Maria Cristina Ginevra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3514802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Cristina Ginevra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginevra |
| SIGNATURE | GINEVRA M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2609-2543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Empowering Adolescents for Sustainable and Inclusive Careers: A Quasi‐Experimental Evaluation of a Life Design‐Based Intervention
BACKGROUND: Adolescents must plan their educational and occupational futures in a context shaped by globalization, social inequalities, and environmental crises. Although career guidance increasingly emphasizes sustainable and inclusive development, empirical interventions integrating social justice, sustainability, and critical consciousness within established career frameworks remain limited. Drawing on the life design paradigm and the psycholo…
La experiencia migratoria y su impacto en la concepción del trabajo decente. Un estudio de la migración latinoamericana en la Unión Europea
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of Latin American and Caribbean migrants in Europe regarding the concept of decent work. A total of 411 participants, selected through chain sampling, responded to an online survey based on open-ended questions. A mixed-methods approach was applied, including descriptive analyses in SPSS and inductive qualitative analysis using Grounded Theory in NVivo. The results identified four main themes: respect f…
Globalization and Education: An analysis of Italian teachers’ conceptions
Teachers occupy a pivotal position in the education of the next generation of citizens and leaders by fostering critical thinking and social awareness. To effectively fulfil this responsibility, they need a comprehensive grasp of the phenomenon of globalization to help students navigate its cultural, economic and political impacts critically. This study investigates the teachers' conceptions of globalization, analyzing responses from 269 Italian …
Sustainable career and decent work as mediators between the sense of community responsibility and well-being
This study highlights the potential of cultivating a sense of community responsibility as a catalyst for individual and societal sustainable development cycles. By fostering a sense of community, career professionals can empower individuals to make career choices that align with decent work and sustainable career principles, ultimately leading to improved well-being for both individuals and communities. The findings underscore the importance of i…
Improving inclusive peer relations through imagined contact
This study examined the efficacy of an intervention that combines an imagined contact task with positive information about hypothetical peers with vulnerabilities. The goal was to promote children's attitudes, stereotypes, feelings, and behavioral intentions toward target outgroups. These outgroups included a peer with visual disability, a peer with Autism Spectrum Disorder, a Moroccan peer, and a Roma peer. Moreover, it verified the efficacy of …
A journey towards rightsland’: An intervention to foster school inclusion
The diversity of today's schools (i.e., children from different backgrounds) can lead to prejudices, stereotypes, and negative attitudes, which have been associated with discrimination and social exclusion. These phenomena constitute violations of children's rights. The intervention program ‘A journey towards Rightsland’ was developed to promote knowledge of rights associated with inclusion, social skills, and positive social relationships with a…
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Activism towards Environmental and Social Sustainability in Career Counseling
Considering the recent attention to challenges regarding sustainability even within career issues, this study is aimed at providing the development and initial validation of the instrument “Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions about Whatever Does not go as It Should” (TFA) which may be used in career counseling and research activities to assess activism towards environmental and social sustainability in career guidance. With this aim, two different st…
Life Satisfaction, Courage, and Career Adaptability in a Group of Italian Workers
Today's work market is both unsteady and unpredictable, and this requires taking urgent and practical actions aiming at creating work opportunities and "better" jobs, promoting a social and solidarity economy, and encouraging the development of moral strength in the workplace. From the Life Design approach perspective, our study examines two variables necessary to cope with the current labor market, courage, and career adaptability, and their rol…
Colleagues’ Work Attitudes towards Employees with Disability
Background: The present study investigates the significance of work inclusion in people with a disability and then aims to examine colleagues’ attitudes. Considering Stone and Colella’s model, we analyzed the colleagues’ attitudes and variables related to the disability, such as type of disability and type of presentation of colleagues with disability, and colleague’s characteristics, such as gender, educational level, and experience in work with…
Career Adaptability, Hope, and Life Satisfaction: An Analysis of Adults with and Without Substance Use Disorder
Considering that adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) experience many barriers and challenges in designing and living a satisfactory life, based on Life Design paradigm, this study aimed at analyzing the direct and indirect effect of career adaptability, through hope, on life satisfaction in a sample of individuals with SUD compared to a sample of individuals without SUD. In this study, a sample of 185 adults with and 185 adults without SUD w…
Inclusive Socialization? The Relationships between Parents’ and Their Child’s Attitudes toward Students with Disabilities
Promoting social and school inclusion of children with disabilities has been associated with their health-related quality of life. This study aimed to analyze the connection between parents and children's attitudes toward disabilities as one factor contributing to the inclusion and well-being of individuals with disabilities. Three types of disabilities-i.e., attitudes toward a child with a sensory disability (hearing), a child with an intellectu…
The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees
Using a full mixed-method design, the study aims to explore refugees’ future goals, and secondly, it aims to examine the relationship between career adaptability and future orientation in considering a breadth of future goals. Results showed that refugees set more frequently materialistic goals and less frequently goals connected to be able to have a “decent job”. Moreover, it was found that career adaptability and future orientation play a cruci…
Italian adolescents’ understandings of globalization
INTRODUCTION: Having a clear understanding of the concept of globalization can be particularly relevant for adolescents to comprehend how the world functions and to reflect on the way their personal and professional identity and career future might be affected by globalization. Thus, this mixed design study aimed at examining Northeastern Italian adolescents' thinking about globalization and at exploring the potential role of education (the type …
Promoting positive attitudes toward peers with disabilities: The role of information and imagined contact
This prepost test experimental study examined the effectiveness of an intervention providing information about peers with sensory disability, intellectual disability, and behavioral difficulties (cognitive intervention), an intervention using imagined contact with peers with these disabilities (behavioral intervention), and an intervention combining information with imagined contact, against a no-intervention control condition. One hundred and fo…
The Role of Psychological Capital in Human Service Professionals’ Work Experiences
The study was set up as a first exploration of the predictive role of human service professionals’ (i.e., teachers and healthcare professionals) psychological capital (PC) in their perception of work experiences and some core aspects of their own work, such as their efficacy to instill positive resources in their clients, the positive representation of their work and of the results that they can obtain, and positive beliefs about their career gro…
Sustainable Development, Career Counselling and Career Education
Development of the Problem Solving Inventory With Italian Youth
The Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) is one of the most widely used applied problem-solving measures in the United States. The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the PSI within Italian adolescent samples. Four separate data sets were used in this investigation involving 5,100 Italian adolescents. The first study revealed a similar, but slightly different, PSI factor structure with Italian youth. Using 2 samples,…
A cross-cultural comparison of the self-determination construct in Italian and American adolescents
The functional theory of self-determination (fSDT) defines and operationalises self-determination within a human agentic context. It emerged from research on adolescents with disabilities, however has been increasingly applied to youth without disabilities. While comparability has been evaluated in youth with and without disabilities, it has not been explored across cultures. The purpose of this study was to explore the cross-cultural comparabili…
Life Satisfaction, Courage, and Career Adaptability in a Group of Italian Workers
Today's work market is both unsteady and unpredictable, and this requires taking urgent and practical actions aiming at creating work opportunities and "better" jobs, promoting a social and solidarity economy, and encouraging the development of moral strength in the workplace. From the Life Design approach perspective, our study examines two variables necessary to cope with the current labor market, courage, and career adaptability, and their rol…
Development of the Problem Solving Inventory With Italian Youth
The Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) is one of the most widely used applied problem-solving measures in the United States. The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the PSI within Italian adolescent samples. Four separate data sets were used in this investigation involving 5,100 Italian adolescents. The first study revealed a similar, but slightly different, PSI factor structure with Italian youth. Using 2 samples,…
A cross-cultural comparison of the self-determination construct in Italian and American adolescents
The functional theory of self-determination (fSDT) defines and operationalises self-determination within a human agentic context. It emerged from research on adolescents with disabilities, however has been increasingly applied to youth without disabilities. While comparability has been evaluated in youth with and without disabilities, it has not been explored across cultures. The purpose of this study was to explore the cross-cultural comparabili…
Sustainable Development, Career Counselling and Career Education
The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees
Using a full mixed-method design, the study aims to explore refugees’ future goals, and secondly, it aims to examine the relationship between career adaptability and future orientation in considering a breadth of future goals. Results showed that refugees set more frequently materialistic goals and less frequently goals connected to be able to have a “decent job”. Moreover, it was found that career adaptability and future orientation play a cruci…
Italian adolescents’ understandings of globalization
INTRODUCTION: Having a clear understanding of the concept of globalization can be particularly relevant for adolescents to comprehend how the world functions and to reflect on the way their personal and professional identity and career future might be affected by globalization. Thus, this mixed design study aimed at examining Northeastern Italian adolescents' thinking about globalization and at exploring the potential role of education (the type …
Promoting positive attitudes toward peers with disabilities: The role of information and imagined contact
This prepost test experimental study examined the effectiveness of an intervention providing information about peers with sensory disability, intellectual disability, and behavioral difficulties (cognitive intervention), an intervention using imagined contact with peers with these disabilities (behavioral intervention), and an intervention combining information with imagined contact, against a no-intervention control condition. One hundred and fo…
The Role of Psychological Capital in Human Service Professionals’ Work Experiences
