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2020 | |
158 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. | |
110 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. | |
138 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. | |
2019 | |
419 Journal Article: Psycho-Oncology, 2019. | |
398 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. | |
514 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. | |
353 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. | |
737 Forgiving Adolescents: far from depression, close to well-being ABSTRACT: Forgiveness has been proven to be an effective way of regulating negative affect and decreasing depression. This study aimed at examining the relationship among constructs particularly relevant to adolescents’ well-being, including forgivingness (dispositional forgiveness) anger, depression and Hedonic Balance (HB). Specifically, using a structural equation modelling approach, the fully mediational role of the ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology , 10 , pp. 1725, 2019, ISSN: 1664-1078 . | |
557 ABSTRACT: Objectives: Our study was aimed at evaluating the efficacy and stability of the “Pie Technique”, “Cumulative Probability” and “Inverted Pyramid”, cognitive techniques applied in a clinical context to reduce overestimation of the probability of threatening events. Method: 319 healthy participants were randomly assigned to one of 8 groups. Groups differed on the level of trait anxiety (high vs. low), and ... Journal Article: Clinica, 16 (3), pp. 149-155, 2019. | |
670 Considering Sleep, Mood, and Stress in a Family Context: A Preliminary Study ABSTRACT: Background: During the first years of life, parental sleep strongly depends on child’s sleep quality. Poor parental sleep may relate to increased stress and negative mood. However, there is a lack of sleep studies focusing on all family members. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep, mood, and stress in mothers, fathers and children. Methods: Data were obtained from 65 parental couples and ...Journal Article: Clocks & Sleep, 1 (2), pp. 259-272, 2019. | |
772 Journal Article: Rassegna di Psicologia, XXXVI , 2019, ISSN: 1974-4854. | |
1174 Un modello cognitivo delle dipendenze affettive patologiche ABSTRACT: Una versione di questo articolo è stata pubblicata nel fascicolo 1 2019 della rivista Psicobiettivo Riassunto. Negli ultimi anni le dipendenze affettive come forma di sofferenza psicopatologica hanno raccolto sempre più attenzione, pur non essendo riconosciute fra i sistemi nosografici ufficiali. Il presente articolo ha l’obiettivo di definire il costrutto di dipendenza affettiva, tracciare il profilo del ...Journal Article: Psicobiettivo, 1 , pp. 43-58, 2019. | |
773 ABSTRACT: Abstract Objective Fear of recurrence is a crucial issue in cancer care. On the one hand, the increase of cancer‐survival rates and complexity of care is exposing patients to this type of fear. On the other hand, it is a distressing and recurrent psychosocial risk that affects quality of life and adherence to follow‐up. Patients should have access to targeted psychological interventions aimed at reducing or ... Journal Article: Psycho‐Oncology, 2019. | |
341 Two reasoning strategies in patients with psychological illnesses ABSTRACT: The hyper-emotion theory states that psychological disorders are conditions in which individuals experience emotions that are appropriate to the situation but inappropriate in their intensity. When these individuals experience such an emotion, they inevitably are compelled to reason about its cause. They therefore develop characteristic strategies of reasoning depending on the particular hyper-emotion they ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology , 2019. | |
2018 | |
1003 ABSTRACT: In this article we focus on hypomania and mania in bipolar disorder and, in all probability, only in some types of bipolar disorder. We deal with positive emotions, whose psychopathogenic role still receives too little attention in experimental and clinical psychology. We propose a hypothesis with regard to the psychological mechanisms involved in hypomanic and manic decompensation that posits in primis the ... Journal Article: Rivista di Psichiatria, 56 (6), pp. 317-323, 2018. | |
762 Schemas, Modes and coping strategies in obsessive-compulsive like symptoms ABSTRACT: Objective: Schema Therapy (ST) integrates cognitive-behavior therapy with emotion-focused, gestalt and object relations approaches. ST postulates that unmet emotional core needs in childhood play a role in the development of Early Maladaptive Schemas, that are maintained by dysfunctional coping strategies, and reveal themselves through specific modes. Ad hoc ST conceptualizations for personality disorders or for ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 15 (6), pp. 384-392, 2018. | |
883 ABSTRACT: In literature nothing is known about the clinical significance of Ultra High Risk (UHR) symptoms in children and adolescents with diagnosis of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). In this study, we examined the prevalence of UHR symptoms and their relationship with severity of obsessive–compulsive symptomatology, global, social, and role functioning, and level of associated depressive symptoms in a clinical ... Journal Article: Brain Sciences, 8 (10), 2018. | |
