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This study reconstructed London’ (UK) place identity in young Italian immigrants who have settled in this metropolitan city. The aim was to detect their representation of the hosting society and to investigate their migration experience. Interviews to 10 young Italian migrants (mean age: 27.7; SD: 4.084) were collected and analyzed through thematic analysis. The interviews showed that their individual and social identity had been influenced by the attitudes of the hosting context and its specific feature, highlighting the cultural richness of the town and its relational and work opportunities. Their hope for a decent job and the multicultural richness of the receiving town supported their settlement decision. However, their poor knowledge of the language and the little opportunity for effective acceptable decent work together with homesickness made this experience just a long-term temporary solution.
Fortuna Procentese; Laura Candice; Caterina Arcidiacono; Ciro Esposito; Immacolata Di Napoli. Place identity, hope and expectations of decent work in Italian youths moving to London. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 2021, 1 -17.
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Laura Candice, Caterina Arcidiacono, Ciro Esposito, Immacolata Di Napoli. Place identity, hope and expectations of decent work in Italian youths moving to London. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. 2021; ():1-17.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Laura Candice; Caterina Arcidiacono; Ciro Esposito; Immacolata Di Napoli. 2021. "Place identity, hope and expectations of decent work in Italian youths moving to London." Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community , no. : 1-17.
For decades, scientific literature has highlighted the discomfort and delay of the transition to adulthood of the young generations of southern Italy. This article examines the experience of the current young generation, strongly disadvantaged by structural factors of their environment, like crime and unemployment, and by a familistic culture. This study involved 160 young people (age range = 18-34; sd = 4.242) living in the metropolitan area of Naples. They were asked to describe their emotional relations with their community of belonging, their family bonds and their aspirations for the future. Data were collected qualitatively and analyzed through a psychological textual analysis (Emotional Textual Analysis) aimed at capturing the emotionality through which these youths attribute meaning to their reality and make decisions. Results show a generation left alone with its goals; in fact, the presence of crime inhibits the ability to plan the future, while the family of origin is mostly focused on keeping the younger generations inside to defend themselves against the instability of the outside world. In these circumstances, relations with peers and higher education function exclusively as a condition of pervasive presentification, in which to continue living within the role of eternal young people and students.
Agostino Carbone; Immacolata Di Napoli; Fortuna Procentese; Caterina Arcidiacono. Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy. Journal of Youth Studies 2021, 1 -20.
AMA StyleAgostino Carbone, Immacolata Di Napoli, Fortuna Procentese, Caterina Arcidiacono. Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy. Journal of Youth Studies. 2021; ():1-20.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAgostino Carbone; Immacolata Di Napoli; Fortuna Procentese; Caterina Arcidiacono. 2021. "Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy." Journal of Youth Studies , no. : 1-20.
The present article introduces the issue migration in the context: perspectives, methodology, and cultural issues. International migrations and their changing patterns pose new challenges to community social psychologists and new questions to be explored. Community psychologists’ attention is necessary to develop a perspective about migration more suitable to effective interventions in global and local communities. Therefore, methods aimed at study migration issues should be implemented at micro-system, community, and national levels. Through this series of papers, we aim to contribute to the debate about how social and community psychologists can engage in community development strategies aimed at improving migrant well-being too. Indeed, they can give relevant contributions to the deepening of migration issues through research, methodologies, and interventions in different contexts and at different levels of analysis.
Fortuna Procentese; Laura Migliorini. Migration in the context: Perspectives, methodologies, and cultural issues. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 2021, 1 -7.
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Laura Migliorini. Migration in the context: Perspectives, methodologies, and cultural issues. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. 2021; ():1-7.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Laura Migliorini. 2021. "Migration in the context: Perspectives, methodologies, and cultural issues." Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community , no. : 1-7.
