T Mannarini
Biographic Data
| ID | 32911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Mannarini |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mannarini |
| SIGNATURE | MANNARINI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salento |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3683-8035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Multiple Selves: Politicised Identities and Activists' Self‐Concept
This study examines the semantic content of identity among members of grassroots organisations to investigate how activists' self‐concepts reflect politicised collective identity. Using an identity content approach, 128 Italian activists were asked to complete an associative recall task in which they described themselves and their group. Thematic analysis identified distinct identity components that were interpreted as ‘possible selves’, includin…
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review
The phenomenology of objectifying patterns in interpersonal relationships: A qualitative analysis of women’s experiences
Sexual objectification, a prevalent form of gender microaggression, has been primarily studied in public and media contexts, with limited attention to interpersonal relationships. This study examines how objectifying patterns manifest within close relationships and their cumulative psychological effects on women. We conducted a qualitative phenomenological analysis of 186 Italian women’s experiences describing personal experiences of sexual objec…
Third‐Party Intervention to Address Gender Microaggressions Among College Students: The Role of System Justification Beliefs and Contact With Counter‐Stereotypical Women
Third‐party intervention against gender‐based microaggressions in the university context helps mitigate harmful effects of these experiences and creates a more supportive environment. The present study aimed to contribute to this line of research by investigating the extent to which system justification ideologies—that is, hostile and benevolent sexism and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)—and contact with counter‐stereotypical women are related…
Helping in Times of War: How Uncertainty Modulates Aid to Ukrainian Refugees through Compassion and Threat
The present paper focuses on the antecedents of solidarity behavior towards Ukrainian refugees, specifically examining the role of subjective uncertainty generated in public opinion by the aggression of Ukraine on feelings of compassion and perceptions of refugees as a threat. Based on pooled data from six representative samples collected in different waves during the first six months of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine among a representati…
Multiculturalism in dominant ethnic populations: A transnational profile analysis
Following a person-centered approach, the present study investigates support for multiculturalism of dominant ethnic members. Using Latent Profile Analysis, the current investigation aimed to identify subgroups of dominant ethnic participants and examine potential difference in their endorsement of multiculturalism towards subaltern ethnic groups. Based on the existing literature, subgroups of dominant members were identified along with the combi…
Mitigating the effect of Covid‐19 in a postemergency phase: The role of sense of community and individual resilience
To identify and confirm patterns of relationships connecting sense of community (SOC) and individual resilience with psychological well‐being, via the mediation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) impacts on life domains. An online survey was conducted with a sample of adults ( n = 650) 1 year after the COVID‐19 outbreak in Italy and the United States (April–December 2021). Utilizing a Structural Equation Model, we tested a mediation model ( n…
We, activists", "They, the activists: Exploring Activist Identity Among Youth Inside and Outside the Stereotype
Identity is considered a key factor in activist engagement. In this study, we examined the self-representations of a group of young activists through the lens of the ego-ecological approach, which emphasizes the interplay of representations, attitudes, and beliefs (including stereotypes) that circulate both within groups and in the broader sociocultural environment in identity formation. 46 young activists from a variety of fields (e.g. environme…
Methods and Instruments in the Study of Meaning-Making
“A long journey to happiness”: The young immigrants’ experiences through the Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience
A higher-order model of community resilience potential: Development and assessment through confirmatory composite analysis based on partial least squares
The topic of community resilience attracts as much academic research as it does social media. Understanding the drivers of change and community adaptation in the face of critical events is a key clue to governance actions and local measures. However, both academia and the media often provide partial definitions of community resilience. Beginning with an integration of theory-driven and data-driven knowledge, the study aims to uncover and operatio…
