Andrea Fossati
Biographic Data
| ID | 765534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Fossati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Fossati |
| SIGNATURE | FOSSATI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vita-Salute San Raffaele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9368-4058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The mediating role of adult attachment insecure style on the relationship between mentalization and adverse childhood experiences in a sample of community-dwelling adults
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to any stressful or potentially traumatic events that happen before age 18 years. Early neglect and an early high–emotional environment seem to impair the normal acquisition of the understanding of the self and others (mentalization) and have an impact on the attachment relationship that persists into adulthood. Few studies have evaluated the associations between ACEs, attachment and mentalization in adu…
Gender differences of individual and contextual factors in predicting bullying and victimization
This study investigates the role of individual and contextual factors as potential concurrent predictors of bullying and victimization in male and female high school students. The sample included 517 adolescents and their teachers. With a multi‐informant approach, measures of bullying and victimization, personality traits, psychopathological symptoms, peer ratings of popularity, loneliness, bothersomeness, as well as school climate, were collecte…
Assessing cyberbullying in adolescence
Cyberbullying is a highly relevant phenomenon in adolescence. Making available sound cyberbullying scales in different countries represents an important research issue. The present study aimed at extending previous findings on the Cyberbullying Experience Scale (CES), assessing its psychometric properties in a sample of community-dwelling Italian adolescents (N = 2,112). Results showed that a bifactor model was the best fitting model for both CES…
Covid-19 pandemic preventive behaviors and causal beliefs among Italian community dwelling adults
In an online sample of 1054 Italian community-dwelling adults, we assessed the relationships between the frequency of implementation of practices intended to prevent COVID-19 infection, degree of agreement with theories about the origin of the infections, and the frequency of use of different sources of information concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that participants' COVID-19-related preventive behaviors and causal beliefs were…
Impact of Covid-19 lockdown on sleep quality in university students and administration staff
Thinking about assessment
The present study aimed to evaluate the nomological network validity of the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) in its Italian translation, addressing distinct research questions in three independent samples of Italian participants comprising adolescent nonclinical participants (N = 393), adult nonclinical participants (N = 193), and adult outpatients with a Personality Disorder (PD) diagnosis who sought psychotherapy treatment (N…
The structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles
The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles in 394 Italian nonclinical volunteers and in 103 consecutively admitted Italian outpatients. All participants were administered the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) and the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Confirmatory factor analyses replicated the 2-factor model of the PNI found in English-speaking sample…
Thinking about feelings
In order to Test Fonagy's (Fonagy & Bateman, 2008) hypotheses on the relationships among borderline personality disorder (BPD), mentalization, and attachment, nonclinical adolescents were assigned to a high-BPD group (n = 29), an average- BPD group (n = 31) and a low-BPD group (n = 29). Participants in the three groups were administered the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RET), the Lack of Emotional Clarity Scale from the Difficulties in Emoti…
Relations of proactive and reactive dimensions of aggression to overt and covert narcissism in nonclinical adolescents
Similarly, aggression—a frequently discussed correlate of narcissism—is a heterogeneous construct. In this study, the relations of proactive and reactive aggression with overt and covert manifestations of narcissism were examined in a sample of 674 Italian high school students (mean age=15.5 years, SD=2.1 years). Overt narcissism was positively related to both proactive and reactive subtypes of aggression, whereas covert narcissism related only t…
On the dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian clinical and non clinical participants
On the Dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian Clinical and Nonclinical Participants
This study examined the utility of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) in an Italian sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric participants and an independent sample of 605 nonclinical participants. Minimum average partial analysis of data from the psychiatric sample supported the hypothesized five-factor structure of the items; furthermore, multiple-group component analysis showed that this fivefactor structure was not an artifact of…
Psychological stress in nurses' relationships with HIV-infected patients
To assess the role played by psychological stress and sociodemographic factors as predictors of burnout in nurses, we administered the AIDS Impact Scale (AIS) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to nurses in the AIDS field. The sample was composed of 410 nurses from 19 departments for the treatment of infectious diseases. In these subjects we observed a low level of burnout in the MBI, but a small proportion had a high level of burnout We did…
On the Dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian Clinical and Nonclinical Participants
This study examined the utility of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) in an Italian sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric participants and an independent sample of 605 nonclinical participants. Minimum average partial analysis of data from the psychiatric sample supported the hypothesized five-factor structure of the items; furthermore, multiple-group component analysis showed that this fivefactor structure was not an artifact of…
Covid-19 pandemic preventive behaviors and causal beliefs among Italian community dwelling adults
