Amelia Manuti
Biographic Data
| ID | 658089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amelia Manuti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amelia |
| FAMILY NAME | Manuti |
| SIGNATURE | MANUTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5308-7494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Developing to sustain: How informal learning shapes university students’ future careers
Purpose The growing emphasis on sustainable career ecosystems highlights the need for lifelong learning strategies that enhance individuals’ ability to deal with dynamic labor markets. In this context, informal learning emerges as a driver for fostering adaptive skills and facilitating smooth transitions from higher education to employment. This study aims to contribute to this discussion by providing a preliminary validation of the informal stud…
Child‐Rearing Involvement and Parental Emotional Exhaustion: The Moderating Role of Supportive Relationships for Mothers and Fathers in Italian Dual‐Earner Families
The study aims to shed light on the role of social support in sustaining parental well‐being while managing the demands of child‐rearing and work responsibilities. Specifically, it investigates the moderating roles of both general social support and specific sources of support (i.e., educational services, recreational services and extended families) in the relationship between parental child‐rearing involvement and emotional exhaustion of mothers…
Beyond occupational exhaustion: Exploring the influence of positive meaningful work on teachers’ psychoemotional well-being in the digital age
The teaching profession, intrinsically vocational, bestows upon its practitioners a deep sense of meaning and personal dedication. However, this personal commitment can be affected by the constant evolution of labour demands, exacerbated by the increasing technification of education. Both these needs, at a personal and organisational level, can lead to the development of emotional exhaustion, a psychological state manifesting with increased frequ…
A Flight Path to Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Continuous Learning between Burnout and Work Performance in Aviation Professionals
The profession of airline pilots is characterized by high levels of stress and a significant risk of burnout. The health emergency period has exacerbated these challenges to health and well-being, with long COVID adding further strain to aviation professionals even in the post-pandemic scenario. In this context, it is essential to promote positive organizational behaviors to reconcile individual well-being with work performance. This study aimed …
To be or not to be confident in medicine: That's the question! An explorative study on consumer information inferences toward food supplements consumption
Purpose This study investigated how consumers' confidence in medicine and health information seeking and usage could be related to purchase intentions and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A panel of 18 food supplements consumers were interviewed using soft laddering. Qualitative data were coded and used to develop a structured survey. Participants ( N = 363) were recruited on a voluntary basis among the customers of an Italian company in…
From Conflict to Balance: Challenges for Dual-Earner Families Managing Technostress and Work Exhaustion in the Post-Pandemic Scenario
Within the last three years, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has contributed to changing many aspects of individual and collective life. Focusing on professional life, the forced shift to remote working modalities, the consequent blurring of work-family (WF) boundaries, and the difficulties for parents in childrearing have significantly impacted family routines. These challenges have been more evident for some specific vulnerable categories of wor…
Emotional Exhaustion and Engagement in Higher Education Students during a Crisis, Lessons Learned from Covid-19 Experience in Italian Universities
Italian university students face an uncertain future characterised by a competitive neoliberal academic environment with high demands and a weak labour market that often cannot hire those who are best qualified. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated students' uncertainty and negatively affected their well-being. The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of academic life during the pandemic and to examine the relationship between study l…
Social-Epistemic Rhetoric of (Un)certainty in Biomedical and Psychiatric Scientific Academic Writing: A Diatextual Analysis
In line with the general aims of scientific textuality, research papers in the biomedical and psychiatric academic domains mostly attempt to demonstrate the validity of their assumptions and to contrast with the sense of uncertainty that sometimes frames their conclusions. Moving from this premise, the present paper aimed to focus on these features and to investigate if and the extent to which biomedical and psychiatric texts convey different soc…
A national student survey for the Italian higher education system
Despite the strong criticisms, mass student surveys play an important role in the quality assurance process of national higher education systems. While some national higher education systems have a long history of using student surveys to inform teaching and course quality improvement (e.g. the UK, Australia), in Italy, where the quality assurance system has been put in place at both state and institutional levels, a national student survey has n…
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…
Does the End Justify the Means? The Role of Organizational Communication among Work-from-Home Employees during the Covid-19 Pandemic
