Donato
Biographic Data
| ID | 16110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donato |
| FAMILY NAME | Donato |
| SIGNATURE | DONATO |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8406-4604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Affairs of the heart: Couples coping with cardiac rehabilitation
Background: Cardiovascular diseases pose a challenge for patients, partners, and medical staff. This study aimed to explore how patient activation relates to partner reactions (pessimistic illness perception, overprotection, hostility, support for patient activation, dyadic stress appraisal, and common dyadic coping), as well as relationships with the healthcare team (clarity of information, satisfaction with medical staff, partner-doctor relatio…
From Family to Partnership: Intrusive Parenting and Couple Identity Through Dyadic Coping
To build a committed and stable couple relationship, young adults need to renegotiate ties with their family of origin; this is possible when parents refrain from intrusiveness. Intrusive parenting involves controlling and manipulative behaviors directed to children’s thoughts, feelings, and attachments, including mind-reading (i.e., presuming to know the child’s needs and thoughts), overreacting to events, and excessively interfering in problems…
Beyond the invisible. Young adult children of parents with mental illness: Exploring risks and resources
Objective This study explored risk and resources of children of parents with mental illness (COPMI). Background COPMI often face psychological distress and setbacks in education, careers, and relationships. They may take on premature parental roles due to limited professional support. Despite these challenges, there is scant literature on coping strategies and resources. Method This study of 40 young adult COPMI aimed to (a) explore risks like ps…
Women Entrepreneurship of Necessity: A Literature Review for the Analysis of Push and Pull Factors
This review investigates the pull and push factors that drive women towards necessity entrepreneurship, that is, starting a business out of necessity, as an alternative to adverse conditions (e.g., job loss, financial hardship, lack of autonomy). A literature review was conducted using the SPAR‐4‐SLR protocol to identify the main variables examined in existing research. Sixty‐eight articles published on this topic were selected and analysed throu…
Parents' dyadic coping, parent–child relationship quality, and children's emotional difficulties during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Although studies have highlighted the role played by couple and parental relationships for children's psychosocial adjustment, especially in challenging situations, research on these two relationship domains has largely developed separately and mostly focussed on negative couple processes. However, Family Systems Theory highlights how these subsystems are interconnected, and studies inspired by this theoretical framework provide evidence of how t…
Moving from "balancing" to "blending: The role of identity integration for working parents
Successful identity integration processes are fundamental for the well-being of working parents during stressful circumstances. In two studies we analyzed the associations between Parent-Work Identity Integration (PWII), workload, care-load, and parents' work problems in a sample of individual working parents in Italy ( N = 326 individuals; Study 1), and those between work-life conflict, task-sharing between partners, PWII, and parents' intention…
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
“Cardiotoxic” and “cardioprotective” partner support for patient activation and distress: Are two better than one
Family Resilience and Dyadic Coping during the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy: Their Protective Role in Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has dramatically worsened people's psychological well-being. Our aim was to examine for the first time the concurrent and longitudinal relations of family resilience with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and the moderating role of socio-demographics. For people having a romantic partner, we also explored whether family resilience and dyadic coping were uniquely related to well-being. One cross-sectional study ( N …
A scoping review on couples’ stress and coping literature: Recognizing the need for inclusivity
The study of romantic partners’ experiences of stress and coping has exploded with nearly 11,000 empirical studies on this topic within the past two decades alone. Despite its prevalence, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers alike are questioning how inclusive is our current knowledge base on partners’ stress and coping? The purpose of this review is to examine literature on this topic from the past two decades to offer perspectives on whos…
Perceptions of domestic and extra‐domestic environment during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in an Italian representative sample
Perception of domestic and extra‐domestic environment plays a key role in structuring reality, representing the boundary between private and public life. COVID‐19 pandemic led to changes both inside and outside domestic borders, modifying those reciprocal perceptions. The aim of this study was to assess perceptions of domestic and extra‐domestic environments after the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic on a representative Italian sample, and how suc…
