Adriano Zamperini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 163208 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adriano Zamperini |
| NOMBRES | Adriano |
| APELLIDO | Zamperini |
| FIRMA | ZAMPERINI A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6800-170X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
PFAS Contamination and the Impacts of Environmental Turbulence
PFAS contamination represents a slow, invisible chronic technological disaster with documented long-term psychosocial impacts on affected communities. However, existing research has predominantly focused on toxicological and biomedical outcomes, leaving the lived experiences and narrative dimensions of contamination underexplored. This study investigates how residents of PFAS-contaminated communities experience and narrate environmental contamina…
Participant Experiences with Human Biomonitoring in Communities Affected by Chronic PFAS Environmental Contamination in the Veneto Region (Italy)
This exploratory study investigated how health concerns related to chronic environmental contamination and how satisfaction with the human biomonitoring (HBM) process influence the perceived quality of life in the context of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in the Veneto Region (Italy). We administered a questionnaire to 84 residents of the Red Area, where PFAS exposure is classified as most severe. The main findings revea…
Now you’re home’
Mobile dating apps (MDA) are popular for intimate encounters, but romantic rejection is common, and can drive surveillance using information from social media. Awareness cues convey digital information about others’ activities, but their link with rejection is underexplored. This study explores the uses of awareness cues in mobile dating applications (MDAs) in relation to rejection, social surveillance and post-digital safety. Using a 1-month dia…
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border
This paper explores undocumented migrants’ deaths, known as border-deaths, in the Mediterranean Sea by adopting liminality theory to memory and border concepts. Bordering, securitizing, externalizing, and militarizing policies have transformed the Mediterranean into the southern border of Europe. Consequently, the Sea has become a submerged cemetery where thousands of people have lost their lives. Particularly, the Italian Island of Lampedusa has…
Experiencing death and grief at the border
Dramatic consequences related to borders, such as migrants' deaths, disappearances and human rights violations, have increased since the 1990s. Several migration policies contribute to border violence, leading to traumatic mental health effects on migrants, their families and activists. The literature has overlooked the psychological, cultural and religious/spiritual experience of activists sharing the burden of migrants and their families' grief…
Contamination of Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Environmental Fight for Safe and Health
Some communities in the Veneto Region (Italy) are facing a major technological disaster due to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) pollution. In response to this serious problem, a group of ordinary mothers exposed to PFAS contamination came together under the name MammeNoPfas (MothersNoPfas) to address this environmental disaster moving towards activism. They started to develop the epistemic capacity to understand these substances and diss…
Bereavement and Critical Incidents Involving Healthcare Professionals in Italy During Covid-19
This exploratory research investigated the work of healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the major critical aspects, including healthcare providers’ needs as well as personal, professional, and social changes brought about by the pandemic upon both living and dying. In general, for many healthcare providers, the changes imposed by COVID-19 together with their inadequate training led to an excessive emotional load tha…
The Management of Voluntary Abortion in Family Counselling Services. A Qualitative Study on the Role of Social Workers in Italy
Introduction. Elective abortion has always been considered taboo. The event can sometimes be experienced as traumatic, as the woman finds herself struggling against a range of emotions: fear, shame, ambivalence, and a sense of guilt. Multidisciplinary support is therefore fundamental to guide women during this complex phase, and social workers usually play a key role in the process. The present study aimed therefore to explore the experiences and…
Minimum-Security Prison and Suicide Prevention. An Italian Qualitative Study on Spirituality and Social Reintegration
Suicide rates in prison are particularly high in Italy. Some initiatives have been accomplished to reduce this phenomenon, including minimum-security prison ( msp ) projects. This article considers the dimension of spiritual transcendence ( st ) in improving these programmes since few studies have considered st in msp s and in preventing suicide. The research used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and involved ten detainees from two struct…
Double blue ticks
