Alessandro Gennaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 177646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Gennaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Gennaro |
| SIGNATURE | GENNARO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3138-9875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Low-dimensional meaning and management of uncertainty
Stakeholder engagement for sustainable value co‐creation: Evidence from made in Italy SMEs
How Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) engage with stakeholders on their sustainable practices remains an under‐researched topic in extant business research. This occurs even though SMEs play a tremendous role across all economies, and they often engage stakeholders on sustainability issues to foster their competitive advantage. In this article, drawing on stakeholder and innovation ecosystem theories, we use empirical evidence from multiple cas…
Where Science Meets Stories: A Systematic Review on Narrative Medicine
Narrative medicine is an interdisciplinary field that merges storytelling with medicine. Its distinctive feature lies in the integration of evidence-based medicine and a patient-centered care approach, prioritizing the individual over the disease. In recent years, narrative medicine has gained exponential significance. However, despite the growing interest in this field, there is a notable paucity of systematic studies exploring narrative medicin…
Involuntary Celibacy (Incel) Identity: A Thematic Analysis of an Online Community’s Beliefs and Emotional Experiences
The term incel is a neologism combining “involuntary” and “celibate”, describing men who experience involuntary absence from sexual and romantic relationships. Incels frequently espouse conspiratorial and misogynistic ideologies, often engaging in verbal aggression. The present study aimed at qualitatively exploring the emotional experiences and beliefs articulated within an online incel community, contributing to the formation of its collective …
Stability of Worldviews and Their Organizing Structures Over Time: A Retrospective Analysis
The scientific literature widely recognizes the role of worldviews in influencing psychological and socio-cultural phenomena. The investigation into the temporal stability of worldviews has mainly focused on the individual and population levels, ignoring the question of the stability of their content. This study adopts the Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory (SCPT) to analyze the stability of worldviews and their organizational structures. Throug…
Development and factor structure of the teaching approach scale
Introduction The study presents the development and validation of the Teaching Approach Scale (TAS), a tool aimed at assessing teaching approaches in educational settings. Literature emphasizes the significance of collaboration and a student-centered approach in enhancing learning environments. However, the translation of these approaches into daily practices faces challenges due to entrenched traditions and individual perspectives. The TAS addre…
Social Environment and Attitudes toward Covid-19 Anti-Contagious Measures: An Explorative Study from Italy
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 …
Perceiving Migrants as a Threat: The Role of the Estimated Number of Migrants and Symbolic Universes
As immigration is one of the dominant issues in contemporary public discourse, it is important to explain the mechanism of prejudice against immigrants from a cultural psychology perspective. Several studies in the literature have confirmed a significant relationship between perceptions of the estimated size of the immigrant population and negative attitudes towards them. This study aims to investigate whether this relationship is moderated by sy…
Same-Sex Parenting in Italy: An Affective and Developmental Psychocultural Analysis
Introduction The study focuses on the issue of same-sex parenting in Italy, one of the few Western countries where it is not legally permitted. The aim of the research is to collect the experience of parents who have had a child abroad through reproduction and/or gestation procedures not ratified and recognized by the national legal system. Methods The research involved 32 same-sex parents, specifically 22 mothers ( M age = 41.3; SD = 6.5) and 10…
The Search for Origins by the Adopted Children: The Perspective of Adoptive Mothers in the Italian Context
The present study examined Italian adoptive mothers’ perspective about Adoptee Searching for their Origins. 37 adoptive mothers were interviewed. Interviews were analyzed through an automated method for content analysis combining a combining Cluster Analysis and Correspondence Analysis. In their whole the results highlight the difficulty encountered by mothers who seem to chase a model of family normality rather than confront the specificity of t…
The Affective Regulation of Uncertainty: The Semiotic Dimensionality Model (SDM)