In recent months, Italian citizens have alternatively experienced a forced, total or partial, loss of their opportunities to go out and meet their social network or their reduction, according to the restrictions locally needed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. The effects of these unprecedented circumstances and restrictions on their local community experience are still to be deepened. Consequently, this study investigated young citizens’ experiences of and attitudes towards their local communities of belonging after ten months of alternatively strict and partially eased restrictions. The World Café methodology was used to favor the exchange of ideas and open new viewpoints among participants. What emerged suggests that the communities of belonging may have worked as anchors to which young citizens clung as an attempt not to be overwhelmed by the disorientation brought about by the loss of their daily life (e.g., routines, life places, face-to-face sociability). On the one hand, this suggests that a renewed focus on local communities and a more involved way of living in them may stem from this tough time. On the other hand, these results point out the need for more meaningful and actively engaged people–community relationships as drivers for recovery processes under emergency circumstances.
Flora Gatti; Fortuna Procentese. Local Community Experience as an Anchor Sustaining Reorientation Processes during COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4385 .
AMA StyleFlora Gatti, Fortuna Procentese. Local Community Experience as an Anchor Sustaining Reorientation Processes during COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4385.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlora Gatti; Fortuna Procentese. 2021. "Local Community Experience as an Anchor Sustaining Reorientation Processes during COVID-19 Pandemic." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4385.
In the Italian social context difficulties in remaining in the labor market characterizes working mothers, leading them sometimes to resign from their jobs. The aim of this research is to explore narratives of those women dropping out of the workforce during pregnancy and soon after childbirth and their experiences in these circumstances. The study analysed 30 interviews with working mothers with an average age of 35.4 years, living in Naples, Italy, who “spontaneously” left their jobs. Grounded Theory Methodology allowed a deeper understanding of these women’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences. The content of the interviews was categorized into 4 macro-areas: (1) The role of the family and of the working contexts, (2) Mothering and caregiving (3) Identity conflicts, and (4) The consequences of resignation. A sense of helplessness towards fulfilling maternal expectations, role assignments, and employers’ requests ultimately led to the individuals’ response to the requirements of motherhood. The narratives highlighted how respondents feel powerless and oppressed by the burden of guilt and feelings of ambivalence towards both work and motherhood and how all these subjective feelings were supported and had been induced by external social factors (discriminatory business strategies, organizational time management, lack of support services, familial cultural models idealizing maternity).
Valentina Manna; Fortuna Procentese; Immacolata Di Napoli; Caterina Arcidiacono. Helpless Mothers Dropping Out of the Workplace: The Italian Case of Voluntary Resignation. The Qualitative Report 2021, 26, 1179 -1199.
AMA StyleValentina Manna, Fortuna Procentese, Immacolata Di Napoli, Caterina Arcidiacono. Helpless Mothers Dropping Out of the Workplace: The Italian Case of Voluntary Resignation. The Qualitative Report. 2021; 26 ():1179-1199.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Manna; Fortuna Procentese; Immacolata Di Napoli; Caterina Arcidiacono. 2021. "Helpless Mothers Dropping Out of the Workplace: The Italian Case of Voluntary Resignation." The Qualitative Report 26, no. : 1179-1199.
The study aimed at exploring the relationship between basic human values and sense of community (SOC). Specifically, it aimed at identifying which types of values exert an impact, whether these values are consistent with SOC as a resource and responsibility (SOC‐R), and whether the values‐SOC/SOC‐R relations change according to some community characteristics (i.e., stability and cohesion). The 1,334 participants in the survey were based in different local communities and completed a self‐report questionnaire containing measures of values, SOC, SOC‐R, perceived community cohesion, and stability. Results revealed a consistent pattern of values‐SOC/SOC‐R relations that support each of the respective theories and confirmed that SOC and SOC‐R are two separate constructs. Values sustaining SOC/SOC‐R (i.e., self‐transcendence and conservation) were also shown to increase SOC/SOC‐R when communities were perceived as low in stability and cohesion. Finally, the implications and limitations of the study are discussed.
Terri Mannarini; Fortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti; Alessia Rochira; Angela Fedi; Stefano Tartaglia. Basic human values and sense of community as resource and responsibility. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 2021, 31, 123 -141.
