Gianluca Esposito
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80471 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gianluca Esposito |
| NOMBRES | Gianluca |
| APELLIDO | Esposito |
| FIRMA | ESPOSITO G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6077-9920 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Diagnostic Accuracy of GPT‐Based Large Language Models Across Versions, Prompting Techniques, and Case Presentation Formats
Despite the centrality of the diagnostic assessment in psychiatry, the agreement among mental health practitioners often varies from poor to moderate. The potential of large language models (LLMs; such as gpt‐based models), among other approaches, has been studied to be used as standardized tools to support clinicians’ decision‐making. The current work investigates the diagnostic accuracy of gpt‐based LLMs (gpt‐3.5 and gpt‐5.1) across different c…
From social media to body image distress
Evaluating public health campaigns on health promotion, substance use prevention and physical activity
Public health campaigns on substance use and physical activity aid disease prevention. This review examines how process evaluations are conducted in substance use and physical activity campaigns, focusing on methodologies, theoretical frameworks, implementation quality, fidelity, reach, and delivery. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, a comprehensive literature search was conducted across PubM…
Hyperscanning and Interpersonal Neural Dynamics in Parenting Research
Forms of interventions for problematic usage of the internet
Dynamic Topic Modeling of Kratom Use and Experiences
Traditionally used in Southeast Asia for common ailments, kratom ( Mitragyna speciosa ) is increasingly being adopted in other regions for the self-treatment of pain and mental health issues (e.g., anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder) in absence of clinical supervision and with several toxicities. To gain better insight into the experiences, the motivations, and the patterns underlying kratom use, previous studies have analyzed materi…
Problematic Pornography Use (PPU)
Precursors of young adults' world beliefs across cultures
Profiling and assessing the risks of image- and performance-enhancing drugs use during the Covid-19 lockdown
Background: Image and Performance-Enhancing Drugs (IPEDs) can enhance mental and physical capabilities and impact one's overall health. Initially confined in sport environments, IPEDs use has become increasingly widespread in a high-performing society. The present study was aimed at profiling IPEDs use during the COVID-19 lockdown among an international sample of young adults. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was carried out in eigh…
Openness to Experience Predicts Engagement in Role-Play
Background Role-play, or the transient embodiment of a different role from one’s own, is a uniquely human activity that permeates many aspects of life. However, what psychosocial factors is one’s involvement in role-play associated with? Current role-play research tends to focus on limited variables and is partially marred by negative perception towards role-play in the context of online gaming. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that role-play has po…
Domain specificity of mastery-motivation-related behaviours in relation to Singaporean preschoolers’ mathematical performance
An intergenerational study of parental bonding on perceptions of parental and spousal criticism and marital relationship quality in Singapore
Criticism is a form of interpersonal social rejection and destructive conflict behavior which has been associated with poor relationship outcomes in both parent–child and marital relationships. However, the role of the individual's perceptions of parental and spousal criticism in influencing the perceptions of criticism of other members in the family unit has not been examined. This study investigated the associations between parental bonding and…
Parental care and overprotection predict worry and anxiety symptoms in emerging adult students
Anxiety disorders represent a prevalent mental health concern, with escalating rates, especially among emerging adults. University students, in particular, face a myriad of academic and life stressors that can amplify feelings of worry and anxiety. While early parental bonding seem to predict anxiety disorders later in life, the applicability to emerging adult students and its applicability to predict sub-clinical and transdiagnostic anxiety feat…
A scientometric review of the association between childhood trauma and sleep
Culture, sex and social context influence brain-to-brain synchrony
Main findings indicate lowered brain-to-brain synchrony during role-playing activities that is moderated by the dyad's sex make-up and culture, implying differential processing of social interactions that is also influenced by individuals' background factors. Findings align with current literature that role-playing is a cognitively demanding activity requiring greater levels of self-regulation and suppression of self-related cognition as opposed …
