Vincenza Capone
Biographic Data
| ID | 321839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincenza Capone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincenza |
| FAMILY NAME | Capone |
| SIGNATURE | CAPONE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4401-3578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Physicians’ adoption of massive open online courses content in the workplace: An investigation on the training transfer process through the Theory of Planned Behavior
While Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are recognized as helpful learning tools for professional development in healthcare organizations, they often result in a low transfer of knowledge and skills into participants' workplaces. Moreover, little research has explored the factors shaping physicians’ intention to transfer learning acquired through these courses to the workplace. In light of the above, the present study adopted an extended versio…
Value of Care: An Exploratory Qualitative Study with Doctors and Patients
The concept of value in healthcare is mainly based on economic and financial aspects. However, the literature has emphasised the need to investigate value from other perspectives. The present study aimed to explore the views of physicians and patients on the value of healthcare, and to examine in depth the psychosocial and organisational elements that have emerged but that need to be investigated more. Therefore, two qualitative studies were perf…
Career Competencies and Career Success: On the Roles of Employability Activities and Academic Satisfaction During the School-to-Work Transition
Building on the integrative career competencies framework, we examined the indirect association between career competencies, assessed at graduation, and subjective career success (SCS) via employability activities, both assessed six months after graduation, among a sample of 613 Italian graduates. We also examined the moderating role of three facets of academic satisfaction (i.e., vocational choice, educational goals, and occupational prospects).…
Medical Communication Perceived Self-Efficacy (ME-CO) Scale: Construction and Validation of a New Measuring Instrument from a Socio-Cognitive Perspective
The study presents the validation of a scale measuring physicians’ efficacy beliefs about their ability to manage issues related to communication with patients. Specifically, the tool focused on three fundamental phases of the clinical interview: collecting information, returning information to patients, and creating and maintaining a relationship with them. The research included two studies. Study 1 generated an item pool based on the literature…
Mental Well-Being and Job Satisfaction of Hospital Physicians during Covid-19: Relationships with Efficacy Beliefs, Organizational Support, and Organizational Non-Technical Skills
The COVID-19 outbreak has led worldwide governments to take preventive measures to contain the spread of the virus and its extraordinary demands upon healthcare workers. Consequently, healthcare workers have been under high pressures, putting them at risk of developing adverse outcomes. The present study aims to investigate the psychological and organizational factors that contributed to physicians' well-being during the pandemic. A total of 78 I…
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…
Job Satisfaction Mediates the Relationship between Psychosocial and Organization Factors and Mental Well-Being in Schoolteachers
The study aimed to explore the associations between the psychosocial and organizational factors, job satisfaction, and mental well-being of schoolteachers. A further aim was to examine whether job satisfaction mediated the relationship between these factors and mental well-being. A cross-sectional design was used to collect data using a self-reported questionnaire. Six hundred and nine schoolteachers were included in the final analyses. The relat…
Technology-Enhanced Learning and Well-being: A Contribution to the Validation of a Measure to Assess University Students’ Technostress in the Italian Context
COVID-19 has forced many universities to adopt widely technology-enhanced learning (TEL), highlighting the role of technostress as a risk factor for detrimental outcomes that may be prevented through the assessment with reliable tools. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric characteristics of the Italian validation of the technostress scale by Wang, Tan, and Li. A self-report online questionnaire was completed by 915 participants …
Smart Working and Well-Being before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
The purpose of this scoping review focused on the relationship between smart working, a conception of job centered on the flexibility and autonomy of the worker, and well-being/illness in an organizational context before and during COVID-19. The literature review, conducted using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for qualitative synthesis) method for qualitative synthesis, considered studies published f…
Efficacy Beliefs, Empowering Leadership, and Project Success in Public Research Centers: An Italian–Polish Study