AMA StyleTerri Mannarini, Fortuna Procentese, Flora Gatti, Alessia Rochira, Angela Fedi, Stefano Tartaglia. Basic human values and sense of community as resource and responsibility. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. 2021; 31 (2):123-141.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTerri Mannarini; Fortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti; Alessia Rochira; Angela Fedi; Stefano Tartaglia. 2021. "Basic human values and sense of community as resource and responsibility." Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 31, no. 2: 123-141.
In the face of emergency situations, such as a global pandemic, individuals rely on their personal resources, but also on community dimensions, to deal with the unprecedented changes and risks and to safeguard their well-being. The present study specifically addresses the role of individual resources and community dimensions with reference to academic communities facing COVID-19-related lockdowns and the changes that these have implied. An online questionnaire was administered to 1124 Italian University students. It detected their sense of belonging and of responsible togetherness with reference to their academic community through community dimensions, their student self-efficacy as an individual resource, and their academic stress—potentially stemming from studying in the middle of a pandemic. A multiple mediation model was been run with structural equation modeling. The results show that both the community dimensions associate with higher student self-efficacy and the sense of responsible togetherness, while also associating with lower academic stress. Moreover, student self-efficacy, in turn, associates with lower academic stress and mediates the relationships between both community dimensions and students’ academic stress levels. From these findings, the protective role that community dimensions can exert on an individual’s life becomes apparent. Building on this, further strategies should be implemented to reinforce personal and community resources in order to strengthen individuals against potentially stressful circumstances.
Fortuna Procentese; Vincenza Capone; Daniela Caso; Anna Donizzetti; Flora Gatti. Academic Community in the Face of Emergency Situations: Sense of Responsible Togetherness and Sense of Belonging as Protective Factors against Academic Stress during COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9718 .
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Vincenza Capone, Daniela Caso, Anna Donizzetti, Flora Gatti. Academic Community in the Face of Emergency Situations: Sense of Responsible Togetherness and Sense of Belonging as Protective Factors against Academic Stress during COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9718.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Vincenza Capone; Daniela Caso; Anna Donizzetti; Flora Gatti. 2020. "Academic Community in the Face of Emergency Situations: Sense of Responsible Togetherness and Sense of Belonging as Protective Factors against Academic Stress during COVID-19 Outbreak." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9718.
Social and health professionals facing gender-based violence in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) express feelings and thoughts closely connected to their place of work and the users of their services. However, research on professionals’ reflexivity and their implications has not been closely investigated. Therefore, this article will describe representations of IPV among social and health professionals facing gender-based violence as well as their personal feelings in accomplishing their job. Fifty interviews with health and social professionals were analyzed using grounded theory methodology supported by Atlas.ti 8.4. Five macrocategories will describe this phenomenon, leading to the final explicative core category that summarizes professionals’ attitudes toward it. Being “kept in check” among partners, partners and families, services, and institutional duties is the core category that best expressed their feelings. Therefore, implications for services and training will be further discussed.
Immacolata Di Napoli; Stefania Carnevale; Ciro Esposito; Roberta Block; Caterina Arcidiacono; Fortuna Procentese. “Kept in Check”: Representations and Feelings of Social and Health Professionals Facing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 7910 .
AMA StyleImmacolata Di Napoli, Stefania Carnevale, Ciro Esposito, Roberta Block, Caterina Arcidiacono, Fortuna Procentese. “Kept in Check”: Representations and Feelings of Social and Health Professionals Facing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (21):7910.
Chicago/Turabian StyleImmacolata Di Napoli; Stefania Carnevale; Ciro Esposito; Roberta Block; Caterina Arcidiacono; Fortuna Procentese. 2020. "“Kept in Check”: Representations and Feelings of Social and Health Professionals Facing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21: 7910.
