Laura Migliorini
Biographic Data
| ID | 128305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Migliorini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Migliorini |
| SIGNATURE | MIGLIORINI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8148-6756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Welcome Home
Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, over 170,000 Ukrainian refugees have sought protection in Italy. In response to this emergency, thousands of Italian citizens opened their homes to host them, facing various challenges such as financial strain, disrupted routines, and emotional burden. This study examines the perceived community resilience of Italian host communities during the reception of Ukrainian refugees following the Russian att…
Building share identities through food
Food is an essential aspect of human culture, but industrialization and social change have led to changes in dietary preferences, resulting in what is now known as food modernity. The intertwining of different cultures through creolization has shaped new culinary traditions, highlighting the importance of typical foods. This study examines the social representations of typical food among young adolescents during early adolescence, a crucial perio…
Investigating Community Resilience and Social Support
Refugees forced to migrate to host contexts as a result of armed conflict often experience high levels of distress due to the multiple stressors to which they are exposed. From an ecological perspective, social support becomes a key factor in fostering community resilience, thereby promoting the well‐being of these individuals and buffering the effects of stress. The present study aims to investigate whether community resilience mediates the rela…
Food and eating practices in migration processes
Food exerts a profound influence on global social, economic, and cultural dynamics, particularly in the context of migration. There is a growing interest in analyzing the intricate interaction between food practices and migration, given the central role this connection plays in individual, family, and community experiences. Understanding this relationship is crucial to grasp the social, health, and identity-related consequences of transformed foo…
Foodscape walking as a research technique in psychology
In psychology, qualitative research is increasingly adopting methodological approaches that consider the body, space, and situated experience. Methods based on mobility are fundamental for delving into the subjective aspects and social processes of human experience. This article presents an innovative method called Foodscape Walking, which combines walking with exploring food practices in urban areas. This technique allows us to examine how migra…
Enhancing community resilience in the context of trauma
Community resilience increases collective capacity to enact change and restore communities following trauma. Using the Beyond the Bridge Project as a case study following the Morandi Bridge Collapse, we conducted 10 consultations with the Project Lead Group. We employed a stakeholder analysis, and ecological maps performed using the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit methodology. The findings highlight the involvement and categorization of …
Exploring outdoor initiatives as tools for youth engagement, inclusion, and environmental awareness
The role of community resilience as a protective factor in coping with mental disorders in a sample of psychiatric migrants
This result underscores the importance of perceived community resilience in mitigating the negative effects of mental disorders on subjective well-being. Perceiving one's community as more resilient seems to protect against the impact of mental disorders on subjective well-being. Our results support an ecological model of migrants' mental health that values the community and its resources in coping with mental disorders in the context of migratio…
Migration and community resilience
Investigating resilience from a community perspective is significant to understand how migrant populations cope with migration trauma, thereby enabling us to reduce its negative effects and promote adjustment in the host context. This scoping review aimed to evaluate psychological and social science literature concerning community resilience in migrant communities. We employed the PRISMA methodology to evaluate literature from different databases…
Suicide on Italian Instagram
Instagram is the social network with the largest number of adolescent users in Italy; it is also the social network with the largest number of suicide‐related posts. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in Italy in the 15–19 age group. This study aims to describe Italian posts on Instagram related to suicide and to investigate whether there are differences in the number of likes, comments, and hashtags in relation to the characteristics of…
Bridging cultures through food”
Owing to the Russo-Ukrainian War, many Ukrainians were forced to migrate, with 175,000 settled in Italy. Following this, several Italian families have offered to host refugees in their homes. The cohabitation of these two cultures has presented challenges and opportunities. In this context, food and culinary practices can represent a means of intercultural exchange. The present study explores the dynamics arising from the coexistence of Italian h…
