Silvia Di Battista
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 272937 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Silvia Di Battista |
| PRENOMES | Silvia |
| SOBRENOME | Di Battista |
| ASSINATURA | DI BATTISTA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bergamo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6606-9903 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Beyond Sexual Attraction
Bridging identities
More than Invisible – Unimaginable
Transgender and nonbinary people’s experiences are distinct from cisgender people’s experiences, and relatively little is known with respect to their desire for parenthood or to remain childfree. This study aimed to explore aspirations about parenthood among fifteen trans men and women (n = 7) and nonbinary adults (n = 8) without children from Italy, adopting a life course theory approach. Employing thematic analysis, we identified three overarch…
Do Not Judge Inner Experience, but Be Mindful
Introduction Research showed that dispositional mindfulness has positive associations with LGB people’s well-being and is negatively associated with internalized sexual stigma. However, previous research has investigated the role of dispositional mindfulness in the development of LGB individuals’ positive acceptance of their own sexual identity is still limited. This study aims to investigate the association between dispositional mindfulness, int…
She is failing; he is learning
BackgroundAccording to gender-differentiated attributions of failure in the STEM field, errors tend to be attributed to internal factors more to girls than to boys.AimsThis experimental study explored factors influencing gender-differentiated teachers' internal attributions of girls' and boys' errors and the consequent likelihood of teachers' hesitancy to offer educational robotics (ER) courses to them. The predictions were as follows: (1) the li…
Dispositional mindfulness and the nonjudgmental regard towards others
Although several studies examined the relationship between high levels of dispositional mindfulness and low scores of prejudices referred to various social groups, the findings have sometimes been inconsistent. Such inconsistency may be explained by the fact that much research has relied exclusively on self-oriented dispositional mindfulness as predictor of intergroup biases, thus underestimating the role of the nonjudgmental regard towards other…
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers
This experimental study examines attitudes toward stepmothers in the Italian context and predicts that negative attitudes towards heterosexual and lesbian stepmothers - compared to heterosexual biological mothers - would be higher at higher levels of gender role stereotypes. One hundred and eighty-nine Italian participants completed an online questionnaire in which they read one of three vignettes regarding a mother - (1) heterosexual biological …
Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations
Pivetti et al. (2021a; 2021b) examined links between COVID-related conspiracy beliefs and acceptance of vaccinations in Italy and Finland in 2020. They found that moral purity negatively predicted confidence in science, whereas political orientation predicted COVID-related conspiracy beliefs. Confidence in science, general conspiracy beliefs, and COVID-related conspiracy beliefs were found to negatively predict support for governmental restrictio…
Non-Traditional” Parents in Contemporary Societies
The term “family” is derived from the Latin word “famĭlia”, that, in turn, originates from “famŭlus” (i [...]
Perceptions of Mothers’ Competence and Morality
Stalking Behaviors within Couples of Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Gender Role Beliefs and Ontologization of Mothers
This study combines insights from gender studies and studies on dehumanization to show how gender role beliefs influence attitudes and the attribution of ontologization traits to mothers. A convenience sample of 194 Italian participants read one of three vignettes describing a mother (a heterosexual biological mother, a heterosexual stepmother, or a lesbian stepmother) and her five-year-old son during a moment of disagreement. Participants assess…
Lecturer Competence from the Perspective of Undergraduate Psychology Students
Understanding what students mean by lecturer competence can be crucial in order to recognise indicators with which to assess these competences, improve the quality of university teaching and support lecturers in undertaking their role appropriately. This qualitative pilot study aimed to explore the meaning of competence in a convenience sample of Italian undergraduate psychology students (N = 122). We collected free-associations about what “lectu…
Attitudes toward "Non-Traditional" Mothers
Mothers are the protagonists in a widespread narrative that emphasizes motherhood as prolonged and exclusive attention to children, accompanied by references to natural competence in child-rearing skills. The present research aimed to investigate the linking mechanisms and conditional processes underlying the perception of mothers' competence. Cisgender heterosexual Italian participants (N = 230) read one of four vignettes describing a situation …
Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Parents
Hostility toward same-sex parenting is widespread. Literature supports one persistent argument against same-sex parenting which focusses on the concern for children’s wellbeing, whereas lesbian and gay parents’ ability is sometimes evaluated positively. In particular, the belief that children need both a father and a mother impacts the evaluation that same-sex parents are unfit to raise well-adjusted children. The present research aimed to invest…
Conspiracy beliefs and attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccinations
During the coronavirus pandemic, this study aimed to investigate the impact of conspiracy beliefs on Finnish attitudes toward vaccinations in general and COVID-19 vaccinations in particular. This study was a conceptual replication in Finland of a study by Pivetti et al. (2021) . Some 529 Finnish participants responded to a self-report questionnaire during the partial lockdown in Finland in spring 2020. The hypothesized relationships between varia…
Physician treatment quality, visit outcomes and physician age