Gender-based violence is a widespread phenomenon and pandemic that affects women’s lives. Many interventions have been activated for perpetrators, but the dropout rate is still high. In order to draw up guidelines for responsibly and sustainably dealing with the phenomenon, this study is aimed at investigating the professionals’ perception of the perpetrator as a useful element in designing innovative intervention policies. Open interviews were carried out with welfare and health professionals and the Grounded Theory Methodology was used to analyze the collected data. These results detect attitudes of social health personnel and their feelings of impotence towards gender-based perpetrators because of the emergence of an inevitable repetitiveness of the violent behavior, as well as the “normality of violence” in a patriarchal culture and its “transversality”. This reflective knowledge allows for the opportunity to develop best transformative attitudes toward the phenomenon. According to the results, it is urgent to establish an active and convinced alliance with the healthy part of the man, through specific prevention paths, in order to activate an authentic motivation for change and its sustainability.
Fortuna Procentese; Roberto Fasanelli; Stefania Carnevale; Ciro Esposito; Noemi Pisapia; Caterina Arcidiacono; Immacolata Di Napoli. Downside: The Perpetrator of Violence in the Representations of Social and Health Professionals. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 7061 .
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Roberto Fasanelli, Stefania Carnevale, Ciro Esposito, Noemi Pisapia, Caterina Arcidiacono, Immacolata Di Napoli. Downside: The Perpetrator of Violence in the Representations of Social and Health Professionals. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (19):7061.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Roberto Fasanelli; Stefania Carnevale; Ciro Esposito; Noemi Pisapia; Caterina Arcidiacono; Immacolata Di Napoli. 2020. "Downside: The Perpetrator of Violence in the Representations of Social and Health Professionals." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 19: 7061.
In light of rising concern about the coronavirus pandemic crisis, a growing number of universities across the world have either postponed or canceled all campus and other activities. This posed new challenges for university students. Based on the classification proposed in the Mental Health Continuum model by Keyes, the aims were to estimate university students’ prevalence of mental health during lookdown outbreak, and to examine the associations between mental health and, respectively, academic stress, self-efficacy, satisfaction for degree course, locus of control, COVID-19 risk perception, taking into account the level of information seeking about pandemic. Overall, 1124 Italian university students completed a self-report questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive and correlational analyses. Results showed that 22.3% of participants were flourishing, and levels of mental well-being appeared in line with normative values in young Italian adults; levels of academic stress were not significantly higher than those found in other student samples before the COVID-19 outbreak. Students with high levels of information seeking presented higher levels of well-being and risk perception. Results could be considered useful to realize training pathways, to help the university students to improve their well-being, post-pandemic.
Vincenza Capone; Daniela Caso; Anna Donizzetti; Fortuna Procentese. University Student Mental Well-Being during COVID-19 Outbreak: What Are the Relationships between Information Seeking, Perceived Risk and Personal Resources Related to the Academic Context? Sustainability 2020, 12, 7039 .
AMA StyleVincenza Capone, Daniela Caso, Anna Donizzetti, Fortuna Procentese. University Student Mental Well-Being during COVID-19 Outbreak: What Are the Relationships between Information Seeking, Perceived Risk and Personal Resources Related to the Academic Context? Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7039.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVincenza Capone; Daniela Caso; Anna Donizzetti; Fortuna Procentese. 2020. "University Student Mental Well-Being during COVID-19 Outbreak: What Are the Relationships between Information Seeking, Perceived Risk and Personal Resources Related to the Academic Context?" Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7039.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been declared a global epidemic by the World Health Organization. Although the attention paid to both the perpetrators and victims of gender-based violence has increased, scientific research is still lacking in regard to the representations of operators involved in interventions and management. Therefore, the following study explores how the representations of operators affect how gender violence can be managed and combatted through an ecological approach to this phenomenon, in addition to highlighting the roles of organizational-level services and their cultural and symbolic substrates. In total, 35 health and social professionals were interviewed and textual materials were analyzed by thematic analysis. The evidence suggests that services contrasting gender-based violence utilize different representations and management approaches. The authors hope that these differences can become a resource, rather than a limitation, when combatting gender-based violence through the construction of more integrated networks and a greater dialogue among different services, in order to make interventions designed to combat gender-based violence more effective.
