I am a clinical psychologist who has been working on young Italian adults' mental health for some years. I am particularly interested in risk and protective factors influencing phychological distress in this target. I am currently a PhD student in Mind, Gender and Language at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples "Federico II". Following an integrated mixed-method approach, my research project aims to (i) investigate the impact of contemporary traumatic events, i.e., wars and climate change, on young Italian adults' mental health and, in this respect, (ii) explore 'worry' and its relation with future representation, distress, and other phsychological variables (n°47/2023). Further research interests include medical trauma, individual and collective trauma, transgenerational transmission of (mainly, holocaust) trauma, construction and validation of psychometric scales, psychological assessment in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.