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242 ABSTRACT: The pandemic of Covid-19 has had a high impact on people’s lives and especially on families. In Italy, in 2020, the several forced closures led families to live indoors to manage anxiety and distress. It was considered appropriate to investigate which protective factors, like parental resilience, can mitigate the negative impact of pandemic-related distress on family life. We have conducted two online surveys ... Journal Article: Current Psychology, 2022. |
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325 The impact of COVID-19 on Italian adolescents’ sleep and its association with psychological factors ABSTRACT: Insomnia and circadian dysregulation during adolescence represent important risk factors for emotional and psychological problems. Recent studies have shown that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been linked to a high prevalence of behavioural sleep problems in the general population. This study aimed to provide two pictures of two different time points of the pandemic regarding the prevalence of ...Journal Article: Journal of Sleep Research, 1 (8), 2022. |
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252 Group Imagery Rescripting on Childhood Memories Delivered via Telehealth: A Preliminary Study ABSTRACT: Background: Imagery Rescripting (ImR) has proved to be effective in the treatment of different mental disorders as an integral part of broader clinical protocols or as a standalone technique. ImR has also been successfully incorporated as part of group Schema Therapy treatment; however, to the best of our knowledge, it has never been assessed as a standalone technique in a group setting. Aim: In this study, we ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022. |
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268 ABSTRACT: La letteratura sull’ostracismo sociale costituisce ad oggi il principale punto di riferimento concettuale per comprendere il fenomeno del “muso”. Sebbene le esperienze interpersonali caratterizzate dal muso siano estremamente comuni ed appaia evidente la sofferenza che questo comporta, tuttavia la ricerca specifica sull’argomento è poco sviluppata; in particolare, non esistono indicazioni univoche su quali ... Journal Article: Rivista Italiana di Studi sull'Umorismo, 5 (2), pp. 113-124, 2022, ISSN: 2611-0970. |
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462 ABSTRACT: Background: Disgust is a strong and persistent emotion that frequently occurs during exposure-based treatments for contamination-based obsessive compulsive disorder (C-OCD). This study aimed to examine the efficacy of augmenting cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with a novel type of anti-disgust cognitive intervention in reducing the severity of OCD, disgust propensity/sensitivity, and refusal rate of exposure and ... Journal Article: Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11 (10), pp. 2875, 2022. |
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486 ABSTRACT: Cognitive–behavioral therapy is a well-established treatment for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). There are a variety of cognitive and behavioral strategies, and it is necessary to analyze the outcomes of the treatments. The aim of the present study is to verify the effectiveness of a treatment that combines evidence-based procedures and specific cognitive interventions highlighting the issue of acceptance. ... Journal Article: Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11 (10), 2022. |
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533 ABSTRACT: Besides affecting 8% of the general population, nightmares are one of the most frequent symptoms of traumatized individuals. This can be a significant factor in the treatment of post-traumatic disorders; indeed, several studies demonstrated its strong predictive and prognostic value. Sleep disorders, nightmares in particular, could be very distressing for individuals and need targeted interventions, especially if ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022. |
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0 Moral Orientation Guilt Scale (MOGS): Development and validation of a novel guilt measurement ABSTRACT: Guilt emerges as the emotional result of a conflict between our behavior and internalized morality. Since morality is best conceptualized as a multidimensional construct, guilt results in different phenomena depending on the moral values internalized by the “guilty”. Indeed, mounting evidence supports the distinction between guilt feelings emerging from deontological morality and guilt feelings emerging from ...Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 189 (111495), 2022, ISSN: 0191-8869. |
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482 EXPLAINING INTERACTION OF GUILT AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS IN NOT JUST RIGHT EXPERIENCES ABSTRACT: Objective: “Not Just Right Experiences” (NJREs) are currently considered a characteristic of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Significant associations have been found between NJREs and Obsessive–Compulsive (OC) symptoms in nonclinical and clinical populations. Literature support a significant relationship between NJREs, feelings of guilt and OC features. This study aims to clarify the role of the ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 19 (1), pp. 39-44, 2022. |
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2021 | |
818 ABSTRACT: This article describes the clinical case of Giada, a 19-year-old female with a borderline personality characterized by a pervasive emotional dysregulation. Trichotillomania and obsessive-compulsive disorder, two disorders belonging to the obsessive spectrum, represent dysfunctional attempts to manage the sense of unworthiness, combined with a deep self-repulsion and the deontological guilt for irreparably worsening ... Journal Article: Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, (49), 2021, ISSN: 1127-6347. |
