Dina Guglielmi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1707301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Guglielmi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Guglielmi |
| SIGNATURE | GUGLIELMI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9482-7994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adaptation and validation of the institutional integration scale (IIS) in Italian university students
University student retention represents a critical challenge for higher education institutions worldwide. Social and academic integration are recognized as key predictors of students’ persistence, yet validated instruments to assess these dimensions in the Italian context remain absents. This study presents the adaptation and validation of the Italian version of the Institutional Integration Scale (IIS), specifically designed to measure universit…
A multiperspective study on the role of support and self-efficacy in middle school students using the CTCM method
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of parental involvement in students' academic success, reshaping family-school interactions. This study examines the relationship between parental support, self-efficacy, and goal commitment in middle school students, addressing gaps in early education research. Using the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, the study explores how parental support and students' self-efficacy influence goal commi…
Self-Perceived Employability and Psychological Well-Being Among Italian Students and Graduates: A Three-Wave Cross-Lagged Study
This study investigated the reciprocal relationship between self-perceived employability (SPE) and psychological well-being (PWB), a connection previously suggested by theory but not yet explored empirically in early career research. Drawing from the Conservation of Resources theory, we analysed the reciprocal effects between SPE and PWB. Using data collected from 376 Italian university students and graduates, we tested the hypotheses with the ra…
Transformational leadership and teacher satisfaction: The enhancing roles of professional development and learning program management
Currently, educational institutions are going through significant challenges across all EU countries. Therefore, school principals need an appropriate leadership style to support teachers through these obstacles, supporting them in their professional development and promoting their satisfaction. This study explores the relationship between transformational leadership and teachers’ job satisfaction through professional development attitudes. Moreo…
Exploring different types of university graduates: A latent profile analysis on career strategies and employability in the new labour market
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Primary headache in developmental age: A case-control study on the role of temperamental sensitivity, attachment dimensions, psychopathological symptoms, and relations with parents
Headaches are among the most common and disabling neurological conditions in children and adolescents. This study explores temperamental, relational, and psychological differences between preadolescents/adolescents with a headache diagnosis and controls. The sample included 83 headache patients (51 females; mean age = 13.00, SD = 2.52) and 279 controls (145 females; mean age = 12.65, SD = 1.36). Participants completed psychological assessments, w…
Motivation is not enough: How career planning and effort regulation predict academic achievement
Italy is among the EU countries with the lowest rates of college graduates. Preventing dropout rates, promoting better educational achievement and improving adult population well-being can all be accomplished by discovering factors that promote higher academic success. Thus, the current study’s goal is to investigate personal factors that may have an impact on academic achievement (in terms of grade point average [GPA] and number of exams passed)…
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement
The increasing demand for flexibility and adaptability among workers underscores the necessity to explore the outcomes of enhanced proactivity in employees. This study explores the role of job crafting and career competencies (i.e., knowing why, knowing how, and knowing whom) in the relationship between boundaryless career orientation and opposite indicators of subjective career success (i.e., work engagement and job insecurity). Data collected o…
Work Engagement: A meta-Analysis Using the Job Demands-Resources Model
Although the construct of work engagement has been extensively explored, a systematic meta-analysis based on a consistent categorization of engagement antecedents, outcomes, and well-being correlates is still lacking. The results of prior research reporting 533 correlations from 113 independent samples ( k = 94, n = 119,420) were coded using a meta-analytic approach. The effect size for development resources ( r = .45) and personal resources ( r …
The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students
For university students, perceived employability is gaining growing importance in dealing with occupational uncertainty. However, how perceived employability is shaped in the university setting is still under-researched. This study examines how support from university teaching staff influences perceived employability in a sample of Italian final-year university students. We draw on Conservation on Resources Theory to hypothesise a positive impact…
You’re Not Old as Long as You’re Learning: Ageism, Burnout, and Development Among Italian Teachers
