Silvia Gattino
Biographic Data
| ID | 192820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Gattino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gattino |
| SIGNATURE | GATTINO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8127-6807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Problem-Solving Skills and Career Aspirations
Background/Objectives: Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which individuals are required to orient themselves toward the future and construct a coherent life plan, including educational and career aspirations. Future orientation is closely linked to identity development and self-understanding, which allow adolescents to integrate past, present, and anticipated future selves. Among the personal resources supporting this process, pro…
Promoting sustainable food behavior among young people
Purpose This study aims to analyze the psychosocial antecedents of sustainable food behavior to contribute to the design of effective educational interventions for young people based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which includes extensions such as positive moral attitudes, past habits, environmental concerns and the perceived efficacy of behaviors. Design/methodology/approach A total of 552 Italian participants aged 18–28 years complete…
Psychosocial dimensions of vaccine hesitancy
Life satisfaction in Europe and Iran
Life satisfaction is one of the most relevant indicators of psychological health. The present study aimed at extending previous research on life satisfaction by examining its antecedents for men and women in five countries (e.g., Italy, Poland, Romania, the UK, and Iran), with different levels of gender equality, according to the Global Gender Gap Index. Besides traditional variables (i.e., age, self-esteem and income), we also investigated the r…
Self-efficacy, subjective well-being and positive coping in adolescents with regard to Covid-19 lockdown
Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample
The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent body shame, parent perfectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. In our main hypothesis we assumed that higher levels of the abovementioned parent functioning-related variables would be…
The selective effect of lockdown experience on citizens' perspectives
In the face of the first wave of COVID-19 contagion, citizens all over the world experienced concerns for their safety and health, as well as prolonged lockdowns - which brought about limitations but also unforeseen opportunities for personal growth. Broad variability in these psychological responses to such unprecedented experiences emerged. This study addresses this variability by investigating the role of personal and community resilience. Per…
Religiously flexible
Covid‐19 in our lives
The aim of this study is to examine the association between citizens' perceptions of the effectiveness of the institutional response, their connection and responsibility to their community (Sense of Community—SoC; Sense of Community Responsibility—SoC‐R), and their personal and social concerns about the current emergency and their perceptions of a postpandemic future during the first COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown. Another variable considered was the…
Resilience and empowerment in immigrant experiences
Resilience and empowerment are both strengths-based processes, which, while sharing commonalities, describe different goals, actions, and outcomes-one aimed at status quo; the other at status quake. The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience (TMER; Brodsky & Cattaneo, 2013) outlines these similarities and differences in order to uncover the circumstances that lead to one or the other process. This study utilized TMER to explore resil…
Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdown in Italy
We aimed to identify the patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. Survey data were collected from a sample of Italian adults during the March May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online prosocial behaviours, sense of community responsibility (SoC-R) and perceptions of community resilience. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used for data analysis. A total of 4,045 participants comp…
I feel Moroccan, I feel Italian, and I feel Muslim
Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale
The central aim of the present research was to examine the psychometric properties of adapted versions of the sense of community (SOC) responsibility scale in three Italian samples. We examined the psychometric properties of three modified versions of the sense of community responsibility (SOC‐R) scale. Consistent with the original scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the scale was unidimensional and exhibited exc…
Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members
This study explores the bidirectional and interactional process of acculturation from the perspectives of immigrants and receiving community members (RCMs). Our aim was to understand the experiences and interactions of different ethno-cultural groups and their impact on the functioning and dynamics of multicultural communities. We conducted a cross-national, cross-cultural study of acculturation processes, using interviews collected across two co…
The Vancouver Index of Acculturation (Via)
The Relationship between Local Identification, Urban Disorder Sensitivity, and Prejudice Toward Immigrants
Highlights Local identification is related to both autochthony and sensitivity to urban disorder. Local identification is directly and indirectly associated with ethnic prejudice. Autochthony is a powerful ideology that can trigger exclusionary responses
Shared Communities
Community psychology is central to understanding how immigrants and more established residents of their new settings join together to develop a shared sense of community and membership. In our present study, we explored how newer (i.e., first‐ and second‐generation immigrants) and more established community members form multiple positive psychological sense of community (PSOC) with one another. We conducted a multinational, qualitative study of P…
A Cross-cultural Study of Biological, Psychological, and Social Antecedents of Self-objectification in Italy and Romania
Muslim Acculturation in a Catholic Country
The literature suggests that religion may play an important role in the acculturation process of immigrants by contributing to the maintenance of the heritage culture and preventing identification with the mainstream. With few exceptions, studies on this topic have focused on religion as a whole by assessing specific aspects or dimensions (such as religious identification, beliefs, and practices) and creating a composite measure without analyzing…
What causes prejudice? How may we solve it? Lay beliefs and their relations with classical and modern prejudice and social dominance orientation
