Claudia Venuleo
Biographic Data
| ID | 137388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Venuleo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Venuleo |
| SIGNATURE | VENULEO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salento |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2500-1766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people
Labels are frames that emphasize certain characteristics of a phenomenon while downplaying others. The mafia, widely recognized as a criminal organization, can also reveal much about the ways in which we give meaning to our life experiences. This study explores contemporary representations of the mafia among ordinary people in southern Italy. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, we collected open-ended responses from 587 participants about how …
It Is Time to Take Complaints Seriously? An Exploratory Analysis of Communications Sent by Users to a Public Healthcare Agency before, during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
Taking due account of users' perspectives is crucial for improving the quality of healthcare services. This study aimed to analyse the representations and evaluation criteria that users of a public health agency express towards care and treatment services and to explore whether and how the content and meaning of their communications varied according to pre-pandemic, pandemic or post-pandemic periods. A total of 501 communications sent to the publ…
The Covid-19 Pandemic from the Health Workers’ Perspective
Different scholars have emphasised the psychological distress experienced by health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there are almost no qualitative studies and we know very little about the everyday experience of this group. The present study’s goal was to explore how health workers interpreted the meaning of the pandemic crisis in their life. An online survey was available during the Italian lockdown. Respondents were asked to wri…
What Adolescents Have to Say about Problematic Internet Use
In this paper, the study presented is designed to gain a deeper insight into how adolescents describe, understand, and suggest dealing with Problematic Internet Use (PIU). Eight focus groups were activated with a total of 70 students from the 9th and 11th grades (Mean Age = 15.53 ± 1.202; Female = 44.4%) in four different schools in Southern Italy. A Thematic Analysis was applied to the verbatim transcripts, and seven macro-categories were identi…
Social Environment and Attitudes toward Covid-19 Anti-Contagious Measures
Social and cultural aspects (i.e., political decision making, discourses in the public sphere, and people's mindsets) played a crucial role in the ways people responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Framed with the Semiotic-Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT), the present work aims to explore how individual ways of making sense of their social environment affected individuals' perception of government measures aimed at managing the pandemic and the …
Supporting bereaved people
The COVID-19 outbreak has further highlighted the need to strengthen support networks to sustain grieving people. However, we know very little about the experience of those who, because of their emotional connection with the bereaved person or of their social function, find themselves supporting people in grief. The current study aimed to analyze the experience of grievers' informal support providers (relatives and friends, teachers, religious le…
Discourses on Addiction among Gamblers and Drug Users in Treatment. An Analysis of the Interviews through Constrained Correspondence Analysis
Liminal transitions in a semiotic key
This article proposes a reading of liminal transitions in semiotic terms; that is, as a byproduct of the dynamics of sensemaking consisting of how two components of meaning interact: the observable side of meaning ( Significance in Praesentia)—the rupture directly experienced by the interpreter—and a further generalized meaning—the semiotic scenario ( Significance in Absentia), which makes the lived experience interpretable. Due to its pre-semant…
Towards a cultural understanding of addictive behaviours. The image of the social environment among problem gamblers, drinkers, internet users and smokers
The current study examines whether cultural differences in the way of interpreting the social environment affect the probability of different kinds of addictive behaviours. Subjective cultures of the social environment were detected through the questionnaire on the Interpretation of the Social Environment (ISE) in a convenience sample of 771 participants from Italy. Problem gambling, drinking, internet use and smoking were assessed. A problem gro…
Educational subculture and dropping out in higher education
The paper tests longitudinally the hypothesis that educational subcultures in terms of which students interpret their role and their educational setting affect the probability of dropping out of higher education. A logistic regression model was performed to predict drop out at the beginning of the second academic year for the 823 freshmen of a three-year bachelor degree in psychology at an Italian university. The model uses both measures of stude…
Unplanned reaction or something else? The role of subjective cultures in hazardous and harmful drinking
Understanding the Role of Emotion in Sense-making. A Semiotic Psychoanalytic Oriented Perspective
Understanding the Role of Emotion in Sense-making. A Semiotic Psychoanalytic Oriented Perspective
Unplanned reaction or something else? The role of subjective cultures in hazardous and harmful drinking
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people