Ghosting is a slang term associated with ceasing mediated communication to dissolve a romantic relationship. The phenomenon is discussed in popular culture and scientific inquiry in relation to digital communication technologies and mobile dating, but little is known about ghosting in other relationship types and the role of specific affordances. This study investigated personal experiences of ghosting with an abductive approach to consider alter…
Competent Witnesses
A new and deeper awareness of the suffering of the current Italian penitentiary system emerged, together with courageous reform proposals that can restore dignity and centrality to the re-education of the detainees, preventing further future violence
A “Viral Epistolary” and Psychosocial Spirituality
Mental Health in Prison
(1) Background: The Italian Constitutional Court's decision n. 99/2019 abolished the distinction between physical and psychological health care in the Italian prison system. However, this and other changes to the penitentiary system present challenges to prison staff, which may vary based on their roles and backgrounds; (2) Purpose: To create a process of dialogue and collaboration that include different points of view, needs, and proposals regar…
Burnout, Reasons for Living and Dehumanisation among Italian Penitentiary Police Officers
The literature on burnout syndrome among Penitentiary Police Officers (PPOs) is still rather scarce, and there are no analyses on the protective factors that can prevent these workers from the dangerous effect of burnout, with respect to the weakening of the reasons for living and de-humanization. This study aimed to examine the relationships between burnout, protective factors against weakening of the reasons for living and not desiring to die a…
A struggle for definition
In recent years, literature in the field of trans studies suggested that there has been a widespread trend in academic debates about gender transitivity to produce monolithic conceptualizations of transness unable to account for the different gender experiences of trans individuals. This paper aims to provide a further contribution to debates in this area through an empirical investigation of trans narratives of identity and embodiment. Drawing o…
Work And Spirituality Among People With Asperger Syndrome
Spirituality and religiosity are important aspects of an individual’s psychology, but little is known about this dimension in people suffering from Asperger syndrome, and research on its relationship with work experience is rare. The main objective of this qualitative study is to report how 12 people with Asperger syndrome perceived their current or past jobs, focusing on the role of spirituality and religiosity, fear of death, and relationships …
Online reverse discourses? Claiming a space for trans voices
In recent years, online media have offered to trans people helpful resources to create new political, cultural and personal representations of their biographies. However, the role of these media in the construction of their social and personal identities has seldom been addressed. Drawing on the theoretical standpoint of positioning theory and diatextual discourse analysis, this paper discusses the results of a research project about weblogs crea…
The effect of death education on fear of death amongst Italian adolescents
This study describes the psychological effects of death education in reducing the fear of death in a large cohort of Italian adolescents. Following the constructs of "distal defenses" and "mortality salience" of Terror Management Theory, this research intervention also evaluated the proposition that spirituality and belief in an afterlife could provide an effective buffer against fear of death. Five hundred thirty-four Italian high school student…
Dignity as Wisdom at the End of Life
Self-Appropriation between Social Mourning and Individuation
Forgiveness and Blame Among Suicide Survivors
Testimony of terrorism
Despite the wide use of testimonies in collective memory of violent historical and political events, proper psychosocial studies addressing the process of becoming a testimony remain scarce. In the context of the massacre of Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, this study examines the biographical transition from victims to testimonies of people directly or indirectly involved in the event. Through the use of semi-structured interviews, 13 biographica…
Pet Loss and Representations of Death, Attachment, Depression, and Euthanasia
T Studies that have examined pet loss hypothesize that attachment, representations of death, and the belief in an afterlife for animals may \ninfluence owners’ bereavement and depressive outcomes. The following instruments were administered to 159 Italian participants recruited through \nsnowball sampling: the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS), the Pet \nBereavement Questionnaire (PBQ), the Testoni Death Representation Scale \n(TDRS), and…
Because Moms Say So
The aim of this study is to analyze the narratives of 17 lesbian mothers (10 biological mothers and seven social mothers) in order to outline the construction of their identities as parents, their affective relationships with the partner (social mother), and the relationships established with public agencies (school, neighborhood, family networks). Results show that lesbian maternity has strong political and social implications. In particular, ou…