The effect of television viewing on ethnic prejudice against immigrants
A Gender Lens on Quality of Life
Quality of Life and Sense of Community. A Study on Health and Place of Residence
The aim of the study is to assess the predictive role of the affective link with the place of residence (place attachment) and the perception of one's own community of residence (sense of community) on health and quality of life. Other variables were considered: size of place of residence, income, level of education, marital status, age, and gender. Participants included 344 adult subjects living in Piedmont, Italy. The instruments used were the …
The looking glass
The paper discusses the concept of citizenship both from a critical-theoretical point of view and in the light of the findings of a research conducted in Italy on the social representation of citizens and migrants. The research aims to analyze how the thêma of social recognition is objectified in everyday language and to explore the characteristics attributed to theotherin a plural society. We show how the contemporary foreigner figure that we ha…
Quality of Life and Sense of Community. A Study on Health and Place of Residence
The aim of the study is to assess the predictive role of the affective link with the place of residence (place attachment) and the perception of one's own community of residence (sense of community) on health and quality of life. Other variables were considered: size of place of residence, income, level of education, marital status, age, and gender. Participants included 344 adult subjects living in Piedmont, Italy. The instruments used were the …
Muslim Acculturation in a Catholic Country
The literature suggests that religion may play an important role in the acculturation process of immigrants by contributing to the maintenance of the heritage culture and preventing identification with the mainstream. With few exceptions, studies on this topic have focused on religion as a whole by assessing specific aspects or dimensions (such as religious identification, beliefs, and practices) and creating a composite measure without analyzing…
Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdown in Italy
We aimed to identify the patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. Survey data were collected from a sample of Italian adults during the March May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online prosocial behaviours, sense of community responsibility (SoC-R) and perceptions of community resilience. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used for data analysis. A total of 4,045 participants comp…
Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale
The central aim of the present research was to examine the psychometric properties of adapted versions of the sense of community (SOC) responsibility scale in three Italian samples. We examined the psychometric properties of three modified versions of the sense of community responsibility (SOC‐R) scale. Consistent with the original scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the scale was unidimensional and exhibited exc…
Shared Communities
Community psychology is central to understanding how immigrants and more established residents of their new settings join together to develop a shared sense of community and membership. In our present study, we explored how newer (i.e., first‐ and second‐generation immigrants) and more established community members form multiple positive psychological sense of community (PSOC) with one another. We conducted a multinational, qualitative study of P…
A Gender Lens on Quality of Life
The selective effect of lockdown experience on citizens' perspectives
In the face of the first wave of COVID-19 contagion, citizens all over the world experienced concerns for their safety and health, as well as prolonged lockdowns - which brought about limitations but also unforeseen opportunities for personal growth. Broad variability in these psychological responses to such unprecedented experiences emerged. This study addresses this variability by investigating the role of personal and community resilience. Per…
The Vancouver Index of Acculturation (Via)
Covid‐19 in our lives
The aim of this study is to examine the association between citizens' perceptions of the effectiveness of the institutional response, their connection and responsibility to their community (Sense of Community—SoC; Sense of Community Responsibility—SoC‐R), and their personal and social concerns about the current emergency and their perceptions of a postpandemic future during the first COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown. Another variable considered was the…
I feel Moroccan, I feel Italian, and I feel Muslim
The Relationship between Local Identification, Urban Disorder Sensitivity, and Prejudice Toward Immigrants
Highlights Local identification is related to both autochthony and sensitivity to urban disorder. Local identification is directly and indirectly associated with ethnic prejudice. Autochthony is a powerful ideology that can trigger exclusionary responses
The effect of television viewing on ethnic prejudice against immigrants
Religiously flexible
The looking glass
The paper discusses the concept of citizenship both from a critical-theoretical point of view and in the light of the findings of a research conducted in Italy on the social representation of citizens and migrants. The research aims to analyze how the thêma of social recognition is objectified in everyday language and to explore the characteristics attributed to theotherin a plural society. We show how the contemporary foreigner figure that we ha…
A Cross-cultural Study of Biological, Psychological, and Social Antecedents of Self-objectification in Italy and Romania
What causes prejudice? How may we solve it? Lay beliefs and their relations with classical and modern prejudice and social dominance orientation
Quality of Life and Sense of Community. A Study on Health and Place of Residence
The aim of the study is to assess the predictive role of the affective link with the place of residence (place attachment) and the perception of one's own community of residence (sense of community) on health and quality of life. Other variables were considered: size of place of residence, income, level of education, marital status, age, and gender. Participants included 344 adult subjects living in Piedmont, Italy. The instruments used were the …
The looking glass
The paper discusses the concept of citizenship both from a critical-theoretical point of view and in the light of the findings of a research conducted in Italy on the social representation of citizens and migrants. The research aims to analyze how the thêma of social recognition is objectified in everyday language and to explore the characteristics attributed to theotherin a plural society. We show how the contemporary foreigner figure that we ha…