The purpose of this study was to explore the buffering role of opportunities for professional development within the frame of the indirect relationship between workplace age discrimination (as a job demand) and job performance on a sample of N = 325 Italian teachers. Results of moderated mediation analysis indicated that emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between workplace age discrimination and impaired job performance. Furthermore, …
Development and Initial Validation of the Safety Training Engagement Scale (STE-S)
Safety training promotes safety at work, in particular through the use of engaging methods. This study introduces a newly developed measure of individual engagement in safety training, and aims to analyze the psychometric proprieties of the scale. The safety training engagement scale (STE) consists of five items pertaining to the trainee’s dedication and absorption in a safety training session. Two studies are carried out to analyze the validity …
Integrating Human Barriers in Human Reliability Analysis: A New Model for the Energy Sector
Human reliability analysis (HRA) is a major concern for organizations. While various tools, methods, and instruments have been developed by the scientific community to assess human error probability, few of them actually consider human factors impact in their analysis. The active role that workers have in shaping their own performance should be taken into account in order to understand the causal factors that may lead to errors while performing a…
A New Academic Quality at Work Tool (AQ@workT) to Assess the Quality of Life at Work in the Italian Academic Context
The present study provides evidence for a valid and reliable tool, the Academic Quality at Work Tool (AQ@workT), to investigate the quality of life at work in academics within the Italian university sector. The AQ@workT was developed by the QoL@Work research team, namely a group of expert academics in the field of work and organizational psychology affiliated with the Italian Association of Psychologists. The tool is grounded in the job demands-r…
Italian Validation of the 12-Item Version of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-12)
The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) has shown satisfactory validity evidence in several countries, with the 23-item version of the instrument reporting adequate psychometric properties also in the Italian context. This paper is aimed to present results from the Italian validation of the 12-item version of the BAT. Based on a sample of 2277 workers, our results supported the factorial validity of a higher-order model represented by 4 first-order fac…
Educational leadership and innovative teaching practices: A polynomial regression and response surface analysis
Purpose This study explores the factors that explain the adoption of innovative teaching practices within schools and how this is determined by the different perceptions of principals and teachers. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the self-other agreement to measure the difference between the principal and teachers' rating based on the responses of 255 principals and 10,415 teachers, applying polynomial regression with surface analysis…
The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Gender between Job Satisfaction and Task Performance
Job satisfaction (JS) is an indicator of individual psychosocial health. Consistent evidence showed that voluntary extra-role behavior in organizations, namely organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), can also contribute to individual psychological health. JS has been found to positively influence employees’ OCB, and both JS and OCB have been found to predict employees’ task performance (TP). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether…
The Impact of Learning Strategies and Future Orientation on Academic Success: The Moderating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy among Italian Undergraduate Students
Promoting academic success among undergraduate students is crucial for tackling the need to foster employability competencies. Low levels of academic attainment in higher education, along with the increasing number of persons participating in tertiary education, represent crucial trends, which need to be studied in order to develop efficient retention practices. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between relevant factors that…
Safety Doesn’t Happen by Accident: A Longitudinal Investigation on the Antecedents of Safety Behavior
Research recognizes the shared perceptions of the priority attributed to safety in comparison to other organizational goals (i.e., safety climate) as a potential antecedent of safety behavior among construction workers. This type of climate can dismantle barriers to the promotion of effective strategies to mitigate workplace hazards. On the other hand, the current understanding of the underlying process that links the perception of a safety clima…
Same Involvement, Different Reasons: How Personality Factors and Organizations Contribute to Heavy Work Investment
The academic literature has drawn a clear distinction between a positive form (i.e., work engagement) and a negative form (i.e., workaholism) of heavy work investment (HWI). Nevertheless, the different weight of individual and situational factors contributing to their development was not thoroughly explored. This study aims to investigate the role of individual variables (i.e., obsessive-compulsive traits, achievement orientation, perfectionism, …