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…
The interplay of community resilience potential, trust in the future and social well‐being
Community resilience (CR) has been mainly investigated as the ability of the community to respond to far‐reaching circumstances. Relatively less attention has been given to the understanding of CR as the ability of the community to deal with everyday problems, that is, community resilience potential (CRP). Using partial least squares path modelling, this study aims to elucidate how communities deal with issues that trouble their everyday function…
Immigrant collective civic action: Integrating group resilience into the social identity model of collective action
Based on the social identity model of collective action (SIMCA), this study examined factors associated with immigrant collective civic action, while also testing the role of group resilience. A convenience sample of 226 first‐generation immigrants (58.6% female) of different nationalities completed a self‐report questionnaire. Partial least squares path modelling was used to test a model assessing the relationship between national and ethnic ide…
The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations
This study aimed at developing a scale to measure Social Added Value (SAV) according to the perspective of community members, building on the relational framework and complementing the work of Mannarini et al. (Voluntas: Int J Voluntary Nonprofit Organ 29(6):1315–1329, 2018). The study was conducted on 720 Italian citizens who were not directly involved in Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (NPVOs) as active members to examine the statistical …
The Relational Domains of Adolescence: Changes and Possibilities During Covid Era
The COVID-19 pandemic experience had a major impact on adolescents’ relational lives. The abrupt change in habits led adolescents to revise their relationships with respect to family, friends, and school; they suffered greatly because of this but, at the same time, were able to discover new resources and possibilities. The present paper aims to give adolescents a voice by exploring their experiences of the change that the pandemic period brought …
Community resilience and continuous challenges: A qualitative analysis of the functioning of communities in the aftermath of persistent and ordinary stressors
The study aimed at investigating the functioning of communities in the aftermath of continuous challenges and identifying standards for describing resilient paths based on the perspective of community members. A qualitative investigation was carried out in 11 territorial communities of Salento, in southern Italy. Fifty‐two key informants were interviewed and interview transcripts were submitted to thematic content analysis through Atlas.Ti. Overa…
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
Opposition to immigration: How people who identify with far‐right discourses legitimize the social exclusion of immigrants
This study sought to develop our understanding of how people legitimize opposition to immigration. Thirty‐eight interviews were conducted with people who self‐identified with far‐right anti‐immigration discourses, in Italy ( N = 23) and Portugal ( N = 15). Using reflexive thematic analysis, we developed four related themes. In the first theme, ‘They ' re guests’: Legitimizing exclusion by differentiating (non‐) immigrants , we discuss how despite…
Fighting for abortion rights: Strategies aimed at managing stigma in a group of Italian pro-choice activists
Despite societal changes in Western countries, abortion continues to be morally stigmatized. While research on abortion stigma targeted both at people who seek or voluntarily terminate their pregnancy and abortion providers has been conducted, stigma directed at those who advocate abortion rights has remained under-researched. The purpose of this study was to deepen understandings of abortion stigma in relation to Italian cisgender female pro-cho…
The potential of psychological connectedness: Mitigating the impacts of Covid‐19 through sense of community and community resilience
The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of relationships connecting sense of community (SOC) and community resilience with psychological wellbeing, via the mediation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacts on life domains. Survey data were collected from an international sample of adults (n = 824) during the COVID-19 outbreak (June-September 2020). Using a structural equation model, we tested a mediation model to identify the as…
Resilience and empowerment in immigrant experiences: A look through the transconceptual model of empowerment and resilience
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…
Culture and Policy-Making: Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital
Covid-19 as an “invisible other” and socio-spatial distancing within a one-metre individual bubble
Multiple senses of community: The experience and meaning of community