Study like Italians do’ as a migration project
In this article we present ethnographic research conducted on students taking an Italian language and culture course in Lomé, the capital of Togo. We interacted with the students and participated in their school days. In addition to the interviews, we turned to Focus Groups in order to investigate certain crucial issues. Our research reinforces the idea that migration is a strategy of living, even before surviving, thanks to which many students f…
A “Viral Epistolary” and Psychosocial Spirituality
Self-Appropriation between Social Mourning and Individuation
The effect of death education on fear of death amongst Italian adolescents
This study describes the psychological effects of death education in reducing the fear of death in a large cohort of Italian adolescents. Following the constructs of "distal defenses" and "mortality salience" of Terror Management Theory, this research intervention also evaluated the proposition that spirituality and belief in an afterlife could provide an effective buffer against fear of death. Five hundred thirty-four Italian high school student…
Forgiveness and Blame Among Suicide Survivors
Pet Loss and Representations of Death, Attachment, Depression, and Euthanasia
T Studies that have examined pet loss hypothesize that attachment, representations of death, and the belief in an afterlife for animals may \ninfluence owners’ bereavement and depressive outcomes. The following instruments were administered to 159 Italian participants recruited through \nsnowball sampling: the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS), the Pet \nBereavement Questionnaire (PBQ), the Testoni Death Representation Scale \n(TDRS), and…
Online reverse discourses? Claiming a space for trans voices
In recent years, online media have offered to trans people helpful resources to create new political, cultural and personal representations of their biographies. However, the role of these media in the construction of their social and personal identities has seldom been addressed. Drawing on the theoretical standpoint of positioning theory and diatextual discourse analysis, this paper discusses the results of a research project about weblogs crea…
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border
This paper explores undocumented migrants’ deaths, known as border-deaths, in the Mediterranean Sea by adopting liminality theory to memory and border concepts. Bordering, securitizing, externalizing, and militarizing policies have transformed the Mediterranean into the southern border of Europe. Consequently, the Sea has become a submerged cemetery where thousands of people have lost their lives. Particularly, the Italian Island of Lampedusa has…
A struggle for definition
In recent years, literature in the field of trans studies suggested that there has been a widespread trend in academic debates about gender transitivity to produce monolithic conceptualizations of transness unable to account for the different gender experiences of trans individuals. This paper aims to provide a further contribution to debates in this area through an empirical investigation of trans narratives of identity and embodiment. Drawing o…
The Management of Voluntary Abortion in Family Counselling Services. A Qualitative Study on the Role of Social Workers in Italy
Introduction. Elective abortion has always been considered taboo. The event can sometimes be experienced as traumatic, as the woman finds herself struggling against a range of emotions: fear, shame, ambivalence, and a sense of guilt. Multidisciplinary support is therefore fundamental to guide women during this complex phase, and social workers usually play a key role in the process. The present study aimed therefore to explore the experiences and…
Dignity as Wisdom at the End of Life
Testimony of terrorism
Despite the wide use of testimonies in collective memory of violent historical and political events, proper psychosocial studies addressing the process of becoming a testimony remain scarce. In the context of the massacre of Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, this study examines the biographical transition from victims to testimonies of people directly or indirectly involved in the event. Through the use of semi-structured interviews, 13 biographica…
The impact of deployment on female Italian partners of peacekeepers
Recent international studies have confirmed that peacekeeping deployment of a parent exacts a toll on partner and family, but little is known about how deployment-related stress impacts on Italian military families. This study described a qualitative research design that focused on the impact of deployment on a group of wives and cohabiting of Italian peacekeepers. Using semistructured interviews, data were collected from 20 women. The findings w…
Because Moms Say So
The aim of this study is to analyze the narratives of 17 lesbian mothers (10 biological mothers and seven social mothers) in order to outline the construction of their identities as parents, their affective relationships with the partner (social mother), and the relationships established with public agencies (school, neighborhood, family networks). Results show that lesbian maternity has strong political and social implications. In particular, ou…