Cumulative trauma and perceived community resilience
Communities affected by cumulative trauma can experience negative psychological reactions but also posttraumatic growth and community resilience, which promote adaptation and preparation for future traumatic events. This study aims to investigate the mechanisms that mediate the relationship between traumatic events and perceived community resilience. Participants were 118 Italian adults who experienced cumulative trauma and were recruited to comp…
Feeling Community During War
Community resilience among Ukrainian refugees
The paper present the community resilience approach to promoting refugees' integration and wellbeing and preventing the onset of psychiatric disorders, which could also be applied to Ukrainian migrants. Hosting refugees is a challenge also for the host community, which is called upon to deploy tangible and intangible resources that can promote community resilience and reduce risk factors for the development of mental health problems and psychiatr…
Exploring the Role of Birth Environment on Italian Mothers’ Emotional Experience during Childbirth
The physical environment is one of the factors that affect mother's experience of childbirth and psychological health. A woman's childbirth experience has been found to influence not only the mother's own health and future births but also the well-being of her child and family. The present study's objective was to investigate mothers' perceptions of spatial-physical humanization, affective quality of place, and emotions during childbirth. To achi…
Beyond the Family Fostering Experience
Research on the subjective experience of transitioning to adulthood among young people aging out of foster care is scarce. Accordingly, this study investigated 26 Italian care leavers’ self and personal history perceptions. Thematic analysis was conducted using in-depth interview data. Two major themes emerged—personal strengths that may lead to strong personal and relational adjustment, and difficulties related to a critical personal and relatio…
Navigating sense of home
Distance Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The study examined how 807 undergraduate Italian students coped with synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengths and weaknesses of online learning were collected via an electronic platform (SurveyMonkey) and then categorized by grounded theory analysis using ATLAS.ti 8.0 software. The results showed technical, practical, relational, organizational, and transformative features of online lear…
The Meaning of Home in Male Migration
We assessed the sense of psychological home among adult men ( n = 17; M age = 29.7 years old) who had experienced migration to Italy, focusing on the relationship between psychological home and the process of integration into the new country. Psychological home is a dynamic process in which people sense a safe and secure environment that ranges beyond the confines of a structured dwelling, a process which is reflective and which communicates one’…
Migrant perceptions of psychological home
Community dimensions and emotions in the era of Covid ‐19
Following an ecological perspective, reactions to a disaster-such as the COVID-19 pandemic-should be analysed in the interdependence between individual and community dimensions. The present study aims to analyse individual emotional dimensions (anxiety, joy, fear or depressive feelings) and their community dimensions (connectedness, emotional sharing and solidarity) with a longitudinal approach among university students from Italian universities.…
Social Workers and Families
Purpose: The present work addresses the transformation process occurring within the services for minors regarding the relationship with families. This qualitative study aims to explore family-centered practice (FCA) by analyzing the practitioner's perceptions of social work with families in daily practice in the context of Italian social welfare. Methods: The authors conducted six focus groups with 38 social services workers and used grounded the…
A Qualitative Study of Organizational and Psychosocial Factors in the Burnout of Italian Correctional Officers
Correctional officers (COs) are subject to the development of burnout syndrome. This investigation focuses on those factors that contribute to burnout syndrome in COs who work in Italian penitentiary institutions. Utilizing a qualitative methodology with 50 northern Italian COs, the study finds burnout to be caused by two types of factors, organizational and psychosocial. Notably, the results highlight feelings of anguish, sadness, and abandonmen…
A Study of Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Italy
Unaccompanied migrant minors
Community dimensions and emotions in the era of Covid ‐19
Following an ecological perspective, reactions to a disaster-such as the COVID-19 pandemic-should be analysed in the interdependence between individual and community dimensions. The present study aims to analyse individual emotional dimensions (anxiety, joy, fear or depressive feelings) and their community dimensions (connectedness, emotional sharing and solidarity) with a longitudinal approach among university students from Italian universities.…