This paper presents a novel psychological model of the socio-cognitive management of uncertainty, the semiotic dimensional model (SDM). The SDM claims that uncertainty increases the momentum of affect-laden meanings in meaning-making. This is so because affective meanings provide a simplified interpretation of the world that restores the experience of being able to make sense of the reality destabilized by uncertainty. Moreover, the SDM models th…
How socio-institutional contexts and cultural worldviews relate to Covid-19 acceptance rates: A representative study in Italy
Parental Experiences of Coming Out: From "Un-doing Family Bonds" to "Family Generativity
The coming out (CO) is a family process that involves the LGB+ person and all family members. The present study aimed to analyze the CO process from parents' perspective and examine if and how the emotional states of mothers and fathers changed in the years following the disclosure. The study involved 25 Italian parents (16 mothers, 9 fathers; Mage = 67, SD = 7.8) of 17 gay men and 8 lesbian women. Data were collected using a semi-structured inte…
Why people join pro-Ana online communities? A psychological textual analysis of eating disorder blog posts
Multicentric Identities in a Globalizing World
The volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.This year’s YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world. This fi…
The Building of Models as Pathway to Understand the Therapeutic Process
Parental Experiences of Coming Out: From "Un-doing Family Bonds" to "Family Generativity
The coming out (CO) is a family process that involves the LGB+ person and all family members. The present study aimed to analyze the CO process from parents' perspective and examine if and how the emotional states of mothers and fathers changed in the years following the disclosure. The study involved 25 Italian parents (16 mothers, 9 fathers; Mage = 67, SD = 7.8) of 17 gay men and 8 lesbian women. Data were collected using a semi-structured inte…
How socio-institutional contexts and cultural worldviews relate to Covid-19 acceptance rates: A representative study in Italy
The Affective Regulation of Uncertainty: The Semiotic Dimensionality Model (SDM)
This paper presents a novel psychological model of the socio-cognitive management of uncertainty, the semiotic dimensional model (SDM). The SDM claims that uncertainty increases the momentum of affect-laden meanings in meaning-making. This is so because affective meanings provide a simplified interpretation of the world that restores the experience of being able to make sense of the reality destabilized by uncertainty. Moreover, the SDM models th…
The Search for Origins by the Adopted Children: The Perspective of Adoptive Mothers in the Italian Context
The present study examined Italian adoptive mothers’ perspective about Adoptee Searching for their Origins. 37 adoptive mothers were interviewed. Interviews were analyzed through an automated method for content analysis combining a combining Cluster Analysis and Correspondence Analysis. In their whole the results highlight the difficulty encountered by mothers who seem to chase a model of family normality rather than confront the specificity of t…
Perceiving Migrants as a Threat: The Role of the Estimated Number of Migrants and Symbolic Universes
As immigration is one of the dominant issues in contemporary public discourse, it is important to explain the mechanism of prejudice against immigrants from a cultural psychology perspective. Several studies in the literature have confirmed a significant relationship between perceptions of the estimated size of the immigrant population and negative attitudes towards them. This study aims to investigate whether this relationship is moderated by sy…
Same-Sex Parenting in Italy: An Affective and Developmental Psychocultural Analysis
Introduction The study focuses on the issue of same-sex parenting in Italy, one of the few Western countries where it is not legally permitted. The aim of the research is to collect the experience of parents who have had a child abroad through reproduction and/or gestation procedures not ratified and recognized by the national legal system. Methods The research involved 32 same-sex parents, specifically 22 mothers ( M age = 41.3; SD = 6.5) and 10…
The Building of Models as Pathway to Understand the Therapeutic Process
The Building of Models as Pathway to Understand the Therapeutic Process
Multicentric Identities in a Globalizing World
The volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.This year’s YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world. This fi…
Why people join pro-Ana online communities? A psychological textual analysis of eating disorder blog posts
Social Environment and Attitudes toward Covid-19 Anti-Contagious Measures: An Explorative Study from Italy
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 …
Perceiving Migrants as a Threat: The Role of the Estimated Number of Migrants and Symbolic Universes
As immigration is one of the dominant issues in contemporary public discourse, it is important to explain the mechanism of prejudice against immigrants from a cultural psychology perspective. Several studies in the literature have confirmed a significant relationship between perceptions of the estimated size of the immigrant population and negative attitudes towards them. This study aims to investigate whether this relationship is moderated by sy…