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda”. Workers’ Proactivity in the Association between Emotional Demands and Mental Health
The present study aimed to explore the mediating role of hostile customer relations in the association between emotional dissonance and workers' mental health. Moreover, the moderating role of proactive personality as a buffer against hostile customer relations was assessed. Emotional demands become crucial within professions that involve a direct relationship with clients and, if poorly managed, can negatively affect workers' health and performa…
Improving Safety through Non-Technical Skills in Chemical Plants: The Validity of a Questionnaire for the Self-Assessment of Workers
This research is aimed at developing a questionnaire for the self-assessment of non-technical skills (NTS) leading to safety in the chemical sector and at analysing the properties of its scales in terms of construct validity. The research involved 269 Italian employees from three chemical plants of an international company, who occupied low−medium levels in the organizational hierarchy. Results showed a good level of validity and reliability of t…
Teachers’ sense of responsibility for educational outcomes and its associations with teachers’ instructional approaches and professional wellbeing
Individual Characteristics Influencing Physicians’ Perceptions of Job Demands and Control: The Role of Affectivity, Work Engagement and Workaholism
The first purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of individual characteristics, i.e., positive and negative affectivity, in explaining the different perception of job control and job demands in a particularly demanding environment such as the healthcare setting. In addition, we aimed to explore the mediational role of work engagement and workaholism using the Job Demands-Resources Model as a theoretical framework. Data were coll…
Real and perceived employability: A comparison among Italian graduates
The research undertaken for this article aims to analyse the correspondence between perceived employability and the actual national employment rate among Italian students and graduates undertaking different courses in a large Italian university. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey of 2087 students in 19 faculties, and compared with the national indicators of employment rate for each faculty. Using faculty as unit of analysis, the…
The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students
For university students, perceived employability is gaining growing importance in dealing with occupational uncertainty. However, how perceived employability is shaped in the university setting is still under-researched. This study examines how support from university teaching staff influences perceived employability in a sample of Italian final-year university students. We draw on Conservation on Resources Theory to hypothesise a positive impact…
Teachers’ sense of responsibility for educational outcomes and its associations with teachers’ instructional approaches and professional wellbeing
Real and perceived employability: A comparison among Italian graduates
The research undertaken for this article aims to analyse the correspondence between perceived employability and the actual national employment rate among Italian students and graduates undertaking different courses in a large Italian university. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey of 2087 students in 19 faculties, and compared with the national indicators of employment rate for each faculty. Using faculty as unit of analysis, the…
Les intérêts professionnels selon le modèle hexagonal de Holland: Structures et différences de genre
La théorie du choix vocationnel de Holland distingue six catégories d’intérêts professionnels (Réaliste, Investigateur, Artistique, Social, Entreprenant, Conventionnel), correspondant à des profils de personnalité différents. L’objectif de ce travail est d’analyser les problématiques fondamentales dans le débat actuel sur les intérêts professionnels selon le modèle de Holland. On a administré le Questionnaire sur les Préférences Professionnelles …
A three-wave study of job resources, self-efficacy, and work engagement among Italian schoolteachers
By utilizing a three-wave longitudinal design, the present study tested the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources model among Italian schoolteachers (N = 104). Specifically, it aims to test how job resources, self-efficacy and work engagement are related over time. Results of structural equation modelling analysis showed that the model with reciprocal relationships between resources and work engagement exhibited the best fit with the …
Getting vaccinated or not getting vaccinated? Different reasons for getting vaccinated against seasonal or pandemic influenza
The results highlight the importance of enhancing education programs to improve awareness among HCWs concerning the benefits of taking the influenza vaccination, with particular attention paid to younger workers
Individual Characteristics Influencing Physicians’ Perceptions of Job Demands and Control: The Role of Affectivity, Work Engagement and Workaholism
The first purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of individual characteristics, i.e., positive and negative affectivity, in explaining the different perception of job control and job demands in a particularly demanding environment such as the healthcare setting. In addition, we aimed to explore the mediational role of work engagement and workaholism using the Job Demands-Resources Model as a theoretical framework. Data were coll…