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610 ABSTRACT: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder that is frequently diagnosed in children and adolescents. In pediatric OCD, family plays an important role in the development and maintenance of the disease. In this relationship, both genetic and behavioral factors, such as parental modeling and family accommodation, are significant. Parental modeling concerns the daily enactment of dysfunctional ... Journal Article: Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 47 (224), 2021, ISSN: 1824-7288. |
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802 ABSTRACT: Metacognition among those reporting psychotic symptoms is associated with a distortion in the way they understand their own and others’ mental states. Recent advances suggest that distortion in the form of self-criticism may activate a threat response and fuel symptom expression. At high level of self-criticism metacognition may reduce its protective role towards psychosis. Here, we explored whether the ... Journal Article: Current Psychology, 2021. |
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692 ABSTRACT: Background and Objectives: While the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for general mental health and the increase in anxiety and depression are clear, less is known about the potential effect of the pandemic on OCD. The purpose of this study is to collect new data to monitor the symptomatic status of patients with OCD during the period of emergency due to COVID-19 and to make a comparison between two ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12 , pp. 1822, 2021, ISSN: 1664-0640. |
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883 ABSTRACT: Although obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and the conduct disorders (CD) express a contrasting symptomatology, they could represent different answers to a common matrix about morality. In the literature, some theoretical models describe people with OCD as individuals who experience high levels of responsibility and guilt. On the other hand, adolescents with a CD are described as if they do ... Journal Article: Brain Sciences, 11 (10), 2021. |
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1118 ABSTRACT: Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major mental illness characterized by periods of (hypo) mania and depression with inter-episode remission periods. Functional studies in BD have consistently implicated a set of linked cortical and subcortical limbic regions in the pathophysiology of the disorder, also including the cerebellum. However, the cerebellar role in the neurobiology of BD still needs to be clarified. Seventeen ... Journal Article: The Cerebellum, 2021. |
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1560 Depression in the Mirror: Depression Severity and Its Link to Negative Judgments of Symptoms ABSTRACT: Background and Objectives: Depressive states represent a normal and physiological response to the experience of loss. However, it is possible to identify some elements that allow distinguishing physiological depressive states from pathological ones. Over the years, research has confirmed that a stable tendency to negative self-evaluation is a transdiagnostic factor that triggers and amplifies dysfunctional emotional ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12 , 2021. |
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1176 Childhood Memories in Eating Disorders: An Explorative Study Using Diagnostic Imagery ABSTRACT: components, the family environment and early parent–child interactions play a role in the development of eating disorders. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of early parent–daughter relationships in a sample of 49 female inpatients with an eating disorder. To acquire a detailed image description of the childhood experiences of the patient, we used diagnostic imagery, a schema therapy-derived ...Journal Article: Eating Behavior, 12 , pp. 2890, 2021, ISSN: 1664-1078. |
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915 Contributions of the Right Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices to the Attentional Blink: A tDCS Study ABSTRACT: The AB refers to the performance impairment that occurs when visual selective attention is overloaded through the very rapid succession of two targets (T1 and T2) among distractors by using the rapid serial visual presentation task (RSVP). Under these conditions, performance is typically impaired when T2 is presented within 200–500 ms from T1 (AB). Based on neuroimaging studies suggesting a role of top-down ...Journal Article: Symmetry, 2021. |
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1427 Deontological and Altruistic Guilt Feelings: A Dualistic Thesis ABSTRACT: In this paper we argue in favor of the existence of two different guilt feelings: altruistic guilt (AG) and deontological guilt (DG). AG arises from having harmed, through one's own action or omission, an innocent victim, while DG arises from the transgression of an internalized norm. In most daily experiences of guilt feelings both types are present, but we argue that they are not traceable to each other and that ...Journal Article: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2021. |