This study contributes to the debate on the meaning of community and sense of community, and attempts to clarify the relationship between sense of community and civic and political participation. The authors interviewed 76 participants about their views and feelings about community. Forty‐seven were active members of political parties, neighborhood and cultural associations, and volunteers helping disadvantaged people. Twenty‐nine had never been …
Measuring Participation: Development and Validation the Participatory Behaviors Scale
Six Factors Fostering Protest: Predicting Participation in Locally Unwanted Land Uses Movements
In two studies we analyzed the predictors of participation in an Italian Lulu mobilization, rooted in the Susa Valley, a North‐Western Italian valley where a high speed railway (HSR) should be sited. Based on the data of qualitative Study 1, performed interviewing 12 anti‐HSR militants and 12 non anti‐HSR militants, we hypothesized that Klandermans' (1997) model on participation (centered on group identification, sense of injustice, and collectiv…
How Identification Processes and Inter‐community Relationships Affect Sense of Community
Based on the Social Identity and Social Categorization Theory framework, this study investigated how identification with the physical component of a community (i.e., the place identity), the perception of a community (i.e., the ingroup) in terms of cohesion and entitativity, and the perception of one or more territorial communities as laying beyond a community's boundaries (i.e., the outgroup) affect a psychological sense of community (PSOC). A s…
Public involvement: How to encourage citizen participation
The study was aimed at identifying the impact of a pool of variables on the willingness of the participants in five consultative arenas (Open Space Technology) to become involved in future experiences of civic engagement. The study also intended to verify whether such willingness varied among subgroups of participants. In total, 194 participants (49.5% men, 50.5% women; mean age = 37.04) were recruited during five OSTs held in Italy between May a…
Sense of Community and the Perception of the Socio-Physical Environment: A Comparison Between Urban Centers of Different Sizes Across Europe
How Diverse Is This Community? Sense of Community, Ethnic Prejudice and Perceived Ethnic Heterogeneity
In this paper, the relationship between territorial sense of community (SoC), perceived ethnic heterogeneity within the community and ethnic prejudice was analyzed. Specifically, the moderating role of perceived ethnic heterogeneity within the community on the SoC–prejudice relationship was tested in a sample of residents ( N = 603) of the Salento region, Italy. Results showed that the relationship between SoC and prejudice was moderated by perce…
Negative Psychological Sense of Community: Development of a Measure and Theoretical Implications
Psychological sense of community (PSOC) has been a focus of extensive research investigation. However, despite the emphasis on the positive aspects of PSOC, scholars have paid relatively little attention on its negative aspects. The present work assumes PSOC to be a bipolar construct (Brodsky, ), introduces negative psychological sense of community (NPSOC) as a centrifugal force that drives individuals away from the community, and reports the dev…
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…
Globalization, demand of sense and enemization of the other: A psychocultural analysis of European societies’ sociopolitical crisis
The paper outlines a cultural–psychological interpretation of the current European societies’ socio-institutional crisis. To this end, preliminarily, the cultural psychological view of social behaviour is outlined, focusing on the idea that socio-political choices depend on how people make sense of their world. Second, the paper provides an interpretation of the current socio-political European scenario of crisis, based on the main results of a r…
Multiple senses of community and acculturation strategies among migrants
Based on the theoretical framework of multiple psychological sense of community (MPSOC) and acculturation models, the study explored the relationships between territorial (TPSOC) and ethnic PSOC (EPSOC) and the acculturation behaviors of 2 groups of immigrants who settled in Italy, namely, Albanians (N = 230) and Sri Lankans (N = 131). Based on survey data and quantitative analyses (general linear models), TPSOC and EPSOC were considered first se…
The identity of Brexit: A cultural psychology analysis
In this paper, we propose a culturalist interpretation of the outcome of the Brexit referendum. This interpretation is grounded on the analysis of the U.K.'s cultural milieu, which is part of a more general study of the cultural milieus of several European countries. Specific to the United Kingdom, our analysis is based on a questionnaire carried out on a representative sample of U.K. respondents stratified by sociodemographic variables and geogr…
Empowering Community Settings and Community Mobilization
Empowering community settings exist in many community domains. One domain includes groups and organizations that empower oppressed citizens to challenge societal culture and institutions, and take action to change them. To be considered empowering, a community setting must have both an empowering process, and lead to an empowered outcome. Our study tried to answer the following question: Does the empowering community setting model provide a poten…