Successful health outcomes require a positive alliance between health provider and patient, especially for older patients often managing chronic medical conditions. We predicted that age differences between physician and patient could serve as a social category cue that impacts older patients' cooperation. Older adults evaluated a hypothetical physician visit (Study 1, N = 308), a hypothetical physician's web page (Study 2, N = 339) or described …
What do we expect from robots? Social representations, attitudes and evaluations of robots in daily life
Trustworthiness in Higher Education
Trust is a fundamental element of educational success. However, compared to what we know about teachers' perceptions of trust, relatively less is known about students' perceptions of trust. This paper describes two experimental investigations that tested the effects of authority competence and benevolence on students' perceptions of trust and their engagement. The investigations also explored whether university identification moderated the influe…
Emotional abuse among Lesbian Italian women
Objective The study aims to provide a preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of the Italian version of Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Abuse (MMEA) and aims to investigate consequences of emotional abuse for the relationship, help-seeking and disclosure behaviors, among a sample of lesbian women.Methods and participants One hundred and sixty-five lesbian volunteers filled in a self-report questionnaire including a measure of…
Engagement in the university context
The ontologization of Romani
What do we expect from robots? Social representations, attitudes and evaluations of robots in daily life
Perceptions of Mothers’ Competence and Morality
Gender Role Beliefs and Ontologization of Mothers
This study combines insights from gender studies and studies on dehumanization to show how gender role beliefs influence attitudes and the attribution of ontologization traits to mothers. A convenience sample of 194 Italian participants read one of three vignettes describing a mother (a heterosexual biological mother, a heterosexual stepmother, or a lesbian stepmother) and her five-year-old son during a moment of disagreement. Participants assess…
Attitudes toward "Non-Traditional" Mothers
Mothers are the protagonists in a widespread narrative that emphasizes motherhood as prolonged and exclusive attention to children, accompanied by references to natural competence in child-rearing skills. The present research aimed to investigate the linking mechanisms and conditional processes underlying the perception of mothers' competence. Cisgender heterosexual Italian participants (N = 230) read one of four vignettes describing a situation …
The ontologization of Romani
She is failing; he is learning
BackgroundAccording to gender-differentiated attributions of failure in the STEM field, errors tend to be attributed to internal factors more to girls than to boys.AimsThis experimental study explored factors influencing gender-differentiated teachers' internal attributions of girls' and boys' errors and the consequent likelihood of teachers' hesitancy to offer educational robotics (ER) courses to them. The predictions were as follows: (1) the li…
Engagement in the university context
Do Not Judge Inner Experience, but Be Mindful
Introduction Research showed that dispositional mindfulness has positive associations with LGB people’s well-being and is negatively associated with internalized sexual stigma. However, previous research has investigated the role of dispositional mindfulness in the development of LGB individuals’ positive acceptance of their own sexual identity is still limited. This study aims to investigate the association between dispositional mindfulness, int…
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers
This experimental study examines attitudes toward stepmothers in the Italian context and predicts that negative attitudes towards heterosexual and lesbian stepmothers - compared to heterosexual biological mothers - would be higher at higher levels of gender role stereotypes. One hundred and eighty-nine Italian participants completed an online questionnaire in which they read one of three vignettes regarding a mother - (1) heterosexual biological …
Trustworthiness in Higher Education
Trust is a fundamental element of educational success. However, compared to what we know about teachers' perceptions of trust, relatively less is known about students' perceptions of trust. This paper describes two experimental investigations that tested the effects of authority competence and benevolence on students' perceptions of trust and their engagement. The investigations also explored whether university identification moderated the influe…
The ontologization of Romani
Engagement in the university context
Emotional abuse among Lesbian Italian women
Objective The study aims to provide a preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of the Italian version of Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Abuse (MMEA) and aims to investigate consequences of emotional abuse for the relationship, help-seeking and disclosure behaviors, among a sample of lesbian women.Methods and participants One hundred and sixty-five lesbian volunteers filled in a self-report questionnaire including a measure of…
Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Parents
Hostility toward same-sex parenting is widespread. Literature supports one persistent argument against same-sex parenting which focusses on the concern for children’s wellbeing, whereas lesbian and gay parents’ ability is sometimes evaluated positively. In particular, the belief that children need both a father and a mother impacts the evaluation that same-sex parents are unfit to raise well-adjusted children. The present research aimed to invest…
Conspiracy beliefs and attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccinations
During the coronavirus pandemic, this study aimed to investigate the impact of conspiracy beliefs on Finnish attitudes toward vaccinations in general and COVID-19 vaccinations in particular. This study was a conceptual replication in Finland of a study by Pivetti et al. (2021) . Some 529 Finnish participants responded to a self-report questionnaire during the partial lockdown in Finland in spring 2020. The hypothesized relationships between varia…
