Anna Parola
Biographic Data
| ID | 98522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Parola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Parola |
| SIGNATURE | PAROLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3002-6522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Investigating social media challenges: A qualitative study
Career Adaptability as a Developmental Resource for Sustainable Careers: A Latent Profile Analysis in Emerging Adults
Grounded in the sustainable career framework and career construction theory, this study examines how career adaptability supports emerging adults' perceptions of sustainable careers. We investigated whether distinct profiles combining adaptability resources and sustainable career beliefs could be identified and whether these profiles differed in subjective well‐being. A sample of Italian university students ( N = 169) completed measures of career…
Development and Validation of the Career Imagination Scale (CIS)
Although stimulating career imagination is important, little research has focused on its characteristics, and no measure of career imagination domains has yet been developed. To address this issue, the aim of this work was to develop a new instrument to measure career imagination. In Study 1 ( n = 457), the CIS was developed, and an EFA was conducted. In Study II ( n = 520), a CFA was performed to test the four-factor structure (Frequency, Emotio…
Resources and Personal Adjustment for Career Transitions Among Adolescents: A Latent Profile Analysis
INTRODUCTION: Career transitions are considered to be the most challenging tasks in adolescence. Personal resources are important factors in coping with the difficulties encountered during transitions and help individuals to adjust more smoothly to these transitions. Using a person-centered approach, this study aims to identify typologies of personal resources in adolescents, that is career adaptability, hope, optimism and resilience and their as…
Development and Validation of the War Worry Scale (WWS) in a Sample of Italian Young Adults: An Instrument to Assess Worry About War in Non-War-Torn Environments
The expansion of wars around the world fosters a macrosocial stress with multilevel effects that also affect the mental health of populations not directly involved, in particular of evolutionary targets in delicate transition. The present study describes the process of development, validation, and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the War Worry Scale (WWS), an instrument that explores the psychological impact of war in contexts not dir…
Profiles of Career Indecision: A Person-Centered Approach with Italian Late Adolescents
Choosing career paths in today’s contemporary labor market complexity is becoming more and more challenging for adolescents and young people. Career indecision could take over, and assessing its facets could guide career interventions to support the career decision-making process. To create increasingly tailored career guidance interventions, using a person-centered approach, this study aimed to understand whether profiles of late adolescents bas…
The effects of a non-adaptive school-to-work transition on transition to adulthood, time perspective and internalizing and externalizing problems
The parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB): Psychometric properties in adolescents and young adults in the Italian context
Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parental career-related behaviors in the Italian language, but the validation refers to the Swiss context. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric …
Mental Health Risk and Protective Factors of Nigerian Male Asylum Seekers Hosted in Southern Italy: A Culturally Sensitive Quantitative Investigation
This study provides a culturally sensitive quantitative investigation aimed at assessing the post-traumatic symptomatology, post-migratory difficulties, and resilience of 36 Nigerian male asylum seekers hosted in the province of Caserta, South Italy. A survey composed by the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-Revised (HTQ-R), the Post-Migratory Checklist (PLMD), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was administered to participants. Descri…
The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction in Professionals Working in the Forced Migration Field
The results suggested that prevention or interventions programs targeting emotion regulation might be important to improve the professional quality of life of operators working with refugees and forced migrants
Willingness to Compromise Scale: Italian Validation and Assessment of the Relationship with Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Career Adaptability during School-to-Work Transition
Willingness to compromise is defined as the propensity to accept an alternative career-related option that was not the one initially desired. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring willingness to compromise but not an Italian validation. Thus, Study 1 aimed to test the psychometric proprieties of the Willingness to Compromise Scale in a sample of 282 Italian university students. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed sho…
Career Choices, Representation of Work and Future Planning: A Qualitative Investigation with Italian University Students
Choosing a career is one of the most challenging for young adults, and the representations of work could influence how people make decisions and build their career paths. This qualitative study examined the career choices, representations of work and future plans of 58 Italian university students. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using a consensual qualitative research procedure. The results emphasize the centrality of environmental condi…
I Don’t Feel like an Adult”—Self-Perception of Delayed Transition to Adulthood in Neet Sample
Nowadays, there has been a debate about factors still crucial for the actual definition of adulthood and the role played by uncertainty in employment, the economic crisis, changing cultural contexts, and globalization in the adulthood transition. This study aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the self-perception of the transition to adulthood among the Italian NEET (young people not engaged in education, employment, or training). A group o…
Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability
According to the Career Construction Model of Adaptation, career decision-making difficulties (CDD) and life satisfaction are important adaptation results, and career adaptability is a crucial resource to attain positive adaptation results. This study focused on the influence of parental career-related behaviors on career adaptability, CDD and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of career adaptability between parental career-related behavio…
Italian Validation of AAS-R: Assessing Psychometric Properties of Adult Attachment Scale—Revised in the Italian Context
Positive Resources for Flourishing: The Effect of Courage, Self-Esteem, and Career Adaptability in Adolescence
Flourishing is defined as an optimal state of functioning in which individuals pursue their goals and aspirations. Hence, flourishing seems to be a protective factor for career transitions in adolescence. This study aimed to analyze the predicting role of self-esteem, courage, and the four career adaptability dimensions, i.e., concern, control, curiosity, and confidence, on flourishing. The sample consisted of 221 Italian adolescents attending th…
Subjective Well-Being and Future Orientation of Neets: Evidence from the Italian Sample of the European Social Survey
The acronym ‘NEET’ includes adolescents and young people aged 15–34 years not engaged in education, employment or training programs. According to recent studies, NEET represents a high-risk category to suffer from lower well-being and mental health problems. Following a life course approach, this study examined the self-reported subjective well-being and the future orientation of NEETs. To do this, the study used the latest European Social Survey…
Young in University-Work Transition: The Views of Undergraduates in Southern Italy
In the last few years, economic and social changes have made the path from university to work long and twisted, in particular in Southern Italy, an area with the highest rate of unemployment. This contribution aims to exploring the experiences of university-work transition of undergraduates. Using an open-ended interview, the authors obtained narrative data from 150 undergraduates from Southern Italy. Textual Analysis and Text Network Analysis we…
Subjective Well-Being and Future Orientation of Neets: Evidence from the Italian Sample of the European Social Survey
The acronym ‘NEET’ includes adolescents and young people aged 15–34 years not engaged in education, employment or training programs. According to recent studies, NEET represents a high-risk category to suffer from lower well-being and mental health problems. Following a life course approach, this study examined the self-reported subjective well-being and the future orientation of NEETs. To do this, the study used the latest European Social Survey…
Positive Resources for Flourishing: The Effect of Courage, Self-Esteem, and Career Adaptability in Adolescence
Flourishing is defined as an optimal state of functioning in which individuals pursue their goals and aspirations. Hence, flourishing seems to be a protective factor for career transitions in adolescence. This study aimed to analyze the predicting role of self-esteem, courage, and the four career adaptability dimensions, i.e., concern, control, curiosity, and confidence, on flourishing. The sample consisted of 221 Italian adolescents attending th…
I Don’t Feel like an Adult”—Self-Perception of Delayed Transition to Adulthood in Neet Sample
Nowadays, there has been a debate about factors still crucial for the actual definition of adulthood and the role played by uncertainty in employment, the economic crisis, changing cultural contexts, and globalization in the adulthood transition. This study aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the self-perception of the transition to adulthood among the Italian NEET (young people not engaged in education, employment, or training). A group o…
Young in University-Work Transition: The Views of Undergraduates in Southern Italy
In the last few years, economic and social changes have made the path from university to work long and twisted, in particular in Southern Italy, an area with the highest rate of unemployment. This contribution aims to exploring the experiences of university-work transition of undergraduates. Using an open-ended interview, the authors obtained narrative data from 150 undergraduates from Southern Italy. Textual Analysis and Text Network Analysis we…
Young in University-Work Transition: The Views of Undergraduates in Southern Italy
In the last few years, economic and social changes have made the path from university to work long and twisted, in particular in Southern Italy, an area with the highest rate of unemployment. This contribution aims to exploring the experiences of university-work transition of undergraduates. Using an open-ended interview, the authors obtained narrative data from 150 undergraduates from Southern Italy. Textual Analysis and Text Network Analysis we…
Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability
According to the Career Construction Model of Adaptation, career decision-making difficulties (CDD) and life satisfaction are important adaptation results, and career adaptability is a crucial resource to attain positive adaptation results. This study focused on the influence of parental career-related behaviors on career adaptability, CDD and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of career adaptability between parental career-related behavio…
Italian Validation of AAS-R: Assessing Psychometric Properties of Adult Attachment Scale—Revised in the Italian Context
Positive Resources for Flourishing: The Effect of Courage, Self-Esteem, and Career Adaptability in Adolescence
Flourishing is defined as an optimal state of functioning in which individuals pursue their goals and aspirations. Hence, flourishing seems to be a protective factor for career transitions in adolescence. This study aimed to analyze the predicting role of self-esteem, courage, and the four career adaptability dimensions, i.e., concern, control, curiosity, and confidence, on flourishing. The sample consisted of 221 Italian adolescents attending th…
Subjective Well-Being and Future Orientation of Neets: Evidence from the Italian Sample of the European Social Survey
The acronym ‘NEET’ includes adolescents and young people aged 15–34 years not engaged in education, employment or training programs. According to recent studies, NEET represents a high-risk category to suffer from lower well-being and mental health problems. Following a life course approach, this study examined the self-reported subjective well-being and the future orientation of NEETs. To do this, the study used the latest European Social Survey…