The potential of psychological connectedness: Mitigating the impacts of Covid‐19 through sense of community and community resilience
The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of relationships connecting sense of community (SOC) and community resilience with psychological wellbeing, via the mediation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacts on life domains. Survey data were collected from an international sample of adults (n = 824) during the COVID-19 outbreak (June-September 2020). Using a structural equation model, we tested a mediation model to identify the as…
Basic human values and sense of community as resource and responsibility
The study aimed at exploring the relationship between basic human values and sense of community (SOC). Specifically, it aimed at identifying which types of values exert an impact, whether these values are consistent with SOC as a resource and responsibility (SOC‐R), and whether the values‐SOC/SOC‐R relations change according to some community characteristics (i.e., stability and cohesion). The 1,334 participants in the survey were based in differ…
Community resilience and the acculturation expectations of the receiving community
The study addressed how communities cope with multiculturalism by exploring the relationship between community resilience (CR) and acculturation expectations held by a sample of Italian‐born. Specifically, the study aimed at detecting whether the perception of living in a community endowed with social (CR‐connection and caring) and material (CR‐resources) resources, along with the availability of individual assets (i.e., psychological resilience)…
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…
From the manifestations of culture to the underlying sensemaking process. The contribution of semiotic cultural psychology theory to the interpretation of socio‐political scenario
Several explanations of the current syndrome affecting advanced democracies make reference to a process of cultural change that has been triggered by the complex and interrelated phenomena known as globalization. The rise of populist‐authoritarian parties, the advent of post‐truth politics and the increasing dissatisfaction with democracy are seen by many political scientists as rather direct consequences of social and economic transformations wh…
Shared Communities: A Multinational Qualitative Study of Immigrant and Receiving Community Members
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…
How socio-institutional contexts and cultural worldviews relate to Covid-19 acceptance rates: A representative study in Italy
Opposition to immigration: How people who identify with far‐right discourses legitimize the social exclusion of immigrants
This study sought to develop our understanding of how people legitimize opposition to immigration. Thirty‐eight interviews were conducted with people who self‐identified with far‐right anti‐immigration discourses, in Italy ( N = 23) and Portugal ( N = 15). Using reflexive thematic analysis, we developed four related themes. In the first theme, ‘They ' re guests’: Legitimizing exclusion by differentiating (non‐) immigrants , we discuss how despite…
The Representation of Immigration. A Retrospective Newspaper Analysis
The article reports a comparative study of the representation of migration in media from three countries (Greece, Italy, and Turkey), over 2001–2018 period. Analysis showed the salience of two main frames – the view of migration as a matter of security and human beings as well. Themes framing the media discourses on migration are grounded on a semantic structure that is quite similar across the three countries compared, despite their considerable…
Individual and perceived community determinants of sense of community: The role of universalistic values
Research on the determinants of the psychological sense of community (PSoC) is of particular importance to community interventions. A cross‐sectional study involving 778 residents in an Italian local community explored through a mediation model the effects on PSoC of an individual cultural variable that has been scarcely investigated in PSoC research, that is, values–specifically, universalism–, and a perceived contextual variable, that is, the a…
A proposal for an integrated model of prosocial behavior and collective action as the expression of global citizenship
The processes of globalization that have characterized recent decades have prompted social psychology to rethink some everyday life concerns and local problems at a global level. This article presents an explanatory model of collective action aimed at fighting poverty with a proposal to integrate the Encapsulated Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) with some antecedents from both the psychology of volunteerism and authority rel…
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…
Empowering Community Settings and Community Mobilization