Marcella Autiero; Fortuna Procentese; Stefania Carnevale; Caterina Arcidiacono; Immacolata Di Napoli. Combatting Intimate Partner Violence: Representations of Social and Healthcare Personnel Working with Gender-Based Violence Interventions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 5543 .
AMA StyleMarcella Autiero, Fortuna Procentese, Stefania Carnevale, Caterina Arcidiacono, Immacolata Di Napoli. Combatting Intimate Partner Violence: Representations of Social and Healthcare Personnel Working with Gender-Based Violence Interventions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (15):5543.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcella Autiero; Fortuna Procentese; Stefania Carnevale; Caterina Arcidiacono; Immacolata Di Napoli. 2020. "Combatting Intimate Partner Violence: Representations of Social and Healthcare Personnel Working with Gender-Based Violence Interventions." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 15: 5543.
Gender violence is generally conceived as a phenomenon concerning only adults. Nonetheless, it is also perpetrated within teenagers’ relationships, as many empirical studies have shown. We therefore have focused our attention on a non-probabilistic sample consisting of 400 adolescents living in Naples (Italy), to study the association between sexism and the justification of violent attitudes. Generally, sexism is recognised as a discriminatory attitude towards people, based on their biological sex. However, it is conventional to talk about sexism as a prejudice against women. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) for adolescents was used to evaluate the two dimensions of ambivalent sexism, i.e., hostile sexism (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS). Moreover, the questionnaire regarding attitudes towards diversity and violence (CADV) was administered to assess participants’ attitudes towards violence. A Partial Least Square–Second Order Path Model reveals that girls’ ambivalent sexism is affected more by benevolent sexism than hostile sexism. On the contrary, among boys, hostile sexism has a higher impact. Finally, benevolent sexist girls justify domestic violence more than boys do.
Roberto Fasanelli; Ida Galli; Maria Gabriella Grassia; Marina Marino; Rosanna Cataldo; Carlo Natale Lauro; Chiara Castiello; Filomena Grassia; Caterina Arcidiacono; Fortuna Procentese. The Use of Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling to Understand the Impact of Ambivalent Sexism on Violence-Justification among Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 4991 .
AMA StyleRoberto Fasanelli, Ida Galli, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino, Rosanna Cataldo, Carlo Natale Lauro, Chiara Castiello, Filomena Grassia, Caterina Arcidiacono, Fortuna Procentese. The Use of Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling to Understand the Impact of Ambivalent Sexism on Violence-Justification among Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (14):4991.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberto Fasanelli; Ida Galli; Maria Gabriella Grassia; Marina Marino; Rosanna Cataldo; Carlo Natale Lauro; Chiara Castiello; Filomena Grassia; Caterina Arcidiacono; Fortuna Procentese. 2020. "The Use of Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling to Understand the Impact of Ambivalent Sexism on Violence-Justification among Adolescents." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 14: 4991.
Witnessing domestic violence (WDV) is recognized by the Istanbul Convention as psychological abuse that has dramatic consequences on the psychophysical health of children. Therefore, professionals who form the support network for WDV victims play a very fundamental role. In order to draw up useful guidelines for services dealing with WDV, and to give children more awareness of supportive settings, this study analyzes WDV in the perception of health and welfare professionals to enhance their skills and strategies for contrasting gender violence. Sixteen Neapolitan specialists dealing with WDV children were interviewed. A theoretical intentional sampling was used. Narrative focused interviews were carried out, transcribed verbatim and analyzed through the grounded theory methodology, using the ATLAS.ti 8 software (Scientific Software Development GmbH, Berlin, Germany). We assigned 319 codes and grouped these into 10 categories and 4 macro-categories. The analysis of the texts led to the definition of the core category as “The Crystal Fortress”. It summarizes the image of the WDV children as described by the professionals working in contrasting domestic violence. In this structure the parental roles of protection and care (fortress) are suspended and everything is extremely rigid, fragile and always at risk of a catastrophe. It also symbolizes the difficult role of health professionals in dealing with such children and their families. For WDV children, protective factors guarantee solid development and supportive settings help them to learn proper emotional responsiveness and expressiveness and to develop their skills in talking with adults while avoiding negative consequences.