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1046 ABSTRACT: The study was designed to test the hypothesis that indirect inhibition of the insula via cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) would decrease disgust and moral rigidity in 36 healthy individuals undergoing 15 min of tDCS over the temporal lobe. To obtain a comprehensive assessment of disgust, we used subjective (affect rating), physiological (heart rate variability [HRV]), and implicit measures ... Journal Article: Clinical Psychological Science, 2021. |
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1206 Is Covid-19 a natural event? Covid-19 pandemic and conspiracy beliefs ABSTRACT: In this paper, antecedents and consequences of conspiracy beliefs are investigated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. 618 individuals residing in different geographical area of Italy participated in the study. We found that perceived mortality rate of COVID-19 is positively associated with adherence to conspiracy beliefs and, in turn, with negative outcomes such as: (a) a reduced support for the ...Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 181 , pp. 111011, 2021, ISSN: 0191-8869. |
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1239 ABSTRACT: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine had a significant impact on mental health which resulted in an increase of anxiety and depression in adult, child and adolescent clinical populations. Less is known about the potential effect of pandemic on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) so there is a lack of review work to illustrate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on OCD. Purpose: The main objective is ... Journal Article: Psychopathology, 2021. |
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1291 Emotional Reasoning and Psychopathology ABSTRACT: One of the several ways in which affect may influence cognition is when people use affect as a source of information about external events. Emotional reasoning, ex-consequentia reasoning, and affect-as-information are terms referring to the mechanism that can lead people to take their emotions as information about the external world, even when the emotion is not generated by the situation to be evaluated. ...Journal Article: Brain Sciences, 11 (4), 2021. |
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1464 ABSTRACT: Symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD) often overlap. In some cases, it is difficult to conduct a differential diagnosis based only on current diagnostic criteria Therefore, it is important to find clinical factors with high discriminatory specificity that, used together with structured or semi‐structured interviews, could help improve diagnostic practice. We propose that a ... Journal Article: Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 1 (36), 2021. |
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1029 ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to compare the patterns of cerebellar alterations associated with bipolar disease with those induced by the presence of cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies to clarify the potential cerebellar contribution to bipolar affective disturbance. Twenty-nine patients affected by bipolar disorder, 32 subjects affected by cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies, and 37 age-matched healthy ... Journal Article: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (7), 2021. |
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1397 SLEEP CHARACTERISTICS IN ITALIAN CHILDREN DURING HOME CONFINEMENT DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK ABSTRACT: Objective: Italy faced one of the first large clusters of COVID-19 infections worldwide. Home confinement and social distancing could have negatively impacted sleep habits and prevalence of sleep disorders in children, which may be also linked with altered emotional processes. The present study focused on clinical aspects related to sleep, insomnia and emotions in Italian children aged 0-to-12 years during home ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry , 18 (1), pp. 13-27, 2021. |
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956 ABSTRACT: Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) often experience reduced health-related quality of life and mental health comorbidity. The prevalence of insomnia disorder and sleep quality impairments in MS patients ranges from 47% to 62%. Nevertheless, these problems often remain underdiagnosed and undertreated. This review systematically and critically assesses evidence from randomized clinical trials which evaluated the ... Journal Article: Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 2021. |
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1080 ABSTRACT: Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating mental health disorder that can easily become a treatment-resistant condition. Although effective therapies exist, only about half of the patients seem to benefit from them when we consider treatment refusal, dropout rates, and residual symptoms. Thus, providing effective augmentation to standard therapies could improve existing treatments. Group ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021, ISSN: 1664-1078. |
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1410 Journal Article: Bollettino di Psicologia applicata, 261-262 , pp. 77-94, 2021. |
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1247 A prototypical MMPI-2 configuration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ABSTRACT: Background: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is often measured through self-report questionnaires focused on measuring symptomatology (Y-BOCS, OCI-R, and PI). The scientific literature identifies the Pt scale as a distinctive marker, but does not report data related to a specific OCD profile of the MMPI-2 test. Therefore, based on some clinical considerations and preliminary investigations, the following study aims to ...Journal Article: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 8 (3), 2020. |