Geomorphological analysis of San Nicola Island (Tremiti Islands, Southern Adriatic Sea). Results from the 2021 and 2022 Environmental Geomorphology field camps of the MSc in Geological Sciences and Te…
This paper presents the results of the 2021 and 2022 field activities carried out at San Nicola Island (Tremiti Islands, Southern Adriatic Sea) by two groups of students as part of the Environmental Geomorphology Field Mapping course held within the Master's Degree in Geological Sciences and Technologies of Earth and Planets at University ‘G. d'Annunzio’ of Chieti-Pescara. Field activities were carried out following an integrated approach that in…
A meta-analysis of the effect of virtual reality on reducing public speaking anxiety
Machine learning estimation of users’ implicit and explicit aesthetic judgments of web-pages
The aesthetic appearance of websites can influence the perception of their usability, reliability, and trustworthiness. A majority of studies investigating the relationship between aesthetic features of web pages and their user perception consider only a limited number of web pages’ visual features and focus exclusively on explicit aesthetic judgments. In this work, we aim to overcome the limitations of previous works by employing multiple visual…
The geodiversity of the Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise National Park (Central Italy)
This paper presents a novel geodiversity map of the Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise National Park (Central Italy). The Park exhibits a wide range of geological-geomorphological environments of great scientific and touristic interest, offering unique landscapes and wild nature frequented by visitors year-around. All these features reflect a marked geodiversity and a valuable geoheritage, requiring protection and valorization activities. The geodiversit…
The Home Environments of Infants of Mothers with Early, Remitted Clinical Depression and No Depression during the First Two Years Postpartum
The current study examines stability, continuity, and group and gender differences in the home environments of infants of mothers with early, remitted clinical depression and no postpartum depression, overcoming methodological variations in the extant literature. Fifty-five mothers diagnosed with clinical depression (major or minor depression, dysthymia, or depressive disorder not otherwise specified) at 5 months and fully remitted by 15 and 24 m…
Predicting Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes Across Cultures
Il potere come dimensione politica e antropologica nel romanzo «Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit» (2016) di Christoph Ransmayr
The essay analyses the characterisation of power in Christoph Ransmayr’s novel Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit. Specifically, power is analysed on its political level, with the social implications that it necessarily entails on both the human and personal level, showing the individual in charge locked in the solitude of his distance from others; and on its gender level, which is expressed in the novel by the subjugation of the female to the male. In c…
From the Cradle to the Web
“Sharenting” is an internet trend in which parents report detailed information or repeatedly post pictures, videos, and other content about their children on social media. Due to the duality of sharenting, which takes place online but has offline consequences, it is essential to understand the implications of sharenting for real-world parenting and child development. The present work analyzes references in the existing literature and links among …
To wine or not to wine? A scientometric approach to 65+ years of wine preference and selection studies
Purpose Among the growing interest towards market segmentation and targeted marketing, the current study adopted a scientometric approach to examine the literature on wine selection and preferences. The current review specifically attempts to shed light on the research that explores the determinants of wine preferences at multiple levels of analysis. Design/methodology/approach CiteSpace was used to compute a Document Co-Citation Analysis (DCA) o…
Social media use in female adolescents
Social Media Disorder (SMD) is characterised by the intense and excessive use of social media. Although previous studies have shown that SMD was associated with poor mental health, research across types of usage and platforms remain limited. Here, we conducted an initial investigation of social media usage across platforms and its relation to anxiety, sleep and loneliness in female adolescents. Forty one 16- to 19-year-old British female adolesce…
Predicting Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes Across Cultures
Brain Processes in Mothers and Nulliparous Women in Response to Cry in Different Situational Contexts
Objective: In everyday life, parents must respond to and interact with children while in different situational contexts. How situational contexts influence parents’ responses has not been systematically studied. Here we investigated mothers’ versus nonmothers’ neural responses to infant vocalizations in different situations with different task demands. Design: Using fMRI in 21 women (10 mothers), we explored the effects of being distracted by sel…
The Unexpected for the Expecting Parent