1094 ABSTRACT: The present work is the first of a trilogy of articles whose purpose, as a whole, is to present a theoretical conceptualization of OCD functioning, which results from the integration between the Cognitive Therapy model, as proposed by Mancini (2018), and the Schema Therapy Mode model. In particular, this first paper aims to synthetically present the cognitive model of OCD functioning. According to the frame offered ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2261-2277, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. | |
1035 ABSTRACT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been identified as the first choice treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Although a significant proportion of patients benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, another still fails to respond to CBT. To improve outcomes, new targets of intervention have been broadened, but no clear and comprehensive conceptualizations of the disorder have been suggested. In the last ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2278-2295, 2018, ISBN: 2152-7199. | |
1067 ABSTRACT: This final article is part of the trilogy presenting a possible integration of Schema Therapy (ST) and Cognitive Therapy (CT) in Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment. It aims at describing how experiential and cognitive based acceptance techniques might be applied to treat this psychopathological condition. In the first article published in this special issue ( Luppino et al., 2018 ) we reported the main ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2296-2311, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. | |
1087 ABSTRACT: Literature reviews have shown that trait-mindfulness is significantly correlated to emotional wellbeing, both in adults and in children. Particularly, being judgemental towards one's inner thoughts, feelings and sensations, and acting unawares, is associated with higher maladjustment. In the present cross-sectional study, we explored the role of the different facets of mindfulness in both anxiety and depression, ... Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 138 (2019), pp. 33-39, 2018. | |
710 Senso di colpa deontologico e senso di colpa altruistico: una tesi dualista ABSTRACT: Riassunto. In questo articolo intendiamo sostenere la tesi che esistano due sensi di colpa ben distinti fra loro: il senso di colpa deontologico e quello altruistico. Presenteremo quindi una tesi dualista, che si contrappone alle tradizionali tesi moniste che si ritrovano nella letteratura sulla colpa (vedi approccio intrapsichico o psicoanalitico vs. approccio interpersonale). Mostreremo come i due sensi di colpa ...Journal Article: Giornale italiano di Psicologia, 3 , 2018. | |
732 ABSTRACT: Riassunto. Oggetto del presente lavoro è una ricerca sul destino professionale dei diplomati nelle Scuole di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, dell’Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva (APC) e della Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva (SPC). Attraverso un’intervista on-line o telefonica sono stati raccolti dati su condizioni lavorative, esercizio della psicoterapia, vari indici di ... Journal Article: Giornale italiano di Psicologia, 3 , 2018. | |
1004 Moral Judgment and empathic/Deontological Guilt ABSTRACT: People often make complicated decisions to help or to punish perfect strangers. Harming someone or breaking some moral imperative is usually linked to feeling guilt, and several researches suggested the existence of two different kinds of guilt: altruistic/empathic and deontological. Aim Our study aimed to investigate the decision-making processes in moral and nonmoral judgments and assess how specific ...Journal Article: Psychological Reports, pp. 1-17, 2018. | |
1166 I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! ABSTRACT: The emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy participants were ...Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2018. | |
0 I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! ABSTRACT: The emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy participants were ...Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 20 , pp. 21-29, 2018. | |
157 Fairness is a more effective interpersonal motive than care for sustaining prosocial behaviour ABSTRACT: The present study stems from three general assumptions about prosocial behav-iour: a) that it has an evolutionary foundation; b) that it is sensitive to the inter-personal context in which it takes place; and c) that it can be supported by different values and motives. An experiment based on the Dictator Game (DG) was carried out, in which two groups of participants with different Social Values Orientation (SVO) ...Journal Article: Psychology, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. | |
1205 Investigating schema therapy constructs in individuals with depression ABSTRACT: Background: Schema Therapy (ST) has been applied to several psychological disorders. The aim of this study was to further corroborate Renner’s ST model for depression (2012), investigating maladaptive schemas, modes, and avoidant coping styles in a large non-clinical sample and in two sub-groups of subjects with high and low depression rates. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analyses were run on ...Journal Article: Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, 9 (2), pp. 214-221, 2018. | |
1364 ABSTRACT: Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) is a therapeutic technique that aims to reduce the distress associated with negative memories of early aversive experiences. It consists of prompting patients to rescript the autobiographical memory in line with their unmet needs. In recent years, ImRs was found effective in reducing symptoms of disorders such as depression, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic ... Journal Article: frontiers in Psychology, 9 (581), 2018. | |
962 ABSTRACT: Despite strong support for the effects of emotion regulation strategies (ERS) for maintenance of psychopathology, little is known about mechanisms involved in the use of maladaptive ERS, as people beliefs about their emotions. This review aims to understand the characteristics of the link between emotion beliefs and emotion regulation processes. First of all, the review examines main theories, researches, measures ... Journal Article: Giornale italiano di Psicologia, pp. 187-216, 2018, ISSN: 0390-5349. | |
1094 ABSTRACT: Objective: The close link between obsessive symptomatology, guilt and inflated responsibility is well documented, although one might suppose that guilt sensitiveness and dysfunctional beliefs about responsibility are rooted further in time. imagery with rescripting (iwr) is an emotion-focused technique that binds actual stressful emotions to past memories where similar feelings were activated. it is used to change ... Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry , 15 (5), pp. 299-305, 2018. | |
629 RELIABILITY, VALIDITY AND FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE COMPULSIVE ACQUISITION SCALE (CAS) ABSTRACT: Objective: Much research and theorizing suggest that compulsive acquisition is a central component of hoarding disease. The Compulsive Acquisition Scale (CAS; Frost et al. 2002) is a self-rating scale measuring the extent to which individuals acquire and feel compelled to acquire possessions. The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the CAS, in terms of reliability and construct ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 15 , 2018. | |
771 Journal Article: Neuropsychologia, 2018. | |
2017 | |
1301 Romanian immigrants in Italy: mental healt and potential protective and vulnerability factors ABSTRACT: We investigated the mental health, in terms of reported Axis I psychiatric symptoms, of a sample of Romanian Immigrants in Italy, using the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire (PDSQ). Moreover, we explored the association between psychological distress or specific disorders and a few demographic and cultural variables connected to the immigration process and identified as possible vulnerability/protective ...Journal Article: Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 59 , pp. 21-33, 2017, ISSN: 1584-5397. | |
1649 ABSTRACT: Several studies and clinical observations support the hypothesis that the obsessive activity is intended to prevent the possibility of being guilty, experience judged intolerable and unacceptable from such patients. This study fits into this line of research. Starting from the evidence that in most anxiety disorders there was a selective attention directed towards the stimuli inherent threat feared, we expected to ... Journal Article: Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, (41), 2017. | |
1257 ABSTRACT: Lo studio scientifico del perdono ha avuto inizio a partire dagli anni '80 del secolo scorso. La letteratura scientifica comprende ormai una mole molto ampia di ricerche sul perdono, lavori correlazionali, longitudinali e sperimentali. Una serie di studi correlazionali dimostra elevata correlazione negativa tra perdono e dimensioni di sofferenza psicologica: le persone che tendono a perdonare di più sono anche meno ... Journal Article: Rassegna di Psicologia, XXXIV (3), pp. 55-66, 2017, ISSN: 1125-5196. | |
2004 Schema Therapy mode model applied to OCD ABSTRACT: Objective: Schema Therapy (ST) places particular emphasis on affective experiences, therapeutic relationship and early life experiences. Ad hoc ST conceptualizations for specific psychological conditions, mainly focusing on personality disorders, have been suggested in the last decade. The aim of this study was to explore schemas, modes and coping styles in outpatients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 14 (6), pp. 407-414, 2017. | |
1504 ABSTRACT: Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events, although little is known about how pre-adolescents may beneft from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control ... Journal Article: Terapia psicológica, 35 (3), pp. 213-222, 2017, ISSN: 0716-6184. | |
 | 1469 Obsessive patients and deontological guilt: a review ABSTRACT: In line with the Appraisal Theories of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in this review we present some experiments aimed at demonstrating the role of fear of guilt in OCD. What kind of guilt do OC patients want to prevent? Several studies suggest the existence of two different types of guilt emotions, namely deontological guilt and altruistic guilt. This research suggests that the former, more than the latter, ...Journal Article: Psychopathology Review, 4 (2), pp. 155-168, 2017, ISSN: 2051-8315. |
1442 Forgiveness and religious practice: a study on a sample of Italian preadolescents ABSTRACT: In this study we examined the gender differences in self-reported forgiving behaviours in a sample of Italian preadolescents (aged 11 to 14 years), who were either involved or not involved in religious practises. Were asked 289 Catholic, Italian preadolescent students were asked about their involvement in the religious practises. They also completed measures of forgiveness, avoidance and revenge motivations. The ...Journal Article: Journal of Beliefs & Values, 0 (0), pp. 1-10, 2017. | |