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2718 ABSTRACT: Objectives: One of the largest clusters of Covid-19 infections was observed in Italy. The population was forced to home confinement, exposing individuals to increased risk for insomnia, which is, in turn, associated with depression and anxiety. Through a cross-sectional online survey targeting all Italian adult population (≥18 yrs), insomnia prevalence and its interactions with relevant factors were ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020. |
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1392 A systematic review of instruments to assess guilt in children and adolescent ABSTRACT: Guilt feelings have received considerable attention in past psychological theory and research. Several studies have been conducted that represent a range of views and propose various implications of guilt in children and adolescents. Variations in theoretical definitions of guilt, emphasizing a lack of measurement convergence, make it difficult to derive a comprehensive definition of the construct in childhood and ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology , 11 (573488), 2020, ISSN: 1664-0640. |
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1563 Internet addiction disorder: nuova emergenza nel mondo dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza ABSTRACT: Le nuove tecnologie hanno cambiato e continuano a cambiare profondamente il nostro modo di vivere. Il continuo processo di adattamento al cambiamento tecnologico condiziona e modifica costantemente le nostre interazioni in tutti gli ambiti di vita. Non ultima la salute mentale e il lavoro in psicoterapia. Il presente lavoro si pone dunque come obiettivo quello di ritrarre lo stato dell’arte di un campo in ...Journal Article: QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA , 47 , 2020, ISSN: 1127-6347. |
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943 ABSTRACT: The fronto-parietal network is involved in top-down and bottom-up processes necessary to achieve cognitive control. We investigated the role of asymmetric enhancement of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) and right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) in cognitive control under conditions of emotional conflict arising from emotional distractors. The effects of anodal tDCS over the lDLPFC/cathodal over the ... Journal Article: Symmetry, 2020. |
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1869 Imagery Rescripting on Guilt-Inducing Memories in OCD: A Single Case Series Study ABSTRACT: Background and objectives: Criticism is thought to play an important role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and obsessive behaviors have been considered as childhood strategies to avoid criticism. Often, patients with OCD report memories characterized by guilt-inducing reproaches. Starting from these assumptions, the aim of this study is to test whether intervening in memories of guilt-inducing reproaches can ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11 , pp. 1018, 2020, ISSN: 1664-0640 . |
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1000 Blood pressure-related hypoalgesia: a systematic review andmeta-analysis ABSTRACT: Objective: Spontaneous or experimentally induced high blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain perception, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. Despite its clinical implications, such as the interference with early detection of myocardial infarction in 'at risk' groups, the size of the association between high BP and pain has not yet been quantified. Moreover, the distinct association between high BP and ...Journal Article: 38 (8), pp. 1420–1435, 2020. |
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969 The Apple of Daddy’s Eye: Parental Overvaluation Links the Narcissistic Traits of Father and Child ABSTRACT: This study contributes to the literature on the parental correlates of children’s narcissism. It addresses whether parental overvaluation may drive the putative link between parents’ narcissism and children’s narcissism and self-esteem. The cross-sectional design involved a community sample of 519 school-age children (age ranging from 9 to 11 years old) and their parents from an Italian urban context. ...Journal Article: Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17 (15), 2020. |
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1598 ABSTRACT: The evolutionary perspective on human emotions and motivations posits that all interpersonal interactions are shaped by an array of social mentalities, dwelling on our species' bio-behavioral disposition to pursue some evolutionarily valuable social goals (i.e., interpersonal motivational systems). The paucity of valid and reliable measures of such mentalities has limited empirical research into how these processes ... Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 167 , 2020. |
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1644 La psicoterapia come processo creativo basato sul gioco sociale ABSTRACT: Since psychotherapy is an activity aimed at change, here we consider it as an example of interpersonal creative process. In this context, creativity consists in identifying new and adaptive solutions to common problems, a skill that can be learned and exercised within a “proximal development zone”. Secondly, it is proposed that the evolutionary social mentality of play is the elective context for the development ...Journal Article: Formamente International research journal on digital future, 2 (supplement), pp. 261-283, 2020. |