During the first months of 2020, the world, and Italy at an early stage, went through the COVID-19 emergency that had a great impact on individual and collective health, but also on working processes. The mandatory remote working and the constant use of technology for employees raised different implications related to technostress and psycho-physical disorders. This study aimed to detect, in such a period of crisis and changes, the role of organi…
Wellbeing Costs of Technology Use during Covid-19 Remote Working: An Investigation Using the Italian Translation of the Technostress Creators Scale
During the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected several countries all over the world, including Italy. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments instructed employers and self-employed workers to close their offices and work from home. Thus, the use of remote working increased during the pandemic and is expected to maintain high levels of application even after the emergency. Despite its benefits for both organizations an…
A rose is more than a rose … the diatextual constitution of subjects and objects
This paper integrates contributions coming from psychology with a phenomenological and semiotic perspective and focuses on the relationship of reciprocal constitution between “Subject” and “Object.” This relationship is evoked through radically different concepts such as the notions of “experience,” “consciousness” and “embodiment,” focusing attention on “discourse” as a macro-procedure generating the mutual link between Subject and Object. There…
Diatexts at work: The diatextual approach as a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis in the organizational context
Purpose The paper argues that the diatextual analysis could be considered a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis because it stresses the role of hermeneutical procedures in catching the inter-subjective nature of meanings. The purpose of this paper is to discuss these theoretical speculations in light with some empirical evidences coming from a discursive study exploring the construction of organizational identity through socializa…
Me, myself, and God: Religion as a psychocultural resource of meaning in later life
The present paper addressed the different meanings attached to religion as cultural resource in the course of life. Indeed, abundant cultural research has confirmed that religion could be a powerful symbolic system that shapes people’s beliefs and attitudes. Its significance may depend on contextual factors and may vary over time and place, thus showing different implications across cultures and group cohorts. To better investigate such assumptio…
From professional identity to organizational membership and back: Narrative sense-making in sport organizations: the case of referees
Purpose – Narrative is believed to be a crucial component of sense-making in organizations, and previous research in the field suggests that multiple levels and forms of narrative are inherent to the definition of professional identities (Clarke et al. , 2009; Ybema et al. , 2009; Brown and Lewis, 2011). For example, narrative can be found in the stories told by organizational actors as they informally interact in the workplace, in the formalized…
Formal and informal learning in the workplace: A research review
The radical economic, social and cultural changes experienced by the labour market within recent decades have helped to highlight the central role played by the learning process in individual career development and organizational success. In such fast‐moving working contexts, skills and competencies rapidly become outdated and need to be continuously implemented and empowered as a strategic factor for global competitiveness. Traditional models of…
Analysing human resource managers' discourse on diversity: A study in some Italian small and medium enterprises
The main aim of this paper was to investigate how diversity management was discursively constructed in the words of 10 human resource (HR) managers of Small and Medium Enterprises located in Apulia, South of Italy. Following a discursive approach to organizations and a critical and rhetorical methodological perspective, the study has taken into account how HR managers defined diversity, how their diversity discourses reflected existing managerial…
Old Roots, New Branches: The Shoots of Diatextual Analysis
The present contribution focuses on the discursive perspective, which finds its roots in the several “turns” that animated the previous century. Besides the “discursive” and the “narrative” turns, the “contextual turn” has highlighted that meanings shape themselves in a context, which could be seen both as a “cotext” (the linguistic around) as well as an extralinguistic frame (Slama-Cazacu 1959 / 1961). Such perspective allows considering texts a…
Burnout Internal Factors—Self-esteem and Negative Affectivity in the Workplace: The Mediation Role of Organizational Identification in Times of Job Uncertainty
Commemorative acts as discursive resources of historical identity
Discourse plays a crucial role in determining how both persons and communities shape social reality and attribute meaning to experience ( Edwards, 1997 ). This potential is mostly evident when the contended object of discourse is history itself, which is a peculiar area of the cultural mind. Hence, the discursive management of the collective tends to generate interpretations which in turn might mould personal and social identities. Sharing the sp…
Narrating organizational change: An applied psycholinguistic perspective on organizational identity
According to the traditional mainstream perspective in organizational research, organizations are conceptualized as environments basically oriented toward the production of goods and services and/or to the implementation of the skills mastered by their operators. However, according to a narrative approach to organizations, workplaces – as well as organizations in general – could be conceived of as discursive constructions, that is, as social spac…