Labels are frames that emphasize certain characteristics of a phenomenon while downplaying others. The mafia, widely recognized as a criminal organization, can also reveal much about the ways in which we give meaning to our life experiences. This study explores contemporary representations of the mafia among ordinary people in southern Italy. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, we collected open-ended responses from 587 participants about how …
Understanding the Role of Emotion in Sense-making. A Semiotic Psychoanalytic Oriented Perspective
Unplanned reaction or something else? The role of subjective cultures in hazardous and harmful drinking
Towards a cultural understanding of addictive behaviours. The image of the social environment among problem gamblers, drinkers, internet users and smokers
The current study examines whether cultural differences in the way of interpreting the social environment affect the probability of different kinds of addictive behaviours. Subjective cultures of the social environment were detected through the questionnaire on the Interpretation of the Social Environment (ISE) in a convenience sample of 771 participants from Italy. Problem gambling, drinking, internet use and smoking were assessed. A problem gro…
Educational subculture and dropping out in higher education
The paper tests longitudinally the hypothesis that educational subcultures in terms of which students interpret their role and their educational setting affect the probability of dropping out of higher education. A logistic regression model was performed to predict drop out at the beginning of the second academic year for the 823 freshmen of a three-year bachelor degree in psychology at an Italian university. The model uses both measures of stude…
Liminal transitions in a semiotic key
This article proposes a reading of liminal transitions in semiotic terms; that is, as a byproduct of the dynamics of sensemaking consisting of how two components of meaning interact: the observable side of meaning ( Significance in Praesentia)—the rupture directly experienced by the interpreter—and a further generalized meaning—the semiotic scenario ( Significance in Absentia), which makes the lived experience interpretable. Due to its pre-semant…
Discourses on Addiction among Gamblers and Drug Users in Treatment. An Analysis of the Interviews through Constrained Correspondence Analysis
The Covid-19 Pandemic from the Health Workers’ Perspective
Different scholars have emphasised the psychological distress experienced by health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there are almost no qualitative studies and we know very little about the everyday experience of this group. The present study’s goal was to explore how health workers interpreted the meaning of the pandemic crisis in their life. An online survey was available during the Italian lockdown. Respondents were asked to wri…
What Adolescents Have to Say about Problematic Internet Use
In this paper, the study presented is designed to gain a deeper insight into how adolescents describe, understand, and suggest dealing with Problematic Internet Use (PIU). Eight focus groups were activated with a total of 70 students from the 9th and 11th grades (Mean Age = 15.53 ± 1.202; Female = 44.4%) in four different schools in Southern Italy. A Thematic Analysis was applied to the verbatim transcripts, and seven macro-categories were identi…
Social Environment and Attitudes toward Covid-19 Anti-Contagious Measures
Social and cultural aspects (i.e., political decision making, discourses in the public sphere, and people's mindsets) played a crucial role in the ways people responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Framed with the Semiotic-Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT), the present work aims to explore how individual ways of making sense of their social environment affected individuals' perception of government measures aimed at managing the pandemic and the …
Supporting bereaved people
The COVID-19 outbreak has further highlighted the need to strengthen support networks to sustain grieving people. However, we know very little about the experience of those who, because of their emotional connection with the bereaved person or of their social function, find themselves supporting people in grief. The current study aimed to analyze the experience of grievers' informal support providers (relatives and friends, teachers, religious le…
It Is Time to Take Complaints Seriously? An Exploratory Analysis of Communications Sent by Users to a Public Healthcare Agency before, during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
Taking due account of users' perspectives is crucial for improving the quality of healthcare services. This study aimed to analyse the representations and evaluation criteria that users of a public health agency express towards care and treatment services and to explore whether and how the content and meaning of their communications varied according to pre-pandemic, pandemic or post-pandemic periods. A total of 501 communications sent to the publ…
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people
Labels are frames that emphasize certain characteristics of a phenomenon while downplaying others. The mafia, widely recognized as a criminal organization, can also reveal much about the ways in which we give meaning to our life experiences. This study explores contemporary representations of the mafia among ordinary people in southern Italy. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, we collected open-ended responses from 587 participants about how …
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Pandemic (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Representations and Identity (4 works)