In the world of university research, although the figure of project manager is not formally foreseen, the principal researcher (PR) is, at many times, the last responsible the project results, schedule, and cost. The study aimed to investigate, in the light of the literature and through a cross-cultural study conducted in Italy and Poland, the relationship between soft skills (empowering leadership style, self-efficacy beliefs, and collective eff…
Working during a Pandemic between the Risk of Being Infected and/or the Risks Related to Social Distancing: First Validation of the Saph@W Questionnaire
The study evidenced the psychometric properties of the SAPH@W, a brief tool to monitor workers' experiences and safety perceptions regarding the COVID-19 risk in any organisational setting
Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Covid-19 Risk Perception Scale (CoRP): A New Brief Scale to Measure Individuals’ Risk Perception
The aim of the work was to develop and validate the COVID-19 Risk Perception Scale (CoRP), a brief self-report questionnaire for individuals' perceptions of risk in the COVID-19 pandemic. Two studies were conducted in order to evaluate the new scale's psychometric properties. Study 1 included 269 Italian participants (77.3% female) to initially test the scale's structure and construct validity. Study 2 involved 1061 (76.2% female) Italians aged 1…
Mental health in teachers: Relationships with job satisfaction, efficacy beliefs, burnout and depression
The English Version of the Health Profession Communication Collective Efficacy Scale (HPCCE Scale) by Capone and Petrillo, 2012
Communication is a crucial component in all steps of the health care process. Therefore, it is important to have knowledge about the communication skills of the whole health organization. From the socio-cognitive perspective, collective efficacy beliefs are the main indicators of the capacity of functioning of the system. This work aimed to contribute to the validation of the English version of Health Profession Communication Collective Efficacy …
Classroom relationships, sense of community, perceptions of justice, and collective efficacy for students’ social well‐being
A review of literature suggests a lack of studies analyzing the correlates of school context to social well‐being (SWB). By integrating the perspective of community psychology and social cognition, this study uses structural equation model to examine the effect of classroom climate, classroom sense of community, collective efficacy, and justice beliefs on students SWB. The study involves 390 high school students (58.6% females) between the ages o…
Classroom Sense of Community Scale: Validation of a Self‐report Measure for Adolescents
We examined the structure, reliability, construct validity, and gender invariance of the Classroom Sense of Community Scale (SoC‐C), a self‐report questionnaire measuring students’ classroom sense of community. The SoC‐C was administered to 390 Italian students (58.6% female) aged 13–20 years. Explorative and confirmatory factor analyses established a 5‐factor solution (sense of belonging and emotional connection with peers, satisfaction of needs…
Patient communication self-efficacy, self-reported illness symptoms, physician communication style and mental health and illness in hospital outpatients
In this cross-sectional study, we investigated the associations between patient communication self-efficacy and self-reported symptoms in doctor-patient communication, as perceived by patients, and the mental health and illness of hospital outpatients. Using data from a sample of 74 outpatients ( mean age = 37.58 years, standard deviation = 12.54), a structural equation model was calculated. The results showed that communication self-efficacy and…
The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) as a Measure of Well-Being in the Italian Context
Health Promotion in International Documents: Strengths and Weaknesses from the Perspective of Community Empowerment
Informed by a community psychology perspective, which takes an integrated and systemic, or holistic view of health and health promotion, this study presents quali‐quantitative analysis of health documents, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) over the last 30 years. Textual analysis facilitated the identification of the typical specificities of international WHO health promotion documents, highlighting the lexical contexts of health pr…
The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) as a Measure of Well-Being in the Italian Context
Classroom relationships, sense of community, perceptions of justice, and collective efficacy for students’ social well‐being
A review of literature suggests a lack of studies analyzing the correlates of school context to social well‐being (SWB). By integrating the perspective of community psychology and social cognition, this study uses structural equation model to examine the effect of classroom climate, classroom sense of community, collective efficacy, and justice beliefs on students SWB. The study involves 390 high school students (58.6% females) between the ages o…
Health Promotion in International Documents: Strengths and Weaknesses from the Perspective of Community Empowerment
Informed by a community psychology perspective, which takes an integrated and systemic, or holistic view of health and health promotion, this study presents quali‐quantitative analysis of health documents, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) over the last 30 years. Textual analysis facilitated the identification of the typical specificities of international WHO health promotion documents, highlighting the lexical contexts of health pr…
