Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2747080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Libera Ylenia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mastromatteo |
| SIGNATURE | MASTROMATTEO L Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8870-7630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Robustness of Mental Accounting Across 21 Countries
First introduced four decades ago, the influential concept of mental accounting—how people mentally organize, evaluate, and track financial activities—posits that consumers often defy traditional economic rationality, treating money as non-fungible across discrete mental accounts. In this research, we present the first large-scale test of the replicability and generalizability of mental accounting effects, using a sample of 5,589 participants fro…
Affect and conceptual learning in indoor and green outdoor school environments
BACKGROUND: Research on the role of the physical school environment in areas other than educational psychology has documented the benefits of exposure to nature for cognitive and emotional functioning. Positive effects have been indicated not only after a break in nature in mentally fatigued students but also in students who did not have depleted mental resources when performing cognitive tasks in a green area. AIMS: We investigated the impact of…
Examining the learning benefits of school lessons in green spaces
In areas other than education, research has documented the cognitive benefits of both long-term exposure to nature surrounding homes and schools, and short-term exposure during recess time after depletion of mental resources. In two educational studies we were interested in the impact of exposure to nature during a regular school lesson on complex content, not a green break as in previous research. We compared a lesson taught in a green area outs…
Cooperative Hearts
Early adolescence is a critical period characterized by challenges and increased peer interactions. The literature presents conflicting findings on the relationship between stress and prosocial behaviors, with no data on perceived ongoing stress and cooperation. Additionally, the protective role of Cardiac Vagal Tone (CVT), a biological marker of self-regulation, has not been studied in this context. This study aims to fill this gap by examining …
Resilience factors counteract intergenerational risk for adolescent maladjustment related to family mental health history and childhood adversity
Intergenerational risk within families, stemming from familial history of mental health problems and encompassing exposure to childhood adversity, poses challenges to adolescent adjustment. However, it is important to recognize that negative developmental outcomes associated with intergenerational risk are not inevitable. To better understand resilience in this context, there is a need for studies that systematically compare different models of r…
Cooperation in primary school children
Cooperation is crucial in classrooms for positive interactions among pupils, but the factors influencing children’s cooperative behaviors remain debated. This study explores the impact of cardiac vagal tone (CVT), a measure of physiological self-regulation, and cognitive control on cooperation among 109 primary school students. Heart rate variability was used to assess self-regulation, and cognitive control was evaluated through an AX-Continuous …
Sensitive children’s attention and emotional response to student-teacher interactions
Improvement in parasympathetic regulation is associated with engagement in classroom activity in primary school children experiencing poor classroom climate
BackgroundSelf-regulation promotes engagement within the classroom. At a physiological level, a good indicator of the ability of the system to self-regulate is cardiac vagal tone (CVT).AimsThe present study aims to assess children's change over time (1 year) in their parasympathetic regulation (by way of CVT) in response to a social and cognitive stressor. Moreover, it addresses whether, if present, this change over time in regulation influences …
Psychophysiological Regulation and Classroom Climate Influence First and Second Graders’ Well-Being
This study examines the associations between physical and emotional well-being and classroom climate, cardiac vagal response, and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of 6- to-8-year-olds. Specifically, we expected a direct link between classroom climate, vagal withdrawal, BMI and children’s physical and emotional comfort. Furthermore, we explored whether these individual and environmental characteristics influenced well-being in an interactive fash…
Association between Exposure to Particulate Matter during Pregnancy and Multidimensional Development in School-Age Children
Air pollutants can potentially affect the development of children. However, data on the effect of exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and developmental outcomes in school children are rare. We investigated the link between prenatal exposure to particulate matters smaller than 10 microns (PM 10 ) and the development of school-age children in multiple domains. Cross-sectional data were collected in Italy between 2013 and 2014. Children aged …
Physiological responses to a school task
BACKGROUND: To be successful, students must learn to deal with socially and cognitively demanding tasks. Much remains unknown about the effects of previous classroom experiences and of students' emotional appraisal of a task on their physiological adaptive responses to it. AIMS: To investigate how children's physiological response to a social and cognitive task would be directly and interactively influenced by the perceived student-teacher relati…
Improvement in parasympathetic regulation is associated with engagement in classroom activity in primary school children experiencing poor classroom climate
BackgroundSelf-regulation promotes engagement within the classroom. At a physiological level, a good indicator of the ability of the system to self-regulate is cardiac vagal tone (CVT).AimsThe present study aims to assess children's change over time (1 year) in their parasympathetic regulation (by way of CVT) in response to a social and cognitive stressor. Moreover, it addresses whether, if present, this change over time in regulation influences …