Same-Sex Parenting in Italy: An Affective and Developmental Psychocultural Analysis
Introduction The study focuses on the issue of same-sex parenting in Italy, one of the few Western countries where it is not legally permitted. The aim of the research is to collect the experience of parents who have had a child abroad through reproduction and/or gestation procedures not ratified and recognized by the national legal system. Methods The research involved 32 same-sex parents, specifically 22 mothers ( M age = 41.3; SD = 6.5) and 10…
The Search for Origins by the Adopted Children: The Perspective of Adoptive Mothers in the Italian Context
The present study examined Italian adoptive mothers’ perspective about Adoptee Searching for their Origins. 37 adoptive mothers were interviewed. Interviews were analyzed through an automated method for content analysis combining a combining Cluster Analysis and Correspondence Analysis. In their whole the results highlight the difficulty encountered by mothers who seem to chase a model of family normality rather than confront the specificity of t…
The Affective Regulation of Uncertainty: The Semiotic Dimensionality Model (SDM)
This paper presents a novel psychological model of the socio-cognitive management of uncertainty, the semiotic dimensional model (SDM). The SDM claims that uncertainty increases the momentum of affect-laden meanings in meaning-making. This is so because affective meanings provide a simplified interpretation of the world that restores the experience of being able to make sense of the reality destabilized by uncertainty. Moreover, the SDM models th…
How socio-institutional contexts and cultural worldviews relate to Covid-19 acceptance rates: A representative study in Italy
Parental Experiences of Coming Out: From "Un-doing Family Bonds" to "Family Generativity
The coming out (CO) is a family process that involves the LGB+ person and all family members. The present study aimed to analyze the CO process from parents' perspective and examine if and how the emotional states of mothers and fathers changed in the years following the disclosure. The study involved 25 Italian parents (16 mothers, 9 fathers; Mage = 67, SD = 7.8) of 17 gay men and 8 lesbian women. Data were collected using a semi-structured inte…
Development and factor structure of the teaching approach scale
Introduction The study presents the development and validation of the Teaching Approach Scale (TAS), a tool aimed at assessing teaching approaches in educational settings. Literature emphasizes the significance of collaboration and a student-centered approach in enhancing learning environments. However, the translation of these approaches into daily practices faces challenges due to entrenched traditions and individual perspectives. The TAS addre…
Low-dimensional meaning and management of uncertainty
Stakeholder engagement for sustainable value co‐creation: Evidence from made in Italy SMEs
How Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) engage with stakeholders on their sustainable practices remains an under‐researched topic in extant business research. This occurs even though SMEs play a tremendous role across all economies, and they often engage stakeholders on sustainability issues to foster their competitive advantage. In this article, drawing on stakeholder and innovation ecosystem theories, we use empirical evidence from multiple cas…
Where Science Meets Stories: A Systematic Review on Narrative Medicine
Narrative medicine is an interdisciplinary field that merges storytelling with medicine. Its distinctive feature lies in the integration of evidence-based medicine and a patient-centered care approach, prioritizing the individual over the disease. In recent years, narrative medicine has gained exponential significance. However, despite the growing interest in this field, there is a notable paucity of systematic studies exploring narrative medicin…
Involuntary Celibacy (Incel) Identity: A Thematic Analysis of an Online Community’s Beliefs and Emotional Experiences
The term incel is a neologism combining “involuntary” and “celibate”, describing men who experience involuntary absence from sexual and romantic relationships. Incels frequently espouse conspiratorial and misogynistic ideologies, often engaging in verbal aggression. The present study aimed at qualitatively exploring the emotional experiences and beliefs articulated within an online incel community, contributing to the formation of its collective …
Stability of Worldviews and Their Organizing Structures Over Time: A Retrospective Analysis
The scientific literature widely recognizes the role of worldviews in influencing psychological and socio-cultural phenomena. The investigation into the temporal stability of worldviews has mainly focused on the individual and population levels, ignoring the question of the stability of their content. This study adopts the Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory (SCPT) to analyze the stability of worldviews and their organizational structures. Throug…
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