Real and perceived employability: A comparison among Italian graduates
The research undertaken for this article aims to analyse the correspondence between perceived employability and the actual national employment rate among Italian students and graduates undertaking different courses in a large Italian university. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey of 2087 students in 19 faculties, and compared with the national indicators of employment rate for each faculty. Using faculty as unit of analysis, the…
Teachers’ sense of responsibility for educational outcomes and its associations with teachers’ instructional approaches and professional wellbeing
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda”. Workers’ Proactivity in the Association between Emotional Demands and Mental Health
The present study aimed to explore the mediating role of hostile customer relations in the association between emotional dissonance and workers' mental health. Moreover, the moderating role of proactive personality as a buffer against hostile customer relations was assessed. Emotional demands become crucial within professions that involve a direct relationship with clients and, if poorly managed, can negatively affect workers' health and performa…
Improving Safety through Non-Technical Skills in Chemical Plants: The Validity of a Questionnaire for the Self-Assessment of Workers
This research is aimed at developing a questionnaire for the self-assessment of non-technical skills (NTS) leading to safety in the chemical sector and at analysing the properties of its scales in terms of construct validity. The research involved 269 Italian employees from three chemical plants of an international company, who occupied low−medium levels in the organizational hierarchy. Results showed a good level of validity and reliability of t…
The Impact of Learning Strategies and Future Orientation on Academic Success: The Moderating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy among Italian Undergraduate Students
Promoting academic success among undergraduate students is crucial for tackling the need to foster employability competencies. Low levels of academic attainment in higher education, along with the increasing number of persons participating in tertiary education, represent crucial trends, which need to be studied in order to develop efficient retention practices. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between relevant factors that…
Safety Doesn’t Happen by Accident: A Longitudinal Investigation on the Antecedents of Safety Behavior
Research recognizes the shared perceptions of the priority attributed to safety in comparison to other organizational goals (i.e., safety climate) as a potential antecedent of safety behavior among construction workers. This type of climate can dismantle barriers to the promotion of effective strategies to mitigate workplace hazards. On the other hand, the current understanding of the underlying process that links the perception of a safety clima…
Same Involvement, Different Reasons: How Personality Factors and Organizations Contribute to Heavy Work Investment
The academic literature has drawn a clear distinction between a positive form (i.e., work engagement) and a negative form (i.e., workaholism) of heavy work investment (HWI). Nevertheless, the different weight of individual and situational factors contributing to their development was not thoroughly explored. This study aims to investigate the role of individual variables (i.e., obsessive-compulsive traits, achievement orientation, perfectionism, …
Educational leadership and innovative teaching practices: A polynomial regression and response surface analysis
Purpose This study explores the factors that explain the adoption of innovative teaching practices within schools and how this is determined by the different perceptions of principals and teachers. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the self-other agreement to measure the difference between the principal and teachers' rating based on the responses of 255 principals and 10,415 teachers, applying polynomial regression with surface analysis…
The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Gender between Job Satisfaction and Task Performance
Job satisfaction (JS) is an indicator of individual psychosocial health. Consistent evidence showed that voluntary extra-role behavior in organizations, namely organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), can also contribute to individual psychological health. JS has been found to positively influence employees’ OCB, and both JS and OCB have been found to predict employees’ task performance (TP). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether…
You’re Not Old as Long as You’re Learning: Ageism, Burnout, and Development Among Italian Teachers
The purpose of this study was to explore the buffering role of opportunities for professional development within the frame of the indirect relationship between workplace age discrimination (as a job demand) and job performance on a sample of N = 325 Italian teachers. Results of moderated mediation analysis indicated that emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between workplace age discrimination and impaired job performance. Furthermore, …
Development and Initial Validation of the Safety Training Engagement Scale (STE-S)