A qualitative method to “make visible” the world of intercultural relationships
In recent decades, the study of intercultural relations and the complexity of relationships due to the migration phenomenon have become more important for social scientists to analyze. The aim of this article is to show that photovoice, a methodology that belongs to the field of participatory action research, can be a useful qualitative tool in social psychology to analyze intercultural relationships. This method offers participants the opportuni…
Daily Family Routines of Italian and Ecuadorian Immigrant Mothers in Everyday Life
This study compares Italian mothers' and Ecuadorian immigrant mothers' daily family routines. Thirty mothers took part in this investigation: 15 Italians ( M = 37.5 years, with ages ranging from 30 to 42 years) and 15 Ecuadorians ( M = 36.1 years, with ages ranging from 18 to 46 years and having lived in Italy for an average of 15 years), with children ranging in age from 4 to 8 years. The objective is to highlight the differences and similaritie…
A Study of Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Italy
Unaccompanied migrant minors
Photovoice and Interpretation of Pictures in a Group Discussion
The primary objective of this article is to contribute to the literature on the Photovoice method through analysis of its characteristics. The Photovoice visual methodology often employed in qualitative research in the frame of community psychology because it enables participants to express their ideas using pictures. This study aims to demonstrate the utility of Photovoice through presentation of evidence gathered during our study on immigration…
Feeling Community During War
Enhancing critical dialogue about intercultural integration
Bridging cultures through food”
Owing to the Russo-Ukrainian War, many Ukrainians were forced to migrate, with 175,000 settled in Italy. Following this, several Italian families have offered to host refugees in their homes. The cohabitation of these two cultures has presented challenges and opportunities. In this context, food and culinary practices can represent a means of intercultural exchange. The present study explores the dynamics arising from the coexistence of Italian h…
Cumulative trauma and perceived community resilience
Communities affected by cumulative trauma can experience negative psychological reactions but also posttraumatic growth and community resilience, which promote adaptation and preparation for future traumatic events. This study aims to investigate the mechanisms that mediate the relationship between traumatic events and perceived community resilience. Participants were 118 Italian adults who experienced cumulative trauma and were recruited to comp…
Giving a Face to Immigration and Integration Processes
This study used Photovoice to investigate the perspectives of majority youth in Italy about the immigration and integration processes. The participants were 99 Italian young adults living in two northwestern regions of Italy. Images produced by young adults and subsequent discussion focused on the benefits, challenges and possible solutions to foster intergroup integration. The proposed solutions involved intergroup contact, deepening knowledge o…
Social Workers and Families
Purpose: The present work addresses the transformation process occurring within the services for minors regarding the relationship with families. This qualitative study aims to explore family-centered practice (FCA) by analyzing the practitioner's perceptions of social work with families in daily practice in the context of Italian social welfare. Methods: The authors conducted six focus groups with 38 social services workers and used grounded the…
Motivations and Family Functioning of Foster Families in Italy
The aim of this paper was to investigate foster family care to better understand this unique care-giving context. The research objective was to understand motivation, family functioning, and individual attachment styles in foster families. Participants were 33 foster parents who completed a questionnaire that included the motivations for choosing foster care, the relationship with the birth family and with social service workers, a measure of fam…
Building share identities through food
Food is an essential aspect of human culture, but industrialization and social change have led to changes in dietary preferences, resulting in what is now known as food modernity. The intertwining of different cultures through creolization has shaped new culinary traditions, highlighting the importance of typical foods. This study examines the social representations of typical food among young adolescents during early adolescence, a crucial perio…
Beyond the Family Fostering Experience
Research on the subjective experience of transitioning to adulthood among young people aging out of foster care is scarce. Accordingly, this study investigated 26 Italian care leavers’ self and personal history perceptions. Thematic analysis was conducted using in-depth interview data. Two major themes emerged—personal strengths that may lead to strong personal and relational adjustment, and difficulties related to a critical personal and relatio…