The study was set up as a first exploration of the predictive role of human service professionals’ (i.e., teachers and healthcare professionals) psychological capital (PC) in their perception of work experiences and some core aspects of their own work, such as their efficacy to instill positive resources in their clients, the positive representation of their work and of the results that they can obtain, and positive beliefs about their career gro…
Career Adaptability, Hope, and Life Satisfaction: An Analysis of Adults with and Without Substance Use Disorder
Considering that adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) experience many barriers and challenges in designing and living a satisfactory life, based on Life Design paradigm, this study aimed at analyzing the direct and indirect effect of career adaptability, through hope, on life satisfaction in a sample of individuals with SUD compared to a sample of individuals without SUD. In this study, a sample of 185 adults with and 185 adults without SUD w…
Inclusive Socialization? The Relationships between Parents’ and Their Child’s Attitudes toward Students with Disabilities
Promoting social and school inclusion of children with disabilities has been associated with their health-related quality of life. This study aimed to analyze the connection between parents and children's attitudes toward disabilities as one factor contributing to the inclusion and well-being of individuals with disabilities. Three types of disabilities-i.e., attitudes toward a child with a sensory disability (hearing), a child with an intellectu…
Colleagues’ Work Attitudes towards Employees with Disability
Background: The present study investigates the significance of work inclusion in people with a disability and then aims to examine colleagues’ attitudes. Considering Stone and Colella’s model, we analyzed the colleagues’ attitudes and variables related to the disability, such as type of disability and type of presentation of colleagues with disability, and colleague’s characteristics, such as gender, educational level, and experience in work with…
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Activism towards Environmental and Social Sustainability in Career Counseling
Considering the recent attention to challenges regarding sustainability even within career issues, this study is aimed at providing the development and initial validation of the instrument “Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions about Whatever Does not go as It Should” (TFA) which may be used in career counseling and research activities to assess activism towards environmental and social sustainability in career guidance. With this aim, two different st…
Life Satisfaction, Courage, and Career Adaptability in a Group of Italian Workers
Today's work market is both unsteady and unpredictable, and this requires taking urgent and practical actions aiming at creating work opportunities and "better" jobs, promoting a social and solidarity economy, and encouraging the development of moral strength in the workplace. From the Life Design approach perspective, our study examines two variables necessary to cope with the current labor market, courage, and career adaptability, and their rol…
Globalization and Education: An analysis of Italian teachers’ conceptions
Teachers occupy a pivotal position in the education of the next generation of citizens and leaders by fostering critical thinking and social awareness. To effectively fulfil this responsibility, they need a comprehensive grasp of the phenomenon of globalization to help students navigate its cultural, economic and political impacts critically. This study investigates the teachers' conceptions of globalization, analyzing responses from 269 Italian …
Sustainable career and decent work as mediators between the sense of community responsibility and well-being
This study highlights the potential of cultivating a sense of community responsibility as a catalyst for individual and societal sustainable development cycles. By fostering a sense of community, career professionals can empower individuals to make career choices that align with decent work and sustainable career principles, ultimately leading to improved well-being for both individuals and communities. The findings underscore the importance of i…
Improving inclusive peer relations through imagined contact
This study examined the efficacy of an intervention that combines an imagined contact task with positive information about hypothetical peers with vulnerabilities. The goal was to promote children's attitudes, stereotypes, feelings, and behavioral intentions toward target outgroups. These outgroups included a peer with visual disability, a peer with Autism Spectrum Disorder, a Moroccan peer, and a Roma peer. Moreover, it verified the efficacy of …
A journey towards rightsland’: An intervention to foster school inclusion
The diversity of today's schools (i.e., children from different backgrounds) can lead to prejudices, stereotypes, and negative attitudes, which have been associated with discrimination and social exclusion. These phenomena constitute violations of children's rights. The intervention program ‘A journey towards Rightsland’ was developed to promote knowledge of rights associated with inclusion, social skills, and positive social relationships with a…
Empowering Adolescents for Sustainable and Inclusive Careers: A Quasi‐Experimental Evaluation of a Life Design‐Based Intervention
BACKGROUND: Adolescents must plan their educational and occupational futures in a context shaped by globalization, social inequalities, and environmental crises. Although career guidance increasingly emphasizes sustainable and inclusive development, empirical interventions integrating social justice, sustainability, and critical consciousness within established career frameworks remain limited. Drawing on the life design paradigm and the psycholo…
La experiencia migratoria y su impacto en la concepción del trabajo decente. Un estudio de la migración latinoamericana en la Unión Europea
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of Latin American and Caribbean migrants in Europe regarding the concept of decent work. A total of 411 participants, selected through chain sampling, responded to an online survey based on open-ended questions. A mixed-methods approach was applied, including descriptive analyses in SPSS and inductive qualitative analysis using Grounded Theory in NVivo. The results identified four main themes: respect f…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Career Development and Diversity (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport (5 works) · Management (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Adaptability (4 works)