SYNOPSISHigh-quality parental caregiving promotes children’s development from their day of birth or even earlier. Whether there are ways to predict, and ultimately enhance, parental caregiving quality during the prenatal stages of development has been less well understood. This circumstance is even truer when things do not go according “to plan.” In this commentary, we explore two possible scenarios, perhaps unexpected for expectant parents, that…
Mother–Child and Father–Child Emotional Availability in Families of Children with Down Syndrome
SYNOPSIS Objective. Emotional availability (EA) is a relationship construct that can be considered a global index of the emotional quality of parent–child interaction. The present study aimed to address several specific questions about mother–child and father–child emotional availability in families with a child with Down's syndrome (DS). Design . Free-play interactions of 22 children with DS (M chronological age = 35.32 mo) We coded separately w…
Problematic Pornography Use (PPU)
Being a Parent during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant effects on people worldwide, yet the psychological impact of collective traumas may differ at the individual and societal level. Parents may be exposed to greater pandemic-related stressors, yet also are more likely than non-parents to have social interactions during social distancing mandates. Furthermore, varying degrees of pandemic severity in countries may alter the adverse outcomes of pandemic stress…
Maternal sensitivity and language in infancy each promotes child core language skill in preschool
Skill–experience transactions across development
The transaction of children's core language skill and their home learning environment was assessed across 5 waves from infancy (15 months) up to adolescence (11 years) in 1,751 low-socioeconomic status families. Child core language skill and the quality of the home learning environment were each stable across waves, and the two covaried at each wave. Over and above these stabilities and concurrent correlations, and net child social competence and…
Reasons of Singles for Being Single
The current research aimed to examine the reasons people are single, that is, not in an intimate relationship, across eight different countries—Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, and the UK. We asked a large cross-cultural sample of single participants ( N = 6,822) to rate 92 different possible reasons for being single. These reasons were classified into 12 factors, including one’s perceived inability to find the right …
What Men Do When a Baby Cries
Infants’ crying modulates parental behaviors, which in turn, ideally, lead to calming the infant. The mutually beneficial reciprocity between infants’ and parents’ behaviors is conserved across mammalian species. Although some studies highlight similarities in responses to infant cries across gender, other studies report differences in their behaviors and brain activity. Zeifman and colleagues in this Special Issue found that high levels of infan…
Self-Cognition and Parental Brain
A key feature of parenting is that it is observable starting from behaviors that are performed daily by adult caregivers during repeated interactions with the child. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research on parental brain should integrate settings that resemble ecologies of situations in which parents typically care for children. However, as our commentators point out, ecological settings in fMRI research are challenging and requi…
Mother–Child and Father–Child Emotional Availability in Families of Children with Down Syndrome
SYNOPSIS Objective. Emotional availability (EA) is a relationship construct that can be considered a global index of the emotional quality of parent–child interaction. The present study aimed to address several specific questions about mother–child and father–child emotional availability in families with a child with Down's syndrome (DS). Design . Free-play interactions of 22 children with DS (M chronological age = 35.32 mo) We coded separately w…
Judgment of infant cry
Adult judgments of infant cry are determined by both acoustic properties of the cry and listener sociodemographic characteristics. The main purpose of this research was to investigate how these two sources shape adult judgments of infant cry. We systematically manipulated both the acoustic properties of infant cries and contrasted listener sociodemographic characteristics. Then, we asked participants to listen to several acoustic manipulations of…
Morphotectonics of the Tasso Stream - Sagittario River valley (Central Apennines, Italy)
This work presents the morphotectonic map of the Tasso Stream-Sagittario River valley, located in the Central Abruzzo area (Marsica region), in one of the areas of highest average elevation in the Apennines chain between two main intermontane basins (i.e. the Sulmona basin and Fucino basin). It is bounded by one of the main drainage divides of Central Italy, separating the Adriatic side of the Apennines from the large endorheic Fucino area. The m…
Parenting and Infant Cry