1500 ABSTRACT: Extensive research has implicated identification with characters in mass media in the emergence of disordered eating behavior in adolescents. We explored the possible influence of the models offered by television (TV) on adolescents’ body image, body uneasiness, eating-disordered behavior, depression, and anxiety. Methods: Three hundred and one adolescents (aged 14-19) from southern Italy participated. They ... Journal Article: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2017. | |
370 La preclusione al gioco e le motivazioni dell'azzardo. Commento al caso clinico di Giulio ABSTRACT: l’ipotesi che guida la discussione di questo caso è che il gioco patologico, considerato come sintomo, suggerisca la paradossale impossibilità di accedere ad una dimensione interpersonale giocosa. Tale ipotesi viene sostenuta alla luce delle teorie “gemelle” dei sistemi emozionali di J. Panksepp e dei sistemi motivazionali di G. Liotti, nel tentativo di integrare le conoscenze relative alle cosiddette ...Journal Article: Psicobiettivo, XXXVII (3), pp. 157-162, 2017. | |
2016 | |
1040 “Don’t Play God!”: Is inaction Preference linked to obsessive compulsive characteristics? ABSTRACT: Objective: two kinds of guilt feelings have been postulated: altruistic and deontological. the latter seems to play a role in the genesis and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive Disorder (ocD) and to be linked to inaction choice in moral dilemmas. This paper aims to investigate whether inaction choices in moral dilemmas are specifically linked to obsessive-compulsive (OC) characteristics and to deontological ...Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 13 (6), pp. 122-129, 2016. | |
1740 Specific Beliefs about Emotions Are Associated with Different Emotion-Regulation Strategies ABSTRACT: Despite evidence pointing to the associations of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (ERS) with psychopathology, little is known about their underlying mechanisms. Coherently with cognitive models, this study tested the hypothesis that specific beliefs about emotions may be associated with difficulties in emotion regulation and the use of different ERS (reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, ...Journal Article: Psychology, 7 , pp. 1682-1699, 2016, ISSN: 2152-7180. | |
2458 Reducing the meta-emotional problem decreases physiological fear response during exposure in phobics ABSTRACT: Anxiety disorders may not only be characterized by specific symptomatology (e.g., tachycardia) in response to the fearful stimulus (primary problem or first-level emotion) but also by the tendency to negatively evaluate oneself for having those symptoms (secondary problem or negative meta-emotion). An exploratory study was conducted driven by the hypothesis that reducing the secondary or meta-emotional problem would ...Journal Article: Frontiers in psychology, (7), pp. 1105, 2016, ISSN: 1664-1078. | |
 | 60 Sulla necessità degli scopi come determinanti prossimi della sofferenza psicopatologica ABSTRACT: In this article one of the most signifi cant limits of Clinical Cognitivism is highlighted: the scarce relevance attributed to “goals” in explaining psychopathology. In the standard Clinical Cognitivism the role of beliefs and cognitive processes is highly stressed, while the role of goals in orienting the cognitive processes, and thus, in the development and maintenance of beliefs, is neglected. It is, in ...Journal Article: 13 (1), pp. 7-20, 2016. |
118 Association between Attention and Heart Rate Fluctuations in Pathological Worriers ABSTRACT: Recent data suggests that several psychopathological conditions are associated with alterations in the variability of behavioral and physiological responses. Pathological worry, defined as the cognitive representation of a potential threat, has been associated with reduced variability of heart beat oscillations (i.e., decreased heart rate variability; HRV) and lapses of attention indexed by reaction times (RTs). ...Journal Article: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10 , pp. 648, 2016, ISSN: 1662-5161. | |
3975 L’utilizzo della mindfulness con gli adolescenti ABSTRACT: Negli ultimi anni l’utilizzo della mindfulness per il trattamento di problemi psicologici in eta evolutiva e andato significativamente incrementando: sia nei disturbi esternalizzanti che nei disturbi internalizzanti puo essere effettivamente utile addestrare i ragazzi a lasciar andare i propri contenuti mentali, siano essi pensieri depressivi, ansiosi, o aggressivi, una volta che sono comparsi alla mente. In ...Journal Article: QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA, (39), pp. 83-98, 2016, ISSN: 2281-6046. | |
1313 Obsessive-compulsive disorder: the strength of psycological models of mental illness ABSTRACT: ...Journal Article: 13 (6), pp. 85-87, 2016. | |
2015 | |
1914 The two dimensions of the body representation in women suffering from Anorexia Nervosa ABSTRACT: A core symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe alteration of body representations. Evidence from somatoperception studies point to a generic disturbances of somatosensory components of body representations. Here we have investigated whether AN patients (N=18) and controls differed in the perception of tactile stimuli differently oriented along the body axes. We tested the hypothesis that patients perceive and ...Journal Article: Psychiatry Research, 230 (2), pp. 181-188, 2015, ISSN: 0165-1781. | |
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