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  1. Article ; Online: Local Community Experience as an Anchor Sustaining Reorientation Processes during COVID-19 Pandemic

    Flora Gatti / Fortuna Procentese

    Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 4385, p

    2021  Volume 4385

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords COVID-19 ; pandemic ; urban spaces ; urban sociability ; neighborhoods ; local community experience ; Environmental effects of industries and plants ; TD194-195 ; Renewable energy sources ; TJ807-830 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
    Subject code 710
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: Sensemaking Processes during the First Months of COVID-19 Pandemic

    Fortuna Procentese / Flora Gatti / Emiliano Ceglie

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 12569, p

    Using Diaries to Deepen How Italian Youths Experienced Lockdown Measures

    2021  Volume 12569

    Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about disruptive changes in individuals’ lives, breaking the established systems of meaning worldwide. Indeed, in the first months of the pandemic, with individuals being forced to stay at home for a prolonged time to ... ...

    Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about disruptive changes in individuals’ lives, breaking the established systems of meaning worldwide. Indeed, in the first months of the pandemic, with individuals being forced to stay at home for a prolonged time to contain the spread of the virus, the need to build new meanings to understand and face this crisis emerged. Building on this, the present study contributes to the understanding of how sensemaking processes were shaped in the face of COVID-19 collective trauma during the very first months of the pandemic. Hence, 36 Italian young adults aged between 21 and 25 submitted daily diary entries for two weeks (T1 was the third week of Italian National lockdown; T2 was the penultimate week before the ease of such stay-at-home orders), resulting in 504 texts. The stimulus was always “Could you describe your daily experience and feelings?”. The Grounded Theory was used. Thus, 15 categories emerged, grouped into three macro-categories. The core category was sensemaking as adaptation. Indeed, the sensemaking process seemed to be a strategy to adapt to the new circumstances related to the lockdown, facing the emotional, cognitive, and activation reactions such conditions by relying on coping strategies and the redefinition of primary as well as broader social relationships.
    Keywords COVID-19 ; pandemic ; social relationships ; sensemaking ; lockdown ; coping strategies ; Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  3. Article ; Online: University Student Mental Well-Being during COVID-19 Outbreak

    Vincenza Capone / Daniela Caso / Anna Rosa Donizzetti / Fortuna Procentese

    Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7039, p

    What Are the Relationships between Information Seeking, Perceived Risk and Personal Resources Related to the Academic Context?

    2020  Volume 7039

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords university students ; mental well-being ; risk perception ; COVID-19 pandemic ; self-efficacy ; locus of control ; Environmental effects of industries and plants ; TD194-195 ; Renewable energy sources ; TJ807-830 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
    Subject code 796
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  4. Article ; Online: “Kept in Check”

    Immacolata Di Napoli / Stefania Carnevale / Ciro Esposito / Roberta Block / Caterina Arcidiacono / Fortuna Procentese

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 7910, p

    Representations and Feelings of Social and Health Professionals Facing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

    2020  Volume 7910

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords IPV (intimate partner violence) ; gender-based violence ; social and health professionals’ feelings and thoughts towards IPV ; reflexivity ; specialized training ; treatments ; Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  5. Article ; Online: Academic Community in the Face of Emergency Situations

    Fortuna Procentese / Vincenza Capone / Daniela Caso / Anna Rosa Donizzetti / Flora Gatti

    Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 9718, p

    Sense of Responsible Togetherness and Sense of Belonging as Protective Factors against Academic Stress during COVID-19 Outbreak

    2020  Volume 9718

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords COVID-19 ; pandemic ; sense of responsible togetherness (SoRT) ; sense of belonging ; academic stress ; student self-efficacy ; Environmental effects of industries and plants ; TD194-195 ; Renewable energy sources ; TJ807-830 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  6. Article ; Online: Ending Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Locating Men at Stake

    Immacolata Di Napoli / Fortuna Procentese / Stefania Carnevale / Ciro Esposito / Caterina Arcidiacono

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 9, p

    An Ecological Approach

    2019  Volume 1652

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords intimate partner violence ; perpetrators ; child witnesses ; ecological approach ; domestic gender-based violence ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  7. Article ; Online: Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions and Concerns towards Domestic Violence during Pregnancy in Southern Italy

    Fortuna Procentese / Immacolata Di Napoli / Filomena Tuccillo / Alessandra Chiurazzi / Caterina Arcidiacono

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 17, p

    2019  Volume 3087

    Abstract: 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: ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords domestic violence ; health professionals ; pregnancy ; health department procedures ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 360
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  8. Article ; Online: Downside

    Fortuna Procentese / Roberto Fasanelli / Stefania Carnevale / Ciro Esposito / Noemi Pisapia / Caterina Arcidiacono / Immacolata Di Napoli

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 7061, p

    The Perpetrator of Violence in the Representations of Social and Health Professionals

    2020  Volume 7061

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords gender-based violence ; perpetrator repetitiveness ; health and welfare services ; representation ; taking charge of violence ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 300
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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  9. Article ; Online: The Use of Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling to Understand the Impact of Ambivalent Sexism on Violence-Justification among Adolescents

    Roberto Fasanelli / Ida Galli / Maria Gabriella Grassia / Marina Marino / Rosanna Cataldo / Carlo Natale Lauro / Chiara Castiello / Filomena Grassia / Caterina Arcidiacono / Fortuna Procentese

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 4991, p

    2020  Volume 4991

    Abstract: 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 ... ...

    Abstract 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.
    Keywords adolescents ; sexism ; violence legitimation ; Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling ; Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
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