Classroom Sense of Community Scale: Validation of a Self‐report Measure for Adolescents
We examined the structure, reliability, construct validity, and gender invariance of the Classroom Sense of Community Scale (SoC‐C), a self‐report questionnaire measuring students’ classroom sense of community. The SoC‐C was administered to 390 Italian students (58.6% female) aged 13–20 years. Explorative and confirmatory factor analyses established a 5‐factor solution (sense of belonging and emotional connection with peers, satisfaction of needs…
Patient communication self-efficacy, self-reported illness symptoms, physician communication style and mental health and illness in hospital outpatients
In this cross-sectional study, we investigated the associations between patient communication self-efficacy and self-reported symptoms in doctor-patient communication, as perceived by patients, and the mental health and illness of hospital outpatients. Using data from a sample of 74 outpatients ( mean age = 37.58 years, standard deviation = 12.54), a structural equation model was calculated. The results showed that communication self-efficacy and…
Health Promotion in International Documents: Strengths and Weaknesses from the Perspective of Community Empowerment
Informed by a community psychology perspective, which takes an integrated and systemic, or holistic view of health and health promotion, this study presents quali‐quantitative analysis of health documents, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) over the last 30 years. Textual analysis facilitated the identification of the typical specificities of international WHO health promotion documents, highlighting the lexical contexts of health pr…
The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) as a Measure of Well-Being in the Italian Context
Classroom Sense of Community Scale: Validation of a Self‐report Measure for Adolescents
We examined the structure, reliability, construct validity, and gender invariance of the Classroom Sense of Community Scale (SoC‐C), a self‐report questionnaire measuring students’ classroom sense of community. The SoC‐C was administered to 390 Italian students (58.6% female) aged 13–20 years. Explorative and confirmatory factor analyses established a 5‐factor solution (sense of belonging and emotional connection with peers, satisfaction of needs…
Patient communication self-efficacy, self-reported illness symptoms, physician communication style and mental health and illness in hospital outpatients
In this cross-sectional study, we investigated the associations between patient communication self-efficacy and self-reported symptoms in doctor-patient communication, as perceived by patients, and the mental health and illness of hospital outpatients. Using data from a sample of 74 outpatients ( mean age = 37.58 years, standard deviation = 12.54), a structural equation model was calculated. The results showed that communication self-efficacy and…
Classroom relationships, sense of community, perceptions of justice, and collective efficacy for students’ social well‐being
A review of literature suggests a lack of studies analyzing the correlates of school context to social well‐being (SWB). By integrating the perspective of community psychology and social cognition, this study uses structural equation model to examine the effect of classroom climate, classroom sense of community, collective efficacy, and justice beliefs on students SWB. The study involves 390 high school students (58.6% females) between the ages o…
Mental health in teachers: Relationships with job satisfaction, efficacy beliefs, burnout and depression
The English Version of the Health Profession Communication Collective Efficacy Scale (HPCCE Scale) by Capone and Petrillo, 2012
Communication is a crucial component in all steps of the health care process. Therefore, it is important to have knowledge about the communication skills of the whole health organization. From the socio-cognitive perspective, collective efficacy beliefs are the main indicators of the capacity of functioning of the system. This work aimed to contribute to the validation of the English version of Health Profession Communication Collective Efficacy …
Smart Working and Well-Being before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
The purpose of this scoping review focused on the relationship between smart working, a conception of job centered on the flexibility and autonomy of the worker, and well-being/illness in an organizational context before and during COVID-19. The literature review, conducted using the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for qualitative synthesis) method for qualitative synthesis, considered studies published f…
Efficacy Beliefs, Empowering Leadership, and Project Success in Public Research Centers: An Italian–Polish Study
In the world of university research, although the figure of project manager is not formally foreseen, the principal researcher (PR) is, at many times, the last responsible the project results, schedule, and cost. The study aimed to investigate, in the light of the literature and through a cross-cultural study conducted in Italy and Poland, the relationship between soft skills (empowering leadership style, self-efficacy beliefs, and collective eff…
