: To define reference values for head-cervical range of motion (ROM) in healthy young adults, to assess the effect of sex, and to quantify the separate contribution of other body districts. METHODS: Thirty women and 30 men performed maximal head and cervical spine flexion-extension, lateral bending, and axial rotation. Movements were detected using a digital optoelectronic instrument. Maximum head-cervical spine and thoracic motions were separated. RESULTS: Flexion and extension were performed mainly in the sagittal plane. The movement was larger in women (136 degrees) than in men (130 degrees). During flexion, both sexes moved the head-neck and the thorax in the same direction. During extension, men moved only the head-cervical spine, while women moved the two analyzed districts in the opposite directions. Lateral bending was nearly symmetric, associated with head-cervical rotation and extension, and larger in women (91 degrees) than in men (77 degrees). Adjunctive thoracic motion was limited in the sagittal and frontal planes, but larger in the horizontal plane (opposite motions of about 20 degrees). Head-neck rotation was symmetric, and associated with concomitant movements in both the sagittal and frontal planes. It was larger in women (162 degrees) than in men (155 degrees), and performed with limited adjunctive thoracic motions. CONCLUSIONS: The present values can be used as a first group of normative data for head-cervical ROM in young men and women
The lower susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum malaria of Fulani of Burkina Faso (West Africa) is associated with low frequencies of classic malaria-resistance genes
No full textThe gene frequencies in 1993-94 for haemoglobin S, haemoglobin C, alpha(-3.7) deletional thalassaemia, G6PDA(-), HLA B*5301 were estimated in Fulani, Mossi and Rimaibe ethnic groups of Burkina Faso, West Africa. The aim of the study was to verify whether the previously reported Fulani lower susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum malaria was associated with any of these malaria-resistance genes. Similar frequencies for haemoglobin S were recorded in the 3 ethnic groups (0.024 +/- 0.008, 0030 +/- 0.011, 0.022 +/- 0.013; in Mossi, Rimaibe and Fulani, respectively). The Mossi and Rimaibe showed higher frequencies when compared to Fulani for haemoglobin C (0.117 +/- 0.018, 0.127 +/- 0.020, 0.059 +/- 0.020), alpha(-3.7) deletional thalassaemia (0.227 +/- 0.040, 0.134 +/- 0.032, 0.103 +/- 0.028), G6PDA(-) (0.196 +/- 0.025, 0.187 +/- 0.044, 0.069 +/- 0.025) and HLA B*5301 (0.189 +/- 0.038, 0.202 +/- 0.041, 0.061 +/- 0.024). Among Fulani the proportion of individuals not having any of these protective alleles was more than 3-fold greater than in the Mossi-Rimaibe group (56.8% vs 16.7%; P < 0.001). These findings exclude the involvement of these generic factors of resistance to P. falciparum in the lower susceptibility to malaria of Fulani. This evidence, in association with the previously reported higher immune reactivity to malaria of Fulani, further supports the existence in this ethnic group of unknown genetic factor(s) of resistance to malaria probably involved in the regulation of humoral immune responses
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