SYNOPSISThis Special Issue collects five empirical studies from around the world that use diverse methodological approaches and focus at different levels to investigate how behavioral, hormonal, prenatal and postnatal factors, brain functioning, and environment regulate early interactions of parents with distressed infants and young children
What Men Do When a Baby Cries
Infants’ crying modulates parental behaviors, which in turn, ideally, lead to calming the infant. The mutually beneficial reciprocity between infants’ and parents’ behaviors is conserved across mammalian species. Although some studies highlight similarities in responses to infant cries across gender, other studies report differences in their behaviors and brain activity. Zeifman and colleagues in this Special Issue found that high levels of infan…
Self-Cognition and Parental Brain
A key feature of parenting is that it is observable starting from behaviors that are performed daily by adult caregivers during repeated interactions with the child. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research on parental brain should integrate settings that resemble ecologies of situations in which parents typically care for children. However, as our commentators point out, ecological settings in fMRI research are challenging and requi…
Brain Processes in Mothers and Nulliparous Women in Response to Cry in Different Situational Contexts
Objective: In everyday life, parents must respond to and interact with children while in different situational contexts. How situational contexts influence parents’ responses has not been systematically studied. Here we investigated mothers’ versus nonmothers’ neural responses to infant vocalizations in different situations with different task demands. Design: Using fMRI in 21 women (10 mothers), we explored the effects of being distracted by sel…
The Unexpected for the Expecting Parent
SYNOPSISHigh-quality parental caregiving promotes children’s development from their day of birth or even earlier. Whether there are ways to predict, and ultimately enhance, parental caregiving quality during the prenatal stages of development has been less well understood. This circumstance is even truer when things do not go according “to plan.” In this commentary, we explore two possible scenarios, perhaps unexpected for expectant parents, that…
Geomorphological analysis of the San Domino Island (Tremiti Islands, Southern Adriatic Sea). Results from the 2019 Geomorphological Field Camp of the MSc in Geological Science and Technology (Universi…
The 2019 Geomorphological Field Camp at San Domino Island (Tremiti Islands, Southern Adriatic Sea) is the result of geological and geomorphological field work activities carried out by a group of students attending the Geomorphological field mapping course of the Master’s Degree in Geological Science and Technology (University of Chieti-Pescara). The main map (1:5000 scale) was obtained through an integrated approach that incorporates morphometri…
Geomorphology of the Anversa degli Abruzzi badlands area (Central Apennines, Italy)
This work presents the geomorphology of the Anversa degli Abruzzi badlands (also called calanchi, a typical italian landform) area, located in the Abruzzo Region (Central Apennines, Italy). The map is the result of morphometric and geomorphological analyses, performed at the badland scale, and incorporates three main sections including orography and hydrography, main geomorphological map, and multi-temporal photogeological analysis. The aim of th…
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of insular environments
This paper is the outcome of the 1st Summer School on Geomorphology, Ecology, and Marine Biology in insular environments, focused on the advanced and multidisciplinary methods for the scientific investigation of marine coastal areas. It was held at Tremiti Islands, a significant laboratory for geomorphological, biological, and ecological studies because of its dynamic interaction between geodiversity and biodiversity, which makes it an ideal plac…
Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them
Consistency in the order of individuals in a group across substantial lengths of time— stability —is a central concept in developmental science for several reasons. Stability underscores the meaningfulness of individual differences in psychological phenomena; stability informs about the origins, nature, and overall developmental course of psychological phenomena; stability signals individual status and so affects the environment, experience, and …
Children with Developmental Disabilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Little is known about parenting in the context of developmental disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), penalized by both lack of data and a research bias toward western societies. In this study, we apply data mining methods on a large (N = 25,048) dataset from UNICEF to highlight patterns of association between developmental disabilities of children and parental involvement. We focus on the co-presence of multiple disabilities a…
