Lavinia Barone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5241673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lavinia Barone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lavinia |
| FAMILY NAME | Barone |
| SIGNATURE | BARONE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4072-8317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changes in mental health and academic engagement following brief university counseling: Practice-based evidence from a pre-post study
University students face a critical developmental transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood, marked by increased vulnerability to psychological distress. Effective and accessible counseling services are essential for supporting their mental health and academic functioning. This pre-post study evaluated changes in psychological well-being and academic engagement following a brief individual counseling intervention at an Italian University …
Assessing The Relationship Among Academic Engagement, Well-being, And Mental Health: Featuring University Students Seeking Support at a Counseling Facility
Given the high prevalence of psychological distress and mental health conditions within higher education contexts, identifying potential factors fostering university students’ well-being may be pertinent. Academic engagement (AE) appears to play a key role in supporting mental health and buffering psychological issues. This study addressed the association between AE, well-being, and mental health among university students, by focusing on a specif…
Perspectives on early insights: Pediatric cancer caregiving amidst natural calamities – A call for future preparedness
Natural disasters cause immense damage and disruption to the environment, human lives, and property, posing a threat to safety and well-being. These disasters annually affect individuals and communities, severely impacting mental health. Research indicates a significant link between catastrophic events and an increased risk of mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, substance use, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Individuals wi…
Community Attitudes Toward Adoption in Italy: The Role of Stereotypes and Emotional Reactions
The article explores the attitudes toward the adoption of a representative sample of the Italian population. Focusing on the sociodemographic factors, stereotypes, and feelings about adoption, this study investigates whether and to what extent they can shape attitudes toward adoption. A large sample of 1,003, Italian adults was used in the study. The participants were asked to complete a self-report questionnaire. A series of hierarchical regress…
Emerging personality in adolescence: Developmental trajectories, internalizing and externalizing problems, and the role of mentalizing abilities
INTRODUCTION: Identifying longitudinal trajectories of emerging personality (EP) is crucial to highlight developmental patterns that might foster personality pathology in adolescence and early adulthood. Research on the exacerbation of personality pathology in adolescence identifies the significant contribution of internalizing and externalizing problems and suggests the importance of considering aspects such as mentalization, while accounting fo…
Econnect Parent Group: An Online Attachment-Based Intervention to Reduce Attachment Insecurity, Behavioral Problems, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescence
During adolescence, a secure parent-adolescent relationship promotes youths' adjustment and psychological well-being. In this scenario, several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the CONNECT program, a 10-session, attachment-based parenting intervention that helps parents understand and reframe their parent-adolescent interactions, reducing adolescents' insecure attachment and behavioral problems. Furthermore, recent years have witnes…
Exploring Patterns of Alcohol Consumption in Adolescence: The Role of Health Complaints and Psychosocial Determinants in an Italian Sample
Adolescents are particularly prone to engage in health-risk behaviors such as alcohol and substance use, which can significantly impact their present and future lives. Our study explores the factors contributing to (1) regular alcohol use (i.e., at least 3 to 5 times in the last 30 days) and (2) binge drinking (i.e., drinking at least five glasses of alcohol in a single sitting in the last 12 months) in adolescents, in the 2014 and 2018 waves of …
Ukrainian refugee crisis management in the Local Health Authority Roma 1: The challenges of implementing public health policies and lessons learned
The experience of LHA Roma 1 helps shed light on the importance of leadership in emergency settings and how a dynamic relationship between policy and practice would allow each intervention to be modulated according to the local environment, to better realize the potential of local realities to provide appropriate health interventions to all those in need
Effect of a parenting intervention on decreasing adolescents’ behavioral problems via reduction in attachment insecurity: A longitudinal, multicenter, randomized controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: Secure attachment in adolescence, related to caregiving quality, is a robust predictor of positive behavioral adjustment in early adulthood and beyond. Nevertheless, few attempts have been made to develop treatments to promote parent-adolescent attachment security. METHODS: = 14.90, SD = 1.91) to test the effectiveness of an attachment-based parenting intervention (i.e., Connect) in reducing adolescents' behavioral problems and atta…
The Synergistic Effect of Time of Exposure, Distance and No Use of Personal Protective Equipment in the Determination of Sars-CoV-2 Infection: Results of a Contact Tracing Follow-Up Study in Healthcar…
The aim of this study is to assess the effect of contact time, contact distance and the use of personal protective equipment on the determination of SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers (HCWs). This study consists of an analysis of data gathered for safety reasons at the Sapienza Teaching Hospital Policlinico Umberto I in Rome through the surveillance system that was put into place after the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic. The studied s…
Factors associated with behavioral adjustment among school-age children of gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy
Thirty-one children of gay single fathers and 28 children of heterosexual single fathers, all born through surrogacy, were compared with 31 children of gay partnered fathers through surrogacy and 30 children of heterosexual partnered fathers through in-vitro fertilization on their perceptions of self-worth and their father- and caregiver-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors. For children of single fathers, the study also examined as…
El «quillotrador donaire» de Caldeira: Comicidad e ingenio de un gracioso itinerante
La repartición de la comicidad en Mari Hernández, la gallega procede esencialmente de la dúplice escenificación de los espacios dramáticos que connotan la acción, revelando una distribución fragmentaria que muestra, por un lado, el recurso a la comicidad rústica, por otro la presencia constante del gracioso. Este ensayo analiza específicamente las modalidades de expresión de lo cómico que caracterizan a Caldeira, cuyo personaje se define de maner…
Gay and Heterosexual Single Father Families Created by Surrogacy: Father–Child Relationships, Parenting Quality, and Children’s Psychological Adjustment
Sensitivity and rough-and-tumble play in gay and heterosexual single-father families through surrogacy: The role of microaggressions and fathers’ rumination
Gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy may be targets of microaggressions (i.e., subtle and implicit stigma-related stressors), as they present highly contested aspects of family formation: single parenthood, surrogacy conception, and, in the case of gay single fathers, nonheterosexual orientation. However, to date, no research has addressed whether experiences of microaggression impact the quality of the father–child relationship …
Alcohol consumption in adolescence: The role of adolescents’ gender, parental control, and family dinners attendance in an Italian HBSC sample
Parental control and family dinners attendance may constitute protective factors against alcohol consumption during adolescence, with different patterns for boys and girls, though evidence thus far have produced mixed findings. The present study analyzed Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC, 2014) data from 906 adolescents living in Northern Italy (49% boys, Myears = 16.02, SD = 2.4) to examine: (a) gender differences in alcohol consump…
Examining the Impact of Maternal Individual Features on Children’s Behavioral Problems in Adoptive Families: The Role of Maternal Temperament and Neurobiological Markers
The first year after adoption constitutes a sensitive period for both strengthening the new emotional bond in the family and checking its appropriate development by adoption services. A key variable for children's catch-up are adoptive parents' socioemotional and individual features. The aim of this study is to investigate links between adoptive mothers' individual features and behavioral problems in their children in the first year after adoptio…
The key role of positive parenting and children’s temperament in post‐institutionalized children’s socio‐emotional adjustment after adoption placement. A RCT study
Parenting interventions represent a means for experimentally inquiring socio‐emotional change of post‐institutionalized children after adoption. We used this approach in a three time point RCT study involving 83 post‐institutionalized children ( M age = 33.5 months, SD = 17.1) and their adoptive mothers ( M age = 42.6, SD = 3.9), attending either the Video‐Feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting in adoption and foster care or a dummy …
Juegos de amor y poder en las adaptaciones italianas de un díptico tirsiano: Las dos partes del Cavalier trascurato de Giambattista Pasca
Cette étude aborde la dramaturgie de Giambattista Pasca à partir de l’analyse du dyptique formé par les traductions/adaptations de El castigo del penseque et de Quien calla otorga de Tirso de Molina. Elle souligne d’une part les dynamiques d’assimilation et d’adaptation du modèle à un contexte théâtral nouveau et, d’autre part, l’atténuation des mécanismes dramatiques liés à la représentation du pouvoir et de ses contraintes
Parenting Stress: The Roles of Attachment States of Mind and Parenting Alliance in the Context of Adoption
SYNOPSISObjective. To examine whether parent’s attachment states of mind and parenting alliance contribute to parental stress in the potentially demanding context of adoption. Design. Fifty mother–father pairs (n = 100) completed the Adult Attachment Interview within six months of adoption to investigate attachment states of mind. The Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI/SF) and the Parenting Alliance Measure questionnaires were administered tw…
Gay and Heterosexual Single Father Families Created by Surrogacy: Father–Child Relationships, Parenting Quality, and Children’s Psychological Adjustment
Sensitivity and rough-and-tumble play in gay and heterosexual single-father families through surrogacy: The role of microaggressions and fathers’ rumination
Gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy may be targets of microaggressions (i.e., subtle and implicit stigma-related stressors), as they present highly contested aspects of family formation: single parenthood, surrogacy conception, and, in the case of gay single fathers, nonheterosexual orientation. However, to date, no research has addressed whether experiences of microaggression impact the quality of the father–child relationship …
Parenting Stress: The Roles of Attachment States of Mind and Parenting Alliance in the Context of Adoption
SYNOPSISObjective. To examine whether parent’s attachment states of mind and parenting alliance contribute to parental stress in the potentially demanding context of adoption. Design. Fifty mother–father pairs (n = 100) completed the Adult Attachment Interview within six months of adoption to investigate attachment states of mind. The Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI/SF) and the Parenting Alliance Measure questionnaires were administered tw…
Factors associated with behavioral adjustment among school-age children of gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy
Thirty-one children of gay single fathers and 28 children of heterosexual single fathers, all born through surrogacy, were compared with 31 children of gay partnered fathers through surrogacy and 30 children of heterosexual partnered fathers through in-vitro fertilization on their perceptions of self-worth and their father- and caregiver-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors. For children of single fathers, the study also examined as…
The key role of positive parenting and children’s temperament in post‐institutionalized children’s socio‐emotional adjustment after adoption placement. A RCT study
Parenting interventions represent a means for experimentally inquiring socio‐emotional change of post‐institutionalized children after adoption. We used this approach in a three time point RCT study involving 83 post‐institutionalized children ( M age = 33.5 months, SD = 17.1) and their adoptive mothers ( M age = 42.6, SD = 3.9), attending either the Video‐Feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting in adoption and foster care or a dummy …
Parenting Stress: The Roles of Attachment States of Mind and Parenting Alliance in the Context of Adoption
SYNOPSISObjective. To examine whether parent’s attachment states of mind and parenting alliance contribute to parental stress in the potentially demanding context of adoption. Design. Fifty mother–father pairs (n = 100) completed the Adult Attachment Interview within six months of adoption to investigate attachment states of mind. The Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI/SF) and the Parenting Alliance Measure questionnaires were administered tw…
Juegos de amor y poder en las adaptaciones italianas de un díptico tirsiano: Las dos partes del Cavalier trascurato de Giambattista Pasca
Cette étude aborde la dramaturgie de Giambattista Pasca à partir de l’analyse du dyptique formé par les traductions/adaptations de El castigo del penseque et de Quien calla otorga de Tirso de Molina. Elle souligne d’une part les dynamiques d’assimilation et d’adaptation du modèle à un contexte théâtral nouveau et, d’autre part, l’atténuation des mécanismes dramatiques liés à la représentation du pouvoir et de ses contraintes
Examining the Impact of Maternal Individual Features on Children’s Behavioral Problems in Adoptive Families: The Role of Maternal Temperament and Neurobiological Markers
The first year after adoption constitutes a sensitive period for both strengthening the new emotional bond in the family and checking its appropriate development by adoption services. A key variable for children's catch-up are adoptive parents' socioemotional and individual features. The aim of this study is to investigate links between adoptive mothers' individual features and behavioral problems in their children in the first year after adoptio…
The key role of positive parenting and children’s temperament in post‐institutionalized children’s socio‐emotional adjustment after adoption placement. A RCT study
Parenting interventions represent a means for experimentally inquiring socio‐emotional change of post‐institutionalized children after adoption. We used this approach in a three time point RCT study involving 83 post‐institutionalized children ( M age = 33.5 months, SD = 17.1) and their adoptive mothers ( M age = 42.6, SD = 3.9), attending either the Video‐Feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting in adoption and foster care or a dummy …
Alcohol consumption in adolescence: The role of adolescents’ gender, parental control, and family dinners attendance in an Italian HBSC sample
Parental control and family dinners attendance may constitute protective factors against alcohol consumption during adolescence, with different patterns for boys and girls, though evidence thus far have produced mixed findings. The present study analyzed Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC, 2014) data from 906 adolescents living in Northern Italy (49% boys, Myears = 16.02, SD = 2.4) to examine: (a) gender differences in alcohol consump…
El «quillotrador donaire» de Caldeira: Comicidad e ingenio de un gracioso itinerante
La repartición de la comicidad en Mari Hernández, la gallega procede esencialmente de la dúplice escenificación de los espacios dramáticos que connotan la acción, revelando una distribución fragmentaria que muestra, por un lado, el recurso a la comicidad rústica, por otro la presencia constante del gracioso. Este ensayo analiza específicamente las modalidades de expresión de lo cómico que caracterizan a Caldeira, cuyo personaje se define de maner…
Gay and Heterosexual Single Father Families Created by Surrogacy: Father–Child Relationships, Parenting Quality, and Children’s Psychological Adjustment
Sensitivity and rough-and-tumble play in gay and heterosexual single-father families through surrogacy: The role of microaggressions and fathers’ rumination
Gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy may be targets of microaggressions (i.e., subtle and implicit stigma-related stressors), as they present highly contested aspects of family formation: single parenthood, surrogacy conception, and, in the case of gay single fathers, nonheterosexual orientation. However, to date, no research has addressed whether experiences of microaggression impact the quality of the father–child relationship …
Effect of a parenting intervention on decreasing adolescents’ behavioral problems via reduction in attachment insecurity: A longitudinal, multicenter, randomized controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: Secure attachment in adolescence, related to caregiving quality, is a robust predictor of positive behavioral adjustment in early adulthood and beyond. Nevertheless, few attempts have been made to develop treatments to promote parent-adolescent attachment security. METHODS: = 14.90, SD = 1.91) to test the effectiveness of an attachment-based parenting intervention (i.e., Connect) in reducing adolescents' behavioral problems and atta…
The Synergistic Effect of Time of Exposure, Distance and No Use of Personal Protective Equipment in the Determination of Sars-CoV-2 Infection: Results of a Contact Tracing Follow-Up Study in Healthcar…
The aim of this study is to assess the effect of contact time, contact distance and the use of personal protective equipment on the determination of SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers (HCWs). This study consists of an analysis of data gathered for safety reasons at the Sapienza Teaching Hospital Policlinico Umberto I in Rome through the surveillance system that was put into place after the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic. The studied s…
Factors associated with behavioral adjustment among school-age children of gay and heterosexual single fathers through surrogacy
Thirty-one children of gay single fathers and 28 children of heterosexual single fathers, all born through surrogacy, were compared with 31 children of gay partnered fathers through surrogacy and 30 children of heterosexual partnered fathers through in-vitro fertilization on their perceptions of self-worth and their father- and caregiver-reported internalizing and externalizing behaviors. For children of single fathers, the study also examined as…
Emerging personality in adolescence: Developmental trajectories, internalizing and externalizing problems, and the role of mentalizing abilities
INTRODUCTION: Identifying longitudinal trajectories of emerging personality (EP) is crucial to highlight developmental patterns that might foster personality pathology in adolescence and early adulthood. Research on the exacerbation of personality pathology in adolescence identifies the significant contribution of internalizing and externalizing problems and suggests the importance of considering aspects such as mentalization, while accounting fo…
Econnect Parent Group: An Online Attachment-Based Intervention to Reduce Attachment Insecurity, Behavioral Problems, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescence
During adolescence, a secure parent-adolescent relationship promotes youths' adjustment and psychological well-being. In this scenario, several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the CONNECT program, a 10-session, attachment-based parenting intervention that helps parents understand and reframe their parent-adolescent interactions, reducing adolescents' insecure attachment and behavioral problems. Furthermore, recent years have witnes…
Exploring Patterns of Alcohol Consumption in Adolescence: The Role of Health Complaints and Psychosocial Determinants in an Italian Sample
Adolescents are particularly prone to engage in health-risk behaviors such as alcohol and substance use, which can significantly impact their present and future lives. Our study explores the factors contributing to (1) regular alcohol use (i.e., at least 3 to 5 times in the last 30 days) and (2) binge drinking (i.e., drinking at least five glasses of alcohol in a single sitting in the last 12 months) in adolescents, in the 2014 and 2018 waves of …
Ukrainian refugee crisis management in the Local Health Authority Roma 1: The challenges of implementing public health policies and lessons learned
The experience of LHA Roma 1 helps shed light on the importance of leadership in emergency settings and how a dynamic relationship between policy and practice would allow each intervention to be modulated according to the local environment, to better realize the potential of local realities to provide appropriate health interventions to all those in need
Perspectives on early insights: Pediatric cancer caregiving amidst natural calamities – A call for future preparedness
Natural disasters cause immense damage and disruption to the environment, human lives, and property, posing a threat to safety and well-being. These disasters annually affect individuals and communities, severely impacting mental health. Research indicates a significant link between catastrophic events and an increased risk of mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, substance use, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Individuals wi…
Community Attitudes Toward Adoption in Italy: The Role of Stereotypes and Emotional Reactions
The article explores the attitudes toward the adoption of a representative sample of the Italian population. Focusing on the sociodemographic factors, stereotypes, and feelings about adoption, this study investigates whether and to what extent they can shape attitudes toward adoption. A large sample of 1,003, Italian adults was used in the study. The participants were asked to complete a self-report questionnaire. A series of hierarchical regress…
Changes in mental health and academic engagement following brief university counseling: Practice-based evidence from a pre-post study
University students face a critical developmental transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood, marked by increased vulnerability to psychological distress. Effective and accessible counseling services are essential for supporting their mental health and academic functioning. This pre-post study evaluated changes in psychological well-being and academic engagement following a brief individual counseling intervention at an Italian University …
Assessing The Relationship Among Academic Engagement, Well-being, And Mental Health: Featuring University Students Seeking Support at a Counseling Facility
Given the high prevalence of psychological distress and mental health conditions within higher education contexts, identifying potential factors fostering university students’ well-being may be pertinent. Academic engagement (AE) appears to play a key role in supporting mental health and buffering psychological issues. This study addressed the association between AE, well-being, and mental health among university students, by focusing on a specif…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)