The effects of a non-adaptive school-to-work transition on transition to adulthood, time perspective and internalizing and externalizing problems
The parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB): Psychometric properties in adolescents and young adults in the Italian context
Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parental career-related behaviors in the Italian language, but the validation refers to the Swiss context. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric …
Mental Health Risk and Protective Factors of Nigerian Male Asylum Seekers Hosted in Southern Italy: A Culturally Sensitive Quantitative Investigation
This study provides a culturally sensitive quantitative investigation aimed at assessing the post-traumatic symptomatology, post-migratory difficulties, and resilience of 36 Nigerian male asylum seekers hosted in the province of Caserta, South Italy. A survey composed by the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-Revised (HTQ-R), the Post-Migratory Checklist (PLMD), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was administered to participants. Descri…
The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Potential Mediator between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Compassion Satisfaction in Professionals Working in the Forced Migration Field
The results suggested that prevention or interventions programs targeting emotion regulation might be important to improve the professional quality of life of operators working with refugees and forced migrants
Willingness to Compromise Scale: Italian Validation and Assessment of the Relationship with Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Career Adaptability during School-to-Work Transition
Willingness to compromise is defined as the propensity to accept an alternative career-related option that was not the one initially desired. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring willingness to compromise but not an Italian validation. Thus, Study 1 aimed to test the psychometric proprieties of the Willingness to Compromise Scale in a sample of 282 Italian university students. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed sho…
Career Choices, Representation of Work and Future Planning: A Qualitative Investigation with Italian University Students
Choosing a career is one of the most challenging for young adults, and the representations of work could influence how people make decisions and build their career paths. This qualitative study examined the career choices, representations of work and future plans of 58 Italian university students. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using a consensual qualitative research procedure. The results emphasize the centrality of environmental condi…
I Don’t Feel like an Adult”—Self-Perception of Delayed Transition to Adulthood in Neet Sample
Nowadays, there has been a debate about factors still crucial for the actual definition of adulthood and the role played by uncertainty in employment, the economic crisis, changing cultural contexts, and globalization in the adulthood transition. This study aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the self-perception of the transition to adulthood among the Italian NEET (young people not engaged in education, employment, or training). A group o…
Profiles of Career Indecision: A Person-Centered Approach with Italian Late Adolescents
Choosing career paths in today’s contemporary labor market complexity is becoming more and more challenging for adolescents and young people. Career indecision could take over, and assessing its facets could guide career interventions to support the career decision-making process. To create increasingly tailored career guidance interventions, using a person-centered approach, this study aimed to understand whether profiles of late adolescents bas…
Development and Validation of the Career Imagination Scale (CIS)
Although stimulating career imagination is important, little research has focused on its characteristics, and no measure of career imagination domains has yet been developed. To address this issue, the aim of this work was to develop a new instrument to measure career imagination. In Study 1 ( n = 457), the CIS was developed, and an EFA was conducted. In Study II ( n = 520), a CFA was performed to test the four-factor structure (Frequency, Emotio…
Resources and Personal Adjustment for Career Transitions Among Adolescents: A Latent Profile Analysis
INTRODUCTION: Career transitions are considered to be the most challenging tasks in adolescence. Personal resources are important factors in coping with the difficulties encountered during transitions and help individuals to adjust more smoothly to these transitions. Using a person-centered approach, this study aims to identify typologies of personal resources in adolescents, that is career adaptability, hope, optimism and resilience and their as…
Development and Validation of the War Worry Scale (WWS) in a Sample of Italian Young Adults: An Instrument to Assess Worry About War in Non-War-Torn Environments
The expansion of wars around the world fosters a macrosocial stress with multilevel effects that also affect the mental health of populations not directly involved, in particular of evolutionary targets in delicate transition. The present study describes the process of development, validation, and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the War Worry Scale (WWS), an instrument that explores the psychological impact of war in contexts not dir…
Investigating social media challenges: A qualitative study
Career Adaptability as a Developmental Resource for Sustainable Careers: A Latent Profile Analysis in Emerging Adults
Grounded in the sustainable career framework and career construction theory, this study examines how career adaptability supports emerging adults' perceptions of sustainable careers. We investigated whether distinct profiles combining adaptability resources and sustainable career beliefs could be identified and whether these profiles differed in subjective well‐being. A sample of Italian university students ( N = 169) completed measures of career…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Career Development and Diversity (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Adaptability (5 works) · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)