Study like Italians do’ as a migration project
In this article we present ethnographic research conducted on students taking an Italian language and culture course in Lomé, the capital of Togo. We interacted with the students and participated in their school days. In addition to the interviews, we turned to Focus Groups in order to investigate certain crucial issues. Our research reinforces the idea that migration is a strategy of living, even before surviving, thanks to which many students f…
The impact of deployment on female Italian partners of peacekeepers
Recent international studies have confirmed that peacekeeping deployment of a parent exacts a toll on partner and family, but little is known about how deployment-related stress impacts on Italian military families. This study described a qualitative research design that focused on the impact of deployment on a group of wives and cohabiting of Italian peacekeepers. Using semistructured interviews, data were collected from 20 women. The findings w…
Testimony of terrorism
Despite the wide use of testimonies in collective memory of violent historical and political events, proper psychosocial studies addressing the process of becoming a testimony remain scarce. In the context of the massacre of Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, this study examines the biographical transition from victims to testimonies of people directly or indirectly involved in the event. Through the use of semi-structured interviews, 13 biographica…
Pet Loss and Representations of Death, Attachment, Depression, and Euthanasia
T Studies that have examined pet loss hypothesize that attachment, representations of death, and the belief in an afterlife for animals may \ninfluence owners’ bereavement and depressive outcomes. The following instruments were administered to 159 Italian participants recruited through \nsnowball sampling: the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (LAPS), the Pet \nBereavement Questionnaire (PBQ), the Testoni Death Representation Scale \n(TDRS), and…
Forgiveness and Blame Among Suicide Survivors
Work And Spirituality Among People With Asperger Syndrome
Spirituality and religiosity are important aspects of an individual’s psychology, but little is known about this dimension in people suffering from Asperger syndrome, and research on its relationship with work experience is rare. The main objective of this qualitative study is to report how 12 people with Asperger syndrome perceived their current or past jobs, focusing on the role of spirituality and religiosity, fear of death, and relationships …
Online reverse discourses? Claiming a space for trans voices
In recent years, online media have offered to trans people helpful resources to create new political, cultural and personal representations of their biographies. However, the role of these media in the construction of their social and personal identities has seldom been addressed. Drawing on the theoretical standpoint of positioning theory and diatextual discourse analysis, this paper discusses the results of a research project about weblogs crea…
The effect of death education on fear of death amongst Italian adolescents
This study describes the psychological effects of death education in reducing the fear of death in a large cohort of Italian adolescents. Following the constructs of "distal defenses" and "mortality salience" of Terror Management Theory, this research intervention also evaluated the proposition that spirituality and belief in an afterlife could provide an effective buffer against fear of death. Five hundred thirty-four Italian high school student…
Dignity as Wisdom at the End of Life
Self-Appropriation between Social Mourning and Individuation
Burnout, Reasons for Living and Dehumanisation among Italian Penitentiary Police Officers
The literature on burnout syndrome among Penitentiary Police Officers (PPOs) is still rather scarce, and there are no analyses on the protective factors that can prevent these workers from the dangerous effect of burnout, with respect to the weakening of the reasons for living and de-humanization. This study aimed to examine the relationships between burnout, protective factors against weakening of the reasons for living and not desiring to die a…
A struggle for definition
In recent years, literature in the field of trans studies suggested that there has been a widespread trend in academic debates about gender transitivity to produce monolithic conceptualizations of transness unable to account for the different gender experiences of trans individuals. This paper aims to provide a further contribution to debates in this area through an empirical investigation of trans narratives of identity and embodiment. Drawing o…
Mental Health in Prison
(1) Background: The Italian Constitutional Court's decision n. 99/2019 abolished the distinction between physical and psychological health care in the Italian prison system. However, this and other changes to the penitentiary system present challenges to prison staff, which may vary based on their roles and backgrounds; (2) Purpose: To create a process of dialogue and collaboration that include different points of view, needs, and proposals regar…