Empowering community settings exist in many community domains. One domain includes groups and organizations that empower oppressed citizens to challenge societal culture and institutions, and take action to change them. To be considered empowering, a community setting must have both an empowering process, and lead to an empowered outcome. Our study tried to answer the following question: Does the empowering community setting model provide a poten…
Public involvement: How to encourage citizen participation
The study was aimed at identifying the impact of a pool of variables on the willingness of the participants in five consultative arenas (Open Space Technology) to become involved in future experiences of civic engagement. The study also intended to verify whether such willingness varied among subgroups of participants. In total, 194 participants (49.5% men, 50.5% women; mean age = 37.04) were recruited during five OSTs held in Italy between May a…
Multiple senses of community: The experience and meaning of community
This study contributes to the debate on the meaning of community and sense of community, and attempts to clarify the relationship between sense of community and civic and political participation. The authors interviewed 76 participants about their views and feelings about community. Forty‐seven were active members of political parties, neighborhood and cultural associations, and volunteers helping disadvantaged people. Twenty‐nine had never been …
Six Factors Fostering Protest: Predicting Participation in Locally Unwanted Land Uses Movements
In two studies we analyzed the predictors of participation in an Italian Lulu mobilization, rooted in the Susa Valley, a North‐Western Italian valley where a high speed railway (HSR) should be sited. Based on the data of qualitative Study 1, performed interviewing 12 anti‐HSR militants and 12 non anti‐HSR militants, we hypothesized that Klandermans' (1997) model on participation (centered on group identification, sense of injustice, and collectiv…
Persisting or Withdrawing? An Insight into the Psychosocial Processes Underlying Sustained Engagement
The study explored the roles of commitment, emotional stress, and interpersonal relationships in sustaining individuals' engagement in collective action. Two collective action cases, differing in duration, issue, and territorial rootedness, were analyzed. The processes underlying sustained engagement were probed in 32 semistructured interviews conducted with antiglobalization activists (N = 13) and opponents to a high‐speed railroad (N = 19). Our…
How Identification Processes and Inter‐community Relationships Affect Sense of Community
Based on the Social Identity and Social Categorization Theory framework, this study investigated how identification with the physical component of a community (i.e., the place identity), the perception of a community (i.e., the ingroup) in terms of cohesion and entitativity, and the perception of one or more territorial communities as laying beyond a community's boundaries (i.e., the outgroup) affect a psychological sense of community (PSOC). A s…
Sense of Community and Community Participation: A Meta-Analytic Review
Negative Psychological Sense of Community: Development of a Measure and Theoretical Implications
Psychological sense of community (PSOC) has been a focus of extensive research investigation. However, despite the emphasis on the positive aspects of PSOC, scholars have paid relatively little attention on its negative aspects. The present work assumes PSOC to be a bipolar construct (Brodsky, ), introduces negative psychological sense of community (NPSOC) as a centrifugal force that drives individuals away from the community, and reports the dev…
A proposal for an integrated model of prosocial behavior and collective action as the expression of global citizenship
The processes of globalization that have characterized recent decades have prompted social psychology to rethink some everyday life concerns and local problems at a global level. This article presents an explanatory model of collective action aimed at fighting poverty with a proposal to integrate the Encapsulated Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) with some antecedents from both the psychology of volunteerism and authority rel…
Measuring Participation: Development and Validation the Participatory Behaviors Scale
How Diverse Is This Community? Sense of Community, Ethnic Prejudice and Perceived Ethnic Heterogeneity
In this paper, the relationship between territorial sense of community (SoC), perceived ethnic heterogeneity within the community and ethnic prejudice was analyzed. Specifically, the moderating role of perceived ethnic heterogeneity within the community on the SoC–prejudice relationship was tested in a sample of residents ( N = 603) of the Salento region, Italy. Results showed that the relationship between SoC and prejudice was moderated by perce…
Sense of Community and the Perception of the Socio-Physical Environment: A Comparison Between Urban Centers of Different Sizes Across Europe
Identity and Immigrant Stereotypes: A Study Based on the Ego-Ecological Approach