Working during a Pandemic between the Risk of Being Infected and/or the Risks Related to Social Distancing: First Validation of the Saph@W Questionnaire
The study evidenced the psychometric properties of the SAPH@W, a brief tool to monitor workers' experiences and safety perceptions regarding the COVID-19 risk in any organisational setting
Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Covid-19 Risk Perception Scale (CoRP): A New Brief Scale to Measure Individuals’ Risk Perception
The aim of the work was to develop and validate the COVID-19 Risk Perception Scale (CoRP), a brief self-report questionnaire for individuals' perceptions of risk in the COVID-19 pandemic. Two studies were conducted in order to evaluate the new scale's psychometric properties. Study 1 included 269 Italian participants (77.3% female) to initially test the scale's structure and construct validity. Study 2 involved 1061 (76.2% female) Italians aged 1…
Career Competencies and Career Success: On the Roles of Employability Activities and Academic Satisfaction During the School-to-Work Transition
Building on the integrative career competencies framework, we examined the indirect association between career competencies, assessed at graduation, and subjective career success (SCS) via employability activities, both assessed six months after graduation, among a sample of 613 Italian graduates. We also examined the moderating role of three facets of academic satisfaction (i.e., vocational choice, educational goals, and occupational prospects).…
Medical Communication Perceived Self-Efficacy (ME-CO) Scale: Construction and Validation of a New Measuring Instrument from a Socio-Cognitive Perspective
The study presents the validation of a scale measuring physicians’ efficacy beliefs about their ability to manage issues related to communication with patients. Specifically, the tool focused on three fundamental phases of the clinical interview: collecting information, returning information to patients, and creating and maintaining a relationship with them. The research included two studies. Study 1 generated an item pool based on the literature…
Mental Well-Being and Job Satisfaction of Hospital Physicians during Covid-19: Relationships with Efficacy Beliefs, Organizational Support, and Organizational Non-Technical Skills
The COVID-19 outbreak has led worldwide governments to take preventive measures to contain the spread of the virus and its extraordinary demands upon healthcare workers. Consequently, healthcare workers have been under high pressures, putting them at risk of developing adverse outcomes. The present study aims to investigate the psychological and organizational factors that contributed to physicians' well-being during the pandemic. A total of 78 I…
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…
Job Satisfaction Mediates the Relationship between Psychosocial and Organization Factors and Mental Well-Being in Schoolteachers
The study aimed to explore the associations between the psychosocial and organizational factors, job satisfaction, and mental well-being of schoolteachers. A further aim was to examine whether job satisfaction mediated the relationship between these factors and mental well-being. A cross-sectional design was used to collect data using a self-reported questionnaire. Six hundred and nine schoolteachers were included in the final analyses. The relat…
Technology-Enhanced Learning and Well-being: A Contribution to the Validation of a Measure to Assess University Students’ Technostress in the Italian Context
COVID-19 has forced many universities to adopt widely technology-enhanced learning (TEL), highlighting the role of technostress as a risk factor for detrimental outcomes that may be prevented through the assessment with reliable tools. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric characteristics of the Italian validation of the technostress scale by Wang, Tan, and Li. A self-report online questionnaire was completed by 915 participants …
Value of Care: An Exploratory Qualitative Study with Doctors and Patients
The concept of value in healthcare is mainly based on economic and financial aspects. However, the literature has emphasised the need to investigate value from other perspectives. The present study aimed to explore the views of physicians and patients on the value of healthcare, and to examine in depth the psychosocial and organisational elements that have emerged but that need to be investigated more. Therefore, two qualitative studies were perf…
Physicians’ adoption of massive open online courses content in the workplace: An investigation on the training transfer process through the Theory of Planned Behavior
While Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are recognized as helpful learning tools for professional development in healthcare organizations, they often result in a low transfer of knowledge and skills into participants' workplaces. Moreover, little research has explored the factors shaping physicians’ intention to transfer learning acquired through these courses to the workplace. In light of the above, the present study adopted an extended versio…
Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Applied Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (6 works) · Medical education (6 works)