La cotidianidad de lo familiar y las habilidades de los niños
Las rutinas y los rituales son un medio para organizar la cotidianidad y devienen el modo mediante el cual las familias explicitan creencias compartidas e identidades comunes.La creación y el mantenimiento de rutinas y rituales resulta un elemento central de la vida familiar y constituye una estructura de sostén para el desarrollo del niño. Lo cotidiano puede considerarse un factor de protección promotor del bienestar de la familia, que increment…
Enhancing critical dialogue about intercultural integration
Photovoice and Interpretation of Pictures in a Group Discussion
The primary objective of this article is to contribute to the literature on the Photovoice method through analysis of its characteristics. The Photovoice visual methodology often employed in qualitative research in the frame of community psychology because it enables participants to express their ideas using pictures. This study aims to demonstrate the utility of Photovoice through presentation of evidence gathered during our study on immigration…
Giving a Face to Immigration and Integration Processes
This study used Photovoice to investigate the perspectives of majority youth in Italy about the immigration and integration processes. The participants were 99 Italian young adults living in two northwestern regions of Italy. Images produced by young adults and subsequent discussion focused on the benefits, challenges and possible solutions to foster intergroup integration. The proposed solutions involved intergroup contact, deepening knowledge o…
Daily Family Routines of Italian and Ecuadorian Immigrant Mothers in Everyday Life
This study compares Italian mothers' and Ecuadorian immigrant mothers' daily family routines. Thirty mothers took part in this investigation: 15 Italians ( M = 37.5 years, with ages ranging from 30 to 42 years) and 15 Ecuadorians ( M = 36.1 years, with ages ranging from 18 to 46 years and having lived in Italy for an average of 15 years), with children ranging in age from 4 to 8 years. The objective is to highlight the differences and similaritie…
Family Routine Behaviors and Meaningful Rituals
Routines and meaningful rituals play an important role in the family dynamic system. During the past 30 years, migratory flow into Italy has been constantly increasing. Our aim was to explore the structure of daily life in order to understand and compare family functioning of migrant couples in Italy with the family functioning of couples who were born and bred in Italy. In our study there were 124 participants (31 Italian couples and 31 migrant …
A qualitative method to “make visible” the world of intercultural relationships
In recent decades, the study of intercultural relations and the complexity of relationships due to the migration phenomenon have become more important for social scientists to analyze. The aim of this article is to show that photovoice, a methodology that belongs to the field of participatory action research, can be a useful qualitative tool in social psychology to analyze intercultural relationships. This method offers participants the opportuni…
Reflections on Teaching Qualitative Methods Using Team-Based Learning
This research article as a part of larger study intends to explore the role of teaching qualitative methods is not easy and often represents a great challenge. In this work, we describe our experience of teaching a qualitative methods course for undergraduate psychology students. In this course, we used a Team-Based Learning (TBL) approach in which we had students cluster into small groups to enhance their education by having them become more act…
A Study of Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Italy
Unaccompanied migrant minors
Parental Competence in Italy
The migration experience could influence parental competence perception in immigrant parents. Within this framework the current work focuses on immigrant parenthood and whether a family’s migratory path could lead parents to feel less competent in their parental roles. The aim of the present study is to analyze perceptions of parental competence and family routines among immigrant and Italian parents during the middle childhood stages. The result…
Motivations and Family Functioning of Foster Families in Italy
The aim of this paper was to investigate foster family care to better understand this unique care-giving context. The research objective was to understand motivation, family functioning, and individual attachment styles in foster families. Participants were 33 foster parents who completed a questionnaire that included the motivations for choosing foster care, the relationship with the birth family and with social service workers, a measure of fam…
A Qualitative Study of Organizational and Psychosocial Factors in the Burnout of Italian Correctional Officers
Correctional officers (COs) are subject to the development of burnout syndrome. This investigation focuses on those factors that contribute to burnout syndrome in COs who work in Italian penitentiary institutions. Utilizing a qualitative methodology with 50 northern Italian COs, the study finds burnout to be caused by two types of factors, organizational and psychosocial. Notably, the results highlight feelings of anguish, sadness, and abandonmen…