Stefania Carnevale; Immacolata Di Napoli; Ciro Esposito; Caterina Arcidiacono; Fortuna Procentese. Children Witnessing Domestic Violence in the Voice of Health and Social Professionals Dealing with Contrasting Gender Violence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17, 4463 .
AMA StyleStefania Carnevale, Immacolata Di Napoli, Ciro Esposito, Caterina Arcidiacono, Fortuna Procentese. Children Witnessing Domestic Violence in the Voice of Health and Social Professionals Dealing with Contrasting Gender Violence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17 (12):4463.
Chicago/Turabian StyleStefania Carnevale; Immacolata Di Napoli; Ciro Esposito; Caterina Arcidiacono; Fortuna Procentese. 2020. "Children Witnessing Domestic Violence in the Voice of Health and Social Professionals Dealing with Contrasting Gender Violence." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 12: 4463.
The central aim of the present research was to examine the psychometric properties of adapted versions of the sense of community (SOC) responsibility scale in three Italian samples. We examined the psychometric properties of three modified versions of the sense of community responsibility (SOC-R) scale. Consistent with the original scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the scale was unidimensional and exhibited excellent internal consistency. In addition, factor analyses revealed that SOC responsibility and SOC are two separate, albeit related, constructs. The results also provided evidence of the discriminant validity of SOC and SOC-R on key outcomes. Taken together, these results provide support for the Community Experience Model, which posits that community experiences are a function of resource and responsibility components, as well as for the adaptable nature of the SOC-R scale to the Italian context.
Gabriele Prati; Fortuna Procentese; Cinzia Albanesi; Elvira Cicognani; Angela Fedi; Flora Gatti; Terri Mannarini; Alessia Rochira; Stefano Tartaglia; Neil M. Boyd; Branda Nowell; Silvia Gattino. Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale. Journal of Community Psychology 2020, 48, 1770 -1790.
AMA StyleGabriele Prati, Fortuna Procentese, Cinzia Albanesi, Elvira Cicognani, Angela Fedi, Flora Gatti, Terri Mannarini, Alessia Rochira, Stefano Tartaglia, Neil M. Boyd, Branda Nowell, Silvia Gattino. Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale. Journal of Community Psychology. 2020; 48 (6):1770-1790.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGabriele Prati; Fortuna Procentese; Cinzia Albanesi; Elvira Cicognani; Angela Fedi; Flora Gatti; Terri Mannarini; Alessia Rochira; Stefano Tartaglia; Neil M. Boyd; Branda Nowell; Silvia Gattino. 2020. "Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale." Journal of Community Psychology 48, no. 6: 1770-1790.
Communication through social media characterizes modern lifestyles and relationships, including family interactions. The present study aims at deepening the role that parents’ perceptions about social media effects on family systems can exert within their family functioning, specifically referring to the relationship between collective family efficacy and open communications within family systems with adolescents. A questionnaire to detect the openness of family communications, the collective family efficacy and the perceptions about the impacts of social media on family systems was administered to 227 Italian parents who had one or more teenage children, and who use Facebook and WhatsApp to communicate with them. From the results, these perceptions emerge as a mediator in the relationship between the collective family efficacy and the openness of communications, suggesting that it is not only the actual impact of social media on family systems that matters but also parents’ perceptions about it and how much they feel able to manage their and their children’s social media use without damaging their family relationships. Thus, the need to foster parents’ positive perceptions about social media’s potential impact on their family relationships emerges. A strategy could be the promotion of knowledge on how to functionally use social media.
Fortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti; Immacolata Di Napoli. Families and Social Media Use: The Role of Parents’ Perceptions about Social Media Impact on Family Systems in the Relationship between Family Collective Efficacy and Open Communication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 5006 .