Based on the ego-ecological approach, which views identity as deeply interconnected with the social environment via group memberships, this study reconstructed the psychosocial identity of a group of Sri Lankan immigrants who settled in Naples, Italy, with the aim of detecting resonances between their self-representations and the stereotypes circulating in the receiving society. Fifty-one Sri Lankan immigrants completed a shortened version of the…
A Psychosocial Measure of Social Added Value in Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations: Findings from a Study in the South of Italy
Inspired by the relational framework (Bassi, in: Franz, Hochgerner, Howaldt (eds) Challenge social innovation, Springer, Berlin, pp 325–350, 2012; Donati in Ital J Sociol Educ 5(1):19–35, 2013) and designed to integrate psychological and sociological aspects, a measure of social added value (SAV) was developed and validated. A study was conducted in the South of Italy on a sample of non-profit and voluntary organization members ( N = 394) to exam…
Shared Communities: A Multinational Qualitative Study of Immigrant and Receiving Community Members
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…
Multiple senses of community and acculturation strategies among migrants
Based on the theoretical framework of multiple psychological sense of community (MPSOC) and acculturation models, the study explored the relationships between territorial (TPSOC) and ethnic PSOC (EPSOC) and the acculturation behaviors of 2 groups of immigrants who settled in Italy, namely, Albanians (N = 230) and Sri Lankans (N = 131). Based on survey data and quantitative analyses (general linear models), TPSOC and EPSOC were considered first se…
Using Quali-Quantitative Indicators for Assessing the Quality of Citizen Participation: A Study on Three Citizen Juries
Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members: Results from a cross-national qualitative study
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 identity of Brexit: A cultural psychology analysis
In this paper, we propose a culturalist interpretation of the outcome of the Brexit referendum. This interpretation is grounded on the analysis of the U.K.'s cultural milieu, which is part of a more general study of the cultural milieus of several European countries. Specific to the United Kingdom, our analysis is based on a questionnaire carried out on a representative sample of U.K. respondents stratified by sociodemographic variables and geogr…
Globalization, demand of sense and enemization of the other: A psychocultural analysis of European societies’ sociopolitical crisis
The paper outlines a cultural–psychological interpretation of the current European societies’ socio-institutional crisis. To this end, preliminarily, the cultural psychological view of social behaviour is outlined, focusing on the idea that socio-political choices depend on how people make sense of their world. Second, the paper provides an interpretation of the current socio-political European scenario of crisis, based on the main results of a r…
The politicization of otherness and the privatization of the enemy: Cultural hindrances and assets for active citizenship
The purpose of the article is to discuss the cultural hindrances and assets that promote constructive self-to-others relationships and active citizenship. Building on Carl Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction, we argue that in contemporary societies the public and the private dimensions of the enemy have conflated, as the result of two concurrent phenomena: the politicization of otherness and the privatization of enemies. An integrated framework in…
Individual and perceived community determinants of sense of community: The role of universalistic values
Research on the determinants of the psychological sense of community (PSoC) is of particular importance to community interventions. A cross‐sectional study involving 778 residents in an Italian local community explored through a mediation model the effects on PSoC of an individual cultural variable that has been scarcely investigated in PSoC research, that is, values–specifically, universalism–, and a perceived contextual variable, that is, the a…
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…
From the manifestations of culture to the underlying sensemaking process. The contribution of semiotic cultural psychology theory to the interpretation of socio‐political scenario
Several explanations of the current syndrome affecting advanced democracies make reference to a process of cultural change that has been triggered by the complex and interrelated phenomena known as globalization. The rise of populist‐authoritarian parties, the advent of post‐truth politics and the increasing dissatisfaction with democracy are seen by many political scientists as rather direct consequences of social and economic transformations wh…
Culture and Policy-Making: Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital
Psychology (42 works) · Social Psychology (40 works) · Sociology (37 works) · Political science (29 works) · Community Health and Development (26 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Social science (14 works) · Sense of community (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Geography (11 works)