Physiological responses to a school task
BACKGROUND: To be successful, students must learn to deal with socially and cognitively demanding tasks. Much remains unknown about the effects of previous classroom experiences and of students' emotional appraisal of a task on their physiological adaptive responses to it. AIMS: To investigate how children's physiological response to a social and cognitive task would be directly and interactively influenced by the perceived student-teacher relati…
Psychophysiological Regulation and Classroom Climate Influence First and Second Graders’ Well-Being
This study examines the associations between physical and emotional well-being and classroom climate, cardiac vagal response, and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of 6- to-8-year-olds. Specifically, we expected a direct link between classroom climate, vagal withdrawal, BMI and children’s physical and emotional comfort. Furthermore, we explored whether these individual and environmental characteristics influenced well-being in an interactive fash…
Association between Exposure to Particulate Matter during Pregnancy and Multidimensional Development in School-Age Children
Air pollutants can potentially affect the development of children. However, data on the effect of exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and developmental outcomes in school children are rare. We investigated the link between prenatal exposure to particulate matters smaller than 10 microns (PM 10 ) and the development of school-age children in multiple domains. Cross-sectional data were collected in Italy between 2013 and 2014. Children aged …
Physiological responses to a school task
BACKGROUND: To be successful, students must learn to deal with socially and cognitively demanding tasks. Much remains unknown about the effects of previous classroom experiences and of students' emotional appraisal of a task on their physiological adaptive responses to it. AIMS: To investigate how children's physiological response to a social and cognitive task would be directly and interactively influenced by the perceived student-teacher relati…
Improvement in parasympathetic regulation is associated with engagement in classroom activity in primary school children experiencing poor classroom climate
BackgroundSelf-regulation promotes engagement within the classroom. At a physiological level, a good indicator of the ability of the system to self-regulate is cardiac vagal tone (CVT).AimsThe present study aims to assess children's change over time (1 year) in their parasympathetic regulation (by way of CVT) in response to a social and cognitive stressor. Moreover, it addresses whether, if present, this change over time in regulation influences …
Cooperation in primary school children
Cooperation is crucial in classrooms for positive interactions among pupils, but the factors influencing children’s cooperative behaviors remain debated. This study explores the impact of cardiac vagal tone (CVT), a measure of physiological self-regulation, and cognitive control on cooperation among 109 primary school students. Heart rate variability was used to assess self-regulation, and cognitive control was evaluated through an AX-Continuous …
Sensitive children’s attention and emotional response to student-teacher interactions
Examining the learning benefits of school lessons in green spaces
In areas other than education, research has documented the cognitive benefits of both long-term exposure to nature surrounding homes and schools, and short-term exposure during recess time after depletion of mental resources. In two educational studies we were interested in the impact of exposure to nature during a regular school lesson on complex content, not a green break as in previous research. We compared a lesson taught in a green area outs…
Cooperative Hearts
Early adolescence is a critical period characterized by challenges and increased peer interactions. The literature presents conflicting findings on the relationship between stress and prosocial behaviors, with no data on perceived ongoing stress and cooperation. Additionally, the protective role of Cardiac Vagal Tone (CVT), a biological marker of self-regulation, has not been studied in this context. This study aims to fill this gap by examining …
Resilience factors counteract intergenerational risk for adolescent maladjustment related to family mental health history and childhood adversity
Intergenerational risk within families, stemming from familial history of mental health problems and encompassing exposure to childhood adversity, poses challenges to adolescent adjustment. However, it is important to recognize that negative developmental outcomes associated with intergenerational risk are not inevitable. To better understand resilience in this context, there is a need for studies that systematically compare different models of r…
The Robustness of Mental Accounting Across 21 Countries
First introduced four decades ago, the influential concept of mental accounting—how people mentally organize, evaluate, and track financial activities—posits that consumers often defy traditional economic rationality, treating money as non-fungible across discrete mental accounts. In this research, we present the first large-scale test of the replicability and generalizability of mental accounting effects, using a sample of 5,589 participants fro…
Affect and conceptual learning in indoor and green outdoor school environments
BACKGROUND: Research on the role of the physical school environment in areas other than educational psychology has documented the benefits of exposure to nature for cognitive and emotional functioning. Positive effects have been indicated not only after a break in nature in mentally fatigued students but also in students who did not have depleted mental resources when performing cognitive tasks in a green area. AIMS: We investigated the impact of…
Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Vagal tone (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Heart rate (3 works)