Safety training promotes safety at work, in particular through the use of engaging methods. This study introduces a newly developed measure of individual engagement in safety training, and aims to analyze the psychometric proprieties of the scale. The safety training engagement scale (STE) consists of five items pertaining to the trainee’s dedication and absorption in a safety training session. Two studies are carried out to analyze the validity …
Integrating Human Barriers in Human Reliability Analysis: A New Model for the Energy Sector
Human reliability analysis (HRA) is a major concern for organizations. While various tools, methods, and instruments have been developed by the scientific community to assess human error probability, few of them actually consider human factors impact in their analysis. The active role that workers have in shaping their own performance should be taken into account in order to understand the causal factors that may lead to errors while performing a…
A New Academic Quality at Work Tool (AQ@workT) to Assess the Quality of Life at Work in the Italian Academic Context
The present study provides evidence for a valid and reliable tool, the Academic Quality at Work Tool (AQ@workT), to investigate the quality of life at work in academics within the Italian university sector. The AQ@workT was developed by the QoL@Work research team, namely a group of expert academics in the field of work and organizational psychology affiliated with the Italian Association of Psychologists. The tool is grounded in the job demands-r…
Italian Validation of the 12-Item Version of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-12)
The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) has shown satisfactory validity evidence in several countries, with the 23-item version of the instrument reporting adequate psychometric properties also in the Italian context. This paper is aimed to present results from the Italian validation of the 12-item version of the BAT. Based on a sample of 2277 workers, our results supported the factorial validity of a higher-order model represented by 4 first-order fac…
Work Engagement: A meta-Analysis Using the Job Demands-Resources Model
Although the construct of work engagement has been extensively explored, a systematic meta-analysis based on a consistent categorization of engagement antecedents, outcomes, and well-being correlates is still lacking. The results of prior research reporting 533 correlations from 113 independent samples ( k = 94, n = 119,420) were coded using a meta-analytic approach. The effect size for development resources ( r = .45) and personal resources ( r …
The role of teaching staff in fostering perceived employability of university students
For university students, perceived employability is gaining growing importance in dealing with occupational uncertainty. However, how perceived employability is shaped in the university setting is still under-researched. This study examines how support from university teaching staff influences perceived employability in a sample of Italian final-year university students. We draw on Conservation on Resources Theory to hypothesise a positive impact…
Motivation is not enough: How career planning and effort regulation predict academic achievement
Italy is among the EU countries with the lowest rates of college graduates. Preventing dropout rates, promoting better educational achievement and improving adult population well-being can all be accomplished by discovering factors that promote higher academic success. Thus, the current study’s goal is to investigate personal factors that may have an impact on academic achievement (in terms of grade point average [GPA] and number of exams passed)…
Exploring the Benefits of Boundarylessness: Pathways From Boundaryless Career Orientation to Insecurity and Engagement
The increasing demand for flexibility and adaptability among workers underscores the necessity to explore the outcomes of enhanced proactivity in employees. This study explores the role of job crafting and career competencies (i.e., knowing why, knowing how, and knowing whom) in the relationship between boundaryless career orientation and opposite indicators of subjective career success (i.e., work engagement and job insecurity). Data collected o…
Self-Perceived Employability and Psychological Well-Being Among Italian Students and Graduates: A Three-Wave Cross-Lagged Study
This study investigated the reciprocal relationship between self-perceived employability (SPE) and psychological well-being (PWB), a connection previously suggested by theory but not yet explored empirically in early career research. Drawing from the Conservation of Resources theory, we analysed the reciprocal effects between SPE and PWB. Using data collected from 376 Italian university students and graduates, we tested the hypotheses with the ra…
Transformational leadership and teacher satisfaction: The enhancing roles of professional development and learning program management
Currently, educational institutions are going through significant challenges across all EU countries. Therefore, school principals need an appropriate leadership style to support teachers through these obstacles, supporting them in their professional development and promoting their satisfaction. This study explores the relationship between transformational leadership and teachers’ job satisfaction through professional development attitudes. Moreo…
Exploring different types of university graduates: A latent profile analysis on career strategies and employability in the new labour market
Contains fulltext : 319567.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Applied Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Applied Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)