In an online sample of 1054 Italian community-dwelling adults, we assessed the relationships between the frequency of implementation of practices intended to prevent COVID-19 infection, degree of agreement with theories about the origin of the infections, and the frequency of use of different sources of information concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that participants' COVID-19-related preventive behaviors and causal beliefs were…
Relations of proactive and reactive dimensions of aggression to overt and covert narcissism in nonclinical adolescents
Similarly, aggression—a frequently discussed correlate of narcissism—is a heterogeneous construct. In this study, the relations of proactive and reactive aggression with overt and covert manifestations of narcissism were examined in a sample of 674 Italian high school students (mean age=15.5 years, SD=2.1 years). Overt narcissism was positively related to both proactive and reactive subtypes of aggression, whereas covert narcissism related only t…
Psychological stress in nurses' relationships with HIV-infected patients
To assess the role played by psychological stress and sociodemographic factors as predictors of burnout in nurses, we administered the AIDS Impact Scale (AIS) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to nurses in the AIDS field. The sample was composed of 410 nurses from 19 departments for the treatment of infectious diseases. In these subjects we observed a low level of burnout in the MBI, but a small proportion had a high level of burnout We did…
On the dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian clinical and non clinical participants
On the Dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian Clinical and Nonclinical Participants
This study examined the utility of the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) in an Italian sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric participants and an independent sample of 605 nonclinical participants. Minimum average partial analysis of data from the psychiatric sample supported the hypothesized five-factor structure of the items; furthermore, multiple-group component analysis showed that this fivefactor structure was not an artifact of…
Relations of proactive and reactive dimensions of aggression to overt and covert narcissism in nonclinical adolescents
Similarly, aggression—a frequently discussed correlate of narcissism—is a heterogeneous construct. In this study, the relations of proactive and reactive aggression with overt and covert manifestations of narcissism were examined in a sample of 674 Italian high school students (mean age=15.5 years, SD=2.1 years). Overt narcissism was positively related to both proactive and reactive subtypes of aggression, whereas covert narcissism related only t…
Thinking about feelings
In order to Test Fonagy's (Fonagy & Bateman, 2008) hypotheses on the relationships among borderline personality disorder (BPD), mentalization, and attachment, nonclinical adolescents were assigned to a high-BPD group (n = 29), an average- BPD group (n = 31) and a low-BPD group (n = 29). Participants in the three groups were administered the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RET), the Lack of Emotional Clarity Scale from the Difficulties in Emoti…
The structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles
The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles in 394 Italian nonclinical volunteers and in 103 consecutively admitted Italian outpatients. All participants were administered the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) and the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Confirmatory factor analyses replicated the 2-factor model of the PNI found in English-speaking sample…
Thinking about assessment
The present study aimed to evaluate the nomological network validity of the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) in its Italian translation, addressing distinct research questions in three independent samples of Italian participants comprising adolescent nonclinical participants (N = 393), adult nonclinical participants (N = 193), and adult outpatients with a Personality Disorder (PD) diagnosis who sought psychotherapy treatment (N…
Impact of Covid-19 lockdown on sleep quality in university students and administration staff
Covid-19 pandemic preventive behaviors and causal beliefs among Italian community dwelling adults
In an online sample of 1054 Italian community-dwelling adults, we assessed the relationships between the frequency of implementation of practices intended to prevent COVID-19 infection, degree of agreement with theories about the origin of the infections, and the frequency of use of different sources of information concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that participants' COVID-19-related preventive behaviors and causal beliefs were…
Assessing cyberbullying in adolescence
Cyberbullying is a highly relevant phenomenon in adolescence. Making available sound cyberbullying scales in different countries represents an important research issue. The present study aimed at extending previous findings on the Cyberbullying Experience Scale (CES), assessing its psychometric properties in a sample of community-dwelling Italian adolescents (N = 2,112). Results showed that a bifactor model was the best fitting model for both CES…
Gender differences of individual and contextual factors in predicting bullying and victimization
This study investigates the role of individual and contextual factors as potential concurrent predictors of bullying and victimization in male and female high school students. The sample included 517 adolescents and their teachers. With a multi‐informant approach, measures of bullying and victimization, personality traits, psychopathological symptoms, peer ratings of popularity, loneliness, bothersomeness, as well as school climate, were collecte…
The mediating role of adult attachment insecure style on the relationship between mentalization and adverse childhood experiences in a sample of community-dwelling adults
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to any stressful or potentially traumatic events that happen before age 18 years. Early neglect and an early high–emotional environment seem to impair the normal acquisition of the understanding of the self and others (mentalization) and have an impact on the attachment relationship that persists into adulthood. Few studies have evaluated the associations between ACEs, attachment and mentalization in adu…
Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Attachment theory (5 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (3 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works)