Physician treatment quality, visit outcomes and physician age
Successful health outcomes require a positive alliance between health provider and patient, especially for older patients often managing chronic medical conditions. We predicted that age differences between physician and patient could serve as a social category cue that impacts older patients' cooperation. Older adults evaluated a hypothetical physician visit (Study 1, N = 308), a hypothetical physician's web page (Study 2, N = 339) or described …
What do we expect from robots? Social representations, attitudes and evaluations of robots in daily life
Trustworthiness in Higher Education
Trust is a fundamental element of educational success. However, compared to what we know about teachers' perceptions of trust, relatively less is known about students' perceptions of trust. This paper describes two experimental investigations that tested the effects of authority competence and benevolence on students' perceptions of trust and their engagement. The investigations also explored whether university identification moderated the influe…
Lecturer Competence from the Perspective of Undergraduate Psychology Students
Understanding what students mean by lecturer competence can be crucial in order to recognise indicators with which to assess these competences, improve the quality of university teaching and support lecturers in undertaking their role appropriately. This qualitative pilot study aimed to explore the meaning of competence in a convenience sample of Italian undergraduate psychology students (N = 122). We collected free-associations about what “lectu…
Attitudes toward "Non-Traditional" Mothers
Mothers are the protagonists in a widespread narrative that emphasizes motherhood as prolonged and exclusive attention to children, accompanied by references to natural competence in child-rearing skills. The present research aimed to investigate the linking mechanisms and conditional processes underlying the perception of mothers' competence. Cisgender heterosexual Italian participants (N = 230) read one of four vignettes describing a situation …
Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations
Pivetti et al. (2021a; 2021b) examined links between COVID-related conspiracy beliefs and acceptance of vaccinations in Italy and Finland in 2020. They found that moral purity negatively predicted confidence in science, whereas political orientation predicted COVID-related conspiracy beliefs. Confidence in science, general conspiracy beliefs, and COVID-related conspiracy beliefs were found to negatively predict support for governmental restrictio…
Non-Traditional” Parents in Contemporary Societies
The term “family” is derived from the Latin word “famĭlia”, that, in turn, originates from “famŭlus” (i [...]
Perceptions of Mothers’ Competence and Morality
Stalking Behaviors within Couples of Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Gender Role Beliefs and Ontologization of Mothers
This study combines insights from gender studies and studies on dehumanization to show how gender role beliefs influence attitudes and the attribution of ontologization traits to mothers. A convenience sample of 194 Italian participants read one of three vignettes describing a mother (a heterosexual biological mother, a heterosexual stepmother, or a lesbian stepmother) and her five-year-old son during a moment of disagreement. Participants assess…
Dispositional mindfulness and the nonjudgmental regard towards others
Although several studies examined the relationship between high levels of dispositional mindfulness and low scores of prejudices referred to various social groups, the findings have sometimes been inconsistent. Such inconsistency may be explained by the fact that much research has relied exclusively on self-oriented dispositional mindfulness as predictor of intergroup biases, thus underestimating the role of the nonjudgmental regard towards other…
Attitudes Toward Heterosexual and Lesbian Stepmothers
This experimental study examines attitudes toward stepmothers in the Italian context and predicts that negative attitudes towards heterosexual and lesbian stepmothers - compared to heterosexual biological mothers - would be higher at higher levels of gender role stereotypes. One hundred and eighty-nine Italian participants completed an online questionnaire in which they read one of three vignettes regarding a mother - (1) heterosexual biological …
Bridging identities
More than Invisible – Unimaginable
Transgender and nonbinary people’s experiences are distinct from cisgender people’s experiences, and relatively little is known with respect to their desire for parenthood or to remain childfree. This study aimed to explore aspirations about parenthood among fifteen trans men and women (n = 7) and nonbinary adults (n = 8) without children from Italy, adopting a life course theory approach. Employing thematic analysis, we identified three overarch…
Do Not Judge Inner Experience, but Be Mindful
Introduction Research showed that dispositional mindfulness has positive associations with LGB people’s well-being and is negatively associated with internalized sexual stigma. However, previous research has investigated the role of dispositional mindfulness in the development of LGB individuals’ positive acceptance of their own sexual identity is still limited. This study aims to investigate the association between dispositional mindfulness, int…
She is failing; he is learning
BackgroundAccording to gender-differentiated attributions of failure in the STEM field, errors tend to be attributed to internal factors more to girls than to boys.AimsThis experimental study explored factors influencing gender-differentiated teachers' internal attributions of girls' and boys' errors and the consequent likelihood of teachers' hesitancy to offer educational robotics (ER) courses to them. The predictions were as follows: (1) the li…
Beyond Sexual Attraction
Psychology (21 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Developmental psychology (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Lesbian (7 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Perception (7 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 obras) · Clinical Psychology (4 obras) · Competence (human resources (4 obras)