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Flora Gatti, Immacolata Di Napoli. Families and Social Media Use: The Role of Parents’ Perceptions about Social Media Impact on Family Systems in the Relationship between Family Collective Efficacy and Open Communication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (24):5006.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti; Immacolata Di Napoli. 2019. "Families and Social Media Use: The Role of Parents’ Perceptions about Social Media Impact on Family Systems in the Relationship between Family Collective Efficacy and Open Communication." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 24: 5006.
Background: Literature on pregnancy highlighted a large number of women abused by their partners, especially among low-income teenagers attending hospital for pregnancy check-ups. Pregnancy represents a key moment for diagnosing domestic violence. Method: This study explores health professionals’ perceptions and concerns about domestic violence against women in services dealing with pregnant women. The twenty-four interviewees were from an Obstetrical-Gynecological walk-in Clinic in the south of Italy. The textual data has been complementarily analyzed by means of two different procedures: Symbolic-structural semiotic analysis and Thematic content analysis. Results: What emerges is that the interviewees of the clinic do not regard the issue of domestic violence as a matter of direct interest for the health service. The clinic is seen as a place for urgent contact, but one where there is not enough time to dedicate to this kind of patient, nor an adequate space to care for and listen to them. Obstetricians and health personnel expressed a negative attitude when it comes to including questions regarding violence and abuse in pre-natal reports. Training for health and social professionals and the empowering of institutional support and networking practices are needed to increase awareness of the phenomenon among the gynecological personnel.
Fortuna Procentese; Immacolata Di Napoli; Filomena Tuccillo; Alessandra Chiurazzi; Caterina Arcidiacono. Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Concerns towards Domestic Violence during Pregnancy in Southern Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 3087 .
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Immacolata Di Napoli, Filomena Tuccillo, Alessandra Chiurazzi, Caterina Arcidiacono. Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Concerns towards Domestic Violence during Pregnancy in Southern Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (17):3087.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Immacolata Di Napoli; Filomena Tuccillo; Alessandra Chiurazzi; Caterina Arcidiacono. 2019. "Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Concerns towards Domestic Violence during Pregnancy in Southern Italy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 17: 3087.
Interventions for ending intimate partner violence (IPV) have not usually provided integrated approaches. Legal and social policies have the duty to protect, assist and empower women and to bring offenders to justice. Men have mainly been considered in their role as perpetrators to be subjected to judicial measures, while child witnesses of violence have not been viewed as a direct target for services. Currently, there is a need for an integrated and holistic theoretical and operational model to understand IPV as gender-based violence and to intervene with the goal of ending the fragmentation of existing measures. The EU project ViDaCS—Violent Dads in Child Shoes—which worked towards the deconstruction and reconstruction of violence’s effects on child witnesses, has given us the opportunity to collect the opinions of social workers and child witnesses regarding violence. Therefore, the article describes measures to deal with IPV, proposing functional connections among different services and specific preventative initiatives. Subsequently, this study will examine intimate partner violence and provide special consideration to interventions at the individual, relational, organizational and community levels. The final goal will be to present a short set of guidelines that take into account the four levels considered by operationalizing the aforementioned ecological principles.
Immacolata Di Napoli; Fortuna Procentese; Stefania Carnevale; Ciro Esposito; Caterina Arcidiacono. Ending Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Locating Men at Stake: An Ecological Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 1652 .
AMA StyleImmacolata Di Napoli, Fortuna Procentese, Stefania Carnevale, Ciro Esposito, Caterina Arcidiacono. Ending Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Locating Men at Stake: An Ecological Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (9):1652.
Chicago/Turabian StyleImmacolata Di Napoli; Fortuna Procentese; Stefania Carnevale; Ciro Esposito; Caterina Arcidiacono. 2019. "Ending Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Locating Men at Stake: An Ecological Approach." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 9: 1652.