Couples’ Functioning during Weekdays and Weekends at the Time of Covid-19
The present study was aimed at analyzing differences between weekdays and weekends in psychological well-being, relationship satisfaction, and dyadic coping, as well as their associations, before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Individuals in a couple's relationship completed an online questionnaire before (N = 76) and during (N = 50) the COVID-19 lockdown. With regard to the first aim, participants in the COVID condition reporte…
Workers' individual and dyadic coping with the Covid-19 health emergency: A cross cultural study
The aim of this study was to examine workers' psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic as a function of their individual coping, dyadic coping, and work-family conflict. We also tested the moderating role of gender and culture in these associations. To achieve this aim, we run HLM analyses on data from 1521 workers cohabiting with a partner, coming from six countries (Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, and Russia) characterized by va…
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in a large cross-cultural sample. We also test hypoth…
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution
Couples' experiences of daily stress can be detrimental for partners' individual and relational well‐being, specifically their identity as a couple, their relational satisfaction, and their life satisfaction. Grounded in the Systemic Transactional Model, this study aimed at analyzing factors that may safeguard partners and their relationship from detrimental effects of internal stress (i.e., stress that originates inside the relationship). We exa…
Yes, I can (with you)! Dyadic coping and self‐management outcomes in cardiovascular disease: The mediating role of health self‐efficacy
Cardiac patients show alarming levels of nonadherence to medications. It is important to consider also patient activation levels. Furthermore, the partner could have a supporting role in these processes. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of patient health self-efficacy (HSE) in the link between dyadic coping (DC) and two self-management outcomes (i.e. medication adherence and patient activation) across the first 6 months…
Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of Covid-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the "new normal"-social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transactional model this study posits that perceived partner dyadic coping may be an important moderator betwee…
Interparental Conflict on Italian Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Insecurity within the Family
Despite its importance, limited research has examined mechanisms underpinning how interparental conflict affects adolescents in Europe. Using a sample of 141 Italian families (mothers, fathers, and adolescents, Mage = 17.25 years, SD = 0.64), this study explores whether three types of adolescents' emotional insecurity, which describes adolescents' vulnerability to conflict, play a role in the association between interparental conflict and adolesc…
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Self‐concept clarity and relationship satisfaction at the dyadic level
Self‐concept clarity is an individual resource that is associated with couple relationship well‐being. In two dyadic studies, the authors investigated whether and how self‐concept clarity has implications for both partners' relationship satisfaction. Study 1 tested and supported the hypothesis that self‐concept clarity concurrently predicts own and partner's relationship satisfaction through couple identity in a sample of 202 dating couples. Stud…
The Paradoxical Influence of Stress on the Intensity of Romantic Feelings Towards the Partner
According to Brehmâ€TMs emotional intensity theory (EIT), the strength of feelings of romantic affect towards a romantic partner should vary as a cubic function of increasing levels of relationship stress (i.e., deterrence to feelings of romantic affect). The study tested this hypothesis in a true experiment with 80 young adults actually engaged in a romantic relationship, by systematically manipulating stress, through a recall procedure, across …
Keeping calm when riding the rapids: Optimism and perceived partner withdrawal
Partners often encounter situations in which their needs and preferences diverge. Partners sometimes prefer to be on their own and withdraw from interactions, and these situations can cause distress. We hypothesized that optimists may navigate such situations more adaptively. Using momentary assessment and questionnaire data from 103 couples, we examined how spouses responded to perceived partner withdrawal and whether optimism moderated these re…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Dyadic coping responses and partners’ perceptions for couple satisfaction: An actor–partner interdependence analysis
Applying the actor–partner interdependence model to 114 couples’ data, we examined the link between partners’ change in reported dyadic coping responses from 6 months before marriage to 12 months after marriage and change in the perceptions of the other’s dyadic coping responses, the role of these associations for partners’ change in relationship satisfaction, and the role of gender in these relations. Results highlighted both accuracy and projec…
Acquiring dyadic coping: Parents and partners as models
Using self‐reported data on dyadic coping from 153 premarital couples and their parents, this study investigates (a) how similar individuals are to their parents and partner and (b) whether parent–child similarities in dyadic coping vary as a function of child's gender and the type of dyadic coping model parents represent. Similarities were computed using an idiographic approach, and 2 components of dyadic similarity—unique and stereotypical—were…
Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of Covid-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the "new normal"-social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transactional model this study posits that perceived partner dyadic coping may be an important moderator betwee…
Dyadic coping responses and partners’ perceptions for couple satisfaction: An actor–partner interdependence analysis
Applying the actor–partner interdependence model to 114 couples’ data, we examined the link between partners’ change in reported dyadic coping responses from 6 months before marriage to 12 months after marriage and change in the perceptions of the other’s dyadic coping responses, the role of these associations for partners’ change in relationship satisfaction, and the role of gender in these relations. Results highlighted both accuracy and projec…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
Moving from "balancing" to "blending: The role of identity integration for working parents
Successful identity integration processes are fundamental for the well-being of working parents during stressful circumstances. In two studies we analyzed the associations between Parent-Work Identity Integration (PWII), workload, care-load, and parents' work problems in a sample of individual working parents in Italy ( N = 326 individuals; Study 1), and those between work-life conflict, task-sharing between partners, PWII, and parents' intention…
Workers' individual and dyadic coping with the Covid-19 health emergency: A cross cultural study
The aim of this study was to examine workers' psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic as a function of their individual coping, dyadic coping, and work-family conflict. We also tested the moderating role of gender and culture in these associations. To achieve this aim, we run HLM analyses on data from 1521 workers cohabiting with a partner, coming from six countries (Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, and Russia) characterized by va…
The Paradoxical Influence of Stress on the Intensity of Romantic Feelings Towards the Partner
According to Brehmâ€TMs emotional intensity theory (EIT), the strength of feelings of romantic affect towards a romantic partner should vary as a cubic function of increasing levels of relationship stress (i.e., deterrence to feelings of romantic affect). The study tested this hypothesis in a true experiment with 80 young adults actually engaged in a romantic relationship, by systematically manipulating stress, through a recall procedure, across …
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution
Couples' experiences of daily stress can be detrimental for partners' individual and relational well‐being, specifically their identity as a couple, their relational satisfaction, and their life satisfaction. Grounded in the Systemic Transactional Model, this study aimed at analyzing factors that may safeguard partners and their relationship from detrimental effects of internal stress (i.e., stress that originates inside the relationship). We exa…
Yes, I can (with you)! Dyadic coping and self‐management outcomes in cardiovascular disease: The mediating role of health self‐efficacy
Cardiac patients show alarming levels of nonadherence to medications. It is important to consider also patient activation levels. Furthermore, the partner could have a supporting role in these processes. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of patient health self-efficacy (HSE) in the link between dyadic coping (DC) and two self-management outcomes (i.e. medication adherence and patient activation) across the first 6 months…
Interparental Conflict on Italian Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Insecurity within the Family
Despite its importance, limited research has examined mechanisms underpinning how interparental conflict affects adolescents in Europe. Using a sample of 141 Italian families (mothers, fathers, and adolescents, Mage = 17.25 years, SD = 0.64), this study explores whether three types of adolescents' emotional insecurity, which describes adolescents' vulnerability to conflict, play a role in the association between interparental conflict and adolesc…
Acquiring dyadic coping: Parents and partners as models
Using self‐reported data on dyadic coping from 153 premarital couples and their parents, this study investigates (a) how similar individuals are to their parents and partner and (b) whether parent–child similarities in dyadic coping vary as a function of child's gender and the type of dyadic coping model parents represent. Similarities were computed using an idiographic approach, and 2 components of dyadic similarity—unique and stereotypical—were…