Community dimensions and emotions in the era of Covid ‐19
Following an ecological perspective, reactions to a disaster-such as the COVID-19 pandemic-should be analysed in the interdependence between individual and community dimensions. The present study aims to analyse individual emotional dimensions (anxiety, joy, fear or depressive feelings) and their community dimensions (connectedness, emotional sharing and solidarity) with a longitudinal approach among university students from Italian universities.…
Social Workers and Families
Purpose: The present work addresses the transformation process occurring within the services for minors regarding the relationship with families. This qualitative study aims to explore family-centered practice (FCA) by analyzing the practitioner's perceptions of social work with families in daily practice in the context of Italian social welfare. Methods: The authors conducted six focus groups with 38 social services workers and used grounded the…
Distance Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The study examined how 807 undergraduate Italian students coped with synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengths and weaknesses of online learning were collected via an electronic platform (SurveyMonkey) and then categorized by grounded theory analysis using ATLAS.ti 8.0 software. The results showed technical, practical, relational, organizational, and transformative features of online lear…
The Meaning of Home in Male Migration
We assessed the sense of psychological home among adult men ( n = 17; M age = 29.7 years old) who had experienced migration to Italy, focusing on the relationship between psychological home and the process of integration into the new country. Psychological home is a dynamic process in which people sense a safe and secure environment that ranges beyond the confines of a structured dwelling, a process which is reflective and which communicates one’…
Migrant perceptions of psychological home
Community resilience among Ukrainian refugees
The paper present the community resilience approach to promoting refugees' integration and wellbeing and preventing the onset of psychiatric disorders, which could also be applied to Ukrainian migrants. Hosting refugees is a challenge also for the host community, which is called upon to deploy tangible and intangible resources that can promote community resilience and reduce risk factors for the development of mental health problems and psychiatr…
Exploring the Role of Birth Environment on Italian Mothers’ Emotional Experience during Childbirth
The physical environment is one of the factors that affect mother's experience of childbirth and psychological health. A woman's childbirth experience has been found to influence not only the mother's own health and future births but also the well-being of her child and family. The present study's objective was to investigate mothers' perceptions of spatial-physical humanization, affective quality of place, and emotions during childbirth. To achi…
Beyond the Family Fostering Experience
Research on the subjective experience of transitioning to adulthood among young people aging out of foster care is scarce. Accordingly, this study investigated 26 Italian care leavers’ self and personal history perceptions. Thematic analysis was conducted using in-depth interview data. Two major themes emerged—personal strengths that may lead to strong personal and relational adjustment, and difficulties related to a critical personal and relatio…
Navigating sense of home
The role of community resilience as a protective factor in coping with mental disorders in a sample of psychiatric migrants
This result underscores the importance of perceived community resilience in mitigating the negative effects of mental disorders on subjective well-being. Perceiving one's community as more resilient seems to protect against the impact of mental disorders on subjective well-being. Our results support an ecological model of migrants' mental health that values the community and its resources in coping with mental disorders in the context of migratio…
Migration and community resilience
Investigating resilience from a community perspective is significant to understand how migrant populations cope with migration trauma, thereby enabling us to reduce its negative effects and promote adjustment in the host context. This scoping review aimed to evaluate psychological and social science literature concerning community resilience in migrant communities. We employed the PRISMA methodology to evaluate literature from different databases…
Suicide on Italian Instagram
Instagram is the social network with the largest number of adolescent users in Italy; it is also the social network with the largest number of suicide‐related posts. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in Italy in the 15–19 age group. This study aims to describe Italian posts on Instagram related to suicide and to investigate whether there are differences in the number of likes, comments, and hashtags in relation to the characteristics of…
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Qualitative research (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works)