This contribution explores the role that the Sense of Responsible Togetherness (SoRT) exerts with reference to Participation and Sense of Community. The study was conducted on a university campus, as campuses represent places where academic and community lives go hand in hand and the community is heterogeneous. A questionnaire with the SoRT scale, the Participation scale and the Italian Scale of the Sense of Community (SISC) was administered to 130 university students. SoRT had a significant indirect effect on the students’ Participation via their Sense of Community, suggesting that the promotion of individuals’ Sense of Responsible Togetherness within their community, along with the emotional and affective bond to it, may allow us to recover symbolic and physical spaces in which participation can be fostered. A need for and significance of interventions aimed at promoting collective actions within intermediate systems (groups, educational systems, work ones, etc.).
Fortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti; Annarita Falanga. Sense of responsible togetherness, sense of community and participation: Looking at the relationships in a university campus. Human Affairs 2019, 29, 247 -263.
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Flora Gatti, Annarita Falanga. Sense of responsible togetherness, sense of community and participation: Looking at the relationships in a university campus. Human Affairs. 2019; 29 (2):247-263.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti; Annarita Falanga. 2019. "Sense of responsible togetherness, sense of community and participation: Looking at the relationships in a university campus." Human Affairs 29, no. 2: 247-263.
The present study aims to deepen the relationship between people's loneliness and relational motivations toward people‐nearby applications (PNAs) use, within the uses and gratification framework. Indeed, due to the spread of indifference and mistrust toward other citizens, local communities and the relationships within them can leave some individuals’ social needs unsatisfied. An online questionnaire, including the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults—short version and the Cyber Relationships Motives Scale, was administered to 647 PNAs users (age: M = 26.76; standard deviation = 8.77); hierarchical regressions were performed. Individuals’ loneliness associated significantly with the search for love and the desire to meet new people when perceiving offline constraints, but not with the simple desire to meet new people. These results support the idea that PNAs could represent a mean to integrate the aggregation functions of local communities, allowing to find new people to meet nearby regardless of the constraints actually perceived. Being social relationships critical for individuals’ well‐being, understanding the unsatisfied individual needs underlying PNAs social uses and how these apps could be used within local communities could help in integrating people within their local communities and neighbourhoods again, fostering their well‐being too.
Fortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti. People-nearby applications and local communities: Questioning about individuals' loneliness and social motivations toward people-nearby applications. Journal of Community Psychology 2019, 47, 1282 -1294.
AMA StyleFortuna Procentese, Flora Gatti. People-nearby applications and local communities: Questioning about individuals' loneliness and social motivations toward people-nearby applications. Journal of Community Psychology. 2019; 47 (5):1282-1294.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFortuna Procentese; Flora Gatti. 2019. "People-nearby applications and local communities: Questioning about individuals' loneliness and social motivations toward people-nearby applications." Journal of Community Psychology 47, no. 5: 1282-1294.
Based on the ego-ecological approach, which views identity as deeply interconnected with the social environment via group memberships, this study reconstructed the psychosocial identity of a group of Sri Lankan immigrants who settled in Naples, Italy, with the aim of detecting resonances between their self-representations and the stereotypes circulating in the receiving society. Fifty-one Sri Lankan immigrants completed a shortened version of the Multistage Investigator of Social Identity (MISI) with the following two stimulus groups: “Sri Lankans” (i.e., ethnocultural identity) and “immigrants.” Analyses revealed an implication of the self in both groups (i.e., Sri Lankans and immigrants), with the represented immigrant self more negatively connoted than the ethnocultural self. The contents of the self-representations showed resonances with both the stereotypes associated with immigrants in Italian society and the specific stereotype associated with the Sri Lankan community, thereby empirically confirming that in the immigrant experience identity feels the effect of the attitudes of the receiving context.
Terri Mannarini; Fortuna Procentese. Identity and Immigrant Stereotypes: A Study Based on the Ego-Ecological Approach. Identity 2018, 18, 77 -93.
AMA StyleTerri Mannarini, Fortuna Procentese. Identity and Immigrant Stereotypes: A Study Based on the Ego-Ecological Approach. Identity. 2018; 18 (2):77-93.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTerri Mannarini; Fortuna Procentese. 2018. "Identity and Immigrant Stereotypes: A Study Based on the Ego-Ecological Approach." Identity 18, no. 2: 77-93.