Story contents and intensity of the anxious symptomatology in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This study aimed to analyse and compare the storytelling of 25 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with a comparison group of 25 children with typical development. Children's narratives were transcribed verbatim, and their forms and contents were analysed. The two groups were matched according to the narrative cohesion of the story using the Bears Family Projective Test, equivalent verbal age, sex, and socioeconomic level. No differences…
Maternal sensitivity and language in infancy each promotes child core language skill in preschool
Skill–experience transactions across development
The transaction of children's core language skill and their home learning environment was assessed across 5 waves from infancy (15 months) up to adolescence (11 years) in 1,751 low-socioeconomic status families. Child core language skill and the quality of the home learning environment were each stable across waves, and the two covaried at each wave. Over and above these stabilities and concurrent correlations, and net child social competence and…
Vertical greenery buffers against stress
The Specificity Principle in Young Dual Language Learners’ English Development
This study employs the Specificity Principle to examine the relative impacts of external (input quantity at home and at school, number of books and reading frequency at home, teachers’ degree and experience, language usage, socioeconomic status) and internal factors (children’s working memory, nonverbal intelligence, learning-related social-skills, chronological age, gender) on children’s English-language development in phonological awareness (PA…
Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech
Is noun dominance in early lexical acquisition a widespread or a language-specific phenomenon? Thirty Singaporean bilingual English–Mandarin learning toddlers and their mothers were observed in a mother-child play interaction. For both English and Mandarin, toddlers’ speech and reported vocabulary contained more nouns than verbs across book reading and toy playing. In contrast, their mothers’ speech contained more verbs than nouns in both English…
Children’s Online Collaborative Storytelling during 2020 Covid-19 Home Confinement
Digital collaborative storytelling can be supported by an online learning-management system like Moodle, encouraging prosocial behaviors and shared representations. This study investigated children’s storytelling and collaborative behaviors during an online storytelling activity throughout the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 home confinement in Spain. From 1st to 5th grade of primary school, one-hundred-sixteen students conducted weekly activities of online stor…
Reduced Perceived Trustworthiness during Face Mask Wearing
To curb the diffusion of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), governments worldwide have introduced different policies, including lockdowns, social distancing, and mandatory mask wearing. Face mask wearing, especially, has an impact on the formation of first impressions, given that when meeting someone for the first time, individuals rely on the only available piece of information, the newly met person’s aesthetic appearance, in order to make init…
Exploration of the Spanish Version of the Attachment Style Questionnaire
Nowadays, there are several human attachment measures, most in the form of questionnaires that assess adult attachment styles. This study investigates the use of Feeney, Noller, Hanrahan, Sperling and Berman’s five-factors Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ, 1994), based on Bartholomew’s four-factors model (1991), and Hazan and Shaver’s three-factors model (1987). Nevertheless, no robust study has explored the ASQ questionnaire in Spanish compar…
The Moderating Role of Parental Sleep Knowledge on Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Parents’ Sleep
This study has provided evidence that increased parental sleep knowledge can positively impact both child and parental sleep outcomes
Modulation of Instagram Number of Followings by Avoidance in Close Relationships in Young Adults under a Gene x Environment Perspective
Social networking sites have determined radical changes in human life, demanding investigations on online socialization mechanisms. The knowledge acquired on in-person sociability could guide researchers to consider both environmental and genetic features as candidates of online socialization. Here, we explored the impact of the quality of adult attachment and the genetic properties of the Serotonin Transporter Gene ( 5-HTTLPR ) on Instagram soci…
Predictors of Contemporary under-5 Child Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Child Mortality (CM) is a worldwide concern, annually affecting as many as 6.81% children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We used data of the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) (N = 275,160) from 27 LMIC and a machine-learning approach to rank 37 distal causes of CM and identify the top 10 causes in terms of predictive potency. Based on the top 10 causes, we identified households with improved conditions. We retrospectively val…
Psychology (40 obras) · Developmental psychology (25 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Cognitive psychology (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras)