Maria Grazia Monaci

Biographic Data

ID298326
NAMEMaria Grazia Monaci
GIVEN NAMESMaria Grazia
FAMILY NAMEMonaci
SIGNATUREMONACI M G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Aosta Valley
ORCID0000-0003-1589-7837
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The emotional responses in an art craft and heritage museum: Profiling visitors and understanding visitor satisfaction

    Anna Maria Pioletti, Ivonne Angélica Castiblanco Jiménez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Heritage Tourism2025References: 3

  • Oxytocin Levels Increase and Anxiety Decreases in Mothers Who Sing and Talk to Their Premature Infants during a Painful Procedure

    Open AccessManuela Filippa, Maria Grazia Monaci et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    (1) Background: Preterm infants spend their first weeks of life in the hospital partially separated from their parents and subjected to frequent potentially painful clinical procedures. Previous research has found that early vocal contact reduces infant pain perception while simultaneously increasing oxytocin (OXT) levels. The current study aims to assess the effect of maternal singing and speaking on mothers. (2) Methods: During a painful proced…

  • Internal and External Causal Explanations of Happiness

    Igor Sotgiu, Davide Marengo et al.ARTICLEThe American Journal of Psychology2022

    The present study extends previous research on the folk concept of happiness by investigating people's causal attributions toward the things that make them happy. Six hundred ten Italian adults (18–55 years old) took part in a questionnaire study. Respondents were asked to report five happiness sources and to provide ratings for both the attainment of these sources and the internal and external factors potentially causing them (self, other people…

  • The role of religion in social and democratic system justification

    Filippo Rutto, Erica Viola et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Academic Study of…2021

    The aim of the current study is to explore, within the Italian Catholic context, the impact of scriptural literalism and religious orientation on the ideologies that legitimate the social and the democratic system. A sample of Catholic participants completed an anonymous self-report questionnaire concerning: a) scriptural literalism; b) intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation; c) social and democratic system justification. Results show that…

  • Role of Religion in Social and Democratic System Justification: The Case of Italian Catholicism

    Filippo Rutto, Erica Viola et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Academic Study of…2021

    The aim of the current study is to explore, within the Italian Catholic context, the impact of scriptural literalism and religious orientation on the ideologies that legitimate the social and the democratic system. A sample of Catholic participants completed an anonymous self-report questionnaire concerning: a) scriptural literalism; b) intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation; c) social and democratic system justification. Results show that…

  • Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants: Communicative Musicality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

    Open AccessMaria Grazia Monaci, Maya Gratier et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    In this study, we evaluate mothers' subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three s…

  • Live Maternal Speech and Singing Increase Self-Touch and Eye-Opening in Preterm Newborns: A Preliminary Study

    Open AccessManuela Filippa, Damiano Menin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Nonverbal Behavior2020

  • Neo-Liberalism in the Italian University: Encroachment and Resistance

    Open AccessLuca Scacchi, Angelo Benozzo et al.ARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2017Cited by: 10References: 13

    Neo-liberalism has spread throughout the world in tandem with globalization. This article attempts to address the way in which neo-liberalism has operated in the Italian university system, an academic context that has its own history, values, and traditions. A brief overview of the consequences of neo-liberalism in Italy is followed by a description of the stages in the neo-liberal university reforms that have characterized the Italian academic w…

  • Social Capital and Fear of Crime in Adolescence: A Multilevel Study

    Open AccessAlessio Vieno, Matteo Lenzi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…2016Cited by: 5References: 61

    Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the relationships between social capital (at the individual, the neighborhood, and the regional levels) and adolescents' fear of crime, while controlling for the main individual (sociodemographics, television viewing, and bullying victimization), neighborhood (neighborhood size and aggregated victimization), and regional (crime rate and level of urbanization) variables. Data were analyzed using a t…

  • Third graders' acquisition of knowledge of banking: Restructuring or Accretion

    Open AccessAnna Emilia Berti, Anna Berti et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1998Cited by: 6

    Background. Some scholars maintain that similar processes intervene in children's cognitive development and in the history of science. According to Carey (1985), radical conceptual restructurings taking place during ontogenesis are the counterpart of scientific revolutions. Other authors object that individual cognitive development is only of an incremental type and shows no resemblance to scientific revolutions.Aims. The main aim was to investig…