What causes prejudice? How may we solve it? Lay beliefs and their relations with classical and modern prejudice and social dominance orientation
The effect of television viewing on ethnic prejudice against immigrants
A Gender Lens on Quality of Life
Muslim Acculturation in a Catholic Country
The literature suggests that religion may play an important role in the acculturation process of immigrants by contributing to the maintenance of the heritage culture and preventing identification with the mainstream. With few exceptions, studies on this topic have focused on religion as a whole by assessing specific aspects or dimensions (such as religious identification, beliefs, and practices) and creating a composite measure without analyzing…
A Cross-cultural Study of Biological, Psychological, and Social Antecedents of Self-objectification in Italy and Romania
Shared Communities
Community psychology is central to understanding how immigrants and more established residents of their new settings join together to develop a shared sense of community and membership. In our present study, we explored how newer (i.e., first‐ and second‐generation immigrants) and more established community members form multiple positive psychological sense of community (PSOC) with one another. We conducted a multinational, qualitative study of P…
Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members
This study explores the bidirectional and interactional process of acculturation from the perspectives of immigrants and receiving community members (RCMs). Our aim was to understand the experiences and interactions of different ethno-cultural groups and their impact on the functioning and dynamics of multicultural communities. We conducted a cross-national, cross-cultural study of acculturation processes, using interviews collected across two co…
The Vancouver Index of Acculturation (Via)
The Relationship between Local Identification, Urban Disorder Sensitivity, and Prejudice Toward Immigrants
Highlights Local identification is related to both autochthony and sensitivity to urban disorder. Local identification is directly and indirectly associated with ethnic prejudice. Autochthony is a powerful ideology that can trigger exclusionary responses
I feel Moroccan, I feel Italian, and I feel Muslim
Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the sense of community responsibility scale
The central aim of the present research was to examine the psychometric properties of adapted versions of the sense of community (SOC) responsibility scale in three Italian samples. We examined the psychometric properties of three modified versions of the sense of community responsibility (SOC‐R) scale. Consistent with the original scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the scale was unidimensional and exhibited exc…
Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdown in Italy
We aimed to identify the patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. Survey data were collected from a sample of Italian adults during the March May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online prosocial behaviours, sense of community responsibility (SoC-R) and perceptions of community resilience. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used for data analysis. A total of 4,045 participants comp…
Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample
The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent body shame, parent perfectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. In our main hypothesis we assumed that higher levels of the abovementioned parent functioning-related variables would be…
The selective effect of lockdown experience on citizens' perspectives
In the face of the first wave of COVID-19 contagion, citizens all over the world experienced concerns for their safety and health, as well as prolonged lockdowns - which brought about limitations but also unforeseen opportunities for personal growth. Broad variability in these psychological responses to such unprecedented experiences emerged. This study addresses this variability by investigating the role of personal and community resilience. Per…
Religiously flexible
Covid‐19 in our lives
The aim of this study is to examine the association between citizens' perceptions of the effectiveness of the institutional response, their connection and responsibility to their community (Sense of Community—SoC; Sense of Community Responsibility—SoC‐R), and their personal and social concerns about the current emergency and their perceptions of a postpandemic future during the first COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown. Another variable considered was the…
Resilience and empowerment in immigrant experiences
Resilience and empowerment are both strengths-based processes, which, while sharing commonalities, describe different goals, actions, and outcomes-one aimed at status quo; the other at status quake. The Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience (TMER; Brodsky & Cattaneo, 2013) outlines these similarities and differences in order to uncover the circumstances that lead to one or the other process. This study utilized TMER to explore resil…
Life satisfaction in Europe and Iran
Life satisfaction is one of the most relevant indicators of psychological health. The present study aimed at extending previous research on life satisfaction by examining its antecedents for men and women in five countries (e.g., Italy, Poland, Romania, the UK, and Iran), with different levels of gender equality, according to the Global Gender Gap Index. Besides traditional variables (i.e., age, self-esteem and income), we also investigated the r…
Self-efficacy, subjective well-being and positive coping in adolescents with regard to Covid-19 lockdown
Psychosocial dimensions of vaccine hesitancy
Promoting sustainable food behavior among young people
Purpose This study aims to analyze the psychosocial antecedents of sustainable food behavior to contribute to the design of effective educational interventions for young people based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which includes extensions such as positive moral attitudes, past habits, environmental concerns and the perceived efficacy of behaviors. Design/methodology/approach A total of 552 Italian participants aged 18–28 years complete…
Problem-Solving Skills and Career Aspirations
Background/Objectives: Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which individuals are required to orient themselves toward the future and construct a coherent life plan, including educational and career aspirations. Future orientation is closely linked to identity development and self-understanding, which allow adolescents to integrate past, present, and anticipated future selves. Among the personal resources supporting this process, pro…
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 works) · Social science (6 works)