Perceived similarity and understanding in dyadic coping among young and mature couples
The study examined perceived similarity and understanding in dyadic coping among 197 young and 192 mature couples. Perceived similarity and understanding were computed through a dyad‐centered approach. To separate 2 equally important components of dyadic congruence (i.e., unique and stereotypical similarity) stereotype adjusted and unadjusted scores were computed. Results indicated that stereotype effects were higher among young couples than amon…
Dyadic coping responses and partners’ perceptions for couple satisfaction: An actor–partner interdependence analysis
Applying the actor–partner interdependence model to 114 couples’ data, we examined the link between partners’ change in reported dyadic coping responses from 6 months before marriage to 12 months after marriage and change in the perceptions of the other’s dyadic coping responses, the role of these associations for partners’ change in relationship satisfaction, and the role of gender in these relations. Results highlighted both accuracy and projec…
Keeping calm when riding the rapids: Optimism and perceived partner withdrawal
Partners often encounter situations in which their needs and preferences diverge. Partners sometimes prefer to be on their own and withdraw from interactions, and these situations can cause distress. We hypothesized that optimists may navigate such situations more adaptively. Using momentary assessment and questionnaire data from 103 couples, we examined how spouses responded to perceived partner withdrawal and whether optimism moderated these re…
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of…
The Paradoxical Influence of Stress on the Intensity of Romantic Feelings Towards the Partner
According to Brehmâ€TMs emotional intensity theory (EIT), the strength of feelings of romantic affect towards a romantic partner should vary as a cubic function of increasing levels of relationship stress (i.e., deterrence to feelings of romantic affect). The study tested this hypothesis in a true experiment with 80 young adults actually engaged in a romantic relationship, by systematically manipulating stress, through a recall procedure, across …
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Self‐concept clarity and relationship satisfaction at the dyadic level
Self‐concept clarity is an individual resource that is associated with couple relationship well‐being. In two dyadic studies, the authors investigated whether and how self‐concept clarity has implications for both partners' relationship satisfaction. Study 1 tested and supported the hypothesis that self‐concept clarity concurrently predicts own and partner's relationship satisfaction through couple identity in a sample of 202 dating couples. Stud…
Interparental Conflict on Italian Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Insecurity within the Family
Despite its importance, limited research has examined mechanisms underpinning how interparental conflict affects adolescents in Europe. Using a sample of 141 Italian families (mothers, fathers, and adolescents, Mage = 17.25 years, SD = 0.64), this study explores whether three types of adolescents' emotional insecurity, which describes adolescents' vulnerability to conflict, play a role in the association between interparental conflict and adolesc…
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in a large cross-cultural sample. We also test hypoth…
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution
Couples' experiences of daily stress can be detrimental for partners' individual and relational well‐being, specifically their identity as a couple, their relational satisfaction, and their life satisfaction. Grounded in the Systemic Transactional Model, this study aimed at analyzing factors that may safeguard partners and their relationship from detrimental effects of internal stress (i.e., stress that originates inside the relationship). We exa…
Yes, I can (with you)! Dyadic coping and self‐management outcomes in cardiovascular disease: The mediating role of health self‐efficacy
Cardiac patients show alarming levels of nonadherence to medications. It is important to consider also patient activation levels. Furthermore, the partner could have a supporting role in these processes. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of patient health self-efficacy (HSE) in the link between dyadic coping (DC) and two self-management outcomes (i.e. medication adherence and patient activation) across the first 6 months…
Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of Covid-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the "new normal"-social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transactional model this study posits that perceived partner dyadic coping may be an important moderator betwee…
“Cardiotoxic” and “cardioprotective” partner support for patient activation and distress: Are two better than one
Family Resilience and Dyadic Coping during the Outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy: Their Protective Role in Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has dramatically worsened people's psychological well-being. Our aim was to examine for the first time the concurrent and longitudinal relations of family resilience with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and the moderating role of socio-demographics. For people having a romantic partner, we also explored whether family resilience and dyadic coping were uniquely related to well-being. One cross-sectional study ( N …