The dynamics of sense making: A diatextual approach to the intersubjectivity of discourse
Psycho-semiotics is a qualitative research perspective aiming at developing the seminal intuition by Peirce (Collected papers, Harvard, 19311958) according to whom man is a complex network of signs. Hence, text and talk-in-interaction are the basic psycho-discursive practices ( Wetherell, Subjectivity 22: 7381, 2008) where the intersubjective nature of sense making is revealed. Peirce is an inspiring point of reference for psycho-semiotics also a…
The rhetoric of work flexibility: A diatextual frame of Italian political discourse
This article deals with the discursive construction of work flexibility in Italy, through the analysis of the integral Italian White Paper on Occupation and of a corpus of 55 Editorials which discuss this topic in the pages of a popular Italian economic newspaper. Evident similarities have been registered between them as both texts are actually socio-political texts aimed at constructing and conveying a specific representation of work flexibility…
The Diatextual Construction of the Self in Short Message Systems
This article extends the use of the personal position repertoire beyond the psychotherapy domain, adopting it as a research method applied to the psychology of communication. The aim is to investigate the features of short message system (SMS) communication in a sample of late adolescents. Across 2 analyses on the same corpus of 3,890 SMS messages, evidence has been presented that a composite index of contents could be related to an overall index…
The rhetoric of work flexibility: A diatextual frame of Italian political discourse
This article deals with the discursive construction of work flexibility in Italy, through the analysis of the integral Italian White Paper on Occupation and of a corpus of 55 Editorials which discuss this topic in the pages of a popular Italian economic newspaper. Evident similarities have been registered between them as both texts are actually socio-political texts aimed at constructing and conveying a specific representation of work flexibility…
Diatexts at work: The diatextual approach as a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis in the organizational context
Purpose The paper argues that the diatextual analysis could be considered a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis because it stresses the role of hermeneutical procedures in catching the inter-subjective nature of meanings. The purpose of this paper is to discuss these theoretical speculations in light with some empirical evidences coming from a discursive study exploring the construction of organizational identity through socializa…
Emotional Exhaustion and Engagement in Higher Education Students during a Crisis, Lessons Learned from Covid-19 Experience in Italian Universities
Italian university students face an uncertain future characterised by a competitive neoliberal academic environment with high demands and a weak labour market that often cannot hire those who are best qualified. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated students' uncertainty and negatively affected their well-being. The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of academic life during the pandemic and to examine the relationship between study l…
Old Roots, New Branches: The Shoots of Diatextual Analysis
The present contribution focuses on the discursive perspective, which finds its roots in the several “turns” that animated the previous century. Besides the “discursive” and the “narrative” turns, the “contextual turn” has highlighted that meanings shape themselves in a context, which could be seen both as a “cotext” (the linguistic around) as well as an extralinguistic frame (Slama-Cazacu 1959 / 1961). Such perspective allows considering texts a…
The Diatextual Construction of the Self in Short Message Systems
This article extends the use of the personal position repertoire beyond the psychotherapy domain, adopting it as a research method applied to the psychology of communication. The aim is to investigate the features of short message system (SMS) communication in a sample of late adolescents. Across 2 analyses on the same corpus of 3,890 SMS messages, evidence has been presented that a composite index of contents could be related to an overall index…
The Diatextual Construction of the Self in Short Message Systems
This article extends the use of the personal position repertoire beyond the psychotherapy domain, adopting it as a research method applied to the psychology of communication. The aim is to investigate the features of short message system (SMS) communication in a sample of late adolescents. Across 2 analyses on the same corpus of 3,890 SMS messages, evidence has been presented that a composite index of contents could be related to an overall index…
The rhetoric of work flexibility: A diatextual frame of Italian political discourse
This article deals with the discursive construction of work flexibility in Italy, through the analysis of the integral Italian White Paper on Occupation and of a corpus of 55 Editorials which discuss this topic in the pages of a popular Italian economic newspaper. Evident similarities have been registered between them as both texts are actually socio-political texts aimed at constructing and conveying a specific representation of work flexibility…
The dynamics of sense making: A diatextual approach to the intersubjectivity of discourse
Psycho-semiotics is a qualitative research perspective aiming at developing the seminal intuition by Peirce (Collected papers, Harvard, 19311958) according to whom man is a complex network of signs. Hence, text and talk-in-interaction are the basic psycho-discursive practices ( Wetherell, Subjectivity 22: 7381, 2008) where the intersubjective nature of sense making is revealed. Peirce is an inspiring point of reference for psycho-semiotics also a…
Burnout Internal Factors—Self-esteem and Negative Affectivity in the Workplace: The Mediation Role of Organizational Identification in Times of Job Uncertainty
Commemorative acts as discursive resources of historical identity
Discourse plays a crucial role in determining how both persons and communities shape social reality and attribute meaning to experience ( Edwards, 1997 ). This potential is mostly evident when the contended object of discourse is history itself, which is a peculiar area of the cultural mind. Hence, the discursive management of the collective tends to generate interpretations which in turn might mould personal and social identities. Sharing the sp…
Narrating organizational change: An applied psycholinguistic perspective on organizational identity
According to the traditional mainstream perspective in organizational research, organizations are conceptualized as environments basically oriented toward the production of goods and services and/or to the implementation of the skills mastered by their operators. However, according to a narrative approach to organizations, workplaces – as well as organizations in general – could be conceived of as discursive constructions, that is, as social spac…
Old Roots, New Branches: The Shoots of Diatextual Analysis
The present contribution focuses on the discursive perspective, which finds its roots in the several “turns” that animated the previous century. Besides the “discursive” and the “narrative” turns, the “contextual turn” has highlighted that meanings shape themselves in a context, which could be seen both as a “cotext” (the linguistic around) as well as an extralinguistic frame (Slama-Cazacu 1959 / 1961). Such perspective allows considering texts a…
Formal and informal learning in the workplace: A research review
The radical economic, social and cultural changes experienced by the labour market within recent decades have helped to highlight the central role played by the learning process in individual career development and organizational success. In such fast‐moving working contexts, skills and competencies rapidly become outdated and need to be continuously implemented and empowered as a strategic factor for global competitiveness. Traditional models of…
Analysing human resource managers' discourse on diversity: A study in some Italian small and medium enterprises
The main aim of this paper was to investigate how diversity management was discursively constructed in the words of 10 human resource (HR) managers of Small and Medium Enterprises located in Apulia, South of Italy. Following a discursive approach to organizations and a critical and rhetorical methodological perspective, the study has taken into account how HR managers defined diversity, how their diversity discourses reflected existing managerial…
Me, myself, and God: Religion as a psychocultural resource of meaning in later life
The present paper addressed the different meanings attached to religion as cultural resource in the course of life. Indeed, abundant cultural research has confirmed that religion could be a powerful symbolic system that shapes people’s beliefs and attitudes. Its significance may depend on contextual factors and may vary over time and place, thus showing different implications across cultures and group cohorts. To better investigate such assumptio…
From professional identity to organizational membership and back: Narrative sense-making in sport organizations: the case of referees
Purpose – Narrative is believed to be a crucial component of sense-making in organizations, and previous research in the field suggests that multiple levels and forms of narrative are inherent to the definition of professional identities (Clarke et al. , 2009; Ybema et al. , 2009; Brown and Lewis, 2011). For example, narrative can be found in the stories told by organizational actors as they informally interact in the workplace, in the formalized…
A rose is more than a rose … the diatextual constitution of subjects and objects
This paper integrates contributions coming from psychology with a phenomenological and semiotic perspective and focuses on the relationship of reciprocal constitution between “Subject” and “Object.” This relationship is evoked through radically different concepts such as the notions of “experience,” “consciousness” and “embodiment,” focusing attention on “discourse” as a macro-procedure generating the mutual link between Subject and Object. There…
Diatexts at work: The diatextual approach as a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis in the organizational context
Purpose The paper argues that the diatextual analysis could be considered a psycho-cultural path of critical discourse analysis because it stresses the role of hermeneutical procedures in catching the inter-subjective nature of meanings. The purpose of this paper is to discuss these theoretical speculations in light with some empirical evidences coming from a discursive study exploring the construction of organizational identity through socializa…
Wellbeing Costs of Technology Use during Covid-19 Remote Working: An Investigation Using the Italian Translation of the Technostress Creators Scale
During the first months of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected several countries all over the world, including Italy. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments instructed employers and self-employed workers to close their offices and work from home. Thus, the use of remote working increased during the pandemic and is expected to maintain high levels of application even after the emergency. Despite its benefits for both organizations an…
Does the End Justify the Means? The Role of Organizational Communication among Work-from-Home Employees during the Covid-19 Pandemic
During the first months of 2020, the world, and Italy at an early stage, went through the COVID-19 emergency that had a great impact on individual and collective health, but also on working processes. The mandatory remote working and the constant use of technology for employees raised different implications related to technostress and psycho-physical disorders. This study aimed to detect, in such a period of crisis and changes, the role of organi…
Social-Epistemic Rhetoric of (Un)certainty in Biomedical and Psychiatric Scientific Academic Writing: A Diatextual Analysis
In line with the general aims of scientific textuality, research papers in the biomedical and psychiatric academic domains mostly attempt to demonstrate the validity of their assumptions and to contrast with the sense of uncertainty that sometimes frames their conclusions. Moving from this premise, the present paper aimed to focus on these features and to investigate if and the extent to which biomedical and psychiatric texts convey different soc…
A national student survey for the Italian higher education system
Despite the strong criticisms, mass student surveys play an important role in the quality assurance process of national higher education systems. While some national higher education systems have a long history of using student surveys to inform teaching and course quality improvement (e.g. the UK, Australia), in Italy, where the quality assurance system has been put in place at both state and institutional levels, a national student survey has n…
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…
To be or not to be confident in medicine: That's the question! An explorative study on consumer information inferences toward food supplements consumption
Purpose This study investigated how consumers' confidence in medicine and health information seeking and usage could be related to purchase intentions and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A panel of 18 food supplements consumers were interviewed using soft laddering. Qualitative data were coded and used to develop a structured survey. Participants ( N = 363) were recruited on a voluntary basis among the customers of an Italian company in…
From Conflict to Balance: Challenges for Dual-Earner Families Managing Technostress and Work Exhaustion in the Post-Pandemic Scenario
Within the last three years, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has contributed to changing many aspects of individual and collective life. Focusing on professional life, the forced shift to remote working modalities, the consequent blurring of work-family (WF) boundaries, and the difficulties for parents in childrearing have significantly impacted family routines. These challenges have been more evident for some specific vulnerable categories of wor…
Emotional Exhaustion and Engagement in Higher Education Students during a Crisis, Lessons Learned from Covid-19 Experience in Italian Universities
Italian university students face an uncertain future characterised by a competitive neoliberal academic environment with high demands and a weak labour market that often cannot hire those who are best qualified. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated students' uncertainty and negatively affected their well-being. The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of academic life during the pandemic and to examine the relationship between study l…
Beyond occupational exhaustion: Exploring the influence of positive meaningful work on teachers’ psychoemotional well-being in the digital age
The teaching profession, intrinsically vocational, bestows upon its practitioners a deep sense of meaning and personal dedication. However, this personal commitment can be affected by the constant evolution of labour demands, exacerbated by the increasing technification of education. Both these needs, at a personal and organisational level, can lead to the development of emotional exhaustion, a psychological state manifesting with increased frequ…
A Flight Path to Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Continuous Learning between Burnout and Work Performance in Aviation Professionals
The profession of airline pilots is characterized by high levels of stress and a significant risk of burnout. The health emergency period has exacerbated these challenges to health and well-being, with long COVID adding further strain to aviation professionals even in the post-pandemic scenario. In this context, it is essential to promote positive organizational behaviors to reconcile individual well-being with work performance. This study aimed …
Child‐Rearing Involvement and Parental Emotional Exhaustion: The Moderating Role of Supportive Relationships for Mothers and Fathers in Italian Dual‐Earner Families
The study aims to shed light on the role of social support in sustaining parental well‐being while managing the demands of child‐rearing and work responsibilities. Specifically, it investigates the moderating roles of both general social support and specific sources of support (i.e., educational services, recreational services and extended families) in the relationship between parental child‐rearing involvement and emotional exhaustion of mothers…
Developing to sustain: How informal learning shapes university students’ future careers
Purpose The growing emphasis on sustainable career ecosystems highlights the need for lifelong learning strategies that enhance individuals’ ability to deal with dynamic labor markets. In this context, informal learning emerges as a driver for fostering adaptive skills and facilitating smooth transitions from higher education to employment. This study aims to contribute to this discussion by providing a preliminary validation of the informal stud…
Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Burnout (6 works)