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1385 ABSTRACT: In questo lavoro viene descritto il caso di un ragazzo di 16 anni, giunto in terapia con una diagnosi di disturbo ossessivo compulsivo, per la quale aveva già intrapreso una psicoterapia, con presa in carico farmacologica, senza miglioramento dei sintomi. La sintomatologia ossessiva è associata al timore di essere contaminato dall’alito materno. Tuttavia, fin dai primi incontri, emerge con chiarezza una ... Journal Article: Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, (46), 2020, ISSN: 1127-6347. |
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1737 Validation and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fear of Guilt Scale ABSTRACT: Several studies and clinical observations have proven the central role of the fear of guilt in the genesis and maintenance of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. To date, questionnaires are available in Italian that measure one’s propensity to experience guilt and sensitivity towards this emotion, understood as a tendency to negatively judge this experience and its effects, but not the fear of guilt and the commitment ...Journal Article: Rassegna di Psicologia , XXXVII (1), pp. 59-70, 2020. |
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984 ABSTRACT: Recentemente la ricerca ha focalizzato l’attenzione sul narcisismo come tratto di personalità non necessariamente patologico, che può essere presente fin dall’età scolare e può condurre, in taluni casi, a conseguenze negative nello sviluppo del bambino, come problematiche affettive e comportamentali. Dopo aver illustrato le principali ipotesi sulle origini di questi tratti in età evolutiva, questo articolo ... Journal Article: Rivista di Psichiatria, 55 (2), pp. 71-78, 2020. |
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1465 ABSTRACT: This study intends to build on current literature regarding the parental correlates of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms among school-age children by addressing a gap related to the possible relations of parental OC symptoms, parenting stress and dysfunctional caregiving behaviors with the child's OC symptoms. The cross – sectional design involved 113 children (61 female; M age = 11.04 years, SD = 1.00) and their ... Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 25 , 2020. |
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1108 SOSTEGNO ALLA GENITORIALITA’: STRUMENTI ED INTERVENTI COGNITIVI ABSTRACT: La nascita di un figlio è un’occasione favorevole di cambiamento per i genitori. Il non coglierla rappresenta una rinuncia ad un percorso di sviluppo per tutta la famiglia. La genitorialità va, dunque, intesa come un percorso che risente dei diversi momenti di crescita, dei conseguenti cambiamenti del bambino e delle opportunità e difficoltà dei singoli (padre, madre, fratelli, sorelle, famiglia allargata) ...Book: 2020. |
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941 SOSTEGNO ALLA GENITORIALITA’: STRUMENTI ED INTERVENTI COGNITIVI ABSTRACT: La nascita di un figlio è un’occasione favorevole di cambiamento per i genitori. Il non coglierla rappresenta una rinuncia ad un percorso di sviluppo per tutta la famiglia. La genitorialità va, dunque, intesa come un percorso che risente dei diversi momenti di crescita, dei conseguenti cambiamenti del bambino e delle opportunità e difficoltà dei singoli (padre, madre, fratelli, sorelle, famiglia allargata) ...Book: 2020. |
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1728 Journal Article: Psycho-Oncology, 2019. |
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1787 Early maladaptive schemas in overweight and obesity: A schema mode model ABSTRACT: Obesity is a growing burden in our societies and, although different kinds of treatments are effective in the short time, weight gain often reoccurs in the longer period. One possible explanation might rely on the little comprehension of obese maladaptive schemas, as developed from early life experiences, which might interfere with treatment enduring efficacy. The aim of this study was to investigate early ...Journal Article: Heliyon, 5 , 2019. |
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1985 ABSTRACT: Objectives Literature indicates that positive feelings towards oneself and others are important assets for well-being. In this study we intended to test the mediational role of self-reassurance, self-hate and self-inadequateness on the relationships between depression and interpersonal forgiveness, avoidance and revenge, respectively. Methods Participants were 2105 adolescents (N= 979 boys; 1126 girls) ... Journal Article: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2019, ISSN: 1573-2843. |
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933 Emotion frst: children prioritize emotional faces in gaze‑cued attentional orienting ABSTRACT: Children shift their attention based on the gaze direction of another person but it is unclear whether they prioritize only the gaze of fearful faces over neutral ones or more generally, the gaze of emotional faces. School children performed a gazecueing task, in which central, non-predictive happy, angry, and neutral face-cues were briefy presented with averted gaze. Findings for 9–10-year-old children showed ...Journal Article: Psychological Research, 2019. |
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1695 Am I guilty or not? Deontological guilt, uncertainty, and checking behavior ABSTRACT: Literature suggest thet checking behaviors are aimed at reducing feelings of uncertainty both in clinical samples with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in general population. Previous studies also showed that deontological guilt is an emotion often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate the differences in checking behaviors in the condition of high ...Journal Article: Appl Cognit Psychol, 1 (9), 2019. |
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