A scoping review on couples’ stress and coping literature: Recognizing the need for inclusivity
The study of romantic partners’ experiences of stress and coping has exploded with nearly 11,000 empirical studies on this topic within the past two decades alone. Despite its prevalence, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers alike are questioning how inclusive is our current knowledge base on partners’ stress and coping? The purpose of this review is to examine literature on this topic from the past two decades to offer perspectives on whos…
Perceptions of domestic and extra‐domestic environment during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in an Italian representative sample
Perception of domestic and extra‐domestic environment plays a key role in structuring reality, representing the boundary between private and public life. COVID‐19 pandemic led to changes both inside and outside domestic borders, modifying those reciprocal perceptions. The aim of this study was to assess perceptions of domestic and extra‐domestic environments after the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic on a representative Italian sample, and how suc…
Couples’ Functioning during Weekdays and Weekends at the Time of Covid-19
The present study was aimed at analyzing differences between weekdays and weekends in psychological well-being, relationship satisfaction, and dyadic coping, as well as their associations, before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Individuals in a couple's relationship completed an online questionnaire before (N = 76) and during (N = 50) the COVID-19 lockdown. With regard to the first aim, participants in the COVID condition reporte…
Workers' individual and dyadic coping with the Covid-19 health emergency: A cross cultural study
The aim of this study was to examine workers' psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic as a function of their individual coping, dyadic coping, and work-family conflict. We also tested the moderating role of gender and culture in these associations. To achieve this aim, we run HLM analyses on data from 1521 workers cohabiting with a partner, coming from six countries (Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, and Russia) characterized by va…
Parents' dyadic coping, parent–child relationship quality, and children's emotional difficulties during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Although studies have highlighted the role played by couple and parental relationships for children's psychosocial adjustment, especially in challenging situations, research on these two relationship domains has largely developed separately and mostly focussed on negative couple processes. However, Family Systems Theory highlights how these subsystems are interconnected, and studies inspired by this theoretical framework provide evidence of how t…
Moving from "balancing" to "blending: The role of identity integration for working parents
Successful identity integration processes are fundamental for the well-being of working parents during stressful circumstances. In two studies we analyzed the associations between Parent-Work Identity Integration (PWII), workload, care-load, and parents' work problems in a sample of individual working parents in Italy ( N = 326 individuals; Study 1), and those between work-life conflict, task-sharing between partners, PWII, and parents' intention…
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Women Entrepreneurship of Necessity: A Literature Review for the Analysis of Push and Pull Factors
This review investigates the pull and push factors that drive women towards necessity entrepreneurship, that is, starting a business out of necessity, as an alternative to adverse conditions (e.g., job loss, financial hardship, lack of autonomy). A literature review was conducted using the SPAR‐4‐SLR protocol to identify the main variables examined in existing research. Sixty‐eight articles published on this topic were selected and analysed throu…
Affairs of the heart: Couples coping with cardiac rehabilitation
Background: Cardiovascular diseases pose a challenge for patients, partners, and medical staff. This study aimed to explore how patient activation relates to partner reactions (pessimistic illness perception, overprotection, hostility, support for patient activation, dyadic stress appraisal, and common dyadic coping), as well as relationships with the healthcare team (clarity of information, satisfaction with medical staff, partner-doctor relatio…
From Family to Partnership: Intrusive Parenting and Couple Identity Through Dyadic Coping
To build a committed and stable couple relationship, young adults need to renegotiate ties with their family of origin; this is possible when parents refrain from intrusiveness. Intrusive parenting involves controlling and manipulative behaviors directed to children’s thoughts, feelings, and attachments, including mind-reading (i.e., presuming to know the child’s needs and thoughts), overreacting to events, and excessively interfering in problems…
Psychology (22 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Coping (psychology (8 works) · Partner effects (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works)