Minimum-Security Prison and Suicide Prevention. An Italian Qualitative Study on Spirituality and Social Reintegration
Suicide rates in prison are particularly high in Italy. Some initiatives have been accomplished to reduce this phenomenon, including minimum-security prison ( msp ) projects. This article considers the dimension of spiritual transcendence ( st ) in improving these programmes since few studies have considered st in msp s and in preventing suicide. The research used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and involved ten detainees from two struct…
Double blue ticks
Ghosting is a slang term associated with ceasing mediated communication to dissolve a romantic relationship. The phenomenon is discussed in popular culture and scientific inquiry in relation to digital communication technologies and mobile dating, but little is known about ghosting in other relationship types and the role of specific affordances. This study investigated personal experiences of ghosting with an abductive approach to consider alter…
Competent Witnesses
A new and deeper awareness of the suffering of the current Italian penitentiary system emerged, together with courageous reform proposals that can restore dignity and centrality to the re-education of the detainees, preventing further future violence
A “Viral Epistolary” and Psychosocial Spirituality
Bereavement and Critical Incidents Involving Healthcare Professionals in Italy During Covid-19
This exploratory research investigated the work of healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the major critical aspects, including healthcare providers’ needs as well as personal, professional, and social changes brought about by the pandemic upon both living and dying. In general, for many healthcare providers, the changes imposed by COVID-19 together with their inadequate training led to an excessive emotional load tha…
The Management of Voluntary Abortion in Family Counselling Services. A Qualitative Study on the Role of Social Workers in Italy
Introduction. Elective abortion has always been considered taboo. The event can sometimes be experienced as traumatic, as the woman finds herself struggling against a range of emotions: fear, shame, ambivalence, and a sense of guilt. Multidisciplinary support is therefore fundamental to guide women during this complex phase, and social workers usually play a key role in the process. The present study aimed therefore to explore the experiences and…
Experiencing death and grief at the border
Dramatic consequences related to borders, such as migrants' deaths, disappearances and human rights violations, have increased since the 1990s. Several migration policies contribute to border violence, leading to traumatic mental health effects on migrants, their families and activists. The literature has overlooked the psychological, cultural and religious/spiritual experience of activists sharing the burden of migrants and their families' grief…
Contamination of Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Environmental Fight for Safe and Health
Some communities in the Veneto Region (Italy) are facing a major technological disaster due to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) pollution. In response to this serious problem, a group of ordinary mothers exposed to PFAS contamination came together under the name MammeNoPfas (MothersNoPfas) to address this environmental disaster moving towards activism. They started to develop the epistemic capacity to understand these substances and diss…
Participant Experiences with Human Biomonitoring in Communities Affected by Chronic PFAS Environmental Contamination in the Veneto Region (Italy)
This exploratory study investigated how health concerns related to chronic environmental contamination and how satisfaction with the human biomonitoring (HBM) process influence the perceived quality of life in the context of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in the Veneto Region (Italy). We administered a questionnaire to 84 residents of the Red Area, where PFAS exposure is classified as most severe. The main findings revea…
Now you’re home’
Mobile dating apps (MDA) are popular for intimate encounters, but romantic rejection is common, and can drive surveillance using information from social media. Awareness cues convey digital information about others’ activities, but their link with rejection is underexplored. This study explores the uses of awareness cues in mobile dating applications (MDAs) in relation to rejection, social surveillance and post-digital safety. Using a 1-month dia…
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border
This paper explores undocumented migrants’ deaths, known as border-deaths, in the Mediterranean Sea by adopting liminality theory to memory and border concepts. Bordering, securitizing, externalizing, and militarizing policies have transformed the Mediterranean into the southern border of Europe. Consequently, the Sea has become a submerged cemetery where thousands of people have lost their lives. Particularly, the Italian Island of Lampedusa has…
Psychology (23 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Qualitative research (10 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Psychotherapist (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras)